Missing Missy

This mail correspondence is fun, make sure you read it all.
By the way, I've made a new header for the blog. I'm not sure if it's finished yet, but until I get a better idea this will be fine. Do you like it?

[Photo by McKenna Jean/Beautiful Uncertainty]

Sunny San Diego

We spent Christmas Eve in San Diego, starting at Pacific Beach and Crystal Pier (unfortunately I deleted my photos of Crystal Pier before I got to see them, bummer). The weather was really nice, a lot of surfers enjoyed it too. Later we took a walk in downtown San Diego and ate Christmas Dinner at a restaurant in the Gaslamo Quarter.
It was very different from what we're used to do on Christmas Eve, but I didn't miss being at home as much as I thought I would. As long as the company is the best, it doesn't matter where in the world I am, I guess.

Skog and Funghi

 One of the light bulbs in my ceiling lamp has blown, so I dream about better lighting these days. I don't have many lamps as it is, so it's kind of dark in here. Maybe I should put lamp and bulb shopping on my to-do-list...


Anyway, I stumbled upon these cool, colourful lamps yesterday. I got a thing for glass, especially coloured glass. If I had space (and money) for the whole group I'd love to have them in my home.


They remind me of the Funghi lamps (last photo) I've had a photo of in my inspiration folder for years. But I think I prefer the Skog lamps. Even though I (also) love ceramics, I think it works better with a glass shade. I mean, how much light do you get from a lamp that doesn't have a translucent shade?


 


[Sources: Caroline Olsson, Magnor Glassverk and betterlivingthroughdesign]

Point Loma

We visited Cabrillo National Monument, looked for grey whales and saw the beautiful lighthouse at Point Loma.

Movies I've seen recently #1

Well, maybe the word "recently" is a bad choice as it's more than a month since I saw these movies, but that's just a minor detail, isn't it?
I simply love long flights if there is a little screen in front of me, so I can watch movies. Actually, I hardly ever sleep during the flight, because there' s so many movies I want to see. On my way to California before Christmas, I chose these movies:

Big Fish (2003)

I had no idea what this movie was about, I had just heard the title somewhere and thought I wanted to give it a try. The circus part reminded me of Water for Elephants (haven't seen it yet). It was a bit odd, but I liked it.

Midnight in Paris (2011)

My first Woody Allen film, but not the last. It was just as good as expected, both the story and the visual part. Paris is such a beautiful city. And so is Marion Cotillard (beautiful, that is - not a city). Definitely recommendable - the best of these four films!

Friends with benefits (2011)

I was entertained all the time during the film, so it was not bad, but it's not a must-see. It was fun though. I'm just happy that my parents wasn't watching it too. Too many nude scenes for that, haha.

Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)

Well, this is a bad, boring movie. Usually I like Jim Carrey's movies, but this one wasn't good. Maybe I'm just too old for it.

[Photo sources: IMDb, AllMoviePhoto, FrontRoomCinema and AllMoviePhoto.]

Bliss

Hello, hello! I am now the lucky owner of a brand new computer, yay! I've spend a few days installing all the programs I need, quite boring, but I think I'm done with that for now.

I've got so many photos and other things I want to blog, I really don't know where to start. So I'll just try with a few photos from California. On Christmas Day we went to Santa Monica. So strange to walk around on a sunny beach in the middle of December. I think could get used to it, though. Look at the light in the very first photo, I love it!

Time out

Hello there, first post in 2012!
I've had a great time since I posted here, but I'll get back to that another day, because my computer drives me crazy and that would be sad, right? It runs so slowly and I think it might be dying sometime soon. I really have buy a new one, my patience is rather challenged because of this (and usually I'm a really patient person), so next time I post something on the blog it's hopefully happening from a brand new computer, hooray!
In the meantime you can take a look at this beautiful photo, I just found in my archives. And I'm quite sure that I just wrote the worst blog post ever, haha, sorry about that!



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