Archive for December, 2012
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Monday, December 31st, 2012Wishing you all a most wonderful new year, hopefully with a bit more peace, a bit more smiles, a bit more tolerance, a bit more appreciation. A bit less selfishness, a bit less quarreling, a bit less unfairness. A bit less hate. A bit more love. Photo from here. Some of my friends choose one word […]
VERTü
Sunday, December 30th, 2012VERTü is a local, amateur dance-group for kids and teens. They gave me the assignment to make them a logo. Here is the result! 🙂
Calender
Saturday, December 29th, 2012The result of one of this fall´s biggest jobs is here! I had the honor of making the annual calendar for the local power-company: Finnås Kraftlag. It´s been distributed to all the houses and firms in the municipal, so there are almost 5000 around. As I said, such an honor! Most of my time went […]
Mozart-painting
Saturday, December 29th, 2012I had a pleasant evening painting in my journal tonight. First collaging (mainly paper, but also silks), then painting with acrylics. It´s been a while since I´ve done anything in my journal, so it was high time. And making a little memory from the Mozart days, was not such a bad idea, I think. Last […]
Pretty in pink princess
Friday, December 28th, 2012A little mid-Christmas holiday golden girl for you.
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Wednesday, December 26th, 2012I hope your days of Christmas are peaceful and blessed with smiles and laughter. This is one of the Christmas ornaments I made for the swap. The lace letter is freestyle machine embroidered onto water-soluble fabric. So when I´m done sewing, I put the whole thing in warm water, where the fabric disappears, leaving only […]
Christmas and Lulu
Monday, December 24th, 2012Let me start by wishing you all a peaceful Christmas holiday! The sweet and talented Lulu Moonwood made this adorable pendent slash(/) ornament for our Christmas art swap. The hand-painted, dark-haired girl with the raven could be me. On the flip-side ia an altered photo of her favorite clogs 😀 How fun is that?! And […]
Tammy-trade, art-swap and golden-girl 5
Sunday, December 23rd, 2012My ever-sweet artist friend Tammy from Canada made this cute little bird for my Christmas tree. We´re in two swap-groups this year. Both the art-swap and a more traditional christmas-ornament-swap group. Handmade of course. So this little, cute birdie came complete with it´s little tin nest. She also made me this little wise man. Ain´t […]
Christmas workshop with my favorite kids again!
Saturday, December 22nd, 2012One of may favorite home-made Christmas traditions, is my paint-a-picture-for-Daddy-workshop for some of my favorite kids! This year I had an addition in the group, my little nephew Edvard. At 10 months,this is his first painting: I think his Dad will be thrilled about his gift! And so will Ylva´s and Bjørn Andre´s Dad, when […]
winter angel and golden girl #4
Friday, December 21st, 2012What better way to celebrate winter solice and not-the-end-of-the-world-but-the-beginning-of-a-new-era, then with Deirdra Doan´s, beautiful winter angel. Isn´t she lovely? Oh, check out Deirdra´s blog, and see more handmade ornaments gathered over the years. And here is my golden girly-girl # 4, Lady Lilac as she prefers to be called. And now it´s only 3 days left! […]
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