Karin's Style Blog

Lime and mint soap with sea kelp on top of a Leaves dish.

Late summer news from manos: eco friendly soaps from skinnyskinny (not only the soaps are eco savvy, but the whole way they run their business) - for instance “Lemon and Blood orange” and Rose and Black pepper.

Hand thrown porcelain cup with grass or leaves pattern.

I’ve also added two new products from me -a porcelain cup and a small dish.

We’ve been trying out both at home all spring. The cup is quite lovely with coffee or tea or even to just let a rose float in it… On the small dish we have served sushi and chocolate, we’ve used it as soap holder and to put the tea bag on, it’s also great for putting the cooking spoon on while it’s not used for stirring food (the spoon that is). All in all a pretty handy dish.

PS I saw Lindsey Adelman’s “knotty bubbles” at Remodelista and fell in love.

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It’s raining today and I will enjoy the sound of the rain on my glass roof at manos, I’ve been picking reed on my morning walk to the shop, it grows in the water filled ditches.

I think we have 24 little chickens at Överjärva now, these hens have been busy this summer.

Alicia Manero
Emily Tu
Nina Buesing
Like a butterfly in your house

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I managed to get home just before the storm - thick hails knocked on the windows and the rain was pouring down. Phew.

Thank you for ordering so many of our “dreams", we are delighted you like them!
Most orders will be sent out in a couple of weeks time, when the show is over but the web only items are already on their way. I’ve wrapped them using bits of pages out of a book I was reading when I was last in Gothenburg, visiting Camilla. It was Evan Hunter’s “Mothers and daughters” and it was a really old copy, totally falling apart. I thought it looked nice like this.

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I’ve added a few more web only items, as well as a lovely pink piece - thick, creamy pink with a chocolate coloured dream on top.

I’m in the kitchen at d*s today - making a cool sweet cake!

Dream no 47.

The Dreams are now available in manos webshop. Thank you all for cheering us along and giving us feedback. We want even more - this is a progress report – only a step on the way. We already know some things that we want to take further and we hope to take on board all the feedback we get from showing our work half way through the project.

The Cake is sold!

You will notice that not all the items are decorated - at least not so that you would notice. We are curious to see what you will think of this. We are vizualising the dreams together – some have clear faces and even stories built up when they come apart (or together) others are Zen-like, calming to go with the faces and the stories - or to be just on their own. Some items we have already placed together and the rest we leave up to you to mix and match. They like each other and we hope you will like them.

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It’s been a sweltering week in manos’ greenhouse, but the workshop keeps nice and cool. The shop re-opened on Thursday and I had a few stray visitors that even managed some shopping in the heat.

The “progress report show” of mine and Camilla’s collaborative work is up and basking in the sun. People who have come to see it laugh and that makes us happy.

It’s good to get some feedback, especially knowing that we will be able to make changes and to develop the work further if we want to. It’s like the feeling I get when Camilla shows me a painting she’s working on saying “I might take all those trees away, and that figure might look completely different when it’s ready"…

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See more of the “progress report show” here. The “Dreams” will be in the webshop on Wednesday afternoon, until then Ciao.

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It’s the third of August and I’m heading back to my workshop. I love that I love to be back and that I feel rested and full of summer. This weekend we went to our friends wedding on a beautiful island in the archipelago. It was raining and the guests were offered plenty of umbrellas upon arriving. During the ceremony the rain magically stopped for half an hour to let some sun out.

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I spent some days with Camilla working on what we’re calling our “DREAMS” collection (as in the delicate cookie with a touch of vanilla flavour or perhaps as in our dreams and aspirations) . This time around, we’re working more with tactility, integrating the patterns with the ceramic shapes, combining pieces into little sculptures… You’ll see and we hope you will like! The “progress report show” opens at manos Thursday August 6th and the pieces will be available in manos webshop on Wednesday August 12th.

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