Höganäs

I got a new tea cup! It's gorgeous, wonderfully huge (but not too thick, don't like that) and has a lovely wooden coaster. It's perfect for my morning cup of tea... oh and my afternoon cup too of course! Made by Swedish ceramic company Höganäs.

Infringement

Such a bummer! My work is being infringed upon on Ebay! Someone is selling my work as their own, taking my digital images and pasting them badly into digital frames and selling them for 99 cents. How they dare I do not know. So gross! This is actually not the first case of this happening, which is really sad.

A big shout out thank you to a loyal fan Angela who let me know about this. I am now doing all that I can to get the Ebay stores shut down.

Take a look for yourself...

There are actually 16 whole listings with stolen works, and works of other artist's works as well. I've contacted one artist whose work I recognized. I also spend a rather long time searching through Ebay to see if anyone else had the fantastic idea of stealing my work. But for now I think it is just this one seller and her two stores. Poo on you mean person. ha!

Why can't everyone be honest?

Malmö

So we're back from a quick weekend in Malmö. We didn't even have time to take proper photos of the city, just a few glimpses. We were just too busy cooking, fixing, planning, rearranging and preparing for our friend's party. It was nice being away from home for a little while. I hope we can visit again this summer, I'd really like to explore the city more.

Lots of newly built buildings with interesting geometry

what is this?

triangles!

Johan always insists on shoving the camera in my face.

a little time for some culture... we got to see Goya etchings! rather morbid...

I love the creamy lightness

We got to play with baby Mateo. Cutie!

just a smidge of a rooftop

worn floors

boyfriend loves photographing stuff like this... as you can see

old!

What could this possibly unlock? Hilarious!

Here we are, very black and red. It was freezing cold in Malmö, burrr.

Happy Monday!

Le Weekend starts now

Stockholm's gorgeous Central Station Via Flickr. Click for source.

The boyfriend and I are now sitting on a train heading south on our way to Malmö for the weekend. We will be celebrating a friend's 30th and hopefully get to explore the city a little. I've only been to Malmö once before, so I look forward to seeing what this other major Swedish city has to offer. I think we'll have a grand time.

Happy Weekend!

OH Francois!

Source: 30dialogues.tumblr.com via Kim on Pinterest

Mr. Truffaut it has been far too long since I last saw one of your gorgeous films. Shame on me...

Cherry Blossom Branches, Ribbons and Pearls

Progress report: It's finished! I went a little drawing crazy last night and started as well as finished my second scarf design. I think it turned out gloriously... all I have to do now is erase the scribbly pencil lines and it will be ready to scan.

I'm really bad at stopping to take photos inbetween layers of work but this is what I did...

Cherry Blossoms, Ribbons and Pearls

I started with the branches and the little buds. Then added swirls of pearl strands.

Then I finished with tied ribbons, they almost resemble butterflies. 

Since I was still super excited about drawing I decided to ink it in as well. Took all evening and lots of tv show watching!

Now it looks like this...

What a gorgeous tangle!

I love drawing slowly, deciding carefully which parts will over lap or left in the background.

I think my pearl circles turned out rather round. Pretty!

I can't wait to color it in with shades of rich corn blue and pretty pinks with highlights of white pearls and light green buds. Here's my inspiration if you missed my past post...

The ribbons are inspired by Japanese wishing trees. Pieces of paper with wishes are tied on to the branches like in this gorgeous photo. Such a romantic idea.

Via Flickr. Click for source.

What ever shall I draw now?

38

Too bad the picture is a bit grainy... we look nice anyhow. Taken on New Years actually :)

Today we've been together 38 months. Feels like we've been together since forever but it's only been just over 3 years. Boyfriend and I like to at least acknowledge all of our little anniversaries. The year anniversaries get of course most attention with extra fancy delicious dinners or a meal on the town... but each month it is nice to at least get a few extra kisses and sigh how time flies and how very very very happy we are together.

I love how he tucks his tie into his shirt, hehe. (well I love absolutely everything about him.)

Alright enough sappiness!

From the beginning...

Today I feel like starting a new scarf. I've gotten loads of other work done this morning so time for some fun. I deserve it! I've got lots of favorite shows on the ready and I finally got a vision for a scarf... and I thought I'd let you in on what I'm thinking for this design from the beginning.

Source: housebeautiful.com via Kristina on Pinterest

After seeing this photo via Pinterest I've been obsessed with the color scheme. I adore that corn blue color especially with the accents of dark pink and highlights of white. So a scarf in this scheme I must just do. But what to draw? Not much into having urns on my pretty scarves*... but those cherry blossom branches would be perfect. Lets start there and see where it takes me.

So now I'm going to go brew myself a huge cup of tea, get the shows rolling and start the drawing process. I've already gotten my big white square of paper on the ready. I'm so excited!


*Urns are creepy. What are you supposed to put in them? All I think of is ashes...

Mogis

I've been collaborating with Malin aka Mogi for a while now. She's a rather famous Swedish personal style blogger with very expensive taste and a fun light hearted writing style. Closet envy if there ever was one. Geez! Every season I give her header a fresh new look. Though Spring is pretty far away we gave the blog a warmer simpler look. I think it's the best one yet. Like a breath of fresh air. So gorgeous... and I'm not so much an orange fan. Guess I am now!

Malin now writes her goofy, fashion filled posts in English, so you can all enjoy her blog.

DIY Floral Heels

You might find this strange. I'm not very crafty! But I'm an 'artist' you say... I dunno, not much crafting going on here. It's too messy and you need sooooo many supplies.

But sometimes projects are just too tempting. Such as these gorgeous Floral decoupage heels by Underbara Clara's sister Anna. Find the directions here... (in Swedish though of course.)

I want to run out and get and pair of plain black heels and start glueing right away. ha!

Satin Dress

Some times it's really nice to get lost in the wonderful world of Flickr's The Commons. Here you can find all kinds of glorious things like this picture of a glamorous woman in a satin dress holding a mirror. I wonder who she is?

Learn more about the photo here...

The weekend

Me pre snow storm

Hello Monday! Do you promise this is going to be a great week... pretty please. Not that last week was bad or anything.

hello neighbors

I had a very cosy delicious weekend. It snowed and I didn't do very much... especially on Sunday (but that's the point of Sundays, isn't it?). Everything is white and fluffy and I feel relaxed and refreshed. So wonderful! I love that we have finally gotten a little touch of snow this winter. Hopefully it stays for a while and doesn't just melt away, turn to nasty gray slush, bläh. It will really lighten up the winter darkness.

This is our wintery dark (rather creepy) view of our neighbors.

New Scarf Design!

I finished my first classic square scarf design for the next collection. It is supposed to represent another personal favorite 1700s iconic style maker, Madame du Pompadour. To give you a hint as to how it's gonna look... pink pink pink, frills, a little blue, pearls and gold. I think it's going to be lovely!





Got to get a start on a few other designs... but I'm kind of blocked as to what to draw. Hope this goes over soon.

Now it's time to meet up my delicious boyfriend in town, so we can go buy some yummy groceries for tonights romantic Saturday night dinner. Can't wait!

Girly!

I think I may quite possibly be girly enough to pull off this super frilly light pink outfit. I would love to wear it today actually if it magically found it's way into my closet... but with tights and long gloves of course, it's chilly in Sweden!

via Glamour Magazine UK

So flippin' cute!

Happy Saturday.

By the Sea

Last week the boyfriend and I visited the sea on a rather gray rainy day... took photos of driftwood and collected gorgeous sea softened pebbles. It was nice anyhow...



























Little Red Riding Hood, hehe.