Åbne Døre

Både Line - min studiomate og jeg deltager i Åbne Døre i denne weekend den 28. februar/ 1. marts - så udnyt den gode mulighed for at kigge indenfor hos 80 kunstnere i Århus. Vi glæder os til at åbne dørene for publikum her på Kærlighedsstien 7.
Plakaten er designet af mig, og baggrundsmotivet er Lines palet.

We are busy getting ready for the weekend where we take part in the Open Studio event here in Århus - please come and visit us if you can.
I designed the poster this year - and Line´s colours are the background motive.

Have a great weekend.

Børnebazar på Østerbro

I weekenden er der Børnebazar i Remisen på Østerbro - så kig efter Hanne Christensen fra Tulipaner og Tomater´s fine sager. Hanne har et godt øje for at mikse nye og gamle tekstiler og er uddannet syerske - så håndværket er også i top. Her er et lille udvalg af de mange skønne sager- og snart har Tulipaner og Tomater´s hjemmeside også en fin ny grafisk identitet designet af mig .)

Paintings by 2,Rouge

I just love the colours in these paintings by french design duo 2,Rouge - and they are now added to my wishlist. I also wish I had painted something similar myself to show this weekend when we open the doors to the public in our studio - but please come by and say hallo anyway if you are in the area. Line has posted a small video on our studio blog so you can find us :).

You can also become a fan of our studio on Facebook if you wish to recieve news and updates about shows and events we participate in.

Formland spring 2009

I still have inspiration overload after my visit to Ambiente in the beginning of this week - ( I´m also waiting for my friend to mail the few photos I managed to snap with her camera). So in the meantime I´ll share some highlights from our visit to Formland earlier this month - it´s always a good place to catch up on the latest trends and products - eventhough this year was a bit dull. What I liked most this year was projects by design students from DK. Especially the projects above, "Urban Hunting" by Julia Berger and "Min fars Have"- my fathers garden by textile designer Ellen Reitan . You can see more here or get a glimpse of Formland via Bree at Stylistdiva blog.

Feels like spring

Today actually feels like the first day of spring - and there was even enough daylight in our living room to take some photos of my new spring-collages. In 2 weeks time the doors in our studio will be open for the public over the weekend - so I´m busy creating collages and new owls for this event. I´m also kind of nervous about the whole thing - since I´m not used to exhibit my stuff in public - but I know from experience that it´s important to challenge yourself now and then... so I´m doing it!

I´m also going to Frankfurt next week to visit Ambiente for the first time - and plan to return with lots of photos to share. Have a great weekend and a nice Valentines Day.

Creativity

All creative and genius readers - please please take a moment to watch Elizabeth Gilbert's funny and surprisingly moving talk from TED2009 about genius -who has it, how we manage it, and how we can connect with our own geniuses - and please spread her wonderful words.

Elizabeth Gilbert is the author behind the bestseller, Eat, Pray, Love - which I highly recommend also.

Fundet via Eeze - min nye danske favorit blog - hvor jeg blandt andet bliver klog på hvordan man bruger sociale medier som facebook bedst.

Proud

Can you tell how proud she was of her first handwritten birthday note -

for her cousins birthday. Just had to share - being a proud mother myself.

Celebration

I´m celebrating a lot of things these days - first of all I´m so happy that our family and friends have been blessed with 8 healthy babies during January. It´s time for a big welcome to Aksel, Luca, Anna, Lejla, Emil, Sophus, Selma + Louises´s babysister. I´m also celebrating that we have booked the restaurant for our summer/wedding party in August - which means I can start planning all the little details. I´m also celebrating that I drove our car all by myself last night while it snowed - there´s a first time for everything and I´ve decided that 2009 is the year I´ll start to enjoy driving - instead of dreading it.

What are you celebrating right now?

Photo by Etsy seller Bello Uccello

Mariko Wada

I´m so curiuos to see Mariko Wada´s series of jars Software in real life one day since they have fascinated me for a while now. Mariko Wada is a Japanese Ceramist who has been living in Denmark since 1998 and received a degree from Designskolen Kolding in 2006. She mainly works with stoneware and uses various modelling techniques to focus on designs that appeal not only at the visual level but also have tactile attraction.
Don´t you just want to reach out and touch these jars?? I do!

Add red - Fashion

It´s been a really interesting process for me to focus on the colour red - and the lack of it. And the result of my Add red week is that I´ve decided to buy the top to the left seen in Boligliv from Baum und Pferdgarten when it hit the stores - and also some more items in Coral colours - which seems to be really big this spring. It feels good to challenge one self now and then.

Add red - Valentine cards

Eventhough I´m happily married now I have mixed feelings about the whole Valentines Day concept. But I do like the idea of sending love notes or loveletters - and these cards from Poppytalk´s Handmade wedding & valentine market made me smile. The different love messages are by Samantha Hahn, Lisa Congdon, Laurie Coyle, and roll and tumble press.

If you wish to make a sweet Valentine or Love statement for a special someone - these Iron-on Pillowcase Transfers by Creature Comforts are great!

Add red - stuff

Well I did some more research at home - because with a girl in the house there´s gotta be some red stuff - so look what I found in Nanna´s room today. I was inspired by this collage by Etsy seller A view to. And I´ll add it to Camilla´s Organized Collections Set on Flickr.

If you want more red - please have a look at this amazing set of pictures from the celebration of the Chinese New Year around the world on 26th of january - celebrating the year of the OX - the sign representing solemn hard work and prosperity!

