Featured Artist: Krista Kretzschmar Krista and family It’s been some time since I’ve featured an artist. In ode to Swedish Father’s Day week, I felt it was time to have a Swedish artist: jewelry designer and goldsmith, Krista Kretzschmar. She’s so...
I’m on break with the kids. Here’s a little glimpse of Stockholm Town and Country this week. View over Kungsgatan Hallwylska Museum Hotorget (translated: Hay Square) Rosendals Tragård for Pumpkin Carving(With friends, Heather and Mathilda, Max and William and gang)Around town:1) Walks,...
… a Monday less than ordinary: Last night, we fell asleep with visions of swans dancing in our heads. Have you seen the ballet, Swan Lake, with your children? It’s classic costuming is the kind that will swim into your...
There’s a new modern museum in town called Artipelag. Correction: there’s a new museum in the archipelago which is just a hop, skip and jump out of town. It’s located in the Stockholm archipelago, (directions here.) We visited it in August and completed...
I think skipping stones is the perfect way to end the week and to greet the Fall. This can last for an hour — making a winning case for: simple is best. I’m not ready to be charmed by Autumn’s...
Hola! Miami and Stockholm normally have very little in common. This weekend, however, the common thread between these cities, was us. I still can’t believe we pulled off this weekend get away! (Thank you, St. M!) It was so much...
Ulriksdal Castle Garden is one of my favorite, off-the-beaten-path, places to visit. If there were ever a magical garden, Ulriksdal Castle Garden is this. It’s Pumpkin and Squash Tunnel, pick-your-own style gardens and even, it’s baskets; make it a vegetable and flower...
Thank you, Summer, for being you! Dear September, I’ve always remained resistant to your charms up until the very last minute. Like clockwork, though, now that you’ve arrived, I’m head over heels for you: I want to work. I...
To those Leos in my life, you know who you are — here’s a little lion salute to you today, as I’m thinking of the July and August birthday we’ve celebrated (or will soon)! With Leos on my mind, I...
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Willowday has the honor of becoming Bellissimakids’s Stockholm City Guide contributor. It felt natural to start with a glimpse of the Swedish east and west coasts as an introduction. Did you know that we have 20,000 islands in the Stockholm archipelago? I’ll let you...
Hello Sweden. We’re back. Our first night’s sleep felt like falling into a winter’s hibernation. Have you ever had the feeling that you don’t know where you are when you wake up? Isn’t jet lag indescribable? Have you had it...
As I flip through photos of our Summer visit, I think of the wonders of water. We’ve had so much cousin fun in and around the water this Summer. What about you? What’s defining your Summer fun this year? I...
It’s the time of the year with one, two, or three big events, every day, in our household. Are you the same? We have school until the 19th which means we are in the season of class picnics (yesterday), school...
Tant Brun Cafe in SigtunaHappy Monday and welcome back. During this first wweek of vacation, back in the US, we have met several people who will be traveling to Sweden this Summer. Coffee in copper pots under the summer sun....
Good Morning. I hope your week is off to a great start. I thought this was the perfect photo to start the week. We found our first wild strawberries, moments before I snapped this shot on Midsummer Eve. As this...
Hello again. I hope you’re been great. I’ve been in Finland chaperoning our son’s handball team over the weekend and returned Monday morning with a terrible, terrible cold. I’ll be back with my regular features but today, will share the...
When I look out my window today, I feel like I could almost find a sleeping “baby willow,” too. The atmosphere and colors in this painting, mirror the April colors we’ve had this long Spring. It’s no wonder that Elsa...
Wishing you a wonderful weekend. Our school holidays began on Friday. Yesterday, as I was perusing cookbooks for our weekend entertainment plans and coordinating next week’s travel plans with my husband, the kids were free to be. I loved discovering...
Swedish Easter Decoration (Påskris in Swedish) I was so surprised the first time I saw these shockingly colorful Easter bouquets, calledpåskris. Budding branches, usually birch, with brightly colored feathers comprise a bouquet that is basically the Swedish, Easter version, of the Christmas...
Oh la la! Too much today. Too much of everything. Just too much. So, I’d like to lighten my day and yours too. Have you seen this “too much” song by the Flight of the Conchords? Cute, right? Recently, I had to...
