We finally taste the first of our tomato crop. We each got a tiny one. The verdict.; It tastes like tomato. Nothing extra ordinary but still kind of neat because it’s home grown.
A man on a mission. As soon as I’m outside Bonus starts bugging me and wants to be petted and combed. We have a Furminator but he prefers a regular men’s plastic comb.
Apologies for the feet that keep appearing in these 365 photos. On days when there’s “nothing” to shoot I end up grabbing the camera when I’m finally sitting down for a break in the evening.
Wille’s breakfast. Normally there’s chocolate milk and half a grapefruit but we were out so I substituted with a glass of OJ instead.
Mini and Bonus in the same shot is quite a rarity unless it’s time for food. They tend to go their separate ways.
Good mail day! I finally got the IKEA catalog. Not too impressed I have to say. It’s all a bit overly decorated for my taste. I also got the latest issue of Family Living. It’s a great Swedish magazine on all things decor and family. Geared towards families with younger kids, but I still really enjoy it. Oh and, I inherited Wille’s I Phone! He’s now got the I Phone 4 and I have the vintage 3 :)
Along with the magazine I was sent a couple of cute trays. The Family Living ant pattern is so cute. I was really pleasantly surprised at the quality of the trays and very pleasantly surprised that they sent the trays in the first place because a white tray of this size was on my shopping list! Lucky girl I am!
So as you’re reading this I’m either on the train to my mom’s or have arrived there. Hopefully my mobile internet connection works well this time too. Didn’t get a chance to prepare posts so if you don’t hear from me you know why, but fingers crossed that I can blog as usual at the beginning of next week!
I like family living too! A lot to read, a lot of pages with "things" and not only ads. I just put a "reklam, nej tack" on my door and too late remembered there will be no Ikea catalogue... sigh. Have to order one now.
Annars som vanligt. Packelipackelipack... Kramar till er alla!
Posted by: Anne | August 27, 2010 at 08:48 AM
I haven't had my Canadian IKEA catalogue yet.. but I have read it from cover to cover on line. I too thought it was busier than usual, and that several of the room sets looked overworked. Like Coco Channel said.."when you think you're ready.. take something off".
Have a lovely weekend.
Jo x
Posted by: Jo | August 27, 2010 at 09:20 AM
Have a great weekend!
Cool you have a 'Vintage' i phone 3 lol! I'd like one of them too!
Kram
Julie
x
Posted by: Myblogswedishouse.blogspot.com | August 27, 2010 at 09:49 AM
No ikea cataog yet til September/Oct in England for us. ;(
And i so love the family living things i see. Has anyone found this in England???
I have a great home for some if anyone is throwing some old ones away!! Magazine swap anyone?!
Posted by: procrastination mama | August 27, 2010 at 10:20 AM
No ikea catalogue yet til September/Oct in England for us. ;(
And i so love the family living things i see. Has anyone found this in England???
I have a great home for some if anyone is throwing some old ones away!! Magazine swap anyone?!
Posted by: procrastination mama | August 27, 2010 at 10:20 AM
HI I meant to thank you for the tip about the "ingen reklam" sign. I took mine down in time and got the catalogue. My 2.5 year old got to the sign and destroyed it though, so now I have to live with the crazy amount of trash that comes every day.
Love your blog and find it very inspiring, have a great weekend!
Posted by: Gudny Bra | August 27, 2010 at 10:22 AM
i really like it here!
how, may i ask, do you keep everything that's white so nice and clean???
i'm always scrubbing sticky fingerprints!!
rose
Posted by: rose | August 27, 2010 at 01:48 PM
We also have Furminator, amazing how much hair I get out with that at least 3 times a week! What is this brown cream on Willes breakfast bread?
My cats - since only indoor cats - can't live withput each other. If one has to see our vet, the other keepis crying at home as long as we are not back.
Posted by: jja | August 27, 2010 at 03:29 PM
I have at least 100 pictures of my feet (and other peoples' feet, too) because sometimes that's all you can think to take a picture of. Also, I love these recap posts!! Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Nicole | August 27, 2010 at 03:53 PM
Glöm inte hojta till när du vill ha assistans! Kram!!!
