spring has sprung 2023, part III

I had planned to head into the city this past week, to watch the magic cherry blossom trees in bloom in Kungsträdgården again. I haven’t seen them since pre-pandemic 2019. But then little mom got a terrible cold, and then a week later it was alas my turn. Still recovering, hopefully I’ll be reasonably alright again this upcoming week. But sadly I think that most of the city cherry blossoms will be gone by then. Here in the suburbs it has been unseasonably chilly (gratitude!) so they haven’t blossomed yet. So I will at least be able to enjoy some darling pink blossoms 2023.

This year two of my photos were chosen for the municipality’s environmental calendar. The cherry blossoms above for April (the in bloom season last year was quite different from this year obviously) and the lilacs at the church/cemetery for May, below.

Have you watched ’The Diplomat’ on Netflix already? If not you really should, especially if you, like me, loved ’The West Wing’. Great actors, snappy dialogue, setting, multilayered and cleverly woven current story. With that explosive season ending it will be difficult to wait for season two…

Prior to Easter I stopped by my ”new” favourite tea shop in Stockholm. Which happens to be Sweden’s oldest tea/coffee merchant so it isn’t very new, but it was just a very long time since I last visited (2017 I think, and of course right before new year’s last year) and I’m very much smittened bu the whole atmosphere and of course all the colourful, stylish packaging and tins. I bought teas for myself and gifts for a couple of friends. Even made a little not too shabby reel that I still haven’t figured out how to post in blog. Ridiculous I know, but there you are. 

I also used that black (and only) Marimekko dress I bought second hand last autumn, for the first time. As the model is much shorter than my usual dresses I just couldn’t figure out to wear it during winter, as I don’t have any long enough winter coat to cover it up properly.

But here you are, me in a black dress for the first time in 20ish years.

The dress is straight, I would have prefered it a-line, but it looks fairly good anyway I think. The tights are from fabulous Snagtights, 80 denier colour Mustard. Boots, my ol’ trustworthy El Naturalista Iggdrasil. 

And yup, it’ll be such a relief when (and how) we’ll be able to finally clear up the hallway again. Living in post-moving chaos isn’t a lot of fun.

That’s why I feel the need to create some pretty, cozy and relaxing corners here and there, so I don’t feel/see the mess existing side by side all the time.

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For Easter I changed the sofa covers and added new (bought second hand) cushion covers. The green striped fabric is old, but unused that we brought with us from little mum’s extensive stash. The cushion covers are all Marimekko. It brings me joy to find them second hand and then change them during the year. A small collection I want to grow. 

The candle lights are also the Marimekko/Iittala classics Kivi, and this bowl is from the same collaboration called Mariskooli. That one I actually from fellow British Shorthair breeder in Finland, when she was here with her female to mate her with Knut (I think it was). To be honest I wasn’t really s fan of Marimekko back then (20ish years ago), and it wasn’t really my style I felt. But I am so grateful I kept it, and let it collect dust in a kitchen cupboard, because now I love it. And it was such a nice thing to finally bring forth for vegan Easter candy.

And I even painted my nails for Easter. It happens extremely rarely these days. From being a great fan of polish, addicted even, I just find it icky and well, unhealthy really, these days. But my old speckled eggs are nice to use for Easter at least.

I’ve also recently found that it is possibly to find Bath & Body Works online (second hand, so to say, but unused) in Sweden. Considerably more expensive than in the US/Canada stores, but still. When you miss something bad enough… I got a few bottles of hand soaps earlier, loved them, and bought a few more for Easter. (Not that one would use them all up for one Easter, but there will hopefully be more and the prints are adorable.)

I wrote about the 💗❤️💗 Marimekko pillow cover I treated myself to for Valentine’s day, didn’t I? The print reminded me so much of sheets I had as a kid. And when there was a short special price on all beddings I went back and got the matching duvet cover. Isn’t it marvelous?! Such a happy, colourful design.

The leopard print bedset above was the one I got as a birthday gift in 2022, and also as a memory of darling Zigne. It’s Marimekko (duh) and very cute, but also of concideeably poorer quality than other Marimekko beddings. I should have pointed that out to customer service back then, but I was crushed from the loss of Zigne and all the nastiness I went through from the county administrative board at the time (which then turned into the witch hunt madness), so I didn’t bother. I can still let them now about the sub par quality of course. 

The other pillow cover in the photo I won in a second hand auction pre-Easter, it’s lovely and unusual. Different designs in one print. I suppose it’s rare enough to keep in special storage and not use, but really, when I buy something it’s meant to bring joy AND be useful at the same time.

