Pop-up shop in the studio

For Göteborgare:
Kom och hälsa på i vår pop-up shop i studion onsdag-torsdag kl 15.00-18:30. Fynda fint!

Hello!

Little V is drawing moving trains. Things are moving here, in differentiering directions. I have missed you so I will try blogging from my phone for a while, until I get the time to do it as I want to again. 

Building a stand

This week I am exhibiting in Greenhouse at Stockholm furniture fair. This is building the stand post. It´s my sister in most of the images, she is fantastic!
On saturday it´s open for everyone, so if you are in Stockholm, drop by and say hi!
The stars are designed by Lisa Karinsdotter Pålsson.

Book sketches

Book project is over for now, I had my presentation last friday. This is the three first pages, the book is folded like a accordion and it can be a read page by page or opened. This project has been hard and once again I have realised that a page is a page and a pattern is a pattern. I am quite sure I have learned this now and in the future I will concentrate on either illustration or pattern.

Happy new year!

 Just a quick hello from me to you. I hope u had some great weekends and that 2012 started out fantastic for u. I am as buisy as one can be. Take a last look at my websight, soon it´s only a memory.

Julform weekend

Julform is over and I am more or less dead. Working both day and night this last week makes me long for christmas break even more. Atleast I managed to see the children celebrating lucia at school this year:)
Lots of nice photos from the weekend over at the julform sight.
If you are interested in the julform kitchentowel (24 USD, shipping included), just email me. cissi.pettersson(at)gmail.com

New pillowcases

Photo Elisabeth Dunker

My new pillowcases arrived yesterday. The material is fantastic, velvet. The print (the black is really black!) and the sewing aswell, thanks to Tobex. After Julform I will add them to my shop!

Kitchen towels

Photo: Elisabeth Dunker

Our kitchen towels came last week, they are sold in two pacs, one polkastriped and one based upon the poster pattern I made earlier this autumn.  Today Elisabeth took some photos of them with good help from Klara Bothén. Both Elisabeth and Klara will be participating in Julform and over at the Julform sight you can see Klaras lovley mittens.
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Elisabeth took some nice photos of my pillowcases that arrived today, se the post over at www.finlittleday.com. I will blog about them tomorrow!

Childrens book

Second page in the book is actually the first. I just had to start with second page cause I had an idea. Now I got an idea about most of the pages which makes me feel like taking a long break and "just do it". At the childrens book course I met Lisa Karinsdotter Pålsson and she makes the most beautiful origami decorations. I would like to have stars in the celing when I exhibit at stockholm furniture fair, stars folded out of my patterns. I´m starting this illustration inspired by Lisas folded star.
This page in the book, the first, is illustrating this text:

Månen den lyste och stjärnorna glittrade. 

Barfota ute, de sprang och de fnittrade.

I won´t try to translate it cause it´s Elisabeths words and I would ruin them. But it tells about the night an the moon and the stars and kids running outside, giggeling and bare footed.

Julform all day long!

In the days I´m working with the PR around Julform and in the evenings I´m knitting scarves for the lions outside Röhsska museet.
I´m happy to have my book project and the sketches for the public comission (boic) to think about. Tomorrow I´ll show you sometihing new from the book project , and it wont be polkastick inspired!

Julform photoshoot

The other day we took some Julform photos. Crazy but fun...,kind of describes the whole project. Even though it´s very hectic it´s both challenging and and a great experience.  One week to go.

New pillowcase

Sent this to the printer today. Pattern will be printed on velvet and transformed into pillowcases, 50x50 cm. Sold at Julform 9-11 december.

Teaching

Teaching lots and lots this week. Pattern making, making pattern in photoshop and in illustrator. Pattern is a big part of my life these days!

In the wood

This morning I scanned the first pattern from my book projekt. Every page is also a pattern. I like the koncept but I have to admit that one thing has to adjust itself after the other. I still havn´t figured out what to focus on, pattern or page?

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As you might have noticed I am taking some kind of blogbreak. I´ve been here since 2009 and never thought that much about why I blog. Now I´m trying to figure out how to do with vejacecilia and/ if /how I can transform it into Cecilia Pettersson. It needs to be more focused on my work and less about my family. 

Update!

I am here, somewhere, just feeling a bit off.  I am cought with a dreadful caugh theat never seems to let go of me. And I can´t find the transfercable for my camera, sorry for these lusy cellphone images:(
Julform is taking alot of effort right now, in a fun and good way.
Good things have happend lately!
1. I have been picked to scetch (and compete with 11others for 6 comissions) for a new big public comission.
2. I will exhibit my new wallpaper collection ( at the drawing table right now) that also is a book (text by Elisabeth Dunker and illustrated by me) at the Stockholm furniture fair/green house in february 2012.
3. And the kids turned 6!

Messy!

Our home is nothing but chaos these days. We have just switched rooms between the bedroom and the livingroom and alot of stuff need a new place. And we are painting in the corridor at the same time. The cat is still here, can´t decide what to do. Yesterday I decided he needed to go back, this morning I couldn´t make the call.

Hajen!

Last friday we picked up this lovley Devon Rex kitten. We call him Hajen, that mean shark in english. I have always been alergic to cats but had high hopes cause Devon Rex is known to fit alergic people. Past days I am sad to say that I have developed all the allergy sympthoms, including asthma. I had to decide today that the cat has to go back to the breeder and I AM SO SAD! He is such lovley little thing, he has a fantastic social ability and he is great with the kids. And the kids love him. This evening little V whispered into his big ear that she loves him. It just breaks my heart that we have to give him up.

From my phone

Glimps pf everydaylife from the phone.
1. A spring  walk
2. Summer at Tjörn
3. Started woring as art teacher for 7:th graders earlier this autumn
4. First time at swimmingschool for the kids
5. Print arrived and had to be sent back
6. Sneak peak of Alexandras work, last week
7. Christin working in our studio
8. New to-be family member
9. Yesterday

Grand finale!

So much on my to-do list right now, so silent here at the blog.  Just had to stop by and show you what todays hanging looks like, my public comission is done. I can´t reflect yet, but I´ll be back:)