Reading and watching //January 2022

Movies, documentaries & series: 1. Let them all talk. When Meryl Streep plays a role, I'm in. It's as simple as that. This movie might not be for everyone, but it's rather...

Happy New Year!

As 2022 arrives, we're ready to unlock a new year full of unknown moments and events, and hopes and dreams to turn into plans. With the world still in pandemic chaos,...

A Belgian/Swedish Christmas

This winter will be five years since we moved to Sweden and until 2020, we celebrated Christmas partly at home, partly with friends, and partly via zoom (the family we...

December rewind

December used to be the craziest month of the year, especially when I was still studying. When school ends, you dive into your books to study and after all the...

Watching and reading in November 2021

1.Yves Saint Laurent (Netflix) Sometimes it's hard to imagine how quickly our surroundings and trends change around us, and perhaps it's something we can only start to understand better (or at...

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!! I have to say, at first I had a very different plan for Halloween decoration/photographs, but after watching "The Chestnutman" (Kastanjemannen) on Netflix, all I could think about were...

Wood stain experiments

After testing the wild waters of furniture makeovers with my neon-experiment, I was both hungry for more and curious about another type of paint that I had read about. The...

Small pleasures #9: walnuts!

It's been years since I last had a chance to eat fresh walnuts and I missed it so much that already in August I had an important mission for my...

Cabincore book inspiration

It's getting colder outside and the short days can feel like an abrupt transition after a wonderful summer. Summer is the season of promise. Of the feeling of endlessness. Of...

Welcome autumn

Some autumn favourites: - hot chocolate or ginger tea with honey - colourful leaves - misty mornings - getting out warm socks and sweaters - steamy stews - picking apples from the garden - and making apple...