Currently this crisp bedding brings me joy. The birthday gift I gifted myself last year. I needed it. Feeling old, tired, grey and totally exhausted after a hellish 1,5 years, I really did. Finally a Marimekko bedset with the Unikko print. 

Used with an old sheet my grandma embroidered it gives me a nice, wistful and grateful feeling at night.

The Maria Lang book is the last one I got as a kid, for Christmas in the 80ies. And the book that nudged be into focus on collecting all her books during the pandemic. And I managed to get the ones I didn’t already have, all but one second hand, fairly quickly. It was a fun little self-appointed challenge. When this book is finished I have only nine more to go before I have finally read them all, cronologically.

Little pockets of joy are so very important. Especially in the world we are living in now. Wars looming, dire climate emergency, societal structural collapses, financial worries, and people being ruder and weirder than ever imho, then crisp clean sheets, books, plantbased deliciousness, colourful things, nature, cat purrs and alike are essentials for reasonable well-being and sanity. According to me. 

What are your essential little pockets of joy in these truly troublesome times. What are you grateful for? How do you survive?

Be kind, be safe out there.

spring has sprung 2023, part II

 

I attended a great talk with well-renowned vegan activist and author, Tobias Leenaert last month. He has wrote ’How to create a vegan world, a pragmatic approach’ which I highly recommend. It was a very good, insightful and thought-provoking evening. And quotes that akways make me cry in despair. What a horrific world humans have forced upon innocent  beings. And still the majority of humans on this earth don’t give a f—- about that. Us who do care live with that knowledge of that fact every single day, with every breath we take, can you imagine how heart crushing that is? And still it’s not nearly as painful as the pain and suffering  humanity inflict of billions of other animals every single minute, hour, day, week, month, year…

I got the lovely green mug at the event. It reminds me I’m awesome every single day. 

And on the subject of that kind of awesomeness, here are a few of those things that have brought me little pockets of joy these past few months:

Rimbobullar ie Rimbo (a small town in Sweden) buns were a fond childhood memory, but I haven’t baked them for ages. Until now. Vegan baking is so simple these days, with dairy free butter, dito milk and aquafaba. They turned out lovely, but the recipe lured me to add raspberry jam to them, which was a mistake. The original recipe is filling with vanilla cream only. So next time that’s what I’ll bake. Freeze well they do too.

I love how you can create amazing plantbased frozen cheesecakes with silken tofu and whipped dairyfree cream. Melt in your mouth delicious they are. And the Christmassy recipe I posted a few posts ago. The blueberry/pistacchio one here is made with crushed digestives instead of ginger bread cookies, and flavoured with vanilla and cardamom. Other than that the recipe is the same.

I’m a big fan of creating colourful, hearty, filling vegan salads with different textures and flavours. Usually I use organic smoked tofu as protein, because it’s so simple to prepare, like with the salad above. But I like to vary the carbs, noodles, pasta, buckwheat, brown rice, potatoes. Here I used organic lettuce, grated carrots (always carrots, always), boiled potatoes, air fryed polka beets and sunflower seeds. Served with a simple sauce made with dairy free creme fraiche, tomato relish, salt and black pepper.

Below is the last batch of vegan cinnamon buns. I topped these with little leftovers of dark chocolate, pistacchios and pearl sugar. They were delicious, and there are still some left in the freezer. Imagine that.

I ordered a tofu press months ago, late December or early January, luckily I did not pay in advance, because somewhere along the way it just disappeared in the mail. After a month of waiting and no updates I contacted the company (in the Netherlands or Belgium) and they acknowledged the order had disappeared along the way, but they would send a new one and update me as soon as they had news. Nothing happened and after another month I contacted them again. The reply wasn’t very customer friendly and I decided to opt out of the order altogether. I would absolutely love to get a tofu press, but this was a hassle so I would prefer to get on in an actual physical shop. Which seems to be ridiculously hard to find in Stockholm. The Asian shops I’ve been to so far have no idea what I’m talking about. Which is so bizarre imho.

Haven’t thought of an air fryer until I saw tofu being prepared with one on Instagram last year. I’m no fan of having lots of kitchen machines, most of them end up collecting dust is my experience, but I decided to take a leap here when the price was decent. I’ve been using it most weeks ever since and I find it pretty good and versatile. Just as long as you don’t put ’too much’ potatoes at once in the fryer bowl it makes nice fries/wedges too.

