everyday life

turner, monet & twombly

If you are in Stockholm, from now to early January 2012, you NEED to go and see Turner, Monet & Twombly at Moderna Museet. You have to!! I saw it couple a weeks ago and it blew my mind.

"J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851), Claude Monet (1840-1926) and Cy Twombly (1928-2011) are three of the greatest painters of the last 150 years. This groundbreaking exhibition focuses on their later work, examining not only the art historical links and affinities between them but also the common characteristics of and motivations underlying their late style. "

 cy twombly

claude monet

I will go back to see it again!

nhl premiere

Weekend of October 7 & 8 was the weekend of NHL hockey premiere. Yet again in Stockholm. And I was there, with my friend ACE. This year we had New York Rangers vs Anaheim Ducks. Rangers with Henrik Lundqvist & Mats Zucarello (from Norway) and Ducks with the finns Teemu Selänne & Saku Koivo. Apart from the big crowd of Swedes, there where also a lots of Finns in the arena, as well as Russians, Scots & Norweigans.

before the game

It was a quite entertaining game, intense and few goals. The crowd had Rangers as the favorite - huh, wonder why? ;-)

After 3 periods we had 1-1. After OT, still 1-1, so the game ended with a shoot off. 2 very good goalies but in the end Hiller won over Lundqvist... Still fun though! More pictures kan be found here.

no words..

... can tell how I feel regarding the events in Oslo/Utöya, July 22.

 

spring has sprung

The Japanese cherry trees are in bloom @ Kungsträdgården, Stockholm. It's so beautiful.

 It´s time for an icecream cone!
 

sunny day

Spend some hours at the royal park around Drottningholm's palace today. I brought a book, a knitting project and some music, found an empty park bench and just relaxed. later on I met up with a friend and we walked around in the park talking a lot about life - you know, work, relationships, movies, music, travels..

 
Drottningholm's palace park is one of my favorite places in Stockholm. This time of year there are fewer tourists, in the summer time there are packed with tourists here, there where some here today as well - I heard german, dutch, japanese, russian, english and italian speaking in the waffles café.

christmas lights

It seems all northern Europe are snowed in at the moment. And we have basically the same situation here in Stockholm. Even trains has been cancelled due to all snow. I have not been outside today, I have been cuddled up in my sofa - knitting and watching dvd:s. A perfect snowy sunday. A downer is I'm starting to get unwell, maybe a cold is coming up. Just hoping it's a cold and not the flu.

I do love all the christmas decoration all around the city. Here are some of them. It brightens up the darkness this time of the year - as well as the snow does.

 
inside the big mall - christmas lights

 
the lights at sergels torg

Now it's time to make a quick dinner, and then some hockey, for the rest of the evening. Have a great Sunday!

christmas trees around stockholm

You can find a Christmas tree in almost every city square. The biggest, is the one on Skeppsbron - the made up tree.  They start to build this one in early November - and yes you read it right build one.

 
The making of the perfect christmas tree

 
It's look like the perfect Disney tree.

The other trees around the city is regular ones.

 
the tree at Stortorget, Gamla stan

 

my local one at Storskogstorget

 
And then you also has the small ones, outside shops.

I haven't dressed my indoor plastic tree yet. My family tradition says not before the 23rd, so I just hace to wait.

christmas market at lunchtime

The other day I had lunch with Katarina at Chokladkoppen in Gamla stan. After the meal we strolled around at the Stortorget Christmas market. It's a small market, but one of my favorite ones in Stockholm.

 

 

 
I may visit other Christmas market this weekend - nothing planned yet. But I can choose between: Skansens Christmas market, Christmas market in Jakobsberg, Folkuniversitets Christmas market, Christmas market at the Drottningholm palace, Kungsträdgårdens Christmas market. I think there are loads more Christmas market around the city but these are on my mind this weekend.

christmas is all around

Hello there, how are you? I'm here, alive and almost well. I have been having a sore shoulder for the pasts weeks, so I haven't been knitting a single stitch for about 14 days now. Not happy about that - but since all the Christmas knitting is done I can live with it.. But I have been busy othervise in life with work and a hectic social life.

Here are a couple of snapshots from the past weeks: 

 NK department store - christmas display

 My balcony - this week

 Roof tops in Gamla stan

 
Bara Bistro bar -yesterday

drink, my place

my favorite marzipan hang out, this time of year

As you can see there are lots of snow in Stockholm at the moment  and the city has been decorate for Christmas as well. And I just love it! 

no 21

Last week my colleauges and I visited the Historical Museum to see their new exhibition "History of Sweden" . And I think it's a great exhibition. My favorite item in this exhibition is this:

 
A hockey sweater worn in the Olympic final 2006 in Torino - a game Sweden won over Finland. The number on this one is 21 - Peter Forsberg.  And those of you who really knows me KNOWS me,knows my love for (in this case) hockey!  This window shows symbols of Sweden. Can you see the note sheet in the left corner - it's the original score of the Swedish National Anthem. And when this piece of paper is not showing itself in museums, you can find it in a archive box in "my " archive.