Alright here is one of my New years tasks to myself and my creativity - to continue the weekly update !  It is week 3 of 2023 and lets do this !  A few weeks before Christmas I was selling my stuff at Kiwifalter's Winterfest here in Düsseldorf.  Vonkreation  was also there selling her nice cups, bags, shirts etc. All her stuff and ideas are super cool and I asked if it would be possible to print one of my illustrations on an enmal cup. The enamel cups are cute and great for picnics to serve coffee or even better Glühwein. I picked my Düsseldorf motive and also got help to pick a nice German quote used during Glühwein season " Lasst uns froh und munter sein".  I am very happy with the result and I will bring them with to nice adventures in the nature in the future. 

  Om jag skulle summera mitt kreativa år 2022 med en topp tre lista... Ja då skulle det se ut såhär. Nummer 1= Påskhararna. Påskhare presentpåsar i tyg   som jag efter en del trixande och testande fick till. Kul med trix när resultat blir bra. Ett alternativ till påskägget till påskpresent för t.ex en flaska av nåt slag som får plats i dom högre påsarna.  Nummer 2 = Glada örhängen. I våras lekta jag fram en hel kollektion av färggranna örhängen. Det var en vårkväll och barnen hade lekt med nån slags fluffig lera som jag köpt på Teddi ( en affär för typ allt inklusive stort utbud av pysselmaterial.) Mila hade skapat nån slags stor grej med olika färger på och jag kunde inte låta bli och testa om jag kunde göra något liknande till örhängen och det var då min skapa örhängen mani började. Den fluffiga leran var lufttorkande och sen lackade jag och limmade på örhängesploppar och fixade display pappbitar. När jag hade slut på fluff lera övergick jag till Fimo. Sen tröttnade ja...

  2022 is over and for me personally it was a good year and that is all I choose to focus on here. I am happy that I decided to try to do a weekly update here on the blog, even if I didn't managed all weeks it made me update something more often then I would have otherwise. I had a good creative year and proud that I participated with my stuff at 4 markets here in Düsseldorf. Next post I will present my top 3 of my creative 2023 

Last weekend it was finally time for Winter market at Landhaus Freeman a very nice and popular restaurant here in Kalkum, Düsseldorf. It is so nice of the owner to organize these great cute and well attended markets, normally one market each season. I am very happy to participate at these markets and they have made me more and more confident to be there and to show and sell my products.   This year I brought with my hats and I had made some new for this season. I would say that the fabrics and patterns I have bought this year at a craft fair here in Germany are more earthy tones. I don´t want to fall into the grey and beige trend because I believe in colorful especially for children. I hope I did I managed to stay colorful I hope but I will pay extra attention on this next year.  I also brought my hairbands and scrunchies. My Christmas gift bags made out of fabric was very popular this year that I almost sold out. I also sold postcards and prints of my Düsseldorf motive. ...

  Kids with friends have watched Ghostbusters and yes decided to all get dressed up as Ghostbusters this year. Our friend Ange is a master in creating costumes and made great Slimer costume for herself and made ghostes for me and Loren. The Halloween celebration in our area here in Düusseldorf is well attended and organized since it lives a lot of expats in our neighborhood. 

  I have been creating some new hair-bands from different fabrics and patterns. It is so much fun to make different style hair-bands and they are such useful accessory. Mila helped me to modell them for me under our beautiful maple tree. I am already getting sorted for the open-air Winter market which is coming up here in Düsseldorf end of November and first of Advent.  Which pattern is your favourite? 

  Talking about Autum-break here comes a few pictures from our break. We had a great combination of calm country-life at Lundsätter our country-house and Stockholm with my sister Sofie and my mother.  Seeing friends and family, enjoying the forrest and the beautiful October weather with clear sky and bright sunshine charged our batteries. We are so lucky that the kids have good friends to play with while we are home and extra extra bonus is that we have stable and pony to go to.  In Stockholm we did a couple of cool museums which we can very much recommend - Paradox Museum   -Museum of Natural history 

I love autumn and this autumn as been so nice and sunny. German autumn-break was beginning of October and we had a great break home in Sweden. This illustration is very much inspired by autumn and all the beautiful strong colors this season offers. Illustration on A4 akvarell paper and watercolor

Lena Andersson is a Swedish children's book illustrator and author. I am brought up with her books, pictures and the characters Linnéa and Maja. I loved her stories and I think mostly because her characters are close to nature. The books are educational about trees, flowers, the different seasons but also one very poetic book about the alfabet. One of my favorite pictures from Maja's Alfabet is P as in Peonies. I don't know how many times I have tried to draw a copy of that house on the peony leaf. I also think that the flower peony is one of my favorite flower. At our country house I planted peonies 10 years ago or maybe even more. The past at least three years I have missed when they start blossoming. That magical day or couple of days when the peonies big buds bursts into a beautiful flowers. By the time we have gotten summer-break and flown from Düsseldorf to Sweden the beautiful flowers have became so heavy and laying down full of ants. But this year my dad decided to ...

In this post I will present another one of my creative summer crafts. Before summer I started making earrings first from foamy clay and after that with a Fimo clay copy. I decided I wanted to try the original Fimo clay and my first impression was that is has a different texture and is a harder clay. I found it a bit harder to work with in the beginning but at the same time more possibilities to create more things. I might try to buy clay softener to make the clay easier do form. Fimo needs to be baked 30 min in the oven after done. I also bought long pins in different thicknesses from Fimo for creating your own beads. It was fun to try on these neon colored clays which I bought as a contrast to all the pastel colors I had made prior to these. Here is a few examples of what I made this summer och have bought more colors here in Düsseldorf so I will keep coming up with new designs and create more.  I will shortly show you more and I will bring my earrings to the markets I will do her...