WEEKEND TRIP

A trip south of Gothenburg to spend a weekend out of tourist season as you can see.

this is times i love to travel

when nature is non charming

a lovely empty beach to run along

these houses speak to me. i think they have inspired me to build little

fabric houses

it is something with proportions

GRAY DAY

Found this photo the other day.

Me and my mum

Sometime mid 80´s

in London

I can feel the rythm we had together

miss having her

PAGES

Some of my collages below

taken from my

sketchbook

Antique quilt

sorry this pic is upside down

I have had this quilt for a period of time. Found it in Great Britain during the 80´s and

loved it. I do not have it anymore, had to sell it because of space here in Sweden. I had a good collection by then.

This quilt is very special.

It might have been sent to a exhibition in London in 1935 but that is speculations.

it is probably made in early 1900 and quite unusual because it is made in a pattern called 

shell or clamshell in US. As it is quite hard to make a whole quilt in this pattern it has normally been used in combination with other patterns. It was mostly used by people living near the ocean.

You can judge the age by the printed fabric. 

I just love these little children and and dogs and houses.

and the soft colours .....

here you can see the layout of the quilt. In the middle you see flowers and

then the shell-shapes goes in each direction

PALE PINKS

the rain is hammering on my window today and everyday

I fell the urge of colours

Today I chose pinks

pale pinkish quilt for my grandchild

a tin heart for her

collage/paper

the text in english, turn out the lights and sleep tight

I NEED COLOURS

to treat myself I try to look at colours, strong colours.

boring weather outside but lots and lots of colours inside

TODAYS COLOURS

This is not winter

this is not spring

to me

this is my morning view when walking my dog

Tis is autumn for me, nature fading away

To keep it brownish

I stay inside baking bread

thinking brown

love this brownish door and keep

wondering about what the inside is like

adding a brownish piece that matches my colours of the day

winter night

collage using painted papers

winterbook

I just completed my winterbook, one of them, and I had no difficulties

to fill the spreads with winterfeelings and memories

one page from the book, including a painting from Swedish painter

Lars Lerin

watch his fantastic aquarelles

another spread

if you look closely, you see little me with a

kind of furcoat

there is a puter part of a wristband behind the ring

a reindeer is a great symbol for my childhood

colours of cold weather

winterdays are mostly dark, dec-jan

these colours reminds me of late spring when snow is melting

and the ground under snow is showing.

Not the best of times but promising summer

here we see patches of snow here and there still left but not

for long

this is what the book look like when closed. it was a fun thing to do
and is a mix of paper, paint, fabric and found objects

this little project is one of many to come on my pathways

celebrating

celebrating our dog Moppe on his

13th birthday.

Above his cake

(sausage)

the cake for the humans

the dog Moppe, still charming

we invited his closest friends on our street

to celebrate.

never done this before but it was much

appreciated

this mornings snail mail and it is all

about art

a good day!

last pics from Kiruna

ice block (close up)

lunch waiting to be eaten. 

inside the icehotel

belongs to one of the teachers in the ice sculpting workshop

ice ball leftover from making the ice hotel church

room with a view

sculpture (not ice) in my friends house. artist AnnaSofia Mååg annasofia.se

Gällivare Old Church

this little church was the first church built in 1747.

It was built to christen the laponian people who were said to be

hedonian. Nobody asked them what they wanted, nor respected their 

own religion. Society has treated the Laponian people with great disrespect

over time.

The state ordered the inhabitants of Sweden to each contribute with 1öre (the 

smallest amount there was. We needed to Christen these poor laps.

So the church was built.

It´s beautiful situated by the river of Vassara.

As you see it is closed wintertime but very popular to visit during summer.

What you see here above is the place where you leave weapons before entering

the actual church

Above the church

a found pic from the church in summer.

It is the oldest building in the town and people do get married

here