This has been a more eventful week than the last ones when I was either sick or glazed a lot in the sun. Sounds like a terrible entrepreneur haha. Everything important has been done anyway :)

This week it has been full speed though!

Hillside Media and Peragenda.se
Miska builds websites on the side of (you can contact him at hillside.media if you need help!) and he not only builds the website but is also a consultant on marketing and social media etc. if you need it. The last job he did was for Peragenda and it's done now! On Peragenda.se do you see the website that Miska built and pictures photographed by me!

This is what it looks like right when you enter the page :)

I have photographed all the pictures except the one that is under "lecture", however I I edited it so that it will fit a little more into the theme.

When the days go by too fast
Between Wednesday-Friday I would hardly be home at all so I did all the "admin computer work" on Monday and Tuesday instead (including a lot with Peragenda's website) so on Monday I did not have time to put on make-up at all and on Tuesday I did it after all the computer work which was in the evening instead.

What do you not do for blog material for you;)

Feels completely normal to do a party makeup at 21 on a Tuesday to wash it off immediately afterwards and then go to bed haha.

Work with permanent makeup on Åland
On Wednesday we had a job booked on Åland! Annika's baby Mileya is over three months now and Annika will already start working a little. She usually goes to Åland from time to time and does permanent makeup at the salon Angela's Beauty Base and the Ålanders were lucky to get their first thing now after the maternity leave because we would also buy a treatment bed from there. Two flies :)

So on Wednesday we took a car and trailer on the boat to Åland for two working days there!

Miska and I took care of Mileya in the meantime :) Annika pumped milk so we could feed with a bottle, but she did not get out enough at once so we had to come for refills between customers. But it went well!

The first time Miska and I had lunch alone with a baby! Annika's pram really fit in well with the decor here :)

I also managed to do a bit of computer work, but there are not many gaps you get when you take care of a child! :)

Hokuspokus stone for the career and get advice from angels!
The shop opposite the salon on Åland sold crystals and tarot cards. When we were waiting for Annika to finish with her customer, I strolled in there and was attached to a yellow crystal stone! I had no plans at all to buy something like that but just peeked for fun, I think hocus pocus is great fun if other do it but have never been interested in doing it yourself. But then suddenly I stood with this yellow and white stone and felt "I have to have this" and also left with an angel card game!

What happens :)

This stone is sometimes called the "success stone" and brings success, optimism and confidence. A happy and positive stone then! Right now the stone is on my to-do list :) Mainly I think it will contribute to my career, after a tough autumn and then a quiet rest period, I think I will get speed under my feet again and then need a little push. The stone is said to stimulate our brain and provide increased motivation, creativity and ability to concentrate.

It should also be good for helping with changes and counteracting negative energies, it turns bad energies into positive ones and is good when you have had a lot of negative energy and conflicts around you. Simply cleansing, nice!

The angel card game went on in the evening when Miska and I tried to predict each other. I wanted to get advice about my life situation right now, meaning that I currently take everything as it comes and do not push my career forward as I usually do. I have a break where I only work with what I already have, is that right?

The first sentence on my card (there is a guidebook) was "This card comes to you with validation that you are on the right path”. Among other things, it also said "Be in the present moment and do not allow yourself to worry about the future"And"Avoid compromising or watering down your projects to fit your imaginings about what customers want”.

Felt in the middle of nowhere! Last Friday night I sat alone and drew another card and then did not make any specific thoughts but thought about what advice my mother would like to give me in general. Out of 44 cards, I got the exact same card again !! It must be a sign, right?

Life goal inspiration
On the second Åland Day, Annika had customers only at 13.00, so after breakfast Miska and I hung out at the hotel's indoor pool and my life-goal dream got a real boost!

We were completely alone there and Miska sat next to the pool and practiced Spanish while I swam for 40 minutes to meditation music. I could have swum for any length of time if I had not had to think about the clock, did not want to get up!

You who have followed my Sunday posts for a while know that my big concrete life goal is to live in a house with an indoor pool, that has been the case since I was little and we swam lengths in sports at school.

Annika and I swim about once a week now and I really like it in addition to having to go to a swimming pool and also be crowded with people in the swimming pool. It takes away the whole charm!

