A soft spot

I have a soft spot for pictures like these.

1. Dance shoes For the Father and the Daugter - by Company

2. Photo by Geoffrey Cottenceau -via Designboom

3. Tie to me by Ana Ventura.

Reap what You have Sown

Well here´s a little photoshop collage I just did today, meant for a client - and if she reads my blog she will see it here first! Maybe not the best way to do things - but sometimes things just happend and I end up making an asian spring inspired collage with a bird and cherry blossoms - instead of an illustration inspired by the autumn holiday here in DK next week, which I intended to do. This holiday used to be called POTATO Holiday, because all school children had to stay home and help to gather the potatoes. .. Well in our household we don´t have school children yet nor potatoes nor a weeks holiday - but I´m sure we will have a great weekend - and I wish you one too.

Bo Bedre Bedrooms

The Danish Interior magazine Bo Bedre - is one of my favorite magazines and the good news is that they have just started do show part of the magazine on their website -so take a look at the latest number . I would love if all magazines started to do this - and in this case it also made me go down and buy this issue - because I could see that there´s was so much great stuff in it. I plan to re-vamp our bedroom soon and liked these ideas above. The pink stickers are from Base 212.

Living with stones

I love collecting stones - and here are some that I would love to add to my collection.

Pebble-rug by 2Form Design- seen at LifeisCarbon.

Stone Doormat from Acacia - seen at Designmilk.

Handpainted stones from the blog Julia likes - seen at Bloesem.

Plus a big pile of Livingstones - just like my friend have in their living room. They look and feel so great and it´s hard not to play around with them for adults too - I pretended I was Pippi last time - levering a giant stone .)

Spreading the message...

I´ve been to the post office this afternoon and the T-shirts are all sent now - so my office no longer looks like a mix between a post office and a T-shirt shop - and I´ve learnt how time consuming it is to handle postal orders! My Breast Cancer Pattern has also made it to the frontpage of EU Jacksonville in Florida - it´s so great that my blog-readers help spreading this message.

Competition time...

It seems like October is competition time here in Blog-land - just thought I would draw your attention to the following in case you hadn´t noticed. I love competitions because having a deadline with craft-projects is quite helpfull for me in order to take time out to for crafty projects.

Costume Contest by Etsy

Gallery Contest by Illustration Friday

MonsterMash by Penelope Illustration

Holiday Softies Award - by Softies Central

and this week Fruens Werk is inviting you to join her Shape Your Own Week.

Paper-love and Friday Fun

I just discovered this wonderful onlineshop, The Paper Studio, a fine art shop run by artists who are paper fanatics! Among other things they have the most amazing collection of Japanese papers - called Chiyogami Paper, Yuzen Paper and Washi Paper. They are all little pieces of art - and you can see here how it takes six silkscreen runs to print the designs on a sheet of paper - Amazing!

Another great find is this Dutch site Mijn Moodboard that Decor8 just wrote about. It´s in Dutch but if you enter your email address to the right, check the box, and click login - that will take you where you need to be to create your very own inspiration board. All images are there - so you don´t need any fancy design programs to be creative here - just a good amount of time because it´s a great tool and very addictive... Just made this - to match the papers above and to wish you a great and cosy October weekend.

More Patterns

I recently updated my website with these patterns - they are based on this illustration, and I thought they would be perfect for kid´s clothing.

This one I´ve named See-vitamins


And this one is called "Gule Rødder" - or A Carrot a Day...

I really enjoy doing these patterns - and I´m curious to know what you think. Would you buy something like this for a kid? Please share your opinion!

Snail in the mail

Here´s another good reason why I love Etsy - this print by Small Stump is on the way by snailmail to me...

It´s called Slowly across the forest floor and I found it via Poppytalk Handmade.

T-shirts Sold Out

The T-shirts are sold out here in my little shop - but if you´ve placed an order before today - you´ll be fine - and hear from me soon. It makes me so happy to know that these t-shirts will soon be walking, running or dancing in places like Australia, USA and Singapore ... thank you.

P:S the T-shirts were not produced in black - this is just my file for the client, showing how the pattern could be used.

