Happy New Year!

Christmas gifts!

Some of the nice things Santa left for me this year. I must have been a good girl :)
A lovely heart pendant from Tiffany's, cute flats from the Missoni/Lindex collection, a signed book about soccer star Patrik Rosengren, a small brown leather wallet from Acne, scented angel pouch and figurine, a black Marc Jacobs scarf and the "spoket Laban" blanket is a gift for my son from his aunt. What did You get?

Back home again

Sweden treated me to a white Christmas ❤

Here I am in my very own bed, tucked in with a cozy pj and with my laptop, listening to the heavy rain outside the bedroom window. We returned to LA late yesterday evening after a long and tough flight. I'm back from my Christmas celebration with the family in Sweden. Hope all of you have had a lovely holiday season and haven't missed me too much. We all need to pull the plug sometimes and going over seas and leave both the mac and iphone at home is a relaxing thing for me to do. It was so wonderful being with my loved ones again but unfortunately this trip was filled with a lot of illness too. I was sick even before jumping on the plane on Lucia Day and it turned into "the cold from hell" before we reached Sweden. With us all being sick in the flu with fever and coughs and everything in between, including little guy:( it wasn't fair I then got sick again the day before returning home yesterday. Throwing up the entire evening, I didn't think I would be able to go on the plane yesterday morning but I bounced back pretty quickly and managed to land on LAX last night in one piece. I've never been as glad to come home as right then I think.

Wednesday 12/12 yumminess

I really didn't have the time for it but you should know my motto by now: an apple pie highlights about every week night, so even this Wednesday. I was so stressed though, I forgot to peel the apples.. Ps. No one has missed the fact that today was 12-12-12, right? Pretty cool.

Mama is sick

My morning cure.

It really is getting chillier even in LA. Maybe fall finally has come then? The season for a lot of runny little noses.

I've gotten a pretty bad cold :( Probably a little gift from my baby who got it first. I fell asleep late last night and would have needed a bit more rest so when a certain someone woke me at 7.30 this morning I didn't feel ready to go out of bed at all. But the way he did it...aww, a little voice who said "mama" and when i turned around, there he was looking up at me with a big smile. Suddenly I didn't feel as tired or sick anymore. ❤

And the Best..

I didn't mention the absolute Best part of the weekend: a husband who made pancakes for breakfast and a son who said "mama" for the first time ❤❤❤

December Weekend

Friday night take away sushi.

And Saturday night birthday celebration for a friend at a bar in Santa Monica.

Some Christmas shopping at the Beverly Center.

2nd Advent

Another busy weekend has come to an end. I don't think there ever exists one, where I don't know what to do. They always seem to be so filled with both fun happenings and things that just need to get done. Especially so now at Christmas time of course.

Clarisonic

I've been wanting to try this brush forever and now I finally ordered one online and just got it home the other day. I mean, it's supposed to be amazing for your skin and especially clean it so thoroughly it will help with breakouts but also skin tone, texture and firmness. It feels really good using it and the skin sure feels clean but so far it's to early to tell if it's really working on me or not. A "fun" thing is that I actually went to the audition for these ads before the product was launched and it was the most high paying job ever so whenever I see one of the ads I'm always feeling a bit bummed it's not me on there..

Little things..

...make you feel a whole lot of love.

Good luck charms

A little silver angel with the word "hope" was decorating a gift wrapping I got once and it has been in my handbag ever since. The card is a guardian angel card that I got in a Mexican store. The "Good Luck" token in silver is from my husband and the little tree ladybug has one of my nieces made for me.

I cleaned out one of my handbags today and found these good luck charms and little tokens among all my other stuff. I usually try to have at least one in each handbag but now they had all ended up in the same one. Wow, one could think I would be super lucky..

Me

A shot from the no makeup shoot I did in Santa Monica a while back.

Juletide

Happy 1st Advent!

My batch of Saffron buns. After my baby was put to bed I sneaked into the kitchen and finished them late in the evening.

Gifts to be opened every day until Christmas Eve..I wonder what's there for me tomorrow? :) Today I received a mistletoe.

We got December this weekend and the first of Advent today... and only four weeks till Christmas! I've already started the celebrations a bit. Friday I went to a nice Holiday Party and today I've been making lussekatter and decorating my home. I feel the entire month of December is part of the Christmas joy. In some ways the time leading up to the main event is the most fun. All the preparations and expectations.

Target + Nieman Marcus = ❤

Silver and gold studded.

Target and Nieman Marcus teamed up with a number of high end designers like Marc Jacobs, Oscar de la Renta and Jason Wu for an exclusive collection sold only at these two stores, starting today. Great pieces for great prices. Look at the photo frame from NY based jewelry designer Philip Crangi that made it into my home. Amazing!