Finding Little Treasures

... and assembling

The little woolen square was knitted by Elsebeth♥ 

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Amazing Moleskines by Juan Rayos. More Moleskines on his website.

♫ Charlotte Gainsbourg+Beck: Heaven Can Wait

New Easter post at Clemmensen&Brok & DIYs

Yello! And Happy Easter :-) I still have a little work to do, but after tomorrow it's Goodbye office, and Hello couch!
I have my book, a rather large order of Coffee Owls waiting, + a knitting project, should I be needing' a such.
Whatta you up to?

Photo: Tina Brok Hansen

On another Eastery note, Tina shot an amazing series of Rustic Easter foods and table setting for Clemmensen&Brok. I chipped in with ink, a DIY watercolor/ink background for making name cards, and these knitted Easter chicks for decoration.

Photo: Tina Brok Hansen

The Three Little Chicks (recipe below) are made from scraps of yarn and glass beads. They are very easy and fast to knit. The paper they are sitting on is made for the egg-shaped name cards below. First watercolored, then drizzled with indian ink, to imitate shell of quail eggs. Cut out rustically in egg shapes and write the names of your guests. Or put the (dried!) watercolor paper in the printer and print the names, using your favorite typeface. Cut in egg shapes.

Photo+Typography: Tina Brok Hansen

... now for making the chicks:

See the whole Easter post, with Tina's gorgeous food and styling here.

Have a wonderful Easter, guys :-)

Easter Cutting at Bakkehus Museum

Last Saturday we spend the whole day cutting Easter mobiles from old templets at The Bakkehus Museum.

In the early 19th century Bakkehuset (House on the Hill) was the home of Kamma and Knud Lyne Rahbek and a cultural meeting place for the authors, scientists and artists of the time; H. C. Andersen, H. C. Ørsted, B.S. Ingemann, N.F.S. Grundtvig, Johan Ludvig Heiberg, Steen Steensen Blicher and many others came here to discuss literature, science and art with like-minded people.

Kamma Rahbek and mobiles in the window

The house exudes warmth, creativity and broad-mindedness. And the cut-out event was a hoot!

Emphera Lucky Bags

I am planning to offer a variety of little emphera bags for collage making for sale soon. Each bag contains different materials like old original book pages, picture lottery pieces, ribbons, stamps, playing cards and such. Each one different, each one made with love.

♪ Fabulously funky Lukas Graham. Love his sound. Love that his concerts sold out in mere minutes.

Macrame bracelet

Very hard to stop once you started making these :-)
Here's a How To from the bead shop 1001 Perle

Sunday Assemblage

Without gluing.

»Caress«

»Love«

»kisses«

My favorite jewelry designer Hip Zen opened a beautiful shop in Copenhagen. Owner and designer Birgitte Nørgaard makes the most beautiful necklaces, bracelets and earrings, she is the sweetest person, and her shop has such a delightful atmosphere :-)

♫ Kira Skov

qr

Made myself a cross stitch qr which, decoded, links to my blog. What every home needs! ;o)

Thank you, for the gear Vibeke!

»My Friend Maia« by Julia Warr. Inspiring!
Via Christin Illeborg

!! KAPOW !! ·*

... and down she went.
I've been sick with the flu for a whole week! Wednesday I went to work again, but after two days at the office I was forced to capitulate. Again! Back under the covers.

Through mists of fever, I've been sending craving glances towards my desk, which has been looking like this all week:

Alas! No making collage at all!
But now I'm feeling better, and it's time for rematch :-)

A little piece of music from last week's
Walk Off The Earth infatuation: Burn One Down

I hope you are well :-)

Tags

Giant gift tags, measure app 9x15 cm.

Love Elly McKay's work. Theater Clouds Paper Theater.
♪ Gianni & Myles sing Beatles' Blackbird in Central Park

Old image lottery pieces

♫: Walk off the Earth Somebody that I used to know

Wonderful TED-talk: Shawn Achor: The Happy Secret to better work
via Sidestykker by Vibeke Hastrup

My office landladies Hofdamerne Lea + Cecilie just opened an awesome poster shop: Pretty Posters. Super cool typographic eye candy. Check out more of their graphic goodies here, here and here. +Be sure to treat yourself to their hilarious holiday snapshots here :-) So funny!

ONE. TWENTYTWELVE.

From photo diary on Flick'r, some of January's pictures below, the whole 31 here :-)

Leonard Cohens brand new album Old Ideas is out now (Thank you, C)

Favorite shop

CINNOBER is a delightful independent book and design shop in the heart of Copenhagen. I love coming here; it is cozyness and coolness all in one breath, and the selection of design-, graphic- and illustration books is immense. As is their range of reprints, japanese tape, notebooks, stamps, cards, pencils and other office yums.

Here I can browse and flip. Sniff and dream. And be inspired.
I buy most of my books here.

:-)

The Windmill Farmer

by Joaquin Baldwin
imdb

how.about.a.nice.game.of.chess?

Remember this?: The scene in War Games, where »Joshua« (the computer) learns that the only way to win war is by not playing.

1: Parlament, 2: Moon over Øresund, 3:Connected, 4: Rainy
More on Flick'r

William Wegman
Aunt Peaches' diys
Fine Little Day's bead basket collection (Hama-♥)

Andreas Gursky

Went to see photographer Andreas Gursky at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art last week. I'm in awe of his work; photographs, highly manipulated, so subtle.


His often huge photos seem, by first impression documentary; like snapshots of a situation, a landscape or an everyday scene, but on closer look, the images dissolve—what I am looking at can't be true, the perspectives messes with my understanding of space, I can see something has been altered, but can't tell exactly what, and it leaves me questioning everything in the image (»If this isn't what I thought it was—what I was sure of was true!—what else isn't?«

In one grip, he challenged my visual perception, embraced my aesthetic (some of his works are beautiful beyond words), commented on society and made me laugh.