So-Sage Garlands

Ever since I discovered these paper garlands by SoSage this summer I´ve been hoping to get some time to make my own! Now SoSage has just started a new blog devoted to their garlands - it´s pure handmade eyecandy and great colour combinations. They also have a Etsy shop - and I guess I´ll end up buying one there instead of making my own versions... due to so many project- and so little time...

Harvest Time

I found Sarah Parrot´s delicate Gocco prints - via Poppytalk´s new Poppytalk Handmade - a monthly online street market to showcase, buy and sell handmade goods of emerging design talent from around the world. Make sure to check it out - and bring your vallet and a cup of hot coffee - there´s so much great stuff to see and buy.

Crafty Children

Johan -5 years

Olivia, 3 years.

My sisters children aged 3 and 5 made these wonderful cards - after a walk in the forest.

I plan to make something inspired by these appleprints with Nanna soon - and I wish that I had designed this pattern.

I svampskogen, designed by Canadian: David Van Berckel for Almedahls.

Breast Cancer T-shirts for sale

The Breast Cancer Awareness T-shirt 2007 - will hit the shops here in Denmark this sunday. A lot of people from outside DK have asked how to get hold of it and I´m thinking that the easiest way is if I go shopping on Sunday and buy a small stock and then sell them through my Etsy-shop.

So if you would like to order a T-shirt please leave a comment or email me your name and adress, size and which colour you prefer - preferably before Sunday 30th of September.

The price is $ 20. per T-shirt - 50% of all t-shirts purchases will be donated to the Danish Cancer Society. + $ 10. for shipping worldwide per T-shirt.

Dame t-shirt - kun i Netto. T-shirten fås i to farver og koster 99 kr. pr. stk., hvoraf 50 kr. går til Kræftens Bekæmpelse. T-shirten sælges kun i Netto fra søndag den 30.9, og så længe lager haves.

Things I love...

Things I love... is this colour combination, and all the stuff show in it, flowers, vases, fashion, jewellery, colours, textures, harvest time, apples and pears, this song - and the fact that my Breast Cancer Pattern has been featured around the blogs and that Julia Rotman whose patterns I admire so much left this comment .)

- Thank You All!

Next Travel

I just can´t believe how fast the year has passed by - September is almost over and people have started to sell 2008 calenders and to plan Christmas parties - it´s crazy! and then again - we have already booked tickets for Hong Kong this Christmas and plan to combine it with some Island/beach life somewhere in Asia. If you have some great tips about Hong Kong - please write me a email or post a link - so far Orla Kiely´s flagshipstore in Hong Kong is the only thing on my to do list.
The photos are from our Summerholiday in Vietnam in July 07.

Have a Happy Weekend

The Breast Cancer Campaign

This is the pattern - based on the fact that 1 out of 9 women suffer from breastcancer. I made 9 pair of breasts in different shapes and colours- with one breast missing in the last pair.


Here´s the pattern on some of the products that will be sold in different shops in DK in October.

So this is the special project I wanted to tell you about. Last year I wrote this post about how October is the Breast Cancer Awareness month - and why breast cancer is an issue close to my heart, since both my mother and grandmother has suffered from it and survived it! - and since my aunt on my fathers side died from it a few years ago. Well this year I designed the logo & patterns for this years Breast Cancer Campaign for The Danish Cancer Society. I´ve been working on this project during the last year - and it´s so nice to be able to share it now- and to see my design on t-shirts, silk scarfes, rubberboots etc.

It´s been a great project not only because it´s an issue close to my heart but also because it´s been a great introduction to pattern design for me - it´s been learning by doing - and I have grown a big passion for pattern design. Another great thing is that it all happend because of my blog - because last year I contacted The Danish Cancer Society to ask the name of the designer behind the pattern - so I could blog about it - and after the phonecall I sent the person I´d talked to some of my postcards - she showed them to the right persons who then contacted me to ask if I would enter a design for next years campaign. I did and the rest is history...

