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Home;=)

Hi everyone!

We´re back home after a looong trip yesterday... slept all evening and night, the jet lag is huge;=( Now relaxing before picking up my son and the little cats. Tonight some new years celebration if I dont fall asleep again;=) Jet lag is the worst thing...

I will post photos etc the coming days but for now: Happy endings of 2009 and may 2010 be a super year for you all! May it be a pieceful year filled with happiness and strength for us all;=)

Vacation mode

Hi everyone;=)

I am feeling great being in paradise island without the computer, so I just want you to know that I will write here after getting home again. Till then, enjoy your x-mas and new years celebrations;=)

Early x-mas celebration;=)

Today we´ve had our friends and family over on an early x-mas celebration. We ate x-mas food, drank good drinks, laughed and talked and it was really really nice,=) Then the kids wanted to open the x-mas presents and so we did. Everyone got so nice things and I feel so happy to have had this nice evening before heading down to Thailand tomorrow;=)

X-mas is for me about family and friends and being together. The gifts are secondary, closeness and sitting down together is the greatest gift of them all. I am blessed to have such wonderful people around me and even if I have been away so much these last years, my real friends have been there always.

I´ve started packing but it is as usual boring...hihi! I´ll do it tomorrow in the last minute, as I always do. And we just need some bathing clothes and sun lotion, right;=)

And I bought two new books today to bring along and I really look forward reading them, especially the one called "The Gucci war" which is written by a woman who got married with one of the Gucci members and her story shows the not so nice world beneath the empire. Exciting reading for sure;=)

I will bring my computer but I have no clue about how the internet is working etc and of course I want to relax so I might not write so much, but I got a new blog camera today from my bf so I will take lots of photos to show you later;=)

Sleep well everyone;=)

Going to a party;=)

We´re back home with more x-mas gifts and I found some really nice ones for my best friends and my sisters little daughter;=)

Now, going to a nice house warming party at my sisters house and I am sparkling today. Glittery dress;=) The hair is a bit yellow so I have an appointment to go and bleach it more platinum blonde tomorrow cause I hate yellow tones in the blond.

Enjoy the evening everyone!

Tuesday is the day;=)

Its only 2 more days before we fly to Thailand now and I am sooo excited;=)

I´ve gotten nice emails from the travel agency with suggestions of trips to do when being there and I think a trip to Phi Phi Islands will be done, a trip to go elephant riding and also a cave trip in canoes;=) Other than that, we have a 5-star hotel so I think we can just lie by the beach and read books and enjoy the sceneries. I just wished we could have stayed for 2 weeks but my bf needs to work on new years eve and that sucks, but work is work and 8 days is better than nothing;=)

I´ve never been to Thailand before but everyone who has been there says its amazing. If we like it I´ll book a trip for next x-mas again;=)

Re The heart asks pleasure first

Good morning,

Many of you have asked me about if we finally got the permission to release this song and the only thing I know is that a blog reader sent me a comment with emails between her and Michael Nymans agent, where he in the end says that Michael has approved to let us release it. What I did then was send these news to Tuomas and to King Foo and they have contacted Nymans management again. More than this, I dont know.

We´ll see what happens but it looks better and brighter and that makes me very happy, cause I love the song;=)

Long x-mas shopping

We have completed almost all the x-mas gifts. Just lacking about 5 of them and those we´ll fix tomorrow. We had so many gift bags to carry now so we felt it was enough for today;=) Feels good to have fixed so many in one day and we took a break every hour to have a little tea and coca-cola. Its easier to x-mas shop when having small breaks in between.

Now I´ll do some cleaning and also wash some clothes before sitting down with my son to watch Shrek 2. I really like the Shrek movies;=)

Sun!

I woke up and felt the sun shine;=) Finally!!! Yippie! Even if it still is freaking cold the sun makes me happy and now its only a few days left before flying to Thailand. I am so excited!

Today, me and my son have lots of x-mas gifts to buy, so busy day. But also nice, cause after doing that we can sit down and just relax.

