Daily presents

Whenever I can, I walk to where I work. The walk takes me through my beloved old city, and there are numerous routes to follow. I try to walk different ones each time. Each one holds a small present.

Yesterday took me through Christiansborg, into the garden, and through the collonades. The noise of the city are kept out by these light sandy gray walls, and made room for a different sound; of horses. Turning my head, a door was open, and I snug into The Royal Stables. What a treat.

 

I so wasn't supposed to be here, but when a staff passed me (and my obvious phonecamera), he silently ignored me and went on with his day, so I snug out again, to go on with mine.

Fire Illusion

Crazy Cube Illusion

Animated Optical Illusions

There's a new place in town

Torvehallerne, a brand new marked place in the center of Copenhagen, opened last Friday, and today we went to browse and perhaps make taste buds happy :-)

and did we ever ...

dried cape gooseberries, mandarin orange, and mango

fresh honey still on the wax:

It was a feast! Foccacia from Il Fornaio (section C9) Cheese from Ostelageret (section G5) Olives and dolmades from Stig's Oliven, and for the sweet toof; dried cape gooseberries, mandarin orange, and mango from Exotic mix (section A2) and fudge! (There was a whole section of fudge!)

...did you catch the toof-link;-))) If not, here it is. Proper linked: My Milk Toof; playing Monopoly (these guys crack me up every time :-)))

a m·i·n·i·a·t·u·r·e GIVEAWAY

Why is it, that all things tiny just makes me go »aww...« ?! Well, these little guys made my head tilt with the velocity of a summer lightning! 

Naturally, I'd like to share my miniature excitement, and what better way to do that, than with a tiny GIVE-AWAY. So if you'd like a pair of earrings—fruit of your choise—leave a comment to this post before October 1st :-) Please state which pair you'd prefer to win (see the little number under the earringees?) I will draw two winners, and notify directly. I hope you'd like to play along.

(btw—the book on which the earrings are photographed, is the lovely »FLORA« by Nick Knight).

(lastly; a little »after«-image to go with the »before« from ... well ... before. I may not be the most active blogger these days, but I s'rre finish me teacozies ...)

;o)

A few links to travel by: IF-interview with artist and illustrator Chris Buzelli.

Sub-surface images from Nick Goodey's pinbord: Under The Sea.

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 :-)