Art for the kitchen

You all know I like porcelain and china and I could have a thousand different series... so maybe a good way would be to buy a picture for our kitchen instead of the true china...even though Stig Lindberg's Berså definitely is a must have ;)

Picture: Etsy/ handz

Sommar med Ernst 2016

The TV series I look forward to the most is Sommar med Ernst, that will finally start on July 14 at 8 pm CET in Swedish TV channel TV4. This house seems to be his new project for this summer. I really love this series as it is so cozy and has such great pictures. And often during Christmas ( as you all know my favorite time of the year) he returns to decorate for Christmas, so the best 2 seasons in 1 Tv Series :)

Picture Aftonbladet

These are pictures from former seasons of Sommar med Ernst.

Picture TV 4

Picture TV 4

Children's room

My cousin just got a baby and asked me about some ideas for a children's room. For me the most important thing is that it should be cozy for the child and I like pastel colors and then a lot of colors for children. Like in the picture below from Bloomingville:

Picture Bloomingville

Tiny balcony

The only thing I'm really missing is a garden or a balcony. In my first apartment I had a square meter which back then I planted  a lot of plants and flowers on to make it look like a tiny garden. My sister has a tiny balcony and I helped her to plant some flowers today and we found this wonderful green table in a shop just around the corner. On the way out at the cash desk we found soap bubbles and couldn't resist. That's why you also see a couple of soap bubbles ;)

Art Alejandro Giraldo

When Tim and I were in France we passed by the StepArt Shop in Hossegor and I found this printed art and couldn't walk past it without buying it. I at first didn't know where to put it to be honest with you but I was sure to find a very good place on the wall, which I did. The artist is Alejandro Giraldo from Colombia.

Roses

My sister's boyfriend works with flowers and this is why I am really lucky to get fresh and nice flowers for my home every week. The roses I got this week are so pretty and special that I wanted to show you these too. The soft rose color is really a spring color. I wish I had a garden where I could plant these rather than having home in a vase. Maybe I'll have a secret garden one day :)

L:A Bruket

One if the things I found in Hossegor which I really liked where the products from the Swedish brand L:A Bruket. They are using natural ingredients and I like the packaging. I currently change our bathroom into the colors black and white ( I will show you soon :)) and these would be a perfect match. The price was the only thing that kept me from buying it immediately but as the ingredients are natural and organic I will buy one. I found a shop in Munich that has it too :)

Picture: L:A Bruket

Picture: L:A Bruket

Elsa Beskow monthly pictures

You know I am a big Elsa Beskow fan. She created a picture for every month picturing the typical nature for this month. I don't have kids yet, but for me this is something I will definitely have for my kids and change it every month. Happy 2nd May! 

Picture: Pinterest

I also like very much what Amanda showed in her blog to buy the smaller version and put it into a white frame:

Picture from: Amanda Lagerquist

These are all the pictures for every month:

Picture: harryandsally.de

Inspiration Grandpa Stockholm

When I was younger I always wanted to become an interior stylist. But life came along and I became a sales manager. You can say that's quite the opposite, so one of my favorite things to do when I'm at home or in other countries is to browse through interior design /home decor/ furniture stores and look for new things and change our apartment every now and then. More "now" than "then". I currently like a mix of geometric patterns and natural looks like these items from Grandpa in Stockholm.

Lantliv magazine Christmas edition 2014

One of my absolutely favorite magazines is Lantliv and of course their Christmas edition of the magazine. It makes me feel like I was at home in Sweden. But have a look yourself at the pictures below from this magazine and I guess you will understand why I like it so much. I can't help but red green and white is definitely the best mix of colors for Christmas!

Coming home

I had a very long day today with trainings and a lot of talking. Already on my way home I looked forward to coming home and couldn't wait to open the door. I like being at home but especially during Christmas. The lights of the Swedish candle holders are filling the entire room with a warm light and this automatically calms me down, no matter what happened during the day. There is a Swedish proverb : borta bra men hemma bäst (literally: away (is) fine but home (is) best) meaning there is no place like home and I totally agree.

