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Instagram July

Aug 5, 2013 in My art and illustration, Instagram and Travels

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So apparently I’ve been instagramming like crazy this past month. I’ve had lots of free time to do stuff and document it. Very image (and video) heavy post!


I showed a few old photos a couple of months ago, which reminded me of this other box of photos I had been looking for, and I finally found it. This is me at 12 in 1996.

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Later the same year.


At the beach with my sister in -96.


Riding a ferris wheel, -96.


On my 13th birthday, -96.

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Posing with blue lipstick and “hair mascara” at 13, probably -96 as well.

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My cousin and sister being the most adorable bakers ever, christmas -96.

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My beautiful new earrings.

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My amazing sneakers that I unfortunately almost never wear.


A vampire with braces. Probably Halloween 1997.


Unintentional leopard print matching.

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Graduating 9th class.

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On vacation in -99. I still draw with that pen.

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Two great belts I found at a flea market.

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When I was visiting my parents we sorted and cleaned out stuff from the attic, here are some of my old school books with fantastic wrapping and labels.

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Mum’s amazing toy kitchen.

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Progress photos of Sorceress of the prehistoric planet taken while painting on the porch at my parents’ house.

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Found my old foldable glasses.

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Progress of Lightning.

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I visited the Sixten Jernberg museum with my parents and had trocadero and salted herring.

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I love jars of ski wax, both old and new.

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Nice graphics. Made in Malung!

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More progress of Lightning.

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Thumbnail sketches.

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Idea sketches. I used some of these ideas for The crystal spire II.


Tippen badge found in the attic. Tippen was a great summer vacation tv show when I was a kid.

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Back home, wearing a playsuit I made some years ago.


My first exhibition at the local library, 1999.


New Year’s Eve 1999-2000 in Äppelbo.

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Brudskogen, around 2000.


Halloween -99, I think.

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My room in -99.

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Another view.

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Makeup in 2000.

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Henrik on the porch.

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And me, talking on the phone.

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Going to the Malung spring fair, probably 2001.


More makeup from 2000 or 2001

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Wearing a Raintower sweater by Naomi Nowak.

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A faerie with most excellent hair in 2000.


Faerie again, ca 2001.

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My room again in about 2001. Björk, Bettie Page, Marilyn Monroe, Thåström and Nina Hagen on the walls.


Faerie again, 2000 or 2001.


Halloween 2001, I think.

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The Halloween gang.

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Christmas baking with candy hair, 2001 or 2002.

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My ancient tube of black lipstick. I don’t even remember when I got it.


With my uncle’s cat Columbus, about 2001.

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Shopping at Tidens Melodi on our road trip!

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A cup of tea in Karlstad

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Field in Bohuslän.

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Beautiful building at amusement park Liseberg in Göteborg.

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Amazing dinosaur outside Universeum in Göteborg.

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Henrik at Kullaberg.

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These road trip instagrams aren’t in order since I didn’t have internet access all the time. Here I am in Karlstad again outside the hostel.


The beach in Skåne.

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And here’s Kullaberg again.

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Pretend comic book heroine.

Made a few Instagram videos as well:

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Henrik got a record player so we brought down my old LP records from the attic. Here’s a selection!

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A morning walk in Bohuslän.

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The ocean at Kullaberg.

As if that wasn’t enough, here are some of Henrik’s Instagrams.


An 80s day in the city. I found those earrings among our dress up clothes in the attic in Malung.


The best ice cream I’ve ever had. Blackcurrant sherbet from AH:s.


Karlstad.


Skåne.


A day at Serieteket, a library for comics and graphic literature in Stockholm.

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Henrik’s video of the Pallas’s cat.

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And the wolverines.

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Video of Tidens Melodi.