22 Nov 2024
Lifestyle
Health Sports and Fitness Yoga

Yoga Games face on!

When you are a yoga geek and told you are given a ticket to the Yoga Games in Stockholm starting today, I can only assume that is how Charlie felt when discovering his Golden ticket: pure excitement. I must admit I am still trying to keep up with the amount of Yoga events happening in […]

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Fashion & Beauty

Stockholm Fashion Week – Beckmans cooperates with Nordic fashion brands

  On the last day of activities at Stockholm Fashion Week we were very keen to see one particular event taking place at Berns. This was Beckmans School of Design’s fashion show. In it, 12 final-year design students from Beckmans School of Design had the opportunity to present collections developed in partnership with six Nordic brands. These brands […]

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Expat Support Family Family Activities Health Parenting Pregnancy & Baby

Fab VAB

It’s FEBRUARY!! Or, as parents in Sweden like to call it, VABruary… This month has honestly put me off having more children. Like an annual contraceptive. I can’t stand it, I’m moving to Antigua next February. Today is day ten of illness in our home and I’m freaking out that this is it, we’re in a spiral of sickness for the rest […]

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Community Services

YLC Interview: Ewa Malmsten Nordell, a Photography Explorer

Interviewing different personalities, life begins to change its taste… beauty seen from everywhere, by everyone, from different angles. Enjoying people through their own experience of existence. Tel me about you and the beginning of your career: It wasn’t a dream, it was more of a choice. I was offered a job as a photographer for […]

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Community Culture Lifestyle Swedish Culture What's on: Stockholm

Mosebacke Design District: Another Design & Culture Mecca

As Stockholm Design Week returns on 6 to 12 February with its promise to remain as each year’s most important week for Scandinavian design by filling the Swedish capital’s days and nights with creative meetings, world premieres and hundreds of fantastic events – as thoroughly listed online, make it a point to make a beeline […]

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Clothing Fashion & Beauty Lifestyle

Hunkydory empowering women at Stockholm Fashion Week AW17

Hunkydory is one of our favourite fashion houses in Stockholm, they reinvent themselves with every collection and know what’s next without loosing their identity and their goal… To dress women with power and with attitude. We saw the launch of their Autumn Winter collection for 2017 at Berns last Sunday, presented to a packed audience […]

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Clothing Fashion & Beauty Lifestyle

Lazoschmidl AW17 at Stockholm Fashion Week

The Swedish/German label Lazoschmidl positions themselves as your youth trend setter of choice at Stockholm Fashion Week AW17. The label presented their collection ‘Velvet & Cream’ on Sunday night in front of a large audience at Kulturhuset. We had previously seen Lazoschmidl having their breakthrough as one of the Swedish Fashion Talents last year and we were hooked by […]

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Expat Support Family Family Activities Lifestyle Moving to Sweden Parenting Pregnancy & Baby

The expat identity

According to social sciences identity is the conception, qualities, beliefs, and expressions that make a person e.g. self-identity   Identity has never been something that has kept me awake at night. I don’t mean the really awful film with John Cusack and Ray Liotta. I mean the social construct that is meant to make a person e.g. […]

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Community Family Health Parenting

Top 5 strategies to help children adapt to their world and thrive

We live in an incredibly stressful and distracted world. According to current statistics, 1 in 10 children are diagnosed with a mental illness and data shows that this is on the rise.* Not only do we have this alarming situation with children’s mental health, our world also has many new complex issues that require great […]

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Cooking Shopping Wine

Buon Natale! Italian wine and prosecco suggestions for the holiday season

In 2015 Systembolaget alone sold 193,6 million liters of wine, approximately 55 million of which came from Italy. Why, you might wonder? Because the sun hits Italy so much harder, so the grapes grow  beautifully and produce wines rich in flavour and aroma. What a contrast this makes with the 5 months of winter we have to […]

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