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 here in

This summer I did have a lot of creative ideas but looking back I was mainly knitting and created hair-bands out of my knitted strips. Inspired by a friend of mine I bought recycled t-shirt yarn in Panduro as soon as I arrived to Sweden. They had a pack of 10 differenet colors in small rolls of yarn, barely enough for one hairband - but I managed to stretch the strips to make them fit to cover the whole hairband. During the summer late evenings I was up knitting to relax. T-shirt yarn was fun to knit with it goes fast because it's pretty thick. I keep it simple knitting garter stitch because thats I all I can at the moment.  At the end of the summer I attached the colors I liked the most with a hot glue gun onto the hard hairband I had brought with me from Düsseldorf bought on Amazon.  I asked my dad in the beginning of the summer if he could help me - to build a rustic cool stand for my hairbands. In the garage I found branch from a Juniper bush that my dad had collected and it wa

 I was doing so well doing my weekly update about my creative work. And then schools summer-break happened. We left as soon as the school was out here in Germany to Sweden and stayed there all six weeks of vacation. We had a great vacation. Both warm sunny summer days spent on the beach but also cooler and cloudy summer days spent in the forrest. We managed to spend good time with family and friends. Travelled down south and also had time just chilling home at Lundsätter our country house.  Apart from swimming and fixing around the house I did manage some creative project so - I will catch up on that over the next posts and then hopefully be back on track doing my weekly update.