In awe indeed!


Louisiana writes: »With their visual mastery, the works of the German photographer Andreas Gursky insist on the vast, fascinating power of the image and stand as a modern proposal for what beauty may be. Andreas Gursky’s photographs are the answer of art to ‘extreme sports’. His works grow out of hours of effort interweaving hundreds of pictures taken with the most sophisticated equipment, often from extreme positions, into one image.«You can read more about the exhibition here.

YouTube video on Andreas Gursky (in English).


On YouTube, this is a film on the making of one of his works: Hamm, Bergwerk Ost (I think it is the bathing facilities by a mine. The film is in German, but you get a view into his process nonetheless. The last bit in particular, when seeing him working on the computer).

Setting up the exhibition on Louisiana (Louisiana video).

Collaboration

One of my two office »Land ladies« at Hofdamerne, Lea Rathnov and I made a GoCard together. Actually we made 3, of which this is the first :-) On cafés this week.

I love collections! Maybe this is the reason I dig Pinterest so.

This is post #555 :-) Let's have a song!

(W)arms

Knitted with Wilfert's »Amalfi«; a blend of 80% merino and 20% angora, these long arm warmers are sooo soft and warm and cozy. Very easy made with 5 needles, 1 skein per arm, and a little pattern—not too difficult—made it the perfect tv-project! I have been watching Downtown Abbey. Alas, will Mary and Matthew ever get one another?

Original!

PRIME BIG SERIES - SMALL SCREEN from steven huybrechts on Vimeo.

Royal Morning

I had Her Majesty The Queen of Denmark wave at me this morning! Well... she didn't wave directly at me, But I saw her. She was in her Golden Chariot. And she waved. Good enough for me :-)

A day that starts with a Royal Wave must be a good day...
don't you find?
:-))) Have a happy one. Royal wave or not :-)

Happy New Year!

I hope you had a wonderful holiday, a warm and cozy Christmas and a festive New Year!
I have enjoyed every minute of this past week, and today I spent some time looking back, remembering the year that passed, looking forward to the year to come.

2011 held a sad goodbye for me, to a grand soul whose company, wisdom, lightness and deep I miss profoundly.
The year also held hellos; to new friends, a new place of work and sweet colleagues.

The image above is my 2011 in pictures—January top left to December bottom right:)
Thanks for sharing creativity, thoughts and inspiration in 2011 and HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Merry Christmas :-)

A very merry Christmas to everyone! I hope you are enjoying the holiday.
I'd like to share xmas cake pictures and recipe, and have gathered it all at Clemmensen&Brok.

Thank you Gracia&Louise for the great tip, made me generous on the liquids :-) Which paid off.

Time for relaxing. Are you up to something special?

The David Collection

The other day my friend and I visited The David Collection here in Copenhagen. Like so many other cities around the world, Copenhagen holds many museums, and I find myself puzzled as of why there are still so many of them I haven't yet visited. The David Collection was one of such unvisited. Now no more.

And what a treat this museum is. Holding three permanent collections, The Islamic is the most visited, and also the one we saw. Absolutely stunning; the art, the surroundings and the atmosphere was wonderful, inspiring, educational ... and a mind broadening experience. And the staff was really really sweet.

Okay. 'nough with the words :-)

I love this. Now on my cell phone display :)

The last images on mind before I fell asleep that night, was fluttering signs dancing on warm colored backgrounds

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The reason our choise fell on The David Collection this Wednesday was their Special exhibition on Sufism. My friend is quite versed in this area, and I, having recently bought a collection of Rumi poems, was eager to learn more.

Being only one room, the exhibition was quite small, but as oposed to the huge permanent one we had strolled through, reading infoboards sporadically, we absorbed every word and every nuance of this one room. The stories and the art made a great impression on me.

This board reads a prayer and a poem from 1658:
If you seek the jewel in a mine, then you yourself are the jewel; if you live for the soul in the body, then you yourself are the soul – know that when the day is over, you are what you are seeking.

Candy collection

:-)

Pipe Cleaner Elf

With a little yarn, felt and some pipe cleaners, and some fairy heads and clogs from the crafts store, we made some very easy elves.

Illustrations

I was fortunate to be asked to illustrate an article in the beautiful foodie mag: Copenhagen Food :-) This one is about Christmas foods in other countries.

I apologize for the quality of the photos. I'm so challenged with the seasonal lack of light ;)
Today old friends came over, and we made æbleskiver and glögg, and felted hearts and pibe cleaner Elfs.

Mrs. Eliot Books had a post on Instagram which is really cool. And Francesca's Flickr pool is awesome!

WHATTA-YA-KNOW???

A little door appeared out of no-where here at the office yesterday! I do believe the little Elf has his own entrance. And he brought candy! What a sweet elf :-))))

More elf doors here, and here and here :-)

Christmassy at the office

Feeling wonderfully Christmassy at the office now :o) I know—I'm a little late posting this. (Dang! note to self: when photographing stuff with dates on, publish same day!« You should know how many images I have lying around: »planned but never published« That's New-Year-Resolution-material right there ;-)

I hope you have reasons to begin December with a smile :-)
Yesterday I was recommended to find Smilerynker's (»Crowsfeet's«) blog. Via a lady who'd been inspired by Smilerynker to make this in a corner of her appartment: A little elf-door in the wall. Isn't this the sweetest idea? I think my kids may be too old for Elves sneaking in and out of the walls now. But I'm not :-) Maybe I should start looking for doors ...

Have a warm and sweet Friday