Felt animals

It’s funny how these animals turn out with such different personalities. I don’t use a pattern to make them and I try my best to make them all similar but  inattentional, they all end up differently. Example: A panda, a raccoon and a bear!

By the way I´m almost falling asleep so I´ll answer all your great comments tomorrow when I have the entire day off, Hooray!

Queen of Africa!

My sweet girlfriend Simone brought me (and the baby) this beautiful doll as a present all the way from Ghana! I’m thrilled; It’s a handmade product made only from recycled materials like old rice-bags and it can be turned both ways -so it’s actually two dolls in one. It has amazing details like earrings, hairdos and tons of colourful fabrics sewn together.

I have known Simone since I was four and I have been crazy about her ever since, she can light up any room with her smile.

Last year Simone spend 9 month in Ghana as part of her education as a kindergarten teacher and last month she went back to visit her Ghana friends. She just returned all freckled and happy and I was paid a visit, plus wonderful Ghana-gifts like this doll! Lucky lucky me :)

Ps. And lucky Anders; as you can probably tell he fell in love with the doll instantly. I wonder if our baby ever gets a chance to play with it.

What Young wore this week

Ohh, pretty pretty pretty…. I have met ‘Young‘ via ‘Lea‘ through blog-land. She’s from Copenhagen, Denmark like me! Go visit her blog ‘Half girl’ -it’s worth it!

Anders and I have spend our weekend here. I’m tired today and I’m gonna spend the rest of it on the couch…

Black and white…

My dad and my step-mum are mowing to the countryside soon and therefore they have started to tidy up in their city-apartment step by step. This apartment is my childhood home. I went to visit them last night and found these pictures from 1997 (wich I just realized is 13 years ago -WOW)

I did a lot of photographing back then (with an old single -lens reflex camera) and was lucky enough to be able to play with the photographic process at home. My dad used to create his own photos when my siblings and I was kids,  he taught me what he knew and I experimented away…  These are only negatives and samples.

Niller looks silly and Hildur looks so cute and tiny in her sailor dress.

Wall decoration!

Materials: Scissors, glue, buttons and some pretty paper (I use wallpaper).

These ‘wheels’  look very pretty as decorations on a wall, or on a string from the sealing, on a present or…..

They are fun and easy to make, but If you prefer; I also sell them in my shop.

Please let me know if you have questions!

A few pictures from my shop

I haven’t shown pictures from my shop for a quite a while now. These are from today but I didn’t have much time, so I’ll be back with more pictures soon…

Gift tags!

I am creating gift tags for the shop this evening. The illustrations are found in vintage story books. Isn’t this tiny mouse a cutie? This tag only needs a ribbon then it’s all done!

There is a snowstorm going on outside and Anders is making hot chocolate and bread roles, uhmm… pretty good for a boring Tuesday huh?

Thank you so much for all your sweet comments lately! I feel so happy and overwhelmed (also a bit shy) by how many readers I have;  Hi there :)

Coffee and cakes

What Skipper wore this week!

Skipper is Barbie’s little sister she lives in a pretty case on my bookshelf. She was born in 1963 and used to belong to my dad’s younger siblings. My sister and I have been playing with Skipper (and her twin sister) every Sunday when we were kids visiting our grandma and grandpas place.  And after my grandparents died some years ago Skipper mowed into our house.

She has got fabulous taste and one of the most brilliant things about her wardrobe is that my dad designed and sewed part of it as a kid -I must have inherited my sewing skills from him.

The knitted cardigans are done by my grandma, but I’m pretty sure my dad made the Friday-skin coat plus a few other things not shown here.

Stomach update!

My sister and I are both pregnant. Our due date is only one day apart! -It’s me on the left.

Snowstorm…

This is how the-big-outside looks right now! -And I was convinced Spring was on it’s way…

Pyjama party!

I was invited to my first virtual party at Dotti’s place this Saturday.

-I’ll be back to answer comments tomorrow. Now sleep…

What Katrina wore this week

This is Katrina from Millbrae, California. She hosts the very pretty blog Pugly Pixel and when I recently discovered her blog I instantly fell in love with her style .

Katrina is a tomboy by heart, greatly inspired by menswear, but  she like’s to wear such pieces balanced by some feminine detail (ie. a pearl bracelet, floral earrings, red lipstick, or a satin pink headband…). Katrina’s first style influence was Andie (played by Molly Ringwald) in Pretty in Pink and her ultimate fashion icons are Katharine Hepburn and Diane Keaton.

I know I can’t keep saying this; but I really think this is one of the best fashion-weeks I’ve shown you.

Baby carriage decoration…

I never did show you the result of these tiny fellows. This is a… well I don’t know what it’s called but it’s a decoration to hang on a baby carriage. I wonder if there’s a Danish word for something like this?

Re-decorated apartment

Once again I have re-decorated our apartment. My thought was to make things a bit lighter and more cheerful in this Winter-darkness. So I got rid of our big dark patterned carpets and removed all the paintings and pictures from our big dining-room wall, then I have switched around two big maps (A Europe map and a World map) to bring the lightest one from our bedroom into our dining-room. And I have also made a new wall-papered wall at the end of our dining table where I have re-hung half the paintings I took down from the other wall…

In our tiny hallway where we have a blinded door into the living room I have hung up an old 60′ties lamp we had lying around, this suddenly made the hallway seem like it’s own little room and not just a walk-though-place.  It took me a little bit by surprise how cosy the hall way became Anders and I was so happy with the result -we almost felt like bringing chairs out there to read a book in the ‘new room’ :)…

I didn’t do all these things on one day, little by little through the last (many) weeks. This photo is from our hallway I will show more when the sun comes out and I can shoot some better pictures.

