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Le Portillon
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My words and photographs
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May II

In bloom.

2 days ago 3 people like this

May I

I. Summer dress yet to be worn outside, alas soon! II. My 1920s nightgown and 1960s softer-than-soft cardigan go well together. III. I’ve bought a thin leather strap for my Zenit. IV. A happy t...

15 may 12 4 people like this

April through Instax

I have finally bought myself a scanner. Here are some polaroid snapshots taken with my instax during the month of april. Soon I’ll be starting a new blog – this one feels like it belongs ...

04 may 12 1 person likes this

My favorite dresses

Some of my favorite dresses to wear, all from the nineteen-fifties. I don’t have enough room to expand my little collection (not all of it can be seen in the photos) but I wish I could have one...

19 apr 12 7 people like this

You never got me right

April - I think I know what I would like to do. In time. I have nothing special to blog about tonight. Everything seems too routine or too abstract, outside of our little periphery or among dreams. T...

03 apr 12 1 person likes this

Tuesday

27 mar 12 1 person likes this

Lost in a world made for you and me

Here is something to listen to. I’ve been listening to motown hits a lot lately. They add a sense of fun to dreary days – like today. I have only three things to do – leave a dress ...

16 mar 12 2 people like this

Naturkundemuseum

At Naturkundemuseum. Beautiful light and cabinets and birds.

14 mar 12 1 person likes this

Where did our love go?

I have many more photographs to post from Berlin, only not enough time. I wish there was a way for me to document something from each day. To note how my heart feels in the morning or at night. That ...

13 mar 12 2 people like this

Berlin!

Next week I’ll be in Berlin for five whole days. I’ve been there once before, a long time ago. I am currently making a list of places I might enjoy and my list is quite short. I don’...

28 feb 12 1 person likes this

February III

I don’t like posting pictures of myself like this and only do it rarely - but when I do I prefer to post natural photographs. So this is me, all pale, with newly cut hair and my favorite gingha...

24 feb 12 2 people like this

February II

Pastel colors. Thinking about where to go. Soft angora cardigans. Long walks in the snow. Writing a novel in my mind.

23 feb 12 3 people like this

Monday

I. From my birthday. I had cake at home in the afternoon and went to the cinema with K. in the evening. In a sense it was the nicest birthday I’ve had in recent years – I felt serene all ...

13 feb 12 3 people like this

Birthday

Today is my twenty-second birthday. It’s snowing and I’ve been given a bouquet of white tulips. Soon there’ll be a table full of my favorite pastries and I’m feeling rather lo...

10 feb 12 2 people like this

February x3

I. Minus twelve and the trees were still. II. Looking at a typewriter unable to write. III. Being with you.

04 feb 12 3 people like this

Only love can break your heart

02 feb 12 3 people like this

February

Small things that make me happy right now - I’ve bought pink tulips and plane tickets to Berlin. The array of fifties dresses currently being stored in my closet. Listening to classical music a...

01 feb 12 3 people like this

Overnight, immediately

I wish it could magically become spring, overnight, immediately.

26 jan 12 2 people like this

Into Eternity

I have taken more photographs during this year than ever before. Looking at them makes me feel very pleased in an almost silly way. My archive of photography tells me that I have been depressed and h...

29 dec 11 3 people like this

December III

Merry christmas my dear readers and visitors. I have really appreciated receiving your comments and letters this year, like the one before and all of the five (!) ones that have passed since I first ...

23 dec 11

Wednesday

Last night I baked my favorite small cakes, topped with raspberry jam, and placed them in vintage boxes – perfect for sweet things. Today I’m giving them away as christmas gifts to some o...

21 dec 11 2 people like this

Snowy Landscapes

Allt ser litet och stilla ut. Med vit snö som lyser, blank is, en stor tyst skog omkring mig. (the first snow fell on saturday)

19 dec 11 2 people like this

December II

“But I am good at heart, really.” “Of course. I know that, but not everybody does.”

13 dec 11 3 people like this

Selfportrait

Something resembling me through a mirror and a lens. All those shields.

09 dec 11 2 people like this

Lördagsmorgon

Med Tove Jansson. -Men vem ska trösta knyttet med att säga ungefär: på natten blir det hemska mycket värre än det är. (A children’s book that makes me dream, and long for small adventures).

03 dec 11 2 people like this

In December

I’ll be - Going ice-skating Buying books that have made me dream Listening to Chet Baker Sings often Wearing my softest nineteen-fifties cardigan And the pale yellow dress below Admiring everyt...

01 dec 11 4 people like this

Leftovers III

And my memories are light and soft and silent as they should be.

12 nov 11 2 people like this

I fell into the arms of Venus de Milo

Three songs I’m listening to today, tomorrow and nearly always – A kiss to build a dream on – Louis Armstrong Dreaming – Blondie Etude for piano no. 21, Op 5,9 – Frédéri...

30 oct 11 2 people like this

October IV

Reading quotes by monsieur. Nabokov: ‘and the rest is rust and stardust.‘ (Photographs from Estonia and Finland) My grandmother’s childhood cat running out of the frame makes me lau...

24 oct 11 3 people like this

Etude no. 21, Op. 25,9

Across the sea, eating figs while wearing the softest fifties dress. (All these items I have kept to myself, as it no longer feels immediately of importance to share new purchases or even new thought...

22 oct 11 2 people like this

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