Sjöbygget (by Arntz Creations): November 2017

Monday 27 November 2017

Christmas feelings / Jul mys

So nice to see the shops in Oslo, all ready Christmas all over the place!
Nice tables, nice pillows and very nice decorations.

Så mysigt att se alla butiker i Oslo, redan Jul varsomhelst!
Skøn borderna, fin kuddar och snygga decorationer.

Friday 24 November 2017

Dark days before Christmas

28 days to go... Before the days get longer again!

It's getting dark very early now, around 15 o'clock all ready. Time to find good feelings and happiness inside the house. Time to start decorating for Christmas, try out some cooking ideas, reading a book and burn the fireplace.

28 dager till... Innan dagen blir längre igen!

Det ar mörkt ute tidigt, rund klockan tre redan. Tid att finnes god känsla och lycka inomhus. Tid till att börja med Julpynt, prova laga god mat, läsa boken och bränna braskamin.

Wednesday 1 November 2017

Beautifull moss and mushrooms

Time to go out again. It has been wet and rainy some days after a dry period so this is the time to collect some mushrooms in the woods. The Pipemoss is very good looking but not eatable. But we found also (even in late October) a very nice eatable Chantarelle. They look very orange and smell like abricots. Finally we hit a lot of Wire Chantarelles, a little more brown and long. Not my favorites but eatable as well.

Nice moss / Pipemoss

Kantarelle / Chantarelle

Trädkantarelle / Wire chantarelle

About me

Hello, so nice you are visiting my blog. I'm Brun Arntz. Since 2016 I'm living on the countryside in Småland Sweden. I'm working on a lot of creative projects. My biggest project is my dream was to create a big garden, with a nice natural design filled with self grown flowers with my green fingers. As you can reed in my blog, I'm still working on this project now. It makes my happy to live so close to nature, to go with the flow. It brings me a lot of balance in my life. Another project is to be creative with natural materials to make home and garden decorations. For Christmas, Wintertime, Eastern, Spring or just a normal day. That gives me a lot of spirit! Or in wintertime I try to renew old stuff. It is easy to scoren some old furniture in a famous Swedish loppis (Secondhand). Of course with nice colors in the Scandinavian style, light, simply and natural. Specially green, of course... Now I'm dreaming to have a typical Swedish Trädgårdscafe where people can have Swedish Fikatime (time for having coffee and cakes) with a lot of places to sit somewhere in a very nice garden. But the Coronavirus disturbed my planning....but maybe next spring? Great that you want to follow some my projects. I hope it will give you good spirit and inspiration too. Greetings from Brün

My garden

Once upon a time there was a very nice garden around Stegaryd Sjöbygget Gamla Skola. After the school was closed in the 50's the new owner started creating a garden around the place. The place was well known in the surroundings to be full of flowers and the lady was always working in the garden (a little bit like me now, just because I like it so much). When she got too old the house was sold as a summerhouse, the garden was not longer taken care of. When we came, in 2016, we started to clean up and recover what once was there. Because gardening, designing, creating and growing plants is my passion and love. The goal is to create a natural garden with grandma's plants and some prairiegarden influences. After 5 years, we are not ready yet but a lot of heavy work is done now. It's starting to be a nice garden again. Judge it yourself on my weblog.