Summer in Sweden

Sommar i Sverige

Det är verkligen något speciellt med sommaren i Sverige. Natur, vatten och härlig mat. Jag kan inte få nog av att fiska och plocka svamp, plocka ostron och njuta av naturen.

Nu är vi tillbaka i Bryssel med massor av ny inspiration och nya ideer. 

Full of Inspiration.

We had a lovely summer in Sweden, enjoying the nature , fishing and picking oysters. 

Of course we did some trips and visited lots of nice places and I will post some pictures from our summer memories. But most of all I am inspired by the simple life that our summer village can offer. Who needs more than this? More than ever i want to eat bio and closely produced food.

It also inspires me alot in my decoration jobs, the scandinavian colors and the down to earth living. 

How beautiful simple can be. 

The most colorful room

The most colorful room in the house. It makes me happy to be in this room. 

The chair from Ikea recently became yellow and I love the color. I also painted the chest of drawers  red it was a bit of a job but it looks nice. Carpet is a market find, always nice to know there is not two of them. The pillows are from France handmade by a friend of mine, find them on alittlemarket.com, Crafty. 

My daughter bought the old typewriter on a market and she is using it all the time.

A Minecraft Birthday party

A Minecraft birthday party.As I told you before you will see a bit of everything here now. 

And then it was Noahs turn, 11 this year. He invited 30 kids to his birthday party, just to be sure to give mummy something to do! It was great, a good theme for the birthday as everything is squared makes the decoration work simple. I must say that it does not take 30 minutes to prepare... I read all these blogs from American mothers saying how easy it was , how you simply throw a Minecraft party for your child, Hmmm I would realistically say that it takes a week to prepare but it's certainly worth it!  We had a lot of fun! Specially happy about the TNT sweet bags made of empty kitchen rolls.

Ett städat vardagsrum...

Sharing some pictures of our living room, In between birthday parties it looks like this... At the moment I have the impression that it is a huge mess all the time so its nice to see that it can look clean every now and then. 

 Det kan se ut såhär i vardagsrummet, i maj månad gör det sällan det dock...

Picture Caroline Scheyven

Konst byter ägare

And I did have time to paint a little bit also. These two paintings 1 *1,50 m each is now hanging in a beautiful home in Ixelles. I will visit one day to take some pictures of them up on the wall. It is always fun to see your paintings in their new home. 

Två stora färgglada tavlor fick nytt hem förra veckan.