tobyboo

congrats to my super dooper talented crafty buddy tina of tobyboo for getting her fabby xmas stockings on the cover of homes and antiques! see more of her tobyboo range here and check out her latest goodies and going's on over at her blog.

suki

suki is one of many dolls i am making for two upcoming craft shows. her hat and dress are made from a recycled felted wool jumper.

sunday morning

lovely autumn sun shining on a cozy bed and two sleepy kitty's.

balmaha

i took a little trip yesterday to balmaha with an old friend. it was chilly and damp but also very beautiful. want to see more?

a flaming hot hyggelig happy flickr friday!

as last night was guy fawkes/bonfire night, plus it's getting mighty chilly round here and we could do with a bit of warming up this week's hyggelig happy flickr group is all about cozy fires. as a kiddy i used to take great delight in watching the hot coals flicker in my grandfathers open fire. it was so comforting and i have dreamed ever since of having my own open fire or log burning stove. alas i have yet to live in a home with either so i will just make do with drooling over pictures of other people's fires until one day i get my own!

thanks once again to everyone who has added photos. the following pictures belong to:h is for home, sunshine upon upton, madelinetosh, emma bradshaw and lisa steinbrueck.

wishing you all a happy weekend.

too cute to eat?

my friend lynsey brought cupcakes over for a wee tea party. ta mate! this one is left over because it's just too darn cute to eat!

devendra

i have gotten my hands on a copy of devendra banhart's new cd what will we be. and i am happy. very happy.

my lovely weekend

i had a very busy but lovely weekend including meeting with family and friends to celebrate my birthday. saturday was full of eating and drinking! starting with morning coffee and cake with my nephew followed by pumpkin soup with my mum in one of my favorite cafe's in glasgow at lunchtime. later i met up with friends for food at my favorite japanese restaurant nanakusa ending the evening with a hot chocolate in another coffee shop where i met with my sister to exchange pressy's (her birthday was at the start of the week). phew! as someone affected with cfs this was about a normal month's social activity crammed into one day! no surprise that i was in my bed by nine thirty then. poo! i was given lots of lovely pressy's including this beautiful teatowel from emily and the new hummingbird bakery book.

on sunday i had a teeny weeny table selling my hyggelig wares at a friends charity do. hosted in her beautiful home there were a few other crafty folk selling raw foods, cards, photos, prints and a very talented bloke called jim simpson who amongst other things was selling beautiful little hand carved spoons. i couldn't wait to get my hands on one of these wee treasures. you can find out more about jim's work by emailing him at jimbosimbo@yahoo

another letter to autumn

dear autumn
thanks a million for the lovely dry bright day yesterday on my birthday!
much love kim xxx

a letter to autumn

dear autumn

thank you for a rather lovely autumn so far here in glasgow (i won't count the last few rainy days) it has been dry and even somewhat sunny some days. i have loved all your autumn colours on the leaves falling from the trees, gold, red, browney red and yellow. thanks for that. thank you also for the conkers that you gave me. i just have one teeny weeny wee request for you - please could it be dry tomorrow as it is my birthday and my friend al's birthday and we don't like rain much. also it would be nice for all the little kiddies going trick or treating to not have to have to hold up umbrellas. i know it's a lot to as but pleeeese!

much love kim xxx

the best things in life are free(ish)

or nearly free! as someone who has not a bean to my name at the moment i love a freebie or a cheapo thrift shop score now and again. a big thank you to gert a fellow allotment holder (in his eighties but still has a twinkle in his eye that makes me go weak at the knees) who gave me one of his pumpkins when the ones i planted failed to grow - i will be making some pumpkin soup and curry with it. i am grateful for all the beautiful freebies nature is giving me this autumn (and i live in the city!) and to the sunday papers for giving some free fab free movies (for a change!)recently. i scored this cute little deer to add to my growing collection in a local charity shop for 10p! and last but not least thanks to moo for the free cards they are giving away at the moment. all you have to pay is the postage. now that's what i call a bargain!

a hyggelig happy halloween!

i love halloween (and not just because it's my birthday) and have happy childhood memories of trick or treating, dressing up, duking for apples and coming home with a big bag full of monkey nuts, tangerines and sweeties. here are just a few of the super dooper halloween inspired photos that have been added to my wee hyggelig happy flickr group including one of my cat biba in her pumpkin bed.

thanks to the following (from top to bottom)hyggelig happy,mia christopher, yokoo, encore petite, anoushka sophia, sweet sweet life, jek in the box, emma bradshaw

happy halloween everyone!

a sense of wonder

the colours in autumn leaves always remind me of the words in this song:

didn't i come to bring you a sense of wonder
didn't i come to lift your fiery vision bright
didn't i come to bring you a sense of wonder to the flame

on and on and on we kept singing our song
over newtonards and comber, gransha and
the ballystockart road.
with spike and boffyflow i said i could describe the leaves
for samuel and felicity
rich, red browney half burnt orange and green.................

do you have favorite autumn song?

it's rainy and gray here today but as usual on a thursday this is keeping me happy!

happy when creating interview: alleluja

that beautiful little lamb i showed you earlier this week was made by none other than the ultra talented sawako hayakawa who creates alleluja. when my little lamb arrived all the way from japan a few months ago i gasped at just how perfect he looked and felt. like many of alleluja figures they have double uses. mine can be worn as a pendant or used as a pincushion. how cool is that!

it was to my great delight that sawako agreed to a little interview about her work:

sawako, when did you start making your beautiful ceramic pendants and pincushions?

it is about ten years ago that i gained experience in ceramic art for the first time. after a few years i started to make mini cat pincushions. at the same time i started needle felting as well, and i began to make various pincushion pendants last year.

what materials do you use to make them?

i use porcelain clay and raw wool. i frequently use a gypsum mould, and all my moulds are original.

where did you learn/study ceramics?
i learned that at the ceramic workshop in the vicinity. is still go there now.

who and what inspires you?

i love the movies, music, comics and my pet cats. all of them give me inspiration. anyway, all cute things and weird things inspire me.

what projects have you planned for the future?

i want to fuse clay with wool more. i like those materials so much. i'll continue to make various pincushions. and i want to create something other than the pincushions using porcelain clay and wool in the future.

saweko sells her crawler pincushions in new stone age, los angeles. you can also find a selection of the beautiful seen work here in her etsy shop.

thank you so much sawako for telling us a bit about your work. i wish you continued success with your amazing creations.

i have more great wee hyggelig happy interviews for you up my sleave for the coming weeks!

hyggelig happy flickr goup: celebrations

from equistetum

from camilla engman

from lilybe

from farmergopi

from snitcn-notch

with so many amazing photos in the hyggelig happy group, i thought it might be nice to show you some each week with a different theme. this week in honour of my bf viv's birthday yesterday it's all about celebrations, birthdays and partys! happy birthday viv darling. thanks to everyone who has added photos to the hyggelig happy group this week - keep em coming!