The movie was great yesterday, I can recommend it for sure. Very very nice story;=)

Enjoy the day everyone and hope you also get some sun over you;=)

This and that

Hi all,

Today its been a day of this and that;=) First went to Lindas to bleach the hair even lighter. Then picked up my son who now has x-mas vacation for 2 weeks;=)

Went to IKEA and bought a new TV bench which made my bf curse while trying to put it together. He said: we´ll never buy IKEA again;=) And I agree with that. It may be cheap and nice things, but when putting the items together you usually cant put them together since all the supposed drill holes are not even drilled...screws and pieces are missing... the wood falls apart as you screw in it...so, even if I love IKEA for its low prices and also good things, the badside is the mounting of things. The amount of cursing words that came out of bf:s mouth were quite a lot...hihi!


Now we just came back from eating at a chinese restaurant which we love. Then coming back, we have this gate where you can either use a code to get in to our house or a key. Tonight the code didnt work and someone had broken off a key in the key lock so there we stood in the cold evening and couldnt get in to our home;=(
Luckily we have a restaurant downstairs who very kindly let us go through their door. I hope they can fix it tomorrow or many who lives here will have big difficulties getting in and out.

Me and my son are gonna watch a new movie we bought, called "The secret of Moonacre" which is directed from the same who made The Golden compass and Bridge to Tibethia. We loved both those movies so I hope we´ll like this too;=)

So cold....

Well, I did go out today despite the very cold and windy weather. Its 8 minus now and since I live in an ocean city it feels colder...brr...
The roads are a disaster and you cant drive more than 50-70 km/h today so it took me quite a while to get my son. Then we went to the tire shop to do an after-check on the screws holding the winter tires and then I needed to drive to BMW to get them to do a programming thing in the computer. The car doesnt understand when the tires are changed, so it "believes" I have a flat tire and are putting out an alarm in the display, so to fix that, they just go into my menu and re-programme it. Easy beasy;=)

I bought some x-mas gifts to my son today and looked at some to others. Will continue tomorrow and in the weekend. I also found a new TV which I will buy tomorrow, cause the one I have has a white pixel line going straight through the screen and its been annoying me for 1 year now...;=( And the new TV will be the new LED technology so watching movies will be so nice now. I love watching movies as you might have figured out;=)

Hope your day is great and wonderful wherever you all are;=)

X-mas gifts

Good morning everyone;=)

Today I need to go out and do some x-mas gift shopping since I havent bought more than one... puh...Usually I am early doing these things, but since I have been in the studio and of course, since we are flying away over x-mas, the x-mas planning havent been the same;=)

I know most of the gifts so that is good, but some are harder. But I love to buy presents for others and I enjoy it almost as much as them when they open the presents;=)

Have you gotten some x-mas gifts yet? Do you like x-mas or is it a an evening filled with hard times? Tell me your thoughts about x-mas, I want to know how you all feel;=)

For Adam

Hi Adam,

I want to answer you, but I would like to do so in a private email. Can you write a comment where you write your email address too? Thanks;=)

For Maria:=)

Dear Maria,
Thanks for your so funny and nice comments to me. I loved it! You shouldnt feel so shy cause when you write you seem to be a really nice and funny person;=) So dont hide in there, ok? I liked what you wrote, all of it.

About sending x-mas gifts for me and the boys, you are right. Send the one for me to:
Hagenburg
Kyrkogatan 31
411 08 Göteborg
Sweden

and the ones for the boys:
King Foo Entertainment
Fredrikinkatu 61A 7th Floor
00100 Helsinki
Finland

Lots of hugs to you and thanks again for writing to me;=)

For Katrin

Hi Katrin,
I dont know in what post that comment is, can you write that so I can find it? Thanks;=)

White morning and answer to a comment

I´m up and its still so white outside;=) Today I am flying home. We felt we wanted some x-mas vacation and now after the meeting with the record guy all we do is wait and see what will happen from that. We also have the songs for the album ready and just need some bonus songs which we can do in january.

Bonome wrote a comment to me and I would like to answer it here. The question was why some people just reach their goals without any effort and then why some who struggle never reaches them. And how to deal with that.

I dont know the answer to this, but I have had some good and bad luck during my life and that is what I can talk about.
Ever since I was a little child, about 3 years of age, I wanted to become a singer. I just knew and felt in my heart that I was born to do that. I sang everywhere, everyday and stood practising to different albums, having shows for my family day after day. I joined bands, I sang in choirs, I worked as a studio musician, applying for lots of music school, sent 50 demos to record labels but nothing happened. I sang, but not full-time and I didnt get that "break" I wanted.

