From 8 am to 8 pm a Sunday in July

8 am. I wake up but stay in bed, reading. Peter is snoring like a baby beside me and I admire the color combination of our bed linen.

I'm currently reading a thriller called 'Sharp objects' (or 'Vassa föremål', cause it's in Swedish) by Gillian Flynn. So far I don't like it very much, but it might just be the translation that annoys me.

9 am. By now Peter's awake and in a hurry for work. We're having breakfast that might not look it, but tastes good – ginger juice, lemon tea, mango yoghurt and vegan ham sandwich.

While P is all stressed I'm taking my time, enjoying my day off.

10 am. After breakfast I'm doing my weekly face cleaning routine – cleanse, scrub, mask. When the mask is drying up I do the dishes which hasn't been done for a couple of days. I really hate doing dishes and can't wait to have a dishwasher one day. 

11 am. I take a shower and get dressed. I rarely wear makeup on days off since I always wear makeup to work. It feels nice to let the face breath now and then, especially if you've got skin as mine that's always been a bit of struggle (oily one day, dry the other and super sensitive in between).

Then I cut off the seam on my Levi's jeans, never getting bored of the raw edges look apparently.

12 am. I'm taking the bus to Dalston junction to change for another bus to take me elsewhere. Wearing my newly cutoff jeans, a white linen shirt from Gina Tricot, old Birkenstock's and a straw bag from Beyond Retro.

When I jump off the bus this is what I see. But no, I'm not spending my Sunday in St Pauls Cathedral.

1 pm. I'm getting hungry and decide to have lunch on my own at Pain de Quotidien. Pea and feta frittata.

2 pm. After lunch I walk over the Millenium bridge to Tate Modern.

My plan to see both the Mona Hatoum and the Georgia O'Keefe exhibitions fails when the price is around £15 for each exhibition and there is no combined tickets.

I decide to go for the Mona Hatoum exhibition since all the tourists seem to be there for O'Keefe. Plus Hatoum is much cooler. I manage to snap some photos before an angry guard tells me not to. 

3 pm. I've seen the whole exhibition and found my favorite piece – this photograph called "Van Gogh's back".

4 pm. On my way home I do some grocery shopping since all the shops close at 5 on Sundays. I treat myself to some sunflowers and realize this is the second reference to Van Gogh today. 

5 pm. I have a Pimm's while pinning things to my Pinterest and waiting for P to come home from work.

6 pm. I start preparing dinner. We have this rule that the person that's home from work first (or if you're off work) is the one who cooks. So this day it's my turn and I decide on prawn tacos with a nectarine and avocado salsa.

7 pm. Dinner's ready ---> time to eat.

8 pm. On Sundays P works at this coffee slash bike shop and once in a while he brings home leftovers like raspberry and apple tarts. 

Now I'm so full I struggle to move. I guess I'll spend the rest of this day watching reruns of Girls in bed and making plans for the upcoming week. How else would you spend a Sunday night, really?

East London Food

I've forgot to show you this book that I bought when I took my sister to Verden E5 for brunch. 

It's called East London Food but it isn't a cookbook, more like a collection of local east London restaurants, breweries and bakeries.

The pictures and paper quality is super nice – Here's our local pub, Clapton Hart.

All time favorite, Broadway Market.

Bistrotheque, in every London hipsters <3

But there's also loads of places I haven't had the chance to visit yet. So much food to eat, so many locally brewed beers to drink!

There's a chapter on the Growing Communities, from whom we use to buy all our veggies. We had to stop cause we never had time to cook them all ):

And a few selected recipes at the back. 

From Hoxton Mini Press.

2015: October, November and December

October was full of parties apparently? And full of my ceramics course. Apart from that nothing much happened. But parties and ceramics are all you need to make a good month if you ask me. 

In November I was so sad that my ceramics course had ended I decided to start painting and even set up my own little studio space at home. Other then that P:s mum and brother visited us for a cold and windy weekend. Plus Hackney Attic celebrated 6 months!

