Hi!
I'm in serious vacation mode and can't understand how the days seem to be disappearing a whole lot faster than normally.
There HAVE been days though, the photos in my iPhone tells me so, and when looking through them today I thought it would be nice to take a little peek at what's been going on these past weeks.

Light testing in the Sandberg/Losten household looks a little bit like this.

One day my sister came to Gothenburg and we spent a big part of the afternoon in this park with flamingo showers. My niece and nephew are cuter than possible.

My new sunglasses arrived! The golden shades are a little bit too shiny but the black ones are fantastic.

My dear friend Fia who lives in South Africa is in Sweden visiting family and friends. She came to Gothenburg for a few days and it was absolutely wonderful to see her! Fia is the one in the middle, hugged by Kristin and me. The little cutey on the ground is Fia's daughter Moya.

Fia's husband Christo and little baby Moya again.

David helped me make my video for This Growing Collection. This is from the first of two days of filming, during the wonderful golden hour.

I worked hard on getting everything ready for launch last monday.

Took a break to catch the last rays of sunshine in my hair.

As a rule my hair seems to look the best when it's time to go to bed.
Here you can clearly see my anger and frustration at the entire situation.

Last week I cut my hair for the first time in about 15 months. It was about time.
As always the hairdresser insists on flattening my hair to the point of ridiculousness. It looks sort of nice in this photo but in real life it looks weird. Like I haven't got any hair at all. I have really thin hair but the natural waves makes it look a lot thicker and I just don't understand how hairdressers can't understand that flat and shiny is not always a good thing.

One morning we were out of coffee filters and I do what I always do when that happens (Yes, it's a reccuring thing).
Toilet paper!
I have the character Lelaina Pierce in the wonderful 90's movie Reality Bites to thank for this useful tip.
Yep, it works surprisingly well and only tastes a little papery...

And here's a glimpse of how it is to be married to David.
You'll get a drawing of a cat pushed under the door while you're on the toilet.
Who needs a cat when you can have a David?

The day after I released This Growing Collection was a slow and tired kind of day. Didn't do much more than take this self portrait.

David and I went to Österlen for a few days.
On our way to the family house we always drive through this wonderful beech forest. This time we decided to go back there to take some photos and explore a little.

What we found though was a fairytale forest right next to all the beech trees!

We loved it so much we had to go back the day after as well.
I got an idea during the night and the last thing I said to David before I fell asleep was "We need to go back to the forest again tomorrow!" So back we went.
I took a lot of photos and hopefully I can show them to you soon.
Both of these photos are taken with the self timer app TimerCam and edited with Snapseed.

An evening walk in a painting.

On saturday my mother, David and I went to the garden cafe Kaffestugan Alunbruket. Such a beautiful place!

Astor the cat was adorable as always.

On our last evening in Rörum for this time David and I took a walk through the little village and talked about creativity, film ideas and autumn arriving.
I can feel it in the air, summer is almost over. The best season is coming.

Yesterday David and I decided to walk to our favourite park Trädgårdsföreningen for lunch in their garden café. It was a perfect spring day and I brought my camera with me to document the entire thing.
Before we arrived to Trädgårdsföreningen we had to cross some bridges and I of course had to take a photo of the view from every one of them. It's a must.

Traffic and skyline from the first bridge.

Trees ready to burst and glittery water from the second one.

A city canal and our goal for the day to the left from the third bridge.

This view from inside Trädgårdsföreningen is one of my most photographed, I think.

And here is Rosenkaféet where we were headed.

Wind in my hair, coffee cup in my hands.

Spot the husband.

David looking way cooler than he is.
Though that might be debatable, he has managers in Hollywood now. Doesn't really get any cooler than that, does it? It's so weird and amazing how quckly things can happen when internet is involved.

When at Trädgårdsföreningen a visit in the Palm house is a definite must.

David trying to make eye contact with some fish.

Hello!

Husband looking all cute.

I mean, look at the severe cuteness!

The Camellia was in full bloom.

Mini citrus fruit of some kind.

Then we went outside again and started our walk back home.

We always walk past this old jewish cemetery but today the normally closed gate was ajar and we took the opportunity to take a look inside. This cemetery is kind of weirdly placed, smack down in the middle of a highly busy area with lots of traffic, trains, trams, cars and buses. The grave stones are very old. Most of them from the 1800's, though we did find ONE from 2012. That must be so weird for the family to visit such an old and abandoned cemetery to mourn because everybody else buried there have been dead for such a long time with no living relatives to remember them.

Most of the headstones were so old that no names could be read anymore.

It was quite the emotional experience to walk around there. Around us city life were going on, but on the cemetery we were completely alone with the long gone.

