I just watched a part of an Ellen degeneres show featuring Drew Barrymore making pasta pesto for Ellen and it gave me such inspiration. cus they were having so much fun and they were laughing like all the time. and they seem to really love themselves. and thats very inspiring to me. i love watching happy people. well it can be fun watching people when they are angry and pissed off at people too, dont get me wrong, that can be hilarious, but watching poeple loving themselves for who they are must be the greatest love of all. just loving ur bad saides as much as u love ur good sides. 

and what inspired me more was them having so much fun doing just a normal thing. so i think we should incourage people to more self love rather than being jelous of people (of course its natural to be jelous of people, its not easy too be content with everything in ur life 100% of the time) but the more fun things you do (whether its doing it by urself or with people) the more fun ur life gets and maybe the less jelous one will be of other people. im just guessing, i might be wrong but thats atleast what im gonna do this year. do more fun things. they can be totally silly things, as long as ur having fun. do more fun things and think less, thats gonna be my motto for this year.

so this is Drew Barrymore making pasta pesto for Ellen (who is btw prob the most funny woman there is on this planet)

have a beautiful wensday afternoon.

amore/Hanni

today i went to a small comunity that is called Bjärred where a friend of mine lives. we had decided to have brunch at her place (she as gonna make me scones and american pancakes=)) so i was there at 10.30 and we had the brunch which was really really good. i have had american pancakes before but that was like ages ago (when i was 12 i think) so its been a while. it was good! and it was nice to be inside someones home for a change. it was really cozy. and then after the brunch we went for a short walk. she took me to a smaller forest which has a creek which she thoguht would be good for my pictures. so sweet of her. and i think i made some really good pictures. it was also really nice to get to see something different. something that im not used to. =) so thank you, thank you thank you linnea for this morning! and plus it was so nice to get to see a friend in the morning since im used to do things at home in the morning. always nice with a change...

it put me in a very good mood!

ive realised that just becus the weather is a bit ugly and cloudy, doesnt necessarily mean that the pictures will be boring so i put on this filter for when ur inside, tungsten its called and makes the nature look a bit harry potter ish...

creeks are always fasinating i think. water in general is very fascinating to me. its always on the move. its never still. theres always something going on in the water whether its a small creek or a lake or the ocean..

and especially if something falls into the creek, like a stick or a branch or something. very good for nature photography! makes the picture look more happening and interesting.

and shadows in the water are also very interesting i think. well at least to me who always look for what could be interesting to me to take pictures of.

i think there is something so peaceful about the nature. doesnt matter where the nature is. if its in Sweden, in Norway, in Brazil, in Japan or in the States or in Russia...the peacefulness remains wherever u may go and i like that idea. that it doesnt matter where u go, u will always find peacefulness..

and sometimes taking a picture behind a tree (a tree hiding another tree) can be very good for the picture aswell.

gives it a certain dynamic to the picture. 

im really really happy i got to take pictures of this beautiful community! and also starting the day with that, wow! how lucky am I?

wish you all a beautiful day! que tengais un dia fabuloso!

Amor/Hanni

here come the pictures from Borstahusen.

the sun is quite awesome, isnt it? the sunlight can make us feel so relaxed and happy and it feels like all ur worryes just go bye bye. i just love that feeling of happiness. it doesnt matter if its only for a second or two...as long as its there...

the island that you see in the background is VHEN, a Swedish island between Sweden and Denmark. you can take either  aferry from Landskrona that takes about 30 minutes or you can take a ferry from Råå which is a small small village which is built around a harbour. its cute there. and with the ferry it takes 45 minutes which isnt that bad either.

me and my friend thought that WE were crazy to be outside in the stormy wheather but there was a man even closer to the sea who much be even crazier than us since he was so close to the sea...must have bee freezing cold there..

its not very hard to see that i love taking pictures of trees;P

there were these funny looking trees. they had so many short branches. looked odd but still fascinating.

and this is on the way back to the car.

this is at the main suqare of Landskrona.

afterwards we took that coffee that i mentioned earlier and that was soooo nice. i think it took about an hour for our clothes to get hot again but it was def worth it! and it was a really ncie feeling having to get inside becus it was so cold outside. really nice. and it was also nice for me to be somewhere that isnt Malmö or Fortuna. even tho i have been many many times to Landskrona before, i cant say that i really hang out there or know the places that well so it was fun to take pictures of a surrounding that was very different from the one that im used to seeing evevryday.

amor/Hanni

yday in the afternoon i felt like going outside to take some pictures of the nature but i felt like having some company while doing it since it can sometimes get a bit lonely just taking pictures in the nature by urself so i asked a friend of mine who lives in landskrona (a town close by to malmö) if she wanted to join me for a walk while i could take some pictures. she said yes which made me very happy. so i took the car and went to Landskrona and picked my friend up and then she guided me to this community that i just by the sea called Borstahusen which has many big and beautiful houses. it was quite stormy out there and we must have been quite crazy since we went out all the way to the harbour to take pictures. but even tho it was really cold it was still really nice to just get outside for a  walk with a friend. it was really nice. and plus it is quite beautiful there. i think we were just outside for about 45 min or so when we realised we had to get inside for a cup of coffee=) but it was really nice just go get some air. and just walk around.

but before going to Landskrona it was quite nice weather outside and a but sunny so i took some pictures of our garden and the sky and that was so much fun so that was when i decided i wanted to go somewhere with the car and take pictures.

as you can see the weather was really nice. i just love taking pictures of trees. theres just something about them that makes me calm.

this one is through our glass roof. it lloks like ice but its just a glass roof but i like the contrast between the roof and the sky.

and the trees and the bushes with the sky in the background is something i will never get sick of taking pictures of. thats for sure. i love how the clouds change all the way and how they are shaped.

i also love taking pictures from different angles justb to see whether or not the pictures will be any good by making that change.

taking pictures through doors (if they are made by glass of course) is a good way to take different kinds of pictures. it always makes good or atleast interesting pictures. and photos made with different kinds of angles fascinates me becus u never know whats gonna be the outcome, what the picture is gonna look like. lots of surprises and adventures so to speak which is something that suits me very well since i like adventures.

like i said, i really like taking pictures through glass becus u never know what the picture is gonna look like...

these coming pictures, they all look pretty much the same but they are a bit different each and one of them. it might be hard to find whats different but if u really look carefully the light is sometimes different or the contrast is bigger etc..

the string that is between the house and the trees are actually not on that side of the garden. its actually behind me but its reflected trhough the windows. kinda cool isnt it? how the effect through glass can be so different...thats why i love taking pictures through glass.

this is the door that is open halfway with background not in focus.

this is cristmas odecoration that we still have hanging on one of our doors.

arent trees just amazing?

i find it so fascinating how the branches can be bent and how they can move according to the wind.

theres so much freedom in the trees and the sky. thats prob one of the main reasons why i cant stop taking pictures of the sky and trees.

and the sun too of course...what would be do without sunlight...

trees look just so strong and at the same time fragile. and they move how they see fit. they are just fascinating to me. and depending on how the clouds move, whether or not there any clouds in the sky that day, if its rainy, or cloudy, if its bright sunlight, the picture with the tree can look conmpletely different.

amore/Hanni

Its a new year. 2014. Finally. It feels good with a new year, dont u think? I do. Feels like 2013 was a heavy year for many of us so 2014 came as a very welcoming warm wind. I love 2014 already even tho it hant even been 2 weeks yet of 2014. Butit doesnt matter. I can feel a huge weight has come off my chest. Mostly thoughts that have gone bye bye. Last year i changed a lot of things, mostly my thoughts so it would be easier to just live. When i think back at the fall i cant beleve i did it but i did, it might not be big for others but it was pretty huge for me. I began doing art. Art that i ve wanted to do for a very long time. Ive developped my prints, ive done a shirt ith my own prints of. Ive managed to do it all by myself without any help of any kind. Ive managed to do it at home. Yes it did drive me crazy at times, but i got through it and i can feel that im mcuh stronger and happier now. People sometimes wonder how i can manage to be so much at home and not see people. And sometimes i did ask myseöf that question many times. But all i know is that i needed it for my own personal growth and my art needed it. My art needed to grow ( i know that word sounds very grown-up) but its true. I needed to develope it at home where its peaceful. And i quite like it doing my own thing ( ok ts only the begining but u gotta start somewhere right?). And i know 2 dogs who absoutely looove having company:)
Everyone should do what suits them best. Theres always a way.

So anyway, i got off the topic. Its a new year. And im loving italready, its just so easy. Light. Relaxed. Happy. Those are the words that i feel go well the 2014.

I have absoutely no idea what 2014 will bring me when it comes to work and love and where im gonna live. But right now thats ok. Theres no need to obsess about it which i can admit ive done. Im trying to learn that sometimes things take time and thats allright. U dont need to have all the answers or know everything or be anything ur not. Its just ok to be you, not anyone else.
In sweden i think we have the wrong focus. We focus on the importance of being confident and strong, yasta. Basta. No room for being insecure or emotional etc etc. But people are sometimes insecure and afraid of things or people. And thats fine too.
Really who cares? We should put our focus on love instead and focus ofn the good things about ppl and the good things that we have on our life, whether we re confident or not.

