Yesterday started off with breakfast. This one, to be precise.

The kiwi fruit was exceptionally happy to be a part of my breakfast.

We were going to have friends over and David decided to remove some of the big snow lumps by the road to make it easier to reach the driveway. This house has no snow shovel so all he found was a regular shovel. I stood in the window taking photos and giving him thumbs up for the good work.

I felt like giving my face some makeup. Hello from tiny 70's style bathroom with sloped ceiling!

Had time for another cup of coffee before our friends arrived.

When they arrived we had (more) coffee and vanilla buns before we bundled up and went outside. The weather was EXTREMELY windy but we were brave.
Aili, Jonas and David took the lead with me staying behind to take photos. Like always.

The hen house. And look at the small house to the right, can you see the little face popping out from behind the hatch? It's the dog guarding the hens. She lives there and barks when someone passes. We yelled back to her until she stuck her head out to bark some more before going back in again. Haha, such a sweetie!

Aili almost blew away. Her scarf actually unwrapped itself from her neck and here she is fighting the scarf and wind.

Our tree!

The beautiful valley that you can see in this post from november last year.
Look at all that untouched snow! So pretty.

We decided to go up to the tree where we got married in august. Aili and Jonas were our wedding witnesses so it felt really nice to show them how the place looks now, five months later.

The hard journey up there. The snow was so thick in some places but that actually made it easier because it prevented us from slipping down the hill. Oh, and it was so windy here that I couldn't see if the photos were in focus or not so I just snapped away and hoped for the best. I still really like these photos because they show the struggle it was to get up (and later down) the hill in that much wind and snow.

Almost there!

Look how happy Aili was to have made it all the way up the hill!

David doesn't look too happy though. Because he left his hat and gloves in the house, and it was sooooo cold up there!

I think he thinks he looks cool.

Jonas covering Aili from the wind. So much love.

Heeeeej!

Aaaaah, I'm blowing away!

I really like this one. David took all three of these.

And now, prepare yourself for a little photo series...

Plopp! David got stuck in the snow!

Heeeeelp!


(Behind him I am laughing so hard I can hardly breath.)

Aili and Jonas: Huh!? What have you gotten yourself into THIS time?

Jonas and Aili skipping merrily over the fields

When we came inside we started working on dinner. We made butternut squash soup that turned out EXTREMELY SUPER DUPER EXTRA HOT! I mean it was insane. I usually make this soup and complain it isn't spicy enough but this time it was CRAZY. We added water and milk but it was still too hot. Very tasty but oh my, that was not how it was supposed to turn out.
After dinner we played Scrabble.

David thinking of his next move.

Aili contemplating.

David further into the game.

Jonas put the Galej in our evening. (Galej means party, but an extra festive and happy one, I would say.)

And that was yesterday. Aili and Jonas went home later in the evening and David and I sat in the sofa reading before we called it a night.
Such a great day!

Hej hej!
Sometimes good photos end up in a folder on my hard drive without seing the light of blog (he he, see what I did there?) and that just makes me sad. Those moments in time were worth so much to me that I had to take a photo of them but then I just forgot about them afterwards. Kind of silly maybe but as a person who writes a diary every single day it makes perfect sense to me to feel the same way about my photos. They need to be blogged. In february I made my first What was left behind post for exactly this purpose, to reach back in time and fetch those moments worth remembering.
Today it's time for the memory worthy snippets of life between March and November 2013.

It was Easter and David and I visited our families in Jönköping. David was being interviewed by the local newspaper about his film Ladyboy being featured at the filmfestival Cinequest in California and while he was meeting the reporter I walked around the cemetery right next to the newspaper office and took some photos.

It was cold but sunny and I remember my hands were freezing but I didn't care because it was such a beautiful day and I just wanted to take photos!

The leaves on the trees stayed away for a few more weeks.

My parents had a beautiful orchid in their window and I took so many photos of it in the crisp light.

Close up orchid pattern.

In Gothenburg the fleamarket season started. Some sellers were more morbid than others...

On the other side of the fence.

Sometimes David had to stand being photographed while choosing cookies in the grocery store.

Frida, the director of Teater Esther, on one of our production meetings with all her important things within reach.

This is me on my first day as married I think. We were staying at Österlen for a week for a mini honeymoon.

And this is from the same day as when we were taking photos of our wedding pocket watches.

One evening sitting in front of our computers writing, drinking wine left over from the wedding and on the table sits a vase of flowers that was part of the table decorations on our wedding.

We went in to Simrishamn one day and visited the fleamarket. This is David when he tries to look fierce. I was taking photos of something else and then he photobombed my view and walked towards me with this very determined face and I had trouble taking this without laughing hysterically. That made him try even harder.

It was "Sillens dag" (day of the herring) in Simrishamn. We didn't know there was such a day before this but as Simrishamn is a fishing town it was herring bonanza that day. Every restaurant served their best herring meal and in the docks they had put up stands with vendors selling fried herring with mashed potatoes and lingonberry jam. It is very tasty and very swedish!

Ooooh soft serve with sprinkles!

Oh, and the people in the background looks a bit like aliens!

At another fleamarket. David found a drawer filled with old dentist tools and he of course thought Scary Movie Props and started to look at Every Single One of them.

Look how happy he is!

I found another interesting drawer. The label says "Rope's ends. Too small to use but good to have". They also have a drawer filled with mismatched jigsaw puzzle pieces. Love this place!

Hej hej!

I found this beautiful pocket watch display thingy and really wanted it but it was a little dented and way too pricey. But you can see my eyes glowing with want.

David among stuff.

David meets a new friend.

Oh, and look at that butt! (Sorry David, don't mean to objectify you. Much.)

In October it was theatre month and I had to bake cookies for the intermission of the play we performed. I was in sweet company of Moomins and rosé wine.

