I will start off my first post on BlogsWeLuv.com by saying a big thank you to the staff for bringing me on the team. I hope my contributions to this marvelous project will pay back the trust you have placed in me.

When I think back to my highschool days - quite a few years back now - I remember there was always that one quiet achiever in the midst of us loudmouths. While my friends and I were busy filling our hyperactive brains with the latest sports scores, or that new show we saw on tv, this one quiet achiever was busy putting together her first article for the local paper, or practicing his lines for that theater production in the town hall.

Do you remember such a person from your past?

The quiet achiever I want to talk about today is Andreas Viklund of AndreasViklund.com. I ran across this interesting blog a few days ago during one of my daily blog reading escapades and I have to admit I was instantly impressed.

According to his about page, Andreas is a quiet 27 year old designer from the town of JokkMokk in northern Sweden. He lives a quiet life with his girlfriend Johanna.

Browsing through his blog I realize Andreas is a designer - and a rare breed at that. He has designed numerous free website templates and wordpress themes that he gives away to his readers. All he asks for in return from people using his work is for them to “kindly keep ‘Design by Andreas Viklund’” in the footer.

That’s it? Think again!

I was about to leave the blog when I realized there is another side to Andreas - a more public side.

He has played the piano since he was three, written his own music at the age of four and performed live since the age of five!

Andreas has been publishing music on the web since 1997. His band Lagoona was popular for several years for their techno-pop music style. He is nice enough to provide his readers with a complete reportoire of Lagoona’s mp3 songs as well as a large sampling of his own work. I downloaded a couple of the tunes and enjoyed them immensely.

You can check out this extensive mp3 collection at Andreas’ music section.

Whether you are looking for some fine tunes to cruise along with, if you are in need of some new templates for your website, or simply to get a Swedish perspective of a day to day life, I invite you all to take a few minutes and visit AndreasViklund.com. You won’t regret it. I sure did not!

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