Enjoy & Relax!

My summerholidays start today – and the blog and my studio will be quiet for the next 3 weeks. I wish you all a wonderful summer – take care!

Geneology

Besides all the design jobs in the studio, the goodbye parties for Nanna in the Kindergarten and all the kitchen planning lately – I´ve also spend some time putting together a small book about my mothers side of the family – The Johansen Family. My aunt has collected lots of photos and clippings and written a little about both my grandparents & my great grandparents. It´s been so nice and touching to see all the photos and to read about their lives. I made the photo book via Iphoto, and also made a family tree via Geni.com – and I really recommend both services. My great grandparents had 5 children – but only my grandfather and his older brother who emigrated to the U.S  had kids – and right now 3 of those ” kids” (my mom, my aunt and their cousin) are reunited in California together with their daughters and grandchildren. It´s such a nice thought and it warms my heart – and I´m thinking so much of them all right now and wonder if my interest in geneology is a clear sign that I´m getting old!!

Above is my maternal great grandmother, my grandfather, my paternal great grandmother, my grandmother and my paternal great grandfather – all chilling in the backyard!

More Black & white

Maybe you can tell thay my interior decorating side is very much alive these days – cause here´s some more black and white inspiration – from RosenbergCph´s website. RosenbergCph is a danish company that design and produce articles for the home, and clothes for women and children. I think their patterns are modern classics – and enjoyed seeing their products in situ at their press page – and the pillows are of course on my wishlist!

Black & white kitchens

This weekend we tore down most of our old kitchen in the summerhouse. We took down the upper cabinets which will be replaced with open shelves instead – and already now the room looks so much brighter and bigger – and I can´t wait for the final result!  The pictures above are from my inspiration folder -  I´m not sure where I found the photos apart from the bottom left, which is from Made a Mano´s website – I just love those big ceramic tiles! I took a lot of “before” pictures and plan to share the final result after the summerholidays.

Airy Summer drawings

I just saw these airy drawings by US artist Aidan Koch via Housemartin – and they really insprired me to sit down and doodle with my watercolours during our summerholiday. Maybe they will inspire you to doodle too.

Jurianne Matter

I´m still here – and still very busy before my summerholidays – so meanwhile I´ll just share this lovely moodboard and the cute paper flowers of the dutch designer Jurianne Matter. She is a freelance designer and product stylist who designs her own paperwork, but also design patterns for other companies.

Cutest teapot ever!

Yesterday I spotted some ceramic pieces from a  collaboration between ceramist Louise Gaardmann & illustrator Anders Anhøj from Venom Yum. And their teapot has to be the custest teapot ever! Also check out their Brushies. It´s all on my wishlist! And now back to work – I have so many great projects to finnish before the summerholiday and I´m working day & night right now – so my shop will be updated later…

Midsummer news

I have some great news – a small line of plexiglas jewellery is coming to an Etsy-shop near you very soon! I had planned to update my shop today – but have locked myself out of the studio today!- so here´s a little glimpse instead. I also just wanted to give you a glimpse of  last nights perfect Midsummer Night, which we celebrated with good friends, Cava, marshmellows, bonfire, sunset and birthday cake. (the photo is taken around 10 pm.)

Here´s a few things that caught my eye – I´m summer lovin´colours that pop!

Hello Yellow!

Here´s some other oldies from my huge archive of flower photos – just to get this week started in a nice way!