Many times I fell in despair and stopped to sing for a while. Got angry after having met "not so nice people" in record companies who thought they could make me do things I didnt want to. So, since I am that person that rather not make it and feel good about what I do, I took other jobs and sang as a hobby. I was ok with that and even if I wasnt totally happy and still had my dreams, it worked for many years.

Then, a couple of years ago I felt like my life wasnt fulfilled and I knew I had to pursue my dream once more, before I got to old;=) I started looking for jobs everywhere, applying for musical roles, bands etc and it was at this time I heard about NW and the firing of Tarja. And as you might know, the time to get that job took 1.5 years and that was also full of both happiness but also despair. I even got turned down at first and I can tell you, I was so heartbroken. I cried and cried and didnt understand anything. It took me about one month to turn that sadness into what I always get after feeling a bit sad about my situation: I get stubborn and I say to myself: hey, what´s this mourning about??? do you want to be the singer in NW? Then start convincing them that they made a mistake.
And I started to email them again and you know what happened: after 1,5 years of sleepless nights, stress, worry, self-asteeem going up and down along the way, not being able to plan my future before I knew.... I got the job. I got the job!

And still my life will be like this: struggle. Cause I do believe that maybe some people get things for free, the easy way. But most of us, need to struggle to get what we want. Whether its a job, the love we long for, a child..etc. Its a part of life and I still struggle in life. Just because I got my dream come true, there will always be new "obstacles" to climb and win over.

Some people I know live life being "victims". A victim cant understand why they just get all the bad luck in the world fallen over them. They cant see their part in the story. They cant see that they need to take action of their life and faith to get further in life. They get bitter and depressed and just stop living. I feel sad for them and I have decided that I dont want to be that victim. I have felt like it many, many times in my life so I know that anyone can get there, but I have decided to not be a victim. I want to live life fully, even if its harder some days. I dont wanna die knowing I didnt try my very best to be the person I dreamt to be when I was a child.

I dont know, Bonome, if that helped you in any ways, but I hope you know that you can do anything. You are special and even if you dont reach the highest goal, maybe you can reach a smaller goal first and then try the next step and the next and the next. Sometimes its better to not put up the biggest goals, but set up smaller goals on the way of reaching that higher goal. My grandmother once said to me: dont you ever give up your dream. And she was right;=)

Enjoy the day!

Lots of snow

So, when I woke up this morning and pulled away the curtains it snowed and was totally white outside... its been pouring down and now its all white...great! it was so cold last night but today with the snow falling a little warmer.

The listening session with the record label guy went well yesterday. He liked what he heard;=) After the listening we went in to the city to Berns and ate some nice sushi, sashimi and other nice japanese food. We sat down, talking and just enjoying the evening. I didnt fall asleep until 2.30 so today I am so, so tired.

We´re in the studio again for some more songwriting. Soon its vacation and I am longing;=)

Enjoy the day!

Snowing

So, finally the winter is really here and when I arrived to Stockholm this morning, it was snowing and the ground is white. Cold but more light when the snow gets here so that´s good. Even though I fly to Thailand next week and just counting down the days...;=) Sun, pool, good food, lots of books to read and just no "musts, have to or should"...

Today we have a record label guy coming so its exciting and I hope you all cross fingers and toes for us, that he´ll like our music;=)

Enjoy the day!

Our new Idols winner;=)

So, the guy who won Idols this season, Erik, has an amazing voice and I want you all to hear him too, so here are some songs from his season.
Let´s start with the one I think he did the best, Show must go on


Then some Iron Maiden, Run to the hills;=)


And finally, the song he "won" and now are out as a single, Higher. Enjoy!

(all videos borrowed from youtube.com)

The cutest santa I´ve ever seen;=)

I just want to say that if you click here, you´ll find a video with the cutest Santa I´ve ever seen;=)

Love, love, love my partner in crime;=)

Cooking...

Today I have bought the first x-mas gifts and also some new sheets to our beds. My son got with Liverpool, which is his favourite football team;=)

Now I am cooking food and among it is one of my favourites: fried brussel sprouts...I first boil them for some minutes, then frie them in butter...yummie!

Tonight its the finals of Idols so of course that is what we will watch;=)

Enjoy the evening!

Sitting and relaxing...

I am home again;=)
I like to travel and see other cities etc, but there is no better feeling than stepping through my door at home and just take of the shoes, the jacket, say hi to the cats and my loved ones, make some tea and then just sit down and relax... the feeling is sensational;=)

Sleep well everyone;=)

We´re not playing...

