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Recently I had a chance to be virtually acquainted with \u00c5sa Lind Schrader, a Swede who has been living in Florida, USA for the last 9 years.<\/p>\n
How did she get there?<\/p>\n
Why, she met her great love of course!<\/p>\n
It seems that many of us can relate to moving to a completely different land for love.<\/p>\n
But living in America hasn’t made \u00c5sa any less of a Swedish Freak!<\/p>\n
Between raising two beautiful children, \u00c5sa is also a Swedish artist<\/strong>.<\/p>\n She makes beautiful pieces great for a child’s room.<\/p>\n And many of these pieces have a dash of Sweden<\/strong> in them.<\/p>\n Including the Pippy Longstocking toy box (yes, Pippy Longstocking is Swedish! That is general knowledge, right?)<\/p>\n She also did an amazing pot plant for the Royal Swedish Wedding (will there be one for the newborn?)<\/p>\n All of her work can be seen and purchased on her Etsy shop which is properly named SwedeArt!<\/p>\n I was lucky enough to be able to interview \u00c5sa and found out that she really is still a Swedish Freak!<\/p>\n Where abouts in Sweden are you from?<\/strong><\/p>\n I’m from Helsingborg, Sweden<\/p>\n How often do you go back to Sweden?<\/strong><\/p>\n I go back every year, at least once. It’s getting harder and harder though now that I have 3 kids…<\/p>\n Do you speak Swedish at home in Florida?<\/strong><\/p>\n Yes, I only speak Swedish to my kids and they understand everything but they usually answer me back in English.<\/p>\n What do you miss most about Sweden?<\/strong><\/p>\n I miss my family and of course some of the Swedish foods<\/a>. Sometimes people send me candy and stuff, nom nom!<\/p>\n I miss Swedish cheese<\/a> too and sometimes I try to bring it from home when I visit. It’s just different, you know? My family and friends send me “l\u00f6sgodis” which is just a mix of different candies and licorice & chocolates.<\/p>\n At home I usually drink Swedish coffee (zoegas). It’s made in Helsingborg and I just love it, so my dad alsways brings a suitcase full of it with him when he visits.<\/p>\n What is something very Swedish your family does in Florida?<\/strong><\/p>\n We have a small Swedish “club” and every year we get together and eat “semlor<\/a>” in a park, we also celebrate Christmas on the 24th, we take our shoes off in the house<\/a>, and I always offer people coffee when they come to my house We try to watch as many Swedish movies<\/a> as possible, and I read Swedish books<\/a>. I love the “\u00c4nglag\u00e5rd” movies and of course all the “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/a>” trilogy.<\/p>\n I also enjoy the Wallander series<\/a>, even my husband likes those, it’s a murder mystery type thing.<\/p>\n Stay tuned! Tomorrow we will have a contest where \u00c5sa will away a fabulous piece of SwedeArt exclusively on Swedish Freak!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently I had a chance to be virtually acquainted with \u00c5sa Lind Schrader, a Swede who has been living in Florida, USA for the last 9 years. How did she get there? Why, she met her great love of course! It seems that many of us can relate to moving to a completely different land … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[205,206],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2806"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Swedish](\"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/BrollopPot-225x300.jpg\" "\\"Swedish")
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