A Week in My Life - Early Autumn in Northern Sweden

We are in the middle of September now, and after a summer with almost endless daylight, the dark hours are growing longer with every passing day. And there is something about this time that brings me such a deep sense of calm. I feel like the darkness seems to open up a little bit more space inside of me, like something in my soul can finally stretch out after the intensity of summer and the light. I think that is one of the things I love most about this time of the year. And then, when the sky becomes completely dark again, the stars return with full force. After not seeing the stars for so many months, it almost feels unreal to look up and see the night sky like this again, and it brings me so much happiness. The mornings are getting colder, and the air feels different, and the light has become softer now, spreading this beautiful golden glow over the forest and the fields. I love this time of the year so much. And there is something about autumn that always makes me want to come closer to home, to light candles in the evenings, make warm food, and just follow the slower rhythm that nature seems to moving into. And I think I need that more than ever this year. So in this video, I wanted to simply bring you along for a week in my life here in September. A week with a little bit of everything, just glimpses of my ordinary life. But somehow, those ordinary little moments are the ones I find myself appreciating the most right now. So, welcome to a week in my life in September, here in the north. You are such a thief. She steals everything she can. I believe the carrots are super small. Well, pretty good, isn't it? Not stealing. No stealing. This one maybe is big. I'm glad you're helping out in the garden, Lumi. Doing a good job. Now the vegetable soup is, how do you say, cooking. And it's gonna cook for a long time, so I think we're gonna head out in the forest, pick some blueberries for breakfast tomorrow. She's so sweet. She's so sweet when she's this calm. She's been a wild one the whole day. You got a lot of sweet comments in the previous video, Lumi. Look at all these colors everywhere. God, you're so dirty. This will do. Now we have berries for breakfast tomorrow. Hello, lovelies. Welcome back to another little video with me. It's Monday evening, and me and Lumi are out in the forest as usual. It has really become a daily habit now that we go out in the forest at least once a day to pick berries. Usually I just pick by hand like this, so I have for breakfast. It's almost addictive being out in the forest like this and pick berries. It's like I crave it now because it's so quiet. And it's something about picking berries that occupies your brain in a good way. It's like driving a car. For those who have a driving license, maybe some of you can relate that it's a certain feeling that comes when you drive the car, like it's almost meditative. Of course, it depends on where you drive, not when it's a lot of traffic and everything. But if you drive on a road, it's like you concentrate on something, but you still can relax. It's hard to describe, but picking berries is like that for me. It just becomes quiet in my head in a way. Oh my gosh, the mosquitoes were crazy tonight. I'm gonna go home now and look after the cooking, the vegetable soup or what to say. I just thought I'm gonna do a little bit of a weekend vlog this time. I'm just gonna film a little bit during every day of this week, some glimpses here and there. So you will just follow along during a week in my life. Let's go home. Take a shower and go to bed. I'm just gonna cut my hair a little bit. The ends are killing me, so I'm just gonna cut a little bit. I hope I don't have any hairdressers watching my videos now. Maybe I should just cut this a little bit. Whoops. Already feels fresher on the side. The big question is, how does it look from behind though? Is it even? Should I cut? Yes. Yes, I should. There we go. Cut a little bit. Oops. A little bit there as well. I think I'm happy with this, actually. I'm not gonna cut more now because I don't know what it is, but it's like I just wanna cut more and more. It's like this... Yeah, girls, you know what I mean. Should I cut a bang? Now we can go to sleep. Good night. Thank you for another day in my life, Lumi. I love you, and thanks to all of you as well for being here and watching. We soon need to cut you as well, because you start to get more hair in front of your eyes again, but we do that another day. Good night. Good morning, girls. Oh, Lumi, was there a little accident inside? Uh-oh. Good morning, everyone. It's Tuesday, it's rainy, and I am super tired today, but we are heading off to Sollefteå to get some work done in the workshop. I have a fun project that I want to start working on that I've been thinking about for so long. I would like to build a little photoshoot studio upstairs. Just a little one. As you maybe know, I always go to the mountains, to the rivers, to take photos of our jewelry collections each year, and I absolutely love that, and nothing can compete with the light and everything. It just makes it so beautiful. I love to do that, but now and then I would need to take some extra photos, or maybe if we have a new design that comes like in the middle of the winter, it also feels a very long time to wait until going to the mountains in the summer to take photos of it. So I just want to make a little table with some nice rocks and make the background really nice, and I would also like to have a little place where, you know, I can take photos of myself while I'm wearing the jewelry, because I always do that. I always take photos when, like, the bracelets are on the arm, etc. And I often do that outside, but usually it's very cold, and you know, I would like to have a nice curtain or something in the background, so it's always there. Just a tiny little corner where I can have this little photo studio. So I'm gonna start investigating in that today. You are so excited! She loves to go to Zalefto. She absolutely loves to go there. When we get close to the town, and she starts to see where we are, she gets so happy and excited, because she everyone at the work. Everyone gets so happy to see her, and she's so over the moon happy to see everyone. Yeah, you're a sweetheart! T-Rex mode! As usual, I have my coffee here, and I have one hour to drive, and I think it's gonna be really cozy just to listen to some podcasts and drink some coffee and wake up. I'll see you in Zalefto. Cheers, everyone! We're getting closer to the work now. Now we're in Zalefto. We also took a little break and took a walk in the park, so she won't stay calm for a bit. Do you love going to work? I know, I know you do. Hello! Meeting. Wow, so nice! Hello, bro! Hello! After work with some running in Zalefto, we're gonna run here. It's like a big... In the rain. In the rain again. We have been talking about this for several months now. Now we're gonna start taking care of our health. Yes, all right! Good! Good, let's do it! One kilometer! Amazing! We can do more. Yes, four more. We survived. We survived. We ended up... I had a, how do you say, blood... low blood sugar, and I'm shaking right now. Good job. Good job. We did it. It was nice. It was really nice. I feel totally... Good 5k. Yes. I just arrived home, and I got so tired and a little bit cold. It's been a long day, but it's been a fun day. And the sky is so beautiful now. Good morning, everyone! It's a rainy Wednesday morning, and we are about to go into Zalefto again today, because I really want to continue with the photo studio. Today I hopefully will be done with the base of this table, the photo table. And I also have a lot of, how do you say, I have to look for receipts at the time of the month. For all of you who have their own business, you know what that means. I'm very bad keeping track of my receipts, but I'm gonna spend some time doing that. Lumi, what are you doing? See you in Zalefto. Lovisa have poop bags that smells good, of course. Perfumed poop. Hey, Lumi. You ready to go home? Yeah? You've been doing good today. It's 10 minutes past five in the afternoon, and we are going back home. It's been a good day. I'm so glad I was done with the table. Warming up the leftovers of the vegetable soup I did. Some tea, a book, and some chocolate. And Lumi, she's over there making a little bowl. Good girls. I almost only see you when you come inside and eat. You're out hunting all the time. I don't want to scare you. Right? Good morning, everyone. So I met my great uncle Tage on the way to the forest, and he's working on the wood for the winter. He is 86 years old, and I am so impressed by him. It's not easy living out here, especially not in the winters, and all the work that you have to do and everything you have to take care of. He's a warrior, my great uncle. So he's my great uncle. That means that he's my mom's uncle. So he's my grandmother's brother. And ever since I moved here to this village in 2010, he has been living here, and I am so grateful that he lives here in this village, that he hasn't moved away. When you reach a certain age, maybe things get really tough, and maybe it's hard to keep living in a place like this. But he's staying, and I'm so grateful to that. It wouldn't be the same place without him here. She has a pine cone she carries around. She loves pine cones. She'd rather play with the pine cones than with the balls or with the animals, or the, how do you say, the toys. So I'm gonna go to a beautiful place in the forest. A place where Lumi has never been, and it's one of my favorite places. And I'm just gonna have a chill morning there. Oh, the light! It's so incredibly beautiful. Down here is a place that I call the Magiska Skogskärnan, which means like the magical forest pond. I have loved this place ever since I moved here. And this is the first time I bring Lumi here. She reminds me so much of Nalok now. He was always running around here. What an absolutely wonderful way to start this day. I feel like my soul is recharged just by being in the forest like this, and since we have had so few days of sun. Like a day like this when the sky is blue and the sun is shining, it's so rare. It's so wonderful. Yeah, I can't find the words. Now I'm gonna head back home. I have some stuff that I need to do today, but I feel ready now. Cheers everyone! Almost all of the wood is inside here, but there's a little pile left, and that's the wood that was in the bottom of the pile. Because this summer has been so rainy. Like the rainiest summer ever. The wood got really really wet, because you're supposed to take it in in the summer. But yeah, it was really really wet. A lot of the wood that is carried inside is all moldy and heavy, so I've kept the doors open during the day. So hopefully they've been able to dry a little bit in the shed. But these were really really wet, so they have now been drying here for a month. So it's time for me to carry inside now. And they definitely look much more dry now. It's gonna take much longer time to make the fires in the morning, so I gotta prepare a little bit for that. Having a lot of tiny wood and stuff to make the fires. Hello little girl. You have to sleep a little bit, because you should be so tired now. Lumi escaped. A nice little bouquet for the dinner. Lumi, look at these colors. They're so beautiful. They look so fresh. So full of life. The dinner is ready. Bon appétit. Look how beautiful it is. What a beautiful evening. She got good poopy views here. Can't complain. Look at that little innocent soul. At least you're good at recalling. That's right. My friend's house, because I just wanted to go to a place where I always go and pick blueberries. I haven't been there this summer though. I want to go there and check if there's a lot of blueberries there this year. But it's quite steep in that area, so I don't want to bring Lumi. And also she's so tired. It's seven o'clock in the evening now, so I thought I'm just gonna leave her at my parents so she can chill for a bit. It's been a long day for her. So I brought the bucket and the berry picker. I won't be able to be out that long though, because it's gonna get dark soon. But I just wanted to at least go there and check and hopefully pick something. Look at all the lingonberries. Wow. I just saw these huge footsteps here. What can this