On the street where you live.

Well, probably not where you live :-) But some photos of beautiful doors and signs from a street close to where I live.

Here we go again...

Monday is just around the corner, a new year and a new week with lots of opportunities and challenges. To be honest I'm a bit nervous, but I have Rune to hold my hand...

And I almost forgot to brag about the Stylish Blogger Award I received from the lovely Teje at Nero's Post and Patch! Thank you so much Teje! I'll write more about the award later this month.

 Have a great week!

Good stuff!

Hi! Hope you're off to a good start in this brand new year. I had a great new year's eve with Rune. Lots of champagne and delicious sushi. Have you ever had uramaki with salmon and strawberries? It was surprisingly tasty! We put on some Michael Bublé and danced, and at midnight we watched the fireworks from our window.

I thought I'd show you some of my christmas presents with the jar I won in Tika's give away:

• Beautiful Amethyst earrings
• Beautiful Othmar oak leaves earrings (from darling Rune)
• A macaron book!
• The lovely wrapping paper Tika made for the jar...
• And the beautiful jar itself :-)

The end is near...

Well, at least the end of 2010 :-) It's been a rough year for Rune and I, so frankly I'm glad to see it go. Lots of illness and not so good times. Yesterday I went to the cemetery to see my grandmother's urn being put in the ground. And then to her house with the rest of the family to divide her things. Thankfully it went alright, no bickering at all and a lot of reminiscing.

I'm going to take some time and think about what kind of year I would like 2011 to be... Have you thought about any New Years resolutions yet?

(The snowman is made by some of the children playing in the courtyard where we live, so cute!)

On the 4th Day of Christmas

...my true love gave to me four calling birds. What exactly is a calling bird? According to Wikipedia it's a blackbird. So here is one of my favorite songs, so beautiful and simple it sometimes make me tear up.

I once heard someone explain that the blackbird in this song ís a symbol of the african-american peoples struggle for freedom. After the abolition of slavery, many former slaves still remained on the plantations, unable to fly on their broken wings. The dead of night is supposedly the period they would have to wait, untill the civil rights movement in the 60s made it possibly for them  to spread their wings. It's just one of many intrepretations of this song, but it makes sense to me. Enjoy!

Wishing you a merry christmas!

I'm so lucky! Part 2

Photo by Tika

Look what I won in Tika's give away on her blog In Tika's garden! A beautiful jar made made by Tika herself. Thank you so much for this early christmas present!