Bygones

You know what? Growing old sucks!! Well I'm not on the brink of death, but well into my middle age....counting on that I get well over 100yrs old that is LOL. But I used to be quite good looking, not astonishing model like beautiful, but still good looking. And I did love make-up…as I said in a former post, ever since I know how…. I been taking good care of my skin and have used moisterizers and anti-aging products since the age of 20 (the sheer horror of looking like my ma who was wrinkeled like a prune when she was 40+ kept me on the right track) so it's only the last couple of years that those horrid little hamster cheeks has occured under the jawline, the grows from nose pass the mouth getting deeper and and that certain parts of my anatomy has moved way south of the border:-( - no matter how good bras, face creams (Freeze 24/7 ice cream scoop is the best ever) or serums (Boot's No7 Protect and Perfect is fab) these little maladies still keep on coming= big total blaaaahhhhhh.

Since I recently found all these fab blogs (many of them Swedish) dedicated to beauty - make up, nail polish and such, it have become painfully clear that I am not prime material for fancy make-up any longer I mean - just try to get a good looking layered eye shadow where it's supposed to go and where there are these less than 100% smooth eyelids that resist being totally beautified. Well, the right one is still a Bells Pareses problem child and its sheer miracle that I can get the eye shadow brush and mascara want into that maze. Come of that will, I am not giving up and am currently using Isadoras Snow fair Holliday Makeup

Luckily for me at least the nails stay the same and I have rediscovered the absolute fun art of growing them and using different pains. Reading the above mentioned blogs make me wanna run out and buy a whole bunch of new polishes and some stamp paraphernalia that I have no clue on how you use, but the result in photographs are stunning. Luckily I have learned a thing or two about my urges;-P so I keep myself in a tight reign and will only buy two new bottles, but lordy me will I have fun trying to find the right ones. And a little fun in all this cold and snow is exactly what I need:-)

Big Love part 2

Those who know me know that I really truly love my kids like crazy and am so immensely proud of them. I now that it's not often parents get a "sign of approval", but we got one today that affirmed that all the hard work, all the struggle and all the TLC we have poured in have really and truly made a difference = YEAHHHHHH:-D I will carry that approval like a badge of love on my sleeve for a very, very long time.

Big Love part 1

Well dahlings - there are loves and then there are loves (material or not) that strike us in different phases in our lives and just have to confess that I have always loved make-up ever since I knew how. You could possibly blame this on my mom who never wore any except a smidge of lipstick and nothing else. And then there was my Granny who always was very well turned out, from her permed hair to her tight and squeaky corset LOL.
I'm one of these people who was born with a face like a canvas - it does extremely well with some make-up on, without its kind of bland LOL and I fortunately I seem to have a very good knack for applying it.

I’ve gone through phases, but always put my makeup on in the morning, in my youth spent much SEK on high end products – some of them I have even spent for 25yrs or so; a black lacquer YSL eye pencil, a Dior gorgeous striped blue case holding an eye shadow palette and an Estee L eye shadows or two. After I quit working in hospitals I even grew my nails nicely long and kept them well polished for years and years. These habits came to a halt with the arrival of The DH and the kids. A halt - not a full stop - more like getting back to basics (except for mascaras:-O) and occasional being more natural, like making my own creams and mineral make-up products. But a year or so ago, I went back to purchasing and occasional eye shadow duo or a lipgloss

It all took a turn when I found this Swedish blog a couple of months ago and later on several of it's sister blogs. I so enjoy reading the reviews everything from hairshampoo, via skincare, makeup and the fascinating world of nailcare.

Since I do not see the necessity anymore to buy overpriced couture make up, I keeping to the budget ones and my fav is Isadora, a Swedish company. I had short nails, that looked good in summer, split in in winters and even sometimes got bitten. Now they have kind of returned to their glam nail roots ;-) and I am totally enjoying myself. I haven’t gone berserk or anything, just a bought a few new bottles in very cool colours and an awesome glitter flake top coat that makes you eyes twinkle with joy. I love it so much, that I have to check out my nails several times each day in different lights LOL.

