Letters in the mail

 My real mailbox has been busy theese weeks and I will tell you the reasons. 
First our swedish ebay site had an auction with short time left on their homepage that I couldn't resist: I bought this octopus necklace for less than a dollar. I will use it for a project, maybe a necklace or a fascinator...oh please give me suggestions!!!

I was the first to leave a comment on the Insomniac's Attic and for that she rewarded me with a gift and sended it all the way from Canada. A sheer long, full width petticoat!!! How generous isn't that? The quality is amazing and it flows around the legs. I fell in love with it instantly. 

Look at the lovely details! It's a bit crinkly after the package but i think that is perfect. I will use it as a skirt and as a petticoat. These petticoats comes in several colours and can be found at the Insomniacs beautiful webstore. She sells lots of beautiful vintage interior things with a darker twist.

On top of that she added this lovely scull decoration. I hung it at my hall mirror right away. Memento Mori says the text on the head. The back is covered with silver glitter. 

There are lot's of Shabby chic people that write the text Carpe Diem on their walls....I'm thinking of writing Memento Mori instead. It's like Carpe Diem but more underlined, serious. That you shouldn't take life for granted and use your life to something useful. The life as a living is just a second compared to the time of death. Don't waste it!

There has also been lovely letters and postcards left in my mailbox. Oh It's like Christmas day every day! I have sent a few letters myself and have lots of letters to answer this weekend. I've joined a wonderful little group of letter writers. I have missed the excitement of having a letter in the mail and sending letters to dear friends. The letters I've been writing so far has tend to be long and rich of words. This is how I am; Give me a pencil and a paper and I will poop words (there is a swedish word for that...don't know the english one). It's a little harder to write the blog actually, words doesn't flow exactly. And if I speak, god I begin every sentence three times and speak very slow and prefer to not speak at all, if I'm not very eager to tell my opinion though. I long for the weekend now, a crackling fire in the stove, writing a bunch of letters in the light of a paraffin lamp an owl howling outside in the woods......

Maybe it's the movie we saw that put me in this cosy mood. I've just seen The woman in black, on dvd. It totally freaked me out and it was a wonderful movie. The perfect classical ghost story. I recommend it to all of you who haven't seen it.

Preparations for halloween started!

It's a dull rainy sunday. Perfect for indoor activities like spending time by the computor and planning coming Halloween. I have alway wanted a full size skeleton , but they are so expensive. I found this one at Potterybarn with a fair price. The freight cost is shameless but the total is cheaper than a perfect anatomical one.

I'm sure it will be used all the year around. Wouldn't he look dashing with a fly and a top hat?

Got to say thank you Iman for saying this!

She hit the ruler on the designers hand and gave her a good lesson.

goth is not trashy!

And I agree with the other things she said. 

Something edible and a Bat fit reeboot

Just around the corner, there is nature filled with lots of nice things to eat. Healthy nutricious food. Thanks to 

the rainy summer there is lots of fungus to pick. The amount of chantarelles is huge this year, the places were they grow are kept as big secrets for everyone else. If you get a tip of a chantarelle place you have received a generous gift.

Something that not many knows is that puffballs are edible and in the right and in the right condition they are a delicacy. I found a place with an enormous amount of puffballs, unfortunately they weren't in the right condition. They must be completely white on the inside and steady (like a mushroom). These were white but spongy. Served best as peeled, sliced and fried in a pan with a little olive oil.

In swedish we have a word for beautiful places, called wild strawberry spot (but in swedish). It's also a place were wild strawberries grow. I have a place were the ground in the wood is filled with berries. We picked a large cup of wild strawberries yesterday. If you mash them with icing sugar you get the most tasty icing for a cake you can eat. I put them in the freezer for baking later.

Bat fit reeboot

So it's time to make a reebot of the bat fit. Have I reach any goals? Frankly dear readers; no I haven't. I've been kind of stuck at the same weight during the whole summer. Back to work I can feel it's easier to eat less. 

Another goal is to exercise. Unfortunately I can't run at the moment. I have pain in the lower back and hips and when I tried to run every other day at the beginning of the vacation I wasn't almost able to walk the other day. So I have to do softer things like walking and cycling (that hurts too). I will visit the local bath to try swimming..... Yes I have booked a visit at the nurse .

A short walk of 40 minutes in nice surroundings can make me a little happier and healthier.

The third goal is one that I have achieved better results with; my mood. I will not talk about how bad it has been here, that's my own buisness. I feeling better and better for every day. I'm more confident at my work (even if I still feel as a big fake sometimes) and I can make a joke of stupid things. I'm still very scared making other people dissapointed though.

Weekend off

So I'm back from the festival this weekend. It was a very calm event, lots of drunk and happy people and and families. I even could think of bring my own kids to the event. Like my expectations, Eluveite and Epica delivered the best gigs at the festival in my biased view. 

Actually I'm going to wright about the weekend before when we went back to the cottage and visited an airshow.

The airshow is amazing. We stood a whole day with the faces turned upwards. Lots of jet planes and The swedish airforce contributed with almost all their jet planes, made in Sweden!

On the picture below is "Catwalk".

Lots of hearts in the air that day.

Before we had to go home on sunday, we took the boat over to the island to pick blueberries. This is the lovely beach I've been talking about.

View from the beach

This is how the island looked all over. Blueberries everywhere. We picked 10L in half an hour.

The hill in the back is a grave for the ancient vikings. 

 As we were completely alone and sweaty we took a bath in the lake before rowing back.

Tomorrow is monday and  back to work again. I had a nice slow start of two weeks after the vacation so it's time to getting serious (boring). 

At the festival

Waiting for Eluveite. Something to look forward to I think. During the wait I amuse myself by poking at lots of gorgeus people.

Nails

I bought lose nails for 75%off. Very cheap. So the first time in my life I have fake glue on nails too long to be practical. A glossy black from make up store with a cheap grey metallic lining.

Tonight were going to a festival. Metal and punk is on the menu. I wish it was more punk and not so much death metal. I'm not fond of watching three red painted guys growling on a stage, but there will be lots of other nice things to see, friends for example.