Freeezing Copenhagen…

I took these pictures from a small bridge I cross on my way to work in the morning. The rare sight of sun shining through the clouds made me stop my bike for a short photo-shoot, even though it’s to cold to stand still if only for 20 seconds.  Ughhh… cold cold cold…

Baby organizing!

Sometimes I scare myself with how organized I like things to be… It gives me a great feeling of control! -Not like things around here always ARE  perfectly organized I just really like it when they are.

Anyway… I have had this urge to get some kind of overview of the ‘necessary-baby-stuff-situation’… I guess it’s probably some kind of  ‘building-a-perfect-family-nest-syndrome’ I’m going through here. -When I have these outer things in place -I’m more relaxed inside (that’s the logic). And even though I have felt like doing all this baby-organizing for several months now I have kept it in control and not done anything about it… until I went second-hand shopping this weekend. I will make it an honer to buy all the necessary baby-stuff second hand and it seems it’s going to be easy, there are a bunch of very good second-hand-baby-shops in Copenhagen (Mødrehjælpen.dk) -that I have never even noticed before. This weekend I went for a bike ride to visit a few of them and the result is a perfectly organized baby-stuff-draw in my closet! (It was when I found myself folding, measuring, counting and organizing this draw I suddenly scared myself a little bit)

What I wore this week

My planning skills for a fabulous new ‘fashion-star” failed this week.

Here I am again:)…

Coffee and planning…

This is a great place; they serve breakfast, coffee and wifi all day long. And their ‘breakfast-menu’ are exactly the way I like it: toasted rye-bread, boiled eggs, cheese and fantastic coffee. Unfortunately it’s a long way from where I live, but when I have time enough, I’ll gladly bike through the city and drink my coffee here.

The 2009 quiz!

We had a home-made ‘2009-quiz’ at New Year’s eve, -and I was happy to see my blackboard come to (yet) a good use!

Usually I write my to-do lists, shopping-lists and wish-lists on it, but this game was a nice change. Now everyday live is back, and I need it back for lists -the games gotta go!

Cabochon earrings

I was thrilled when I found these  cabochon-”beads” I have been looking for them for quite a while.

They are vintage and originally from West Germany.

I’ve turned them into pretty ear-stickers in various colours and shapes… They will be in my shop by this weekend.

Stomach update!

Lazy Monday…

What Stéphanie wore this week

There are many reasons why I like this fashion-week. First of all I love how Stéphanie’s style is so  bold and confident . I like how the Tuesday-helmet brings story and rughness into the week and last but not least  I love the combination of long brown hair and the colour red :) -this is probably because I can’t pull it of with my colours at all.

Stéphanie is inspired by the sixties and seventies and a big fan of vintage items. Her favourite fashion icon is Jane Birkin. She creates her own bags and jewelry to match her clothes, cool!

Stéphanie is from france and has this very pretty blog: Le blog de Stéphanie!

Sale is up!

Anders and I have spend our evening making the shop ready for sale!

Starting tomorrow we have loads of goodies at very cheap prices. Stop by if you are near Copenhagen.

Miniature home…

I have seriously neglected my mini-home lately and I’m drowning in things that has to be re-placed or re-done down there…

This baby in my belly is already making it harder for me to get things done. -Both because I’m really tired most of the time, but also because I’m slowly starting to rearrange our real-live-home and make it more baby-friendly.  I’m tidying up closets and shelf’s to make more room for all the baby-stuff  that has already begun to sneak in here.

Anyway our home looks different than usual and it’s probably going to continue to change for a while forward so my motivation towards the mini-home has left me for a while. Hopefully it’ll be back again soon…

Working at home…

Now that I have hired some girls to help me take care of the shop, I am working most of my days at home…

Our living room has become a very messy but cosy workshop.

Ps. I am looking so much forward to sunny weather -it’s almost impossible to take good pictures in this darkness.

Homemade pizza!

What Alice wore this week…

Meet Alice from California, USA.

Alice is currently studying psychology and (just like me) she likes to create things such as clothes and accessories.
My personal favourite this week is Wednesday, I like the white scarf – red blouse combination.

Visit Alice’s blog  here: Laiking! -and have a geat weekend everyone….

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!

I have not forgotten about you, but there has been many other thing on my mind lately.

I was really suppose to just relax at home this week, but after doing that for a couple of hours, I got bored and felt like doing something.  So I have been sewing a bunch of  “Spring-stuff” for the shop; pillows, skirts, dresses and some toys. I have also made new necklaces and spend a whole day searching for just the right materials for future projects.

Then there was New year’s eve; Anders made a brilliant dinner and we had guests, music and lots of fun…

I’m looking forward to get some more blogging done and to go to work tomorrow, after all these holidays it’ll be nice to get back into a more steady routine again.

See you soon… -B