Ok, so some rumours are going around that we are gonna play in UK next summer. As you all know, we are having a long touring and playing break so that is not true at all. We´re not gonna play or tour until after our next album which means sometime in 2011.

Have a nice day;=)

Grey day

Its so grey and dark outside...the only thing I do is walk around yawning and longing for the bed;=) Luckily, soon Thailand and warm, sunny weather. I am longing so much!

Here in the studio things are getting along well so that´s nice, but I feel the energy is getting weaker and weaker and I know the dark december days are to blame. Maybe a strong lamp in the face to pretend I get some light? ;=)

Have a nice day!

So much sleep...

Oh, last night I came back from the studio at 7 and ate some fish. Then I just passed out and slept so hard all night with make-up and clothes on...didnt wake up until 12 and then I was still so tired that I just undressed and passed out again. Didnt wake up until 9 this morning...puh! I guess I was very very tired...

But I think its good when the body tells us that we need to rest. Better to do that than get ill or so tired that we break down.

Now we´re in the studio again and just mixing a song we have recorded so that we can start with some new things. We all are inspired today so it will be a great day. Tonight I need to leave early cause I am going to another studio to record an anti-mocking song for a project where most of Swedens metal bands are joined together. I am honoured to be asked to join them and are looking forward to tonight;=)

Time to work again

So, good morning everyone!

I have an early morning today since I am going to Stockholm and the studio this week again. Time for more songs to be done. Looking forward even if its been so nice to be home with my family too;=)

Mondays are quite hard days to wake up so let´s have some music!

Enjoy the day!

To Alisa-Julia

Hi and thanks for the help you have done. I have sent it to Tuomas and King foo so lets hope they can talk to them about releasing it;=)

P3 Gold gala

So, my dear blog readers. I can now tell you about the secret gig I have talked about before. I will be one of the artists that will perform in a big TV-gala here in Sweden on january 19 next year. The gala is an award-gala where our biggest public radio channel, P3, gives away awards to best song, best album, best artist etc. You can see more about it here (its in swedish though)

I am excited and I look so forward to show myself to the swedish people. We havent done so many performances in my own country, even though we have sold Gold with DPP, so this is a nice thing for me to do;=)

Football mum;=)

So, as a football mum, I am up early on a sunday...my son has practise so it was just to get up, fix breakfast, drink coffee and soon off.

Yesterday, me and my son watched Arthur and the revenge of Maltazard and it was really good. My son thought it was better than the first one.

Cool stockings;=)

I love these stockings. They are from Pretty Polly and you can find them here;=)

Yesterday

My time with Petra, my PT, was very nice yesterday. Since I have so much hard exercising already, we decided to work more with getting my body at ease with yoga and breathing. She showed me the sun-greeting, which I have done before but have performed it a little bit wrong and when she corrected the movement I could feel how good I felt in the back and the legs. She also showed me a breathing that is very good to lower high blood-pressure, which I have problems with and want to get lowered.

After our yoga-session I met my friend and we had a nice time all afternoon;=) Sat in a coffee place and just laughed at things that happened in her life and of course, in my life;=)

Today, its cleaning the apartment first, then getting my son a new winter jacket and indoor football shoes before we are heading to the cinema. We love going to the movies and since the weather is grey and boring, that is what we do today. I´ll let you know later what we saw;=)

Today I am surfing Acnes web site and clicking home some new arrivals. I love the striped on guys and I love the pattern they have on the dress and leggings here.

Friday;=)

So, friday again! Nice;=)

I have an appointment with Petra, my PT today and after that a nice coffee time with my childhood friend. We have been friends since we were 14 and its so nice to have a friend like that;=) She is also my sons god mother and she is the best god mother he can have.

Now, coffee and then some errands.

Enjoy the day and today let´s listen to my favourite band, Kamelot.

The time with Petra, my Personal trainer;=)

Ok, my exercise this morning with Petra was hard...puh! Its the first time I have a PT and it gave me lots of new things to do in the forest. We power walked which is a lot about technique and since I usually run or just walk normal, it was very hard to get into it. When I walk fast I bend forward and that was wrong.

