Sunday spent in the Kitchen

One of the great benefits of having an office is that I seldomly work on the weekends anymore (as opposed to every weekend before). This has freed what feels to be a massive amount of time—time for some of the »homy« stuff I love so much.

Today I spent the entire day in the kitchen. I made a batch of pickles made from my late grandmother's recipe. (You can find a couple of pictures, and the recipe here if you like: at Clemmensen & Brok)

I made a cake and a terrine from the giant zucchini. Wheat and rye buns with nigella seeds, sausage rolls, basil pesto, and for dinner; spicy chicken wings with root ragout and creamy polenta. (might have gone a little bit overboard—admittedly I was kindda beat once we'd finished dinner :-)



The beginning of tea cozy from Saturday. Much too tired to knit now. Perhaps tomorrow.

I hope your Sunday was awesome!

I'm ready!

The photo doesn't show, but the zucchini is massive! As long as my arm from elbow to fingertips. I shall make zucchini cake, and a zucchini terrine with eggs and cheese. They had so many they gave them away for free at my local farmers market: Din Baghave (Your Backyard). Here they sell only locally grown—often organic—veggies, fruit, eggs, flour etc. all year 'round. Such a lovely store.

Tina made a post about the store a while ago at our foodie blog Clemmensen&Brok.

New issue of Marie Claire Idees arrived today. It is the best. And I have always liked the fall issues the best. This one didn't disappoint! I'm autumnly inspired now! :-)

I hope your Saturday is mild. It rains here :-) Wonderful. Favourite. Fall
:-)

Little Treasures (part IV)

+ Ellen Gallager from her »eXelento«.
Via Barbara-Rose Pierre Paul's Pinterest.

Hope the weekend holds treasures for you ;o)

Little Treasures (part III)

The collages below are from a window decor in Copenhagen. The artist is photographer Arthur Meehan. He made this for danish designer Mads Nørgaard. More pictures here, here (links from madsnorgaard.dk)



Love the colors and the atmosphere in these.

OH! MY! .....!!!

This calls for a second post. WAUW! Made the Pull-Apart from Joy the Baker, and .... I have no words. Only recommendations!! Please make this if you feel even remotely tempted. It's HEAVEN! Thank you JtB for one awesome recipe :-) YUM!

before and after second rise

Little Treasures (part II)

Today I'll make this Pull-Apart from Joy the Baker (I mean, who can resist pictures like that !!??)

Better go for a run as well, then ...

;-)

Listening to Depeche Mode's old album Some Great Reward. It's my favorite DM album—so smoothly put together. I wouldn't want to listen to these tunes in any other order.

Little Treasures (part I)

Re-arranging drawers, and finding little treasures.

What this guy can do is amazing; EKLIPS (wauw)
and this is just funny: Kitchen Beatbox :-)

A Girl's Gotta ...

oh, yeah. And eat too ...


Book Thief recommendation by Tracey at Quiet Paws here. Gilead was recommended by a client of mine. Looking forward to both reads. (and such pretty covers too).

Coraline Collected

Little Me is now a real doll. Her characteristic yellow rain coat and black tulle skirt are currently at the tailor's (and those guys are very busy at the moment – making graphic design instead of doll's clothes, but please don't tell her ;o)

She's posing on some new books I got for the studio: Letterpress and Los Logos. And her hair—not the official Coraline hair-cut, but Little Me likes wearing it long. For now.

:-)

On Weather Faves and Shawarmas By The Waterfront

Being an "all-weather" kinda person, I'm usually equally mooded come rain or come shine, but today was so mild, and instead of going home after work tonight, we grabbed a shawarma and bicycled to the waterfront. Must admit the experience had me in favour of Summer for a couple of hours there.



...and since we dined right next to this littl' ol' lady, I couldn't help myself ...

A genuine tourist tribute :-) I tip my cap for You, Little Miss Mermaid!

(I've only ever photographed her once before. During a Copenhagen Photo Marathon, in which I was disqualified because the roll of film in my camera stuck, and left me with only 23 of the mandatory 24 photos (one for each hour of the day). I don't mourn the disqualification, as I didn't then -- my 23 shots weren't that great, but I sure had fun.)

Copenhagen Photo Marathon
+Could definately see myself at Type Camp! I Ambersand to that!

An Arm And A Leg ...

Vacation time is over, and work is abundant. Which means more hours spent at the office, less wearing cross word puzzles and pj's. I'm not complaining. I read the other day, that Danish people are among the most vacating in the World. You shall hear only gratefulness from me.

