My first chunky book

At the moment I'm in a new swap at flickr. This time the theme is to make a chunky book.
I didn't know anything about this before but it means that we are going to do paper collages pages and then put the pages together to a book. Hence the name chunky book...
The group is called Around the world swap which means that that pages have to reflect something from your own country. And it's here that my imagination is blocked!
What is Swedish?


So, instead of making pages for my swap I did a chunky book about a duck gong to the beach.
I found that it was really interesting to create a story without a text and only using the universal language of pictures!





The book isn't finished yet, so I'll have to show you the finished product in a couple of days!
And please, if you have any ideas for my around the world swap let me know! It has to be finished and sent on march 26...

Have a good day!

Beautiful things makes me happy happy happy!

I'm a lucky lucky gal!! A very intelligent man in my life gave me this beautiful ring as a gift this morning. I have yearned and glared at it for a long time here but only showed him once!
Her ring came with a lovely little box with a green ribbon and her business card with pictures of her other creations. They will now hang on my fridge.
At the moment her shop is down, but do go over there and pay her a visit!


This is all the extra I go to the box, but go over to her fickr and see the pictures much better!

Here's the much talked about ring!
If I could, would wear it every day!

My new mohair shawl!

When I really should be studying for my lecture tomorrow I have been knitting instead. And now my first mohair shawl is finished! I love the end result! I decided to incorporate glass beads in the second half of the shawl as an glittery element. Maybe, I'll add a ribbon in the edges but I'm nor sure if it's going to be too much...I'll think about it!

Here are a detail view of the shawl with the beads

Look how big it became! It's going to keep me warm the rest of the winter and into the cold spring!
What do you think, would a ribbon be too much?

More flowers!

Here are two ways I used my fabric flower. I knitted a belt and sewed the flower onto it and used two buttons for closing. I also tied the flower on to a elastic ribbon for my hair!

It was hard to take this picture by myself! ;-)
Have a nice weekend!

A tilting lady and new jewellery

This is the latest batch from my ceramics course. I made a sculpture of a lady in a clay that has a gravelled finish and coloured her in an blue toned oxide. The jewellery and beads are made from a smother clay and coloured with something that reminds me of water colours! Next time I'll show you my latest clay pot which if everything goes as planed looks like an art work more than a pot. Monday nights are fun!

Beads, I can never have enough beads and hand made beads are extra fun! I have not yet decided what to make of these...

This is going to be a brooch. It has a Easter feeling too it, don't you think?

This is my first earring made from scratch! I made the hook big and it looks more "arty" this way...I think.
This is my tilting lady in blue. At first I didn't like how she turned out, she has not feet and the way she is tilting slightly annoyed me. But now I kind of like her defects and can appreciate the way she looks. ;-)