my latest projects

creative projects are one of my hobbies. it can be anything from lego to finding old books. my three current projects:

1. my vinyl player

for months I've been looking for the perfect one. i ended up getting the first one i looked at: a Crosley CR-49 in blue. after looking online i actually ended up just getting it from the urban outfitters at Biblioteksgatan in Stockholm.

one of the upsides to vinyl is that you can get really cheap music!

I've been looking in thrift and goodwill stores and I've build up quite the collection for the price of two normal cd's. crazy. the two records i keep coming back to are billy holliday - lady day and ryan adams - ashes and fire. I've also started to discover classical music more.

swanlike by tschaikowsky, which i saw yesterday:

2. photojars

i got the idea from a picture on the internet and for a few weeks I've been checking thrift stores for the perfect glass jars. last saturday me and freddy went to a new coffee place we were recommended by mariatorget on södermalm.across the street we found this vintagestore. they had the perfect one and from there i started getting more. i asked the guy at the store if they take cards. yes, he said and pulled out his iPhone. this'll be interesting, i thought. and mark my words, he attaches this small cardslot to his phone and puts my card in.

"do you want a receipt?", he asks. "then fill out your email address. i can also take a photo of your purchase if you want me to attach it to the receipt so you remember what you bought"

so i payed for the old glass bottle with the utmost modern technique. crazy world.

3. photoalbum

yeah, i know. photoablums aren't very original at all. but the one thing that always bugged me was that the spiral backs were never intended to contain the thickness that the album gets after putting pictures in it. but i found this folder-ish album by Or

dning o Reda and its does the job very well. you just add your own loose pages. i like. no more adapting the number of

photos to the number of pages in the album. just choose yourself.

swanlake and billy holliday

hello!

its late. but i can't sleep until I've written something.

great day. love walking up from the subway station stadion to greet a clear blue sky and the cool tall round building. it always makes me happy.

schoooool.

then coffee at Snickarbacken 7 with Jennifer Lekardal. a beautiful creative genius.

then off to the royal opera to watch swan lake. one of the pros about being in music school is that you get free tickets to the shows. we switched up our seats in the second act. it was gonna get too late though so i had to miss the last two.

im so impressed by ballerinas. their incredible timing, control and persistency. beautiful.

when i got home i put on some billy holliday on my new vinyl player, had some tea and salt och blandat and sat down to journal.

i guess its 1pm now. gotta go.

Lego man

He awoke abruptly by a firm grasp. It wasn't the normal delicate touch of a female. Instead this new hand was bigger and more rough.

He caught a big enough glimpse of the sky to see that it was gonna be another one of those beautiful sunny days that have been passe

d out so generously this past week.

Then everything went black.

He didn't recognize himself and this new speed was not as fast as the one he was used to. He shrugged his shoulders and fell back asleep.

A new abrupt awakening followed an hour

or so later. The big rough hands picked him up and looked at him. Then he heard the owner sigh and apologize into a machine he held against one of his ears.

He took the chance to look around. This was certainly a place he had never been before. It looked like a locker room and just as he started to read the names on the lockers he went down again.

Off they went to who knows where. After a whil

e he realized that he was in a car. He could overhear the conversation of two young men. Nothing interesting.

Another firm grasp and ooooooooooo. He was flying! High! For the first time in so long he felt like he was free. Then someone caught him

. Awwww. The delicate female touch again. He was home.

Freddy took the wrong keys this morning.