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...

Taste of Sweden: Cinnamon buns day

In Sweden and Finland, the 4th of October celebrates the delicious fika buns with cinnamon and while you can buy these treats more or less everywhere, from Ikea shop to...

Planting bulbs for spring

Up north, spring arrives late and when we celebrate the end of winter during Valborg  (April 30th) there can still be snow covering the earth and all the colors have...

Happy loppis find

It took me a while and a lot of listening to the character of my studio space to realize what I was looking for. I really wanted a sofa, but...