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It’s Friday!

It’s Friday again and such a dull, grey and wet day in Stockholm! Boo. Indoor activities with an 18-month old are a challenge, especially after a couple of days of bad weather. For those of you with slightly older kids, I’ve come across some great crafts and activities this week – check them out:

I love these DIY Felt Crowns by Hank & Hunt featured on Hellobee this week!

And I can’t not share these lovely teacher gifts by Armelle Blog, also featured on Hellobee this week!

I love me a party kit and these ones by Nice Party are so sweet! Via A Beautiful Living.

Melt beads are a classic play thing/craft activity for Swedish kids but this is a new way to use them – by melting them down they make really great flat beads for bracelets and other play jewelry. Cute! By Craft & Creativity. You can buy melt beads and platters at IKEA.

Butterfly suncatcher

These Butterfly Sun Catchers are a great project for older kids!

Great DIY photo booth idea for a kids party!

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  • This morning's highlight: watching the horses get new shoes. #countrylife
  • Lisa. Morfar. Minnie.
  • My dad is pretty chill, but a yearly summer outing to the locks at Göta Kanal (aka the "divorce ditch") is non-negotiable. Here he is with my niece Hermine, watching the action. We were on the other side eating ice cream and feeling pretty happy not to be on one of boats ourselves (because: lots of stress and instructions being besked back and forth).
  • Came back from my walk to find my dad reading to Alec & Nonie while Sumit and Louis played on the lawn. Summer days.
  • This little red cottage holds so many dear memories for me. If I close my eyes I can remember exactly how the staircase creaks and how our little bedroom under the slanted ceiling smelled and how the breeze came through our little window and the sound of the swallows nesting in the roof. The golden light in the evening and the feel of the concrete front steps under my bare feet. Everything.
  • No strawberry left un-touched.
  • Louis and his little cousin Minnie in the lovely sandbox my Dad built the summer my parents moved back to Sweden from Canada when Louis was still just a baby. Now there are four little grandkids to play in it!
  • Summer walks, currant-picking and horses swishing their tails.
  • Sumit & Léonie. Bringing up the rear through the orchard as we moved sheep from one paddock to another.
  • Cousins.