hej då sverige. hello sydney

today's the day, at 5.50pm my plane for helsinki, finland takes off. hopefully, since its been quite a hazzle for the planes in europe lately due to the snow which apparently took everyone by surprise. in december.

then my darling darling sarah's picking me up at 6 am on friday. antonio said he'd come along, but i'd be surprised if he did - it is pretty early. especially on new years day.

everyone knows i love icehockey, and my team, Frölunda Indians (a little less now when my favourite player nr 12 Karl Fabricius no longer is part of the team, i like Luleå a little bit more no when he's playing for them though). So, last monday my dad and I went to the largest outdoor icehockey game in european history, there were 31.144 people there to watch Frölunda beat Färjestad (the worst, worst, worst team) outdoors and -3 degrees. we won 4-1 and Freddan scored a hattrick. it was amazing. i didnt bring my camera though, but i'll put some up from Frölunda Indians webpage.






see you in sydney darlings

being nicole

just to top this week of klutziness off (ive smashed a sallad bowl, a candle, made a 10 cm scratch on the freezer, crashed 4 bottles of beer on my foot, knocked the oil/vinegar over on the new tablecloth, spilled glögg on another one..i could continue you know) i just knocked over a cup of tea over ROCKY!! (my computer, my baby)

luckily noone was here to witness it. and as you can see nothing happened since rocky is working his magic as always(i missed the keyboard and all important stuff thank god!)

now i need to get back to staying focused to avoid any other damage

x x

laura laine

I know this isnt that kind of blog. anyway, i just felt like inspiring. laura laine is one of my favourite illustrators. shes absolutely amazing, like a more fluid, vivid (the girls look like theyre caught in the wind) liselotte watkins. especially these ones for Muse magazine.









now i need to get packing..didnt do much yesterday. and tonight its hockey, outdoors, with 30000 screaming fans. yes, i know its not a concert, but still. its icehockey in gothenburg. and we do love our indians.

x x

all over again

i just started packing. again. 20 kg is not going to happen. anyhow, after almost two months in sweden, im ready for my aussie revival. sarah, still keen on picking me up at the airport? arrival time is set to 6.05 am...i understand if youll change your mind.

see you soon

x x nic

"sunny" christmas

so the weather didn't turn out great on the big day, overcast ..rain and lots of it. but matt brought his orange sunglasses which make everything sunny and beautiful, so it was ok.

we started with a picnic at tamarama beach which was great, a lot of good food and a lot of wind. stayed there till it started to rain and waledk to bondi for a night at bondi beach rd hotel or at least that was the plan.. but when we got there we found out that it was closed so we had to make new plans... which was a bit of a mission since everything was closed except the cafes and restaurants so we sat down and various cafes and just when we were about to leave we somehow went into this bar thingy which had a very nice little back section. a lot of people, a dj and beer - everyone happy.


so today i've been watching desperate housewives all day along with some movies. and tomorrow i'm gonna go and buy a vacuumcleaner and clean the whole apartment and what the heck i might even go for a run.











xx

/Lou

snow

and just because i said the snow's gone. it's back again. it started snowing a while ago. and i was supposed to go out tonight, but with my usual luck i've got a fever.

it sucks.

christmas day rain

Almost all snow is gone since it started raining, but i'm already over christmas now, i want sun and summer. Very convenient that my plane for sydney and summer leaves on wednesday. As always on christmas day, we're watching films from when we were kids, right now i'm watching my skiing skills as a 3 year old. I'm not very talented. I got some great stuff yesterday, i'm very happy, a pair of Persol, a Holga and "The world through a plastic lens", special edition penguinbooks, a subscription for Russh magazine, makeup, lingerie from my sister and then some other bits and pieces. My dad acted Santa for the neighbours kids, Kim acted Santa's helper in our house, Putte loved opening presents and nanna tried on Kim's new RayBans and now wants a pair of her own. well, we'll see next year.






x x x nicole

white christmas

but the stupid snow is already melting. well, its there at least. you cant say that can you team swaussie!? although i know lou doesnt want any snow anyway. so im happy for you dear.

my sister and i made the worlds ugliest gingerbread house, i wont even show a photo of it. its bloody embarrasing, it looks like two five year olds made it. it usually looks great though. one bad year we can survive. we also voted against 'knäck', so this is going to be the first christmas since, well ever, that we don't have knäck.

ive got one gift already, the one in the sock by the fireplace. it was a ring, a very pretty one. this christmas has started off in a good manner.




merry christmas my darlings

dan före doppare dan

only one day left!! im so excited i looove christmas! and it seems like its gonna be a white christmas this year, finally! its been like 10 years since last time!! soo happy i went back to sweden! i would be so annoyed if i was still in sydney and it being a white christmas here!! i guess its karma.

so as im writing im wrapping presents to the fam and one for myself actually. from my dad. hes not very talented at gift wrapping, and i want them to look pretty under the christmas tree. so, im doing it myself. i already know what it is anyway.

later tonight im making 'knäck' - sooo good! and then kim and i will be garnishing our gingerbread house. or should i say palace!? actually house is probably more accurate.

putte loves christmas too



happy christmas everybody xoxo

late night thinking

there's a lot of good / great swedish things. (also some bad..like snow, cold and darkness). one of the greater things (which you Australians must have somewhere in this gigantic country) wild strawberry wine. how good would that be on new years!


so all you aussie people who are reading this beautiful and entertaining blog you know where i live..

well, just a though.





(karramell kungen, skogaholms limpa, leverpastej, knäckebröd, kaviar, marabou, skagenröra, FILMJÖLK! (my god, i almost forgot that one!)
btw i felt particularly swedish tonight when i ate some gingerbread dough - it was good, I just had to try it.