Envelop

I love the Envelop idea so i decided to join! Now you can buy my patterns "skör" and "ranka" as pillowcovers. And ofcourse others work, like Elisabeths:)

Tonight!

No holes in the celing, BUT dirty mirror!

First run of the apatment is over, next will be on friday. But then we wont be here cause we are going to Värmland, me and V, girlsweekend, visiting my mother.

Preparing!

Tomorrow the broker will show our apartment to potential buyers so today we are preparing!

Up´s and down´s

I feel kind of defeated. Alot of the thing I set up to do failed. After Spira is over, in february, I will list every attempt and tell you everything. Right now I feel like I am off the horse, laying on the ground and tonight I don´t have the strenght to jump back on it. But tomorrow I´m on again!

the weekend is over

Last night I was drawing a bumble bee, but after five minutes I felt like drawing a worm instead so I left the beedrawing. This morning my son found it one the livingroom table and asked me if he could help me finish my drawing. He did, and he also drawed a bigger, more frightening and angrier bumble bee thats actually the smaller ones mum. AND some worms. I love his creativity!

Weekword:lesson

This weeks weekword is "lesson" and Alexandra picked it. I have been working with lessons during the week in mu tutorial posts so now I´m going with another interpretation. My daughter wish to take lessons in ballet and after christmas she will. It´s exiting when the kids get older and get interested in certain things, I´m looking forward to seeing her dance!
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Other weekworders this week are:Aimee, Anne, creating misericordia, Esti, Thereza, Anairam, Sarah, Caroline, Lotte and Aris.

It´s finally friday!

Couldn´t resist buying the mumin tray, just love the Tove image that´s on it (from the dangerous journey). I finished my pattern so now we are taking weekend over here...
I´ll be back tomorrow with weekword interpretation!
Enjoy your weekend people:)

Working!

Today I´m working on this! klick the image for bigger:)

Tutorial, make a pattern 2.

After printing the drawing from photoshop I attacked it again with my pen, to fill the gaps and work with how it was repeated.

When I felt as if it was "done" I scanned it again. I used the magic wonder tool to get rid of the background. Select the "background"and then make the selection inverse and cut and make a new document with transparent backgroundcolor, then paste the pattern and it´s done! Then it´s just to repeat the step from yesterday and repeat it as you wish.
Mine turned out like this! I´m still not pleased with how it repeats so I decided to wrap it again (by using the filter tool), print it and attack the gaps with my pen. To be continued!
(You can click the patterns to see it bigger)

Tutorial, make a pattern 1.

I have had alot of questions about patterns and how they are made. Earlier I have showed different ways to get started as a pattern designer, here, here and here.
And now I will show you again, so that all of you get the chance to try just how easy it actually is! What you need is a drawing, or pen and paper. A scanner and photoshop and a printer.

Step one for me is that I find some different shapes that I would like to build the pattern from. In this pattern I´m working with 3 different shapes: the leaves, the drops and the flower as u can see in the scetch above.
I take a new paper, I chose A4 so that it will fit my scanner, it´s possible to work on bigger papers, like I´ve done here. But it´s not a good way to get started. Another option is to just take a drawing and scan it, it has to be one thats only in the middle of the paper otherwice the tool won´t work. Then I draw and when I feel like testing how it´s repeating I scan my drawing into photoshop. It´s possible to draw and fill almost the whole paper, just remeber to leave the sides!

Then I go to the image size box to find out exactly how many pixels big my image is. I take the numbers and dived them by 2. 455/2=227,5 and 672=336. I write down the numbers on a paper.
Then I go to "Filter", "other" and "offset". In the box I write the numbers and I round up the 227, 5 to 228 to make it easier. then I klick the "wrap around" box and enter.

And I get this result. The image splits itself into 4 and the middle of the drawing is now out on the sides.

Next step is to make a new document, make sure it has the same resolution as your old one.
Make it as big as the space you would like to repeat your pattern over. Then just drag the original image into the new document, repetedly, until it´s filled. (or copy layers if you think thats easier)
And it´s done.
Or atleast first round. I think this pattern needs more work cause it´s to much gaps and it´s not repeating nice. So what I do now is that I make the canvas of my "original" a bit bigger and then I Print it. And then I continue to draw IN THE MIDDLE of the drawing...
But that I will show you tomorrow!

The result!

Here are the photos that the photographer took. Can you belive it´s the same place?

Evening!

Time to relax, time to draw and time to dream about how my new kitchen in the new apartment will look.

Yesterday: chaos 2

Can´t belive how much stuff I have moved around. Tomorrow I will show you the result!
Sorry for not replying to your comments the last days, I just didn´t have the time!

Styling: I

Tomorrow the photografer will come and take pictures of our apartment.
This weekend we are "styling". Quite fun. This is part 1 of 3, tomorrow you can see the real chaos and the last post will be what comes out of that chaos!
I hope you had a great weekend so far, and that sunday will treat u good:)

Weekword: hole

Weekword :hole. We had holes in the celing of our bathroom. Now they are filled holes and tomorrow they will be forgotten holes, cause we are painting the celing.
Ohther weekworders you find over at Linda Sues blog, and she also picked the word!
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This morning I had coffee with Alexandra and she gave me these great cards as a gift. The lady with the french fries is my favourite!
Sweet Alexandra, I´m so happy I got to know her via my blog:)
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Christine has a give away!

Lecture+workshop

Last night I held a lecture and a workshop about patterns and how to make them. It was at design and interior where karin is teaching. It was nice and I came to think about the time I spent at preparation schools, before university. How nice it was back then when creating something was just fun and a new knowledge. Yesterday I got a taste of that joy:)

Same, same

Still working on my logo.
...And with uploading something to envelope, take a look at elisabeths contributions!

Work in progress

I´m still working on my logo. Or actually it´s something to put on the backsides of my potholders. What do you think? To much, to big, to little?

Portfolio show 2

Today I´m going to show my portfolio here. U can klick the image for bigger!

More photos!

My party photos didn´t turn out great cause it was a bit to dark.

celebrating

Today my kids are turning 4, can´t belive it! We are very tired after yesterdays celebrating and today we will stay inside and play and play and play. And have the rest of the birthdaycake:) I will give you more pics later!

Makin n´ bakin

I guess I´ll be up all night making stuff and baking stuff...

Time flies!

One year ago I blogged this image. It says ""In her dreams she could fly. In her dreams she could reach the spots that she never ever had been able to clean before." (klick for bigger).
Today when I´m pregaring for showing our apartment to people that perhaps want to buy it and also having a big birthday party this weekend, I´m sharing the same dreams as the stenmark lady.

logo

Sketching on a logo. Finally I have decided to call my company "veja cecilia". I havn´t updated you on my "spira" activity latley, to much have happend. Soon I will give you spria update 4.

Struggeling

This drawing is done. It´s very big and it was astruggle to get it done. I feel that life is a bit of a struggle right now, life and art and combining life and art. I have to get it to work, like this drawing. It has to work. Still not sure that it does though. (klick it to see it bigger!)