Just some stuff.

1. This is our garden.
2. This is our food.
2. This is our flowers.
3. My hair is getting longer and so are my feet.

Ok People. We are not great cooks but we could provide a pretty awesome scenery for our lunch together with our intern. So here it is Melissa , who asked: “I want to see some meals at your house! What does a regular Swedish family eat for dinner? For lunch or breakfast?”

We might not be your “regular Swedish family”, but this is what we had for lunch today!

Our intern is in the house. And she brought cookies! Do you have any questions for us?

It´s been way to long since we talked about Ebay. Please let me know if you´ve found anything fun lately. And in return I´ll show you mine.
Hope you like them. Let´s start with the best one:

Photo of Liberace and two ladies.
Liberace. What a extraordinary human. This photo I really want have already bought. Can´t wait to get it.

Plastic Right leg.
One morning as I signed in to Ebay it said “Welcome back Jenny! Here are a some auctions recommended for you“  and this leg was one of those recommended auctions. Too funny! I laughed all the way through check out.

Toys from Blues Brothers
I´m not going to buy this. The kids would be fighting over it. Viola would say “I need the Blues mobile because I want to run the nazis off the bridge“. And Frank would plead. “No I want the Blues mobile so I can pick up Jake in prison“.

Old Soap Magazines
The memories come pouring over me as I read these headlines for Days Of Our Lives on old Soap Magazines. DOOL (short for Days Of Our Lives) and I have had some good times together.

Like when Hope came back from the dead as princess Gina. Oh the joy. And all the loveable personalities  John has had: The priest, The solider and The art thief. Or when the alien twins came to Salem. But the story about Marlena getting possessed with the Devil has left few untouched and is usually what people (non DOOLers)  want to discuss when they find out I watch the show. Sure it was really well played. But long time DOOLers know that there is so much more to this ever lasting TV drama. For me personally it has always been about Sami Brady.

She got me hooked on the show with the way she stole her sisters boyfriend. The men of DOOL are usually really easy to get into bed but with this faithful hunk named Austin she had to get creative. Her elegant plot involved sexdrugs, fake maternity test, fake amnesia, a dying father and a whole lot of determination and an accomplice: Lucas, whom later turns out to be the real father to her baby. She almost made it to the alter. Here you can see it all falling apart for Sami.
And then ,this clip, Sami 15 years later. Same old story that I can´t seem to get tired off.

OK enough already Jenny, you are rambling!

Ok ok one last thing: All you DOOLers out there reading (is there any?)  will agree with me on this. There is no better surprise like the one when you realize the stranger next to you at that awkward dinner party is a DOOLer. Nothing beats it!

More “Jenny goes shopping on Ebay…”  in this post and in this post

And this little find.

Next week a sweet little 4th grader will come to our house for a one day internship. In Sweden students do this quite a lot. And we are very happy to have been asked. She loves to draw and Jens will guide her through the basics of the digital world of illustrating  and hopefully he can show her some other useful cool tricks.  And since I´m always around she will get me in the deal as well. Yay!

And with me being all about this blog I want to involve you.
You´re always forced to see my world through my eyes. And even though I´m sure you are smart enough to realize that my eyes are quite distorted. I still want to give you a chance to get an honest answer about what life at our house is really like.

Is there anything you would like to know or see?

Frank and I are getting ready for the weekend. But we had to stop by and remind you that the offer “Buy one large Carl print and get one Girl & Bager poster free of charge” ends tomorrow, Sunday 19th.

With this offer you get Girl & Badger (50×70 cm) and one large Carl (50×70 cm) for 40 € = about 52 dollar / about 342 SEK
with FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE.

You can choose any of our 7 Carls.

Thank you all shoppers for your support.
/Jenny

Thursdays are mostly about throwbacks nowadays. And here are some old garden photos of mine that you might have missed or forgotten about.
Above: #3 of my “Garden Stuff”

These are too heavy for their own good.

Viola and the stars

More garden

And more

Sign your name across your lawn

Mon dieu, I just have a crazy good day today. The flow is totally with me so far and I just want to take the time to say thank you!

I don’t think everything shines through a blog. I mean we try to write about ups and downs in our lives but sometimes naturally we keep stuff from you all. Some times because it feels too close, or too personal or not interesting enough (even though I like to read blogs where they speak up both their minds and thought since it makes us feel more alike out there).  But we can also keep stuff because it sometimes is part of a process and then there are no words yet.

We love this blog. We love doing it together. We love to have a platform where we can be just who we are. And we love the interaction with all you readers.
We read, love and cherish all you comments! They mean the world to us!
Jenny is mostly very good to answer back on the comments straight away. I read them and then I answer in my head – thinking I’m going to write back on the computer. (I hate it  when the auto correct wants to spell all my English words in Swedish and it takes me ages to write in English on the phone). But we really try to keep the flow going.

Even though we are doing this blog for us and we are happy that you all tag along – naturally we also think much about how we come across. We want to build this platform, we want to do more of this embrace nonsense stuff we love! And we want to be us to the full extent. But it is not always easy. Half of the time, me myself have a hard time keeping up with  who I am and how does it then come across on the blog?

Me and Jenny are talking alot about what is Dosfamily supposed to be? Is it a lifestyle blog, is it an interior decoration blog? Is it a parenting thing or a DIY world?  Would it be better if we did more of one thing or another? We know we like it as it is, but for someone on the outside it can be hard to grasp – what do these women want to say to us exactly?
It is always easier to be black and white, to store people or things in a box. – They are like that. That blog is about designer homes all painted in white. A hot dog is a hot dog.
I also think this is part of the world right now. With all the influences we get all the time we want to know what we get fast or else we skip it.
But we don’t want to limit ourselves. We want to be everywhere cause it’s who we are. We are not black and white and we like to put ourselves in at least 100 different boxes.

Not long ago I read a great article in Icon Magazine written by Jan Gradwall. He writes about us hitting the “Like” button hundered times a day. We see an image on Instagram and like away after only a few seconds. We have made up our minds. But he also tells about the things he likes most in his life- that many of them have been taking years to like. For him some of those things was coffee and John Coltrane. I think this was an excellent point. Some things simply need time to grow on you. Somehow in rushing my life I’ve forgotten this.
But why bring it up right now?
Well cause I hope you don’t give up on us – it can take some time before you get us but once you do I hope you stay and have a chat!

And with all this said it was so fantastic waking up and reading the Blog love post from very talented Pip Lincolne (check out all the cool crafty DIY books she has made) on the Australian site JustB. This is what she wrote about us:

Pip seriously! I don’t even know where to start. But thank you so much for you post!
-somehow this shows us that there are more of you out there thinking and feeling a bit the same as we do! Who understands. And it’s such a great feeling!

I also want to take time to thank all of you who comment, give great shout outs on Instagram and also of course all of you who simply read this blog!

Now I start to get very emotional so I guess I better do some other work.

Huge kisses
Isabelle & Jenny

1. Having coffee and reading a Barbie magazine.
2. Viola spends lots of time in her net.
3. Mickey dressed in Mini & Maximus
4. Frank taking a last ride in our stroller. It is now for sale.
5. Packing shop orders today. This duo seems to be the most popular one at the moment. Girl and Badger and Blushing Carl (signed by the artist Jens Grönberg).

NOTE: Everyone who orders one large Carl will get one Girl and Badger free of charge (50x70cm) Offer ends Sunday 19th Go to shop here!   Free Shipping worldwide!

God Morgon!
As we say in Sweden. I´m stopping in for a quick hello before work to show you some pictures from our weekend. The kids and I went to their grandmother´s and hung out. The weather has been so nice and the kids sowed some summer flowers in her garden.

1. Spring in Skåne.
2. Sowing flowers.
3. Mixed branches from Grandmother Christin´s garden.
4. Double cornflowers seeds look like small brushes.
5. Don´t you think?
6. Daggkåpa. “Lady´s Mantle”