Past weeks.

Sorry for not updating so much here. I'm blogging mostly at my swedish site lottalosten.com. If you want to see more pics I recommend you to pop over there. I actually will turn that site into english soon and blog in both swedish and english but for now it's all written in swedish.
Well, I've been up to quite a bit the last couple of weeks. Here are a few highlights:

Turned 30!

Had friends and family over for an entire weekend of fun! Here is my dad, my niece and my best friend.

Beautiful sister!

We went for lots of walks.

Had dinner at a nice restaurant. My dad, niece and mother.

Had brunch at a great place.

Lovely David.

Having fun with my niece!

Taking pics of flowers in the kitchen window.

Had friends over for the weekend. Went to a fleemarket.

Waited for assistance with a table.

Tried to squeeze said table in to a small car. This did not work. But it fit in our car so everything worked out fine.

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 goodbye to the ocean for this summer.

Yesterday we walked by the ocean, collecting branches and dried plants. We sat on top of the old stone fortress and watched the sky and the water almost melt together.

I think I might have broken my "new" vintage film camera. I know the film inside would have been perfect! Feel really sad about that.
When it started to get chilly we walked back to the car. I was barefoot and had to be very careful not to step on the discusting slugs that shared our footpath.
Today we went back to Gothenburg again. It feels really good to be home. Our home.

Ps: The tote is from Fieldguided and has a lovely Kate Bush quote on it. I love it because it fits all my thrifts and when I needed to be barefoot in the sand it contained my shoes as well.

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.