To inspire others to support the fight against breastcancer I´ve now also started a fundraising campaign at the campaign website, where people can easily support or start their own fundraising campaign. My plan is to fundraise 10.000 dkr. aprox. 1850 dollars and it´s going really well so far :) You can support it here - or even better - spread the word about this project on your blog, please. My hope is to inspire others to use their creativity and talents to support an issue close to their heart.

Happy Birthday Mum

Today is my mothers birthday - she´s 65 now and will retire from work this Friday. I meant to write a post about what a wonderful and strong woman she is - but I get too emotional. But the special project I´m about to tell you about soon - is something I´ve done to honour her - since she has suffered from breastcancer twice - and have beaten it twice! She´s tougher than the rest - and I´m so happy she is mine. Tillykke Ninnamor.

New week - new boots

Here´s a picture of my new rubber boots - they were very good for picking blackberries this weekend. But what I like most about them is that the print is my design - and this print is part of a much bigger project which I´ve been working on for the last year and have been dying to share with you. Today is busy and tomorrow I´m in Copenhagen - so on wensday I´ll give you the full story and more pictures and prints to fill you in on this very special project.

More vases

Had to share these beauties- from photographer Janne Peters portfolio - such equistite colours and great styling by Maria Grossmann.

ceramic vases

I have a soft spot for vases - especially ceramic ones - and on my wishlist is Fiducia, by Louise Campbell, which combines vases and candlesticks with small magnets - I love the styling too.

Another vase on my wishlist is Grass by Claydies, now distributed by Normann Copenhagen.
Please check out Claydies webpage, they have made some pretty cool stuff all in all - and make sure to visit the Normann Store if you visit Copenhagen.

Wall paper Owl collage

I made this collage last week at my friends place, using her great wallpaper samples! We try to get together on a regular basis, to do crafty & creative projects together. I made this owl for Nanna´s room in the summerhouse, but discovered this weekend that it doesn´t really fit - and I´m not sure it´s completely finished yet - so for now it will just hang here on my blog. What do you think? It´s based on my other owl, and inspired by the Kindergallery.

First day of Autumn ?

Today looked like this - pretty pattern on my new raincoat by Numph - and rain on my window - and now I wish they would make raincoats like mine for children! There a so many mums around town wearing Danefæ raincoats - and I hope I´ll just stand out a little eventhough I´m fully aware that with this new raincoat I now fit into the MPBSP-category "Mum with Pram or Bicycle trying to be Stylish yet Practical". But I really really like the pattern and colours.

Last Day of Summer?

I think yesterday was the last summerday here in DK - but it was a good one - I even got a sunburn!

Vibeke Vinther - collages

Discovered Vibeke Vinthers collages today - and liked this one called Room - because it looks like my little family ready for a relaxing weekend. Have a good one!

Squirrel hunt at Etsy

I did a little research on squirrels yesterday at Etsy, because I had to draw one, and look what autumn goodies I found. Felt Squirrels by sugarsquirrels. acorn earrings by Maryandjane, button set by KungFuCowgirl, japanese fabric by luckykaerufabric, and knit woodland patterns by AmyGaines. Hunting Squirrels is great fun!

Elasticco - Elodie Blanchard

I fell in love with this scarf at etsy - and the profile name rang a bell, and to my delight I revisited Elodie Blanchard´s homepage. How can you not love someone who creates great stuff out of rubberbands and wonderfull textile projects. Here´s a new Etsy interview with her.

Movement

It´s time for the annual Aarhus Festival, and the theme this year is movement - my personal movement this week will be getting out of town as much as possible, since our flat is located in the center close to a tent with live music all day... - and since we know all the cover songs by heart from last year and the year before - getting away seems like the only sane thing to do! Well there are some good things going on as well, like a red tour around the city, top picture, and theframe shown below, which I´m one of the sponsors behind, since it´s an old friend who came up with the idea. And here´s a little inside information for my readers... if you like/love this local performer - come by the frame wensday at 4 o´clock - I´ll see you there .)

Print & patterns for children

To brigthen up this monday -here´s some prints and clothes by Småfolk - which makes great clothes for children. I often wish I could wear the same amount of colours and prints as Nanna, but I´m not sure I can pull it off :)