yellow

1  Flora in the woods with her beloved rubber boots

2  Koldskål from Øllingegaard is so good & definitely the best if you don't make koldskål yourself (which I do not)

3  Pretty roadside flowers

byvägen

 

Oh so many amazing colour combinations in this old Swedish house! I like the green floral curtains, the brown checkered table cloth & all the blue shades in the kitchen very much. See more pictures here.

from the flea market

 

The flea market season has started and I have visited a few in the past weeks.

Picture #1 was an old lady's table at a garage sale. She had so many beautiful things and she was very sweet as well! I bought the potholders and the small tin on picture #2 and #3 from her.

The book at picture #4 is a fine Swedish schoolbook from 1952 & the teaspoons at picture #5 are from the local thriftstore.

svinkløv

We drove to the North Sea with the children today to visit the beautiful old seaside hotel Svinkløv. We go for a walk there sometimes and this afternoon we had cakes & coffee. A & I were there last summer just the two of us. It is a wonderful place :^)

lovely may

In a couple of weeks I will hand in my very last exam paper. It's been difficult for me writing it - for various reasons. I hope everything will be fine at the end of May & that meanwhile all of you are enjoying this beautiful spring!

everyday

1  Still wearing my woolen sweater

2  Oxalis & Pelargonium in our kitchen window

3  Part of the hallway when cleaned up

4  Evening sky over the city some days ago

5  Antique store with a lot of nice porcelain

Update: something just made me very happy. Two Swedish women wrote about my photos at their beautiful blogs Hallonsemla & Bonjour Vintage. Thank you so much Rebecca and Madeleine!

pilfingerdagen

Pilfingerdagen or Klåfingerdagen (in English: Little O) is a sweet children's book I found in the antiquarian bookstore the other day. Written in 1957 by Swedish author Edith Unnerstad & with lovely illustrations by the Danish illustrator Iben Clante.

vik, lågbol, knutby

A very colourful little house in Sweden!

Via Gård & Torp.

finds

Some old wooden blocks & a fine plate from Egersund. For 4 euro in the local charity shop :^)

tove jansson's house

For 30 years Finnish author Tove Jansson spent all her summers in a small cottage on the island Klovharu in the Pellinki archipelago, Finland. I would love a summer with my family in a place like that.

Pictures via this great Tove Jansson site.

in april

1  drinking tea and studying everyday now

2  Flora in her fine but soon too small Pippi blouse

3  plates from Swedish Gustavsberg called Brun Linje

4  a new second hand store with so many pretty things