If you have the time, feel free to watch the Christmas journaling videos x 3 – below and let me know if you enjoy them. Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we dont quite know how to put […]
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Fill a tiny journal: Heart
Today is the first Friday in a series of 9 that I will be sharing a page for the series Fill a tiny journal. You are invited to join in and share your tiny journal page on the theme “heart” – on your own blog or on instagram for example, using the hashtag #fillatinyjournal so […]
It is Candle Time
It’s candle time around here. Stay warm, be good. xoxo /iHanna Related PostsInternational Day of Happiness Video | A Swedish Midsummer Christmas coming up…
Luminaries
Mom’s latest embroidery are these beautiful candle holders, inspired by Carina’s book Stitched Blooms. I think she has already finished at least ten of these! Related PostsMy New Hand Bound Art Journal with Embroidered Cover Creating the Layout of an Embroidery Book Wishing you a Day filled with Good Things
A house in the dark
I have had this white metal house for years, but not until tonight it occurred to me to open the bottom and stick a candle inside it. I’m so glad I did. I have an endless fascination with the lit candles and the way light moves, reflects and warms us. Especially in a dark Swedish […]
Embroidery is so Captivating
Captivating, free form embroidery by iHanna, a.k.a. Hanna Andersson, 2011. I created this embroidery for a challenge with the theme “captivating” (fängslande). I got my idea rather late and only had a week to stitch this up, but I worked on in it every day. In someone’s car on my way to a meeting, on […]
Advent
Advent (from the Latin word adventus meaning “coming”) is a tradition almost everyone honours here in Sweden. It’s a time of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of Christmas. However you choose to celebrate the holidays the count down is made by lightning candles. One each Sunday until the 24th, so today is 3d […]
All Saints’ Day
All Saints’ Day (also called All Hallows or Hallowmas), often shortened to All Saints, is a solemnity celebrated in November, in honor of all the saints, known and unknown. In Sweden it is tradition to visit the cemetery and light a candle for your dead at All Saints’. This year it was the Saturday 6th […]
Candle holders with buttons
– Hands up, I’ve got a glue gun now! Ho-ho-ho! Ingredients for this craft; Candle holders in glass from IKEA that I found in a thrift shop and buttons, also bought at a thrift store. Tool; The amazing glue gun! I haven’t used one of these before but to glue all the buttons on the […]
Enlightened as an Owl
This owl collage of a Tawny owl (cat owl in Swedish) is one of my first art in quite a while, and I really like how it turned out. I’m really crazy about creating my own collages right now, that is why I keep making them. And because I learn so much each time I […]
Live with a smile
I just want to finish my Christmas cards, but now it’s time to got to bed. But first something I did today: Yes, I tied red silk ribbons around the white candles I made in school. Nice, huh? And then I wrapped it all in see-through plastic paper with small dots on (looks like snow) […]