I love England, I consider it to be my second home on this planet! Feel in love with the country when I moved there in my teens and the love affair have continued ever since. I’ll lived on and off in the UK for most of my adult life and I’ve come to love the people, the humour, the little villages and country pubs, the beautiful countryside and ‘the big smoke’ London of course!

Because of all this loveliness I thought I’d treat you to some super simple and very English traditional treats, the gorgeous spread of Lemon Curd and the classic Scone but with a twist!

I’ll start with the Lemon Curd, this is so easy to make and all natural ingredients. This is what you need for a smallish jar!

Lemon Curd

2 eggs
5 tbs of sugar
4 tbs of fresh lemon juice
couple of pinches of lemon zest
50 g of butter (cold butter in small cubes)

Add the sugar, eggs, lemon juice and lemon zest in a pot. Whisk the mix on low heat until it thickens, once thicken, add the butter cubes while stirring the mix. Let the curd cool off! While the curd cools off you can start making these delicious scones. I’m telling you, this curd and the scones make a beautiful marriage!

Coconut & Lemon Scones (makes 8 delicious bites!)

4,5 dl flour
3 tbsp brown sugar
1 tbsp baking powder
3/4 tsp salt
6 tbsp butter (cold butter in small cubes)
4 tbsp coconut
2 tsp grated lemon zest
3 tbsp yogurt (plus you can brush tops of scones if you like)
2 eggs, lightly beaten

Crank the oven up to 200*C. Add and mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a bowl. Once mixed, add butter, coconut flakes and the lemon zest to the mix. In a small bowl mix together eggs and yogurt and then add it to the dry ingredients. Mix it up just a little bit, until all the ingredients come together nicely. Place the dough on a floured surface and knead just a little bit (only few times).

Flat the dough so it’s about 3 cm thick and cut it like on a picture. Transfer it on a baking paper and bake for around 20-22 minutes. Serve with the Lemon curd, or go all in with full tradition and serve with jam and cream!

Enjoy folks!

Ladies and Gents, let me introduce you to Frida Berglund! This little gem will write for us about all the finer things in life. We hope that you will like her as much as we do! Take it away Frida…

My name is Frida. I’m from Sweden. Working and living my life in beautiful Copenhagen. I love warm summer evenings, fashion, music and my morning coffee.

I will write about everything that inspires me in my everyday life.

See you all soon!

Frida

Monday morning…a new week is upon us (how exciting ay!) but you see mondays I like to take it a bit easy…no rushing, I’m sure the week can wait just a little bit. A nice long breakfast, all so I can hang on to that weekend feeling…and I have certainly have just the right soundtrack for that…The Milk Carton Kids!

Foto: The Milk Carton Kids

This beautiful duo from Eagle Rock, California (where else!?) formed in 2011 and play some really gorgeous contemporary folk! The indie folk duo consisting of singers and guitarists Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan, and they’ve been compared with greats like Simon & Garfunkel and The Everly Brothers…not bad ay!

The Milk Carton Kids have released three albums Retrospect , Prologue (their first studio album) and The Ash & Clay (2013). I really like these guys, there is something about this music that makes me feel really good! The music makes me want to live of the land, grow my own vegetables, bake peach pies and make marmelades and compotes!

This could of course explain why I’m listening to The Milk Carton Kids when I use public transport…all of a sudden it’s not to bad being squeezed together with a million other people in a baking hot tram car, you can tell yourself that the armpit you are being forced to sniff is a bit of the countryside, win-win situation!

…Anyways, where ever you are, I believe you need to take a listen to this because it is pretty darn good (darn good? Im sure that say that in the States, right?)

Enjoy!

Attention beach babes: summer is coming!

Have you gotten all your essentials together to make your day beachlicious? If not have a look at these lovely items from independent sellers on Etsy!

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My headphones are a very important accessory. They go wherever I go. I have different ones too.. The ones that came with my phone are like my everyday-on-the-tube-headset-headphones. I kinda find them pretty boring and not so great for music listening really. When listening to music I prefer my Marshall ones.. that I love to bits. But anyway, I thought I’d make my iphone ones a bit more exciting by perler beads!

I’m sure you’ve seen other peoples beaded headphones. I’ve been seeing them around for a while. And everytime I’ve seen someone with beaded headphones I wondered how they make them. When I found out how to, I also found out that it wasn’t really that great of a mystery… (Thanks Astrid & Anna!) So I went out and bought some beads and started to bead!