After this wonderful moment, I have now honed my dream-morning routine which I currently imagine will be in a house in the mountains of southern Spain:
Wake up early, wrap myself in a cozy bathrobe, choose the outfit of the day and prepare the coffee maker with timer.
Turn on cozy music by the pool, I want large windows or glass wall so you get a lot of daylight as well. Then I swim completely without counting lengths or having a set time, I just swim and am in the present. Will be another half hour. Maybe planning the day, maybe thinking of new ideas or I'm not thinking of anything at all. Just as I feel for right then!
Next to the pool I have a shower room, an infrared sauna and a cozy sitting area. I then put on a face mask and sit in the sauna for 10 minutes, infrared sauna is very useful and goes in a few minutes to warm up! The days I wash my hair, of course I have hair wrap in the sauna as well.
Then I shower off with a shower cream that smells really good and then go to the dressing corner where I have a beauty corner with mirror, skin care and makeup. I lubricate my whole body, apply a light make-up and a bright lip color (do you think I might not take step-by-step make-up still then?) Then I let go of my hair and put on the outfit of the day that is ready.
Then Miska has woken up and is sitting with coffee and breakfast, we have many cozy seats in our home depending on the weather and mood so it will always be just as exciting to see where Miska has served breakfast right today. Will it be on our sunny terrace, the cozy corner with poufs or in the large bright kitchen?

Then the working day starts after about 2 hours of morning routine (?) But since I got up early, the day has still just started!

Here I swim and visualized how my beauty products would look good in the shower room outside the sauna in my future dream home haha ♥ Dreams are important!

Makeup job & salon fix
Last Friday we had a full day in town! We were going to fix the last thing in the extra room, but due to miscommunication regarding keys, we did not get in there until the afternoon, so Miska and I sat and worked in a café for a few hours instead. Not quite a shame either!

Here I am, updating Creative Makeup's Instagram while waiting for my photos to be uploaded to my computer. Saved seconds etc;)

Then I had a fun assignment at the salon when one of my most loyal regulars on lashes and eyebrows had also booked a make-up consultation! How fun!!

I had never seen her in makeup before so it was unusual even for me actually haha, there is a difference between makeup people you have never met before and people you know. People you have never met come as a blank sheet and then you only look with the artist's eye as well!

You will see before and after pictures next week! She was very happy and when I went through all the products at the end of the consultation, she was silent for a few seconds and said "I just can not stop looking in the mirror" ♥ So go!

I took the opportunity to fill in the make-up corner at home as well and take beauty guide make-up with these products! In the old room I worked on site every day and took care of orders etc. so then I always took what I needed to my photo studio without thinking so much, but in the new salon it is the colleagues who fix everything so suddenly it felt like that I walked around and snatched haha!

Then finally Annika and Mileya came with a key so we could fix it in the extra room too! It was a long day.

Next week, Annika will start working two short shifts a week, so then we will be at the salon again!

But first a free Sunday in the sun :)

Hugs are! ♥

What a sunny and nice week we have! I enjoy being in a quiet period both in work life and private life and alternate the days with work and recovery in nature :)

I remember many times last autumn when I thought "you should never wish that life goes faster, but right now I just want to speed up time and skip all this”.

But now I am here in the time I wanted to jump to! And the sun is shining too! ♥

Kissing meetings (ppersonal udevelopmentssamtal)
We have not been able to have individual staff meetings before because we did not have a staff room at the new salon after the move, you can not sit and talk about such things in the waiting room where both colleagues and customers run;) But now we have staff rooms again so I booked calls with everyone!

After all the meetings, I told Miska "it is easy to have staff meetings when you have such a good team!”And that's how it really felt! Everyone is happy with the new premises and works well together, both the collaboration and the chemistry in the group.

We also talked a lot about the schedule and possible improvements to the autumn schedule. It itches in my fingers to begin with, but I think it's still a bit too early, it's almost six months left and things still have time to change :)

Here I sit with the notes in full swing, waiting for the next colleague to come and settle down :)

Image editing deluxe
Last Sunday I wrote that I had been a photographer for a website that Miska is building. I'm not a photographer, so I do the opposite of how to "should". Real photographers fix good conditions with light etc. in place to take as few pictures as possible and then edit as little as possible. I myself shoot wildly and then I edit the shit out of all the pictures haha.

Note, I do not take photographer prices for my jobs either;)

Here is one of the pictures I edited this week:

The picture will be quite small on the website so small details do not really matter that much. But since this gang was really working and working, everyone turned out differently in different pictures, so this is really a clip of two pictures.

Here you see before and after editing:

A little difference huh! If an editing project like this takes time for a beginner like me? Answer yes, haha! Unreasonably long time, not at all defensible really. But I think it's fun too, so it's hard to stop once I start!

