Spring prints

Can you imagine a better match than Mav from Port2port and Camilla Engman´s illustrations - also add some wood type and some spring and you have the most wonderful set of cards. See them here.

chicks and tricks

Easter is coming closer and so is friday - so here´s some great Friday Fun for you - Just upload any photo and your image is converted by the Image Mosaic Generator to a mosaic made of tiny photos from Flickr. Try it here! and see my original picture here . Found via the great blog Howaboutorange. Have a lovely weekend!

The Softie Award Finals

Get ready to vote for your favorites in the Softie Award 2007 here - voting ends March 30th.
I´m happy to see that two of the finalists are my personal favorites, the Racoon and the Burger and Fries - but start voting now - there are so many great softies to vote for!

Birthday girl nr. 2

Sorry for this unintended blog break - but my little girl has has just turned 3 and have started Kindergarten this week - so we´ve been busy! Inspired by Auntie Cookies vintage buntings I made my own paper buntings for her birthday since I don´t have a lot of vintage fabric laying around - but I do have a lot of great wrapping paper. The balloons with numbers are from Dublin - and yes we had a great time celebrating Skt Patricks Day and my B-day.

Birthday girl

Ever since I was a little girl I´ve loved to celebrate my birthday - and here I am with my sister and cousin about 32 years ago, it´s me holding the Danish flag off course! Tomorrow I´ll celebrate it in Dublin and my birthday wishes are just that my loved ones are well and healty, my clients are happy and trusting, my creativity is blooming, my travels are safe and exotic - and that spring is here to stay and that there will be peace, love and understanding in the world - and maybe also a tiny Orla Kiely bag ...

This is love forever

I´m a little late when it comes to introducing my Valentine Swap partner, Kayte from This is love forever. I got such wonderful stuff from her last month. And the funny thing is that a few days before I knew she was my swap partner I added her heart pincushion -top right -to my favorites at Flickr. The patchwork hearts are filled with lavender... and makes my paper at work smell yummy. Make sure to visit her great blog and Etsy shop, and don´t miss her post about this book shop, and see how she plays with food and fabric.

Welcome Spring

A warm welcome to spring, which arrived here 2 days ago - I really really hope it´s here to stay! I love my new waterlily from Artetenica and all other 3D- objects made out of paper - I am a paper-nerd!. Spring has also found it´s way to my inspiration board at work - don´t you think it is a great color combo?

night owl

I recently made a logo for B-samfundet, a community for B-persons and late risers, since I belong to that catagory. And when I discovered that the expression Nightowl was common too - then this little nightowl was quickly a reality and had to be added to the profile somehow. I hope that one day it will be printed on t-shirts, badges etc. - and soon it will be on their new website - but untill then I would like to share it with you - wishing you a great weekend with long nights and late rises.

When in Dublin...

I´m going to Dublin next weekend with a group of 5 girlfriends to find out what Skt. Patricks Day is all about?!We plan to do a lot of shopping and pubbing and if you have any insider tips on what 5 crazy graphic designers, who likes design, books, crafts and beer should see and do - please leave a comment or send me an email. We would love tips on independent shops like these in London.

Seahorse Softie

When I started this blog - exactly a year ago today! I meant to be posting some of my craft projects here - but sometimes things doesn´t turn out as planned - and so the last year has been very busy and very little crafty. But I used to be crafty and I will be again - and in the meantime I´ve just submitted this Seahorse for The Softie Award. I made this for Nanna 2 years ago. It´s is the second of two and so far the only softies I´ve ever made. I just cut the pattern looking at a seahorse and used a fleece blanket that was laying around. I love seahorses - and this one is really nice to wrap around your shoulders. Now Nanna also uses it to ride on - in true mermaid fashion. Find inspiration for future softie projects here at this amazing Flickr-pool.

walk with me

I was working this sunday and was a little frustrated about not being outside enjoying the spring like weather. So I decided to make the most out of my short walk from the office to our flat, and pretended I was a tourist in my city and just took loads of pictures during the 3 minutes the walk took me. So here´s a glimpse of my sunday window shopping and daily surroundings. What does your walk look like?

Desktop backgrounds

Yesterday spring arrived and I finally managed to update my website, so now you can see some of my latest designs and some new desktop backgrounds. If you rather make your own desktop picture - this Flickr slideshow shows a fun way to that.

Updates

Here´s an update on my magical beanstalk which is truely magical, it not only grows so rapidly - it also says Knus & Kram - just as promised. I wonder how they printed these words onto a bean - I love magic like this!

I´m also busy updating my website with all the magazine- and logo designs I´ve done recently, and some new backgrounds for your desktop.

minilabo wallstickers

I can´t decide which one of these designs I heart the most - the new moveable wallstickers from Minilabo made me smile :) For Danish distributor contact Waterquest.

Proud mother

Is it just me, the proud mother, that sees an exquisite talent for color and composition here?!!! My almost 3-years-old daughter made these painting this weekend - as a present for her nursery teachers, since she is going to Kindergarden real soon! She made the first painting like this when she was about 16 months old - I always give the canvas a colored base and then put out some colors for her to play with. Here she overpainted my base color and painted with pens afterwards.

a little more fashion

Hmm.. coming to think of it I also read a Danish fashion blog, Cover - by the great fashion magazine by the same name. They recently wrote about SWASH, an English design duo, graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2001 - I fell in love with their multicolor print to the right and also their website that´s so simple fun and fresh.

Meet Miff

I don´t read that many fashion blogs apart from Shiny Shirrel, who does a great job on keeping up-to-date with the latest looks. But yesterday I discovered Miff - the most stylish rabbit on the blog - and her fashion blog will be a regular read from now - see why here.

My spring garden

Since we don´t have a garden, I try to create a small one in my window sill at my design studio - Spagat. I always have fresh flowers there , and my new "project" is a magical beanstalk which I´m very curious about. My favorite card with a quote by Thoreau has been decorated with pink color by Nanna, which makes it even more wonderful - Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you´ve imagined.

Mermaid missing

Yesterday and today is Fastelavn - Carnaval time in DK. Nanna made these decorated branches at the day nursery, and children are meant to wake up their parents sunday morning, by hitting the branches on the bed - well we forgot and she didn´t know! But what she knew already a month ago - was that she wanted to be dressed up as Ariel for Carnaval. I borrowed a wonderful mermaid costume for her, and today she left for the big dress-up party - in her normal clothes without even trying the costume... Well - I had seen it coming and know I was lucky last year when she had a favorite leopard sweater and I managed to smear a little long-lasting lipstick on her nose which lasted for almost 2 days!

piece af art

This vintage cross stitched Calorie Chart was on a short visit in my studio - It´s so delicate and sweet I just had to share it - I also can´t believe someone actually took the time to embroider dietary guidelines - but maybe it was a very popular diet back then - keeping your hands busy. Here´s another great way to cross stitch your world.

Happy Valentines Day

From me to you!

blogtjek & post nr. 201

Nogle venlige sjæle fra Blogforum har gjort det muligt for danske bloggere at tilmelde sin blog til en lille læserundersøgelse - for at finde ud af hvem der læser med og hvorfor. Jeg vil blive rigtigt glad hvis du brugte 1 minut på at udfylde det lille spørgeskema, om hvorfor du læser min blog - så jeg bliver klogere og bloggen udvikler sig i den rigtige retning.
Gå til spørgeskema

Above is a link to a reader survey about my blog - it´s in Danish but you are welcome to give it a try!

Ferm Wall stickers

Yesterday I got an email with pictures of some of the new wall stickers by Ferm Living - and they are well worth sharing - you can see more stickers by Ferm here. I think they would work really well as window decorations also.

la marelle

This is the last post about my favorite finds at Formland - and La Marelle is a favorite. I love their graphics and their use of color - they also have a huge paper collection, with more than 200 postcards created by 31 artists. You will soon be able to spot me with my huge new bag...

ceramic jewellery

At Formland there was again a lot of handcrafted jewellery of porcelain and ceramics. I think Pia Daa´s work stood out and I liked her Valentines Day collection a lot and her "mushroom ring", and she has a webshop in English!

Formland -Trendzones

Frida from Cult design has made a great coverage of Formland with focus on the Trendzones. You can read her feature in English here at Designsponge or here at Cultdesign in Swedish, where she also writes about Pink-lemon´s trendzones, LibaryLounge and Inside/Outside - pictured above. I share my office with Pinklemon and it´s been fun to see their trendzones grow from sketches to real life full scale projects. Frida was also so kind to let us use her photo´s -thanks!

Minilabo

Minilabo from France was another great discovery at Formland - I love their illustrations and felt toys.

Valentine Swap

This little heart is in the mail now - on its way to Texas, for Freepeoples Valentine Swap. Papercollage on canvas, using colorcopy of one of my photos, wrapping paper, ink, paint, glitterglue.

SpagatShop Opening

I have a shop now! - an Etsy shop - and it´s full of hearts, all ready to go before Valentines Day - so you can give them away and spread some love! They are all handmade collages on canvas - 20x11 cm - with different kinds of hearts, all very delicate and a little scratched. Just click on the picture to see photos - a great feature from Goodwidgets. I´m looking forward to see you in my shop!

andrea larsson

At DesignByUs´great stand at Formland I spotted stylist Andrea Larssons´ little wooden boxes -"Sættekasser" decorated with vintage wallpaper. This talented and lucky stylist must have a huge collection of vintage wallpaper somewhere.... Visit her beautiful website here or see her work in this new book "Rum der rykker".