My shop

Now it´s open: MY SHOP!
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Todays christmas tip is two girls from my hometown Gothenburg, both with bigcartel shops:
Sandra Juto is a talanted illustrator and I love her wrist worms. I can´t believe how fast she can crochet, i´ve actually seen her in action! Her collaboration poster "numbers" is fantastic and would look good on every wall!
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Lady number two is Elisabeth Dunker. I just love the way Elisabeth works with colors, both in her photos, illustrations and styling jobs. I would love to borrow her eye when I use my camera! 
Elisabeth has stuff at Envelop aswell as in her own shop, Fine little shop. And shes also a part of Studio Violet!

The winner takes it all!

Thank you all for participating, I´m happy to have found so many new nice blogs to visit! See you around:)
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The winners of a desk calendar 2010 + a cuttingboard/ potholder are Marie-Louise Sundqvist and Artsyville.
The winners of a colour a month daily planner in 12 notebooks  +cuttingboard/potholder are Fingerspitzengefühl and Asphalt and Air
Congratulation girls!
All you have to do now is choose which cuttingboard/potholder you would like to have by going to www.ceciliapettersson.blogspot.com, then email me your wish and address at cissi.pettersson(at)gmail.com and hopefully I´ll get there before Santa does!
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TONIGHT I WILL OPEN A SHOP

Christmas is coming

Christmas is coming!

Why not purchase a Myrkott poster? (click on it here to see it bigger, in the shop the image is very small) Great for kids or grown ups! If you feel like it you can color it, but I prefer it black and white.

Go myrkott shopping!

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Internet is filled with great gifts, I will give you two tips every day this week.

Starting with lovley Marie-Louise Sundqvist. She makes fantastic little ceramic and paper stuff with her signifing little figures on, her shop is like a christmas dream!

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Pernilla Andersson has new sweet cards in her shop, Anna pernilla. I like her colors and the little stories that are told. The cards would look great framed on the wall aswell as sent to a dear friend. I hope she will add her lovley cuttingboards to her shop ASAP!

LAST DAY TO ENTER MY GIVE AWAY!

In dreams

Since I need a new kitchen for our new appartment I couldn´t resist this competition. Help me win the kitchen here, or try your own luck!!

Saturday blur

I´m working this weekend and tomorrow I will bake saffron buns with the kids! Tonight I´m taking it slow.
What are you up to this weekend?
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Tomorrow is the last day to enter my give-away, I´m so happy that so many have visited me, so many new readers! I hope you come back:)

Weekword: contrast

This weeks weekword is "contrast" and Lotte picked so go to her blog to see who els is playing along!
For me contrast is black and white, which I love to work with. This is an old drawing that I´m planning to color any day now. I will show you the contrast when it´s done:) (klick for bigger)
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Thank you all for the comments on my give- away post, there is still time to enter!

Family fun

Tonight we went to Liseberg and had fun in the house of mirror. Pernilla made my fantastic red hat some years ago!
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Tomorrow I´m off to my 5:th portfolio show!

Commission job

Working on a commission job that is quite different from what I usually draw. It´s fun!
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Still time to enter the give away!

1 of December

Today it´s finally 1 of December. This year I long for christmas, it will be fun now that the kids have turned 4 years old.

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Something new based upon something old is cooking on my drawing table.

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Thank you all for leaving comments on my previous post, I wish old and new readers good luck in the give away. It´s still possible to enter, so spread the word!

Moleskine giveaway.

You have all heard about my love for Moleskines and apparently the word spread!
...some weeks ago I was contacted by the web department of cronicle books and they asked me if I would like to host a Moleskine giveaway on my blog!

Of course I said yes!
Last week I got a package, all the way from San Francisco, filled with lovley moleskines. Can you belive it?
So now you got the chance to lay your hands on either a "desk calendar 2010" or an amazing "colour a month daily planner in 12 notebooks". I´ve got two of each so there will be 4 winners.
I will spice it up by also adding one of my newly arrived cuttingboards/potholders (to keep hot pans on) in each package, the winners can choose the pattern they prefer from the 9 different ones I got.
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So, all you have to do to get a shot at winning is to leave a comment on this post, I would love it if you told me what you like to read about here, what would make you come back/makes you come back?
If you also link to this post on your own blog you will get another shot at winning.
So, a total of 2 chances to win! The lottery is open for anyone from any part of the world!

I will draw 4 winners next sunday (the 6:th) at midnight. First 2 gets the desk calendar+potholder, last 2 gets the daily planners+potholder. The winners will be choosed randomly by a random number service and announced here on next monday, the 7:th of december.

Spread the word, and good luck:)
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Now, go and check out chroniclebooks.com, (webshop is only open within the U.S)
It´s also possible to follow Cronichal Books on twitter

Elves evening meeting!

"Saturday candy became more or less a "rule", or Recommendation, during the fifties and sixties in sweden. While limiting the candy eating to one day a week the caries couldn´t damage the childrens teeths as heavy as before."
- It works! And it also works well for my sweet teeth!
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Gun hip, Swollen lip has a great give!

Potholders/cutting boards

Yesterday my potholders/cuttingboards arrived. My little ones is not the best models when it comes to standing still so the photos are a bit dizzy.
Get a closer look at the different patterns here!
Come back tomorrow and enter my give away!

Happy Cissi

Look what I got!
Some of this can be yours... drop by on sunday and find out all the details! Tomorrow I´ll show you my newly arrived potholders/cutting boards!
Happy weekend!

Spira 4

Today I had a presentation and discussion about my Spira time so far. To visualize my goals and how I worked I have used this model of a swimmingpool... and I´m swimming against myself! (klick it to be able to read)
It was at a meeting wih David Stiernholm the idea came up and I must say that it helps alot to visualize my goals and see how far in the process I am! If you have the chance to go to a lecture with David I would truly recommend it, it was great!

Today, yesterday and yesterweek.

From my cellphone. