June 6th is the National Day of Sweden, but it is by no way celebrated like for example 4th of July or the Norwegian 17th of May. Most Swedes probably don't even know why we celebrate this day, and to be honest it feels a little made up; [it is to] honour the election of King Gustav Vasa in 1523, as this was considered the foundation of modern Sweden (Wikipedia). It wasn't until 2005 that June 6th became a public holiday.
Anyway, it was nice weather so we decided to grill, and our neighbours joined us. As I made the table I thought I should incorporate some Swedish flags and yellow-blue stuff so that at least it looked like we celebrated the National day. =) We had a great evening with good food and drinks, and fun conversations!
We accomplished a lot earlier in the day too. As we have concrete walls it is not so easy to put things up, and we now had a lot of stuff that waited for the drill to come out. Today was the day, and a lot of things got done. This is our hallway with the new cupboard from IKEA with a key-locker above. Also the small racks with pictures on was mounted today. Finally the hallway looks done!
I never heard about the swedish national day before but main-thing is you all had a wonderful evening!
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your hallway is really neat!! weekend is over again and i wish you a wonderful week ahead.
ReplyDeleteSounded like a great evening of great food, friends, and conversation! I can't wait for my kitchen to get done so we can have people over for dinner again.
ReplyDeleteWow, great hallway decorations! So if the walls are concrete, is that wallpaper on the walls then?
great hallway!! love the colours and the furniture! Beautiful shots!
ReplyDeleteListgirl (Christine); yes, it is wallpapers on the walls, we have that on all ours walls except for the bathrooms that are tiled. But there was an option to get the concrete walls painted as well
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