So my treat to myself this year is to just let everything go and try.. To just let go. And plan a thousand things i wanna do for this year and then throw the list away and maybe not do any of those things. Cus maybe letting is just the key to true happiness.

Wish you all a happy friday!

Amore/hanni

its been a while since i blogged the last time but sometimes its nice to take a brek from everything that has to do with technical stuff, atleast during xmas time. so it was good for me to stop doing it for a while but now im eager to start doing it again! i always think i wont miss it until i take a picture of some sort and i realise how much i want to put it out there, whether its on my blogg or on fb or on instagram. 

abot two days ago i went out for a walk and i grabbed my camera abd decided to take pics of the beautiful nature that surrounds our summer house=)

always when i go by car or if im out for a wlk or something and i go down the street to the house im stunned by the beauty that is surrounding us so i just had to take pictures of that nature. i just had to.

                  i havent taken picures with my camera for a while now so iw asnt sure if the pics would turn out any good but to my very great surprise i still had it in me! yaaaaaay. almost all of them turned out great i f i may say it myself.

so when i looked through them just couple of minutes ago i couldnt help myself and i chose almost half of them, it was impossible to just take a few of them. most of them are almost the same but there is a slight different in them, may not be easy to catch th difference for the naked eye but for proffessionals it may be a bit easier. i usually take many many pictures of the same item just to see if the next picture could get better by changing the angle or the way i stand etc. and everytime i take a pictre its like a huge relief for me. its prob one of the only times when i feel alive. its just me and the object whether its fashion or nature or the dogs...i can take picures of practiacally anything but theres something soothing and harmonious about nature. something mysterious that alwys cateches my attention. something free and wild about it. no one can change it the way the nature looks (well almost no one) or acts. its just free no matter what. maybe thats what i love about the nature. i feel free like the wind. like anythings possible. no one can tell me what to do or say. its just the nature and me and my camera.

amore/Hanni

a while ago I read somewhere, cant remember where exactly if it was on the internet or in a magazine or from Paolo Coehlo (that is one of the most inspiring authors in this world when it comes to following your heart an your inner guide) but i wrote it down in my notepad where i have all my italian notes and since ive studied for my Italian exams this week ive read this over and over again. and i have another quote that a vero close friend of mine sent to while ago that ive thought about alot too. cant tel u what ive been thinking about since its quite private but its about following your heart. 

ive always followed my heart, or my gut feeling. i havent always understand why or that its been my heart telling to go to all these places etc, but ive always had this strong urge to follow my heart. ive also been very grateful for my wonderful parents/family who let me follow my heart/gut feeling. without them i would have been prob very unhappy. 

ive always believed that evevrything happens for a reason/doesnt hapen for a reason. i could give you a thousand examples from my own experiences but that would take forever so im gonna spare you the details. but ive always understodd the importance of evevrything happening for a reason. for example if i have a huge cold and it wont go away, its my body´s way of telling me to slow things down. and if that wouldnt happen then i would just keep on runing evevrday ntil my body would have a meltdown. or when i was unhappy in paris and i get fed up with my life there i followed my heart and moved to bcn where i met the most wonderful ppl and i got to redicover a new part of me that i didnt know existed. or if i would have been happy in bcn i would never have moved back home and met my wonderful friends that i made last year and this year and i prob wouldnt have had the chance to find my own style in art/fashion. or if i wouldnt have been unhappy i Italy i wouldnt have moved back home and i wouldnt have met another friend of mine and her nowadays ex boyfriend...so sometimes its good to be unhappy becus it makes u think about how u can make a change in ur life so u can be happier. or just simply find ur own way whatever it may be.

so today i made research about following your heart that can be inspiring to myself and to you.

so theye are quotes that I found on google. some of them are from famous ppl and some are from unnown authors but they are all very clever.

so here they are:

"it´s impossible" said pride

"it´s risky" said experiences

"it´s pointless" said reason

"Give it a try" whispered the heart

cute huh?

anoher one:

"It takes courage to follow your mind.

But it takes evevrything to follow your heart"- unknown author

also very true

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right-

for you´ll be critizised anyway" - Eleonor Roosevelt

"Follow your heart and intuition. they somehow

already know what you truly want to become.

everything else is secondary"- Steve Jobs.

very true.

