Flowers in every room

To celebrate that things were back to normal this weekend, I decided to buy a huge bunch of Peonies. Fiori in ogni stanza! as they say in Italian - meaning decorate every room with flowers! implying that someone important is coming to visit... and that´s just what I did - decorated every room with flowers and yes the important persons was the 3 of us!

Back to normal

Today things are back to normal again - after one month without Kindergarten due to the strike - so no more stress and organizing where to play and who to look after who, no more trips to various museums, jumping in the trampoline and eating icecream everyday - but hopefully we will continue to have little guest in the studio - painting little masterpieces - and proudly sharing them afterwards - there has been quite a production going on here and the smiles on their little faces afterwards has been so rewarding. Our flat is also back to normal now - 6 weeks after the water damage - and we now have newly painted walls and a lovely new wooden floor - you see I´m practicing to focus on the good things and not give energy to things you can´t change anyway - and all this has been a good lesson and opportunity to practice this skill .)

pretty flowers without pollen

It´s hay fever season here and like last year I´ve become a Hayfever Zombie... so these flowers by danish illustrator Toril Bækmark are safe and great to look at right now and too delicate not to share. I used Toril for a annual report years ago and enjoy to watch her portfolio grow and can highly recommend her work.

true love

True love and no comments - just wish to say that this piece was created by the talented Barbara from Gentlepeople, who I met through my blog.

a glimpse of Budapest

Here´s a glimpse of our trip to Budapest - we had such a great time - great company - lovely weather, a beautiful city and a wonderfull hotel - what more can you ask? - well surely we could have done without 6 hours of waiting in the airport - due to a delayed flight and loosing our connecting flight - but I´m almost back to normal now after a long trainride home at night - and our flat is also almost back to normal - so now we just really need the kindergarten teachers to go back to work - please!!

Budapest

I´m off to Budapest tomorrow with a group of 12 fun and crazy women - so I´ve been detoxing for the last 2 weeks - ( no wheat and sugar) to get in shape for Spa-treatments and too many drinks and cigarettes - hope you will have a fun weekend too... - see you next week.

Afternoon in Aarhus

My post about Aarhus is featured on Bloesems World Tour today - so Friday afternoon I took some snapshots on the way home from my studio to our flat - to give you a little glimpse of "the Latin Quarter" which is my beloved neighborhood. Enjoy - and welcome to my blog and my city.

Bloesen world tour in Aarhus

Last month I put together 2 posts about my favorite spot - and my favorite artist here in Aarhus, Denmark - for Bloesem´s wonderful world tour - and you can find them real soon at Bloesem´s blog. Hope you will enjoy them! - and a big thanks to lovely Irene for inviting me to be part of her world tour - it´s such a great idea and I´ve enjoyed visiting all the places so far. Other favorites of mine - are the spots we put up on the wall in the studio - it´s such a great and easy way to add a little colour - and please try this at home! We just painted some paper with acrylics, cut the circles out and stuck them on the wall with spray-glue. Happy weekend!

Bambi-drama

I´m a citygirl - but for the last 3 weeks now we have been staying in our summerhouse due to the water leak in our apartment - and 2 nights ago we experienced some full-on-countryside -action! The area around the summerhouse is full of deer - and right now they have little Bambi-fawns. I have always wanted to see a fawn - so when we suddenly saw 2 deers and a tiny fawn outside the house I couldn´t believe my luck - I lifted my daughter up to show her the bambi - a true Kodak-moment! - and then seconds after the deers went nuts and started screaming/barking and tried to attack a huge fox that came out of nowhere and grabbed the fawn, standing between it´s mothers legs - and ran of with it - OMG!!!! - it was like something from National Geographics and the screams from the mother and the other deer was just so heartbreaking! We could hear them calling/barking for hours afterwards and so for the last 2 evenings I´ve been sneaking around the area like some kind of Pochahontas in search of the fawn! I haven´t found it yet - but saw a huge badger while searching - and I think our trip to Copenhagen this weekend will do me good - since Country living is too action packed right now!

To get the experience out of my system I created this collage yesterday - using images from Etsy - I hope the sellers don´t mind and their products are great so have a look here.
Fox by John W Golden, Fawn by Anomaly Jewelry, Victorian deer lady by therunnybunny.

Enfant terrible

Just stopped by Enfant Terrible via Bloesem - and fell in love with the birdhouses by Tamar Morgendorff and the wallpaper birds and tree by Inke. Here in our city the streets are full of all kinds of children - both terrible and well-behaved with their grandparents since the Kindergarten teachers are on strike - and all the parents are pretty stressed out not knowing how long this strike will last...

Line in Copenhagen

My studio-mate Line is having a solo-show in Copenhagen - and you are hereby invited!

You can also visit her new blog here.

FERNISERING HOS GALERIE GERLY, KØBENHAVN
Vandkunsten 13 - 1467 København K
Fredag den 23. maj kl. 16-19

Galleriet byder på et glas tempereret eller kølig fransk landvin,
og Line vil naturligvis være til stede og bidrage til den gode stemning.
Sidste dag tirsdag den 17. juni 2008.

See more paintings here

I like

All clothes from my favorite webshop Youheshe.com - t-shirt with print by Stine Goya.

the colour yellow

2 weeks ago we had a big water damage in our apartment - and relocated to our summerhouse right away - due to a foul smell and all the repairs going on. Luckily we rent the apartment and the weather has been perfect for some countryside living. Each day we pass these yellow rapeseed fields - and I believe you can't find a more pure yellow than this - the photos don´t do the colour or the smell justice - nor the sound of the tree cousins playing in the bunk beds.

Inside & Outside the studio

Here´s some fresh photos from the studio - outside the appletrees are in full bloom now - and inside my inspiration board looks like this - and collages are in the making. Have a great weekend!

Mothers day card

I designed this card for Tigerprint´s competition last month - and with Mothers Day coming up it´s time to share... You can download an english version here - and a danish version here - just print, fold and cut - and you are all set! - and now that you got the card for free - you can make a donation to Maternity Worldwide - and save a mothers life here.

White Lines

I just saw this idea at Springwise´s newsletter this morning - and it´s so genius and simple that you can´t help thinking "why did´t anyone think of this before?". Well - it took until the designer Olof Hansson was irritated because the lines on the copy made a mess of his sketch. "It was then that the idea of having white lines hit me. White lines would not be visable on a photocopy, but the dark lines that I had written would." Read more about White Lines great concept here.

Studio in May

Spring has sprung - it almost feels like summer and the pear trees outside the studio are in full bloom - it´s very tempting to go outside - and just sit and watch Line paint -through the door.

Clothes to match

Just came by Rigetta Klints website - and thought her new Spring/Summer 08 collection matches the room underneath so perfectly I just had to share.

Room I heart

I heart this room from Singapore with it´s mix of danish and japanese furniture and the painting by Eric Chan. It´s from the second issue of RUM - a new danish interior magazine that I immediately subscribed to after reading the first issue. You can get a preview here - and if you wish to get your hands on our own copy - just leave a comment - I´m always ready for a international magazine swap!

patterns & project

This week I´ve been working with patterns for a project - and I´ve had patterns on my mind for the last days - so here´s some mobile pics of patterns in my studio at the moment. We love our new pillow - in the middle from MeyerLavigne who have started a great blog recently. I´ve also had a studio visit from a little bird, who just walked in through the door the first time, and the second time it just flew in for a quick visit - so cute. Tomorrow the studio will be full of guest and food and we are busy preparing for the reception - so see you next week.

You are invited!

This friday, 25th of April we will host a small reception for our friends, families, clients and networks - so if you are curious to see my new space or studiomate - or just wish to say hi! -please feel free to pop by - between 3pm - 6pm - for a chat, a snack and some vino!

- and for those of you who are not so close by - I´ll post some pictures later.

Back again

We are back after a perfect trip - with lots of tasty food - and it´s so hard to start cooking again after a holiday in Italy - because everything here seems so bland. Why can´t I have Antipasto misto del mare everyday for lunch or a bruschetta con melanzane? And why is it raining all day here? - when the sun is already out and hot in Italy - and why don´t we have lemontrees and the sweet smell of almond trees here? I have lived in Italy when I was younger - and I´m not sure I could live there again - but I would really like to incorporate a few Italian things into my daily life in Denmark - but Berlosconi is surely not on that list - I just can´t believe his back again.
Tomorrow is holiday here - so this was a short week - I´ll post some holiday shots later.

Procida - here we come

We will be spending the next 4 days right here - it was my birthday present from Mr. K - who knows how much I love this little island close to Napoli. It´s the 3rd time I´ll visit this little gem - and I look forward to sit on our terrace sipping white wine and just looking at the sea and the horizont - and the little fishing boats coming in and out. It´s a very quiet and healing place with a wonderfull smell of lemontrees, pizza and the sea. I´ll be back here on wensday - a presto!

It´s the Island where the movies Il Postino/the Postman - and The Talented Mr. Ripley was filmed - see more photos here or a movie here.

Meet Karla - our new Studio Pet

Dreaming

My dear cousin sent me this picture some weeks ago - and now it sits on my inspiration board. The text says " Make dreams reality" and it was such a great gift eventhough it´s just a picture cut out from the back of a cereal box - but it´s also picture of one of my dreams. And ever since my daughter was a baby and I would walk for hours with her in her pram - or put her to sleep in it outside - the last is quite common here -I have dreamt of a having a pram of my own - and I was happy to see that somebody else out there shares that dream. See what I mean?

Photos

I was looking through some of my old photos this morning -and found this beauty. I upgraded to a Flickr Pro account recently - but I´m still way behind on organizing my photos - both my digital ones and my old printed ones. I sometimes wish that I would break a leg or something - so that I can just lay in bed for a week and organize them - and create photobooks - but then again you should be carefull what you wish for - so instead I wish for a weeks free-time to organize them! And I also wish for a Polaroid camera when I visit Jen´s Polaroid blog or her Flickr.

Studio update

It´s been a quiet week at my blog - which means it´s been a busy week in my studio - and in between magazine design and logo design I´ve managed to paint and experiment a little as you can see. Guess it was about time to give you a small glimpse of my new space - I´ll post more photos once we are all set - because our interior is completely Ikea Hacker worthy. It´s also been a week full of lovely surprises - I received an Indian surprise packet from lovely Sabine, and I won some amazing Orla Kiely stationary at Decor8. It was a random draw - but here is my winning entry anyway - with links to decor and stationery stores in my city and around. Enjoy!

Berlin: http://www.leporello-berlin.de/

Copenhagen:
http://www.royalshopping.com/

http://www.normann-copenhagen.com/

http://www.dzoo.dk/

http://www.danish-edge.dk/

http://www.gronlykke.com/

http://www.hskjalmp.dk/

Aarhus - my city:

http://www.lynfabrikken.dk/

http://www.1x1textil.dk/

http://www.designertorvet.dk/

http://www.boxdelux.dk/