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I’m sitting in the shade outside the summer house and Leonard is sleeping in his cot next to me. His dad is creating a summer hat for him, I’m very curious to see how it will come out A heron just landed on our pier, but I scared it off trying to sneek closer to take a picture.

15% off Sea Green Log Bowl

manos is having a summer sale in the webshop - you need a code to take advantage of 15% off everything! Read all about it here. Until July 22nd.

15% off Stripe Bath Towel

Thank you for all the greetings and beautiful gifts! Wishing you a Happy Midsummer! We’re off to the country side.

nest has a new website and blog.

Bigger feet.

He’s here and mum couldn’t be more proud! This is Leonard’s feet and here’s his beautiful little face!

Bigger and recepie.

My sister-in-law makes the best cakes. This one was for her birthday recently (no other birth to report about yet…). It’s a Prinsesstårta and it was ever so delicious.

Bigger.

I haven’t been in the workshop for over a week now and last night I dreamt about ceramics, more specifically about teapots… I think I’ll have to sketch down some ideas and perhaps there’ll be teapots added to my collection?
But whose taking care of manos then, you may wonder? I’ve left it in the safe hands of Liisa and Pia who are taking such good care of it - only open on weekends mind you…

oil burner, part of the 2010 collection

This oilburner is part of my 2010 collection and it’s one of the last things I fired before taking some time off waiting for the little one to arrive. He’s (yes, we think we know) showing no signs of wanting to come out yet…

Boule & Berså

In the meantime, I’m taking it so easy, sleeping lots and making sure I get my daily ice-cream, that’s about the only tasks on my to do list at the moment. I have also been seen to clear out the wardrobe, de-frosting the freezer and scrubbing the kitchen but those things are optional.

The other night we went to our ‘local’, Boule & Berså. We thought last summer would be the end of this charming hang-out along the canal, but to our delight they’ve survived.

What a wonderful place to go for a workshop! Right now they’re doing a tango course…

Yesterday we watched Ocean’s Twelve and I liked some of the soundtrack - Ornella Vanoni’s L’appuntamento. The baby is kicking its tiny feet to the rythm - not out yet though, but I hope we’ll meet soon.

Greta Garbo had her first big film role in the film Gösta Berlings Saga. Gösta Berlings Saga © 1924 AB Svensk Filmindustri

For the next book circle we’re reading a swedish classic - Selma Lagerlöf’s Gösta Berlings saga. We want to combine it with something more modern and on this excellent book blog I just found another swedish author, new to me and not yet in english: Till sista andetaget by Anna Swärd.

My hanging flower pots in good company, thank you Nicole!

Me and the stomach are still around, just been busy finishing as much as possible before not working for a while! This week summer has come to Stockholm and I’m slowing down, spending a few hours in the workshop and then doing whatever I feel like. Yesterday I had a coffee overlooking the Royal Castle

Peonies in the kitchen window.

Tonight I’m discussing We, the Drowned with my book circle. I usually finish the books in time, but this time I’ve been distracted by a couple of books about childbirth and working with the pain… Also, I find that I often just sit and very un-characteristically look out into space without doing anything… Anyway, the book we’re talking about has after a slow start for me, turned into a wonderful story that I’m looking forward to finishing in my own sweet time.

Norwegian Crafts magazine online.

Jumpsuit from Thread Social for life after the stomach?

After having been to measure the fast-growing stomach, I strolled in the sunshine to a favourite café of mine. They serve their homebaked baguettes with Gruyere cheese and a fresh salad on the side. I really like that they don’t try to stuff everything into the bread. The salad comes with a lovely dressing called matsuhisa, here’s Martha Stewarts recipie. I bought myself a fashion magazine and dreamt about a summer wardrobe including perhaps a pair of hotpants, high heeled clogs and earrings… My feet are not really built for high heeled shoes and I’m pretty sure hotpants won’t be my dresscode of choice for some time, but that doesn’t stop me dreaming…

Pretty pink wrapping with vine.

I’m making more of the hanging flower pots and the ones that make it successfully through the firings will be in the shop next week.

This time of year it’s getting warm and lovely in the green house, the warmth spreads in to my workshop and speeds up the drying of my newly thrown pieces - strangely enough it takes me by surprise each year… I’m under the illusion that I cover it real thoroughly when I leave in the evening but when I come back the next morning I realize that I should have tucked it in even more carefully. The result is a lot of drying cracks and so I get to fill up my ’seconds shelf’… One of the joys of clay

An illustration by Judy Kaufmann and here is her etsy shop.