VILLA BETULA

FRAGILE

22/06/2017

Photo: Matilda Audas Björkholm

This post has been laying a round for a couple of days. I didn’t know if I would post it or not. It’s might too fragile and revealing, maybe I’ll regret? Maybe I should think for a little longer. Why? Shame. First of all I want to say that the photographer is great, the setting and dress was great, everybody was so kind and sweet. But oh my what a challenge it was, and still is, for me.

Remember I was going to Stockholm? This photos was the reason for going. When I got the photos back I was reminded why this was such a hard task for me, why this is not a natural thing to do, and again questioning myself why. When I’m so fragile, why do I push my limits? Many days there’s a much bigger challenge just to be present in my own mind, but still…

No clear conclusion to my question, but I guess it makes me feel brave and alive. But it also makes me down when I can see my scars so clearly. Years of a troubled mind is in that skin, and everybody can see it. At least now they can. I don’t want to feel ashamed, but I have to admit I just show you the photos I’m comfortable with. That makes you might disagree with me – both on the fact that you can see it clearly, and also about being brave, since I don’t choose to show the worst side of myself. But for me this is enough to feel both brave and uncomfortable. But I don’t regret the photoshoot, and hopefully I won’t regret this post. I need to dare to be me.

Photo: @matildastillvaro, Flowers: @skilladflorals, Location and styling: @rentalstories, Dress: @elsabillgren, Hair jewelery: @thewildroseaccessories

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THIS WORLD CAN BE NICE TOO. AFTER ALL.

21/06/2017

Photo: Sofia Vusir Jansson/ Mokkasin

Good evening! I’m having an extra coffee and some caramel while I write this grateful post. It’s about one of my blog favorites out there, Sofia at Mokkasin. I know I’m far from the only one. I love to dive deep into her texts and photos, and somehow I feel like she touches my soul – it’s the way she is. Even I’ve never met her. I want to, no doubt about that – talk about all kinds of ideas and thoughts, take photos in her house and try their synths would have been like a dream… Playing a concert close by too, maybe? Well, Sofia is one of those persons making a difference in my everyday, and she didn’t know. So I wanted to tell her and give her a thank you for being such an inspiration, and since I knew that her big family loves music, I sent them our second album on vinyl. And just like the sun’s coming out in front of a very dark thunder storm, which was my state of my mind Monday, she wrote the most beautiful blogpost “When everything is like poetry” about our music, our home and me. Her photos and words reminded me of my mastering and joy, and the fact that this world can be nice too. After all. Thanks a lot. Quoting from her post would just make me blush big time, so i suggest you pop over to see yourself, here you can find it. All the photos in this post is taken by Sofia.

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IN ITS GLORY

19/06/2017

This post is sponsored by Garden Glory.

I love this! And I can promise you that everything on my blog comes from my heart. For those of you who have followed me for a while knows that for sure. So – I was really excited when I got a huge shipment from Garden Glory, the Swedish lovely company run by Linda Brattlöf. She says “why settle for the ordinary?“, and I couldn’t have asked a better question myself! She dared to follow her heart (another thing I love, obviously) and started to make luxurious alternative garden appliances. Wow, I’m having a little envy on that brilliant idea 😉 And I have a big crush on her designs and details…

I wasn’t sure what was in the shipment, because I’d wanted everything in her shop, ha ha, and I couldn’t get everything of course. But oh my I was happy when I saw lots of gold blinging down there, and two very hansom lion pots, one of them is huge and totally over the top adorable! Such a statement piece! He is the now the guard of my hallway (together with my real dog).

And diamond watering cans! I just had to have some fun with them, as you can see on the photos above. Why not try it with some coffee? And why not play with scale? They comes in two sizes, I guess small is ment for indoors and large for outdoors, but since I have so many plants indoors, many of them rather big too, I will use the large one indoors I think. Then I won’t have to run and fill it up like fifteen times every time I’m watering, yeah! And I can have the small one in our studio in the outhouse, perfect!

Did you see the gold garden hose with a gold nozzle and a gold reindeer wall mount – words can’t describe how I feel for them. It’s a stunner, a total wow, seriously. And Linda has a large range of colours and types, so it doesn’t have to be gold if you fancy something else, go have a look! And just like me she ship worldwide 😉

While you are drooling in her fab shop I will go out and watch the gold nozzle bling in the sunset… See ya!

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FIRST CAPTURE OF THE MOOD WITH MY NEW CAMERA

12/06/2017

Last night I tried my new camera (Canon EOS 6D) for the very first time, and this is what I got. It will take some time to get to know it, but my feeling so far is a good one. The lovely bracelet and whale print I bought from Linda. I have been really quiet on the blog and instagram lately since I’ve been busy doing this and I have been trying to get some rest too. I’ll be back before you know it!