Still working on Coraline's Little Me, her head is done, admittedly needing a haircut though, and this is how far I am with her body.
:-)
Hope you are well.

Making Faces

Making the Coraline doll »Little Me«, from a pattern found on Etsy by SewLolita. So far I've made her head, her hair and the skeleton for her body. An'a havin'a great time ;-)

More Coraline here:

Trailer

The Other Mother making the doll

Coraline's personal knitwear designer ;-)

: Althea Crome

Slowly

Went for a long walk yesterday, and through the rose garden. It is such a delightful place.

...

Still doing close to nothing, and enjoying it to pieces.

Went pinning (one can always go pinning) yesterday, and fell in love with

Annamaria Potamiti's landscape and

These Quiet Blues— the collection of Brittish algea from the archives of The New Yourk Public Library. Here's an overview. And here's a sample. You can start here, and use the arrows to continue. I get lost in these.

A quiet tune to go with it? May I recommend Tom?

:-)

Soft and Stretchy Friday

I'm not that good with a sewing machine, but I have one – my mom's old faithful – and what I don't have in skills, I will usually muster in patience (as long as I stick to pretty simple projects).

I spent the entire day today measuring, cutting, pinning and sewing to make this pair of soft and stretchy kids' pants. It's been a year, I think, since I made something serious like this, and I'd forgotten how wonderful it is to get lost in this process.





Would like to go see Joan Miró at Tate Modern

Wish you a nice and relaxing weekend :)

Greetings from a Strawberry Field

Weekend time with mellowness and crossword puzzles in the sun. Today we took to a strawberry field, where we picked our own strawberries, and bought fresh onions and new potatoes. Just dosn't get any more summer-y for me than this.

Sweetness and sunshine to all!
:-) xo

Geninne's inspiring desk and shelves

Paul Simon: Diamonds On The Soles of Her Shoes

Not-Quite-So-Insane Pillow Case

A while ago I bumped into the fabulous Insanity Blanket via Pinterest, and subsequently couldn't get the little colorful stash-squares out of my head. Before I knew it, this (above) emmerged from little balls of left-over yarn. Will I go for the Insanity Blanket? Alas—no. I shall settle for the smaller, less insane pillow case version instead. I have not the yarn stash nor the endurance for that insanely huuuge (but oh-so-gorgeous) blankie.

I'm lazy today—please see this post for links to blanket and "how-to".
Wish you a delightful weekend :-)

new office supplies (and a book cover)

Yesterday I realized that my new office lacked supplies! Today, I have new pencils, a highly educational pencil sharpener, overliner, correction tape and Post-Its!
...Nothing beats the smell of fresh Post-Its ... Here; try:

Hmmm :-) Smells office-y, eh?
:-)

Made a book cover for a poetry book (a blues-poem, roughly translated: Tell Me An Underground Tree, Pronounced By The Wind) by Danish poet Marianne Larsen.
A couple of years ago, I made the cover for her previous poetry collection Særskilte stillinger, (Separate Positions), and this new cover had to have the same sort of style or feel.
...
Florian Nicolle's mixed media portraits. Please follow the illustration link on her website too.

Water for Copenhageners

We had the most amazing thunder storm here yesterday. For hours, thunder rolled and for a while it roared right above our heads. And lots of water fell.

This morning many were busy emptying their basements of water, and overseeing the damages it had made. In our building the damages were minimal. We were lucky.

I sent out the give-away packages this weekend. One to USA, one to Australia and one to Canada. Had to add a tax mark describing the content, and asked the post office lady if the recipiants risked paying tax then?? She didn't know. Oh I hope not. That would be odd - receiving a gift, but having to pay for it.

I hope you had a pleasant weekend. And wish you a smooth Monday ;o)

Love this handset for mobile phones from Davis Turpin :-) So funny

New Coffee Owl feature

Wanna thank the guys at Isabellas for featuring The Coffee Owl in this month's Isabellas magazine :-)

A new place

I have moved my work place to a shared office in another part of town. I am closer to the city now, and right next to the canals of Christianshavn, in a really great neighbourhood. It's so nice to have colleages (or sort-of-colleagues—each of us being selfemployed), and they are all so kind and sweet and funny.

This is my corner of the studio, and the view from where I sit

... the yard:

and my right-next-door-neighbour. I love that tower. And here are tourists taking a tour on the canal (wearing matching rain covers :)

I'm thrilled that I'll be seeing water every day.

Can't wait to go to work again :o)

Autocorrects just crack me up! Been reading a lot lately, and laughing so much. Here are a few: adopted, living room color, a LOT of apple sauce

Beautiful graffiti ampersand from Streetfiles

Packages soon on their ways

Thank you for all your sweet congrats on my recent blogaversary :-)
And for entering the giveaway, of which I have now drawn 3 winners, and you are ...(drumroll...) ... Tracey, Dianne and Jules :-) CONGRATULATIONS!
Will you be so kind as to email me your adresses, and I will snail mail your prizes as soon as possible :-)))
Thank you again



1. Mette
2. Sweety
3. Marie-Louise
4. Fru. Ekelund
5. Francesca
6. FarfallaDK
7. Linda
8. T.L. Holmes Williams
9. lee
10. Summer Nicklasson
11. Linnea
12. Tracey
13. Karin
14. Tina
15. Anita
16. Rie Winkler
17. Lucy Ladham-Dyment
18. Emily
19. Dianne
20. mynameiscas
21. Jules
22. Monica
23. Nihal
24. Simply Debbie
25. mansuetude
26. Vibeke Hastrup
27. Nicole
28. Mejse
29. Lise
30. Alice
31. Helle D
32. ihanne
33. Neus
34. Julie Møller

Morning Walk

Two pictures from morning walk - one from yesterday and one from today. Wish I could post the dewy scent of those roses.
Today, I'll be working some, and packing in boxes some.

And tonight I'll be drawing the WINNERS of the 500-post-contest :-) There is still time to enter :-)

What are you up to today?

Louis A. La Vie En Rose
Miki Sato animation

a delightful meeting

Saturday, I met with Olaya and David of Studio Duermevela in Madrid, who was visiting Copenhagen. This was the first time I've ever real-time blogger-met, and what a delightful meeting!

:-) Thank you guys, for a sweet time, and for the beautiful books (above). I hope you enjoyed the marked, and got to the shops before they closed :-)) e-see you soon.
xo

Duermevela blog
Duermevela site
Duermevela shop
:-)

Winds of Change

These past few days, Rain, Thunder and Lightning've been puttting on a grand show in the skies above Copenhagen. Monday was warm, and ended in a hot-tempered roar.
Feels like a deep sigh after holding ones breath.

All day the news announced the "cloudburst"'s coming, so when I felt the wind change, I sat on my balcony to enjoy the show. First the air turned blue, purple, the birds sounded different, and the breeze came, and smelled oceany. Then sturdy clouds rolled in over us, and changed the world for a little while


This photo of mine really doesn't do this justice, but I couldn't help myself. When lightning came, my trigger-reflexes were way too slow :-)
I found a beautiful gallery here.

The Winds of Change are also upon me in my little company. Though I shall wait to say more until after I move
...
woups! said it anyway ;-)))

Obsessed a little bit over this "Insanity Blanket" by misplacedpom after having spotted this image on Pinterest yesterday. In case I "needed" another knitting project (hargh-hargh). Then made three squares ...
Insanity Blanket tutorial by The Heathen Housewife (Shelley Kang) here

see you later, alligator :-)

A weekend of enjoyment

This weekend has been full of relaxation and enjoyment. So wonderful, that I almost forgot to take pictures.
But I do have two ...

the begginning of my new succulent adventure :-),

and the beginning of a new knitting project. I've been in love with Kathleen Kelly's light-as-air cardi since I first saw it (see the You've Got Mail clip here), and finally started to make it. Since I have no recipe, I shall make it my own, with slight alterations (ie have tiny silver beads on the front, and no buttons. I think).

Hope your weekend is wonderful and sunny.
No links today. Only sunshine :-)

New Go-Card out this week

Part of a series of colours. White here. Pink+Blue here :-)
I predict there will be some of these in give-away-packs too...
Go Card

Lots of great stuff at Design;Defined
Happy Tuesday!

Sunday thoughts, and past week's to-doings

Hello :-)
It's been a while.
What have you been up to?

In this part of town there's been
work, and in between ...


making necklaces...




beading our new door sign ...


... knitting, and relaxing
—and I went to see The King's Speech (at the cinema, which is a big deal for me ;-)

There hasn't been much blogging. Alas. Not time for everything.

Oh yes, another thing I've been doing, is a bit of internet-shopping. For the longest time, I have had Keri Smith's Nonplanner Datebook on my wish list, and last week I found a European website which carried it, and I ordered it right away. Can't wait to flip throught its pages!

What is your best online buy ever?
I'll have to think about mine ...

Still plenty of time to enter giveaway :-)