Vintage Playground

I have always been in love with this sun-and-rain labyrinth at one of our locale playgrounds.
Now they are renovation the place.
Maybe the labyrinth will not be there next time we visit.

Quilt

This beautiful quilt is from India. It is very old and very dirty. The colours are faded. I really like this quilt.

The story about it is that I got it some years ago from an Indian camel owner. He used it in the desert when his camel needed food: He put the camel food on it so that the camel did not get sand in it's mouth. I told him how beautiful and special this quilt was. Afterwards he offered it to me.

He was 25 years old, living in Rajastan, the proud owner of 1 camel, father to a crowd of children.
I was 25 years old, travelling around in India for half a year on my own, studying art history, and the mother of nothing.

When we found out these circumstances we could not help laughing. He kept asking me where my husband and my children were? The quilt keeps reminding me of this person, so far away from me in every way.

The little patchwork below was made by my mother when she was a teen. Also very old but still very appreciated.

Wonderful car patchwork from IJM - choose patch.

Quilt exhibition at American Folk Art Museum - a constant source of inspiration.

Unpackaged

 

I love the concept of Unpackaged - an organic grocery with no packaging. Customers have to bring their own jars and bags. Would love a branch in Copenhagen.

Smiling garages

This makes me smile!
Personified garages by japanese artist Yoshiaki Kaihatsu.
Found here.

Kauniste towels

Beautiful handprinted kitchen towels from Finnish Kauniste.

Elizabeth from Fine Little Day has the calender towel.

Childish

I love that once you have a child it suddenly is very ok to be a little childish and fill your home with strange little things.

I have been working all day - reading and writing on an article that troubles me - I guess that's why my urge to be a little childish has intensified.
I found great inspiration in this article on fantastic Mamma Andersson and Jockum Nordström.
Wish I could go and see Mamma Andersson's exhibition here - her first solo exhibition at an American art museum.

Jinbei

Frida Viola has two little jinbeis, both in blue batik. The lower one was mine - the batik just as beautiful as a landscape.

Yu-I made a beautiful little jinbei, also in blue.

Cloth Inventory from Lines & Shapes.

I found the kimono below here.