So using the air fryer for tofu is also a way of pressing water from it and at the same time cooking it. For pan frying the regular frying pan is still the way to go, obviously, but other than that I think the air fryer is both energy and time saving. 

Two of my favourite go to dishes these days, apart from those hearty salads, are versions of full English vegan breakfast for dinner, and fluffy American  pancakes made with silken tofu (those are even better than the banana pancakes I loved for so many years now). 

Ever since I discovered how easy and delicious it is to make scrambled tofu, I make it regularly. With black salt and turmeric added of course. Perfection. 

There’s a fairly new (a couple of years old?) vegan restaurant in the city, called Chou Chou. Owned by a vegan food blogger and investors. They have a lunch buffet that is great, where I’ve had the pleasure to visited with a friend a few times since December last year. Have never eaten dinner there, they now serve cultured steaks too which is suppose to taste amazing. Obviously as a vegan I’m not the least bit interested in tasting it myself but I can see it’s a practical and cruelty free way to convince those who are not yet free of their meat addiction, that there are better and more sustainable ways to eat.

The interesting thing about Chou Chou is that they don’t make a big deal about the restaurant being vegan, the food is just very good, versatile and the dishes are classics just free of animal parts. Simple as that. The location is very city central and I don’t think the majority of guests are vegan/activists, more business people who like a good and hearty lunch deal.

The vegan cream pastry seen in the photo is something as original as a saffron croissant semla. Ie almond paste and whipped dairy free cream filling. It was very good. Bought it at the twice annual Vegan Day at my favourite cafe/bakery Bageri Passion. Went there for breakfast with little mum in February (next Vegan Day will be in September), and the queue was already lining up prior to opening up at 8 am. It was very heartwarming to see. And the patience from everyone with people taking their time chosing pastries, cakes, sandwiches and cookies all starry eyed over the fact that on this special Saturday everything sold in the cafe is vegan only. It’s just such a lovely lovely tradition. 

One thing that I’ve really longed to bake again is all vegan bagels. And with my kitchen machine I finally can. Made this first batch last month and for a first time bake - after a many years long hiatus - they turned out great. As it happened, right about after I baked these the Philadelphia vegan cream cheese was launched in Sweden. It’s pretty much indistinguishable from Oatly’s På Mackan cream cheese, but I think us vegan Swedes have dreamt of Philadelphia cream cheese going dairyfree for so long now we have painted it to be something just extraordinary cream cheesy. And while very good, extraordinary good it is not. I have finished several tubs on my breakfast sandwiches, since I saw it in the grocery store though. Because mmm…

With the shoe sales several months ago now, but at least this side of new year’s, I treated myself to two pairs of very different vegan shoes. A few of my old leather shoes have begun to show signs of being worn out, so I felt it wasn’t just a case of having the wants.

The pink pair is in fact a pair of much coveted Rombaut sneakers/mary janes. They are not only vegan but also made of apple skin. How brillant and interesting is that?!

They are quite chunky (which I love, but it isn’t everyone’s cup of tea I know) and heavy. And they do need quite a bit of softening up by walking them indoors. Which is more work than I had ever anticipated, but since I have become proned to blisters and hate how persistant they are to stay once I get them, this needs doing and patient I have to be obviously. Job best done with thick socks I’ve realised. Bare feet is a no no.

The other pair is a lovely blue micro suede sneakers/oxfords from Spanish ART shoes (sister brand to beloved El Naturalista). Those I’ve weather proofed and worn once. They felt like a decent, comfortable pair.

Perfect to wear with a pair of blue tights from my favourite tights-brand Snagtights. Colour is called Midnight, but the hue is more bright blue no clouds in the skye-blue.

You know what, I had plans of doing something fairly radical with my hair this spring and getting it coloured in violet. At a hairdresser. Turned out to be quite costly, and there are better ways in this world to spend money, so once again I turned pink with Maria Nila’s vegan hair colour masque Pink Pop. It obviously only lasts about 5-8 washes but it’s a nice way to make a wee change now and then, while continuing to embrace the greys. 

So here I am, here we are, and this is the end of blog post II in spring has sprung 2023. Stay tuned for part III coming in a not too far future.

Until then, stay safe, be kind, be compassionate out there, m’kay?

spring has sprung 2023, part I

 

Almost two months later I emerge, alas not a new and improved me, myself and I. But I am good enough as I am, and some days even awesome and brilliant. And one day, one week, one month at a time I try to be better than I was yesterday, last week, last month, last year. And make more of a difference and impact. Every little step counts.

