The hat for the season.

I am a crazy hat lady.
I really can't resist a nice hat when I see one.
This is my latest purchase from one of the fleamarkets I went to in Stockholm. I love it so much and when I jumped on the tram today a red nosed man with a walrus moustasche and white crazy hair smiled the broadest smile you could ever imagine and said to me: Gorgeous hat you've got!
Then I was happy for the rest of the day.

By the way: I'm wearing pants. I NEVER wear pants. That was all.

Have a nice weekend everyone!

Flea market bonanza!

I've been visiting my sister and 8 weeks old niece this weekend. We went to two totally different flee markets and bought lots of great stuff! The first one was in a lovely suburb with not a lot of people so we had first chance on all the goodies! The second one was crazy! The entire city of Stockholm must have been there. Still found plenty of nice stuff though.

Sister found glasses!

The baby carriage was great to fill with stuff!

This guy fiddled with his girlfriends hair for a very long time.

These guys were almost from another time!

I took some pics with my cell phone on some of my great finds:

A brown hat

A raspberry red beret and a scarf with black dots on.

A red purse that fits my business cards, post cards and cell phone.

It was amazing weather in Stockholm. I even burned myself a little! In september! Me and my crazy pale skin...
Came home to a rainy Gothenburg yesterday. But I don't really care because the air is lovely and autumn is  here!! Oh, how I love autumn!

A glimpse into my livingroom.

 A few weeks ago I got to roam around in my grandfathers storage room where he keeps all his paintings. He has been working as an artist all of his life so there was a lot to choose from. I took the three paintings you can see in the picture above that show ships at a shipyard, and another one that is hanging on the other side of the wall.
I really love how it turned out. It's a strange thing, me and my grandfather is not the best of friends but I really admire his work and feel a strong connection with his art. I have noticed that my own inspirations are similar to his; both of us is drawn to the rugged and worn, the beauty in the unperfect. So even if we as persons don't get along our creative sides understands eachother perfectly.

A plate filled with small treasures found in nature and thrifted. I've made the plate myself a few years ago.

Glass marbles that I found at a flea market that I'm going to use in my cage jewelry.

A mini roadtrip.

Went on a little roadtrip yesterday. Found the best pizza ever at Kafferosteriet på Österlen that we ate in the shade of an apple trea. A few hours later we drank coffee and had a lovely cinnamon bun at another garden café. It was a really nice day.

Finds and tea dye

Found this gorgeous ashtray at the flea market a few days ago. Since I don't smoke I'm using it as a jewelry display when I take my photos.
Inside the cage pendant lies some tulle that I have dyed myself with different kinds of teas: red hibiscus, saffron and black tea.
I enjoy dyeing them myself and the result is beautiful and and uneven.

Unintentional colour coordination.

Went to a flea market today and when I got home I realised I had only bought things in matching colours. Even the candy. I'm feeling weirdly proud about this.

Flea markets and faces from long ago.

Today I went to a flea market with my friend Becka. The weather was lovely and I wore my summer hat and a white skirt against my equally white, freckled legs.

I found a few things that got to follow me home in my new tote from Fieldguided.
Bought lots of old necklaces with beautiful glass and stone beads that I will reuse in my jewelry.
Then I found a nice black 80's tie blouse that looked really great on me.
But the best find is probably the tiny photo locket with a portrait of a beautiful women inside. I'm so fascinated by photographs of people who lived a long time ago. No one remenbers them anymore, it's like they never existed. But this lady is now living in my window and maybe I will take her with me in a chain around my neck..

She has such a great face! Sometimes I think I can see a lovely smirk on her lips and sometimes there's a sadness in her eyes. Almost like Mona Lisa.
I think I would have liked this woman if I had lived when she did.
Sometimes it strucks me that there are so many people that have lived there lives before us. It's quite a overwhelming yet amazing feeling.  This lady now lives a new life with me.
So she'll never be completely forgotten.

The watch that resurrected.

I bought this watch a month ago in Nice. It didn't work, but I just liked the way it looked and wanted to wear it as jewelry.
I have been wearing it in a chain around my neck almost every day since then.
In four weeks it moved exactly twenty four hours forward. Quite mysterious.
Then all of a sudden, on midsummer's eve it started to tick. Really loud too.
And the mechanism to wind it up was working again!

A midsummer miracle! 

And four days later it's still going strong. I'm quite happy.

Small treasures in my window.

Things I have found on flea markets, at the beach, on the ground, in shops long ago or got in present from loved ones. The silver plate is from a second hand shop and the wood plate is made by my uncle when he was a little boy. They lie there in my window behind me and make me happy every time I see them.