I am a 69-year-old woman who was born in Ed, Dalsland and now lives in Julita, Södermanland. I lived for many years in Borås, Västergötland and there are also my children and grandchildren.

I started photographing and developing the photos when I was 20 years of age and for many years this was my main interest. In the development room you could stand for many hours. Then when the digital camera came I had to learn photoshop instead.

I became interested in genealogy when one of my uncles showed what he was researching and another uncle wrote a book about his and his siblings’ upbringing. I started to examine genealogy myself when I was about 40 years old and as every genealogists knows, it takes a lot of time and you forget both time and space.

When I was a teenager, I drew a lot using both pencil and charcoal. When, in 2018, I came in contact with an artist on facebook and started following her, it made me curious if I could also paint so I started painting using acrylic and I find it so fun and exciting.

Manufacture of silver jewelry I did for about 5 years starting when I was about 50 years old.