Today is a wonderful sunny Saturday; the snow is melting and it was perfect for a long walk along Berthåga, Stabby and over the fields before lunch. When I came back home I took a shot from my past week´s hit in Erikshjälpen: a few vintage butter knives -I believe from the 60-ties or 70-ties?; two small pieces of a joyful flower textile; an ICA cook-book with old dessert recipes (1947 and I cannot resist collecting old cook-books!!); a small empty tin box which I already filled with dried rose petals wraped in silk paper. The roses I picked and dried last summer in Uppsala and if you open the tin box the rose perfume invades the room!

All these objects take me to my childhood days at home far away in place and time. The cook-book smells like "mother". She used to bake a lot every day and was fond of desserts too. A different dessert after every lunch.

I really treasure all these things! How happy they make me feel.

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Hi friends! Hoping everything Ok with you and families! Are you taking care and being responsible still? Going to work or staying at home?

Here I post 6 collage works from my "Quarantine" production. Yes! I spent most of my free time at home cutting and pasting and creating these..... I´ve always loved to cut and paste beautiful images. I have had scrapbooks before and I have passed some of them to my daughter when she grew up (she is 26 now). I made my first scrapbook at school in 1965.

Now I am finishing this series of 13 collages iunspired by the Gullers Tradings wall calendar of Northern plants (VÄXTER) from 2019. The central images are taken from Carl Axel Lindman´s book "BILDER ur NORDENS flora" from 1902.

My life is based on admiring flowers, pets, horses, woods, sunsets and the sea. The whole nature! But most of all I admire and I am surprised as usual by the beauty of every FLOWER.

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Welcome to another Berliner corner which I am fond of and fortunately discoverd by chance!

It was kind of unexpected, ´cause my plan in the summer afternoon was to watch the classical German silent movie "NOSFERATU" by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (1922). It would be shown on an open-air garden. But it began to rain. Just there, I saw this wonderful place and I came inside so as to dry myself.

It was it´s name that first attracted me: " 3 SCHWESTERN" !! and to my surprise, it had a kind of past-church atmosphere.

Here you shall dine in Kreuzberg´s oldest building from 1846 where sisters of the Bethanien-monastery used to dine. Beautiful! It is rated with 4.3 stars. And though it used to be a monastery, it´s a quite informal place to be; with a wonderful big, green garden where you can sit during summer and eat the almost typical German plain food.

3 SCHWESTERN - $$ 4.3 stars - Mariannenplatz 2, 10997, Berlin

From Berlin´s Hauptbahnhof (the Central Station in Berlin) take train S5 until Ostbahnhof; then Bus 140 at U-Mehringdamm until MARIANNENPLATZ. Then walk for 2 min.

Instagram: @3schwesternberlin

I MISS YOU, SISTERS!

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