Karin's Style Blog

This week and next are deadline weeks for me, meaning I’ve got lots of orders to ship out. This week I’ve sent vases of all sizes and patterns to Clio, today two boxes of tealight holders are off to Stilleben and on Tuesday Designers Guild on Kings Road received for instance a whole lot of cups. They sent me pictures of the shop display - it’s a tiny little picture but I hope you can see how lovely they’ve displayed it.

Yesterday I had a TV team here!! They did a 10 second feature of my event on the Applied Arts day (tomorrow), it was sent on the regional news program yesterday evening. I turned as red as a turnip as soon as they started filming… Phew.

I hope to see some of you here tomorrow, make your own mug between 11 and 4 pm!

Just some links before I leave you: I loved some of the designs in Jill’s post about Project Earth Day; Great kitchens on the Kitchen Designer blog; Pernilla Svenre’s (work)shop is also open tomorrow during the applied arts day!

Cherry blossoms in Kungsträdgården, in central Stockholm.

Makoto Azuma is a contemporary floral sculptor, I found him through Beton Garten and fell completely! Everything on his website, the handwritten text, the photography and the floral work - has a lightness and a crispness that I really like. Here’s an interview with Azuma.

“What does your mug look like?” is my theme for the Applied Arts day this Saturday. I will have mugs and decals ready in the workshop for anyone wanting to create their own masterpiece! Read more on my website.

This is one of Nadia Sparham’s mugs. I found her through Sanna Hellberg’s weekly page in DN Bostad. Nadia also makes murals, here’s my favourite:

Paletten no 1/2007 is all about applied arts - not to be missed!

I was flipping through FORM and found a short text about me! They give me 10 points - that was a nice surprise! (My website address wasn’t written correctly but I hope the FORM readers find me anyway…)

I give ten points to this lamp by Petra Thorgren. It’s made in incalmo technique.

This weekend is Konstrunda (art walk) in Sollentuna, an area just north of Överjärva Gård. Painter John Button sent me an invite with this picture of him painting, I love the composition of the picture.

This is what I’ve been doing lots lately. And packing of course, but no blogging - sorry!

Most of the Easter weekend was spent in the workshop, but I had Sunday off and spent it strolling in Vinterviken. The gallery space in the old Nobel factory is stunning. Some more pictures on flickr.

They were showing water colour paintings, but none that I liked as much as Aya Takano that I found through redsil.

I came out of Pressbyrån with a whole stack of magazines, apart from Hemslöjden (a favourite of mine) and Craft (I was very pleased to find this, but realized it was t e r r i b l y expensive to buy here), I also found three brand new ones:
Camino - for a sustainable lifestyle
Modette - fashion mag
Trädgårdsliv - gardenlife

Donna Wilson has created the Scottish weather… in knit. The lambswool clouds, woolen rain and assorted animals has been shown at the lighthouse Gallery in Glagsow.

I’m happy to say the weather in Stockholm is currently the complete opposite to Scotlands. They say the weekend will bring summer temperatures and I’m off to the archipelago - perfect!

This is my new, improved votive candle holder
It’s taller than it used to be, so it glows more. The ‘collage’ (above) and ‘rose bud’ varieties are now for sale in my etsy shop.

The candle holder below is part of the spring collection for nest. If you’re not yet familiar with nest - go read their global vision. And here’s a link to the nest blog!

I’ve been working so hard these past two weeks and I’ve got lots done. I usually prioritize the blog, but this time I had to spend all my concentration on making and trying to keep up with email requests. If you haven’t had a reply from me, it’ll be sure to come next week (and if it doesn’t, please remind me!)!

Spring flowers are looking up through the leaves. Blåsippa is one of my favourites.

Happy Easter!

I love this yarn, I think it’s called paper-yarn, that I bought from STRIKK in Gothenburg. I use it to wrap presents with, it’s got a lovely shine and the dark chocolate colour - mmm…

This past weekend was the Easter market here at Överjärva and I believe it was our most popular so far. The weather helped of course, the sun giving warmth so that I could keep my door open all day long - in March!!

The old oven in Statarlängan had been fired for three days to be warm enough for Erik from Rute Stenugnsbageri to bake in as well as making delicious mini-pizza’s. I’m right now eating their wonderful fruit and nut bread with my coffee. Life is good

Here is an article (in Swedish with lovely images) about the bakery, it was published in Balder issue 2/2006.

Flower shop Tre Liljor made Gula Villan look beautiful and welcoming.

See more pictures from the market on my flickr and (lots!) on Överjärva’s web.

PS I’ll be updating my etsy shop later this week (about time too!), I’ll keep you posted.