London-town

I spent last week in London and had thee best weekend! Went with quite a few church-friends to attend Colour Conference and oh my, I already signed up to next year. It was just simply amazing and so incredibly encouraging! Loved every minute!

We also had a quite some time for touristy-things and ran around the city. I also got to meet up with a few friends that I got to now from LA which was fun! It was incredibly hot, one of the days even up to 30 degrees which made life a bit difficult...(how on earth I survived living in LA is beyonddddd me) The heat was refreshing but didn't really put us in a shopping-mood so the only thing I got was cozy socks from primarkt LOL. #fashion amirite???

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Hade en heelt fantastisk vecka i London förra veckan! Ett stort gäng från min kyrka åkte på Colour-conference och wow! Såå bra och såå uppmuntrande! Redan skriivit upp mig till nästa år! Men trots konferensen så hade vi en hel del tid för turistande och shoppande. Det var sjukt varmt, närmare 30grader, vilket ärligt talat var lite för varmt med kläderna man hade med. Men man ska inte klaga, var fantastiskt när man väl drack och åt ordentligt haha. Dock gjorde en inte på så mycket shoppinghumör, så det enda jag köpte från London var strumpor från primarkt...hahaha...#fashion amirite???

Something I DID get during this trip was an absolutely horrifying blister haha... I brought my trusty ol' converses and they completely betrayed me.. I've never gotten this bad of a blister before and now a week and a half later IT STILL HASN'T HEALED. what the frick.

It hurt really badly during the entire trip because I didn't have any proper bandaids or things to clean it with, or other shoes to wear until the last day...which I believe made it 100x worse. However, now that I'm home, using other shoes, it has started the slow process of healing, thank Jesus!

Still worth every second of all the dancing on Colour conf though...well.. sort of anyways... haha

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Något som förstörde resan lite var att jag fick väärldens mest hemska blåsa. Mina converse fick för sig nåt i värmen och eftersom jag varken hade tid eller visste vart jag skulle så hade jag inga bra plåster eller nåt att rengöra dem med vilket inte gjorde saken bättre. Hade även bara med mig mina converse & ett par klackar som skor på resan så det hjälpte inte heller mina stackars fötter att fortsätta ha samma skor. Bytte med Bea sista dagen vilket iallafall gjorde att jag kunde gå utan att 100% vilja dö. Var den största blåsan jag sett, vidrig fakta men sant. En och en halv vecka senare och det har fortfarande inte läkt helt!!! whaaat. Usch. Men är på bättringsvägen iallafall haha. Och känns ändå värt varenda sekund av allt dansade på colour conference.... nästan iallafall... ;)

Had sooo much fun!!! And spent so much time with this lovely lady. We ate at a different italian restaurant everyday and it was money well spent! Lo adoro!

The pics in this post are only pics from my phone, but pics from the camera coming soon! Took some really cool shot of my model of a sister by the London eye. CANNOT wait to go back again in june and take even more & better ones!

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Hade såå kul!! Och jag & Bea spenderade så mycket tid tillsammans och åt på en fin italiensk restaurang varje dag, pengar väl spenderade för var så mysigt och så kul och så gott! Lo adoro!

Bilderna här är bara ifrån min mobil, tog många coola & fina på Lollos kamera som kommer snart!

Weekend Getaway & New Phone

I've had the best weekend! Visited my sister in Norrköping and had so much fun! We went shopping (rip wallet), we played videogames, I got a haircut & did my brows at my sisters favourite saloon, we went on walks in the beautiful yet freaking ice-cold weather, and got all dressed up & went out! But for the majority of the time...just watched way too much netflix & ate far too much junkfood. Good times, goood times.

I also finally got around to buy my new phone; an iPhone X! Very excited about this, my last one was an iPhone SE that barely works so this was definitely an upgrade. And I already love it! We were all about them portrait mode-selfies, ha.

I helgen så hälsade jag på min syster Victoria & min svåger Anton i Norrköping och det var en så solig & härlig helg! Vi shoppade(alldeles för mycket), spelade spel, jag både klippte mig & fixade bryn & färgade fransar på min systers favoritsalong, vi gick på promenader i det fina men fruktansvärt kalla vädret, vi klädde upp oss & gick ut en av kvällarna...; men majoriteten av tiden så tittade vi på alldeles för mycket netflixoch både åt och drack alledeles för onyttigt. Good times, goood times!