She said that I need to straighten up, pull the stomach in at the navel, put the arms close to the sides in the same height as when running, that is almost up by the chest. Then take big steps and put the heel down first and push forward and at the same time use the arms in a forward-going movement, like pulling a rope.

Very hard to describe it without a video;=)

We power-walked in the forest, both uphill, downhill, up and down stairs...we stopped doing exercises like lifting big branches of wood, doing push up, climbing the stairs doing big lunges with really high knees...puih...I almost puked at some time there;=) hehe!

But it felt really good and I feel that after doing the same exercising for long, my body needs to be a bit shaken and stired now and this is great to do.

On friday we are gonna meet in her studio and then we will do yoga exercises and pilates that I can do at home or at the hotels;=)

Personal training

Good morning!

This morning I am meeting my personal trainer for a nice power walk and some exercising in the forest. The only problem with that is that I have some terrible pain under my heel and had to buy special soles yesterday. Let´s hope I can get around still...

Its cold here today so I need to have really warm clothes on....winter is here...brrr...

Enjoy the day!

X-mas tree

Today it was time to put up the x-mas tree and this year the tree is white with blue lights, pink decorations and a house mise to guard it from the cats who just want to eat it up;=)

In the windows in the living room we have green stars with golden threads in them.

X-mas spirit is in da house;=)

Yesterdays photos

Here are some misc photos from yesterday, enjoy;=)

Petition

I have just signed a petition against Japans dolphine slaughter cause I have never seen anything as horrible as the videos in the internet where you can see how they put the dolphins into a bay and slaughter them with knives and spears. I dont want to put the video here cause it was so intense and its better if you can decide if you want to see it yourself.

Here´s the link to the video I watched but be adviced that it is very very cruel and horrible.

If you, like me, want to sign the petition which will be sent to Japans prime minister, here´s the link to that one.

Santa Lucia

I just hate when my internet arent working properly...since we moved here in april the internet has been so bad. We´ve called them I dont know how many times and still we pay a lot of money for it. Yesterday evening it was time again...no net and not today either... Now I have been in the phone with them and now I need to have a cable to the computer and not using my wireless cause its not working again. I get so angry that if I pay a lot of money, just please make things work...

Well, now I got that off my chest;=)

Today its the first advent sunday and the city celebrates this with lots of activities like crowning this years Santa Lucia. Many years ago I was in that competition and it was a very nice ceremony. In Sweden we celebrate Lucia on december 13. The lucia cortege sings different well-known songs and we eat special buns called "lussebullar" and also small cakes called "pepparkakor".

(photo borrowed from www.skola.gavle)

Here´s the typical Santa Lucia song so you can listen;=)

(video borrowed from youtube.com)

Ne Salmiset and the Dome;=)

So people, both the tv-show Dome 52 from Germany and the TV-show in Finland, Ne Salminen, has been aired and I found the videos from the show for you. First the interview and then the songs;=)

Enjoy!

Sunny day

Oh, the sun is here;=) How nice! It has been to long since I last saw it so welcome back dear sun! You have been missed...

Today I have been at the gym running and then just chilling with my cat Busan in the lap. Now its time for a shower and a stroll in the sun. Tonight I might go and see New moon if I´m not to tired. Had some horrible nightmares this night so quite tired.

I love this new look from topshop, wearing a long skirt is really nice;=)

Enjoy the day!

X-mas lights;=)

Hi all,

Today I have been putting up the first x-mas things and I will continue tomorrow. Its so nice with x-mas just because of all the lights in the windows and candles and x-mas trees that glow;=) Since I am going away to Thailand over x-mas I need to have extra much of x-mas things before that so I have the feeling even down in the hot weather by the beach.

I also went to Linda and took off the extenssions and made the hair blonder. I want to be without the extensions for a while and especially in Thailand so now I am natural again and its great!

My friday have been spent at my mums place and now home watching Idols. Nice to see that Anders are up on his feet and showing his happy face in TV again;=)

Have a nice evening now!

Finland;=)

Good evening everyone!

I´m home finally after the tv-day in Finland. Everything went really well and it felt great to, for the first time ever, sing with Lauri and The Rasmus. We also had two lovely girls to play cello and the atmosphere in the show was very nice and relaxed. The show is built up like a "party" so its a mix of celebrities, artists and regular people. That makes it extra fun;=)

We rehearsed a couple of times in the afternoon and then when the show started we first did a nice interview with some laughs;=)
After that we played October and april and it felt really nice to sing with Lauri and the boys. They are all so sweet and nice and we laugh a lot;=)

The show will be broadcasted in finnish tv-channel MTV3 on saturday 28/11. I guess it will be on the net also but I dont know for sure.

