Monthly Archives: March 2017

Design Studies Planning, Dubai Trip and Easter With My Lovely Family

31 Friday Mar 2017

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A fully busy period comes ahead and I can’t be more happy for it! First of all, I’ve got a crazy idea for a long time, which I finally dared to make a first step for. I applied for a new Bachelor program in Jönköping’s University of Engineering, a 3 years program called New Media Design, which is basically graphic design & web development. Cannot express how anxious, nervous and emotional I am about it,  and I have to make myself forget until I get an answer if I got in or not, which will be in the summer… So fingers crossed,  please! [bs_icon name=”glyphicon glyphicon-education”]

Writing from Stockholm in the lounge of the hotel we are staying in for the next two days, just before travelling to Dubai! Before I left home, I had a lot of cleaning and preparing for Easter, not because I need to, or because my home is dirty, but because my mother is coming to visit!

And you know moms, or at least mine, comes and checks ever little corner of dust and other stories. That is, in fact, something I wish I would have inherited from her. Anyway, I’m really excited that I get to celebrate Easter with my family in Sweden! My sister and niece haven’t been here in 2 years so it was quite the time for them to visit. Plus, they love Jönköping!

On Sunday we’ll travel to Dubai for both work and pleasure. Work, cause I will visit the largest tech conference in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa), STEP Conference 2017; pleasure, cause I’ll be staying at Rixos The Palm Hotel, and I’ll be at the beach all the rest of the time!

I’ll probably post non-stop from Dubai on my Instagram and surely on my Insta-story, so make sure to follow me there, cause I’ve heard Dubai is fabulous!

Fab weekend to you all!

L.

Saturday’s Mood – Breakfast in Bed & Movie

18 Saturday Mar 2017

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Not every weekend looks the same in our home, but most of the weekends include movie and breakfast in bed. It became a tradition for the last 2 years. We change roles every week, one of us fixes the breakfast and the other finds a good adventure movie or a comedy. It’s so relaxing to start the day like this without worries and stress, giving time to ourselves to just wake up properly and leave behind the working week’s noise. At least for a while more, until we’ll have children which will require our attention first thing in the morning 🙂

We’ve been talking about keeping this tradition alive, for when we’ll have children. We’ll have to see if that’ll work. I think it’s very important with traditions in the family.

Breakfast-in-bed

Wish this would be my breakfast in bed, but it’s not 🙂 Photo from: Lokal Milk on Pinterest – https://www.pinterest.se/pin/216735800796164695/

Our bedroom is very dark, no light coming in in the mornings, so it’s very hard to get a good photo with my phone. Thinking about buying a good camera, but I am so bad at this technique that I don’t even know what to choose. I’ll start investigating soon.

Going back to today, we’ve had our traditional breakfast in bed, watched a really funny comedy “Why Him?” with James Franco and now it’s gym time. Later today I’ll have to finalise a project I’m working on and probably we’ll have some coffee with the family on the late afternoon. Thinking even about baking this easy strawberry cheesecake recipe I found on Pinterest: Strawberry Cheesecake Baked Oatmeal.

What are your weekend plans?

Love, L.

 

About Boxes & How They Change Our Lives

10 Friday Mar 2017

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Boxes. We see them everywhere. We see them disguised in candle lanterns, in tables, in stoles, in the mail post, in the mall, on the street being handed to someone, we use them to organise our lives and our homes. Such a simple term and anyway so much meaning to it. Think a minute about this:

Boxes are changing our lives.

What do you think I’m talking about? The ring box He proposes you with in his knees? (like anyone still does that today. do they??); the moving boxes that carry our lives from a place to another? The box we collect our stuff from the office when changing jobs (or have been fired!). The mail box waiting for love letters never (or always!) to be received? The boxes delivered at home after a sweet online shopping spree. The gift box you’ve received, that once opened, made your day, week, month, year, life, better, happier and sweeter.

Boxes are everywhere, and more and more instinctive in our lives. We need them, but they need us more. They need us to believe that in between those 4 little walls something greatly is expecting. They need us to open them and treat them not as objects but as disguised messengers of love, friendship and continuity.

Have you noticed how many businesses using boxes as their primary selling point have been popping up the last years? For example, you can subscribe to all kinds of boxes nowadays. Baking boxes, photo boxes, beauty boxes, testing products boxes, even clothing boxes. Boxes you subscribe to, pay a monthly fee and get them delivered at home without any minimum effort from you. These boxes are meant to make your life easier, of course, they are also financially profitable for the business owners, but you get to be spoiled every month with a cute box coming at home to you and suddenly feel like it’s Christmas!

Why am I writing about boxes just suddenly?

Our Les Gifts boxes arrived and on Monday we’ll have the first shooting with them! What an exciting moment! It all started with the idea of gifts should always come in beautiful and special boxes!

#MakingProgresses #SlowlyGrowing

Love

L