post-xmas-stress

the Ipad is never far away :(

Finally! - we made gingerbread cookies last Sunday, about a month late :) Well, better late than never. Olivia, our eldest daughter came up with the house idea - tricky business with the slanted roof, but it turned out nicely in the end!

Best wishes for 2013!

I gave mattias binoculars for our new hobby - bird watching!

what's that strange species over there - oh, just a teenager passing by

best family shot ever with a self-timer

Our family, made by Mattias. Handmade gifts are the best!

Hope you celebrated a nice/peaceful/exciting/happy/creative/inspiring X-mas and New Years Eve!
2012 was a good year for me and I hope it was for you too.

I wish you all the best for this new year that lays ahead!

businesscard beauties

My businesscards from Moo! For the first time ever, I'm really proud to hand over a card!

kurbits and zickermans

Yesterday: beautiful weather, hot chocolate, oranges and ginger bread cake - a perfect day for skating on lake Mälaren.

I have been interviewed for Zickermans Värld - a swedish DIY blog - by Frida, who also did a post on me on her own blog Kurbits, one of the most reknown swedish craft blogs. You do need to know swedish though!

My website is down due to some technical problem over at the host :(  Very annoying. Hopefully fixed tomorrow.

needlework

 A day off to go to my colleague Ebba for an embroidery workshop with some other fellow Kaleido members. Pure pleasure!

we started off by drawing each other without looking at the paper

then we chose an interesting detail

on my way...

Christinas stitches

coffeebreak after hard work :)

homeward bound, happy!

byebye changchang

During my stay in Göteborg I spent the night at my brothers place. I love cats, and they have two. But now they were all upset, having lost their oldest cat, Chang, a few days earlier. He was a brown Oriental shorthair with great personality and a special voice. They still have Dixie, a Cornish Rex. Full of life and extremely talkative. Hope she'll be ok on her own, now that he's gone.

New year!

The whole family had fun with the Plastilina clay we gave the children for x-mas. Each family member made their own portrait. Mattias had to assist Asta in the making of hers though :)

Looking back, 2009 was an eventful year for me, for us. There were ups and downs – the downs mainly in our economy – but so many really, really good and positive things happened; my one-month stay in Greece, Mattias' and my art show, becoming a member of Kaleido arts and crafts cooperative, running Göteborgsvarvet..!

Hope you all had a great holiday and wishing you all the best for 2010!

woolly worrybirds

Crocheted ravens in my Etsy-shop now (thanks to Laird Nelson)!

treasure island

I never tire of collecting seashells and other beautiful findings. I collect them, sort them and just enjoy turning them over, looking at them. All different, all amazing. The pumicestones are from last summer, the girls found them, I've never seen such large ones, and yet they float. They served as inspiration to draw these. The black thing in the last picture is an egg capsule from a ray fish :) It's texture is like woven fabric, like a gunny sack!

summer days

We share summer our house with my sister-in-law and her family, we split the summer in half and we had the early part this year. Didn't have high expectations on weather nor temperature - you never can in Sweden, and it's usually still pretty cold in the water and air, in late june. Anyway, the weather gods decided to surprise us and we had wonderful days. Hot in daytime so the sea warmed up and warm light evenings. It only rained when we happened to have boat guests, so we all had to cramp up together in our small hut, it was like a sauna.

I did it!

I ran - for the first time in my life but not the last - the worlds biggest half-marathon, in Gothenburg; Göteborgsvarvet. 21 km (13 miles). It was great, and I'm really proud. Mattias ran for the fifth time. We are playing with the idea of running Stockholm Marathon, maybe not next year, but... :)



Last weeks spring party at Sigtuna Kulturgård.
Inger brought her Muurikka, a huge frying pan for outdoors use and made us all a beutiful, delicious paella, which we ate in the garden overlooking Mälaren.