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Happy Monday!

Up to something new

Hi, happy Friday!
This week has been a busy one; I've been doing some graphic design work, taking a really long walk which made me sleep like a baby, eating good food and sketching. The most simple sketches just to get head and hands working again, it feels very good. I have made a rule for the Wrist Worms season, which is around the corner: When possible, only crochet in the evenings. Daytime will be for other projects.

Tonight I go to a friend's restaurant which is closing this weekend, to eat there for the last time. Probably I'll have a margarita as well, yum. Then it's time to head over to a bar for another friend's last shift there. Things are ending, new things are beginning. I'm at this point right now as well. Changes! The rest of the weekend is for working and most likely head over to a park on Sunday for a birthday party.

Also: I'm going to Sweden a second time later this Summer! This time to my second family, the one that came with Johan - Can not wait!

Laksa on a pink table

Last night I had a date with Johan at Santa Cantina to share this beautiful set up. Tofu with a chili dressing and laksa with seafood, chicken and tofu - so yummy.

Haven't made my own laksa for ages, about time to put one together soon. It's one of my favourite soups. Made it the first time 15 years ago, following this recipe and it's totally amazing.

Pictures of love

What a week I had with my family! Every morning I woke up from the scent of coffee and got up to have a cup and a cinnamon bun with my mother. One and one woke up and all of a sudden we were all in the kitchen. This is my niece Lo, she loves to do make-up and we all got styled by her.


When everyone was up, we made breakfast together.


My plate one of the mornings.


My mother getting her beauty treatment by Lo.


Most of the time we were hanging out at the dining table together, playing Yatzy and cards, as it was raining heavily (Johan took this picture).


Took the chance to eat fish and Swedish shrimp salad.


Next up for make-up was my sister Lisette.


This is Alice, my oldest niece, soon to be 14 years old. I love these kids like they are my own, they say I'm also their mother ;) Another comment was Auntie, I need to rest a while, you are so intense!


This is love.

It took me a couple of days to adjust to being back home again, now I feel I'm back on track and will spend a lot of time alone working and taking walks with Johan. I also plan to take it easy with partying, which can be a bit difficult when you live in this crazy party city and you have crazy party people as friends (myself included). We enjoy our fun! I have a big outdoor rave to go to on August 6 and knowing that makes it easier to hide for a while. Listen to this old lady, omg.

Garden party

My mum is the best. Summer flowers in the bathroom and she threw a garden party to which she had invited a bunch of relatives so I could see everyone at the same time.


One of my most beautiful food pictures ;) We prepared ourselves with some pizza to get ready for the party preparations.


Johan prepared the sound system.


And people came by for food and drinks. Some of my relatives I hadn't seen for almost ten years!


I had one of those as a kid.


Here it's almost 10pm and still bright outside.

One more post from Sweden and then it's Berlin time again, OK? :)

Swedish overdose

Last Saturday Johan, mum and I went to Hägnan in Gammelstad Church Town. We had a LOL moment in the car as my mum all of a sudden said elephant tampons about those white hay things.


The open air museum Hägnan. We thought it was time to get some proper Swedish impressions. I start to see Sweden with different eyes, it feels a bit exotic.


Beauty.


My blondes.


Moving in.




Hello, pig! Johan, the pig looks like you when you're relaxing!




We were watching those tiny goats wondering if it was sexy time or a fight about the swimming pool.


This horse was dressed for a techno club.


The Church Town.

Friday BBQ

Last Friday we celebrated my mum's vacation with a BBQ.


It was me, Johan, my sister, her boyfriend, my mum & her boyfriend.


We ate a lot, as usual.


And drank red wine, laughed and talked about important and stupid things.


Summer flowers on the kitchen table.

I can't tell you how happy I feel after the week in Sweden, I could truly enjoy it this time. Thank goodness for getting older and happier. Someone asked me what it feels like to get older and I answered Getting older is my hobby. Here's to something new!

North Swedish countryside

Last week I went to Sweden with Johan, to visit my family. We started the week at my dad's summerhouse.


This is the sauna he built himself. Highlight of the trip!


Forest forest forest. He's had the summerhouse since 1995 and this was the 3rd time I spent a night there. 1st time I didn't freak out from the silence.


He made us dinner, Baltic herring as a starter. And then some BBQ and salad. Yum!


After dinner, it was time to hit the sauna.


I took some pictures and some deep breaths. After so many years in Berlin, I think nature smells lovely.


The woodland lake.


It was raining every day except for one, when my mum threw a garden party.


It doesn't get dark up there at night.


This is right before midnight, Johan found his post sauna catwalk.


The next day, dad woke us up with waffles.


Tastiest ever, with whipped cream and cloud berry jam.


We decided it was time to hit the second hand shops, our tradition.


On our way we said hi to this lady moose. Beautiful, isn't she?

Now I'm back home and I have a few more pictures to share :)
I feel happy. I love my family so much.

Not afraid of dying

This week has been a lot of fun. On Tuesday Johan and I took a walk down by the river and looked at people partying.


I met a friend who had a surgery and we had coffee.

Tomorrow I'm going to do a job where I will ride a scooter all over Berlin, it's going to be exciting and I told my friends on Facebook that if I die, I want my funeral to contain Champagne, Oysters & Pet Shop Boys. I promise to drive safely. I'm not afraid of dying, but I'm afraid of getting hurt. Fingers crossed I'm gonna be fine!

Thank you all for answering my questions on my previous post, it's been so great getting to know you better and within a few weeks, I will make a post with my answers to your questions. If you have any questions, feel free to post them here and I'll include them in the post :)