Quick post, have to go to and start my new course at uni! I bought both the dress and the shoes at the second hand store Börsen at Första Långgatan yesterday! The lady in the store made me promise to have much fun in the dress.
Hat - got it at christmas, used to be my grandmother’s sister’s hat I think. It has a golden pine cone! 50s brocade dress – bought at Börsen Two belts – Found heaps of them deadstock once Two different kinds of 50s-60s stockings because I felt like it - thrifted Patent leather pumps - bought at Börsen
My friend Björn and I were talking about Sonic on MSN today. Best game ever. The game for which my mother messed up her thumbs so that she couldn’t play anymore & the game which I obsessively played until I could go through the entire first zone with the tv screen shut down to dark mode when I was a kid.
Vintage knitted hat - gift from my friend Dress - I modified a damaged vintage dress Belt – from Mattias & Johannas clearing out of stuff Leggings - Rut mfl Pumps – vintage, bought from a friend
Frej called me a Belarusian princess.
The dress is super short, I have to wear an underskirt underneat to prevent accidents.
I made another investment. I’ve wanted these leggings since the beginning of the summer.
The vintage shoes were bought from Emma ages ago, true love.
The pink eyeshadow is from Linneas play makeup kit.
The dress used to be a long dress I found cheap in a thrift store because had a lot of brown staining. I just cut it off and made ruffles out of the lower part of the skirt, and they hid the stains. Really easy and good trick!
This was quite a roman/christian themed reading week for some reason, and I’ve been completely wrapped up in reading and not wanting to do much else.
4. Kvarnen och Korset – Vibeke Olsson ++++ Such a nostalgic trip for me to re-read those books! I was in 6th grade when I first read them, that means it was 12 years ago = half my life ago. This is a book about the roman Callistrate and her life as an ex-christian raising her daughter Sabina in some 200 years a.c.
5. Sabina – Vibeke Olsson +++ I like the person Sabina way less than I like her mother Callistrate which is the reason I didn’t like this book as much. Looking forward to finding the first book in the series instead, since it’s about Callistrate before Sabina was born. The book series continues with more books about Sabina and then her son but I am not as thrilled with reading those as with reading Hedningarnas Förgård about Callistrate.
6. Barabbas – Pär Lagerkvist +++ This is a swedish classic about the man who was given mercy instead of Jesus when they were to be crucified. It’s about his thoughts on christianity and belonging and rahh rahh I didn’t particulary find it very moving. Liked his other books way more, like Dvärgen or Onda Sagor.
My friend Bettan has made a Facebook group for the best typo ever*. I think you should join and post more interpretations of what Kurt means to you! I think my favourites are Lemon Curd Cobain, Kurd Cobain and Kocko Bäng.
A walk up to Ramberget which is a (very small) mountain just by Frejs new apartment.
View over wonderful Hisingen
A little gnome.
Frej finally got internet in his apartment so I could post these pics from his camera, they are from before the new year, some time when the first snow had arrived and you hadn’t gotten too tired of it to be ambitious and go for walks up mountains.
Smöjträd or trolltall is the swedish folklore name for a magic pine that is split in two (or has large roots over ground) & that the people used to pull people through to cure diseases, mostly rachitis & aches of different kinds. When I was a kid I used to read a lot about them in my grandmother’s weekly newspapers and in a lot of books on life in the 19th century in Sweden where they practically always seemed to go and pull someone through a trollträd and I was extremely fascinated by it. A few weeks ago I read a story at Frej’s parents’ apartment on how a man had gotten seisures from trying to cut down the one in Årby to conserve it because they were building a road…
I don’t know if there are any left near Göteborg. Does anyone else? Because if so I want to go and visit it.
I’m in a hurry to meet up with Frej in town! I went thrifting today and found:
Tjärhandlaren – Aksel Sandemose (2 kr) Kampen mot Hitler – Leo Trotskij (5 kr) Pappan och Havet – Tove Jansson (5 kr) Barabbas – Pär Lagerkvist (5 kr) Farväl till Vapnen – Ernest Hemingway (20 kr) A Fate Worse than Debt – Susan George (5 kr) Vaggan – Kurt Vonnegut (5 kr)
Grand total: 47 kr
Otherwise it’s been quite a frustrating day where I took the wrong tram and ended up on the other side of town because I was reading and didn’t notice. After that it was super cold & the trams kept having troubles and delays. I was going to exercise (!) with my friend Anna but we have to do that tomorrow instead.
Hope you’re having a better day! What are you reading right now?
1. Persephone 2. Seekers Who Are Lovers 3. Rilkean Heart 4. Kookaburra 5. Know Who You Are At Every Age 6. Eggs and Their Shells 7. Theft, and Wandering Around Lost 8. Serpentskirt 9. Lorelei 10. Road, River and Rail 11. When Mama Was Moth
The blog will look like crap today aswell because I’ll be changing things I can’t leave half crappy like they were. (being that the side menu drops down to under the entries for some reason that can’t be fixed by switching themes, floating, or changing widths of things I am really frustrated! Any tips?)
hi! i'm Karin, I'm 23 & live in Göteborg in Sweden. I run a vintage shop called Lily of the Valley. I like antique things, reading loads of books, drinking tea, body modification and cats among other things. I also study human ecology.
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