Flour on my nose and wine in my hand and music cranked up loud on the stereo.

The result in cookies.
They tasted like heaven.

A breakfast in november.
Toast with tahini (It needs to be of the organic brand Monki because there is just non like it. Tastes like peanut butter!) and banana. And coffee with milk in a pitcher.

Hot tea in my work room window. This is the cup that I told you about the other day, the one that is broken now. So sad.

And that was all for now.

Until next time:
Tjingeling!
/Lotta

Hej hej!
Being busy made me forget to take photos because never before has my iPhone album been so empty (Empty might be an exaggeration. There's still 1060 photos in there...)
But! There have been some moments worth documenting so let's take a look, shall we?

As my birthday gift my mother and I went on a fleamarket spree and I got this beautiful teapot. I have at least nine teapots already but since I broke one a week earlier I thought it was OK for me to get a new one...

Oh, and this is dinner for me. Popcorn and tea. There's nothing better.

One day I rearranged my side of our work room. It solved a lot of problems so I'm very happy with the result.

David and I went to Österlen and it was cold as heck in the house!

I made a fruit plate that looked and tasted amazing.

We ate roasted tomato soup and garlic bread while it was storming outside.

One day I woke up to this gorgeous light. It had been rainy and stormy the entire week so this was such a nice change!

It was quite cold that one day. This winter has been SO weird. It's like spring outside and two days ago I saw a Magnolia tree ready to burst out in flowers. I started yelling at the buds "STAY STILL IT'S STILL WINTER YOU FOOLS!"

We found a spooky tree and an INCREDIBLE view.

We also found an over cuddly kitten.

The day we went back to Gothenburg it was foggy.

Midnight picnic on the floor with tea and shortbread working on a flowery GIF.

The week before Christmas I attended the Christmas fair in the mall Nordstan. Here you can see me hiding from customers. No, not really. I was putting things like bags and ribbons and boxes under the table since that was my storage room of sorts.

All the jewelry displayed and ready!

On december 22 it was my last day at the christmas fair and it was David's and my 7 year anniversary. We went for a meal at a nice restaurant and on our way home we kissed in the elevator.

The rest of the night it was packing and fixing mayhem in our work room. The day after we drove to our families and left it all like this to deal with after the holidays. It was reeeally nice to leave it there but not so great to come home to. It's all gone now though.

Alfred and Astor the cat getting to know eachother.

I was working the entire night on New years eve so David and I celebrated a day early. It actually felt like New Years for real. We toasted on our balcony at midnight and watched Fireworks on my phone.

I started the year with being sick in some kind of cold. After staying inside recovering for a few days it was nice to get outside for a walk. We went to the cemetery where it was rainy and sombre and spooky. Just the way I like it.

See you soon again!

Tjingeling!
/Lotta

Hello!
Since the second part of december was a very busy time for me I didn't have the time to edit all the photos I took when David and I went to Österlen for the first week of the month.
It's such a great feeling to be able to spend time in the house and just write, cook tasty food, go for walks, read and just do nothing. This week it was raining every day except the day before we had to go home. It felt weird to not take long walks every day but at the same time it was so nice to just sit inside and drink tea and talk about ideas or just sit quiet and enjoy the stillness. David had been very busy right up until we went to Österlen so he really needed the rest and I sort of saw it as the calm before the storm since I had so much to do when we returned home again.
These are some of the photos I took during our week there. Most of them from our walk the day before we went back home to Gothenburg again.

Reading something intriguing on my phone while trying to keep warm in a house that hadn't been heated for over a month.

It took me three days to turn on my computer and start to write. I had to let the story swirl around in my brain a while before I could try to transform it into words on the screen. Then it was a lot of staring into the computer in frustration between bursts of total writing frenzy. I write a lot when we're at Österlen but I'm having a hard time to get in the writing mood when we're at home. It just isn't the same and it's like I have a different kind of creative flow in our apartment. I don't make any jewelry at Österlen but at home it's so easy to get ideas for new pieces.
I need to come up with something to force my creativity to start wherever I am. Like some kind of triggers. It would be really interesting if I could think of something like that!

And of course we had to have breakfast at Café Kagan in Simrishamn a couple of times during our stay. It's obligatory.

It's been a mild winter so far.

We had to visit our tree. It's four months now since we got married underneath it.

The view was spectacular as always.

It's necessary to stand in complete awe and look out over the hills for a few minutes.

Hello!

Husband being all beautiful.

When we stood under the tree we saw another tree from afar that we had to look closer at so we walked down the hill again.

When we got there the tree was as spooky and beautiful as we thought but what impressed us the most was the sky. Look at those clouds!

Down there is Rörum, the village where my family have the house.

And look! Our tree! It looks so very small and cute from afar.

We found our way down the hill again.

And then we met some sheep!

David made a friend.

This one in particular was very interested in what we were doing there.

And then we got spotted by a cat who came over and climbed up on David's shoulder to cuddle.

Then it wanted to try my shoulders as well.

It wanted to stay there forever!

Haha, look how it twirled it's tail around the bun in my hair!

After a while David had to lift away the cat so we could keep walking. It purred and purred and just didn't want to leave. So cute!

The colours are subtle but not less beautiful.

A new year has started and I feel really hopeful and energetic about it. I have even made a list of New Years Resolutions that I can't wait to get working on. I'm not going to show them to you but I can tell you this much: 2014 is going to be the year of being brave in my creativity. I have a tendency to be very good at coming up with great ideas but I'm too scared to not succeed with them and therefore I just let them stack up in the back of my brain. I want to get my ideas done this year because I know they are good and then I shouldn't be scared of making them a reality!

So let's make 2014 a year of creative bravery, shall we?!