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OH NO, MY CAMERA IS BROKEN! BUT I GOT SOME PICS FROM STOCKHOLM…

03/06/2017

Oh no, oh no… I’m in panic research for a new camera! My old second hand one broke done while in Stockholm earlier this week. At least I got some photos of the lovely blogger and shop owner Linda at Vintagefabriken. We even had lunch together, and I enjoyed it so much, such a sweet, kind and calm woman, wow! My husband joined too, and I love it when he wants to attend to “blogger-interior-shop-lunch-photoshoot-day”, he’s so sweet. He got some “behind the scenens” photos of me from the photoshoot, but no one from the moody rainy shoot outside, so we have to wait and see what Matilda got (excited!). Thank you Matilda, Anna and Nika for a lovely time, and to Elsa for her stunning vintage dresses.

So, I bought several gorgeous sweet things in Linda’s shop, but I’m not able to share it with you before I got a new camera. It has to happen fast! But I want to make a good research too of course, so it’s a dilemma. Anyone out there having some tips? I don’t have afford something very expensive, and I probably don’t need it either. But I will have an interchangeable lens camera, and I will probably buy a 50mm f/ 1.4 lens, because I seriously need that. Phew, I’m a little stressed. And tired. And overwhelmed. The week has been so full of happenings, and I don’t deal with that very well. But I don’t regret any of it!

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GRÅBLOMST GIVE AWAY!

03/06/2017

There’s a music give away going on, and some of you might saw my stories a couple of days ago? My first time speaking on Instagram – I know – it was a little scary! But I want to give you all a chance to enter the Gråblomst-competition, so here we go: I want to wrap a gift with our second album, which will be released the 8th of June, on vinyl (with a download card too), and I will also add our first vinyl album, three different Gråblomst t-shirts and some cards of the band-photos. I ship worldwide, so it doesn’t matter where you live. And the task is simple: follow my band Gråblomst on Instagram and send me a direct message on Instagram to let me know. That’s it! It’s so difficult to reach out on Instagram with music compared to for example interior, so it means the world to me when you support our music as well. Thanks a lot!

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I JUST WANT TO SIT DOWN AND RELAX

28/05/2017

May has been a crazy month! Almost two weeks since I even thought about making a blog post, even though you readers have been striking my mind several times, and some times I feel I let you down. Personally I do get let down when it takes “forever” between posts on blogs I read. It doesn’t feel right, but people always has their reasons.

Mine is, as you might know, the release of our second album. That’s the reason for the pics above: I sneaked in some of just myself (or just my husband) when I took the band photos. And when I’m in back of, and in front of, the camera, and plan the styling and at the same time have to fix (what feels like) a hundred other things, my energy can’t be spend on the blog. Or Intagram. I’ve never been this quiet.

But in June I will make some photos in Villa Betula for the amazing Garden Glory, and I’m going to have a cuppa in Maria‘s lovely pad (and sneak some photos for you!). And hopefully I will ship many records in June! I shipped a pile yesterday, and if I take the time today I will add midnight blue tees with “gråblomst” written in gold on them to the web shop, wow, I love them and have used mine already! In the end of next week there will come more t-shirt designs too, with quotes from the lyrics on them.

First: pack my bag for Stockholm tomorrow, remember!? I gonna be so so so nervous! Oh, and while I’m there I will also say hello to fab Linda at Vintagefabriken, and bring her a vinyl of course, since she has a turntable! Yay!

I’ll be back with more interior from Villa Betula, and more emotional rambling, ha ha. I just want to sit down and relax and take my time…

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WRAPPING AND SHIPPING WITH LOVE

15/05/2017

Here I’m back already (proud)! It’s obviously some advertising in this post since I’m about to nearly beg you to check out the Gråblomst shop I made yesterday (cost sweat and almost tears, had so much drive so I didn’t stop in time, dilemma). We are releasing our second vinyl album the 8th of June, and it can be pre-ordered from today! And in not too long we’ll have nine different tees! I guarantee you’ll find one you like. If not – send me an e-mail, and I’ll make one, haha 😉

And next up after writing this post is to wrap the record and ship to everybody in my dream team, remember? Gosh, the back of the sleeve would have been so boring without them! And the photo above of both our records says so much about me: the first one white with careful black lines and the second one dark, intense and moody with the courage to show it’s true face even though it’s not perfect. Just like the house and myself. It sounds like a cliche. But it’s true. And I wrap this post up by saying that we have a bundle offer in the new shop where you can buy both of our vinyls for just 340 Norwegian Kroner!!

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