It's the day before the day here!

Here in Sweden we celebrate Xmas on the 24th of December, this means that today is the day before THE DAY! 

Traditionally this is the day when peeps way back when decorated the Christmas tree, prepared the Christmas food, the Christmas sweets, the whole house(!) after their miniature peeps had gone to bed, just so that kids all over Sweden could wake up tomorrow in a world full of Christmas.

In this house I am the kid aaaaaand i usually head to bed after my mum so we prepare everything together and then I sneak presents under the tree when my mum has gone to bed. But the Christmas tree is under no circumstances ever in this house before the evening before THE DAY, so the photograph below is a tree from way back when that i found. // M.J

From all of us Two and a Half Swedes, 

we wish you a very Merry Christmas!!  

IT'S CHRISTMAS!!!!!

Leftover shots from this fall...

Imagine this shot but with snow....

Here's a little porcelain doll instead of a little more snow...

and a little more red...

Just trying to get the Christmas spirits high here...despite of the tiny tiny snow....

 6 days to go...

//M.E

Shadow Effect

    Everyone. Everything, has a shadow.

Think about it, as long as there is sun, never mind the sun, as long as there is some kind of light source we all have shadows. The Christmas tree that you’re planning to timber. The lion staking out its pray of the day. The leaf that falls from that yellow tree in your backyard. The person standing next to you and the person walking by. A shadow is on of those things that we can’t avoid, I mean, it is always there! It is your twin, a copy of yourself that is as black as night or as translucent as a cartoon ghost.

    Depending on where the light hits you, your shadow can make you taller, shorter, thinner, bigger, the very proportions that makes you YOU, is altered. Meet my shadow…

The unproportionate

four shades of grey

lazy on wood

one foot, two legs and a foot

For those who know me this is my most common pose
and in this case perfect cause i have no idea what more to write!

--- M J ---   

Winter's coming, leaves are falling, and its frickin cold!

In the forest you might find...

... look to the sky and you will see...

...look to the right and up we goooo...

...or to the left and heaven is below...

...look for twos and you might find...

...a leap of faith or a bow...

...eitherway you might see, that your world isn't as it might be...

// M.J.

Miss France 2011

Hugh tree , tiny Camilla.
Ain't this picture kinda a little spooky though?

You gotta love the whole package!

Camilla thinking: What was it Tyra Banks said again...

I walk a lonely road. The only road that I have ever know.
Don't know where it goes but it's home to me and I walk alone.

With a red bow...

...and a smile

....and we're done for this time. Apologies that have been SO BAD when it comes to updating our blog! Life is SUPER BUSY for all of us at the moment. We're working on it though (like seriously we are, or we keep on telling ourselves that :P)

M.E

Dirty water

Maria and I went down to the lake Kolbränningen again to take some pictures and "we" decided that Maria should jump in the lake. We found a nice place with some dirty water to play with..

Floating away..

My favourite of the bunch

Those eyelashes..

Beautiful

Miss Dots

She's fierce...

She's cool...

She will hypnotize you...

Dots Dots Dots & Docs (^___^)

I guess the one good thing with fall is all the beautiful color combination you can get...

If only it could stop raining cats and dogs here for a while though... *sighs* //Maria

The Other (Beautiful) Side of Money

I found some money in my shoecloset... ain't money beautiful???

Hundra kronor, Sveriges Riksbank

Femti kroner, Noregs bank

 

Et hundrade kroner, Danmarks Nationalbank

The fourth currency of the Nordic countries, which just so happens to be the currance of most of the European Union, recognisable? No?



 

Five Pounds, Bank of England, Queen never smiles does she...


 

Pięcdziesląt złotych, Naradowy Bank Polski (sorry if I didn’t get that right!!!)

Twenty rand, Banka-kgolo ya Aforika Borwa, lBulungelo-mali eliKhulu leSewula Afrika, Suid-Afrikaanse Reserwebank & South African Reserve Bank

And what would this post be unless I included this?

Here’s good old Washington for you all.

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The summer is gone, fall is here, and I am NOT loving it

A snap shot from this spring! And now it's fall already, unbelievable.

//C.I

Pre-Fall

Meet my new model Mimmi.

She's quite a beauty, isn't she?

And popular she is..

...

Sorry for the boring captions, my brain hurts... //M.E.

Pics of Picks of Animals

Addo Eliphant Park, Eastern Cape, RSA

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Augrabies Falls National Park, Northern Cape, RSA

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Augrabies Falls National Park, Northern Cape

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Seaview Lion Park, Eastern Cape, RSA

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Hluhluwe-Imfolozi National Park, KwaZulu Natal, RSA

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Inanda Park Camping, KwaZulu-Natal

It is after all called the Rainbow Nation

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