Reader question about the health journey
“Heeejj! I find it interesting to read about your health journey you make. But what you have written is spread out in several posts, could you not be kind and write a summary in the next Sunday post with what you have done for changes (in everyday life) and above all why? I do not like to follow health accounts on instagram because it gets a little too exaggerated for my taste, but I get inspired when ordinary people post tips. But mostly I think it's because you write about a mixture of medical and a little hocus pocus with healing etc :-) which makes it more fun. Thanks in advance!"

What luck that you think it's interesting because I'm starting to get scared that you will get tired of me and my throat soon haha :) Here is a summary focusing on the changes as I did:

Problem areas
What problems I have in my body are those that I experience myself and those that I have learned through blood tests and healing.

Feel yourself: Recurrent throat infections with high fever. Has just come out of a stressful period and is not stressed anymore but that kind of thing can sit for a while afterwards. But between the infections, I feel great!

Blood test via Werlabs: Elevated blood levels on red blood cells (not dangerous and usually due to dehydration) low with vitamin b12 (because I have not eaten meat or poultry in almost 2 years) and that I have good blood fats right now but if you look at the long term I should think on diet and exercise to not be at risk for cardiovascular disease. When I'm sick, I have high infection levels, so it's not just "bad luck with colds" but higher than that. I am also outside the reference value of vitamin D but not too low but too high haha! Although not dangerously high or so, but it was interesting I think, do not need such supplements in any case :)

Healing: I have mercury in my body that I need to clear out. I have an imbalance in my masculine side (right). My sore throat is collective anger and that I have wanted to say no and say what I think but that I have kept it to myself. I also had lumps of energy that stuck like velcro on me because someone threw jealousy and envy at me.

Changed diet
I am already neither very useful nor useless, Miska cooks good food but we also eat a lot of ice cream and goodies;) What I have changed or added is the following:

• Omega3 (for blood fats) both in tablet form and via chia seeds in breakfast.
• Probiotics with good bacteria that are good for lots of things
• Spirulina and blueberries (to cleanse the body of eg mercury) also in breakfast
• Healing water with shungite stones, I have a water purifier so it is very clean water from the beginning and the stones also purify in in the body, from e.g. stress and is anti-inflammatory. In addition, it is good for me to drink extra water for elevated blood levels may be due to dehydration.
• Nettle which I cook myself (dad picks and dries nettles) is good for lots of things, google! In the winter I drank it hot in a mug, now I drink it as a chilled drink in a nice glass :)

Exercise
I do not think it's great fun to train, but I have a small pedaling machine that I "jog" on and kind of dance to Latin music at the same time :) And after that I do some strength exercises and push-ups. I have to be a little fiery when I train, counting repetitions is the worst I know. Then I started running and walking now in the spring weather too! It will not be super heavy because I would rather train a little every day than fewer hard workouts.

However, it is not possible to get into exercise regularly when you get sick all the time.

Healing & meditation
I have started meditating a lot myself, several times a week, plus I went to a professional healing and am thinking of booking another one. I believe a lot in self-healing, and above all it is science that stress is dangerous and creates diseases (?) And if you can reduce stress with the help of meditation and healing, you get a healthier life from just that!

Just like with training, I do not like to do what someone decides in advance or tells me to do, so I am a little too fuzzy for regular meditation too haha. I can not listen to a meditation with a guiding voice, I just have to have music and run my own race.

Booking a healing was awesome I think! At first I felt very heavy, then I got really hot in the left side of my head, then I saw a dark blue pattern when I closed my eyes (kind of like going into a black cave opening with jagged edges at the entrance and inside the cave it was a dark blue glow) and then I felt the pulse very strong in my legs for about a minute. And in the end, I felt so light that I thought the thought "wonder if I float a few millimeters now?".

Pure body
I have also taken out my IUD, just for the body to be completely itself. And then I rarely drink alcohol (rarely compared to many) and do not smoke or anything like that. So the body is pretty much itself or what to say, no additives :)

Results?
The throat infections continue, however, so I will go to the Ear-Nose-Throat on 13 May. But I am still convinced that self-care is great too! It is very satisfying to be kind to your body and it is never unnecessary! I will never stop eating ice cream and stuff because I believe in being kind to the soul too;) and I will never be that health junkie who bakes chocolate balls without sugar. But just the thought of being kind to your body and liking it probably makes the body kinder to me too! :)

Here is my nettle tea that I enjoyed this week in the spring sun for a while every day! To live in the country this fine spring is meditation just that, when the hens walk around and peck in the garden and the only thing that is heard is the chirping of birds which is occasionally interrupted by bile from the roosters ♥

Save in mutual funds & shares - adult points
I think I should take some responsibility for my finances and not just have a savings account without interest but actually get some return. I hate risks, but when I go through the options locked fixed interest rate account and funds with super low risk, the return is so small that I can almost have them left in the savings account instead haha.

