Sabine Finkenauer

Very hard no to completely fall in love with the works by German-Spanish artist Sabine Finkenauer.

sprouting

Look at the summer flowers we sowed in the backyard less than 2 weeks ago. You know that I'm still dreaming of a house at the countryside with a big garden. What we do in the backyard is very limited and simple - but still a little wonder each year. And the Vietnamese pho-soup is with the basil from the windowsill that has now come up for real.

Grow my first ever veg garden for city kids looks like a nice project.

Hope your weekend was good!

The Ladder

"The Ladder" ["Stigen"] is a children's book from 1969 by famous Danish writer Halfdan Rasmussen, and this title may not be so welknown as many of his other titles. Unlike most of his publications that are wonderfully illustrated by Ib Spang Olsen, "The Ladder" comes with equally wonderful illustrations by Kai Matthiessen, which is both a little strange but also refreshing, since Halfdan Rasmussen and Ib Spang Olsen have grown almost inseparable in our inner register. Halfdan Rasmussen is not new to anyone who has grown up in Denmark; I just wanted to show you this book, since it was a little different and really fun. The illustrations are quite simple and played down in beautiful and bright colours and leave a lot of space to your own imagination.

Sorry, I couldn't find anything on the illustrator, Kai Matthiessen - but maybe some of you know about him...?

Molly playing

Molly and I have been ill the last couple of days, so we have been at home. I have kind of enjoyed being together with her all the time again, watching her and seeing how much she's developing at the moment. She plays and plays at her own now. I find it so cosy. She's not a baby any longer.

Erin Considine

From Erin Considine. Like little pieces of art to put around your neck.

birthday party

From this weekend's birthday party with the family. The cake with blackberries and white chocolate from this cookbook was really delicious. We are tired now!

flowers

Yesterday Frida Viola and I went to see the Flowers and World Views exhibition at the National Gallery. Primary the first part of the exhibition with the drawings and paintings from The Gottorfer Codex was really beautiful and worth seeing, but the best thing about the exhibition was actually the drawing area. It had such a beautiful choreography and calm atmosphere with fresh flowers and pencils inserted in the tabletops, and we spent more time here than in the actual exhibition.

Frida Viola made the painting at the top with Paper - the best app for sketching on the iPad ever!