Jag köpte även äntligen min nya telefon, en iPhone X! Så himla lycklig över detta, min förra var en iPhone SE som knappt fungerar så man kan ju lugnt säga att det var an hell of an upgrade. Älskar den redan, och jag & Vicky lekte så mycket med portraitmode-selfies.

 I genuinely love this city! It's (obviously) a lot bigger than mine yet not 'too big' and still has a lot of nature close to town. Löve it. And who knows, might be here I'll go to uni in the autumn! It's such an exciting yet scary thing not to know yet.

Tycker Norrköping är så himla fint & mysigt! En storstad som ändå inte är 'för stor'. Vem vet, kanske blir här jag pluggar i höst!

 Took this in Espresso Houses bathroom, hahah. Just thought it looked so nice I couldn't help myself

These were taken on friday night(hence my old phone) when we went out! Bought this black & white blazer friday afternoon at Vero Moda and I absolutely love it. Do you ever just buy a piece of clothing and it automatically becomes like your favourite thing & you don't even know how you used to survive without it? I just love it. So much in fact...that I literally wore it all weekend haha. Obsessed.

Tog dessa fredagkväll(därav min iPhone SE). Köpte denna fina svartvita kavaj på Vero Moda några timmar innan och åhh vad jag älskar den. Så mycket att jag i stort sett hade på mig den hela helgen sen..., haha. Obsessed!

 Messing around with portrait mode-selfies. Last one was taken with Lulu & dad when I got home, too funny not to share haha!

 What a beautiful day.....to get stuck behind a tractor driving 50km/h... Thankful I got to borrow my dads car for the weekend at least! So nice to drive & the soundsystem is all the goals.

I'm pretty confident in saying I had the best weekend of the year so far! Feeling thankful, happy and, well, to be honest...also quite broke lol. Anywho, new vlog on my youtube channel from this weekend is coming your way soon!

Rätt så säker på att det här var min favorithelg av 2018 än så länge. Känner mig så glad & tacksam! Känner mig också ganska så pank haha, men det var det värt!

The ups and downs of winter

So I caught the flu...really badly... the ironic thing is that I felt it coming for a really long time and tried to avoid it breaking out. I was so tired all the time I took a lot of extra time to rest & sleep and drank lots of tea hoping it'd go away & I stayed inside even more than usual and so on..and yet; it broke out real bad. I stayed home from work for over a week. Missed a bunch of events that I was supposed to help lead and so on... (but hey at least I ' caught up' on friends for the millionth time, woohoo!) I completely lost my voice, my throat hurt so bad I couldn't eat at all and even swallowing my own saliva hurt(tmi but sorry not sorry), had a constant cough that made my back & chest feel like they were going to explode every time I coughed and a very stuffed nose. And yet the doctors wouldn't see me because it's "only the flu, nothing they can do". It was the worst week ever and everytime I went to bed I coughed so much & my throat hurt so bad I was like a 100% sure I was going to die. Yeah...never google your symptoms kids...

But enough of me whining haha. It took about two weeks but I'm finally feeling better!! Still have a little bit of a cough but at least it's not the kind that makes my chest explode, yay. 

Got work for two more days and then I'm off for the weekend to go visit my sister. I'm superexcited! I'm getting both my brows & eyelashes done, I'm getting a haircut aaand finally a new phone, YAY!! So basically I'm spending a buunch of money this weekend and I'm very excited about it! I will also be spending a lot of quality-time with my brother in laws game cube which I'm also very excited about.

The weather has been very beautiful & snowy lately so here are some more pictures from the walk I took today. It's so refreshing taking long walks in the forest, really makes me miss having a dog though.

 Tried to take a cute pic of my boots.., didn't really succeed did I... 

I actually got so much snow in my boots I was freezing cold by the time I got home. Which made me scared I was going to get sick again so I immediately took a footbath to defrost. Which was so freaking relaxing and perfect that I now question why I don't do that every single time I come home feeling cold. Highly recommend it! Especially if you're one of those people, like me, that if your feet are cold it equals your entire body feeling cold. 

Råkade på en rejäl förkylning i nästan två hela veckor. Varit hemma en massa från jobbet & har knappt orkat göra någonting men nu mår jag äntligen lite bättre! Lite hostig fortfarande men ingenting jämfört med för en vecka sedan då det kändes som hela min bröstkorg skulle explodera varje gång jag hostade. 

Var ute och gick en sväng i dag och som ni ser så är det så vacker vinter just nu! Tyvärr är det väl därför så många blir sjuka, men fint är det iallafall. Hoppas dock att snökaoset lugnar ner sig till helgen då jag ska åka & hälsa på min syster i Norrköping! Ser fram emot detta så otroligt! Ska klippa mig, fixa bryn & fransar och dessutom äntligen köpa en ny telefon! Yay!! Blir nog även en hel del kvalitetstid med min svågers game cube, haha. Kommer bli en så kul helg!

To do lists

new blogdesign, who dis?

sooo freaking happy to finally have made some changes & improvements on here, instead of still having the cringe photos from 2014... although now afterwards I really do regret not taking a screenshot of it before changing it for memories sake, but oh well too late now.

I was feeling quite ill both thursday and friday so basically cancelled all my weekend plans to stay in bed. I came home from work at around 7pm, sat on the sofa and put on friends...and literally fell asleep until 11pm, got out of the sofa, had a glass of water and then literally went to bed and slept until 12 the next day. I literally neverrr sleep that much sooo yeahhh you could say my body had definitely caught something & needed to sleep it out, lol.

So my to do list got completely scratched and I just spent the day doing literally nothing. Which was annoying as I wished I could've gotten stuff done, but also quite nice since I got a chance to catch up on some tvshows (finished stranger things season 2 and OHMYLORD) and fix my blogdesign!

Does anybody else make to do lists for literally everything? 

I've made very detailed to do lists since my early teenage years... I make them so detailed that I time everything I have to do, even silly things like making food and eating it. I don't even know why...

For example; I made one for sunday that goes like this:

10 - wake up, coffee, smoothie

11 - some editing

12 - dust & vaccum

13 - shower and get ready

14 - leave for church

Am I the only one who does this? Probably huh...
I don't even know why I do it. Quite often I end up procrastinating & not even doing half of the things on the list but I still like to have the day planned out just in case I "feel productive" & it lowkey stresses me out not having a list when I know I have stuff to do. I don't always write them that detailed but I do feel like I have forgotten something important if I haven't written anything down.. yeah... guess I have an inner Monica Geller, lol.

Youtuber?

I posted my very first YouTube video yesterday. *gasps*

It’s a vlog from my family-trip to Liverpool, It’s not the greatest but it’s a start. You may or may not remember my New Years resolutions of 2016, where I say I’m going to start to make videos... weeeellll... like most new years resolutions it got delayed.. ha

I genuinely love YouTube! 

It’s the perfect platform to get really creative & to get inspired by others, wether it’s from vlogs, cooking, tutorials or gaming videos ~ the possibilities are endless. I’ve been quite the YouTube nerd since my early teen years and I love watching creators grow and get creative both in how they edit and in what kind of content they grow into making. I find it so entertaining and I often find myself binge watching youtubers rather than tv shows. 

Being a massive fan(read fangirl) for so long has inspired me to want to creative something myself. So it has basically been my New Years resolution for several years now to start making videos and last year I actually filmed quite a lot, but never really put together anything I wanted to post. It’s a scary thing, putting yourself out there for the whole world to judge how you look, how you act, how you edit, etc. I’m such a perfectionist too, and that really holds me back. Especially while being new to editing videos too. I just don’t feel like I’m ever done, something can always be a little bit better.  

But now I’m saying screw it. The video I posted now wasn’t perfect in any way! Too long clips, too long texts, not perfectly matched with the music, etc.It’s not perfect but it’s a start; and I truly enjoyed making it, and that’s all that matters. 

My goal is at least one video every month this year, we’ll see how it goes! My goal with it is to simple have fun with it, to develop in my editing skills(lord knows I need to) and to find my kind of way of making videos. (To find my own ‘touch’ of it so to say, if that makes sense.) 

I’m excited! So come join me with subscribing & giving all them thumbs up if you’d like to see future content! 

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La ut en youtubevideo ifrån familjeresan till Liverpool i december. Älskar youtube och tycker det är så inspirerande på så många sätt! Jag är en amatör med att redigera & med att filma, men vill gärna utvecklas i mitt kreativa tänkande & sätt att skapa, och tycker framförallt att det är sjukt kul så även om denna video är lååånga vägar från att vara exakt så som jag egentligen kanske önskar(hashtag perfektionist) så bestämde jag mig screw it, jag tänker lägga ut den ändå! Och det känns ändå bra och väldigt kul. Så håll utkik för fler videos i framtiden! 

The end of the f***ing world

January is my least favourite month of the year (sorry sis! happy bday!). It’s just seems to be one of those months where nothing really exciting happens and it just drags itself out (compared to months that you love where you just blink and they’re over). And the weather where I live doesn’t help at all because it can’t make up its mind of who it wants to be. It literally goes from -10 C and snowy to +10 C and windy/rainy within 24hours (seriously, i'm not even being a little dramatic. it actually did that this week) And then taking down all Christmas decoration doesn’t really help to make things more cheerful around you either. BUT in the midst of this gloomy season that I highly dislike ~ I’m making a bit of an effort to be more positive this year. 

I’ve decided to dedicate more time to do things that I love! Which could be a list of a few things but tbh most importantly;  to binge-watching Netflix shows!

Yes, you heard me correctly, I have such exciting, original & interesting hobbies.

The end of the f***ing world.

I watched this entire show in one sitting Tuesday evening last week and I would highly recommend giving it a watch! It's a hard show to explain, as it is quite weird haha. The music is awesome, the cast is a perfect fit, the story is just so so good, strange & unpredictable, I can't recommend it enough. It's really short too so doesn't take long at all to watch from start to finish, which I guess is both good and bad. I am a bit doubtful for a season 2 but fingers crossed because I would love to see more of it!

Pretty little liars.

I started watching PLL when I was around 15-16 and was absolutely obsessed with it! But the past two seasons I’ve just never been in the mood to watch them. But now I finally did it! I was quite pleased with the ending, although I definitely feel like they could've made the last episode into three episodes instead. It felt a bit rushed and I'm annoyed at a few details (mini-spoiler alert; why would you make the most perfect couple fight the entire last epiosde??? ugh). It was quite predictable but I feel like if it hadn't ended in that way I've would've been even more pissed so I'm fine with it. Happy to finally have watched it, but feeling quite emotional after finishing it.Sidenote, why do shows always do that with the last episode/season? They drags things out for so long and then rush it all in the end and make certain things weird. PLL did a good job for the most part but I know so many other amazing shows that just gets ruined in the last few episodes or sometimes even last season. Such a shame.

That 70s show.

Friends is my "comfortshow", we all know this.(well.. now you do.) I can probably quote every episode from all ten seasons and I still laugh at every single joke, I just bloody love it. It got to the point where my family got so tired of hearing the friends-song & the jokes I felt like maybe,  just maybe, I need to take a break and start watching something else once in awhile; and quite literally at that time, Netflix decided to have get that 70s show!

70s show(plus scrubs & family guy) was my entire life when I was around 13-14 so I was pumped to watch it again and get all them throwbacks!

And I still think it’s so so good! Besides loving all the stereotypical 70s inspired stuff the show is freaking hilarious, it’s relatable and it has such weird and original ideas. It never fails to make me smile and will for sure always be one of my favourite comedy-shows. If you haven't seen it, you're missing out!

HELLO WISCONSIN

Stranger things.

I know I know, I’m superbehind(again). It's so good!! I was very intrigued & understand what all the fuss has been about from basically episode 1. I just finished season 1, and I was tbh expecting more of an exciting cliffhanger, but maybe I only feel that way because I don't have to wait an eternity to watch season 2.

My favourite scene so far is episode 4(i think..) when Eleven says “bad place” and to help her cover it up the others quickly answer “Sweden! It’s horrid there. Very cold.” Made me laugh.

Also, can we talk about how Dustin is literally everything and more?? I LOVE HIM

So that’s what I’ve been up to this month, yep yep very exciting. I guess this is what’s positive about January ~ the weather gives us an excuse to stay inside and watch tv, haha. Thankfully it's almost over and then we just have to survive about two-three more months of weird PMS weather until it's rainy leather jacket weather, ahh can't wait.

To end this post on a note that isn't all too pessimistic I do love this season for all the fresh starts it gives off, kind of like a clean slate. So at least it's got that and all the TV-time going for it, always something!

What do you like about January? and what shows have you been loving lately?

