What have I've been up to when I havent been here

As you probably noticed I've been neglecting my dear blog. All for good reasons I might add since the work have just been rolling in. That is the problem with freelancing and just wanting to do lots of stuff  you just can't get a balance. So I have been dying fabrics...

When I moved back to Sweden after years in London I just had to bring my Burco boiler.

This was the first time I used it for work and I couldnt have done the job without it. My version looks like stonage compared to the new one I realise but it still works.

The fabrics where dyed to become shirts for a musical at Malmö Opera house. The show, Les Miserable will open in september.

My lamp project that I've written about in this blog earlier turned into an exhibition along with some of my other textiles and together with a ceramist , Annika Sonntag we laid a table with our creations and my lamps above it.

Got into outdoor cooking in a big way. Specially my own grown vegetables. The vegetable patch was the part of the garden I enjoyed the most in the garden this summer.

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Made some more costumes and meet some very nice people at the same time. Here are  two videos

from the production. It's all in swedish I'm afraid..

 

I did go to the beach as well but next summer I will I will spend more time here.

The beach at our summerhouse in Åhus.



Mass producer of art and soon to come homegrown veggies- I hope

We have got a mass producer of  art in our house. It can be very mixed media when he decides to go loose on the interior and his grand dad sends him car stickers to use. Luckily for me the stickers where not very sticky. Then I've got a very handy elastic line with clips on to display his artwork that a very kind friend bough for me at Granit. Wish they had a webshop for people like me who live 300km to nearest store.

He seems to be going threw a red phase.. could it somehow be connected with being two and a half

and having a very strong will I wonder ? Maybe I should swap the paint for lots of greens and calm blues and see if it will have an effect.

As you can see we are getting a layered effect and what to do next?

Where to store all this art and does he then get it when he moves out? What does other parents do?

Any suggestions on keeping and displaying your childrens paintings and stuff?

When we go to London I always try to get a lunch or two at Leons and I also got the cookbook to inspire me. They have things like Morrocan meatballs,Sunshine sallad and home made Leon lemonade on the menu.
They also got a kids menu that your kids will eat from and you can feel like your kid is  getting some healthy food. Not the easiest task whe you are travelling.



New cookbook. Not for sale in sweden
 but  you can get it at amazon.


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  Soon it will be growing season here and I'm going to donate some of the black currant bushes so that I can extend my vegetable patch and grow lots of great stuff and then make some fabolous food. I want to grow things kids can eat straight from the patch. Carrots ,wild strawberries and maybe sugarpeas.
Warm up world and shake off last bits of winter even here in Sweden!



Had a thought about making nice looking seed packets and then I found a shop that does just that. In England of course. Looks great I think.