virtual coffee ~ tuesday april 19th

welcome to this weeks virtual coffee! i am joing you with my morning coffee and i have all day infront of me! 

if we were to meet for real today, i would tell you that mondays and tuesdays are study days this semester. as i have mentioned before it is hard work and even more when the sun is out and all i want is just to be outside in my garden :) 

but i am now on my very last essay and i am so happy that i did take the course, i have learned so much!

if we were to meet for real today, i would tell you that yesterday was such a summers day here. i was out in capri´s and tank top! halleluja! and i hung my laundry out for the first time this year and i almost cannot explain how happy that makes me!

if we were to meet for real today, i would tell you that i am hard at work on my new exhibit. i had my very first photo show and i am doing another one at the end of may! and as i said last year, it is hard work! it does get easier now that i have finally decided on which theme i am going with and which photos that are going to be shown. now i am working on printing and different display ideas. 

if we were to meet for real today, i would tell you that i am about to go out in the sunshine and have a bit of a reading session. you can study outside too, you know :)

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virtual coffee ~ tuesday april 12th

welcome to virtual coffee! this week, if we were to meet for real, i would show you some of the things i have found through tumblr that makes me feel better. and maybe some of them can make you smile too! 

ok, lets go!

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if we were to meet for real today, i would tell you that this is what i want to say to my passed friends husband on thursday when i attend Lindas burial. it is just the words i have been thinking. 

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if we were to meet for real today, i would tell you that i would love to take a family photo like this! wouldn´t that be a happy photoshoot! 

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i love this statement! and it applies so much to what i am right now :)

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if we were to meet for real today, i would tell you about a great little tumblr blog i found that is called rules of a gentleman. and if i had a son i would totally make a minibook with these quotes!

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if we were to meet for real today, i would tell you that i think this is such a cool idea and wonder why i haven´t thought of it before!

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if we were to meet for real today, i would ask for your help while i put this awesomeness on the wall. because we all need that reminder!

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and lastly, if we were to meet for real today, i would show you this image and tell you that i am so doing this when i have the time!

thank you for coming for virtual coffee today!
see you next week!

virtual coffee ~ tuesday april 5th

welcome to virtual coffee! i am so happy to see you! first of all, thank you a million times for all the sweet support i have gotten from you all this past week. since our last coffee together things have slowed down a bit, but i am still sad for sure. i am happy to have started a new week! 

thank you again ♥

if we were to meet for coffee today, i would give you a big hug partly because i need it and partly because everyone needs a hug sometimes :)

if we were to meet for coffee today i would tell you that i worked in the garden for a bit yesterday. it felt sooo good! i replanted a few sticklings and am hoping that we don´t get any new snow!

if we were to meet today, i would tell you that sunday i got a little baby love ♥ 

my friends new daughter is a delight and smelled so good just like i knew she would. and i would totally want to have an adult size of this hanging crib wouldn´t you?! 

oh, ofcourse i got alot of big sister love too :)

if we were to meet for coffee today i would tell you that i am spending my weekend with my sister and her family in gothenburg. we are having a shopping saturday and then before i head back on monday, i will go with my neices and nephew to their school. i love that i can do that! 

if we were to meet for coffee today, we would not step foot in my craft room becasue it is a disaster area at the moment! i can´t keep that place tidy for the life of me!  i am thinking that i need to rearrange the furniture again, because it sure was better before. and my poor husband is so right, i have TO much stuff! 

if we were to meet for coffee today, i would unfortunatly have to keep it short because i am a bit behind on schoolwork, ugh!

have a wonderful day!

virtual coffee ~ tuesday march 29th

welcome to virtual coffee. i am warning you ahead, that this won´t be a happy go lucky one. if you need some picking up, i am afraid i urge you to not read any further :( 

if we were to meet for real today, i would tell you that the latest news about my friend Linda (i have blogged about her before, she is in the last stages of cancer pretty much all over her poor body at this time). i saw her about a week ago and then she was at the hospital draining some fluid from her stomach and was in kinda good spirits. but after being able to go home for a few days she went back to the hospital and got more bad news. since friday she has slept more than she is awake and the only thing that is good about that is that she is not in that much pain right now. she has had so much trouble sleeping for like ever, so it is so comforting that she gets to rest. but i am afraid that this is it, you know. 

if we were to meet for real today, i would tell you that my heart aches so much for her and her family. 

if we were to meet for real today, i would tell you that my heart almost broke in half this sunday when i learned that a friends daughter was killed in a skiing accident. the girl was the same age as my daughter and i almost lost my breath when i heard it. 

if we were to meet for real today, i would tell you that although i go on in my everyday life laughing and doing my job etc, this put a dimmer on life. you know the feeling you can get when you have a cold and have cotton around your brain? well, i have cotton around my heart.

if we were to meet for real today, i would tell you that all these bad news makes me think about life and what it means. what is most important? what can i stop doing since it is really doesn´t matter in the long run? is it ok to be thankful for what i have, when so many other can´t? i know it is, i know. 

thanks for listening. and go hug the ones you love...right now!

ps.  linda passed away this afternoon. good night ♥

virtual coffee tuesday

welcome to this weeks virtual coffee!

first i want to tell you that i am not whispering in this post, the small font is what my blogger is giving me right now and i can´t change it :(

anyhoo, if we were to meet for real today, i would tell you that i am so tired this morning! worked kicked my b*** yesterday and i crashed in bed by 9pm. i did however brighten up when i opened the blinds on my bedroom window and saw the sun :)

if we were to meet for real today, i would tell you that i had a wonderful day saturday. my husband was a way for work, but i took dixon to a friends house drinking coffee eating these lovelies (above) and crafting away! mmm, my kind of good day!

if we were to meet for real today, i would tell you that the tragedy in japan has made me really really think about how incredibly lucky i am to have all that i have! i watched some footage of that giant wave and still couldn´t wrap my brain around that t was actually real, not just a movie, you know?! crazy and scary! oh, and have you seen the flickr collab selling beautiful prints as a donation? (i can´t link either, so i´ll leave you with the whole oldschool link: http://www.erikarayphotography.com/blog/2011/3/13/you-need-something-beautiful-and-you-want-to-feel-good-ive-g.html )

if we were to meet for real today, i would tell you that my neighbours probably are used to me by now, but i guess i can´t blame them for thinking i am a bit loony since i just about bowed in honor to these yesterday! haha! i can´t tell you how incredibly happy it made me sooing the fist real sign of spring right outside the window!

if we were to meet for real today, i would tell you that now that i think about it blogger went wonky when i upgraded to explorer 9 :( i just might switch back!

if we were to meet today, i would show you my salt and pepper shakers, since i promised amy i would one day. aren´t they the cutest! 

virtual coffee ~ video version

welcome to virtual coffee today! i am so happy that you are here. today i am giving you a video version of virual coffee :) the video is about 4 minutes and please excuse my poorly spoken english and that little piece of hair sticking up at the back of my head!

Untitled from Lisa Ottosson on Vimeo.



click the image or here :)

 ps. here is that link to the ali edwards class!

virtual coffee

welcome to this weeks virtual coffee!

if we were to meet for real today, i would naturally begin to tell you that the black little dog jumping up on your leg is Melvin our new family member :)

after some weeks of thinking we might want another dog to keep Dixon company and for us to pour our love on :)

the opportunity to meet Melvin showed itself early saturday morning and by lunch we were on our way to Stockholm to meet him. we all hit it of really well from the first second.

if we were really meeting for coffee today, I would tell you that we fell in love with him right away.

if we were meeting up for real today, I would tell you that we had a wonderful time with my sister and brother-in-law when we stayed the night at their place. they live a few miles from where Melvin lived so we stayed close in case they´d call us and say that they ok´d us taking him home ;)

 and they did!

if we were to meet for real today, I would tell you that I am feeling a bit blue. winter blues I guess. I have been seeing blogposts about it everywhere lately. I am ok, but just don´t have the energy to actually do all the things on my to-do list :(

if we were to meet for real today, I would tell you I love you. we seldom do, right?! I am so happy that you all stop by, leave a comment or two ♥

virtual coffee ~ story edition

welcome to this weeks virtual coffee! i am happy to have you here on my birthday ♥

today i am doing an all photo coffee to celebrate my day! i hope that you´ll enjoy some yummy cake with me today :) 

the scene i woke up too!

a tradition, we don´t get cake in the morning but candles on our sandwiches :)

these are so beautiful they made me cry.

snow on my birthday, just like 32 years ago ♥

(the story overlays are courtesy of cathy zielske)

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virtual coffee ~ love edition

i know that love day was technically yesterday, but i still want todays virtual coffee to be about love. so, if we were to meet for real today i would tell you that i love...

...us. i really do. i love that we are the people that belong together. that we are a family. that we have ups and downs. i love that we have so much fun together.



...the color yellow. i love that it screams for my attention everywhere these days. maybe it is because it is such a cheerful color?!

...the fact that my daughter takes awesome photos! i absolutely adore looking through the memory card when she has borrowed my camera. i love her angles and perspective. i love that we share this love together!

...sally. i love that silly, silly cat! i love that she becomes snugglier every day. i love all her little quirks that makes her well, her.

...photography. i really do. it brings me so much joy and happiness that it is hard to even explain. i love to see photos also. i love having them around me. around the house.

...our little island. i love our spot on earth. even though it is cold. even though we have to wait for the ferry. i love our little island.

...my other peeps. i love that we are loud when we get together. i love that we are many and have as many memories togther. i love that in-laws and exxes are welcome.

also i love:

fruit and water.

crafts and paper.

blogs and internet.

music and quiet.

and many, many more things.

if we were to meet for real today, i would tell you that today, i choose love...