let it snow!

Since yesterday it has snowed, and this morning i woke up to a winter wonderland. I love it! I love this time of the year, with christmas around the corner and candlelight and snow. It's so pretty. And when you go out with tons of layers of clothes and you can feel the cold on your face, it really makes me feel alive. Have a good and snowy friday!

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music

I normally listen to music all the time. I have different playlists, depending on the season or mood i'm in and when I'm home I usually have music playing all the time. And then our surround system broke! NOT GOOD! Luckily I haven't thrown away my CD's, so I went back to listening to them for a while. But now that I figured out how to connect my computer to my CD player, I couldn't be happier! How didn't I think of this before?! Well, maybe it was good to bring back some old memories and to blow the dust off the CD's ;)

What are your favorite picks from your playlists? Here's one of the oldies I found while listening to my CD's :)

The Corrs - Radio

What are four walls, anyway? They are what they contain. The house protects the dreamer. Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game. It's such a surprise.

Under the Tuscan Sun

Never forget to dream. To fill life with the things that brings you happiness. Suddenly you might find yourself having all you ever dreamed of. Until then, a dreamer always has their dreams...

Goodnight!

Right now.

Sometimes I wonder how it is that everything always get pushed further and further ahead, until all of a sudden you sit there the last night with nothing done yet and the deadline knocking on the door.

Then I found the answer:

So my sunday will be getting my whole final project for school done in one day, basically.

Luckily there's coffee,  pretty pictures and good music involved :)

Cuteness to Die for

So, I should be doing school work. Instead I do anything but. I look at pictures of pug puppies, they are just too cute. 

And this morning me and my sis went selling at a flea market. We got up at the crack of dawn, packed a thermos with coffee, set up our table and sold clothes. Cheap. Some it was hard to sell, all the memories that goes with them... it's just to hope they'll get a good home and create more memories :) And we came home tired, but with a little nugget of money warming in the pocket and a lighter feeling, knowing that the bags in the storage weren't there anymore.

money

A friend of mine shared this video, so I want to share it with you. It's funny to think of what kind of life we would lead, if it wasn't for money.

Money is a complicated thing. Often it cloud our vision of where we want to go, what we want to do, because we think that a good salary is what's worth striving for. While in reality, I guess the salary doesn't matter that much, as long as we do something we like and get by with the money we get. 

I have one good friend of mine, who has followed her dreams. Chosen her studies and style of life according to what she WANTS to do, not because it would bring her money. I admire that. For her it all turned out very well, she gets to work with what she reallo loves. That's really all I would want to as well.

about being true to oneself

Autumn has an effect on me. It brings me to think about life. About who I am. As a person, what I want, where I'm going. About me in relation to others. Who I am in my relationships; to my boyfriend, family and friends. I always come to a similar conclusion. In order for my relationships to work, for me to be able to be the person I want to be, I need to be happy with myself. When I am happy and have found my balance, I can give so much more to others. I can be the person that I want others to see in me. And for this all to be possible I think we should never stop dreaming, and the ultimate thing never to forget is, to quote Janis Joplin:

Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got. 

I watched Eat, Pray, Love a while back. One of my favorite movies. So worth watching. Life's all about living the moment, about dolce far niente. And about being true to yourself. 

Snapshots

It's been a busy couple of weeks. School started back up, I've been working a lot so that I could keep some time off in the upcoming weeks. Excitement has been all around; we're gonna have visitors from the other side of the atlantic. Therefore also a lot of planning and fixing has been taking up some time. But it's all fun projects, the kinds that brings a good energy. 

 Here's some snapshots from my oasis, things that has kept my mind occupied lately.

Colors. Candles. Pictures. Materials. Settings. Autumn. 

Make every moment count.

There's so much going on, but still so little. Same from day to day, but still an overwhelming amount of different things running through my head. Countless things to take care of before the to-do list will shorten. So every now and then I gotta stop for a while and just breathe. Everything else is optional after all. 

I try to remember what really is important. You know those things that count. The small things. And then those things that wake you up, make you rethink. The thoughts that keep your mind open and your dreams alive. We should never forget to strive for more, but at the same time be happy with what we have. 