I have done a lot of research on this because I am a 100% beginner, which was the most boring research I have ever done. Then I just drove!

My distribution of my savings:

• 1/4 in shares with super high risk in a newly started company that I blogged about in this Sunday post.
• 1/4 in shares with much less risk. This company also usually pays dividends, meaning that you can make money if the company makes a profit without having to sell shares.
• 1/4 in three different funds, one with higher risk, one with medium and one with low risk.
• 1/4 remains in a regular savings account as a safe buffer. To some extent it gets huh;)

So in short, everything is varied risk so it is a mixture of security and that you have a chance to earn really well if you are lucky. There are also different industries, which also provides additional risk diversification than if all companies were about finance, e.g.

My goal with the shares with super high risk is that they should be tripled and then I should withdraw the amount that I invested - then only "bonus money" is growing. Money I've never had.

The safer equity investment has previously gone up and down a lot and I suspect that it will continue to do so. Note 100% beginner analysis. So my hopeful plan there is to get a dividend, then wait for a "top" and then sell the shares at a good profit. Then I wait until they have a dip and then I buy the same again! IF the plan goes as I imagine (which is definitely not the least bit sure haha) then I have calculated that I can pick out about 30,000 in dividends + return of maybe 1.5 years.

How old do I not sound now? Miska has been a sounding board but I have done everything myself! Everything from opening an ISK account to finding all funds and shares and buying them. Worst independent right;)

Miska is a little worried about how I will react if I lose money, and it can happen that everything goes to the forest. But it's not like playing the lottery and just being lucky, I've actually thought through this a lot and even if something turns out to be a minus business, shouldn't everything be? You have to take some risks sometimes and I have not invested everything I own and have and do not risk personal bankruptcy or so :)

I was sooo excited after this! First immediately after I bought all the funds and shares and then when I went into my account an hour later and saw that I already earn 275 kronor haha! The future will show how smart or unsmart moves I made this day;)

Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people will not, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can not.
You may be jealous of me now but I have otherwise had a very quiet work week!

Monday - A long day in the city with various errands (blood tests, bvc, fix and leave financial data + had customers at the salon) but also had time to practice swimming in the middle of the day! Luxury!
Tuesday - Worked from home and got a lot done. Miska did not sleep at home so then I could be an old ordinary workaholic-Helena and work until late at night. So I checked a lot of things on the to-do list!
Wednesday - Work from home in the morning, then a long coffee break in the sun before we had staff meetings in town.
Thursday - Sunbathed all day and instead worked in the afternoon from 3 pm onwards.
Friday - Worked from home between 8-12 then we went home to our friends Monica and Niklas and hung out with them all afternoon!
Saturday - Worked between 8-11 then free all the sunny weekend!

Being able to set up your work week like this is absolutely amazing! Think I can adapt my working days to the weather? Of course it has its drawbacks too and OJ what we have struggled to get here. And note I can not have it like this every week for the rest of my life from now on;) But still, I enjoy!

Annika and I sat and talked a bit about it this week, because she has opened her schedule in May and June now and will start taking some customers. Then Miska and I have the baby :) But we have to check how it is with taxes and stuff when you are both on maternity leave and working, how much salary you can take, etc. I said that as long as it works financially in the company, she should take so a lot of salary as it goes, because me and Miska take out full salary (however, we are the two who have the least salary in the whole company hehe) even though we also work less than before now when we are "bonus parents". So it is unfair if she is the only one who is punished financially now that she has become a mother.

Then we got into the topic of conversation to be worth her salary, she thinks that if she does not work 100% then she is not worth a full salary. Because even if she starts to take some customers, she does not work as much as me and Miska. While I think that 1. she has been working 300% for 12 years now so she is definitely worth it. And 2. why should you build a company to get freedom and security if you still do not let yourself enjoy it when you have succeeded?

Now it's not about us not wanting to work at all, we want to! But there is a difference between working because it is fun and working just because you have to whip yourself to earn your salary :) This is really me and Annika in a nutshell, both think that the other deserves EVERYTHING but you feel yourself always that you do not contribute enough. The only real problem is that you have to get it together in business economics, then who is "worth" the most is a make-believe problem really as long as everyone is happy, which everyone is :)

There has been a lot of sun and rest this week! Here I am and Annika's cat Tussen who is 19 years old now! I was only 6 years old when she was born so we are almost the same age haha :)

Hope you had a good week too!

Hug, hug, hug! ♥