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Dos Visit Örjan the painter’s old workspace
Photo’s by Isabelle McAllister In our garden at the cottage there is another little fantastic house. It’s been wash house, the main house for a family of ten and the last 20 years it’s been Örjans workspace during the summers. 100 years of wear, tear and paint make the patina amazing! The light is amazing and together with the traces from the artist it becomes stunning! I would just like…
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The 100 bucks of kitchen upgrade
In my mother in laws vacation home up in the north of Sweden (yes, Dalarna where I have been blogging from these past weeks) nothing and I mean nothing has been done since the 70′. This could be a great thing or it could be plain ugly. In this case I must go for the latter. Now our goal is to redo part of the house and make it warmer…
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Midsummer day
So what happens at a Swedish midsummer? Well, we celebrate the summer, we put flowers in our hair. We eat sill (herring) and we dance around a big pole which is decorated with leaves and flowers. Very pretty! And a lot of the swedes get pissed out of their senses. Not so pretty. Beppe enjoys his first summer. Typical for midsummer is strange weather. Still june. Hot and cold. And…
