In just one week is Valentine’s Day. I’m not really a big of all those fabricated days – Cinnamon Bun Day, international popcorn-day, bracelet clock day and whatever they are called. It has been inflation in them. Soon, almost every date in the calendar has own “day” if not two. But on the other hand,…
This weekend is the Christmas market here in Vaxholm. I will be there to sell our trays, cutting boards, towels and other items with our Vaxholm pattern along with marmalades, candies, blankets and other favourites from our online store, thebedandbreakfastshop.se. I’m really looking forward! Yesterday the snow fell all day here in Vaxholm and according to the forecast…
There ought to be no novelty – yet we tend to be just as surprised every year when the first snowstorm sweeps “the whole world” in a white fluffy blanket. You know that day when you look out the window in the morning and realise that it is only to reschedule everything in the calendar, for…
When I was a child my mom used to tune in the musical crossword ”Melodikrysset” on the radio every Saturday morning. Now I do the same. It’s not Saturday without it. At that time I thought the songs were old-fashioned and the crossword almost impossible to solve. Nowadays I solve most of it. I do not know if that says…
Right now I’m so tired that I can hardly think. But satisfied and happy. I have been down at the annual, old fashioned, archipelago market by the quai all day and sold our products with Vaxholm design and other nice stuff from our online store thebedandbreakfastshop.se . In addition to a lovely weather and lots of people it was…
Friday night. The sun that we completely missed the past few days came back in the afternoon and with it the birds chirping and the hope of a pleasant Walpurgis Weekend. We rounded the week by checking out the new restaurant on the ground floor of the Waxholm Hotel. The former “Kabyssen” is now “Lilla Strand” (“little beach”),…
Just next door to ours is Villa Akleja. An absolutely wonderful house that was built in 1901 by J.A.G. Acke – at that time one of Sweden’s 10 leading artists, and good friend and colleague with Bruno Liljefors, Anders Zorn and Prince Eugen. Around the turn of the century, the house was the center of the Swedish…
There is something with sharpened pencils and color sorting that really gets me going. A little screwed maybe, but I love it when it’s in order. Jesper (my husband) says that it is probably on the brink of insanity. But it must be for him. I still think it’s nice when things are where they should be when I…