And yes I’m still furious and in despair about our mindbogglingly incompetent Swedish government. And all the damage they cause our society and the world each week with their stupidity and shameful behaviour. And how much money that cost us all. 

But I also see that this is the case in the overwhelming majority in countries all over this planet. Most of societies seem to display permanent (covid) brain damages through their (in)actions and that is just scary as hell.

In order to find some peace of mind, and get back on track, create some momentum, I took an online course called ’Brilliant, Passionate You’ which I passed during Easter. As it was created during the pandemic it felt somewhat… well, not as well-composed and inspiring as I had hoped. Still, it had its moments and some lectures were very good and insightful and I did learn new things and interesting concepts. It’s obviously more a soft skills course rather than hard skills. 

But as my mind has still not regained its pre-pandemic vigour, and the strains and stress of last years kafkaesque real life drama also has taken its toll of both mind and body, this was a perfect level and kind of course for me at this moment in time.

So other than that, what has happened so far this year in the World According to Pia? Well, I try to focus on the good stuff, and create as many little pockets of joy as possible. More important than ever these days, in this crazy crazy crazier than ever world, to be able to keep on keeping on.

I’ve made a little photo album on my phone consisting of about 60 photos. From that I’ll chose a few random ones for a few posts to come, and talk about various little happenings that (mostly) have brought me joy or new insights.

Let’s start with the top photo, and the one above, in which I’m sporting my Dress 2023 - as much as I’m really cutting down on my shopping of new clothes, I’m still sticking to my Dress of the year concept (I’m still continuing to sell of pieces in my wardrobe I do not wear anymore, that don’t fit or just aren’t in line with where I am today, so it’s not as if I’m buying more new stuff to replace old stuff. I still buy less than I sell or give away). Dresses make me happy, as does colours.

This year I was totally smittened by the Marimekko shirt dress version of their classic Jokapoika (every boy) unisex shirt. Every piece of the multicoloured fabric is used up, so no fabric waste, and every dress is unique that way. It’s a lovely piece, I really enjoy the wide butterflyish arms and the fact that my dress has plenty of pink and green passages (my favourite colours and colour combo). If would however been even more perfect if it was a-shaped, knee length, did not have that fairly dominant black/blue striped passage in the front, that the belt did have D-strings just like on the model and that my belt was green not pale pink. Well, one can still wish for perfection, right?

The lovely piece of the Marimekko birch pattern (same as the bed linen in my new year’s post) is another second hand find. A shower curtain I’ve had my eye on for years now, but always been outbid on. Until this time. And it is just as amazing as it seems, a perfect piece to switch to when spring sprung!

Spring has been more winter than spring this year, and the climate emergency is ever present obviously. Because even if April in Sweden/Scandinavia is notoriously capricious and there have been snow in May on these latitudes now and then, this year has been truly crazy, from snow storms like this one day, to heavy rain the next, temperatures ranging from -15C to +10 only a few days later. This should not be happening, and it is deeply disturbing as well as energy draining too.

Last week we suddenly had sunshine every day, with temperatures close to +20C. Which is too soon in April, and it makes me dread this will be another hellish summer like 2018. The next week’s forecast shows plenty of rain and cloudy skies though.

Also living with your geriatric much loved little mum, with declining health issues, is not as easy as one might think. Or quite possibly noone else but me thought it would be just a great, money-saving, cosy, uplifting offering both freedom and security to us both solution, I may have been naïve.

Living this close with somebody again, a person I once lived with for 20 years, is quite different when that person is aging, have developed very poor eyesight, and hearing issues (yes she has a hearing aid, but she finds it very uncomfortable so…), and an aching body from a long active life, as well as a brain that isn’t as quick witted as I’ve always felt it was. As well as new heart issues appearing recently. 

Experiencing this decline and struggles daily is not the same as talking on the phone daily, visiting regularly, meeting up outdoors etc. I swore my role wasn’t going to be an unpaid home aid, but somehow I feel that’s how things have developed. 

And yes, I do believe I owe her everything good after all she has done for me over the years when I have struggled, and not least for everything I went through after M passed away in 2016. We have had so much fun together since forever, and I do concider her my closest friend too, how could I not?

Ideally every citizen in Sweden should get state benefits for helping elderly or sick family members, but that is up to the local government, and our municipality has just removed that possibility, so here we are.

Senior living is definitely not an option, and I think we’re still much in the process of creating new routines and adjust to how things are, but yes, I feel that life, my life, wants, plans, growth, needs are somewhat on hold by this situation too. 