Add red - interiors 2

YES - I just checked again - there´s nothing red in my home apart from a box and the toy kitchen - so I´m posting some more interiors with different amounts of red for inspiration! All from the latest flash-issue of Boligliv, BoBedre, Rum and Living Etc.

Add red - Interiors

There´s no red stuff in my home - apart from my daughers toy kitchen. But I really like the little touch of red in all these interiors from Desire to Inspire and the artwork by Trine Lund in the first picture. How red is your home?

P.s My sister gave birth to a healthy baby girl this morning & I´m so happy!

Add red - Singapore

Things have gotten back to normal a little bit too quick after the Holidays - with colds and the flu and grey colours outside - so here´s a few snapshots from our days in Singapore - one of them was spent in Singapore Zoo - which it´s such a great and lush place to wander around with or without kids - and a visit to Chinatown for dinner and some shopping afterwards is always fun.

This is the first post in my new ADD RED WEEK here at my blog - old posts here. I know it´s good feng shui and all - but red is a colour that just doesn´t come easy to me. So this week I´ll add red everyday here at the blog. Feel free to join in and leave a comment if you do. please.

Studio in January

Here´s what the studio looks like in January- our calender is slowly getting filled with new projects and places to go. There´s also been a constant flow of fresh flowers both here and in my home after I announced my marriage :) So nice!

And Line has left the building for the next days - and taken all her paintings with her to the Art Fair this weekend in Århus - so it feels very empty in the studio. But on my blog things are happening - for the first time in my 3 years of blogging I now have more Danish readers than international readers - thanks to a nice mentioning of my blog in the new issue og Boligliv. Thank you.

Velkommen til nye danske læsere - jeg håber I bliver hængende lidt, får lyst til at vende tilbage og opdager en vidunderlig og inspirerende verden via de mange links.

Le petit atelier de Paris

A visit to Le Petit Atelier de Paris is now on my wishlist - how can one resist a shop with such lovely window decorations and products like the ones above.. Here you can visit the shop or the blog. I found it via Designsponge´s regional roundup Paris created by Anne who has done a great job selecting some great and interesting designers - and it seems like France/Paris is in a really crafty and creative mood right now when it comes to design with a female touch.

Marianne Grønnow

I linked to Danish artist Marianne Grønnow´s work in my previous post - but in case you missed the link here´s another painting and a gigantic papercut by her talented hands. Enjoy!

New year resolutions 2009

This collage sums up my new year resolutions for 2009.
Eat healty. Pray more. Love more. Dance more. Paint more. More Silence and No Smoking.

This weekend I held a workshop in our studio for a group of female friends, who all made visonboards for 2009. Both the process and the results were so wonderful - and I´m planning on making more workshops like this in 2009. You can get a glimpse at our studioblog here.

We are married!

Ohhhhh - I been looking forward to share this with you - and now that our friends and family have received the news about our marriage - I guess I can share it here too.

We got married secretly on the 12th of December at the City hall here in Århus - and exchanged wedding rings at the beach in Thailand the 30th of December and had a very private dinner with some close friends from home afterwards. It was perfect to do it this way since Thailand is "our place" - and we will throw a big party in the summer 2009 for friends and family here in Denmark- so it will be 3 events all in all - pretty clever right?

Happy new year 2009

Hi again - we are back after a wonderful trip - my jetlag is over and I´m almost ready to start blogging again. I´ve spend so much time the last weeks just looking at the Andaman Sea at Koh Lipe and my mind is still there - still gazing at all the blue colours which I love so much. I wish you a wonderful new year 2009 - and I look forward to share it with you here.

Wishing you a merry Christmas

I´m wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year. We are ready now to go to Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Langkawi Island and Koh Lipe in Thailand - and will be back in the new year after a long and warm holiday full of rest and new inspiration. Take care and take it easy.

Advent decoration by Ferm

I just discovered this beautiful advent decoration in Alt for Damerne, created by Trine from Ferm Living, who is also the women behind the wallpaper in the background. It´s a branch decorated with misteltoe and some homemade birds, made from this pattern, by Spoolsewing. So pretty.

A little more Christmas

so here´s a glimpse of some of our decorations at home. As you can tell I just love snowflakes so off course I have to mention this snowflake design project by one of my favorite designers Marian Bantjes. We are busy packing - but I´ll be back tomorrow to say Goodbye and Happy Holidays.

Handmade Holiday decorations

I´m todays guest at Bloesem - where I´ve written a small post and how-to guide about my handmade holiday decorations this year. I was inspired by some capice shells I had bought in Asia – but I think you can get hold of them almost everywhere – and I tried to transfer some of my photos and prints onto them – and really liked the combination of the delicate shell and the graphic prints. You can read more here.

Simple & delicate ways to decorate

I´ve finished decorating our house for Christmas now - keeping it simple with lots of candles, snowflakes and cones - and I hope I´ll get a chance to take some photos soon. In the meantime I´ll just share these 2 wonderful ways to decorate your table, from Boligliv - and your white walls - source unknown. I´m thinking of doing something similar with our wall in the dinning room - since our painting will be part of this exhibition at Vejle Kunstmuseum untill April 09.

New owls in my shop

I´ve just uploaded some new owls in my shop, there´s a Science owl, a Hippie owl, a Girly owl, and a Craft Room Owl which I would like you to meet. It´s not easy to take good photos with natural lightning at this time of year - but I did the best I could.

Our Christmas market this weekend went really well - we had about 400 guest in our little studio and we will do it again next year I think - you can get a glimpse of the market at our new studio blog.