"Make mistakes, take chances,'be silly,

be imperfect, trust yourself and 

follow your heart" - unknown author

"Follow your heart and your dreams

will come true"- unknown author

"There´s no reason NOT to follow your heart"- Steve Jobs

"Trust your instints and always follow your heart" - unknown author

"Follow your heart and happiness will follow" - unknown author

"let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen carefully".

"listen to your heart - your heart has allt " the answers." this is what i found somewhere that ive thought alot about recently.

 and also this one that my friend sent me while ago:

"if you want to know where your heart is, 

look to where your mind goes

when it wanders"

that quote is really a good one...not always easy but oh so true...

so what i wrote before. im not saying that you should move to another country or another city just becus ur unhappy, that might not be for everybody. but everyone should or i hope atleast that they dare to follow their heart. and plus if ppl do not follow their heart and they follow their mind instead, universe will put u in situations/circumstances that will make u eventually follow your heart, for example if you take a job that in rality dont want, universe will maybe make sure that u get an awful boss or unkind collueges or something that will make u unhappy with that situation whatever the situation may be. we tend to prefer to listen to our mind and what others think we should do.  but im the only one who knows thats right for me, you are the only one who knows whats right for you etc...its not always easy to follow your heart but believe me, if you follow your mind instead of your heart, eventually universe will make sure that u get on the right path.=)

this is the quote that my friend sent to me. its really good i think.

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this is a work of art that  finished about a month ago with the title " open heart". its mostly a reminder to myself to think about the importance to have an open heart when it comes to relationships and have the gutts to show my vulnurable side to that person.

and this is also a work of art that i made maybe 2 months ago with the title "explosive heart". also a reminder to myself to know that its important to be urself with ur partner and not hold anything inaide urself. let urself be explosive (but with the heart, not the ego).

i hope it was inspiring, atleast it was inspiring to myself to always follow my heart no matter what=)

have a good day!

amore/Hanni

Im right now sitting at cafe in the habour in helsingborg and even tho the wind is quite strong outside and its pretty cold outside ( its snowraining too...brrrr) its still very cozy inside of the cafe. Thats one good thing about Sweden, since we re used to the cold weather we have to make it as cozy as possible at our cafesmor else we would like die in an istant of the cold. And especially now during xmas time all the cafes put on xmas songs which is something i really love. Espresso house is really good at playing good xmas songs and a food variation of different kinds of xmas songs too i must say. We may not always have a white xmas ( believe it or not) but atleast we have a christmas spririt once we re at cafes or at home.

Altho it would be amazing to one day spend xmas in the Alpes or in the Aspen or somewhere really white and that has alot of snow.
Many years ago ( actually 10 years ago so when i was 18) me and my family spent xmas in Cortina, Italy and that was my first time spending xmas outside of Sweden and it was wonderful. cortina is such a beautiful and magical place during christmas time. Cortina is a very luxourious place ( a.k.a very expensive) place so its really really beautiful with lots of christmas decorations everywhere. And with small luxiourious boutiques everywhere. I remember when we went to the mass at the church at christmas Eve to see how Italians do their mass. And it was so beautiful! Ok we didnt understand much of what they were singing since no one of us cpuld speak Italian ( i did know a bit of Italian becus i had studied Italian the year before in High School but i couldnt remember that much of the words) but it was still very beautiful. And very powerful i must say. And the were so many ppl too at the church. That was prob the most powerful thing, that there was so much ppl there singing and focusing on the prayers etc. Very powerful.
And just walking throught the small streets was magical. Felt like we were in a Charles Dickens story or something. Something i wouldnt mind doing again.

Yeah i would really love spending xmas at a ski resort again. And plus, u get to focus on only the good stuff about xmas such as enjoying the snow, or having a really good meal and enjoying the company. Instead of having to focus on the stress of having to buy all the food and other stuff for xmas parties and stuff like that that i can imagine stresses ppl out. I think xmas is unfortunately a time of the year that makes ppl stress even more since there so much to prepare which ubfortunately makes us forget what xmas is all about which is spending time with our loved ones and just eating good food and drinking hot wine and eating all of those delicious christmas cookies ( yummy btw!).

When i think about christmas i think of moments to spend with my family and friends and hot chocolate and hot wine ( glögg) and figuring out what to buy for my family as xmas gifts etc. And i get this warm feeling inside of me when i think of how nice and magical christmas can be, but i know also that christmas can be a tough time for many ppl due to many different reasons, so i hope that the christmas angels will spread extra cups of love to the ppl that needs love the most. Whether its a hug, or a hot cup of coffee or food or just a laugh.

Wish u all a happy 2nd advent.

Amore/Hanni