Three good things at the moment

Postat den 11 mars, 2014 av tinajo

The sun is more generous than ever before (or so it feels as my memory is short). I can keep the door to the sun room open and the cat sits still like a statue and doesn´t move until the sun does.

Not that she looks happy but I think she is anyway - somewhere deep, deep inside.

Grumpy thing.

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And I´m in pie mode which means everyone in the family are equally pleased at the same time. If that ain´t success I don´t know what is.

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I drooled over this fantastic bathroom in Sköna Hem when I got the magazine home the other day – and I keep going back just to visually inhale all the colors and patterns. This is true decoration skill; to combine all of this and make it easy on the eyes.

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Today is Tuesday which means riding class for me and the Scouts for my rascals, what are you up to?

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The message of today

Postat den 10 mars, 2014 av tinajo

If I´m not mistaken this is a quote by Marilyn Monroe – and so very true it is. Figured I could try and make something pretty of it for you:

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 ~comments off~

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… and the days are running by.

Postat den 9 mars, 2014 av tinajo

Spring has arrived and I spend as much time I can enjoying that. It´s a bliss to see nature slowly coming alive again!

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My energy has returned along with spring; last week I´ve exercised more than an hour every day – and that feels great since I´ve been so tired this winter. I seriously don´t think humans were supposed to endure the amount of darkness that we have here in Sweden during winter, it´s pretty awful.

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 But now; sun beams and an earthy smell in the air. Good stuff.

Elsa agrees.

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And I want the weekends to go on forever so I can wake up when I want and eat good food in peace and quiet – but since they are not I guess two days a week will have to do. Only a month to go anyway until oldest rascal and I go to Washington DC.

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So now I´ll just have a glass of white wine, watch something on Netflix and savour the last, trembling hours of this Sunday. Doesn´t feel too bad after all.

No, it doesn´t.

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Do take care sweeties!

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Gaaah, Monday!

Postat den 3 mars, 2014 av tinajo

I´m so darn tired – all I want to do is to crawl back in bed and not get up until noon. I have myself to blame though; stayed up way too late watching a DVD with hubby.

Oh well, who needs sleep anyway?

We suddenly got snow yesterday evening which did not please me, I sure didn´t expect it either. It was very weird; when my rascals entered their karate class it was pre-spring, when they came out 1,5 hours later it was full blown winter.

But now it´s time to leave these sweet ones and get to work, so I wish you a great day – even though it´s Monday.

saga

 

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Coconut cookies with a licorice twist

Postat den 2 mars, 2014 av tinajo

We like licorice in Sweden but I do know that it´s less common in other countries. I think you should give it a chance though, because the sweet, soft licorice is a great addition to cookies and cakes – like here combined with coconut. Lemon and licorice is also an awesome flavour combination.

I know there´s some swedish candy stores in USA for instance, so ask there if you can´t find any soft, sweet licorice in your ordinary store.

This is a very easy and fast little cookie to make:

Coconut cookies with a licorice twist

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* Set the oven at 175ºC /347.00ºF

* Cut about 80-100 gr of soft, sweet licorice in small pieces:

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* Stir 1 dl sugar and 2 eggs together in a bowl

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* Add 0.5 dl canola oil and 200 gr grated coconut. Stir again.

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* Add the licorice pieces, stir and let swell for 10 minutes.

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* Spoon up on a baking sheet and flatten:

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* Place in the middle of the oven and let bake for about 12 minutes (keep an eye on the color).

And then all you have to do is enjoy:

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 Yummy – and smells good too!

I hope you´re having a lovely Sunday, soon I´ll send my rascals to their karate class and get some cleaning done myself. Take care!

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March is here!

Postat den 1 mars, 2014 av tinajo

I´m so happy March is here, finally we´re really close to spring!

Yesterday I had a fab time out with some of my girlfriends, as you could see at my Instagram. It´s truly relaxing to just sit and chat away and laugh for a couple of hours with entertaining ladies!

Plus the food was really awesome – and that matters.

Even though I didn´t get home that late, this day has been lazy. Maybe it was the grey skies that made us all drowsy, because youngest rascals´ soccer practise is the only activity we´ve managed to get done. Even hubby fell asleep in the middle of the day – and that´s usually my speciality.

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Tomorrow our laziness will be over for this weekend – we´re planning to do a little picnic and then there´s the karate class for both rascals. Will be nice!

Oh, and the floor is done – I´ll show you as soon as possible!

Take care and enjoy your weekend!

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An heart for an heart

Postat den 26 februari, 2014 av tinajo

My youngest rascal made a very swedish (blue and yellow as our flag) and glittery heart for me the other day. I´m telling you that he knows exactly how to wrap me around his little finger!

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What else right now?

Well, I bought myself new garden books yesterday as a help to plan my garden. I truly suck at that; eatable things I can manage but placing flowers and such in a good way is darn difficult. Hopefully I will improve.

The floor in the hallway may be finished today, fingers crossed. It would be so neat to come home and see the result, so I´m hoping that everything works smoothly for them!

Our cat really doesn´t like when we have strangers running around in our home so she has been pouting for days. Our dog loves everyone so she couldn´t care less – if we ever were in need of a guard dog she wouldn´t be the one to turn to. A guard cat might just do it though, her looks could kill at the moment!

Ok sweeties, time to get this day started – take care!

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Sowing the seeds of love

Postat den 24 februari, 2014 av tinajo

Now, why do I feel so happy when I hold seeds in my hands? I´m aware of the fact that I might never see the outcome of some of them, but still:

there´s promise within.

The promise of sunny days, frail little plants that grow stronger, a sun room filled with the scent of tomatoes, fresh veggies eaten on the spot, the joy in harvesting.

So many promises.

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And it´s not that far away, soon I´ll be able to plant some of these seeds and cross my fingers that the cat will leave them alone.

(she can be vicious with some plants, let me tell you)

I seriously can´t wait. Good times ahead sweeties!

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Sunday update

Postat den 23 februari, 2014 av tinajo

Noone can accuse me of talking too much lately, huh?! Here´s a little update for you this lovely Sunday.

We´ve been running around town to find good, black tiles for our hallway since the floor guy is coming tomorrow (yay!). Yes, I do know that everything is very visible on black tiles, but I want it anyway – I think it will look smashing with the oak floor we´ll combine it with.

Will feel so great to have the hallway floor done – after that I´ll start looking for wallpaper.

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I´ve also been going through a true organize and clean phase. It´s a slight scent of spring in the air you see, and that makes me wanna tidy everything up. It takes time though, hence less time in front of the computer.

I think Elsa was a bit worried for a while that I´d throw her out as well.

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After my wintery obsession with oranges I suddenly can´t get enough of apples. My rascals and I stuff ourselves full with these sweet, pretty little fruits all around the clock.

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And I´m thinking that I soon should put this print away so I can get into the true spring mood. No more snow please, I´m done with it.

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Fingers crossed that the floor will be done pretty fast so I can show you, it will be such a lift!

How are your lives right now – healthy and happy I hope?

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