After our appearance I had to rush to the airport and it was half a minute from that I didnt get on the plane...the traffic in Helsinki at rush hour made us stand still and not move which was a disaster when you know the plane will leave if you´re not there...but luckily, the staff at Finnair is always so helpful and let me through. Kiitoksia!

Make-up and hair:
You all know my beautiful and dear make-up artist Marja from before and every time I do something in Finland, I want her to help me. She is the best and today she made me look so amazing again;=) We used a soft pinky make-up with lots of glitter and stones. A bit like Hartwall arena show. The hair got big and a bit like the 60´s style.

Marja had a cool angel wings t-shirt on today so here´s her back;=)
If you want to get Marja to fix your hair or make-up she has her own boutique in Helsinki and here´s the website

Tired

Hi all,

I am off to bed after a studio day again and tomorrow its off to Finland for a very short visit.

Sleep well;=)

Bits and pieces from the studio;=)

The sky is totally amazing outside today and I just had to share it with you.


I really like this old little mini-motorbike we have here so today I had to take a photo for you;=)

And of course Elvis need to be present here everyday;=)

Sky is blue...

...and I am up and going to the gym. The hotel I am living at has a nice spa and the view from the tread mill is from the roof over the city so it makes the exercising easier when you are a bit tired;=)

Enjoy the day everyone!

Info about the TV show in Finland

The tv-show in Finland is called "De salminen" and it will be broadcasted november 28 in Finland.

Here´s a link to the website of the show.

Its in finnish but I guess google can translate it for you.

Working day again

Back in the studio again... really love to be here and Stefan and Johan are the sweetest and most loving guys so even when there is a little more bad day they make me feel good;=)

From all the comments talk etc that has been these days after a long comment to me, I can only say that I have learned through things that has happened in my life that sometimes its better to not say what you feel to say. The important thing to know is that if you put something out, saying something to someone else, you never know how that person will respond to what you just said. The response you will get can be something totally different than you were expecting.

There is also another great thing to think about: If you wanna give someone an advice, ask that person: can I give you an advice?
before just saying what you think and feel is right. If the person says: no thanks, then leave her or him alone to do what they feel is best for them.
If the person says yes, respect that person for asking for help and say what you feel in a nice way and without judging him or her.

We need to understand that we are all individuals and we all need to learn from our own mistakes, do what we want to do even if its bad for us. Life is a journey, we are here to live and learn from the things we do and say. What you might think is wrong is something I might think is right and who can say which one of us are right?

I often feel I wanna write more things here that are deeper but since I also know that what I write will be misunderstood by some people, taken from its context and blown up to something totally different, I very often decide to not say anything.

I am truly happy that you, the ones reading my blog, are so open-minded and warm hearted to others, I am always amazed when I read how nice you all are towards each other and that is what I love about the blog. Keep it up;=)

Now, time for work but enjoy your day and a warm hug to all of you;=)

Finland show

I am enjoying my sunday evening and will soon take it easy in front of the TV but first I need to take a shower since I fly early to Stockholm tomorrow and dont feel like going up stressing with that. I also need to decide what to wear in Finland on thursday. Since it is more an accoustic set and we will sit down and sing I think something more dressed. I´ll dig into my wardrobe now;=)

And by the way: I have heard that Marco is gonna be in the finnish version of the choir battle I have told you about before. If that is true, I look forward seeing and hearing how that will turn out:=) Fun that someone in the band will do TV in that way. Go Marco!

Today

Today its grey here so felt I needed some red lips, a nice hair-do and some colourful socks today;=)

And a question to you all: do you, just like me, get chocked seeing yourself in photos? I always think: what??? Is that me? I never "see" myself that way in the mirror as photos look like...its really annoying and I wonder why this is the thing? Let me know your photo experiences;=)

Streetstyle

I was checking out stockholm streetstyle where I like to look for inspiration and here´s what I liked today:

Calcha Candela

I have never heard these guys before going to the Dome but they played before us and they were really good;=) I normally dont listen to this kinda music but this is really fun and the audience were totally crazy when they performed.