Posted by: Benita ~ Chez Larsson | August 27, 2010 at 04:08 PM
Good morning Benita, I know this is an odd question but what does Wille eat for breakfast? Your food pics always look so interesting and different from our North American meals. Can you perhaps illuminate the "Larsson Family Favorites"?
Merci,
Laurie
Posted by: LaurieB | August 27, 2010 at 04:13 PM
Ingvar Kamprad, IKEA's founder, used to say those busy rooms had "deko-nojja" meaning that they were so overly decorated so you couldn't see the merchandise...
Posted by: Benita ~ Chez Larsson | August 27, 2010 at 04:23 PM
Well guess what, so am I :). Here's a post on keeping the sofa and armchairs white http://chezlarsson.com/myblog/2009/11/keeping-a-white-sofa-white.html
Posted by: Benita ~ Chez Larsson | August 27, 2010 at 04:26 PM
That's peanut butter! I have it too in the morning.
Posted by: Benita ~ Chez Larsson | August 27, 2010 at 04:27 PM
This is what we usually have:
Martin: Two eggs and a cup of tea. OJ on Sundays.
Benita: Two pieces of toast with peanut butter and tea.
Wille: One piece of toast with peanut butter, some slices of fuet (spanish sausage), half a grapefruit, bowl with vanilla yoghurt with homemade granola and cold chocolate milk. On Sundays the chocolate milk is substituted with freshly squeezed OJ and in winter with tea.
Posted by: Benita ~ Chez Larsson | August 27, 2010 at 04:31 PM
Awww...Your cats are so cute, I hope mine were like that, that would be so cute (I have a big muscular 30 lbs boy and a tiny teeny girl kitty)...But I am so glad that we are over the first days when I brought the girl home, when they spent most of their time hissing at each other
Posted by: down comforter | August 27, 2010 at 04:34 PM
Gee, my diation mother would love your family
Posted by: down comforter | August 27, 2010 at 04:36 PM
I meant diatitian* Sorry for the typo
Posted by: down comforter | August 27, 2010 at 04:37 PM
So when you say "overly decorated" do you really mean "not white"
heehee
Posted by: Kristi | August 27, 2010 at 05:09 PM
No, that's not it actually:). It's that it's so cluttered and busy with models and stuff. It's obvious that they want to make it look like "real families at home" but I don't want to see cluttered homes when browsing through the catalog.
Posted by: Benita ~ Chez Larsson | August 27, 2010 at 05:26 PM
Sensible chap.. and frankly I wouldn't question his judgement.
Glad your internet connection's working.
Jo x
Posted by: Jo | August 27, 2010 at 10:30 PM
You could have had some of mine Tracey but unfortunately they are now in Canada... sorry :o)
The catalogue's online btw.. this is the North American version.. but apart from pages 2/3 and 4/5 it will be virtually identical
http://onlinecataloguecanada.ikea.com/2011/ikea_catalogue/CAE/
Jo x
Posted by: Jo | August 27, 2010 at 10:40 PM
Nice feeling and nice photos. Feet are not my cup of tea. The ugliest part on the body... ;)
Posted by: Sofia | August 27, 2010 at 11:20 PM
Thanks Jo! You are too kind. x
Posted by: procrastination mama | August 28, 2010 at 12:07 AM
I'm surprised it took so long to get your IKEA catalog in Sweden - I just got mine two days ago and had started to wonder if they'd forgotten me.
Posted by: Emily | August 28, 2010 at 01:00 AM
So Wille is the growing boy, eh?! I made some granola using your recipe, and it was quite good. I left out the coconut because my family doesn't like that, and used apricots and dried blueberries for the fruit. Thanks for the recipe.
Posted by: Jennifer S. | August 28, 2010 at 06:05 PM
Totally jealous of your Ikea catalogue (I know that sounds daft, but come on, new Ikea catalogue - that's like one of the highlights of the year ;-). Here in Belgium we will have to wait another three weeks before getting them. But thanks for the tip from one the commenters, I am off to browse it online...
Posted by: Fat Cat | August 31, 2010 at 03:10 PM