be? Looks like something big just walked here. Just down here where I'm gonna go. Can it be a bear? Okay, so I was down there closer to the lake where I usually go to pick blueberries, but there wasn't much blueberries there now. So I decided to pick some lingonberries instead, because it's getting dark so quickly now. So I don't have the time to run around and find the blueberry spot. And since there's so much lingonberries... I mean, I have already picked a liter in like 10 minutes. Okay, I was walking back to the car and then I stumbled upon a tripod that I lost here last year. I had lost this and I didn't know where it was. It has been here for, yeah, over a year, I guess. Here is my tripod I use now. Yeah, sorry about the camera. It's just been a lot going on the past minutes. Now when I found my tripod, I realized that I have forgotten my camera. My small camera somewhere. And I really, really need to find it, but I don't really know. I'm gonna try to find the place where I sat. I just, it was just so much whoops happening. I accidentally sent out alarm. Shit, oh my goodness. I found the exact spot where I was sitting and I found my camera. Oh my gosh, I'm so, so happy. Oh my gosh, so many accidents just happen in a very short amount of time. Now I'm going back to the car. For a while I thought I had lost these stuff too. I also have my backpack somewhere here. It's 6.30 and I just woke up. I literally just came from bed. Come to me, baby time. Let me come. Here's my camera. It's been out all night to film the night sky. The battery is dead now and it's a bit wet, so I need to take it inside. My cameras are always living a rough life. Lumi doesn't want to go out. Lumi, come to go mine. Are you afraid of the hunting dogs? You hear them in the background. I will protect you. Hey, my little. Good morning. Just found a new favorite spot in the house. My art studio. Now we are packed in the car and we are actually going to Sollefteå today again. It's been a lot of Sollefteå this week. It's a little bit after lunchtime now and we are going to have a little special event in our store tonight, so that's why I'm going in now. We are going to have our very first little concert in the store and there is this amazing musician Emeline de la X or Emeline de la Père. I don't remember how you pronounced it. I guess some of you know, but yeah, Emeline and her partner Luke is coming to our store tonight and I met her the first time a year ago. She was in Sweden in the end of autumn last year and she had a very cozy special concert in one of the coffee shops in the town. I was there and it was so amazing and we just spontaneously talked about the idea of her coming back to Sweden because she lives in England and having a little just a cozy small concert in our store and now that is happening. Now she's coming. It's also the new moon tonight so we have done it as a little new moon event and of course our store is very small so it's only 30 people that are pre-booked that can come but we're gonna give some snacks and some drinks and yeah, I'm really excited because we've never had anything similar to this. So now I'm gonna go there because yeah there's a lot to prepare. We gotta fix all the chairs and prepare some snacks and yeah all of those things and of course I'm gonna bring the camera and film some scenes from tonight. Now we have the chairs for the event. We're borrowing them from Halstadberget, the hotel. Thank you. What are you doing? I'm making some odels. I believe they're called. Looks good. Wow, okay I stay here. How do you feel Amelie? A little bit nervous. Yeah a little bit nervous here in this space. I have to be professional now. Well you are. It's gonna be magical, I know that. All right, your first concert. Because of copyright I can only show you a few short clips from this beautiful concert but if you want to hear more of Amelie's music you can find her on all usual streaming platforms like Spotify. I have attached links in the description of this video. It became such a magical evening. Thank you Amelie and Lucas for coming all the way from England and for filling our store with your wonderful music and thank you to all of you who Today it is Saturday and we have just been out on a long walk through the village. Today I'm just gonna have a home day. Just take it easy. I'm gonna probably clean the car and just do some stuff but I'm also going to start to edit this video which I really look forward to. It's been a fun week. I've been filming a little bit every day. I just wanted to say thank you so much for hanging out with me these days and for watching this video. Oh my gosh I feel like I look so tired but you know sometimes I feel like I'm a bit broken because whenever I have any kind of social events I always feel totally dead like a day or two after. I know a lot of you can relate. I wonder why. I really try to not. I don't know. It's what it is. It doesn't really matter how wonderful it has been with some kind of social event but it's like always takes a couple of days before I kind of get back on track again with my energy. It's sad too like yeah because I wish I instead could gain energy and feel like ah wake up with full energy but I have always been like this and I guess that's why I live where I live because it's very quiet and I can be a lot by myself and I like that but I also love once in a while to experience beautiful meetings with other people and I'm really grateful for yesterday. I'm so grateful to Emmeline and her partner Lucas for coming and playing at our store and just filling the store with music. It was beautiful and with all the people that came too it was really cozy. So yeah I think should I go and take a nap before I do anything? Yeah I think I'm gonna take a nap while all the files are transferring to the computer. I'm gonna take a nap and then I'm gonna clean the inside of my car because I've been wanting to do that for a long time and yeah then just take a slow Saturday. I hope that you guys have a beautiful day whenever you see this and I hope you will take care of yourself and each other and I will see you soon again. I will be back with a new video soon. I'm sending you so much love. Bye bye!