This tree must have been growing freely for a really long time to be that large. It took up the entire grave area except for the space of the headstone. Weird how they have cut the branches on top of the tree and left the rest. Maybe they feel like the tree is the new life of owner of the grave. That would be quite beautiful, but raises even more questions like why would they "amputate" its body parts then?

I love to find places like this in my own neighbourhood. We have lived here for three years now and this was the first time we've walked past that the gate hasn't been closed. It feels a little bit like we found a secret place right out in the open.

And that was the end of that walk that started off as a lunch date in the park and ended in a much more dramatic tone.
Exactly how I like it. A mini adventure on a weekday!

Until next time:

Tjingeling!
/Lotta

Hello hello!
This monday David and I went to the little fishing village Vik to take photos of the waves. On our way in to Simrishamn we had seen the ocean roar and we thought the cliffs of Vik would look amazing with waves crashing into the edges.
When we arrived there we were so surprised because the entire cliffs were covered in water and I have never seen them like that before. If you want to see how they look normally you can click here and scroll down a bit in that post.
The waves were HUGE and it looked like a set from a doomsday kind of movie. Powerful, beautiful and scary all at once.
We stood with our backs to a wall of earth and couldn't get any further in that direction and at one point an especially large wave came rushing towards us. I looked around me to see if I could run away but in the last second I realised the only thing I could do was jump up on a large stone. At that exact moment the wave came smashing around me and it was such an amazing movie moment, you know like in action films when the hero run away from melting lava and you think it's too late but he or she makes it Just In Time. That's how it was.
Adrenaline rushing and laughter rising in my throat and the camera clicking away infront of my face. It was amazing!

When we stepped down the last step of the stone stairs this was the view to the left.

In the first photo I am standing in the stairs and David are looking ahead standing just below the last step. Water everywhere!

It was extremely cold and the storm was so loud you couldn't hear a thing except the thunder of wind and waves.

Look at the waves! They look like the clouds in The Neverending Story!

The foam and waves look sort of like snow and footprints when photographed. Isn't that cool, how when you freeze time in a photo something flowing can look solid?

Hard to see but that is one very large wave coming towards us.

We went to the harbour to check out how the piers were holding up. There were two other photograhers there and I'm guessing photographers have been swarming the place this entire week.

I mean look! Poor pier looking so small and fragile in the angry ocean.

The ducks looked super calm though, just bobbing along on the waves.

A tank top left behind from summertime blowing around in the strong wind.

David and the ocean.

It was quite the experience to see this actually. I have spent a few weeks every summer since I was a child in this little fishing village and it looks like a completely different place during wintertime. This was beyond exciting and if it hadn't been so very very cold I could have stayed there just looking at the ocean for the entire day.

See you soon!
Tjingeling!
/Lotta

Hej hej!
Today I have a post for you that has been lying unedited on my computer since july. I just haven't had the time (or memory) to edit and post it but now, finally, here it is!
David and I found half a bridge one day when we were driving around during one of our visits to Österlen, and we thought "Huh! What was that?!? Was that really half a bridge in the middle of nowhere?!"
So obviously we had to go back and have a look one evening armed with our cameras.

The bridge is situated in a tiny town called Gärsnäs. We parked the car and crossed the train tracks.

The bridge!

We found our way underneath the bridge. The sun was setting and it was almost magical.

I both like and find it sad how the tree had made it all around the metal thingy but still someone came and chopped it down. Seems unnecessary, doesn't it? And kind of evil, sort of Ha! We waited until you thought you made it and then BAM! We killed you!

All of a sudden we heard a sound! We turned around and realised we had company by a cat who seemed to hang out there every day by the way it moved around so familiarly.

I understand how the cat must love this place because it was so beautiful! Like a jungle ruin from another time.

David was eager to get to the part of the bridge where it ends abruptly into nothing.

Sadly we couldn't find any way to get up there. David tried though...
Without success.

The cat had spotted something in the high grass.

Still looking for ways to get up there.

Looking back the way we came.

I took the opportunity to dance among the pillars.

Trying to do something acrobatic and realising I don't know how to so ending up doing this instead.

Aaahh, magical place!

David in the middle.

There in the distance you can see the end of the bridge. It just stops there.

David checking to see if it's open. Of course it wasn't.

Checking another door. It was open. But it was nothing intersting to see in there. I love the light in this photo though. So pretty.

Then I set up the camera to play with the timer. David was patiently waiting for me to prepare all the settings.

Obligatory kissing picture.

And then some goofing around.

Look at David's hand! Haha, so cute!

Then it was time to leave and we went back to the car and spotted the cat one more time. I think he followed us around to see what we were up to.

I really love to go on this kind of photo adventure with David. Taking lots of photos and discover interesting/beautiful/weird/fun places together.
Today it's three months since we got married. These photos were taken almost two months before that and I can't believe how quickly time has been passing. It feels like yesterday!