Back home with a cup of tea and a slice of apricot and nut bread after a day in this beautiful winter wonderland landscape.

Frozen Apples

The birds must be having a good year as there still are apples on this apple tree! Frozen apples. And finally a few photos of the Christmas tree at my local shopping centre before I get dinner going.

Tags: snow, trees, winter

Frost Star

Finally some of the pieces for Christmas are falling into place. After many attempts, I found the right bulb for the new Advent star, it turns out it’s the same type that you use in an oven! Who would have guessed…

Advent star with window reflection.

If you’ve heard my laments about the lack of sunlight this winter, you can probably imagine how poor the lighting conditions are for photography. So I gave up on waiting for sunshine, and I also wanted to show you some of my Christmas lights, so I reminded myself of how much I love the spontaneity of lo-fi photography . The gritty grain, the distortion, the overload and the pastels. Like playing rock ‘n’ roll, like feeding the distortion of your electric guitar back into the amp, like feeling the base in your body before you let your guitar play the sweetest song. Raw emotions with a minimum of editing and styling.

Christmas lights on the balcony.

I’m so grateful for all the new online friends and acquaintances I’ve met this year. Carla, the creator of the wonderful iPhone app Gratitude Journal. The many brave soul seekers I met in the Unravelling course, and the inspiring, talented artists I got to know in Marisa’s fish bowl. Tracy, the artist and crafter of the Pink Purl. Jamie who created the Full Moon Dreamboards that it’s been so magical for me to participate in. Just to mention a few. You’ve all brought so much light to my life!

A pale pink amaryllis

Tags: dreamboard, ease, gratitude, imperfection, iPhone, lo-fi, Photography, serendipity, simplicity, winter

Gefle Design

Lately, there’s been lots of work going on under the hood here at Marmalade Moon. Talented and friendly web designer Gefle Design have helped me migrate this site to the WordPress engine, creating beautifully compact code that makes the site load faster in the process!

Gefle Design also helped me to add some new functions to Marmalade Moon, I’d like to especially mention the handy, new search function located at the top of the sidebar, as well as a brand new RSS-feed, so don’t forget to change the address for the feed if you subscribe to Marmalade Moon’s RSS feed!

If you’re looking for a creative web designer, with a sense for style and Wordpress expertise, I strongly recommend Gefle Design.

Tags: blogging

A bare tree and blue sky.

There has been four hours of sunlight in November… no wonder I’ve been feeling a bit under the weather! I was sort of glad to get it in black and white today, just to know that I wasn’t imagining it! SMHI (the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute) reported that so far, there have been four hours of sunlight in Stockholm during November. The average apparently is 54 hours of sunlight.

But today it was sunny and the sky was blue! So in one single day there was more sunlight than there has been for the rest of the whole month!

Tomorrow a rain and snowstorm is predicted, and the rest of November is expected to be scarce on sunlight, so of course I had to go for a long walk today! I took lots of photos with the camera in my mobile phone, most didn’t come out very well as I was perusing birds, and they don’t tend to pose and smile at the camera!

Today the French theme took off again. First a stop at the absolutely wonderful café and restaurant Petite France, (check out the baker Sebastien Boudet’s delicious blog Un peu, beaucoup, passionement, à la folie) for café au lait and croissants, Pain au Chocolat. Then past the City Hall, through the Old Town ending up at the cinema Victoria and Coco Before Chanel (to see a movie trailer click here).

What an inspiring day!

Tags: Creative Minutes, film, France, lo-fi, Photography, sunlight

Yellow and orange leaves.

Returning from the café balancing feta cheese sandwiches and coffee for lunch, I had to stop and dig out my camera when I saw this hedge.

Tags: colour, Creative Minutes, foilage, leaves, Photography