Med risk av att låta som världens största pessimist så är den här tiden på året verkligen inte min favorit. Vädret går bokstavligt talat från 10+ och lite blåst till 10- och snöstorm på bara några timmar, allting känns tomt & tråkigt och tiden går i slowmotion. Men jag försöker se det från den ljusa sidan och tänker därav att stanna inomhus, dricka te och kolla igenom tv-serie efter tv-serie är en bra ursäkt att undvika vädret. 'The end of the f****ing world', 'Pretty little liars', 'That 70s show' och 'Stranger things' är serier jag älskat på senaste tiden. Gillar också januari eftersom det är en sån 'fräsch' nystart, där man sätter nya mål och reflekterar över hur man kan bli bättre osv.Vad tycker du om med januari? och vilka serier har du älskat det senaste?

2018; what to look forward to

2017 was quite the year; not all too bad but I would be lying if I said I wasn't glad to leave it behind. But instead of making a long list of all them memories and all them regrets; I'd rather look forward to things in 2018 instead! So here we gooo;

travelling. 

I already have two trips to London booked, and I am 90% sure I will be going on a trip to Spain at one point as well as to Finland! Also trying to squeeze in a weekend-trip to Scotland and perhaps one to Italy as well, but we'll see. Will definitely be traveling up to the north of Sweden at least once and I also have my friend Tasha from 'Murica coming to visit in april - so we'll probably be roadtripping all over Sweden as well!

Traveling is one of my absolute favourite things in the whole world so knowing I have so many things planned out already makes me so excited!! 

moving.

Moving away from your parents and then having to have to move back in is quite challenging, but since I did choose to move to the other side of the world directly after high school it was quite a financial must, haha. I am very blessed to have a great relationship with both my parents but nevertheless I am still STOKED about finally moving out and getting my own place. I am intending on starting a studies in the area of graphic design/communication/media this coming autumn and I am beyond excited.

It'll be kind of weird too because of the fact that my parents are moving to another city as well, so this will literally be my last time ever staying in my childhood-house and childhood-town. A very strange & nostalgic feeling but even more so an excitement to finally get the heck out of here, ha.

stop caring; take more chances.

I care far too much about what people think of me, even in the smallest of things; and I'd like to challenge myself to chill out this year. Why does it matter so much what people think of me? Why do I care? What am I even afraid of? Tbh I probably won't be able to answer that at the end of this year either(the great struggle of social anxiety, ha) - but hopefully I can at least testify to say that I did at least tried to do things this year the way I wanted to, and that I didn't limit myself because of other peoples opinions.

I think especially in my clothing style I'd like to challenge myself! I'm all about wearing black on black on black on black and tbh I love it and that probably won't change all too much either - but I am still quite into fashion & make up and love different styles too but I'm always too intimidated and scared to stand out that I never dare to try things out; so in this area I would definitely like to take more risks in 2018!

mental health & self care. 

I would like to make it more of a priority to take care of myself; and as cheesy as it sounds, do more of what makes me happy! healthy = happy.

At the end of 2017 I actually dared to ask someone to become my mentor, and even if we haven't met that many times yet I can already tell it has taught me a lot. I want this to be the year I try out therapy too; with an actual professional to talk to. It scares me to death but I know it would be so beneficial.

social media.

I am quite the internet nerd  and even though I am in charge of quite a few other social media accounts I am such a chicken when it comes to posting on my personal one. I second doubt the content, the quality, the things I write, the way I act...everything just in absolute fear of being judged or being called weird. Which is just ridiculous when it can literally be about a silly instagram post. This obviously goes in line with the stop caring point earlier; so that's basically what I need to do and practice!

I want to challenge myself to post more on all my platforms; because I do actually love social media and I think it's such a great way to be creative. Therefore I want to really start posting more to challenge myself to be more creative with my content! To film more, photograph more, write more and so on!

Aand there you have it, my 2018 goals! Have you set any goals or resolutions?

looking at 2018 like... ha

(honestly a good representation of how i feel... gazing into the future, a little doubtful, a little hopeful.., but mainly...mainly...just trying to cover up my dark circles from lack of sleep with some wannabemodelweirdass-pose)

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Liten lista på mina nyårslöften/mål med 2018! Lite för lat för att översätta allt (men yay för ett ambitiöst & produktivt år;) ) MEN en summering på allt är att jag vill resa en massor, flytta hemifrån, utmana mig själv att vara mer kreativ & lägga ut mer på social media, att prioritera vad jag vill & sluta överanalysera om vad andra tycker och till sist att ta hand om mig själv bättre(prioritera egentid & hälsa)! 

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