this weekend we attended our annual family kräftskiva. it's a swedish tradition - where you wash down massive amounts of crayfish with loads of snaps, sing drinking songs and generally make merry. it's the one time every year where that whole side of the family gets together - danes and swedes.
the food was beautiful and so were the surroundings. it's always wonderful to gather in the house my father-in-law designed and built when husband was a little boy. it's a special place and i always feel that time slows down and stretches into precisely how much is needed when i'm there.
i should perhaps have dialed down that vibrancy a notch for the bowl of crayfish - that's awfully red - but somehow it captures just how over-the-top and perhaps slightly excessive the giant bowl of crayfish really is.
my sister-in-law always excels at setting a simple, beautiful table. she went out and picked the vines of hops and arranged them artfully just before everyone arrived. and from this shot, you can see that the no boring lamps and no boring chairs scandinavian norm holds true.
it would be easy to be envious of this perfect home (because it is perfect in every detail), but really i'm not. i just truly enjoy it. tho' it did, a couple of times, give me a sinking feeling of how far our own home is from that point and a flash of just how much work remains before we get there - to our own version of what's perfect for us. which will be very different anyway.
8 comments:
Wow, I think I envy every single item on, and around, that table!
Gorgeous.
what a beautifully set table!
I've seen what you can do with a house, and I know your house will be something very special! already is, for that matter: how many people have their own lake...? :-)
@kristina - i think that @cisforcapetown has her own lake too. :-) but i do appreciate you reminding me! :-)
and yes, molly, the table was awesome. as was the food. :-)
ok, then I'm the only one here without a lake... :-)
@kristina - at least you live in lovely Lund and not Landskrona (i just learned it's the armpit of Skåne). :-)
Wow-- What gorgeous food to share with family all around the table.
Yum.
xo jj
I envy the kräftskiva. That's the kind of thing that makes me homesick...
I love that wall of pictures.
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