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…@symatt and Carolyn Scott :D

I decided to split this up since Facebook and Twitter in some cases are split in two camps :p @symatt get the big print and Carolyn can pick out a print in a smaller size :)

So send me the info of which print you want together with your postal address in an email. There’s a form in the contact tab above if you want to use that. Otherwise you can get in touch with me via Facebook or Twitter of course.

The sooner you get in touch, the sooner the prints will be with you :)
Now it’s time to get back to work. I will be back later :)

Tonight I’ve made my life’s first Macarons…and they look like hell…LOL But man, they’re nice :D

The mistakes was that darn oven I’ve got. It’s useless and either it burns everything or it won’t cook it at all. And since this is meringue it’s touchy matter.
I might do this again at some point, just to see if I can get it right…those meringue shells are not suppose to get any color and they should definitely not crack, so I will have to try until they’re perfect ;) The problem with that is that they are still eatable even if they look like a car crash, so there’s a risk that any diet goes out the window :p

Whatever diet that might be…haha

But anyway…I’ve finally done this and next time I might just do it right too ;)

Peter, Helene and Alexander arrived at Gotland last night shortly after 8 PM. It’s a long trip on train, bus, boat and taxi to get from point A to point B, and to travel with a toddler isn’t always easy. But it seemed to have been pretty smooth in spite of that :)

I’m just happy they arrived in one piece :p There’s been some horrible weather lately and you never know what can happen when there are so many different ways to travel involved. And yeah, I guess it’s just me being a nagging old Granny :pp
But you know… :p

Alexander was really entertaining everyone, screaming and laughing as loud as he could…anything to get the attention…heh
The reason for their destination is that Helene was born on that island. That’s also where she grew up and have her parents and siblings :) So she’s really looking forward to spend some time with her family and friends :)

I had a reply from Helene a little while ago and it was a “go” to post her photo’s from the Viking wedding they attended to yesterday :D At first I planned on adding another gallery in here, but I’m too lazy today : So the images will be in this post alone instead.

Well, first out is my son filming the event. I’m sure there will be some video later at some point…or not…depends on what he was filming and how up and personal it is I guess. But I’ll keep an eye on YouTube just in case :)

Helene also made a comment to my post earlier today and told me that Peter used to be a member of this Viking association.

I take it that means that he isn’t a member any more. But that they still are in touch with a lot of the other members still, friends that they hang out with anyway.
So now that’s settled :p
In the picture to the right is Helene in the dress that Peter made for her. I haven’t seen the whole thing, but since I used to sew costumes for the opera for almost 5 years, I can tell when it looks good. And I have a way of staring at details that most people don’t care about, like seams and similar things. I’m hoping to see the whole thing when they attend to the Medieval Week in Gotland :)

Anyway, to the right left is the bride and groom.

Peter knows the bride, Mia, since collage (also information from Helene in her comment earlier). I believe that there are two difference ceremonies during a wedding like this – the Viking ceremony and then the more “legal” ceremony with a priest.

I really like her bouquet. The colors in it reflects the colors in the grooms clothes nicely and it’s color coordination in a nice and subtle way :) I think if I was ever to get married again, it would be something like this :D I’m a bit too old for the white dress and the church, and since I already been married in a big white silk dress with a long train, veil and all that stuff, something like this would be perfect.

Just a matter of finding a willing victim to marry…hehehe (blinks at Robin :p). Just kidding :p

Anyway, lets continue with this wedding. Piccies below:

The first picture is of the groom, Anders, as he arrives. And the second photo is the bride, Mia, arriving to the wedding on a horse. I can imagine that they were accompanied by music (partly because the guy walking ahead of the groom is playing the flute :p).
The third photo is the Viking ceremony, which they did first I believe, and the fourth photo is the “real” ceremony with the priest that made them legally husband and wife :)

And after that is was the kiss (in the first photo above) and some more music (second photo).

Above is the newly wedded. I don’t know if the old traditions back in the times of Vikings had any of the additional people around that are so common in weddings today, like best man, bridesmaid etc. But I can imagine that the two girls sitting on the ground with red roses in their wreaths belong to them in some way and the woman to the far left is most likely a sister or best friend to the bride :)

Afterwards there was a lot of photo’s taken of course, people to meet and greet and so on. And Alexander met some new friends in that typical way that they do when they are between 1 and 2 years of age: Walk straight up to them and start chatting…lol
I believe that Peter made the shirt and the trousers he’s wearing in these photo’s btw. I’ve got older pictures of him where he’s wearing similar clothes, including a bow and arrows and I know that he made those clothes.
The Viking ship in the last two photo’s belongs to the association and was hand carved. The name of it is Glad, which refers to the horse that the gods used to ride when they would go to make judgements at Yggdrasil. I know this is hand carved because I used to visit the place where it was made on my way home from work many many many years ago. Yesterday they decorated it with a wreath and I can imagine that the couple arrived or left (or both) in that ship.
My son was one of the “galley slaves” who rowed it a few years ago…hehe It’s not exactly something that you could row on your own I might add. Unless you already clicked the link above, take a look here and you know what I mean :p

So there you go :) That’s what a Viking wedding looks like in Sweden and in my old neighborhood.
Peter and Helene had to leave around 8PM since Alexander was tired and had mood swings (heh), so unfortunately they couldn’t stay for the reception and the dinner. But I believe they had a good day in spite of that :)
Click the images above for a larger version of course :)
All photo’s taken by Heléne Törner (thank you :D )

Thought I’d post a smiling grandson today since it’s Sunday and everything :p It was taken the other day while he was roaming around playing with his toy cars…hehe
Yesterday the whole family attended a Viking wedding outside town. I believe that both of them are members of the local Viking association and they arrange a wedding every summer. At least I think they still do :p It means that the couple that is getting married have a lot of guests for the ceremony, both invited and uninvited. I believe that the reception is private though…but I might be wrong.

I’m not sure if Peter and Helene knew the couple who was wed, but it’s very possible. I’ve asked Helene if it’s ok if I post her photo’s from the event and I’m waiting for a reply. So in the meantime I thought I’d post the little rascal above :p Both Peter and Helene were dressed in Viking clothes yesterday, while Alexander was wearing regular clothes. Peter actually made a dress for Helene for the event and it looked great :D  My son is pretty good at crafting things :)

I might just finish the Tom Hanks painting today. Did paint a bit last night but I was too distracted by the TV. And by reruns for some stupid reason. But today I’m alone and unsupervised (as usual), with no TV on or anything, so I’ll ignore the dishes for a while longer I think and paint instead ;)
And I’ve got a bracelet and a ring to send off to a photographer who wants to borrow them for a photo shoot. They contacted me the other day over email after being to Steampunk Box. Of course they wanted to borrow something that was sold a long time ago, so they had to pick something from the available items. The necklaces they wanted to borrow were sold to the US for Valentines a couple of years ago, so it’s not like they are easy to pick up somewhere for the sake of the photo shoot.

So I’ve got to pack the bracelet and ring to ship on Tuesday. The photo shoot is on August 1, so it’s no panic. But I want it done, otherwise I might just forget :p

And then I need to do a similar thing with a pair of earrings, but those are being sold. So that’s different. I don’t expect those back…hopefully not anyway ;)

And that’s it for now :) Hope your Sunday is as calm and quite as mine…that is, without being boring :p