Travel + Teapots = ♥

It's been a bit luxurious lately, travelling here there and everywhere. We've recently been to Copenhagen, to Barcelona and tomorrow to Italy!

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Copenhagen was great! I purchased this rather lovely teapot!

To be honest it was difficult not to buy up everything I saw.

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Barcelona was superbly sunny too, and much time was spent on the beach sweating, swimming, hearing the cries of beach sellers 'Cerveza, cola, agua, beeee-eer!'. Then a lot of standing up, looking around with hands on hips and acting like a meerkat, which is what everyone else seemed to be doing.

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But while in Copenhagen we stayed at Gunvør and her family's house. It was great to stay with them and they even lent us bikes. Anyway, a thank-card was in order, so the stamps came out and this was what was produced. Takk Gunvør !

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Radishing red.

A small ode to red, and a portrait of some radishes. I've also included some stamps I made. Watch this space for homemade greeting cards.

Purple rain

Well, spring is here! But here in Bergen April showers are almost all year round and inspired by this I have made a dedication to RAIN. Or my own interpretaion of rain...PURPLE RAIN. (the real stuff, not the Prince song)

I got the idea when I came by this cloud at Meet me at Mike's.  I made my own version and rummaged through all the material I had. I cut out a cloud from this material I bought in India.

I made the rain drops from fabric samples given to me by a friend.

I stuffed the cloud with dreams of sunny days and some polyester stuff.

 I joined it all together with some ribbon and...voilà

 

 ...an instant rainy day brightened.

Elephant ears.

My love of buttons and a new skirt got me thinking about some new earrings....

My new skirt felt a bit African...so an elephant seemed perfect.

I've made some button earrings before (they are super easy to do!) and require almost no equipment. You need, of course, a couple of buttons and some studded earring backs. You'll also need some strong glue for sticking the stuff together and a knife to chop off the loop hole at the back if there is one.



Make sure you leave them a good few hours before you put them on...you don't want to have permenant earrings!

And ...Ta Da! A new pair of earrings in one afternoon and a rainy day passed productively.

All things orange.

There seems to be an orange them in my life at the moment. First there were the lanterns to welcome in spring:

Then there was the Carrot and Corriander soup to warm up after the changeable weather.

And lastly there was the Carrot Cake with cream cheese icing. it was my first Carrot cake and was very yummy, so there will be more of those to come!



 

Dreamy..

Just realised it's all becoming very dream related here...probably because I should be in bed.

Here's a dream I had anyway:

A chair I dreamt about and it's soundtrack...

Good night!

Button it beautiful!

Making objects feel special.

On a Sunday, sorting out some buttons...



Looking through to see what I could make....



Decided to use them as magnets to accessorize the fridge...





And make it look more colourful and feel more special...



Glorious Green

I made some cupcakes on the theme of green.

Yummy and simple to make:
2 eggs
100g flour with a tsp of baking powder
100g softened butter
100g sugar
3 drops of vanilla

Mix the butter and sugar until smooth, add an egg and then half the flour and mix, do the same with the rest of the ingredients. Fill some muffin cases and bake for 15 mins at 180 degrees

When cooled add some butter icing. mmmm

Hand wrapped Christmas



I used some cheap wrapping paper and used my homemade stamp to add gold birds



And added some purple ribbon

I also made some gift cards with the same stamp and some blue ink.
I bought the stamp making kit from Felt cafe Japan

Late autumn...It's been a long time

Just some random pictures of the view through our window at the end of November.

Back catalogue of stuff I've made

So to catch up, here is a back catologue of all the things that I've made (and finished) in the past 12 months. Most things have been made by recycling old fabric or stuff you just don't want. The bag came in si super useful so I think I'll make some more of those soon.

Bunny shoulder bag.



Is it a jumper or a basket? Well it was a jumper....

Throwing away those old tins? Fools!

 It's amazing what you cna do with a nail, a hammer and an old tin. Yes! candle holder with a theme of your choice!

Some of the objects needed a little guidence so I went on a pottery course to make these babies.

Poor me! I have no potter's wheel to make these at home so I went on a pottery course and these are a couple of things that survived.

Needless to say there are many things I haven't yet finished. They include a scarf, a blanket and a woven basket from old t-shirts...who knows one day they'll get finished and I'll post them on here too...

Cheese!

See to the (lower) left for more of my pictures through Flickr. You can click on them to see them bigger and look at the whole lot. At the moment I have some more frm my trip to Barcelona, Some in colour and some in good ol' black and white.
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Train journey

On Saturday we went to Flaam, a few hours away from Bergen. Typically the weather wasn't great but I took photos all the same. Here are some:



Beautiful clouds.



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Things to make you happy

Autumn is here and I've been travelling a bit, teaching a bit and making pillow cases. The  colours on the mountains at the moment are fantastic, so it's hard to not take pictures and feel inspired.

I used a second hand table cloth and some linen.



It started with some sewing and an idea I got from a rock in Tushita, India: SMILE!





A bus trip through autumn landsacapes...



Then a trip to Barcelona....

 

Walking around Guell

I'm going to put my photos on a slide show to the left so you can see them all and find them on Flickr. Enjoy!