The house needs repairs and fixing, not least that new roofing, which wouldn’t have been an issue if the housing market prices hadn’t dropped drastically last year and there had been a decent, proper profit from the apartment sale. That was not the case. 

Live and learn, live and learn.

And I am well aware about everything I have to be grateful for. Deeply so. I won a court case against an evil authority, after their relentless witch hunt for 1,5 years, for Xs sake! I got my beloved kitties back and that completely  unjust animal ban lifted! 

Little mum and I managed our way through the stress and hard work (emotionally and physically) of selling and emptying  the apartment and moving a whole life into my house, which is now our house. How totally badass is that?! 

We survived a pandemic, and the isolation and small world that created.

It has been a long, dark, cold winter, indoors and outdoors, we bundled up, managed to save some energy, as well as paid those crazy energy bills. And handled the rising food costs. That’s pretty darn badass too!

I am still standing, we are still standing. And that is just enough for now. It has to be. One step at the time. In these crazy times.

And spring, decent spring, does look more like it should every day (and I try to not let the fact that the garden do needs a pretty hefty amount of work after that ornament tree broke with the heavy snow fall before Christmas…).

And I’ve given myself a lovely, fluffy yarn project. Which has so far both ignited, delighted and infuriated me. Here’s a sample glimpse for now, more in the next chapter of spring has sprung.

Be safe, be kind, be awesome out there.

trophy hunting lynx in sweden 2023, true story

 

Hello March, hello blogosphere, I wish I could write something positive, upbeat and inspirational today. But there is no way to get past the fact that today marks the day when hunters (absolutely vile humans all of them of course) are let loose to trophy hunt 201 redlisted, endangered lynxes in Sweden. 

No matter how many signatures on lists, no matter how many critical (to say the least) voices raised, we have a government of complete nincompoops in Sweden now, the hunting lobby continues to be strong and infiltrating all levels in our society and the same public authority, the County Administrative Board (Länsstyrelsen), that subjected me to a witch hunt for 1,5 years until I finally won in the court of appeal - but all that time, energy, money, will to live, lost during that time I will never get back - has signed off on this crazy, infuriating, soul crushing killing spree. 

As if the recent needless bloody wolf hunt in Sweden wasn’t enough of a disgrace. Now this. I seriously doubt it’s even legal.

I’m so deeply deeply deeply ashamed of Sweden. And these past six months since half of the Swedish voters decided it was really smart to vote for a racist right wing government, where the incompetence is mindboggling, things in general have spiralled downwards at a crazy never before seen speed, in Sweden. 

Of course a lot of the serious issues we’re experiencing now as a society have been allowed to fester for decades, and it’s a multi-layered puzzle of public institutions and politicians (all over the political spectra) not having done their jobs properly. 

And here we are in 2023. 

Gang shootings, predominantly in the Stockholm area (yes even in my, what I thought was a, peaceful rutal suburb) the threat (to us all) from a hateful miniscule madman in the East, a NATO mess (where non-democracies get a much larger voice than they should), the focus on producing weapons (this is so very distressing and dispiriting) while completely ignoring the climate emergency and biodiversity crisis.

As if 2022 wasn’t bad enough? And the pandemic, the isolation, how it affected us all, our brains, our mental and physical health. How can anyone feel happy, heathy and hopeful these days?

Of course I have my pockets of joy and moments of gratitude to help me through another day, week, month, but jeez it’s looking particularly rough and bleak now, life, doesn’t it?

How about you, how does life treat you these days? Do you live a life that feels meaningful and filled with purpose? Are you still hopeful humanity will change, come together, take responsability, create the greener, kinder, different, healthier, happier world we so desperately need to survive?

I would certainly love to hear your suggestions on how to feel that, to do that!

Until then, RIP to all the lynxes that will loose their lives to senseless, barbaric, bloody hunters. To all the innocent redlisted families that will be destroyed by this. And to even more biodiversity lost forever.

I’m sorry 2023, you have not impressed so far, not at all. M’kay?

vegan cheesecake with Swedish ginger bread cookies and orange (recipe)

 

It may be kind of Christmassy in flavour, but this delicious plantbased, dairyfree cheesecake really works anytime. If you can get ginger bread cookies/snaps in your grocery store of course. 

Nb the Swedish kind of gingerbread cookies are the thin, flat, dark brown Christmas spiced ones. You can probably buy them at Ikea or a speciality shop if you don’t live in Sweden or any of the other Nordic countries, I’d imagine.

