That present

So here's what I gave to 2-month-old Alicia, daughter of a fav couple of mine and J's. I designed and made it myself (pretty basic stuff) and I'm really happy with the outcome! So glad I went to have it done at a proper print shop! I'm starting to think graphic design really is for me :) Imagine working with something one really loves and maybe even turn it into a business... :)

text says: most beautiful

names

birth info

loved♥

final touches

on our new kitchen! Today, finishing the counter top with hardwax oil. It's a massive oak (not properly portrayed in colour...) counter top and we hope that this'll do the trick. Earlier, it was so sensitive to anything and everything that wasn't wiped off immediately. And that's not good enough for a kitchen, hey.

More pictures of finished kitchen (+before-pictures, obviously!) coming up!! :)

L O V E

Something I threw together in PS... :) Maybe something for our empty white walls. What do you think? Love colours!

Concrete

Hello again :) Pause over? Play pressed? Maybe, and maybe not. Anyways, I just really wanted to show you a recent project of ours. As well as save it for myself. A concrete top for our tv bench. I love the way it turned out so great! :)

More of this definitely coming up in the future! I've been browsing google image search for a while [read: hours] and now I'm bursting with new inspiration!

New header again...

Well... I just loved the picture I took of the lupines and so I used it to make a new header. It's all the same as before, really, only a new motif and a new scale of colours... one that I like better! What do you think?? :)

Here, you can take a look at the previous ones.

.in my kitchen cabinet

Well, here's the cabinet in my kitchen that I open the most. I love the colour scale! From clear blue to deep + bright turquoise, to cream and white, to clear glass, and, naturally, pink. :) Click to enlarge!

Items are (from top to bottom, left to right):

Vintage tea cups by Finish Arabia | deep turquoise Collection Mugs by Höganäs.

White side plates, Dinera by IKEA + second hand bowls | Mugs M by Cult Design | cream + bright turquoise Club Mugs by Höganäs

White plates, Dinera by IKEA + pink bowl/pitcher by IB Laursen | White bowls, Dinera by IKEA | deep turquoise bowls by Höganäs | clear glasses + pitcher by Eva Solo.

Oh and by the way, I love Höganäs' new spring/summer shade Syren (Lilac)! Will have to get myself a bunch of lilac bowls + a few white ones. Sometime... :) Did you know that the tiles that cover the shells of the Sydney Opera House were made by Swedish Höganäs? :)

Love it all! ♥

IKEA goes French Romanticism

Pictures: IKEA

And I, I absolutely love it! Well done, IKEA. :)

My new header.

The final one. At least final for a while... :)

How'd you like my new header?

Currently trying to renovate my blog design... This is my new header. For now at least. :) Felt like I needed something new and so I photoshopped for a bit. What do you think? Comments please!

Another result of photoshopping is:

Nice on its own but not header material if you ask me. Need more colour. But again: comments. :)

I designed a bikini!

Help me win, vote for my bikini here!

82nd Annual Academy Awards Favourites

And the winners are: Nude & Rosewood! :)

Demi Moore / Penelope Cruz / Miley Cyrus

Various pictures from IMDb in collage by me. Click to enlarge.

Out of all the dresses that I browsed through, these three are my favourites. Real winners! :)

Love Never Fails

A graphic design that I made. What do you think? :)

Outfit #08 Vintage Marimekko

This is one of the gifts I got for Christmas. An apron that Mum sewed out of a vintage Marimekko fabric that she had. The pattern is called Kumiseva and it is so gorgeous I could buy a new piece and sew myself a dress. Only it's kind of expensive (and I have no clue how to sew a dress). However, the pattern designer is a Japanese man with the name Katsuji Wakisaka. He worked for Marimekko 1968-1976 and this particular pattern came to be in 1971. Now there's a history lesson for you. :) Anyways, I love my apron and I'm sure I'll be a better cook for it. :)

Wooden Type Letters

Pictures are from ebay [link]

How gorgeous are these?? :) Makes me want to make myself something like this.

Cute stuff for all of you who though gerbera was a flower

How cute are these? "Beautiful ceramics designed in Provence/France and produced by hand in Portugal." Um, yes please! :)

Pitures from Gerbera in collage by me.

It has arrived!

Here's my timer IRL :) Lovely as ever. It can seriously time eggs, I tell you!

VIP Night

A few days ago I got an invite for a members only - special offers - christmas inspiration-night at design shop VERA Design here in Norrköping, Sweden :) It's on Thursday and to be honest I've got somewhere else I should be but I just rsvp'd and I think I'm going anyways. At least for a little bit. I'm just soo curious to see what they've got and to see the special offers... They've got favourite lables of mine such as Eva Solo, Bruka Design & Himla of Sweden.

Anyone feel like coming with me on this thing? Just let me know asap! :)

Oh, and by the way, I went to a VIP night at Cubus last week as well... I'll show what I got from there later... some time... so much to think about right now.

Our latest addition

The wardrobe. I. Love. It. I tried to take pictures but none of them would do it justice so here's a quick film clip instead.

It's seriously incredible the amount of stuff that fits into this small area. What we used to have in 3 small (although full-height) cupboards & 1 big one (double kind-of-thing) fits right in here and there's still lots more space at the top to the right (not shown in clip). Shelving system is design classic Elfa. It is too good to be true, adaptable to the very core! And, voilà, my own (tiny) walk-in closet! :)

Now Mine: Yellow Timer!

I just ordered this timer from Cosas. It just had to be the yellow one. It is gorgeous and I love it! :) Hoping it will arrive soon so that I can shoot some pictures for myself. And time my eggs properly, obvioulsy!

So, about that previous post...

I'm back! And since there are too many amazing things and pictures on tinekhome.dk I decided to show my absolute favourite only. But really, you should stop by that amazingly inspiring place. My favourite is that hammered silver "bucket". It is just seriously so so so so nice! Wow... I already decorated rooms around it. It's flat out gorgeous! Inspiration people, inspiration! Personally, I would place it in my living room next to the sofa, put glossy magazines, slippers & blankets in it. Plus, I would totally enjoy it every single day for the rest of my life. Honestly.

Picture from tinekhome.dk

They make them in 10 different sizes... I'd like a real big one. Visit online store for more info.