Friday Leisure

At the flea market

I am enjoying my last days of freedom before I start teaching on Monday, school brake is coming to an end. I am still not sure weather I like it or not..
Friday is the day for exploring flea market for my new vintage gems, coffee with friends and a slight touch of mistery with British crime series Midsommer Murders :)

The Three Kings' Day

 Although is common practice to remove all the Christmas decoration on the Three Kings' Day, I still kept mine. I don't like that big difference after all the glow and magic, home suddenly looks so empty and...ordinary.

Well, this was quite hard to accomplish, since my cat was desperately trying to grab and chew some of the christmas lights. He is trying that since I put it there. That means, approximately, 2 weeks :)

Desperate and partly successful attempts

 

 This was my day in pictures:  (hm, it looks quite good and felt even better :)

Photos taken from weheartit.com

As the Christmas lights are fading, I am still trying to keep my own turned on :)

All you need is love

This is the first in the series of angels that I have been commissioned for, the Angel of Love and I really enjoyed the process of making it!

After all, it all comes down to one simple thing:  All you need is love.  Always. :)

New Year's Day

A friend of my boyfriend invited us to his birthday party ( he is born on January 1st, lucky guy), telling us that we're going to play something called Wii , which is Nintendo's home video game console for playing interactive and physically active video games. So we were all staring at the big tv-screen and played all sorts of games, like tennis, ski jumping, boxing etc. I was a bit skeptical about this kind of entertainment in the beginning, but it was so much fun!

So,  I guess there's a geek in everyone of us! ;))

Ski jumping in the living room

Birthday boy in half-time meditation :)

Worried couch fans :)

Our always-happy and-smiling hostess

Passive participant

New Year

Papa's Bar, my favourite pub, in preparations for this evening's big party

A day for this year's summary. All the good and less good things that happened. A day for wishes, promises and plans. A day of hope that in the New Year we will be even more wonderful than we are.

Vampires & Co.

Holidays are the perfect time for sweet leisure, especially those days between Christmas and New Year. The best way to spend that time is watching movies. All kinds of movies. Even those, which you know aren't exactly the highest artistic achievment, but just a pleasant pastime.

That's how I ended watching teenage dark vampire romance The Twilight Saga.   I am not fooling myself that this is a valuable achievement in film industry, but I found certain charm in obsessive and symbiotic romance between a human-girl and vampire-boy.( I guess everyone had a similar kind of relationship in their love CV. ;)

That reminded me of other memorable movie vampires:

THE best vampire ever, Tom Cruise, "Interview with the Vampire"

Antonio Banderas, "Interview with the Vampire"

Brad Pitt, "Interview with the Vampire"

Gary Oldman, father of all the vampires in "Dracula"

Kate Beckinsale, "Underworld"

Dacota Fanning, "Twilight Saga: New Moon"

And, of course, currently the hottest vampire in the world, Robert Pattinson

So, next time you feel unusually exhausted after banal meeting with an acquaintance, a friend, or even a (close) relative, ask  yourself do the vampires only exist on a film tape. ;)

A Day for a Daydream: Sweden

There are some days, and on those days you usually have nothing special to do, so you have pretty much time to imagine all the things you're usually too busy to think of. Let's call it daydreaming. Do you know that feeling when you wish to be somewhere else, do something else, visit places you never visited, do things you never did, eat food you never ate? There are some days when this feeling is more intense than usual. It's not that you're unsatisfied with your current life, it's just that sometimes you are more sensitive to the calls of a distance..

I've never been to Sweden, but I would love to visit the homeland of Stieg Larsson, whose novel and it's northern atmosphere still inhabit my mind...

Gamla Stan, Stockholm

Stockholm

Swedish Bicycle

Kullens, Sweden

Kaffe Konditori Valand, Stockholm

Guest Dessert Table from Sweden

A Tea Shop in Stockholm

Workspace from Elle Interior Sweden

Story Hotel in Stockholm

Swedish River Villa

Origami tablescape by Lo Bjurulf for Ikea Sweden

Swedish home

Frida Gustavsson, Elle Sweden

Sweden in the Summertime by Mikael Jansson

 

Stieg Larsson