Midsummer on Öland #1

It's the end of June and time for Swedish 'Midsommar' - an old tradition were we celebrate "the period of time centered upon summer solstice". On midsummer's eve it (almost) never get's dark and from now on our nights will get darker here...

We got invited to Öland, an island in the south of Sweden. It's a car drive of 6 hours from Stockholm. Me, Philip, Sebastian, Carro and Lotta prepared for a nice little road trip to meet up with 16 other friends at our Johan's parents place.

Johan's parents grew their own strawberries!

Me and Philip went for a little walk to get flowers for our 'midsummer crowns'. It says, in Swedish culture, that these crowns need seven different kinds of flowers. Then you are supposed to put these underneath your pillow and you might dream about your prince.... we didn't do that but found all flowers needed :)

Philip was feeling great in this ocean of grass and flowers.

Time to make our crowns! I hadn't made these for a loooooong time, but together we figured out how and managed to make four flower bombs!

This place is beautiful. In Stockholm the weather was really bad, but here sun was shining! I'd love to have a small house here someday, like my Öland-retreat.

Soul By Sandy

Finally my soulful work gets it's own page! Get ready for Soul By Sandy, a new blog where I share my insights from the soul scene in Stockholm. It's written in Swedish, but hey the music is universal! 

Keep track of what soul should be listened to and dare to share :) 

Keep on Soulin', 

Sandy

To my friend Elin for being the sweetest

I'm speechless. My friend Elin gave me an envelope today... as I opened it at home I almost started to cry. It's one of the sweetest things someone's ever done for me, thank you so much dear friend! Elin gave me a ticket to the movies and a tea-gift-card. On her note she said I should make myself a nice evening and take care of myself... Oh I will!!!! Look forward to go on a one-way-date soon!

The images at the top are from our picnic a couple of years ago at Rosendals Trädgård in Stockholm. Polaroid images to capture a very nice day together. 

Again , thank you Elin :**

3 x Sandy

Summer has come to Stockholm :) Here's a wish list for this summer: 

- Do my crawling in an outside-pool

- Loads and loads of BBQ's

- Book a spontaneous last-min-trip somewhere.. 

- Travel the artipelago with the boat of my dad (and of course the new sailing boat of Philastian)

- Go for walks around the parks of Stockholm

- Read books

- Drink more water (I'm so bad at this)

- Have fruit-picnics 

- Dance wherever there's a good vibe!

- Go to all good concert that I possibly can

- Paint my toenails coral 

- Skinny dip 

- Beach-volleyball 

- Get together with good people

- Buy thousands of vinyls

- Only wear colorful clothing 

- Work on fun projects 

... so many things! We'll see what happens, but with "sunshine" 24/7 most things will turn out ok I think :) Oh and I'd love to go to an outdoor-cinema too!!! 

Broken Circle Breakdown

Never on this blog have I recommended a movie. But recently this movie just blew me away, completely! Wow.. I'm still amazed and can't stop listen to the soundtrack either (country music, but hey I love it!!!). 

From imdb: Elise and Didier fall in love at first sight, in spite of their differences. He talks, she listens. He's a romantic atheist, she's a religious realist. When their daughter becomes seriously ill, their love is put on trial.

I cried, laughed and felt like glued to the sofa. The movie is from Belgium and I've always loved the non-american blockbusters. I really like the language too (flemish) which sounds like a mix of Swedish, German and English. 

Please watch. Here's my favorite track! 

Girls just wanna have pizza

Happiest girl in the world... I told Aida the pizzas are sooo much better in Sweden than in Germany. So she was expecting the best pizza ever :) In Sweden you often have loads of different pizzas to choose from, like "banana, pineapple, ham, cheese & curry" (taste: awesome). At the place we were they had 72 different pizzas!

To hungry to concentrate!

BOOOOOOOOOOOMMM!! Veggie pizza vs. pineapple pizza.

Aida will always promote the Swedish pizza from now on I think. In Germany most places have the dough ready in a pan, so when you order a pizza they only have to add the (boring) ingredients.... In Sweden the dough is prepared rotating on someone's finger haha. Well, unless you only love the pizzas from "pizza hut" you should read the next post...

Fruits and gymnastics with philastian

This is what happens when you give two guys fruit salad. The start to do gymnastics in your living room. We watched the video of Sia and the song Chandelier... a new Philastian favorite. That girl is crazy. Like a modern flashdance!