Hello!

More treasure hunting this weekend. Today my sister, brother and my cousin Cajsa headed to a flea market hosted by the soccer team. I had never been before but heard such good things and it really was good! The plan was covered with tents, one for each category. 

 I got some really good stuff, like a wire basket, an archive-box, 

vintage books and some sewing things. 

 And yes, that is a glass dish... filled with embroidererthread... 

 We then stopped at a second hand shop and I found muffins tray that I have been wanting for a long time and I was to happy to find a small one!

 So tonight I just had to sit down and play! First was my long awaited tray:

 I love how it turned out, I put the things I use all the time and the some cute ephemera that I usually store in boxes. I think I will use more of this cuteness now when I see it. 

 Next on my list was making some tiny tassels with the embroidery thread. I love doing this and they are so fun to use on layouts and projects. 

 Such fun colors!

 One of the things I was so exited about was a bag with old seam-binding and I just couldn't wait to try to spray with my Heidi Shines. They turned out so pretty. As a write this they still haven't dried but they are really shimmery. 

 Tried the Heidi Swapp thing with masking of to get a striped look and LOVE IT!! So cute. Here I used; Raspberry, Sweet Mint, Sweet Mint masked, Pink, Gold and Navy and Teal.

I just a such a great time and so fun to come home and just play messy hands and all!

Now it is late and time for bed! 

Love Julia

For a book lover like myself there is one stamp set that I just had to have.  The Bibliophile by Pink Fresh is so fun and cute yet very functional. The thing that got me was the book info stamp but when I get it I got all of these ideas of what I could do with the other stamps:

3 super fun and quick projects, like a patterned paper, epoxy-flairs and bookmarks. 

 The icons in this stamp set fit perfectly in an 1" punch and there for became cute epoxy-flairs. These will be so cute on a layout, in Project Life and in my travelers notebook!

Make your own patterned paper. I did one is black and one in mint. The black I really love, not sure where to use it but for now I will just sitt and look at it.

A good bookmark is a must have for any book lover and these I think turned out so cute!

I hope these projects has inspired you to give them a try!

Love Julia

I do love to go treasure hunting and I haven't done that this summer so this Saturday I just decided to head to one om my favorite "treasure-caves".

There always allot of pepole but sometimes it's just too much. Luckily I did find some treasures that I have been looking for. A milk-cow, I want one in black & white but this one is really cute. Cake stands are always on my list and this one is in glass and a tiny one. Top make my day I found 5 Agatha Christie pockets in both English and Swedish. I call that a pretty good treasure-hunting-day!

 I have a Travelers notebook insert for my treasures, I'm that nerdy...

 Nothing fancy I just think it will be fun to look back on when and were I got the stuff and why i got them. I put down the details but also why and what I liked the best from that day.

 This day's score was definitely the books. All of these for a total of 78kr 

(not 48kr as on the page I clearly can not count in the evening...)

 I usually spend under 100kr (about 10 Euro) I collect coffee cups and cake-stands and almost always but something of glass.

Love Julia

This past Saturday my sister and I took a trip to the zoo. We have an amazing zoo in our town that we go to at least once. I took with me my new watercolor set that i made HERE and i did some quick sketches. We had a really great time and got the see some really cute babies!

I did some quick sketches and it was so fun, they didn't turned out "amazing" but it was so fun to just do it right next to them!

If you ever found yourself in Borås, check out the zoo. They have beautiful animals and if you check the feeding times your get to see so many of them.

Love Julia

I love my watercolors and I have quite a few... But I would really want to bring them with me and paint "on-the-go".  So I found this super cute pen tin that I used way back and thought it would be perfect! Paints on the top "shelf" and water-brushes and pens under.

I used my old tube pains and just a blob of each. I know I will use more earth tones and green so I placed those in the ends and the reds and ultra marin in the middle. 

I'm so happy with how it turned out, just perfect!! This will work beautifully with any pen tin but i like that I can have my water-brushes and pen all together (minimizing the risk of forgetting something)

Love Julia

The 30th July I had my first open house in my new studio. The space is in our stable that dad is re-building, so cleaning that took days!. I have to say I was a bit nerves, thinking that maybe no one would show up, the fika to run out or you know, just nerves. How ever it went great! Here is how it looked before everyone came:

"Wildlife" wall

 fika table with 3 different traditional cookies and coffee. 

 the swans

 Inside my studio to the right

 Studio though the door, just love how clean it is!

 and to the left

It really was fun, many came and many of my painting got new homes. I also got a few custom orders. That was really great so now I have so work to do!

Love Julia

My love for my Traveler's notebook keeps going strong. I have started making an insert per month. I love how this works out and that I have a book per month. I still do project life weekly but I have to have my "day books". I these books (now monthly) I have one page/day and there I write what I have done, to do lists and some time just journaling from that day.

For my august book I wanted to use my Felicity Jane kits and I love how it turned out!

 On each page I stamp the "details of today" stamp from the "Next Stop" stamp set, then the date with a roller stamp, here  I have the Heidi Swapp one. In the right corner I stamp the day and in the left I just doodle the weather. (By the way it's raining big time here today!)

I'm so happy with how it turned out! The book is about a centimeter too short (I had used this striped paper on an other project but really wanted to use it here) but I don't care.  Love the flowers and the wood frame and I'm just really happy with it! (can you tell?)

Love Julia