Salt & Pepper

This is my fathers containers for salt and pepper, they belonged to my grandparents. Is there any one out there who know who the designer is? We think it is a Swedish designer. So if you know or think you know please let us know!
Thanks!

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Music Box

This is my music box that I got when I was child. Can you believe how thrilled I was? When I opened it up, it was pink inside! PINK!! This was in the middle of the seventies and the colour pink was very rare… ;-)

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Love Hurts

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Hidden Heart...

Do you see the heart?
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Pin Heart

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Ladybug Love

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I ♥ Yarn!

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One heart a day…

Starts tomorrow and goes on until Valentine’s Day...

See you tomorrow!

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Semla

Here in Sweden we eat something called a “semla” (cream bun). Earlier we ate it at the Fettisdagen(Fat Tuesday), (Sunday before Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent). It is like "Shrove Tuesday" that they have in England and USA and many other English spoken countries. In France they call the day Mardi Gras.

Nowadays when the Swedish people don’t fast before Easter the cream bun is available soon after Christmas and until Easter. The day to eat ”semla” this year occurs on the 24th of February. But I had my ”semla” today and it was so yummy!


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My sisters house

Today I was babysitting my nieces at my sisters house. I took the opportunity to take some photos of her home. (Inspired by Sammy Rose photos from her sisters cool apartment!)
It is our grandparents old house from 1927. My father has lived here when he was a child and I lived here with Mr Hummmlan for a couple of years. Now my sister own the house. I almost forgot, my older brother has also lived here for a couple of months with my dad and my mother when he was a newborn. So the whole family has some kind of relation to the house.

Unfortunately I didn’t have my tripod with me so I just show you a few photos that didn’t got blurry... Next time I will not forget it! And of course I will show you the photos on the blog!

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Inspiration board

I found this old frame at my parents house, in their garage. At first I was thinking that I maybe should repaint it, but eventually I left the old golden paint on. I bought some magnetic colour and painted it on a piece of plywood. And easy peasy, you have yourself an magnetic inspiration board!

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Together!

One day I was coming down the stairs and I suddenly stopped when I saw a little elephant who I’d never seen at that spot before. We have a big elephant for decoration at the stairway at a shelf. Maya my daughter had placed her little toy elephant next to it. She thought it looked so lonely there all by it self… I smiled for myself and got a bit moved, she has such a big heart!

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The day of the Tulip

The 15th of January it is the day of the Tulip here is Sweden. Between Christmas and Easter it sells almost 1 million tulips a day, and that is just in Sweden!! The tulip is our most popular cut flower. We even buy more tulips then they do in Holland if you see to per capita. And I can tell you that I am mad about tulips too, like the rest of the Swedes! So I think you maybe get to see a tulip or two in my blog a couple of times more… :-)

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Old sewing machine

I have four sewing machines… Yes, it’s true! One belonged to my grandmother, its one of those old vintage ones where you had to pump the foot pedal to get it going. (A post on grandmas old one is coming later.) I also have a modern sewing machine that I don’t use because it sucks! It was cheap and the only thing you can sew on it are maybe curtains, if the fabric is really thin! And then I have my mothers sewing machine that are nearly thirty years old but still going strong. I have borrowed it, for a couple of years now… Thanks mum!
And then I have this old vintage sewing machine. I bought it just because I think it is beautiful. I use it as a flower table and for decoration. Didn’t they make the most beautiful things in the old days? I think so!

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A new year, a new calendar

I always feel a bit sad when a year is going to its end. I don’t know why. Something I do like is to buy a new calendar. But this year I didn’t find any that I liked. So I went for a classic black. I’m a bit picky when it comes to calendars, notebooks, pens and stationary… I think the pen is alright though.
Happy New Year buy the way!

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Extremely super glittery?

My daughter Maya and I are getting ready to go to a New years eve party. And of course you got to have nail polish that are glittery! Maya said: “Is this nail polish really extremely super glittery?” It is important that it is really sparkling so no one can miss it!

I hope you all have a wonderful New year's eve! See you next year!

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The keys to my heart

This is my necklace with an old vintage typewriter key with the letter M. I bought it on Etsy at Lizzybleu typewriter jewelry. The old key I think belonged to my grandparents. I found it in a drawer just laying there waiting to be found. I’ve been searching for a key like this on the internet for quite a while now. I couldn’t believe how lucky I was! I think it was meant to be… I chose the letter M because my daughters name starts with an M.
I think the old key and the typewriter key makes a good combo. What do you think?

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And the winners are…

Thanks for all comments on my giveaway!
I’ve decided to draw two names in instead of one. I feel generous, it must be the Christmas spirit! My little girl picked the names, the poor girl has fever. My first thought was to take some photos of her as she picked the name from her hat. But you know how you feel when your sick, you just want to pull your blanket over your head…

And the winners are…

Dolci Fusa

and

Moa


Congratulations!
E-mail me your addresses at hummmlan[at]gmail.com and some goodies will be yours!

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Red ribbons

It don’t have to cost a fortune to decorate your home for Christmas. I use ribbons on a lot of things. An easy and inexpensive way to get a little bit of Christmas spirit!

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Don't forget the giveaway! There are still time to make a comment!

Giveaway :-)

This is my 200th post! I started to blog in February 2006, so as you can see I’m not the most frequent blogger in the world… Sometimes you have lot of time on your hands and sometimes you haven‘t. That’s life!
Anyway.
To celebrate this occasion I will have a giveaway! Leave your name in the comments and I will get my daughter to pick a name. You have until Saturday the 20th of December to make a comment on this post. So come on, don’t be shy, leave a comment and a gift of goodies can be yours!

Self portrait with my favourite cup ;-)

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