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iHanna's blog
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iHanna's blog - musings about creativity, projects and inspiration in everyday life: journaling, painting, knitting, sewing, collaging, paper crafting, writing, photographing, DIY projects, crocheting, writing, thinking, reading and existing. How to find inspiration and joy in small things.
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30 jun 11

Finding your own style

I used to hope to “find my style” very soon. I longed to find it, somewhere, anywhere. But I was looking for it before I was ready to see. Then I relaxed a bit and found it was there all ...

20 jun 11 1 person likes this

Cathcing up on Index Cards

Index Card June 6th. Drew the Swedish flag with creamy oil pastel crayons, and added the date stamp and an image that I previously coloured with watercolours. It was Sweden’s National Day, and ...

19 jun 11

Summer Project: Index Card A Day

I like to infuse my summer with creativity, something messy that reminds me of how much I need creativity. It’s especially important when I’m working in an office during the day, to take ...

17 jun 11

Love Letter to My Blog

Dear dear blog, do not disappear on me like that again. Please, I beg of you, stay healthy and strong. For me. First, when I noticed that the server where I keep you hosted had crashed (this was on J...

16 jun 11

June, the empress of the year

The empress of the year, the meadows’ queen, Back from the East, with all her goodly train, Is come, to glorify the world again With length of light and middle Summer-Sheen. In every plot, upon...

01 jun 11 1 person likes this

Art Journal Detail: Row of cats

Another art journal pages from my handmade pink-orange journal: Transparent pocket with new jeans label inside. The right page is made from a paper bag, and has a row of cats at the top. Here is a cl...

30 may 11

She is happy about spring + inspirational blogs

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way. /Pablo Neruda Smilla is so very appreci...

29 may 11

Everything is a diary

Art Journal pages with my handwriting. Sorry I haven’t posted much (again) this week. I’m busy all the time, this weekend we’re having an embroidery exhibition but I thought I’...

28 may 11

Art Journal before & after bunny

We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. /Pema Chödrön Since I g...

23 may 11

Feeling bodacious + giveaway

Do you want to know a secret? I wrote my last post on authenticity a few weeks ago, and since then I have hesitated on posting it quite a bit! I was even considering deleting it, because it doesnR...

19 may 11

Authenticity in a messy life

I’ve been thinking about authenticity lately. Authenticity as in what is going on in my real life versus what I show on this blog (right now everything is a mess). How truthful to what is reall...

17 may 11 1 person likes this

Embroidered ball / Singlad boll

My embroidered ball is finished, and I am very proud. It took quite a while to cover the whole surface with stitches but I looove how it came out! My embroidery group have been learning to make these...

16 may 11

Watercolour flowers + blog inspiration

Blessed spring, watercolour painting + collage by iHanna, May 2011. Available. Another square collage 13×13 centimeters (5×5″). This is a water colour painting that has some collage bits too,...

14 may 11

Gwacka gwacka!

The mister goes Gwacka!, original collage by iHanna, May 2011. Available now. Sold! There are so many things I want to write about, blog and images to edit, that I fear my head will explode. Maybe I ...

12 may 11

Masking Fluid for Watercolours

If you paint with watercolours you should try using a masking fluid sometimes. I just did, and it’s a lot of fun. A new thing to play with, yay! I got this one from Schminke, for my birthday (t...

11 may 11

How to find Found Faces + bookreview

Do you ever notice unexpected faces in your surrounding? If not, you will after reading this super cute photography book called Found Faces. I really love this book! It’s filled to the brim wit...

10 may 11 1 person likes this

Poetic words and a Wire Flower

“I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy.” Beautiful words found via FB, together with this quote: “Returning ...

09 may 11

Art Journal with “finished” pages

I love how this journal that I’ve made looks and feels. It is just delicious! Love the cover, the inside so rich with sewn pages, cut up envelopes and folded water colour paper. But I have a ha...

05 may 11

Bunting flags makes me happy

Over the years I’ve seen bunting flags many many times. I’ve seen photos of them in all colours, forms and uses all over the blog world. Every now and then new ideas, tutorials and inspir...

04 may 11

I am (not) the Hanna Andersson

One of this blogs followers, Sarah, recently sent me an email with this photo of a bus shelter in Portland, Oregon: Sarah and her husband were there for a short vacation and when walking around the c...

03 may 11

Art Journaling Bunny Power

April, a doodle with coloured pencils on a piece of black paper, that I later taped into the ongoing Art Journal: Can you believe that April is soon over? Wow, it just swooshed past me! The right pag...

27 apr 11

Prepped pages in the Art Journal

Mixing pink with dots of yellow, a page prepped and ready to write on. The collage on the right side was made while putting the book together. It might need some writing too, perhaps a list of some s...

26 apr 11

Online Learning

Congratulations to Julie Prichard and her art companion Chris for having sold 2000 spots to their awesome mixed media workshops online! That is quite an accomplishment! I hope you don’t mind th...

25 apr 11

I found this super cute notebook…

When I was on one of my artist dates with myself I scored two things that made me really happy in the thrift shop. You know the kind of things that makes you smile as you unpack them when you come ho...

21 apr 11

My batch of sewn paper postcards

I have been so busy visiting everyone’s blog posts about the postcarding joy that I forgot about my own! So far I’ve only shared little hints of my postcard process on the blog, but today...

20 apr 11

Doodles on loose paper

19 apr 11

One year older, no wiser

Hurray for me! My birthday was yesterday! I am now one year older but no wiser than before. I had plans for posting about my birthday preparations (finally I’ve sewn bunting flags!), to find th...

18 apr 11

Bookreview: Creative Bloom with fabric and wire

Have you ever made a craft project combining wire with fabric? And would you believe that those two odd materials together could be combined into several awesome projects that fill a whole craft book...

14 apr 11

Last Pages in the Grids & Lines sketchbook

I filled this red Moleskine sketchbook with “mostly collage and questions” about grids and lines, which was my theme. Today’s post is the last one about this sketchbook also known a...

13 apr 11

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