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Hello everyone and happy ‘intro monday’. This week I want to share with you another blog from Scandinavia, so let’s take a quick trip to Stockholm and visit … Hanna began blogging in September 2007 and I happened upon her lovely site sometime in 2008. I am captivated every time I visit. Hanna is a very gifted […]

Carl Larsson is Sweden’s most recognized artist who depicted his idyllic life, with wife Karin and their children, in exquisite delicate watercolor paintings. Born in Stockholm in 1853, he grew up in less than idyllic surroundings, being left by his father for his mother to rear. She worked diligently as a laundress, but earned very […]

Hello everyone and welcome to week seven of ‘intro monday’. Today I am highlighting two lovely ladies that I had the privilege of meeting (virtually) during our participation in Holly Becker’s Blogging Your Way  e-course. Both of these ladies have a great eye for design and detail. I love the clarity of their blogs and […]

The Swedish Gustavian Style is named for the young king, Gustav III who reigned over Sweden for 21 years from 1771 to 1792. The Gustavian Style had actually begun to take shape nearly a decade before this when his father was still in power, as a movement against the more ostentatious style of the baroque period. […]

the month of may .. “Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” William Shakespeare “Among the changing months, May stands confest The sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed.” James Thomson

Hello and happy Monday. Hoping everyone had a lovely Mother’s Day. Today I am sharing two more blogs that are penned from Scandinavia. I so enjoy a real look inside Swedish houses, especially ones that are as real and beautiful as these are. I love the light colors, reflective surfaces and clutterfree living that they […]

Yesterday we spent a bit of time at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts enjoying the treasures that are housed there. The building has an amazing presence and is filled with nearly 100,000 works of art spanning over 5000 years of history. Truly something for everyone. It had rained on and off all day, but turned […]

I thought I would share with you this piece that I wrote for a writing group I am part of. We meet each month and along with other exercises, we choose a topic and creatively write about it. There are no boundaries except that it should express the story line.

Happy Monday and happy May to you all, so how was your weekend? This is week five in my series introducing you to blogs I enjoy visiting. With my love of Scandinavian interiors and architecture I am drawn to stories that capture the essence of real life in that part of the world. Today we […]