Entries by TATIANA

Started off my day like this yesterday......this is one of my favorite things to do. Coffee in bed, read, relax, enjoy the silence plus dogs in the bed.
I no longer get a latte from somewhere in the morning, I make myself coffee at home. No need to drive somewhere, this way is much better for me right now. 

Then I watched an episode of Pippi Långstrump on svtplay and I have 12 more episodes to watch. Yeay Pippi!
Ann arrived later and we went and had massages in the evening. Here I am before the massage......

And after. It felt so good. I would like weekly massages - yes please.

After the massages we went back to my place and had heart shaped våfflor (waffles) topped with raspberry jam and whipped cream.

And drank this pink rosé with raspberry sorbet in the glasses. If you have not had pink bubbly with sobet you MUST!
I thought the bottle was so sparkly and pretty, so I am saving it.
One day I might put a candle in the bottle.....maybe.

In the evening we started watching Barbie. I had a feeling I would fall asleep before the end and I did. Ann fell asleep shortly after me. The plan is to watch it again tonight.
I saw this pretty rosebud at Jenkins Estate this afternoon.

We had some tea later and then Ann left. I took a bath with some nice bath salts that my friend Monika gave me when I was in Sweden last summer. Now I am in bed......about to watch Barbie again.

In Sweden we have something called Julkalendern, been around since I was a kid. In fact Julkalendern started in 1960 and it is like an advent calendar series made for tv, one episode per day starting December 1 and ending December 24. It is part of our Christmas tradition. This year's Julkalender is called Trolltider and the original version was shown 44 years ago. I decided to watch Trolltider yesterday and watched the last couple of episodes today. Of course I loved it - trolls, tomtar, witches, faeries......all the stories from childhood. I told a friend about it and he watched it too although he does not speak Swedish and then he decided to rewatch all the episodes.

I also watched the Swedish King's speech, very nicely delivered but with a serious tone. Because the situation in the world is grim. I am about to rewatch it tonight. The speech can be found translated on the web in case you want to know what he said. I can't help but to compare it to Trump's Christmas message he posted on Truth Social......talk about a difference in tone and content. I feel extra Swedish tonight and I usually consider myself a global citizen.
And that is my beautiful hometown Stockholm.

That's it from me for tonight this late December evening. I am in bed with two sleeping puppies. Exactly the company I want to have in my bed. And pink sheets, a warm electric blanket, soft blankets and plush pillows. Bliss. Happy Holidays.

I am wishing you all a nice and cozy Holiday season. I am spending the night at a friend's house, I am in bed with Kaya and about to sleep soon. So Goodnight from me.

I have been walking around in these woods a few times lately. There are lots of old twisted trees here on the coats.

Into the mushroom forest.

There are mushrooms growing everywhere and mushrooms are popping up on art everywhere too.

Well.......Christmas is just around the corner. Tomorrow. So enjoy. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, God Jul!

The result from yesterday's shoot arrived in my inbox today. One (retouched) image. 

Photographer DJ.

Today I did another photo shoot. No theme, I was told to bring myself and some tops to wear. A "trade for" shoot, I get one image out of the shoot. We took around 400 pictures and I narrowed them down to nine that I liked the best. In the end I had a difficult time picking out one image for the photographer to retouch for the final result.
He said the retouch won't be much, flyaway hair strands, whiten up eyes and teeth if needed, take out blemishes if needed.
I do not use much make up, no foundation, no contouring, no blush. I was not happy with the lip gloss color that I had on but I did not have much else to choose from in my make up bag. Also not happy with my hair.
Here are the nine I narrowed down to.

In the end after some undecisiveness I picked the one in the right hand corner at the bottom. 
I can say this......in some of the pictures that I discarded I looked terrible. Everybody ages....I know. I am trying to "embrace" getting older as in getting older visibly on my face, skin and body. There are worse problems to have, I am very well aware of that.
Last December I did a similar shoot. Like a head shot type shoot. Trade for. I was asked to bring myself and some sweaters.
I got a few images out of that shoot. Here is one of them.
Last December......one year went by so fast.

Photographer Davies Photo Arts.