Countdown

Less than two weeks until I get this annoying cast off! Believe me, I'm counting the days. Six weeks is very long without a thumb. I can't wait to wash my hair with two hands again or be able to button up a pair of jeans in less than 1 minute. It's frightening how much you take for granted in life, I know it's a cliché but "you don't realize what you've got until it's gone".. Thumbs up for all the great things in life!

Times are changing

A lot has happened and changed the last few months...

I finished the festival season in September with a few UK festivals and one in Holland. I had never been to Holland before so we went on a day trip to Amsterdam. It was interesting to see the culture, try cheese samples in many of the cheese shops and have a cold beer by the canal. It is a very beautiful city, but it's also easy to get lost, it all looks the same!
 

  

Amsterdam

 

During the summer I found out that I got accepted to the University in my home-town in Sweden. After a lot of thought I decided to move back home and study. The night before the big move me and my little european-crew went out with a bang, we danced the night away to Skrillex and The Foo Fighters! A perfect way to finish off another great summer!

Lowlands Festival 2012

 Now I'm a student studying to become a nurse,I want to specialize in paramedics or mountain rescue after the general course. So far I'm doing OK, but life as a student is very different from working. Luckily the Swedish educational system is great and the student benefits are not too bad either. Hopefully I will have time to do a lot of snowboarding anyway. I'm from the north and there's usually plenty of snow here and a lot of small resorts and slopes nearby. Fingers crossed it will be a wicked Swedish winter!

Podpads in Sweden

A photo update from the Swedish adventures with Podpads

Sweden is a large coutry so there was a lot of driving, 

but we saw some beautiful things along the way.

Podpads at Siesta! Festival

Beaupads at Siesta! Festival

 We watched the England - Sweden game at Hultsfred Festival

And some music too of course!

Siesta!

1 down, many more to go. I'm talking about festivals of course! 

This summer me and my boyfriend are back working with the British company Podpads.We travel around working at music festivals and events all over the UK and a few other european countries. My best friend and partner in crime Anna have also joined our little crew this year. It's going to be so much fun to travel and party with my favourite people.

Siesta! Festival in Hässleholm, Sweden was the first festival of the season for us. I saw a couple of cool bands; american punk legends NOFX which I've seen before and IAMX, a UK electro-rock band, that I'd never heard of - very interesting music and super energetic performance. As always we met a lot of freindly people and it was a good start of the season even though the weather wasn't amazing.

Next stop on the tour will be Hultsfred, I'm  really looking forward to that one! I really wanted to go when I was 16-17 but never had the money. Then the following year when I did have the money the festival got cancelled. But now it is back and I'm finally going! BOOM!

Recent crafts

Crochet snood scarf

Hemp bracelets

Travel 'make up tool' kit

Various creative projects

I've been back in Sweden for two weeks now, and as much as I love being back home and to see my family again I have found myself pretty restless. 1 month of holiday/temporary unemployment is definitely enough! I am very excited for the summer-festival-madness to start again!

But in these times of boredom I have found creativity again, and I'm very happy about that. Lately I've started lots of projects from dying my hair pink to sketching, crocheting and sewing. These are all things I used to do all the time before, but never really get around to doing any more. Everyone should definitely take time to let themselves be creative every once in a while. It's a fun way to relax and when you're finished you have something pretty to be proud of (most of the time haha). I will upload some photos of my little may collection soon. 

Ink

Timeless burlesque beauty.

This is the latest addition to my sleeve in progress.

by: Tomas Liljedahl at The North Tattoos.