Karin's Style Blog

I had the best day on Friday, there was a beautiful flow through that whole day. Mmm.
I’m not going to tell you the details but it started out with feeding the pigs at Överjärva, it’s a good way to start the day.

I’m getting one of these.

A snapshot from my workshop, my teapot and teacup is never far away from me. Here they are squeezing in on the sink. In the studio I usually drink green tea all day long - love it, whether it is warm or cold.

Ceramics cooperative Kaolin will be at Rosendals Trädgård this weekend. Here’s from outside their shop on Hornsgatan.

If I wasn’t working this weekend I’d go to the harvest festival at Rosendals Trädgård. Here’s from a couple of years ago when I did make it.

If you want to learn how to grow things there is a course in ecological gardening starting at Överjärva Gård in February next year, it’s been running for several years and I feel tempted every year!

Bigger and a close up.

It’s hectic times in my workshop now, I’m throwing and glazing and patterning and packing - all parallel and at the same time?! Today I jumped off the production cycle and went for chamomile tea with Gabriella.

Here I wasn’t working either but sitting down for a coffee before taking a long walk in the woods - best remedy for production cycle disease.

Djurdjica Kesic is exhibiting her wonderful jewellery at Pieces of Eight gallery in Melbourne. There’s an interview with Djurdjica on the gallery’s blog.

Poppies and Great Burnet. Bigger and the whole bouquet.

I was exhausted after last week and inevitably have come down with a cold. It was a fun week though, on Thursday we organized a day for a group of one hundred (100!) visiting 15-year olds from the nordic countries. They went through six stations one of which was my workshop where they patterned a mug. I hope they really enjoyed it and were proud of what they achieved.

A hundred 15-year olds visited my workshop and patterned a mug each, here’s the result after firing.

I like this poppy boutonniere, found the tutorial through whip up.

PS manos news: The 100% linen dish cloth is back in stock and now available also in turquoise and lime.

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I ordered yarns from habu textiles again (not through the selvedge shop but directly from habu) and they are beautiful, so simple and elegant.

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I read in Camino that swedish childrens clothes brand Polarn & Pyret has a page on their web where you can sell second hand clothes from them.

Have a lovely weekend!

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Mushroom picking is high up on my list of favourite things to do - no city sounds around you, just your feet walking on moss and breaking the occasional branch, sitting down for tea and a sanwich and as an added bonus, coming home with golden and black chanterelles. Tonight we will have mushroom risotto.

Photograph by Anna Kern (thank you Cia!).

My new porcelain cup was mentioned in Svenska Dagbladets interior deco blog with the beautiful picture taken by Anna Kern.

I like this shop, found via Kate.

Dreams on the closet. Close up.

The Progress report show is over and I’ve taken a couple of Dreams home with me… Two now lives on the closet door and the pink dream sits next to a log bowl from Loyal Loot and three of my men - two ceramic ones by Jane Muir and an anonymous Italian in oil.

Pink dream and three men.

The Dreams collection can be viewed here. The future holds more Dreams in store and they’ll be travelling west in the spring!

The next exhibition at manos will be ceramics by Elisabeth Ottebring, opens October 22nd.