GRIOOOAR

nEW PROJECT - ONESIES FOR THE LITTLE ONES!

Amazing skull beads arrived!

Just recieved these amazing skull beads with quirky eyes from Penny's Lane! Don't know quite what to make with them yet, but gaw gaw gaw Im gonna sleep with them laying on the pillow next to me!

www.pennyslane.etsy.com

Puuuublished - Happy bracelets!

Soo, despite my akwardness with the word happy, it's got a certain ring to it. And I name everything I have. My knitting machine is Edith, my Overlock is Gunnel, My old computer Gittan and so on. My bike is Ridge, am planning a voluptious mane of hair to be attached on the frame of it to celebrate it's namesake, Ridge from Days of Our Lives. Nothing makes you think less than daytime drama.

Anyhow, so Im naming these bracelets Happy bracelets. Even though "happy" sounds like a pretty boring place to be in without questioning it and if it would be without aspirations for something more. But, as for jewelery, they're pretty darn happy!

Happy Bracelets
They are on Etsy for sale since.... now!

Super comfy colorama bracelets!

Work in progress.....

New shop! Check me out on Etsy!

So, after reading all the policies and discussing prices back and forth with friends and myself, I finally posted the necklaces Ive been making like a derranged one person factory on Etsy, the crafts/supply/handmade online shop. Yey!

Above one of the necklaces presented with a pose viable for a fifteen year old who just got their own blog and who dreams of beeing a fashion blogger (except Im wearing less asset-defining clothing).

Find me on Etsy!
http://www.etsy.com/people/Elmofors?ref=pr_profile

Gawgaw jewellery

Have a massive craze for making smiley/angry faces right now!

Bags n bags

Trance-like state

So ever feel like you just cant tear urself away from something, you know you need to do stuff,meet people and fix things but you just cant be bothered...
I just found my latest addiction, the tv-series Eureka and crochet. Its like entering into a trance where time, food and the outside world doesnt exist.

Cant wait to start my job-im gonna be a postman!

In the making

I tried to quit smoking today.had six cancer sticks,currently enjoying the sixth. Wellwell means i didnt really want to quit i guess...

Writing this on a #smart phone# takes aaaaages but its a-mazin!

Anyhow,new day,new projects.
1. A knitted blanket using scraps of wool
2. A bag for mi ma

Cant get over this-its a tweeeny tiny computer!

A day on Etsy

Amazing stuff from Rouge Pony (http://www.etsy.com/shop/rougepony), feather headpieces and dresses mixing the exotic from Scandinavian fields and statement tribal pieces! Aaawesome!

http://karinkirsten.blogspot.com/

So spending a day exploring Etsy.com, an online shop well known for its range of designers and craft makers selling there. Am getting myself sorted to give it a go myself. Does seem like I need some pictures though, and someone to model it for me, since I'd rather be taking pics than acting in them.. Anyhow more to come. 

Made By Elmo

After browsing the net for clothes tags to attach to what I make, came up with this genious idea - why not make your own? Although, lino doesnt really go with textiles, and didnt realize that when you print, the image mirrors...

Lägg till bildtextOtherwise have been enjoying a suuuuunny day in Brighton, hopefully this will be the weather for the next ummm two weeks til I go back to Sweden. Can't wait to go kayaking in and around Stockholm though! And relieable sunshine, warm days and nature EVERYWHERE!

Afro skirt!

Made by scraps of printed african samples brought back from visiting Paris as well as a pair of old jeans that just didn't fit the bill...
I had a loooong waiting at the doctor's so what other way to spend it than filming and taking pictures?

Makin dresses in masses!

Sunny as ever in the Pavilion Gardens yesterday - summer is FINALLY here!

The Cutting and taping, cutting and taping, taking in, taking out...

My first trial dress, looking quiiiite the cheerleading uniform, which wasnt really the point. Dresses for my flatmate and a perfect way to spend an afternoon after a day in da sunshine! 20 degrees today or more, and a sunny garden!

 

 

 

Pica Pica Fashion All-Dayer!!!

Had a smashing day and night at The Hydrant in Brighton Sunday, to all who were there, AMAZING! And the modelling crew were smashing, very circusey and all coming together immensely well!

My dress! I think it took scraps from 4 jeans (everyone seems to cut off the legs to get shorts now) and 3 whole jeans to make. Plastic emproidery on the top, green front and neck details from a 1950's utility jacket.

 

Tom doing moves fit for a Eurovision act in the 80's.

My amazing model Kim!

Me and gorgeous Head!

Pica Pica link

High on Life

"The health service issued 39.1m prescriptions for drugs to tackle depression in England in 2009, compared with 20.1m in 1999 – a 95% jump. Doctors handed out 3.18m more prescriptions last year than in 2008, almost twice the annual rise seen in preceding years, according to previously unpublished statistics released by the NHS's Business Services Authority."
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/jun/11/antidepressant-prescriptions-rise-nhs-recession)

Illustrations

RE-MADE project From a small selection of samples and recycled fabrics into "new" textiles, under the theme of organic, contrasting and natural...

 

Blåkulla in knit

Knitting project on dubied industrial machines, inspiration slides and samples

 

New documentary : Birgitta Stenberg

So just found this link for a new documentary about Birgitta Stenberg. For those who don't know who she is, find out. To me, she's just one of those amazingly inspiring people who don't seem to give a shit about what others might find normal and reasonable. Not that she acts out in furious rages or poses nude for playboy (she's about eighty years old now so I would acctually buy that issue), but in a low key way. She just lives by what she believes in.

As she says in the docymentary: "I don't know what I am, I don't know who I am or why I am. I have no father and I have no mother". I love that. The idea that you really don't need to define what you are, or who you are. The important thing is to go with what feels good for you. And I know it might sound strange not knowing who you are, yeah  I could pick myself out in a line-up, but that's just the exterior self, how I look and the gestures I make. But WHO you are is a massively constricting idea. For me that is.

Going through issues of my own, I find recognition and sense in seeing myself and everyone as free spirits, I know it sounds all hippie mumbo jumbo, but just think about it. There's nothing saying you can't do whatever your heart's desiring. Don't hurt people, not good karma, that's all. And of course, if you decide where you want to be, there is work to be done to get yourself there. I think most people want something, but either they're not sure what exactly, or they instantly talks themselves out of even trying because they see it as beeing impossible. I do both, but where's the sense in that really? If you don't know, why not just try something, it would bring you in one direction or another.

Onesie Xtravaganza!

Mine is made from polyester fleece and thick, comfy jersey as well as embellishment in PVC.
My brother's made from the same jersey, just two different colours and screenprinted with my acid print. Details are in nylon shiny blue fabric (don't quite know the name for it) and details in PVC and fake fur.

So what do you say, does anything say siblinghood at the same time as whooop-were-gonna-have-an-amazing-time-dancin as matching onesies?

The first one, that I'm wearing, I made a couple of weeks ago and it's become my best friend during the coldish, moist English winter. As well as the obvious choice for a night out swingin my furries around, as you would say in Swedish.. More about furries later, a whole different story.
Anyhow, I hope my brother's gonna find his as comfy as mine.

nEXT PROJECT: a cORSET

A tad bit of inspiration. Found a corset, very simple one, in a charity shop in Edinburgh, and am thinking why not cut it up and make my very own one? Plus I get to use my books on corsetry that Im about to pass on to the next lucky enthusiast...

LOVE

Found this exquisite candle in the trash (not outside my house) in a bag of overdone pasta. It was a couple of days after Valentines day and seemed so utterly suitable.