Some Snippets

Into the Forest, and a Fairy Tale

2010-10-09T09:15:08Z

I'm feeling quite affected by the Swedish autumn weather which caused me to want to post some images to express my melancholy.

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High-waisted jean shorts from Tokyo Stop

2010-08-13T15:00:56Z

I'm selling the vintage Tokyo Stop shorts from Looklet.com! I'm also slowly putting up some other items during the weekend. Check them out by clicking here. :)

The Housewarming Party, Highlights of a Rainy Night

2010-08-12T08:12:56Z

Carl Johan and I had our housewarming party on Saturday night and I didn't take any photographs because I couldn't be bothered ― oops! What a serious tragedy!

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The Swarovski Lobster Brooch

2010-08-05T07:51:47Z

If you know me, you know I happen to fancy unusual jewelry, or well, unusual anything. I'm all for gaudiness, bold colours, strange shapes, and frippery — I really wanted to use the word 'frippery,' could you tell? Now that I have refreshed your memory on my jewelry likes, take a look at this little fellow...

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The Beautiful Blogger Award

2010-08-03T19:00:44Z

The Beautiful Blogger Award was given to me by a blogger that I recently discovered who keeps a blog called Style Wilderness. I'm not certain what the award implies, to be fair, but I thought I'd play along anyway for the fun of it.

The rules of the “award” are vague but I’ve concluded that I should be telling you, the readers, ten things about myself that you possibly might not know and then award some other bloggers at the end. I don’t feel like writing about myself for ten whole bullet points so we’ll make it five. Switching it up!

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"En svensk och amerikansk sommar i Finland"

2010-07-28T19:10:45Z

A few weeks ago on a very early Friday morning, Carl Johan was in transit to his job, crossing a very barren Medborgarplatsen, when he made eye contact with a Finnish man with a microphone and camera crew in tow. Although he used his very best maneuvering skills, the Finns were far better, stepping in and asking him if he'd like to go to Finland for the weekend to be on a television show called "En svensk sommar i Finland."

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Snippets from "The Life & Times of Ollie Crafoord"

2010-07-28T19:06:49Z

Hey Livejournalers if there's any of you still out there,

I'm going to be testing out some things for fun so you'll be seeing posts here for a bit again. My current blog, The Life & Times of Ollie Crafoord, is really great but I've really missed some of my LJ friends who I liked to chat with on my comments pages. I thought it might be nice if I started posting snippets of the things I write over here so that if you're interested, you could easily see and chat again. Yes, I obviously haven't anything better to do right now. Prepare yourself!

The End of a LiveJournal

2009-08-10T12:59:49Z

If you're still subscribed to me as a friend and reader and you are still hanging around looking for my posts (it's come to my attention that there's a few of you), I want to let you in on a little secret: I've moved and I won't be coming back to write here! I only use my account to comment and read your blogs. Otherwise, you can find my writing over at my website.

WWW.OLLIECRAFOORD.SE

And no, there's no more captcha-before-commenting any more. (That was annoying.) Remember to bookmark me and leave a comment. ;)

Ollie Crafoord

Reasons of Relocating, 1, 2, 3

2009-05-27T12:36:40Z

Dear LJ-ers,

I want to redirect you over to my new blog. I won't be writing from here any more but, happily, you can still read and comment over at the other one. All you have to do is type in your name and e-mail address plus a comment and submit. So no problems there, right?

Here, all of my previous entries will, sadly, be made into private entries but luckily, if you were wanting to read something from a thousand years ago, they'll all be over at the other blog. Just click through, click through. They are all there.

One reason for such a move is that I am moving in the real life world on June 18th to Sweden and wanted a very proper place to record my photos, travels, and reviews that I will definitely be making starting next week when I go on holiday.

Another more serious reason is that LiveJournal policies severely restrict the kind of things I am allowed to publish; for instance, I cannot publish content about ebay sellers scamming people (and myself) out of money and posting the persons' ebay ID (truth!) without having my entry suspended and purged of information. LiveJournal can remove content (and have) without allowing me to save said content and I find this very unfair. People should be notified before a service starts deleting all kinds of things in their own blog. Also, on another hand, LiveJournal's service has become very shoddy and very biased (you will have noticed that I'm not the only person leaving LJ). Therefore, I have gone to hosting my own blog where, if a person wishes me to remove content, they can contact me.

After many years of being a faithful LJ-supporter, and after several months of serious thought after watching a decent journal-hosting site go downhill, I've decided this is the correct decision. LiveJournal is a thing of the past.

Are you ready to go now?
www.olliecrafoord.se

I drew some doodles.

2009-04-21T20:13:30Z

They are all about not being able to see properly at the moment. Go check them out at flickr.