Stand its done

Tomorrow its the time for the exhibition "Life in Style". Today we did the stand and put up all the nice cupcake cases, sign and photos. It´s so many nice things on this exhibition. The girl next to us sells fabric and the one behind us sells silver jewlleries. She told us that it´s two diffrent exhibitions in Melbourne this weekend but this one is more high standard. You can see that when you walk around. So tomorrow they open at 1pm and at 6pm they will serve wine and some snacks and it will close at 9pm.

New hairstyle

I look this good when I came back from the hair dresser. The man who cut my hair David lived in Bangkok for 7 years and just moved back to Melbourne a year ago. He asked me what I thought about Melbourne and before I respond he said - boring don´t you think!!! He´s from Scotland from the begining and he would like to move back to Europe or Asia again. He had a Hairdresser School in Bangkok. He was really nice to talk to and he also think its hard to get to know new people here. His wife was thai and had a massage school here.

Bike on the deck

If you like to exercise but you don´t want to go away for a bike ride, you can just put this up on your sun deck in your backyard. Lukas like this a lot.

Müsli bars

Instead of buying müsli bars we did ourself. The kids eat this every day at school during afternoon break. Now we know what they eat and it is so good. Jennys judges (friends) gave top score for this one. They love everything Jenny brings to school to eat.

Lollipop Lady

Today I got my new outfit for the Lollipop Lady job. I´m going to look this good during work hours. You probably call it Crossing supervisor. This is the outfit you have during cold/wet weather. Normaly you have a yellow west and the hat. I´m at a school for small children "Boroondara Primary School". I´m starting next week and will be working 08:15-09:00am and 03:15-04:00pm. It is very close to where we live so I will take my bike to go there.

Sun deck

Today we had a lot of sun and 15C. Then its time to sit outside to get some colour in your face. Its a little bit cold when the sun disapear but what can you expect in the middle of the winter.

Harry Potter

This good looking where Jenny and her friend Sara when they went to see Harry Potters new movie. They thought the movie was so so but they had a great time in the mall taking pictures with the glasses.

Butcher

Lukas got a part time job at the butcher close to where we live. He´s going to be there learning next week and then he will start working there the week after. He will work twice a week after school between 4 - 7pm. The butchers kids will work there during weekends and holidays but then Lukas can work at Lindendarry.

Coco Chanel

We meet the young Garbrielle Chanel who learn to saw in a Catholic orphanage before following her singing ambitions lead her to a cabaret club. It is here where Chanel earns the nickname "Coco"and also where she catches the eye of several high society gentleman who would ignite her passion and become instrumental in the development of her remarkable career. Its a very good movie and I can recomend to see it.

Bikers

Good looking guys going for a bike ride this morning. Its a lot of up and down here so its a bit hard to ride your bike in this hills. Its a lot of parks and nature if you compare to Shanghai. I hope they can still walk when they come home again.

Winter garden in Melbourne

Its not what you expect in the middle of the winter but we´re on the other side of the world so everythings seems to be backvards. The lemons are growing on our backyard and it looks like its the beginning. The tree has explode into this nice yellow colour. In Sweden we would say its SPRING time.

Muscular girl

Here is our girl who only have muscles on her body. She is on her favorite place "the trampolin". It look more that she is in a cage fighting a hulk or something. Its hard to think its winter if you look on her clothes. But when you jump a lot in the sun its getting hot.

Anders birthday

Anders went up this morning and it was 2C and frost outside. That is not common when you are a summer child.

On the big day we went for Hot Pot for dinner. We were the only one in the resturant that was not chinese. Everything was so chinese like the interior, the cold, meny and the food. We could been in Shanghai. We of course missed our Hot Pot friends Family Beg. We all were very happy about the food the only thing was that the sause is better in china but it was okey. Back home again we had marrang dessert and presents. Anders got his knife sharpender so he was so happy. So now we have sharp knifes again.

Footy night

Tonight Anders went for a Footy night. St.Kilda - Geelong played against each other and none of teams has lost a game this year. Both teams played well the whole time but in the end St.Kilda made the last score and won. Of course this is the team Anders like most so he was happy. He had a scarf with St.Kilda on when he came back home.

Delightful Designs

Caroline and I have now stating our own business. The name of the company is "Delightful Designs". We´re going to sell Vestli House products who´s making designed cup cake cases for a start. We are going to be at the exhibition in Melbourne in the end of July. We have been to the bank, got an accounter and our company number. Now we preparing invoices, order sheets and information catalog. We also have a web site so you can have a look www.delightfuldesigns.info .It´s a lot to prepare for the exhibition but its a lot of fun and we are really looking forward to do this. Now we are just hoping that we will get a lot of customers because we have a lot of cup cake cases in stock. We already have two customers that we delivered cup cake cases to.

Trampolin

Jenny started the winter month to buy a Trampolin to put in the backyard. It was the last one in the store we went to. It is big sale on toys this week. So now we have a happy girl who can jump all day long.

Aquarium

Today me and Jenny took the tram to Melbourne and went to the Aquarium . We saw this pinguins and they were so cute. Of course they had sharks and a lot of other water animals that we never seen. After we met Anders for lunch at The Crown casino. Then we walked around in the city before we went back home again.

King of scores

Today was our turn to score at Jennys basketball team. Anders went for a score class to learn the basic. When we came the other team parent who also scored was not that good at the clock so she wanted to score so Anders was in charge of the clock. What a challenge..... But the game finished with Balwyn Blazers as winner and that is Jennys team. They just won with one point so the teams was very equal. A very good match.

Lake Mountain and snow

Jenny went with her friend Claire to Lake Mountain today to see snow. It is a two hour car ride from Melbourne. Sadly it was not that much snow and the snow they saw was very weet. They could build a half igloo that was all.

The son is back

Today we went back to Red Hill to pick up Lukas after his two weeks away working hard. They were very pleased with him and he was very happy working there as well. He has been working very hard and late so he will probably sleep now for two weeks when he is off from school. He is welcome back to work when the high season is comming in October and he is off from school. They will probably see him again. He has been working on all diffrent part of the place like reception, cleaning, kitchen, resturant and conferance.

The Proposal

Today I went to the movie myself to see "The Proposal" with Sandra Bullock (Margret) and Ryan Reynolds (Andrew). When high-powered book editor Margaret faces deportation to her native Canada, the quick-thinking exec declares that she´s actually engaged to her unsuspecting put-upon assistant Andrew, who she´s tormented for years. He agrees to participate in the charade, but with a few conditions of his own. A nice comedy and laughs but quit bredictible.

Scones

Lukas and his friend Cassy baked australian scones with choklat inside. When they were ready you eat them with jam and cream. I think we had flour all over the kitchen when they were done.

The Hangover

Tonight Lukas, Anders and I went to the movie and saw "The Hangover". Two days before his wedding, Doug and his three buddies drive to Vegas for a blowout night they´ll nerver forget. But when the three groomsmen wake up the next morning with pounding headaches, they can´t remember a thing. Their posh hotel suite is beyond trashed and the groom is nowhere to found. This movie is so funny and we laught so much. This is a movie you must see.

Kanguru for dinner

Anders cooked kanguru for dinner tonight with potatas in owen. It tasted like any other meet you eat maybe a little bit chewy. At least we have tryed it now.

Plumpudding

Today I´ve been at my neighbours house helping out preparing Plumpudding for Christmas. Her sons school is making 700 plumpuddings for sale. It is a english cake they eat here for Christmas. They are raising money for the school. So the first thing was to taking of the skin from the lemons and it was a lot of lemons I can tell.

Work Experiens for Lukas

This morning we drop Lukas of at this place. It is a wineyard called "Lindenberry" located in Red Hill 100km outside Melbourne. Lukas will spend his two weeks of work experiens here. The guy who will take care of Lukas is Julian. Julian is the son of the family who own this wineyard. Anders dad know the owner and that how we got in contact with them. He will stay at the hotel the whole week and he will just come home over the weekend. The have weddings, conferences and weekends.

School play

Today the kids are off from school and Jenny has some friends over. They are practising for the school play but telling from the picture it look more like a horror movie. The play called "Pandora" and they had a lot of fun and lots of laughs.

"The Dream"

Today we went to see Lukas play in "The Dream" at his Drama class production. It is a part from Shakespears "The Midsummer Dream". Lukas plays "Botton" and a fairy turn him into a Dunky but in the end he is a man again who falls in love and kill himself. We were sitting in the Drama room so it was small so we almost sat at the scen. Everybody was very good and it was fun to see them play.

Hail

Early evening we had hail and it almost look like snow. This is the closest we get to snow in Melbourne.

Driving Ranch

The back yard is big so way don´t use it for a Driving Ranch!! Practice and you get better they say so we will see next summer when we go back to Sweden.

Dinner and Dice

Yesterday we had Lisa and Andrew here for dinner. Anders did a really good lasagna and sallad. We had red wine and for dessert we had vanilla ice cream and warm rasberrys. After dinner we played "Dice". A game we learned from Begs in Shanghai. We played to 4am this morning so today we are a little bit tired.

Jewellery making

This week I made a lot of new designs of jewelleries. I have had no insperation at all and this week a got a lot. They say that the Australians love "homepartys" so I will try to start to have some soon. I will start at my friend Åsas house. I hope it will work out fine.

Samson & Delilah

Today I went to the movie with my neighbor Paula and saw "Samson & Delilah". The movie is about Samson and Delilah´s small world in an isolated community in the Central Australians desert. When tragedy strikes they turn their backs on home and embark on a journey of survival. They don´t say many words during the movie but it is a strong and very touthing story about the two teenagers. I can recomend seeing it.

Blond again

Purple hair is gone and no we have old blond Lukas back with really short hair. I don´t think we have seen him it that short before.

Grandma Maja 90 years old

Here my grandma Maja turning 90 years old and everybody was there celebrate her except us at our summer house at Bullandö. We couldn´t be there but we could get everybody together at our house at least. They were lucky with the weather with sun and heat. The pool was 82F so they swam a lot during the day. Wish we were there at the time.

Vestli House

I and Caroline is trying to find out if cupcakes holders are for the Australian market. We´re working together with Vestli House in Sweden who makes these nice packages. Their are many different ways we could do this so we just have to figure it out how. The response we got so fare from the people and stores that we asked is "wow" they look nice. But from that and getting along with the price and what quantity to order is long.

Family portrait

This portrait of us was making of an artist in Shanghai. We have them on the wall in the kitchen here in Melbourne. He just maked them from passphoton of us and I think we look like ourself.

Step Into Life

This is what I do four times a week. Step Into Life is an oraganisation that do exercis program outside in diffrent parks around Melbourne. It´s always diffrent things to do so it never gets borring. Toning program this week is band next week weights and then pilatesball. When we have cardio we run in all diffrent ways you can imagen and you are really tired after one hour.

Plume Resturant

Today we went to Plume Resturant for chinese brunch. We went with family Chan. Kristina and I go to exercis together and Annika and Jenny see each other a lot over the weekends. Kristinas husband Andrew and their son Steven was there too. It was really good and we sat and ate for two hours. They come to your table with small plates and you take the things that you like.

Ghost of Girlfriends Past

If you like to go and see a sweet and cute movie you can go and see "Ghost of Girlfriends Past" with Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner and Michael Douglas. The story is about celebrity photographer Connor Mead loves freedom, fun and women - in that order. A committed bachelor with a no-strings policy, he thinks nothing of breaking up with multiple women on a conference call while prepping his next date. When his brother is going to get married three ghost from the past visiting him and he will go back in time and see what he mist.

Our house

This is our house from the outside. On the left from the door is Lukas room and the windows in the corner is the livingroom. We don´t have a hall so we go directly into the livingroom and that is not that good.

Balwyn Blazers

Jenny started playing Basketball. They practice once a week and they play games on Saturdays. So now we´re driving to diffrent schools around this area to see her play. They lost this game but we hope it will be better next time. All the girls are new in this team so it will take a while to learn how to play together.

World Challenge

Today we went to Balwyn High School for a metting with World Challenge. World Challenge is the expedition company providing educational expeditions abroad to schools. There expeditions teach life skills and expand minds outside the classroom. Students and teachers benefit from a level of safety and service second to none and our bespoke 4-week expedition itineraries guarantee an amazing adventure abroad! Last year in December they went to Madagaskar and this time November 2010 the trip will go to India. The kids will earn the money themself through work and diffrent ways do race money. They have to get $6.800 (au dollar) each. It will start now and they have 18 month to do so. When Lukas heard about this he said he wants to go. It sound so intressting and exating.

Our house inside

Livingroom

Kitchen

Lukas room

Jennys room

Master bedroom