The Cat in the Hat

I finally got around to pick up that package! And it was my hat!

It is so comfortable and airy, the perfect summer hat! And look at the cute bug print inside!

Hat H&M, Tunic Forever 21, Tank Aeropostale, Jean Leggins H&M, Flip-Flops H&M and necklace by me (silverplated chains and Swarovskis.

Yesterday we celebrated that our daughter graduated from kindergarthen. She will be attending preschool this fall.

I made pancake cake. Then we played outside all afternoon.

When my husband came home from work we had a picknick in the backyard. We ate pasta salad with apple, ham, scallions, squash and apple cider vinegar and honey dressing and egg sandwiches. We played some more outside and our daughter got to go on a treasure hunt. In one of our trees, which I had adorned with balloons, she found a bag filled with a watergun, soap bubbles and two books. When evening fell we put little brother to bed.

Then we sat down by the fireplace, ate some S'mores and read one of the books. When the wind picked up we went inside, ate popcorn and chocolate cake and watched Alvin and the Chipmunks.

It was a perfect day!

Even our crabapple tree was celebrating!

Country living

It probably does not come as a surprise to most of you that have been following my blog that I live in the countryside. Waaay out in the countryside! I live in a village though so I am surrounded by lovely neighbours!

I looove the British editions of Country Living and Country Homes and Interiors. If you cannot get your hands on these you can get inspired here.

I do not call myself a gardener. But I have a garden and for the years we have been living in this house I have been trying to figure out how to take care of it. I love working in my garden and I am in love with peonies. I have a few, but plans are to get some more. My love for peonies go way back to my childhood. My maternal grandmother had lots in her garden and I was always enchanted by them.

This is Martha Stewart's peony garden. It is my dream. Of course I don't have the space for it. But dreams don't need space.

This is the bouquet I carried for my wedding. More pictures from my wedding in the post Dream Wedding.

My sense of style has also been influenced by this love of British farmhouse/country/manor. I am crazy about hats and well all types of fashion you wear on your head. Caps, berets, fascinators, headbands, veils. You name it!

Here's what I wore today. It is a sunny but windy spring day.

Cap was a gift from my sister-in-law, Cardigan H&M, Tank Gina Tricot(another gift from my lovely mom!), old cut-off Levi's, tights Åhléns, flats H&M Kids




My kids were also donning some seriously cute headwear today!

This cap is from H&M.

I wish this came in my size!!!! Old Navy

Gone shopping!

Well actually I wasn't gone I was sitting on my couch ordering from the hm home page.

Here's what I got.

Click on the picture for details!

Outdoor wardrobe staples!

Well, I DREAM of summer. But maybe I should get back to reality for a while....... It is still very much winter where I live. Very much..... So while I dream of summer dresses, oxfords, ballet flats, shorts and bathing suits. That is not what I am wearing. This is what I am wearing.

My trusty, toasty Shepherd boots that once had the colour honey, nowadays they are more greyish...

My green boots from Lacoste.

My wonderfully soft, huge (!) scarf from Atlas Design. It has a beautiful paisley pattern that doesn't really come out in this picture.

This hat that my mum knitted.

Here's an outfit I have found myself in often lately. The cloche hat I bought years ago when I was a student. The scarf is made by a women's project in Kenya, it was a gift from a friend that grew up in Nairobi. The leather jacket is my mother in law's that she bought in the seventies.

I think I am gonna have to ask my man to take some pictures.... It is hard taking pictures of yourself. My arm is only so long!