Floats my boat

It's not the furniture, because you don't need fancy Eames to make this flat work. It's the pipes, the walls, the garage feel that I love. Guzman penthouse in New York by LOT-EK Architecture.

C.A.P.S

New album coming soon. I'm going to the release party. Won't miss this one. Linky linky.

Malinutten, where did you go?

I loved her concept, but she disappeared so all I have are the pictures. I need new clothes but I find it hard to find what I like (not priced like a cheap laptop) so this time I'll sew some. Did I mention I don't buy clothes very often? I don't. I don't need to buy clothes unless they are worn because I have a style, I don't buy trend. It's time to replace some garments now thought and my inspiration is Malinutten's clothes.

There is still a blog though. http://www.malinutten.blogspot.com/.

Grief

So I lost my computer a while ago and it was such a loss. It had been my humble servant for so long, since 2003, and I really felt like I had lost a friend when it decided to kick the bucket. I'm still recovering.

Last autumn Zlatan Ibrahimović's book came out. I have now read it. Read it, not for the football babble but for the story about a kind of Sweden rarely visible in media.

Long time no see

My computer crashed.

Confession: I'm a nerd.

1997

Goose dinner

Edvard Persson, actor personifying this region's food traditions.

Preparations for the annual goose fest begun weeks ago with the acquiring of a goose the size of a small aircraft. Since then I've slowly acquired the rest of the ingredients and on Monday I begun the actual cooking process; I made pralines.

The classic dinner begins with a blood soup, heavily seasoned with Christmas spices and alcohol, and the lungs, heart and neck of the bird, cooked with apples and dried fruit. The goose is accompanied by a stuffing with apples and dried fruit, roasted potatoes, cooked red cabbage and a sauce. The whole thing ends with an apple cake and custard sauce.

I have tampered somewhat with this classic dinner but essentially it's what we're having. We'll start the dinner with a rosé cava before sitting down at the table. The gospel says Madeira for the soup but we're having a white mulled wine instead. Works well with the Christmas spices, better in my opinion than a Madeira. This beverage gospel also tells us to drink Bourgogne, Pinot Noir, but we're scrapping that in favour of a Spaniard, El Pedrosal. With the apple cake we're having Nederburg Late Harvest, a South African dessert wine. If anyone still feels like drinking even more alcohol, we're serving Dahlwinnie whisky and Bache-Gabrielsen cognac with the coffee - and dark chocolate pralines with bilberries and sea salt.

Ack, I'll not be able to eat anything more this weekend.

Can't get too much of The Coffinshakers

They're called The Coffinshakers. If you want to know more, go to their website.

The dead are with us today

Food design

I want to go to Amsterdam again. I have known it for a long time but today I got a fun reminder: the Dutch are remarkable at many things. They are the quirkiest in design and architecture (not to mention that they have the weirdest language too). And it shows when you're in Amsterdam.

The most intimate capital of Europe is a treasure with it's history, the abundance of places to eat and so many small shops - and the flower market! It's definitely not the flimsy mediocre bouquets and sad roses you find here at the few stalls selling flowers.

And the reminder I got? I came across the company Proef this evening when figuring out what to feed hungry people with. Instant Internet love! Visit Proef's page and have some food fun!

Invite nature

A bit of Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord in the garden. Let the industrialism flower.

Peacock

I have a flair for the dramatic. I want to cut my dreads off, dye my hair black and get one of these veils.

The veil on the picture is from Castle Bride Couture.

Yah, I'm married. Rockabilly style.

Ma hood

My home town in the 1960's.

Scrap made pretty

 

A DIY'ed corsage. All of it except of the felt in the swallow and the sugar skull are made from left over bits and pieces I had in my boxes.

It turned out better than I imagined and I'm quite pleased.

Sugar skull cake toppers

DIY blankets

In this northern part of the world we always run a risk of getting cold evenings, even in the hight of summer. If we're lucky we get a heatwave with tropical nights, but it's rare.

I got creative and made my own, and it's an IKEA hack on top of it.

It's the cheapest blanket available at IKEA with the cheapest quilt cover available at the same place. Two blankets and one quilt cover makes two swanky romantic/shabby blankets.

Rockabilly fever

The call of Rockabilly is hard to resist. I'm getting married in two months time and I'm not wearing a white wedding dress. Gingham and denim seems so much more simple and like

Cultural revolution invitations