CHERISH EVERY MEMORY

LOVE EVERY MOMENT

EMBRACE EVERY POSSIBILITY

But I think I really would need a vacation. Cut my mind off things. Just be, relax and spend quality time with my love. It's a while until that can happen though, so for now stopping to breathe is what's gonna have to do the trick ;)

(Even if I wish I would be enjoying this..)

having friends at work...

...is like waking up to a sunny morning every day.

...is a little like kindergaden, but you get paid. 

And when you have friends at work, you like waking up in the morning. The time passes faster and the  days have more meaning. I am happy to have had so good luck with my great work friends, I hope you all can say the same!

"The paradox of our age"

Dalai Lama is a man of wisdom. So let's fill up the room and not think so much of what's in the window. 

and we said we would die together

Laleh - Some Die Young

...Some die young

But you better hold on

So many things I need to say to you

Please don't, don't let me go

And we said we would die together...

midsummer

I hopa you all had a good midsummer!

cleaning day!

Today it's finally time for the windows to get washed! I have taken down the curtains already months ago, and they've been waiting for the windows to get washed so that they could get put up again. Today is their lucky day!

Little things

Some small details found in our home. It's the little things that catch the eye, that stick to our mind and speak to the soul. 

The Happy Buddha.

Photogrpahs & Memories.

Colorful candlelight.

Hearts, collected here and there.

"I see friends shaking hands, sayin,

How do you do?

They're really sayin I LOVE YOU. "

A gift that works as a daily reminder that friendship is something very valuable.

Then some things that i'm dreaming of:

Dream catcher.

And a work in progress. The photo collage that has been on my mind every day lately.

Love comes once, if you're lucky enough

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Love is a funny thing. It's hard to explain, yet it's always said that when you feel it you will recognize it immediately. If you are lucky enough to find real love, hold on to it. It will not always be easy, but it's worth all the effort. At the end of the day, I think it's what most of us are looking for. 

sleep can wait?!

It's a lovely day, the sun's shining and I had time for my morning coffee today. But I can feel an overwhelming tiredness taking over. I am a person who NEEDS sleep. And I mean it. When I don't sleep enough I stop functioning. I'm the kind of person who after 7pm can't get a whole lot of things accomplished anymore.

Right now I should be doing an assignment; draw an apartment plan and plan how to locate the storage. I like the assignment, and I like my school. But I'm just tired. So I feel about like on the picture above.

My assignment should be ready by saturday, and I am pretty sure I'm running out of time. And I already now what it wil result in:

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So, back to my assignment, sleep can wait! or can it?

P.S. Just a couple of hours of work anymore, then I get treated to a dinner on town in good company, could be worse ;)

thoughts of today

In the end it really is the little things in life that turn out to be the really important ones. So let's not forget to enjoy them. The moments of our lives can define who we are, or then we can define the moments of our life. Choose which, and make sure that either way those moments are moments you'll wanna look back at later in life. 

the journey is the destination

Today I was talking about life with a friends of mine. We talked about taking risks in life, about decisions we need to do. About which job we want to end up with, about how we want our lives to turn out. In life we need to take the risks, so that we wouldn't live life thinking what if. But most importantly we need to remember to live, today. Because life is not about about reaching a destination. Of course we need to have goals, but we need to remember to enjoy life while we are getting there. Life is what happens when were busy making other plans. So let's never forget to enjoy our journey, because that's the biggest part of our lives.

Tunes

The feeling of summer is here, and I want to share a couple of the songs that's been on my playlist today. I don't work untile the afternoon, so it's been a nice slow morning, lots of coffee and sunshine and some summery tunes.

Pachanga-Calienta

Starship-Nothing's gonna stop us now

Nancy Sinatra&Lee Hazlewood - Summer wine

The Beach Boys-Kokomo

wish list

On my wish list right now is to get the desk / working table fixed. 

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These pictures are some direction for what feeling that we're looking for with the desk.

And the chairs that I'm dreaming of with the desk are these, from Etola: