From the train

Hello readers! Sorry, I became a bit unactive during Christmas, but I've been doing nothing, just spending time with my family. Yesterday I did take the train to Gothenburg and did some shopping with one of my friends. I didn't get much in the end, we didn't stay long either because we were both recovering from a cold and felt a little tired. But I did buy a book, this years winner of the Swedish book prize Augustpriset.

On the way home the train kept stopping every so often, because there was a problem with the signals, so I took some photos from the window with my phone. Because it's with my phone the photos don't have that great quality, but I think it's okey anyway.

Lastly I wish all of you (a bit late) happy holidays!

Midsummer

Good evening readers! Today is the Swedish holiday midsummer. It usually rain to some degree, but today has been surprisingly nice for once. Last year I was just recovering from eating something very bad, but this year everything was good. I did write a little bit about midsummer in last years midsummer post. So if you are interested, you can click the link above and read the second paragraph (the post will open in a new tab).

Last year I just posted some photos of the cake, but this year I changed it a little to make it more interesting. First of all, I was playing around with shapes in photos and I found it interesting to put a round bouquet in a square tile. The flower arrangement in the photo is also made by my mum for midsummer, so it goes together. The second photo is this years cake. I love, love, love the strawberry cake my mum makes for midsummer. It's my favorite cake of all cakes and it's so delicious.

Anyway, back to the photos. The third photo is just Maja laying outside and having a good time. She was just laying there, napping, looking at people in their gardens, eating some and hunting flies. I thought she looked cute just being relaxed and all. And that pretty much sums up this years midsummer! :)

More photos from Thursday

Hello everybody! I was looking through my photos from this Thursday and I realized that I had taken a lot more photos of the flower bouquet my mum gave me, and some of those photos was really worth showing you, I thought. So that is why today's post is of my flowers that I've already posted one photo of.

Upon looking through the photos, I also found this photo my mum had taken of me when I was holding Sessan. I am laughing because Sessan can never get enough attention and she is always going around your feet, but the moment you pick her up she just want to be left alone. It's a bit silly, and she looked so miserable when I picked her up, and I only hold her for about ten seconds before she escaped. So there's that. I'm planning another book review, probably coming up very soon, in case you are wondering.

Graduated 9th grade!

Hello readers! Yesterday I graduated what I - after doing some research on Google (very scientific and all...) - believe in the US is considered 10th grade, and since many of my readers are from North America I thought it might be a good idea to write out what American school system grade I'm graduating from. In Sweden it's called 9th grade and that's why it's in the title, but it's basically the year when you are 15-16 years old. It is also the last obligatory year of school in Sweden. (But I am going to continue school for quite a bit longer than this!)

I just wanted to make a post about it really, because it's a little special, like finishing high school I think(?). Anyway, I spent yesterday with my friends, we had a ceremony at school, went home for some hours and met up again in the evening and then we went out to a restaurant and ended at my home. My mum got me flowers and of course I had to put in a photo of them here too.

The quality of some of the photos of my and my friends are really bad, I know, but my phone is sort of broken and it won't let me e-mail or transfer photos from my phone to my computer in any way I've tried, so I took screenshots but that lowered the quality. If I manage to get the photos out from my phone, I'll post them in better quality.

Rowing in the lake

Hello readers! Me and my friend went to a lake near my house. We had his inflatable boat and rowed around in the lake. I was scared and panicked a bit, that resulted in water flooding into the boat. Both of us got wet but the boat didn't sink and that made me so happy, I was so scared we would sink and the water was freezing cold. After a long, pretty scary time on the water we got up and I took some photos. Photos of when I'm panicking in the boat exists but I'm not going to share that with you, I believe it's noting for the world to see. But here's some photos of me not panicking in the boat! :)

Confirmation!

Good evening everybody! I don't know what happened with the Friday post, I thought I published it but I must have accidentally deleted it instead(?). I was almost completely sure I made a post but apparently not, I guess. You didn't miss anything important and I'm probably going to put up the photos in the next post instead. ;)

Today was my confirmation. I was very nervous and my even more nervous friends didn't make it any better. Everything went well, nobody fell of the stage, everyone knew their lines in the little dramas we preformed and it didn't rain. It was very windy though and that made it so cold outside. I'm also sick at the moment - sore throat and a bit of fewer. I could've been without the fewer and wind but it was a good day after all.

My mum took the photos of me and I took the rest of the photos. I looked grumpy in almost every photo or my face was covered in hair but I'm just going to include some of the okay photos of me since it's a special day after all. I was very pleased with the photos of the food, better than usually. I changed the settings a little bit.

I really hope you like this post. It took so long to get done and I've rewritten and changed the pictures a thousand times. This was an important day to me and I wanted it to be remembered well. That's also the reason I wrote quite a lot more than usually.

Left up: Me and my friends in our little drama. Right up: Singing. Left down: Prayer. Right down: Singing the last song before going outside.

Group photo!

From left: Me, Sofia and Johanna.

Sandwich cake.

Sponge cake with dark chocolate, milk chocolate and strawberries.

Mousse cake with fruit.

The turquoise Bible everyone got and that you can see me holding in some photos.

My 15th birthday!

Hello reader! As promised, here's the pictures from my 15th birthday. I shoot a bit of pictures on my beautiful cake (thanks mum!) and the other sweet treats :) Everything was so delicious and out guests thought so too! One of my great presents was two days at Gothemburg Horse Show and I'm really exited for that. :)