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Hot Craft Summer: A Summer Bucket List from Team Lars

Brittany

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July 29, 2021

Hot Craft Summer: A Summer Bucket List from Team Lars

I think we have put together a pretty good summer bucket list, if I do say so myself. From travel dreams to growing gardens, Team Lars has a great summer planned. And all of us are doing something crafty! Read on for summertime inspiration!

Hot Craft Summer: The Ultimate Summer Bucket List

Brittany

Paint the hutch (and stay tuned, because something fabulous is in the works!)
Go to the waterpark for Jasper
Have someone over to the new house (though we’ll have to wait until we’ve all fully healed from our COVID nightmare!)

A fancy summer picnic next to a pond.

Garet

Bracelet making party with my gals
Make a family video + have an outdoor movie night
Make homemade peach ice cream
Go on a long Saturday morning bike ride at a county park

Jane

Do more creative photoshoots – more personal work.
Go on more morning walks & bike rides.
Go on a road trip to see an outdoor musical/play

Hailey

Start traveling a little bit
Get a tan haha (who amongst us can deny this desire??)
Perfect my capsule wardrobe

(Speaking of travel, read up on Brittany’s trip to Cuba from a few years ago here!)

Gwen

Float on my back in a cold lake
Grow a perfect tomato
Be in an art show

Lawn Rainbow Makeover

More Summer Inspiration

Now that you know what each individual Lars Girl has on her summer bucket list, check out this post for our mythical Lars Girl’s summer style mood board. And whether you’re traveling to extra sunny climes or just hanging out in your backyard, you can also see more of our favorite summer style here.

If your summer days involve more chasing kids around and less lounging poolside with a cool beverage, this kids craft roundup and these creative challenges are sure to be a big help. You can even buy our kids art kit to gather all your crafting materials in one fell swoop.

And regardless of your age or parent status, all these quick summer crafts will get your creative wheels turning without a lot of fuss. Definitely summer bucket list worthy!

Want to make something fun to wear? Take a leaf out of Hailey’s book and work on a capsule wardrobe or get one of our beaded fruit earring kits (find them in the shop here)!

I’d love to know what you’re planning to do with the rest of this summer season! Let me know in the comments or

The installations of Chateau Chaumont

Brittany

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October 27, 2017

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I just got back from the most glorious trip to France (actually sitting in the airport on our last leg now!) for 10 days and I can’t tell you how many miracles happened to make it such a particularly memorable experience. Well, miracles combined with a lot of poor customer service, but that’s par for the course, I suppose. I hope you were able to follow along on Instagram and Instastories because I did a lot of documenting. A lot. But don’t worry, I’ll be more thorough here on the blog. Lucky you 😉

I wanted to start with one of the most magical experiences of the trip: Chateau Chaumont. We went to France to attend the wedding of Paul’s brother who lives in Denmark and got married to a lovely lady from the Loire region. I had done a ton of research on which chateaux to visit as we’d have a car for the first portion of our trip thanks to our friends at AutoEurope so we planned a road trip for the days prior to the wedding staring out in Brittany and Normandy and then working our way down. I knew we’d have a bit of sight-seeing time around the wedding celebrations, but, like all travel schedules, time is way more limited than you think it’s going to be–gah! The day of the wedding was one such example. We had about two hours to go do something before we had to get ready for the town hall wedding in Onzain. Instead of the chateaux I had researched, I looked on the map and noticed one just across the river–because that’s what happens when you are in chateau-land–chateaux just appear out of nowhere. We popped over and what do you know? There’s a Flower Power Festival. You can imagine my excitement.

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Lars Bucket List Trip: Carl and Karin Larsson’s home in Sundborn, Sweden

Brittany

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August 3, 2016

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There are certain places in the world that mark your memory and change your vision of the world. Visiting Carl Larsson’s home in Sundborn, Sweden was one of those places. Sadly, when I visited a few years ago, I didn’t take great pictures, and you’re not allowed to take pictures inside. BUT! Lars contributor, Meta Coleman, captured it on a recent trip and documented some lovely details and wrote about her experience. Her story kicks off a new series called Lars Bucket List Trips where every now and again I’ll share places to add to your bucket list. Perhaps they’ll inspire you too.

As a child I had a large Carl Larsson print in my room. It was of a girl sitting in her bedroom holding a tulip. I felt very connected to that little girl and to the beautiful day to day family life painted by Carl Larsson.

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