Why any polish stays on better then the other is something I can't fathom, I mean I do understand that one brand is better than the other, but why two different polishes from the same manufacturer behave differently??? Well if anyone has any idea why this is, just shout out loud:-)

Long time

Well it has been a while, but I'm back. On the 10th of October me and The DH went to Ericsson Globe Arena and watched Fleetwood Mac. WOW!!! What a very very special concert, greatly magical and one of the very best shows I have ever seen in my entire life and I do have been to a concert or two in my life. Second row front...and we was asked to get up and stand just beneath the stage and we ended up just next to Lindsey Buckingham who truly owned the stage that night. I have always thought that Fleetwood Mac was a girl thing, but oh my, they are a men thing with mostly men dancing, digging with happy-happy smiles on their faces in front of the stage - ordinary, straight middle aged men;-) Then I always thought that Stevie Nicks was the front figure, but she kept a rather low profile this evening, letting Lindsey rock away - now that man must be of the top five guitarists in the world today.....even though severe middle aged and suffering from Bells Palsy in that extent that I to listen to the concert with one ear plugged, I did dance my butt of that evening:-D Old loves never die LOL.

What a horror

Anyone care to guess what all these people queue for? Nope, not a rock consert or some free giveaway, but Lego. Yes you read me right – Lego as in kids’ pedagogical plastic building blocks. The local mall has undergone a huge transformation and the first phase is finished, so BR Leksaker (a toy chain) celebrates it’s re-opening today with selling all Lego sets at 50% of. I read the ad in yesterday’s local paper and I admit – its one heck of a bargain since Lego is a rather expensive toy. So I decided to take the kids and be there a bit before opening, imagining a couple of kids queuing up, holding their allowances in their sweaty little hands. At 9.30am this morning we arrived at the scene and what did we see? A whole lot of grown ups, some senior citizens and some kids, mostly babies in prams – all about 20 or so of the grown ups. As time snailed past, the queue grew and imagine our great surprise when 10 minutes before opening, the personal asked us to move over to the other door and in that way managed to change the whole thing so the people who came last all the sudden was first in line. Well at 10am the doors opened and now the real nightmare began… some of the kids managed to sneak under the rolling door, but as the space grew the grown ups started to fight for position and it turned really ugly when 3 women with prams pushed themselves forward in breadth like an medeical ramming rod, staring firmly right ahead not giving a rats patotie about who or what got in their way. And it was the parents etc that fought like crazy in the narrow isles to get over the boxes of choice. Well, if that’s was going to be the way to do thing, to get to the kind of sets my youngest like (the older managed to fight for himself, picking up several boxes of Star Wars Lego), I had to play a bit dirty too. Not too much since it isn’t in my nature, but enough to get most of the things I wanted.

After a while we managed to find each other, checking out that the finds where the right kind of finds and then the real “fun” began – to get it all paid for and get out of there. Easy peasy – right? Just find a casher and flash your plastic! HAHAHAH – that type of store only has two cashiers! And finding where the queue started and getting there was like fighting the trenches in WW1. OMG, people’s sense of right or wrong truly had gone on vacation today, because the queue came from three directions and merge into one, all in the chockfull aisles. I saw John starting to turn white, me I started to shake from the stress and one poor guy round 8-9 suddenly just throw up. Nearing the cashier we saw that the manager had shut the entrance door and outside was as many people queuing for a second wave of inhibited bashful Lego extravaganza. Needless to say we all drew a deep breath of relief when all finally was paid and done fore. And my sweet wise kids said never again and quickly decided that they only could open one small box each today and the rest will be hidden away for Christmas. This was my Christmas shopping will be down to almost nothing this year

To end it all on a sweet gorgeous note – can anynone say PLEASSSSSE?

From left to right: Fiona, Arwen and their BBF Lucas waiting for a meatball:-D

The ellusive curtain hooks

As with most RVs and caravans, ours came with fuggly curtains. I made new lacy under curtains and could use the hooks that came with the old curtains, but the front ones was of the panel kind that hung on thin aluminium rods and that model didn't speek to me at all. Found the right kind of hooks (the same that came with the car) at one of the local RV retailers, but not enough - far from it. They ordered a whole lot of more for me but they have still not arrived and it has gone more than 2 months.

So here I am, with all the curtains made and ready to go up but nothing to hang them with:-( I have been looking at Swedish camping webstores but if they carry curtain supplies, it is not the model I want/need.

Now I''m looking to you folks to help me out - do any of you have a clue on where on the www I can find just these kind of hooks and eyelets? When the hook is attatched to the glider in the first picture,, they are appr. 2.5cm long.





I certainly hope for luck, otherwise I have no clue on what to do;-)

Nya inköp

Tyger fyndade hos Quilt in a Day och för en gångs skulle köpte jag fler än en yard;-) Har inga direkta planer för dessa, mer bra-å-ha.







Ibland får man välja helt själv, så detta blev min födelsedagspresent - en hel packe med en full kollektion av FQ. Blir alldeles glad i kroppen när jag bläddrar bland dem ;-)






Vad det ska bli av dom är en hemlis än så länge:-D