LIGHT

It’s that time of the year again.

I must admit that it’s been a few years since I got any kind of Christmas feelings but this year, even though it’s not December just yet, I got it and I’m really looking forward to Christmas this year. I guess it have mainly been kicking in this weekend. Everyone have started putting up stars and pretty lightning, my mother has baked something called Lucia saffron buns (or Lucia cats) while my cousin played her favourite Christmas songs and I’ve made a fire in our fireplace two nights in a row.

I’m really looking forward to this cosy season.

THIS IS WHAT A FEMINIST LOOKS LIKE

I treated myself and bought the ELLE Feminism Issue before going home from Stockholm.

When I first heard about ELLE UK releasing their December issue as a feminism issue it made me really excited, fashion and feminism is two of my favourite things in life.  I’m sure there’s smaller more independent magazines that’s been doing something similar before but I can’t reach that many foreign magazines in Sweden and seeing such a famous magazine as ELLE doing something like this is revolutionary.

I just finished reading the interview with Emma Watson and it’s perfect. I knew after seeing her speech at the UN that it couldn’t be anything but perfect and I’ve been sat with a smile plastered to my lips while reading it. I still got the interviews with Jenna Lyons, Diane von Furstenberg and Benedict Cumberbatch left to read and I’m really looking forward to it. Other than that the issue is filled with inspirational and successful women for an example ELLE UKs own editor-in-chief Lorraine Candy, who I’ve been impressed by for a long time, who is a mother of four young children, a feminist and got the career of my dreams, she’s really an inspiration.

Buy it, read it and get inspired!

BUT FOR TONIGHT I WANNA FALL IN LOVE

Globen, Stockholm, Wednesday November 12th

One time isn’t enough.

Elin and I met up with my brother and his girlfriend for his first concert ever. We managed to sneak in with my brothers classmates and get some really decent places after not queuing at all. When Ed walked in I could see the enormous excitement in my brother’s eyes. I’m still in a loss of words to describe Ed’s live performance but it was just as magical as in Copenhagen. I was placed a lot differently but it didn’t make it any less powerful and the fact that I got to experience my brother’s first concert with him I think made it even better. I’ve never seen that boy happier and that make me so incredibly happy.

After the concert it was really nice to get back to Elin, eat and actually get to sleep on a mattress since I was exhausted, I even talked to her in mys sleep. I took that boring four and a half, five if you count the train actually home to my little village, hour train ride home yesterday but it’s just a few weeks until I get to see Elin and visit Globen again. More about that in December…

PACKING UP AND TAKING OFF

When I travel a lot during a short time I always think that it’s what it feels like being a celebrity but I always remind myself that a celebrity probably doesn’t have to sleep on the floor at the airport that often since they can afford a few hours at the expensive Hilton Hotel next doors, however I can’t and I have to sleep on the floor at the airport looking out at the Hilton Hotel building dreaming of the beds inside.

After the Ed Sheeran concert we picked up our bags at the Central Station in Copenhagen and went to the airport. We arrived around midnight and went straight to Burger King for a veggie burger and some much needed water before we thought that we could get through the security check but shame on us, the security check didn’t open until 5am. We thought we could get in to the actual airport and find some comfy chairs to spend a few hours on before the tax free shops opened up but instead we had to sit outside the checks, on a really hard floor, for four hours. I managed to get a few minutes of sleep thanks to some blankets that could act as a pillow and the hours went pass rather quickly.

The picture above is taken around 7am right after the plan had taken off to Stockholm, were we landed at 8am. From the airport me and the friend I traveled with had to go separate ways to the people we would spend the night at in Stockholm and I had to go on three buses and one train to get home to Elin for a well needed shower and some breakfast.

TAKE MY HAND AND MY HEART AND SOUL

Forum,Copenhagen, Tuesday November 11th

Let’s get this started with me telling you that seeing this man perform live is the most powerful thing that I’ve ever experienced. I and a friend of mine went to Copenhagen early Tuesday morning with food and blankets. We were sat outside the arena for about nine hours before we got let in and managed to get in the front, a bit to the left but still in the front.

It’s difficult to find words to explain the concert. Afterwards my friend and I didn’t say anything to each other, we couldn’t find the right words to explain it. All the worlds’ superlatives aren’t enough but I’ll do my best. Ed is all alone on a large stage with a guitar, two microphones and some loop pedals, nothing else, and he creates the most powerful music I’ve ever heard live. There was a security guard right in front of me all the time and he seemed amazed by how the crowd sang their hearts out to this simple redhead on stage and followed every wish of his.

I’m sorry that I can’t tell you more, there aren’t any words for it. He makes the songs so much better live than they’re on CD and on CD they still are bloody amazing. If you ever get the chance to see him live, take it.

WHILE DREAMING OF DIOR

I used to have my ears stretched but a few months ago I removed the plugs and now I can finally wear normal earrings again.

I doubt anyone has missed the Dior double pearl earrings. I myself have been dreaming of these for a while but working at a day care doesn’t allow me to buy anything Dior. Of course the high street stores have done their job and put out similar earrings for the price of almost nothing, I bought these yesterday and I feel a bit silly for being this excited about wearing a normal pair of earrings.