Dome continuation

So, after the red carpet it was time for dinner and then some change of clothes, make-up and a photo session with a magazine.

At 20 it was time for me and Lauri and it all went super good;=) There were white feathers coming down on us and I got one straight into my mouth...haha! but hey, it looked good;=)

For the stage, as you have seen already in a previous post, I had leather pants from Prada, a thin blouse from Dolce and Gabbana, shoes from Michael Kors, skull necklace from Åsitas and ring from Åsitas.

After the stage we did a short interview on stage and then sat down in the sofa on stage for a while listening to the other artists after us.

Then we ate more food before taking the van back to Vienna and fell asleep. We skipped the after party cause we wanted to be fresh when we got back home to our families.

That was the whole Dome-thing. Now we have to wait for the videos from the show next saturday.

Thanks to the Dome for such a nice event and to Universal and Evelyn who made everything work really smooth. And a big hug to Lauri and my manager Petri for all the laughs we had in the van and on set;=)

Dome

Morning everyone;=)

I feel asleep early last night and today I feel less tired;=)

I didnt take any photos in the Dome, I didnt have any time but I can tell you about the day we had, Lauri and me.

I flew from Stockholm the night before and then slept at the airport hotel in Vienna. Next morning I started off taking a nice shower and packing all the things, which was quite a lot. I had to have clothes both for the red carpet and the live show plus make up, hair things etc.

We drove for 2,5 hour to Graz, where the big tv-show Dome is recorded. Our new upcoming big star from Sweden, Agnes, was gonna perform too and we said hello in the hallway. She is such a pretty girl;=)

At 13 we started rehearsing our song, which as someone asked, was playback. In Germany its always playback and singback and I am sorry but this is nothing we can say anything about. It feels really "stupid" to stand there and mime the song, but thats the deal when doing german TV. I saw a funny clip in youtube where my fave band, the Muse, changed instruments for their whole playback show in Germany;=)

Next week though in the tv-show in Finland we sing live and that´s great;=)

Anyhow, back to the Dome again: the rehearsals went really good and run very smooth. Then time for lunch and make-up. Lauri took a walk around the city before all his interviews he had planned.

At 17 it was time for the red carpet and for that I had on a black dress from Dsquared, over that a vest from HIGH, glittery motorbike boots from Jimmy Choo, a tiara with skulls in silver and crystals from Åsita, a big sparkling ring on the finger from Åsitas, thin white laze arm gloves and a clutch in leopard pattern from Mulberry.

I put my hair up in a side hair-do and curled the loose hair that was hanging down. I didnt do any interviews but in this video clip with Lauri you can see me a short while.

Some photos too;=)

Me and Lauri at the Dome

Here´s a sneak preview photo from the Dome;=)

Home after some long days

Good evening and sorry for my absence but its been quite hectic yesterday at the Dome and today I have been travelling all day and just came home. I am tired but happy to be home.

The show will be in RTL 2 next saturday so I hope those of you who can see that channel will watch it.

Have a nice night!

Sun

Oh, finally I get to see some sun! yippie;=) Its been to long since the last time...

I am in my hotel room in Vienna and are preparing for take off to Graz where the Dome will be recorded. I didnt sleep so many hours so a bit tired but lots of coffee and nice people around me will make the day bright;=)

I have found a new great clothes designer where I got some clothes when I was in Stockholm. I will use a vest from her line in the red carpet today. She has a beautiful "victorian" vibe in her clothes and every tiny detail are thought of. You can see some of her clothes here.

Now I need to continue fixing, cause we leave in 45 minutes.

Enjoy the day!

Dream list

A couple of years ago I learned about writing a "dream list". The idea is to write down all the dreams you have or have had in your life. It can be smaller dreams and bigger dreams, there´s no limit or stupidity in what you wish for. Then you put the list in the computer or in a book and leave it there for some time and after a year or even several years you pick it up and put a little mark by the things that have happened...it might be that some dreams you thought never could happen actually happened sooner than you thought;=)

Dreams from our childhood, dreams from today - whatever they are, keep on dreaming and try and reach those dreams. Maybe not every dream will be fulfilled but I am sure that if we strive to accomplish them, anything is possible;=)

Morning

I am in the studio again and we just played the new song for Stefan and he really liked it;=) So now more song writing.