Below you can see the result and also a quick guide how to do it yourself!

I went for green and black pearls since these are two of my favorite colors and goes well together. I wanted to try glow-in-the-dark beads but couldn’t find them in the shop. I think that would be really cool though!

Start out with making a single cut through a bead and then just push it onto the cable! This is pretty much it. Now you have something to do for the next hour or so..!

It really speeds up the process if you let the bead stay on the scissors while pushing it onto the headphone cable. Try it!

And here is my result! I am really pleased with it. Now it is your turn! Go go go!

I came across this brilliant website IkeaHackers.net the other day and I feel the need to share this with all you lovely people. IkeaHackers is a site about modifications on and repurposing of Ikea products. Hacks, as they call it, may be as simple as adding an embellishment, some others may require you to bring out the heavy atrillery of power tools. All in all, it’s very clever indeed!

Just take a look at this one ARTAV by ATELIER 4/5

After a stressful day at IKEA (that could be compared to hell), you believe you bought a boring chest draw BUT when you get home and that boring flat pack monster in front of you is staring you down, take a deep breath and relax…. you’ve actually bought a kool bookcase and shelf!

The Belgian design firm atelier 4|5 have turned the bland and boring Tarva chest draw into Artav, Hurray! Truly clever and inspirational! You can download your own alternative manual for free here…

No matter what you guys thought about the first Hobbit movie… You will totally be up for the next right? You just gotta see it.. and this one’s even got a dragon in it!!! You get a sneak-peak at the very end…. watch the trailer now – go go go!

Was that an earthquake? That, my lad, was a dragon.

I don’t know about you guys but I think that since the band Tame Impala there has been a lot of other psychedelic bands popping up here and there.

Like Temples.

The lineup: James Bagshaw (vocals, guitar), Thomas Warmsley (bass, backing vocals), Sam Toms (drums), Adam Smith (keyboards).
From: Kettering UK.

I stumbled across them the other day and I like it. Sure, it is nothing like you’ve never heard before and you can’t help but get reminded of the Byrds while listening to their tunes. Although apparently Temples call their music for “neo-psych”, and not just psych. Which I don’t know really means anything.. But anyway!

The sound is like I said very psychedelic and oozes of the 60′s. The kaleidoscopic effect you can hear on Shelter Song is achieved by used vintage equipment. Gives the song a nice feeling to it. Jack White surely isn’t the only one having a love for old vintage equipment anymore.. Everyone is doing it!

Their latest single ‘Colours To Life’ is released on 24 June and the band play a number of dates throughout the summer. (UK only)

June
19 – Birmingham, Hare & Hounds
20 – London, Boston Arms
21 – Manchester, Deaf Institute

July
6 – London, Hyde Park (with Rolling Stones)
7 – Clitheroe, Beat Herder Festival
21 – Southwold, Latitude Festival
26 – Huntingdon, Secret Garden Party
27 – Stockton Stockton Weekender

August
17 – Skipton, Beacons Festival
23/25 – Reading/Leeds Festival

September
13 – Portmeirion, Festival No.6

Another band that comes into mind while listening to Temples is of coarse the Beatles! So now you know where to file Temples next to. Yep, that’s right. Together with all your other favorite bands from the early 60′s.

So why not head out to the nearest strawberry field, bring your headphones and listen to some Temples!

Question to ponder upon; Is Marc Bolan still alive?

After the great success with this recepie of swedish cinnamon rolls aka Kanelbullar I thought I would give you guys the recipe of another very appreciated swedish “tradition”, the kladdkaka, a yummie “sticky” chocolate cake.

It’s a cake that can be made in many variations and everyone have their “family recipe”. I’m gonna give you mine.

This is how you do:

- Preheat the oven to 175 ° C.

- Melt the butter in a saucepan.

- Mix sugar, vanilla sugar, cocoa powder, eggs, and salt in a bowl.

- Add the melted butter and add the flour and the chocolate drops last.

- Pour the batter into the baking tin. You’ll need one of these.

- Bake in the oven for about 15/20 minutes.

- Let the cake to cool and sprinkle some powdered sugar to make it pretty.

- Serve as it is or with some icecream or wipped cream! Yum!

I am such a fan of the grumpy cat and now he strikes again! This time as the characters from the justice leauge! You just gotta love him!
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