Pre Christmas shopping Ikea

Every year before Christmas I go to Ikea to get some inspiration. I like the small rooms they are decorating with Christmas trees and ornaments. This year I was a little bit disappointed, they do have traditional colors that I like but I only found one thing which I liked. It ended up in the big yellow bag that you are carrying around while running around in circles. Even if you only put there one single item. :) This is the only thing I bought:

Picture: Ikea

Kram, Isabell

Natural Christmas decoration

You don't always need to buy new decoration. When I'm out for a walk I try to collect things from nature and use them for decoration because simple things are often the most beautiful things. You know I love Christmas and I also love to have a mix of new things and old things. This is a good example how to create new things yourself and protect the environment:

picture: skonahem

Time to collect pine cones for Christmas

We have had an Indian summer here in Munich this autumn. One of my favorite things to do in autumn is to go outside and have a walk, enjoy the colorful leaves and to collect various things for Christmas decorations like pine cones. There are so many various possibilities to use them as decoration:

Picture: Skonahem

Picture: expli

or just keeping them in a jar :

picture: elbgestoeber

Home Decoration Part 1

I've already promised you to show you my first home decorations so this is part 1 of it. As Christmas comes closer I will have to get my second box of Christmas decorations from the attic. :) This year it's the first year that I'm really going to have time to decorate, bake and prepare our apartment for Christmas as the 18th december is the last working day in my old company and I'm going to have 2 weeks off until my new work starts. I'm so much looking forward to it and to finally be able to blogg every day again!

Kram,

Isabell

Table Decoration

My Mum loves to decorate, I think that's something I've learned from her and she loves fly agarics for Christmas. This was her decoration for first Advent when I was at my parent's house on first sunday of Advent:

These small fly agarics are candle holders which she has bought in Sweden a couple of years ago on a flea market and she was so happy. I like the way she mixed it with the pine branch:

I'm looking forward to finally showing you parts of my decoration tomorrow!

Kram,

Isabell

Advent wrench 2013

This year Tim was on Fuerteventura to go surfing during the last week of November and first week of December and it's been the first Advent without him, so my sister was the one to light the first candle on the Advent wrench, which Tim normally does. Tim had asked me to come with him, but this is my special part of the year and I really need that part of the year. I like the cold, the snow and the shimmering lights and the Christmas markets, but also to come home, to turn on my Swedish Christmas lights and to watch every episode of the Swedish julkalender, which is actually a Tv series for children, a story divided into 24 pieces. But I'm still not feeling grown up, so that's fine for me :)

Kram, 

Isabell

Lantliv Jul magazine Christmas 2013

As you know I like to listen to Swedish radio, watch Swedish TV Series and I also read Swedish magazines. It's important for me to keep the Swedish language up-to-date, as I speak German most of the time. I found a very nice app which is called Qiozk, where you can find many Swedish magazines and also one of the best when it comes to Christmas and Pre-Christmas Joy :) : It's "Lantliv" with their Christmas Special for 2013. No hesitation, not for a second, I had to buy that immediately and now I'm sitting here after work, with a cup of cinnamon-apple tea and I'm scrolling throw the wonderful Christmas decoration pages, here are some of the pictures :

Picture: Lantliv

Picture: Lantliv

Picture: Lantliv

Picture: Lantliv

Kram,

Isabell

H&M's Christmas collection 2013

H&M's Christmas collection 2013 is very traditional in white, green and red- just the way I like it! I've picked some of my favorite items, which I'd like to show you:

Also very nice with the grey color and the white characters:

 I like the pillow, the only thing I dislike is the stamp they have printed on it, that's typical for H&M, it would have been better without it:

 The same thing here, why do you need a stamp on it?

When I see all of this I can't wait to get all of my own Christmas decoration down from the attic. Just a few more weeks! :)

Kram,

Isabell

Ikea's Christmas 2013

Inspired by the snowflakes on Thursday... some pictures what Ikea's Christmas looks like in 2013! They've already started to sell Christmas decoration and I can't wait to get there and have a look at it...

Photo: IKEA

Photo: IKEA

Photo: IKEA

My favorite items this year are ( so far :)):

Photo: IKEA

Photo: IKEA

Photo: IKEA

Kram,

Isabell