I send a big hug to our dear Anders Bagge who has been ill since last week and still aren´t well. I dont know if its the swine flu but he has very high fever and I really hope we´ll soon see his happy smiling face down here in the studio. Get well soon! We miss you;=)

Now, coffee.....yummie!

Soon sleep...

I am tired...we worked until 9 today and we finished the song I told you about;=)

About the red carpet etc:
On friday, me and Lauri from The Rasmus are gonna perform and attend the tv-show called Dome. We are gonna do October and April on stage, some interviews and also walk on the "red carpet"

The clothes I will wear are gonna be black. I will have a bit "cooler" style than gala dress. So for the hair I think most of the things you have said to me can work. I will look at all the suggestions and see what I can do that will look good;=)

Now, bed time cause studio tomorrow again at 10 and then in the evening, I fly to Wienna.

Sleep well and sweet dreams!

In the studio finally

Well, our bad luck week continued and today we couldnt reach Stefan...he didnt answer the phone for the whole day and we were worried... but then finally around 2 o clock he sent an email telling his cell phone was lost. Luckily he found it at the place they played last night.

Me and Johan decided to do some studio work ourselves and now we´re working on a beautiful slower song and I have just finished the lyrics. My son said I needed to do a song for him so this one is for him;=)

When I am back later I will tell you more about what I am gonna wear on the red carpet. The style etc.

Enjoy the day!

Love this cover

I just love love love this cover of Running up that hill.



Enjoy!

Morning and pale

Good morning;=)

I didnt go to the gig last night cause I fell asleep before 10 with all my clothes and make-up on...then woke up at 1 and had to go up and clean off the make-up and undress....oh, I guess the whole turbulent day and the feverish days before that had its turn.

But now I am up, a bit pale and tired but ready to head to the hotel spa to do some exercising. I dont know when the boys are gonna be ready for the studio but even if we start later its ok since I have some things to fix before the red carpet on friday in the Dome;=)

For those who wondered about my hair-do last night, its just a very high pony tail and then a clip to keep the forehead hair in its place. Before I do the pony tail, I take a comb and dread the hair in the bottom so it gets fuller. Then just pull it up in the rubber band and spray with some hair spray. I love this hair-do since it pulls the face up and that makes me look fresher=)

I bought some really cool make-up for the Dome yesterday and one of the things were a pair of fake eyelashes which are so cool:=) Let´s see if I can make them look good since I will do my own make-up and hair this time. Havent decided what to do with the hair yet...do you have any thoughts? Maybe one for the red carpet and one for the stage? Tell me your thoughts, dear stylists out there;=)

Stockholm outfit;=)

It was a while since I put some outfit photos here so lets go:=)

Today I wear a white top from Odd Molly, a dress from Rick Owens, jeans from Current Elliott and shoes from Airstep.

Now, city time!

Stockholm

I am in Stockholm again after some really bad and weird day.... I think this week has been one of the unluckiest for many years...

Yesterday I couldnt fly because of the fever. Then I had the flight booked this morning. Went up, packed the last things and went in to the cab. Half way to the airport I got this feeling in my stomach: do I have my vallet?

Started feeling in my bag, but nothing there...no vallet...!! Said to the cab driver that we needed to turn. I could immediately see that there was no possibility to go home, get the vallet and drive back to the airport in time to catch the flight.

Cursed so many times, so pissed at myself for this clumpsiness... headed back home and had to wait till 2 o clock for the next plane up...

As the boys would have said: Perkele!!!!

But now, dear readers, I am here. No studio today but since the boys are gonna have a gig tonight here and a party, I guess I will head out and check the stores before fixing myself for some party;=) Hmm...maybe it was meant to be like this?

Cooking...

I feel better and now we´re cooking some food. Today it´s fresh salmon covered with philadelphia cheese, horse radish and parsley. To this we are doing a broccoli stew. Yummie!

I have decided what to wear in Austria and it will be leather pants with either a black Dolce top or a black longer shirt. Make up will be red hot lips;=) We´ll see which of the two tops I finally choose but thanks to all of you for all the cool outfit suggestions you gave me;=)

Still home

So I still have fever and decided to not fly to Stockholm today. Its better to get well and we have time to finish the songs, so no worries.

I have booked a trip to Thailand over x-mas and I am so looking forward:=) I have never been there but always wanted to go and I feel I need a nice hot vacation. And this year my son spends x-mas at his fathers house so then I dont need to stay home for that.