Thank you.
Hey baby!
Hey!
How's it going?
Hey!
Thank you.
Good morning!
A camera in your face.
What a wonderful way to wake up.
It's so dark in here, so it gets so bad quality on the camera.
It's pretty cold outside this morning.
It's minus 15 degrees outside now.
See you soon.
Bye bye.
You're warm?
Yeah.
Do you guys remember this house?
This is our old house.
And we still have the smithy that you were making in here.
A lot of packages with jewelry.
Hello Santa Claus!
Santa Claus!
Okay, now we're gonna go to Sollefteå, which is an hour from here.
I don't know why we're going to Sollefte... Why are we going to Sollefteå today?
Because of the package?
Yes, usually we send them in Jönsale, which is closer.
And we need to buy a wood polisher or grinder.
I don't know what you say in English.
Yeah, okay, my hand is gonna die because it's so cold.
Okay, I see you.
Bye!
Thank you.
Here is the post office.
So?
Yep.
Now we're gonna go and buy the wood polisher.
The sleep machine.
In Swedish you say sleepmaskin, which sounds like sleep machine.
Sleep.
This is a sleep machine sleep paper.
Yep, now we are done with all the things that we were gonna do here and we are about to drive home again.
Joan is pouring up some coffee for me, because now i'm gonna drive and i don't want to fall asleep.
Let's go back home to the woods.
Here you go, thank you.
Do you see all these toys that are spread around on the floor?
Every time Nanook is really happy he brings a new toy.
So when you see the floor like this you know that Nanook has been really, really happy.
Hey Nanook!
I'm gonna make some shelves for this new working room for the jewelry.
I thought we would need some shelves here, maybe one, and at least two shelves over there.
The other part of the cottage where I have my painting studio is not renovated.
It's only half of the house or what you say.
And the other side is like an old shack, an old barn.
It's really beautiful in there and There is a lot of old wooden planks.
I have used some of these wooden planks before to make shelves for the kitchen example, and for some shelves in my studio.
So I thought it would be beautiful to make some for this place as well.
So let's go and see if we can find something.
Good morning my friends!
It's a sunny morning in the forest.
It has been such few sunny days this winter, so you really have to take advantage of the days when you see the sun.
I thought it would be really nice with a walk in the forest before I go into the computer and start to edit this vlog.
It took me so long to make this vlog.
I should have published it last week, but honestly, I have felt so incredibly uncreative and uninspired lately.
I have had two weeks now where I have felt a little bit down and uninspired and a little weak.
It's nothing unusual, I mean, it happens once in a while.
I guess everybody can relate to that.
But it's just always hard when it happens, especially when it lasts for a couple of weeks.
Even though I know that you can't always be on top, you can't always produce and be creative and have all these ideas.
But it just makes me feel so down when I don't feel anything, when I feel so empty inside, like I have nothing to express at all.
I guess I feel a lot of pressure when that happens because you know, I make a living out of being creative.
And usually it flows really easily.
Usually I...
I love what I do and I have all these ideas and I just want to continue, but sometimes I just feel so empty and I don't know what to do and I can't force anything.
I guess that's also why I have never promised to upload a video on a special day every week, because I could never count on my creativity like that, because You never know when you are in a super flow or when you are really, really empty.
I just wish that I could enjoy these times a little bit more.
You know, when you don't feel so inspired.
Instead of focusing on trying to get back on track and focusing on trying to push yourself to come back again.
Instead I wish that I could just accept it and use these times to recharge myself.
Because I think that's the natural cycle.
That's what we all need to do once in a while, no matter what we do.
We need the balance.
When we have taken a few steps forward, then we need to stop and take it in and reload.
I know that that's how I work, because if I have been very creative for a while, if I have spent a lot of time with a song or a video, or if I've been really creative for a while, then I always have a time afterwards where I feel very drained and I feel very empty.
It's not that I feel sad or anything.
I feel really happy, but I feel like I can't dig anything more out of my soul and express it in art in any way, because I need to close, I need to reload and it's just such a natural cycle.
I mean, look at the flowers.
They bring up all their energy in the spring and in the summer so they can bloom, and then they go to rest again so they can bloom again next year.
It's the same with the trees.
We should really learn more from the cycles of nature and stop judging and pushing ourselves when we are not ready for it.
I have just tried to focus on doing other things instead.
And actually I have been painting a lot.
That's the only creative thing I have been able to do.
I have just spent so much time in my painting studio and continue with my natural pigments paintings and it's like when I paint, I don't think at all.
I feel like it's really relaxing in a way.
So that's why I can paint even when I don't feel creative.
I guess I just wanted to let you guys know why it took so much more time for this vlog to come up.
I have just felt a little down, but it's much better now.
I really feel like I'm back on track again.
So now I'm gonna go back home and start to edit this vlog.
I just want to say again, thank you guys for all your amazing comments.
I love to read your comments.
I mean, it's like the best energy boost ever.
So thank you so much for that.
And thank you for watching this video.
And I will see you soon again.
Take care, everybody.
Bye-bye.
