Yesterday I went out to IKEA to fetch me an extra mattress that I need for incoming Budapest visitors. On my way out I spotted a small area where they had put up store with ginger bread, the typical “christmas” chocolate Aladdin, special tea blends and so on. All of a sudden I see the glögg. Kind of Swedish glüewein. THis particulary bottle is a special blend that comes out in limited editions every year made from traditional Swedish berries and spices. And because of that it is always really hard to get your hands on a bottle. This years flavour is blueberry! Weeho!

It wont start selling until 3 November in Sweden, but it seems that abroad thery’re not as picky when and how to sell it :) So if you live nearby an IKEA, hurry hurry.

This weekend, me and Diana from work (a fan of the-biggest-cafe-latte-there-is) had a great walk through a sunny, lazy Sunday city.

HAPPY MOMENTS…
… like the “SENSITIVE BARBARIAN”, a book store café near the University Library. Happy, simply because of the relaxed atmosphere among the book shelves and I found happiness, 10×16 centimetres of guidance, the color was turquoise …. ok, so I have a strange addiction to Wallpaper guides… (The café turned out to be a part of the guide which I had a feeling of..)


The botanical garden is not any botanical garden, it´s the ROOF on the Warsaw University Library, definitely worth while!

STEALING BEAUTY and the artist GUY BEN-NER
The exhibition “Revolutions 1968″ pictured the stormy years, 1965-1975, from all over world through the eyes of art. Interesting for sure, but I really enjoyed a video project at the gallery made of the Israeli artist Guy Ben-Ner. “Stealing Beauty”, a politcal satire about the world´s captialism and ideal created like a “IKEA sitcom”. (February 08 Postmasters Gallery New York)

“The promised land” - IKEA. The artist Ben-Ner is moving into IKEA showrooms in different stores, Israel, Germany and the US, to live a happy and “normal” life with his family. They are trying to fit in, adapt to a Western way of living. “Honey, I’m hooome”, is the first thing Ben says when he arrives in an IKEA living room with the price tags in different values attached on every object. The movie is shot like a soap opera or a sitcom, where strangers are passing by, looking at the family and sometimes into the camera. Most scenes last until Ikea staff throws everyone out….
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