This is where I’ve been sitting all day. On the floor with all my paints out. I’ve been working on my batch of postcards for the DIY Postcard swap I’m hosting (There is still some room, feel free to join! For inspiration Daisy Yellow has some great links to mail art on her blog!) but […]
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Month: January 2010
Valentine’s day around the corner
Sitting here with a cup of coffee. I’m overwhelmed with the response to the postcard swap, and wow, thanks for all your kind comments on my Dixieland Tree Embroidery! I’m glowing with pride. Each comment you write makes me want to sew 100 stitches more! If you read my blog last year you might remember […]
Dixieland Tree Embroidery
I’m proud to present the Dixieland Tree Embroidery with hand stitched patchwork border, batting as backing and lots of small stitches all around: Dixieland Tree – Embroidery ready to hang. What do you think? While working on Dixieland Tree I have really had many beautiful moments that I cherish in my heart. I was visiting […]
An illustrated life by Danny Gregory – a book revi
If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. Vincent Van Gogh Early this summer I read through Danny Gregory’s latest book An Illustrated Life – Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustrators and Designers (2008). It’s a big book, […]
How to sew Strip Paper
While planning to make my travel journal and later sewing pages for it, on the sewing machine, I got intrigued by sewing into paper. A couple of days later I went back to the sewing machine with a pile of papers to sew together and just made “sewn strip paper”. I don’t know exactly how […]
Broderiakademin | Sweden’s Embroidery Guild
Last year there was an embroidery exhibition in town, and when visiting it I found out Sweden has an Embroidery Guild open to everyone, called Broderiakademi! How amazing is that? I had no idea groups like this excised. Where I live there is even a local group meeting every month! When I joined I was […]
Postcard inspiration from iHanna
I’m sitting here with a lit candle flickering by my side, sipping some tea. I thought I’d write a long post about “this and that” from my mind today, but now I’m just too tired to put together words… I created an excel document tonight with information about the participants of the DIY Postcard Swap […]
Starting a DIY Postcard Swap for the First Time
I’ve had a blog for a long time and joined several fun swaps and trades, but never hosted anything on my own. It is a Good Idea to join a swap (it gets your creative juices flowing!) and for me this will be a New Adventure for the new year! I’m very excited about this! […]
Collage Postcards with spraypaint
For the spraydate I put together three quick collages on cardstock so that I cut spray some on top of the collage. I’ve already sent these postcards to dear friends, but before that I scanned them. I love how these postcards look! Postcard: Abandoned houses for Maria. Postcard: Criscross. Postcard Bambi Charlie. Related PostsWhat I […]
Fun Spraydate with lots of Spraypaint and Stencils
This summer my friend Nina and I had this great spraydate together outside her house. It was so much fun that that we stayed for hours and only finished when the sun set and we couldn’t see our papers to spray any more. All the spray paint cans are Nina’s. She has a stash to […]
Desktop Background Inspiration – free download
It’s January : Be Creative 2010! It’s January and I thought it would be appropriate to make a new desktop background for the computer. I used some of my favorite pink stared photos from Flickr and made a inspirational mosaic! If you like you are welcome to use it too! Download here! I intensionally left […]
The Pink Kanzashi and the Red Hat that shrunk
As promised a crafty project presentation. It’s a crocheted red hat with a pink kanzashi flower that I made! Here are the two pretty things put together; But let’s start from the beginning, shall we? Once upon a time there was this creative girl with an itch in her fingers to do something… Related PostsRandom […]