The recipe is so versatile so you can make your own flavour combo and switch the crushed gingerbread cookies for classic digestive biscuits of course. Here we go:

VEGAN GINGERBREAD COOKIES CHEESECAKE

400 g silky soft tofu (I use Yipin’s of course)

200 g gingerbread cookies/snaps

100 g dairyfree butter

1 pinch of salt

200 g dairyfree cream cheese

1 dl sugar

1 tbsp lemon juice

2 teaspoons of vanilla sugar or 1 pinch of vanilla powder

1 tsp ground cardamom

finely grated orange peel from 1 organic orange

2 ½ dl dairyfree whipping cream (I use Oatly Whipping cream)

Topping:

crushed gingerbread cookies/snaps

50 g vegan chocolate (with orange)

Crush the gingerbread cookies and then melt the butter in a saucepan over low heat. Mix together and spread evenly in a springform pan (about 24 cm in diameter).

 Put in the freezer until cold.

In a food processor or blender, mix silken tofu, cream cheese, sugar, lemon juice, vanilla powder, cardamom and finally grated orange peel to a smooth and fluffy batter.

Whip the cream in a separate bowl. Mix the tofu mixture into the whipped cream and then pour it over the gingerbread base.

Leave your gingerbread cookies cheesecake in the freezer for about 4 hours or overnight.

Take it out of the freezer and let it thaw for about 20 minutes or until it has softened slightly. Top your gingerbread cookies cheesecake with chopped orange chocolate and crushed pieces of gingerbread cookies/snaps. Enjoy!

I couldn’t find any vegan chocolate with orange in my grocery store, so I used simple dark dairyfree chocolate and it was really good. The cheesecake still has plenty of fantastic orange flavour.

(Original recipe in Swedish at Yipin tofu’s website - https://yipin.se/recept/pepparkakscheesecake/ They have many other fantastic tofu recipes that are easy to translate.)

I hope you’re enjoying Veganuary 2023, whether you’re living like me with everyday being veganuary or you’ve realised it’s finally time to step up you’re game and be the change for the future of the planet. Animals do not in any way or form belong on the plate. Period.

farewell 2022, welcome 2023!

 

Something old, something new, something second hand, something blue.

Leaving a (particularly rough) year behind and welcoming a new one with an open heart and mind, for joyous possibilities and sprinkles of magic, obviously calls for one of my favourite things - new crisp, clean sheets!

Today I got the best of help tackling that very impawtant task. At least according to Ztina aka the queen of fxxxing everything and the best snoopervisor ever (also according to her).

Chosing a matching pillow cover for the second pillow I’m surprised how much I enjoy the combination of charcoal-off white Unikko flowers in combination with the lovely Marimekko landscape motif most. New year, new beginnings… 

And the insight that subdued colours colours sometimes make the best companions.

And my official longstanding no-cats-in-the-bedroom-rule is a bit so-so these days. 

I am so very grateful that this awful, gruesome, draining year of 2022 is finally over. There have been #littlepocketsofjoy too but all and all it has personally been my most taxing year ever. With a whole bunch of lessons learnt. Though lessons I would much rather have never learnt. But I do hope they have made me wiser and more insightful.

And on a larger scale, the situation in the world is just horrific of course. So much evil and ignorance. Things  m u s t  improve now. And people need to stop being so mindbogglingly selfish, please grow up, understand that #everythingisconnected take responsability for your choices and adjust to what the planet needs us to do. 

Be compassionate, love more, much more. 

And make room for magic.❤️

I am so ready to welcome 2023 and its new beginnings, positive, purposeful change and joyous possibilities. 

Please be kind, 2023 - 

happy new year, planet citizens!!!

merry everything and happy always 2022 ~

 

I hope your holidays are lovely, kind and plantbased. 

Wishing you a merry everything and a happy always (or rather as often so you still appreciate and cherish those happy times without complacency or taking it for granted).

I made this lovely vegan dessert - frozen dairyfree cheesecake with silken tofu, orange, ginger snaps and dark chocolate. I know I’ve said it a gazillion times, will share later, but this I definitely will. Promise.

This little blue-eyed light of mine turned 11 years old a couple of weeks ago, I miss her sister so much, the Prosit sister duo is no more, but I’m so grateful I still have Ztina in my life. ❤️

And little sister Ågot of course. 💙

Let there be light, be the light and share it. Happy Christmas or whatever way you chose to celebrate the winter holidays!