Already December and very soon 2016! I can't believe how fast this year has passed, guess I really am getting old. In December me and P visited Warner Bros Studio's Harry Potter tour and I made a quick visit to Sweden just before P:s birthday and Christmas, which we spent at home in Hackney doing nothing but eating, sleeping and prevent Lola from tearing down the Christmas tree. 

2015: August and September

August was probably the best month of the year cause it was summer and I was off work. Me and P spent half of the month in Sweden, traveling around to see friends and family. We started off in Stockholm where we stayed with our friends in the house on Stora Essingen, having bbqs and swims. We also met up with P:s family. Then we went to Gothenburg where we stayed with my sister and then parents, eating a lot and going for day trips by car and boat. Back in London summer continued and we had breakfast on the roof. Plus we took care of Lola for the very first time. Look how tiny she was!

September was back to the everyday routine, back to school and work. One day we took Lola to Hampstead Heath but it started pouring, hence P had to carry her inside his jacket cause she was so miserable. We also had dinner at Maeve's and a lot of different visitors like my friend Per, our friends Juan and Amanda and my sister and mum. 

2015: May, June and July

I started this blog on May 29th so I didn’t have time to do that much blogging in May but I did post some photos from our trip to Cannes, a post about my favorite London spot (Hampstead Heath) and made and ate a really nice Mushroom burger. 

In June we moved in to the Hackney flat, I bought a tattoo machine and Peter had his very first live gig, but not before we had tacos one last time in our old flat in Brixton. I also did my first monthly playlist, but I spent most of the time bargain hunting and decorating our new baby: the Hackney attic.

Look at the tree outside our kitchen window at this picture from July! At the moment it’s just a grey skeleton of branches. Over all July was the month of summer. I was in Berlin to visit my friend Hannah and at the end of the month me and P went to Sweden for a two week vacay. We also tore out the old carpet in the kitchen and had pad thai for dinner.

Merry Christmas from Hackney!

Today was Swedish Christmas! Me, P and Lola have spent the day eating loads and loads of Swedish Christmas food, taking walks, skyping with family back home and unwrapping gifts. Please notice Lola's little face in P:s hand :)

Merry Christmas <3

Roll up, roll up

Yesterday me and Peter went to try out the food at the place I've hired for my birthday but unfortunately it wasn't that good :-( Now I have to figure out what to do instead. But don't worry, I'm a pro when it comes to figure stuff out. I'm just glad I actually tried the food in advance, would have been such a disappointment if I didn't and just went for it. Anyways, so excited for all fun stuff that's coming up! Christmas party at work, my friend Maria visiting, Christmas, new year's eve, my birthday and the Cambodia trip! 

Penne with butternut squash, thyme and goats cheese

A couple of days ago I made penne with spinach, butternut squash, thyme oil and goats cheese which was a very, very good combination. Just roast the squash in the oven, sauté the spinach, grind the thyme in a mortar with some salt and olive oil, boil the pasta, crumble some goats cheese and voilà; delicious dinner!

10 pictures Wednesday

Today I woke up late, but at least I woke up feeling refreshed for once. I started off by coloring my eye brows and doing a face mask from No7. Then I had some breakfast.

Tea, juice and yoghurt.

Then I did the dishes, listening to this podcast, while the rain poured down outside the window.

Ready to seize the day in my new sleeveless turtleneck and vintage Levi's.

I made a late gift for someone who had her birthday last week. Sorry I'm so slow :(

Already lunch time! A leftover one.

After lunch I headed to this place, my favorite coffee shop, 119 Lower Clapton. I spent the rest of my day here, with coffee and studies, since I have an exam next week it's time to step it up. The picture's from here, since I left the camera at home (bad blogger).

Before I went home I went to post the gift and then to collect our veggie bag which for example contained this celeriac. I feel so stupid but I've never really connected celery and celeriac even though it makes total sense that they're the same plant.

Then I made dinner and completely forgot to take a photo of the finished meal. Bad blogger 2. It was celeriac mash with salmon if anyone would wonder.