On midsummer's day David and I left Varberg for the island of Tjörn. It's an island in the Gothenburg arghipelago and it's beautiful!
We had booked a room at a hotel called Björholmens marina that was really wonderful.
In the evening we went to their restaurant just by the waterside.

The view from my seat at the restaurant.

Tough decisions to be made food wise. We went for the cod. It was delicious.

After we ate we went to the city of Skärhamn for an evening stroll.

But wait... what's that on the church over there...?

... A Smiley face! :-)

It was a cold evening so we went back to Björholmen early to snuggle up in the hotel bed, longing for the breakfast buffet already.

Breakfast view!
I wouldn't mind having it like this every day.

After we had checked out we went for a walk around Björholmen. The hotel is rather perfectly situated, isn't it?

After a while we went back to Skärhamn to visit the watercolour museum Nordiska Akvarellmuséet where they have a fantastic exhibit by the painter Lars Lerin. I have been wanting to see this for a really long time and was so glad when I found out it was shown there now!

Perfectly situated museum too.

I was quite overwhelmed by the paintings.

So was David.

When I had bought some postcards of a few of my favourite paintings (you just have to, right?!) we went to the café in the same building.

It was the weekend of gorgeous views while eating.

Those tiny houses are for rent, apparently. I love them!

Happiness induced by art, sunshine and pretty nature. And coffee.

Time to check out the cliffs!

David surrounded by nature.

Gaaaaah! The view! (And see, the smiling church again!)

The view! The cloud! The husband!

*happy sigh*

*another happy sigh*

Some mild rock climbing happening.

Some mild rock climbing finished.

David was a bit braver. I was more scared for the camera's sake than my own and protected it by taking photos of a climbing husband butt.

Rock posing.

Back on sea level again and really happy with the entire weekend. It was just what the doctor ordered!

Oh, hey! Don't forgot it's the last full day to enter the giveaway for a Leaf necklace pendant! Hop on over and Good luck!
I'll announce the winner tomorrow so make sure to pop by then.


Tjingeling!
/Lotta

Last friday was midsummer's eve and David and I had made plans for a nice relaxing weekend away. David's been battling a bad sinus infection for forever and was starting to get really restless and I had gotten some quite dissapointing news so we were desparate to get away from the sofa for a couple of days.
We booked a hotel in the seaside town of Varberg and looked at the hotel website to make sure they served a nice midsummer lunch for when we arrived. They did! Perfect!
We got there twenty minutes past two in the afternoon and found out the lunch buffet closed at two.
Well, bollocks.
Checked up some alternatives and they all closed their lunch at two o' clock.
Darn it.
Defeated, and oh so very hungry and cranky, we decided to just go to a nearby café for lunch and make new plans for the evening.

Discarded midsummer flower crown.

Tired husband with evil sinuses.

Tired wife with perfectly healthy and kind mannered sinuses and a glass of beer.

Food!

The fish soup I ate was really lovely!

After we had eaten David started looking up where to find the closest grocery store. Our new plan was to buy stuff to make a midsummer's picnic with.

After some food shopping we went back to the hotel.

We were so tired! Slept for a few hours in this fancy bed.

In the evening we went out in search of a nice spot for a seaside picnic.

Water!

This wonderful wooden building is the Cold bathhouse of Varberg, built in 1864.

We walked past the fortress.

Reached the water again.

And found the perfect spot!

Sadly we weren't alone in thinking this was a great picnic spot. The seagulls were unmerciful and circled above us as well as getting creepily close. We should have thought of this since a big part of swedish midsummer food is herring...
Let's blame our less than stellar thinking on stupid sinuses and foggy brains.

You can see the dissapointment in my face.

So we gave up. Again.
And went back to the hotel.

And turned our bed into a smörgåsbord!

All the necessities (except for the boiled summer potatoes- my absolute favourite of the classic midsummer foods!).

So that was the midsummer's eve when nothing turned out as planned but still happened to be really lovely and just what we needed.
The day after we went to the island Tjörn in the Gothenburg archipelago.
But that's for another blog post. Soon.

I'm off soon to work the weekend but before I go I thought I'd remind you to enter my giveaway to win a Leaf Necklace Pendant from my new collection. Click here to go directly to the giveaway.

Good luck and have a lovely weekend everybody!


Tjingeling!
/Lotta

Hej!

After work yesterday evening David and I went for a little walk in the warm summer evening. We took the route over the cemetery Östra Kyrkogården since it's close to where we live and beyond beautiful at this time of the year.

The rhododendron are on their last breath right now. Like last year I've been completely obsessed with this colorful flower and can't believe I haven't really noticed them before.
I think they are breathtakingly beautiful.

Huh!? What's that hanging from the arm of that statue lady?

A baby hat! Let's fix it.

There! That's much better.

Thombstones and Rhododendron. Such a great book title.

Just standing here all relaxed for a little while...

Here! Have a flower!

D'aaaaw! Isn't he the prettiest of them all? I sure think so.
I think my new favourite thing is to take photos of David with flowers behind his ear/in his beard.

Rust and peeled off paint; me and my camera can't resist it.

The Chief of Police seems to be crying.

Running! Jumping! Skipping merrily towards my love!

I'm all smiles.

This castle used to be a prison and is now a house for culture in all forms. Me and my friends in the theatre group Teater Esther are rehearsing there every week. Like tonight!

Greeeeeen! This is also where I go for my evening runs. It's the perfect place for running, in my opinion. Beatiful and calm.

On the way home I stopped for a couple of pretty flowers.

Soooo, I'm off to theatre rehearsals now.
See you soon again!

Tjingeling!
/Lotta

Hello hello hello!
Time for a Lights Out update because Oh boy things have been happening!
Not only have the film been seen by a crazy amount of people (5.3 million views on our youtube upload, 8.6 million on vimeo and with all the uploads from other people we're talking AT LEAST 16 million views in total) it has also been, and is announced to be, screened at a couple of festivals over the world (Lyon, Edinburgh, Salt Lake City, Telluride among others) but last week we also found out that Lights Out won Best Short film at FANT Bilbao. Such wonderful news!

We were asked to send a Thank you Video for their big closing ceremony and we made a cute little video that I thought you might want to see.

Look how happy we are!
My English sounds quite horrible but I'm blaming it all on giddyness or nerves or the high amount of pollen or an alien invasion or maybe something else entirely.

Hehe, I love the uncoordinated Thank you's in the end. We filmed a couple of more proper ones but this was just too cute to leave out.

That's all for now but I hope you're having at least two things to look forward to this week. It could be the smallest thing, really. I am looking forward to a giant outdoors fleamarket and a picnic. And having the weekend off work. And spring time! And And And...!