What happened and what will come

Being busy is good but as you can see my dear blog has been tragically neglected. When I started blogging my maternity had just finished and I was finding my way back to work and being a mum.
I started VillaPernilla and selling  stuff I needed myself as a mum on Etsy.com and in a few shops and museum gift stores. 
The biggest room upstairs became the VillaPernilla head quarter and sewing studio.

Since this picture was taken I've repainted and bought new fittings and another table.

 My costume work picked up again and I'm actually having to turn down work at times. It is harder to say no to work than one can imagine. I worked for Skånes dansteater wich is Swedens largest independent dance institution pretty much all last autumn. Very nice work and very nice people to work with.The pictures are from a double bill called HAZE and it is now touring in Germany and then Norway.

On Invisible Pause, choreography by Christopher Arouni, a part of Skånes Dansteater’s performance HAZE. Photo: Mats Bäcker.

Devious Paths, choreography by Helena Franzén, a part of Skånes Dansteater’s performance HAZE. Photo: Mats Bäcker.

 I also do some tailoring and sewing jobs that people drop by with. Not sure why I do it but it seems nice to offer the service to people that live locally. Today I had a visit by a 80 year old man that came wading threw the snow  to get  his jeans turned up. He sat reading the local paper while we did the job.

Now I feel like things are ready to take to level two whatever that entails. In my head I have a dream version of what that is but I have to make one that will work when there is only 24 hours in a day and I'm a mum that lives about 60km from a desent shop.
So careful planning and internet shopping for supplies are key to make it work. 
I would love my costume website to look great if you look at it using an I-pad or mobile.Oh and if I am making a wish list here I will add that blogs,websites,facebook pages etc could update themselfs.
So on that note I will finish my first 2012 entry and hope that there will be many more to come.

photo by Marianne Wie.

   

My midsummer

When living abroad midsummer used to be the time when I really felt homesick. Now we go down to the east coast of Sweden to spend midsummer with friends.


 We went up to the traditional dancing but Leon wasnt impressed so might not

do that again.... What we did like was to go down to the sea early morning and take the dog for a swim. It was only ten degrees so only got my feet wet and that was enough.

Leon parked his bike and then we went down to see if we could spot some fishes. The bike was bought for his older cousin a few years ago and now Leon inherited it. It is just the best so please click above link if you like the look of it. It is a learner bike that makes the kids find the balance they need for the real thing later on.

It is so beatuful here but when you look at the bottom you see that the Baltic is a dying sea. So we just look at the nature and try to do our bit not to make it worse.

I-pad sleeves

I have just put these out for sale in the Etsy shop and after 1 hour the rose had 10 views and the lace one had
well zero actually. They are made to fit the I-pads and are well padded so that you can take them with you any where to read.
Battery life they say are 12 hours but imagine running out of battery on the last page of a book and no way to charge it up.

Where Children Sleep

  Photographer James Mollison recently traveled the world, documenting children and the conditions in which they live: more specifically, where they go for comfort and sleep at the end of the day. I wanted to include this because the photos really tell a story and makes you want to know more. In the book you see a portrait of the child next to a photo of their room . Millions of families around the world sleep together in one room, and millions of children sleep in a place of convenience, rather than a place they can in any sense call their room.
My father told me he slept on the kitchen sofa and didnt have his own room when he grew up. They did have a parlour, fin rum but there was never a thought that it could be used as a bedroom for him. That was in the 40's and it shows how different we view the space that is allocated for kids and not just physical space.