Skapande

I don’t know how it happened, but suddenly I have a smaller collection of cans. This summer I received two and bought one. And now I have received one more, my sister and here family is moving to a new apartment and she has cleaned here cupboards. So she gave me this one, it has belonged to our grandmother I think.

Now I have to find out something fore them, I can’t just store them in my cupboards either.

Studio Friday September 22nd

This week’s topic: TOOT YOUR OWN HORN… LOUD!

” Studio Friday, for me, is a network of Artist from all over the world. It’s a fabulous way to communicate with and learn from artists of all backgrounds. With this being said, I would love to see a showcase of what YOUR art is. Are you a scrapbooker? A clay artist? Are you a collage artist or a photographer? Do you paint or work in the fibre arts of Knitting, sewing or enbroidery? Are you a gardener a botanist or an eclectic artist of many trades? I’d love to see a piece that you have created that you are most proud of. SHOW off your STUFF!!” ~Gabi

Ohh… I’m one of them that belong to the group artist of many trades, I like to try almost everything, but I have some trades I feel that I handle better then others. My number one is woodworking, it’s the trade I’m like the most and has most skills in. I also think I knit well but I’m not so good in reading knitting patterns sometimes, but the knitting turns out really good. I also feel that I handle many other textile techniques really good too.

So, what am I then most proud of? I have some woodwork projects that I feel really satisfied with!

The first thing is the very first tavlett, a type of shelf, that I built last summer when I went a course on Sätergläntan. I’m proud of it because it was my first one and it turned out nice.

But I think I’m even more proud of the tavlett I made this summer to a friend that got married. It’s sweet and I like that it feels balanced in colour and form.

Sometimes I’m making collages, I haven’t made so many get, because I thinks it’s quite hard to get them as I want, but this summer I managed to make one I feel really proud of. I used a colour that I usually don’t like, pink, and added a lot of roses, I’m not a rose girl either, but for my eyes it turn out nice and I’m proud that my thoughts lead me to this result.

This week’s subject made me think a lot. I thought something like this: Of course I don’t feel satisfied of exact every piece I make, but I actually for myself feels proud almost every time I have made something new. I think it’s good that I’m creative. I’m proud that I have come this far and I always strives for becoming more skilful. I don’t think it’s bragging to say that you are skilful and make nice things, contrary I think it’s a strength so bye, bye to jantelagen.

I also think that the good thing starts the second you decided to make the thing you works with, and that, the thought and the way to a finished product, is the good thing. So actually I feel even more proud of “all my ways” then my things! The finished things are just a really nice bonus!

(This is one of the moments I feel that my English is a hinder for my thoughts, I could have developed this thought better if I was writing in Swedish, but I want everyone to be able to read my blog too.)

Do you think of the way or just the finished things? What’s more important for you? And I hope that everyone is proud to be a creative person! I am!

Studio Friday: “On the outside”

The thing I see from my studio corner when I look true my window is a really big and uncut cherry tree. This summer it gave us quit many berries. Me and my cousin picked them one evening and we had to use both a ladder and a rake to bend down the branches to reach them. But we could not pick them all even if we used the ladder and rake. The tree has become too high!

When I moved to this apartment last December I started a photo project involving the cherry tree. I try to follow it by the change of the seasons. The pictures is simple but it’s fun to se the trees all clothing’s. In one way I also like that the tree is so overgrown, it lives its own life!

If I look further there is a bunch of houses because I live on an ordinary Swedish residential district. Not a very great view, I wish I was able to look out over the ocean. But it could be worse too, so I don’t complain. Even if I don’t have the ocean to look out over I at least have the blue sky to look at. And that feels good, if I wasn’t able to see it I think I would die… or not die, but feel very, very ill!

Although creativity can be sprout almost everywhere, that’s one of the nice things with it. If you don’t have the great view on the outside your imagination can take you wherever you will go! If we wasn’t able to dream what would we do then?

I will not think about that! Instead I dream of something nice!

I’m working on some freehand embroiders that going to be some small purses. It’s fun to sew on freehand; when you start you don’t know where it will end up. Like this for example. I felt that I wanted to make a tree and out came this, really satisfied with the shape of it. The tree will be on the front of the purse. The text I have made that now is upside down will be the right way when I sew it together with the lining. What does it say then? -All those lovely woods.


Why this words about the woods that are lovely…. It’s simple, is it something I really, really like there is all this trees that together forms a wood. Depending on where you live the trees are different and of many sorts. But that doesn’t matter, every wood has its own character and it always makes me calm and peaceful!

I will make an update when I can show a finished purse.

It gets dark outside at night now and the bicycle light has no battery! Buy new ones!

Studio Friday for september 15th, it’s soon Saturday here, only 13 minutes left of Friday.

” I was thinking, all the ladies work so hard in their studios: maybe it’s time we all treat ourselves to a lovely boquet of flowers for our creative spaces? Maybe some fragrant, or colourful buds to make us happy? Let’s treat ourselves this Friday, and buy a nice arrangement of flowers for our studios!” ~ Leslie

This month I have given myself a ban to buy anything else except for food, because I don’t need anything new and should use some of all my material and stuff instead. So therefore I haven’t bought any flowers, and there are not many of them to pick in the garden either. And I don’t want to make a collage or something like that. But in my studio corner, yes, corner, I don’t have a whole room…I have this eternal flower… or more correct eternal tree or a branch that I have carved for some years ago. I have painted it in one of my favourite colour, lilac. Therefore that is my flower; it never withers and don’t need water! It’s perfect, because I have the worst green fingers there is! I can hardly keep a plant alive!

I’m sorry for the bad picture, its night and dark here now, so I hadn’t a natural light to take the photo in.

When I surfed For the love of country for some days ago the owner, Anna, had made a type of crown in black steel wire. Seeing that made me start thinking and I couldn’t stop… So before I went to bed I had too make a sketch of a crown that I felt that I would like too create. And now I have made it! How did it turn out then, you can see it on the two big pictures, maybe it’s something for a king?


I really like the crown shape. When I make my garden decorations I do one type of crowns. I have a great ceramic lamp in the shape of a crown that I bought at Norrgavel in Malmö when I visited a friend. And when I doodle I often tend to make them too.


And now I have this crown, which I feel really happy about. I will try to do it in some other shapes to, maybe a crown for a queen, or with other pearls. Bigger, smaller or higher, oh, there are so many opportunities!

Do you remember my attic finds? Among them were the fabric with pears on and now I have used my first bit of it. It became an apron for my nephew who turns 2 years today. So it was his birthday present. Hip, hip, Hurrah for Linus!

The pear had the perfect size for becoming an apron for a child. When I got the idea I became very happy. I think it’s a perfect thing for a child. I hope he will like it! But he hadn’t time to try it on at his party.

I helped my sister with his cake I made a tractor with a trailer. It was fun and it tasted good too! And why a tractor then, it’s a simple answer to that, Linus loves tractors and all other machines!

Studio Friday

Which tools do you use on a regular basis?

I have one kind of tools I use more than something else. That’s knifes! For the moment I’m only using knifes made by a smith named Svante Djärv. Who I think makes some of the best knife there is actually! If you work in wood and like to buy tools I think you should try one made by him. I couldn’t do my woodworking without my knife that would be impossible. So it was I easy choice to show the knife once again…

But if you could call a pencil for a tool, then there is one more I use all the time. In my work I can’t manage without one when I will show my pupils something for example. Use it when I draw my ideas or simply when I would like to write something down. Should it be possible to live without a pencil? Don’t think so, not for me.

This past Sunday I went to the same flea market as Hanna, when she was there for selling stuff I went there to buy things instead. And of course I didn’t come home empty-handed. Most of the things I bought were things that I can use in my projects in some way. I bought a pack of wool yarns for embroiders, two big rolls of linen yarn.



Found one candlestick in teak which goes very well with my kitchen table also in teak. Have to find more of them. Four pocket books most because they were so cheap! And finally and smallest, this little puzzle, twelve pieces. Stored in a matchbox, couldn’t resist, so cute!

Ah, it’s so fun with flea markets!