Lifestyle Brand & Interior Designer
Hello friends! I am so pleased and honored to be here with Jill Sorensen & team. Thank you for taking a moment to read a little about me as a long time chef and former cover model with a thriving 20+ year career in the fashion industry. My love of food and rustic living developed New Contributor! Chef Kersti and her Swedish Mulled Wine Recipe
HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Have you ever heard of the ICE HOTEL in Sweden? It’s a hotel built from the ground up every fall entirely out of ice, only to melt down in the spring. Each hotel room is carved in ice by a world famous artist. It’s been on my bucket list for years. I’ve been Merry Christmas from the Ice Hotel
A visit to Gotland a medieval Swedish island in the middle of the Baltic sea has long been on my bucket list. On the northern tip of the island is Fårö, the barren island Ingmar Bergman made famous in all his movies. Whether you are a Bergman fan or not, I this is a “must A trip to Ingmar Bergman’s Island
Yesterday my friend Monica and I set off on a tour through Sweden’s oldest area Sigtuna. It’s rich in history and home to kings and knights and is literally littered with lakes, castles and old viking graves. Yesterday felt like a trip through a Nordic fairy tale as we drove through green fields discovering hidden A day of castle hunting
I’ve seen loads of irresistible pictures on Instagram and design blogs of a small charming Moroccan style hotel in Palm Springs called Korakia Pensione. I’ve been wanting to go ever since I moved to LA, so when my boyfriend surprised me with an anniversary trip to Korakia this weekend, I was thrilled. Artist Gordon Cutts A weekend at dreamy Korakia hotel
I don’t know about you, but with the stressful state of our country and also the worrisome issues sprouting up in Sweden I find myself sometimes reading several hours of news a day. Hours I should be working I’m instead immersing myself in politics, which of course only adds to more stress and more worry. Yoga retreat in fire damaged Ojai
Happy 4th everyone! While you hopefully are heading out for some fun stateside celebrations I’m doing some traveling around Europe. The last two weeks have been non stop work in a sweltering LA heatwave so arriving to a rainy London was refreshing. It was Luke’s first trip to London so we were dressed in sneakers London calling!
Hope you had a great Easter weekend! I was lucky enough to have been invited to Palm Springs for the weekend with a bunch of moms and teenage boys to stay at La Quinta Resort in Palm Springs. The hotel is a gigantic but incredibly charming golf resort built in the 1920’s surrounded by a My accidental visit to Greta Garbo's house
I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. We drove up north to Santa Barbara and stayed at a beach hotel with our dogs for a couple of days. Seeing the big blue ocean and that magnificent sunset every night its hard not to believe that there is something so much bigger than you out there. This is what gratefulness looks like.
There are times you feel really frustrated by the fact that you can’t have 110 images in one blog post. Right now is one of those moments. Last week I drove with Dan up the California coast. Although our top destination was Carmel and Big Sur a miracle moment came when The Madonna Inn appeared THE KITSCHIEST HOTEL EVER!