Hej hej!
I'm home from Scotland! I actually arrived in Sweden on friday but I've been working the entire weekend (one 12 and one 21 hour shift, phew) and came off work yesterday morning so it feels like I went directly from Scotland to work and only came up over the surface somewhere around noon yesterday.
My camera was (of course) filled with photos from my trip so I thought I would show you some of them. I had planned to make one large blog post from my entire trip but earlier today I realised it needed to be two, and thirty minutes ago I decided three is much better. So get ready for the first of three photo filled Scotland posts!

I arrived in Glasgow on late monday afternoon. I went straight to my friend Jennie's studio where she was preparing for her sewing class. Her students dropped in shortly after I did and I spent the time eating cookies, drinking coffee, and taking photos of the amazing house where Jennie's studio is located.

I want a window like this!

Interior detail from Jennie's apartment.
A bit fuzzy, but I just couldn't resist this one. I mean, all the things you need: a blow dryer, hairspray and a bum.

On tuesday we had breakfast at The Brooklyn Café next to where Jennie and her boyfriend lives. Here is Jennie.

And here is Jennie in a gif.

After that we walked to her studio again. Passed three blue doors.
The reason for my trip to Scotland is that Jennie is the one who's going to make my wedding dress. She is so very talented! Since it's not going to be a traditional wedding dress at all I knew Jennie was the girl to do it. She is one busy girl with lots of sewing classes and I was happy to tag along and be a part of her daily life.

No parking.

Scotland was amazingly green. I mean. Yeah. SO green.

Inside Jennie's studio.

Jennie surveying her student's work.

On our way into town we walked past many houses like this one. So pretty.

This is one wobbly fence.

We went to the subway because Jennie told me it's the world's most silly subway system and I needed to see it. It's tiny and goes in a small circle. One train goes one way, the other one goes the other. And everything is in lovely brown and orange colours that only ever existed in the 1970's.

In the evening Jennie had another sewing class across town and I decided to hang out at a café instead. Drank lots of coffee, used the wireless internet, spoke with David on skype and rested my feet.

We met up afterwards and went to the Glad Café and drank cider and planned the rest of my time in Scotland before we went home after a long day.

On Wednesday I had the day to myself. Jennie had a funeral to attend and she equipped me with a map (that she printed from Google maps and taped together in an awesome way).
I was on my way to a place close to Jennie's apartment...

...Pollok Park!
I took most of the photos from my entire trip in this park. It was just lovely.
I walked around for two and a half hours and I will show you all of that tomorrow. Prepare yourself for the most amazing lush green you've ever seen. EVER.
Okay, I won't over hype you but make sure to pop by again tomorrow.
I'm on my way out the door soon for an evening walk/run. More walking than running, but I'm getting there!
See you tomorrow!

My mom came to visit me and David this weekend. We had planned for lots and lots of fleamarkets and walking around in the city. The weather prognosis for the weekend had been really bleak with a lot of rain but that turned out to be beautifully wrong because the sun was shining all day, every day.

On my way to the train station to meet up with my mother.

Stopped for half a second to take this picture and noticed afterwards that the toothless man in the middle looked straight at me with that great smile. I love when that happens!

I had to show her Antikhallarna, of course.

And the lilacs had just started to bloom.

When we came home after an entire day walking around town we started with the old jigsaw puzzle I bought at a fleamarket a while ago. This is from the late 50's or early 60's. My mother and I collect these old jigsaw puzzles because they are not at all like the ones they sell nowadays. For one thing, there is no picture on the box so you have no idea how it will turn out. And each and every one of the pieces are different in size and shape.

We moved into the kitchen.
(Please, ignore the paper bags with recycling.)

Just before midnight we were finished. And this is how it looked in the morning light when I had to move it to make room for breakfast. Pretty, isn't it!?

On sunday it was time for Megaloppis! It's a giant annual fleamarket that takes over an entire part of town.

David with sunshine in his eyes.

Protected from sunburnt head.

Stuff everywhere!

Love how this girl had bought a disco ball.

We met up with my dad and a friend of his because they had been in town over the weekend for their annual meetup. Every spring for 43 years now a bunch of old friends have met up in Gothenburg for a party, isn't that great! Here you can see my mom on the picture talking to my dad's friend while dad is buying yet another book, probably.

This man had made a great find!

Now I have to go, Scotland is calling my name!

This is historical, my friends and readers. I never thought the day would come. Once in a blue moon, and bla bla bla.
This week I've been wearing pants every day. EVERY DAY!
And not only one pair, but THREE!
And not only black pants, but red and green as well!
It's like I don't know who I am anymore!?!?!

Of course I documented this strange occurence because I knew you all needed proof.

One more thing: In the second photo none of my clothes are vintage or trifted.
I know!
Weird.
It will be back to normal soon, I promise.

By the way: I'm going to Scotland tomorrow. David will be home working while I run around Glasgow with my camera in front of my face. I'll get to spend some days with an old friend of mine that I haven't seen in almost ten years. It's going to be fantastic!
I promise to tell you more about this trip soon.
Until then: Tjngeling!

Yesterday David and I got to visit a place we've been dying to see for several years now.
The old Papyrus factory in Mölndal, just outside of Gothenburg.
The place has been abandoned for a long time and it's a dream come true for people who are into things like urban exploring.
David is going to make a shortfilm soon and this was the first place that came to our minds when we talked about possible locations for a couple of the film's scenes. We had to have permission to enter the old factory and a man who showed us around, it could be quite dangerous to walk around there alone. I've been dreaming of having a photoshoot with a model and my jewelry there, so I was happy to come along and see the place beforehand.
It was such an amazing adventure!
This is exactly the kind of places I love. It's rugged, rusty, scary and beautiful all at the same time.
We found that it is the perfect spot for both David's shortfilm and my jewelry photoshoot so we will definitely be back there soon.
I took A LOT of photos and it was really hard to cut down the amount of pictures to post here so beware: this is one large blog post.
So, lets have a look then. I hope you get a little bit of the feeling we had walking around this fantastic setting.

Waiting for our guide to arrive.

And we went inside...

The old escalators have been still for many years.

The light was amazing everywhere here!

White fabric was blowing in the wind.
My heart rate was beating all over the place, I was just so excited!

Spooky.

Light seeping in from the outside.
Click on the photo for beautiful wide screen effect.

Looked out the door in the previous picture.

Ha!
I stopped abruptly when I saw this in the corner of my eye.

Hello there, creepy large baby!

Looking through one of the large factory buildings.

The graffiti on the board says Snopp (Penis) which of course is a perfectly reasonable thing to write in an abandoned factory building.

Then we found this large room. It was breathtaking. I mean, yeah. Truly breathtaking.

The large windows and high ceiling made this room so light and beautiful.

Light coming through the ceiling like drapes over the cement.

We came out of the buildings and said goodbye to our guide who told us we were free to walk around on the outside as much as we wanted.
Here is the large cement pool.

I love how the graffiti and the trees turn these grey buildings into something colourful!

"Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink"

This was another really great place. So cool with the two floors, the graffiti and the plants growing everywhere. Yeah, I love this so much!

Skum. Translates to both Weird and Foam. Sometimes swedish really is a weird language (Or a foam language?).

David behind my phone camera.

We walked back to the car with a happy bounce in our steps. Can't wait to return for the real thing.
I love how a place like this can exist in the middle of a city. Apparenly they want to tear it down and build new buildings sometime in the future. I can understand that it's a really unsecure place and the people working in the surrounding buildings must be very tired of people running around unauthorised, and destroying the place even more, but, but, but IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL!!!
Isn't it beautiful!?