Karin's Style Blog

All of a sudden it’s turned freezing cold here in Stockholm. Clear skies and crisp cold mornings and days. Perhaps it’s time to bring my coat out from its hiding place.

Hand-made paper coat by Anna-Lena Sondell, with words by Harry Martinsson.

Daniel Reynolds is now selling his beautiful ceramics at Liberty in London. Above is a picture from his ware in progress page, I like those kind of pages.

Liisa and I had a quick inspirations tour around some of the applied arts galleries yesterday - Kaolin, Blås & Knåda, Konsthantverkarna (where Pernilla Svenre is exhibiting some wonderful warm knitted clothes) and Galleri Hantverket. Yvon Trossèls glass at Blås & Knåda looked delicious (above).

Lisa Ottebring is exhibiting at Galleri Hantverket until September 6th. Lisa’s work is so much her! And I thought the clock above was actually quite me as well. Designers Guild in London is now selling Lisa’s functional ware.

Thank you for all the comments on my cosas collection! And thanks Adam for pointing this out

I’ve been longing to tell you this for soo long it’s almost anti-climax now, but I’m moving workshops! Into the beautiful space above. It’s the inside of this wonderful building. My aim is to keep the light and the air and not get too crowded - I’ll be reporting on my progress.

Beautiful pictures of food and vessels on Karen Wise’s site.

Emily has done a third tour of pottery blogs!

You’ve seen her around the web lately, artist Stephanie Levy creates small paintings and mixed-media collages like the ones shown here, created using translucent materials mounted on lightboxes. Here’s what they look like mounted.

I received an email from Elisabeth who told me about DaWanda, a German etsy so to speak. The ‘moon-gazing hare’ is handmade in the UK by Chloe Harford.

I’ve done a collection of vases, bowls and tealight holders for swedish webshop Cosas. We will be adding to the collection as the autumn progresses. I love letting my work take it’s time to mature and slowly grow and really spend time on each piece and detail.

If you look really closely you can see me and David in the coffee pot lid. I find it hard to get my head around working again, I’m usually quite effective, but this holiday has made my head mushy! But to be honest - I think it’s good for me, miss Effectiveness needs it.

Here’s a picture from Krakow, the park that surrounded the old town was just beautiful in the late afternoon light. I’ve added some more pictures from my travels on flickr, as today I just have to tell you some ceramics news I’ve had of late.

Paul has launched a project to get more artists in Ireland blogging, what a great idea! Read more about it here. Through Paul’s blog I found the wonderful little people made by Kenji Uranishi of Kamenendo blog. I believe Mel of Feffakoan has dressed them (correct me if I’m wrong!). The little people also have their very own blog, Sandwich Mountain.

Mette writes a really lovely blog and she’s also a talented potter and textile designer.

Through Mette I found Birgitte Mørk Winthers wonderful brooches, sold through 1+1 Textil.

Emily has put together the most comprehensive list of ceramic bloggers I’ve seen so far. There is a part one and part two. One that she hasn’t mentioned is Bum Crane, that I found just today via Kamenendo blog.

I’ll leave you with the etsy mud team. I hope you’ll all have a lovely August weekend! For those of you spending it in Stockholm - do take advantage of all the goodness at the Stockholm Culture Festival. Yesterday we went to see and hear Yamato (above). It was beautiful and powerful (and they were quite fun as well!).

Hi there These sandals has done quite a few miles the past few weeks, but they were also thoroughly rested when the train through Serbia got delayed for 12 hours - or with the conductors words: “No problem for you, I turn off light you sleep!”

I need to go and stock up my fridge so just a few glimpses from my rail trip through Eastern Europe and I’ll be back later in the week.

Two little old ladies on a bench in Krakow.

In Prague they sold mixed berries in beautiful colour combinations.

The National Museum of Art in Sofia had the creakiest floor boards ever and some beautiful rooms, paintings and sculptures.

Tourist information was pretty sparse in Bucarest - we should have done our homework and searched the internet beforehand. Now I know