Peaceful days in Sweden

Home again

from some very peaceful days in Sweden

we drove up monday morning

miles and miles into the swedish woods

in the middle of nowhere

and this was the sight that meet us

when we arrived to our rented house.

See those two car tracks...

that was the way to the house

through the cow field

Our sweet little red house

for the next 3 days

This is the back of the house

with the porch

and this is the sight from the porch

isn´t this the most breathtaking view.

This is where I spend my days

while hubby was kayaking and fishing

spending some time reading magazines

some time knitting something speciel

for a speciel one

and a lot of reading

We only left the house to go grocery shopping.

On one of those trips we found

a farm with new and old stuff.

Almost like a kind of flea market

so I did get some goodies with me home

some wonderful old photos

and a few old coin purses

old tart tins

wonderful old lace

a bag with old white crochet yarn

and a bunch of wonderful

worn old books.

Can´t wait to create with this.

Wishing you all a wonderful day

Tina ♥♥♥

A Purse Collage and a Vacation coming up

Hi All

Remember the

'ad more colors to the creations'

project...

Here´s another one

where I have tryed to incorporate some colors.

Still not that easy for me...

as always I used one of my vintage book covers as base

and added some layers of fabric, lace

and a beautiful fabric piece in golden and brown tones

some time ago I got my hands

an a little well worn coin purse

and though it was perfect for this collage.

here´s few close ups of the purse

I tugged in a sweet little german doll

along with some tea dyed cheesecloth

and here´s is how it turned out.

With more vintage lace pieces

and sweet vintage buttons

Vacation is coming up - yeaahh

I have the next two weeks off from work

and we have decided to take a little trip

to Sweden leaving this monday.

This is going to be so great.

It´s all about relaxation.

We haven´t planned a thing

just going to see what comes up

(I might be lucky to find a few 'loppis' though)

Fleamarkets you know ;-)

So

If you don´t 'see´me around the next week

you know why

Thank you so much for popping in today

and I wish you all the most beautiful weekend

Tina ♥♥♥

And the Winner is...

Today is the day for the drawing

of my little giveaway.

Thank you SO much to all of you

who entered and commented on little Simon.

Using Random.org

the winner is no. 32

(I just wish I knew how to put the wignet on here) 

So

Simon says

he´s going to live with

Doreen

Congrats Doreen

I´m going to email you shortly.

I wish I had one for all of you.

Thank you also to all my new followers.

You are all SO much appreciated

And I´m heading fast towards

600 followers - wow

I can´t believe this

Isn´t that amazing

A new giveaway would soon be appropriate

not sure it´s going to be a bear though

we´ shall see.. 

Wishing you all a wonderful day

Tina ♥♥♥

A Journal Cover

I have been working on my journal cover

and have finally finished it.

I think it turned out quite pretty

Here´s some details from to front

and the back

I have been working on some tiny burlap bags too

using the same tecnic...

which is

'no plan at all, just use what´s on the table' tecnic..

Here´s one with the word Joy:

Lace, old book page, silk and vintage button

The word 'wish'

embroidered, a tiny bit of lace, more silk

ribbon and a mother of pearl vintage button

Thought they would be great for gifts

so I added a tiny tag/card inside the bag to match

These will go in my shop later.

More to come...

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Remember the little bear in the making from

last post?

He´s here:

Meet Andy

A sweet little handful

Wishing you all

a wonderful day sweet friends

Tina ♥♥♥

On My Worktable

right now...

just arrived in the studio.

New mohair in golden and brown

a bunch of beautiful fabric

from my favorite quilt shop in Amsterdam

Den Haan und Wagenmakers

more mohair just arrived

in beautiful pale colors

and in dark blue and black

and a little new one

in the making...

Wishing you all a wonderful sunday

Tina ♥♥♥

A Bear Update and a Giveaway

Hi everyone

I have been working on a new design

for the bears

and have finally finished a few.

I wanted to make a slightly bigger bear

and also wanted to make them more heavy weighted

with a fluffy tummy.

This first one is Marga.

She´s 5 inch and made of a handdyed pale pink sparse mohair.

She´s wearing a sweet bow round her head.

This sweet one is Linux - also 5 inch

and with a little fabric collar round his neck.

I hope you can see their fluffy tummys on the photos.

They are both listed on my website along

with a few more bears:

http://www.tinybear.dk/

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And now for the giveaway.

As this is my 10 years of bear making anniversary

I have made a little bear to giveaway to one of my followers and blog readers

Please meet

Simon

Simon is also just 5 inch and made from my new design.

He´s made of a golden sparse mohair

and have been slighly aged to look old and well loved.

He´s fully cotterpin joined

heavy weighted with a fluffy tummy too.

I made him a little pair of trousers

with tiny buttons and straps.

If you would like to win this

sweet little bear

all you have to do, is to leave a comment

on this blog post

I will draw a winner on

May 24th

Thank  you so much for visiting today

and I wish you all a wonderful day

Tina ♥♥♥

A Wonderful Friendship Swap

Some time ago my friend Paula

and I decided to do a friendship swap.

We arranged it to be shipped out in the end of April

and Paula´s package have just arrived in my studio.

Here´s what she send me

You just won´t believe her generosity

fun stuff to create with: playing cards, musicsheet, papiermache eggs

and boxes, glitter, sweet fabric and an awesome old silver cup.

a tart tin filled with sewing notions

and sweet dolls head

beautiful old photos

and a matchbox filled with vintage buttons

awesome yummi laces

and sweet baby shoe

a buch of her own handsewn birds.

A mommy bird and tree little birdies

how appropriate just in time for Mothers Day.

Aren´t they just the cutest..

Beautiful pin cushions.

See the teeny tiny crochet shoe one.

A wonderful fabric heart with key

and a beautiful wallhangng with a sweet pocket

and more awesome lace and crochet pieces.

I can´t wait to create with these.

Thank you SO much Paula.

I will treasury everything always.

As usual I forgot to take photos

of what I send to Paula

so I have borrowed some of the photos

Paula took when my parcel arrived at her home.

I hope you don´t mind Paula

some of the pages from a little

lace book I created for Paula

The generosity and the friendship

in blog land is so amazing.

It always filles me with humility and gratitude.

Thank you SO much sweet friend

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I´m working on a new bear design

right now, and since this year is my

10 years of bearmaking anniversary

I thought one of these new bear designs would make

a great giveaway.

More about that later...

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend.

Tina ♥♥♥

Back Home

Hi All

I´m back from a wonderful vacation in Amsterdam.

We were so lucky to have the wonderful

spring weather.

Here´s a few word pictures from our trip

when looking through the photos I took after I got back

I realized there wasn´t a lot of city pictures...

I hope it´s give you an idea anyway.

tulips at the flower market

love the bright colors on these.

Also from the flower market.

Amsterdam is a great cyckling city.

How about this bike - pretty huh....

These next photos are from the Vondel Park

A big beautiful park in the middle of the city

see these tiny pink leaves on the ground

and pretty faded hydrangeas

Near the hotel was this wonderful shop

all filled with vintage clothes and stuff from 1958

There were so many wonderful things - quite expensive though

and now you may think - how about the flea market...

oh - that wasn´t a flea market. It was a market with

mostly weird cloth and bags and stuff. I didn´t even get a photo.

That was quite disappointing - so no finds for me this time.

Remeber the journal stuff I took with me..

Here´s the start of a journal cover.

I did get some sewing time too and

are really enjoying the progress on this.

With no plans and just using what I have in hand

the front is finished and I have started on

the back as you can see.

We´ll see where this is heading..

Going to finish some projects

and then start on some new bears.

Have some new ideas I would like

to work on.

Wishing you all a wonderful sunday.

Missed you all

and are glad to be back :o)

Tina ♥♥♥