The Caramel Dress

Here’s another recently finished project, a winter dress just in time for spring! Or let’s just say I’m getting a head start for next autumn. ;) The pattern for the bodice is McCall’s M5845...

Steal like an artist

by Austin Kleon ;)

The winter winds litter London with lonely hearts

A couple of snapshots from my trip to London last month. These are from two different areas that I always make sure to visit when I’m there (for excellent thrift-/antique-/market shopping), Notting...

Through rose coloured glasses

Pink flowers help me pretend that spring is near, even though there is nothing outside that looks remotely like it today.

Second Chances Shirtwaist Dress

This is the shirtwaist dress project, round two. I actually started this project before Christmas, with the aim of replacing a shirtdress I already had that I liked the idea of, but didn’t really...

Look what I can do

As I mentioned in this post over at Burdastyle, I am currently forbidding myself to start any new sewing projects until I have finished the better part of the pile of unfinished objects I have...

The Storyteller Dress

I made this dress a few weeks ago, and a couple of days ago it was featured as the Member Project of the Week over at Burdastyle, hooray! See more pictures and details here if you are interested in...

Grilled salmon and risotto with green peas and spinach – yum!

Recipe here. I made this for dinner today and it was amazing! Though I have a feeling that the massive portion I just had will have ruined all my chances of fitting into the dress I planned on...

Paris postcards

Charles de Gaulle, you are sheet. Can’t argue with that. ;)

Take me back to the start.

My computer has finally signed off for good and I am currently without, which partly explains my lack of posting. With little opportunity for editing photos it has put a bit of a damper on the...

So you laid your paper pattern on the table in between the silverware and napkins and the Harper’s magazines

It’s been a while since I did anything other than altering thrift shop finds with my sewing machine, but after having it duct taped and superglued recently I finally got around to making a dress....

There’s a hole in my heart in the shape of you, and no one else can fit.

Sunshine of my life for 8 years, he passed away this weekend. I’m heartbroken. :(

You can’t keep hiding difficult things in trunks.

Oh yes, it’s another suitcase! The list I keep at the back of my mind of things to look for at flea markets and thrift shops is many miles long, and one thing I have been keeping an eye out for for...

“There are ghosts walking around inside me, but they don’t always talk. Sometimes they have nothing to say.”

A beginning, a middle and an end.

Self-portraits on a snowy Saturday.

Black Swan

A psychological thriller set in the world of New York City ballet, BLACK SWAN stars Natalie Portman as Nina, a featured dancer who finds herself locked in a web of competitive intrigue with a new...

Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind/Cannot bear very much reality.

I can’t help it, as a bird lover I think pigeons are the funniest little creatures. I mean, look at these last two guys! So cute and fluffy! I think their colours are beautiful too, the different...

She keeps disappearing and dreaming

Come away with me in the night, come away with me and I will write you a song.

It is so stormy tonight, the whole house is shaking and sleeping is impossible, so I am up digging through my photo-archives and editing. These were taken last spring in a cottage by the woods,...

Nadinoo by Crena Watson

Nadinoo-Vimeo HD from Crena Watson on Vimeo. Here is another sweet little video, featuring clothes by Nadinoo. I love her blouses and printed dresses but that blue cape is my favourite. And birds!

The Sartorialist

I love this video I came across at elefantzonen recently. I have been following The Sartorialist for years, and in this short video he talks about the hows and whys of his work. ♥

These are no heavy boots

I am in love with my latest thrift find, these leather boots from Cole Haan. ♥ I have been searching for a pair of brown riding boots ever since I saw a pair like these in Toast a year or two ago...

The world and other places

I am currently re-reading books from one of my absolute favourite authors, Jeanette Winterson, like this collection of short stories. ♥

January spectacle

Last year I started the tradition of taking a selfportrait each month, and I decided to try to continue this year, if for no other reason than that it will be fun to look back at in twenty years....

Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes

I photographed my beautiful sister last week. ♥

Beneath a great big sky

52 books – 2010

And here is the 2010 book list! A fairly random assortment of books, picked up from flea-markets, the library, from friends or by suggestion from friends, and a few that had been on my to-read list...

52 books

One of the goals I had for last year was to read more books. I have always loved reading, and from a young age would read more or less anything that I could get my hands on, but in more recent...

You like roses and kisses and pretty men to tell you all those pretty lies.

Pink flowers to brighten the day. :) While going through the picture folders on my computer I realized that each month contained at least one photograph of some kind of pink flower. Roses, tulips,...

Courage (from latin: coeur): to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart

Brene Brown studies human connection — our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk at TEDxHouston, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal...