A visit to Ulriksdal Palace It all started with a flowerpot. No, not the palace, but my reason for visiting. I had not been to Ulriksdal as an adult until a few years ago. And we didn’t visit for cultural enrichment – it was because I had seen a flowerpot from Ulriksdal in Sköna Hem
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Free Wallpaper Downloads for Mobile and Desktop
Free wallpaper downloads for January 2022 Happy New Year! I hope you had a fun New Years and that your 2022 is off to a great start! We had another quiet celebration at home with good food and wine and an old Pink Panther movie. It was perfect! January 1 is my birthday, so I
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Travel
My Nomad Life: How I Became An Accidental Nomad
This is kind of a long story… To be able to travel and live on photography full time was a dream of mine since I was a teenager. I was determined to not live a “normal life”, tied to one place. These days, when many are full time nomads, it doesn’t seem like such an
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Photography
New Work: Palm Trees
Palm Trees Stately, sculptural, timeless Symbolic of exotic faraway places Good times And holidays spent in the sun I LOVE palm trees. Even as a child, I didn’t like snow and cold. Winter was just something to get through so you could spend summer on the beach again. I always dreamed of living “somewhere warm
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New Instagram Giveaway! Another Chance to Win a $125 Gift Certificate!
Time for another Instagram giveaway! In this one, I have partnered with Rebecca Apelvi, interior designer and Feng Shui consultant at House of Chi and we are doing a giveaway on Instagram this week. The winner will get a $125 gift certificate that can be used on anything in my store (also makes a great Holiday
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Travel
Cascais, Portugal: One of My Favorite Spots in Europe
You know how when you hear about something new, be it a word or song or place, it starts showing up everywhere? That’s what happened with me and Cascais. In all the years I lived in Sweden, I never thought to visit Portugal for some reason. “Everyone” went to Spain, France, Italy and Greece on
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Photography
Dark and Dramatic Storm Clouds
Dark and dramatic storm clouds. Swedish summer… There are many reasons to love Sweden, and I do, but the weather is (sometimes) not one of them. It CAN be amazingly nice and just perfect in the summer, warm and sunny with low humidity, but often, it’s not. And the past two years have been worse
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Interior Design
Is Mysa The Next Hygge?
Mysa = Hygge the Swedish way. Has anyone missed the Hygge craze that swept the world in past year? I can’t imagine that’s possible. As a Swede, it was kind of funny to see how hygge all of a sudden, and seemingly out of nowhere, took off and became the new hot Scandinavian thing. But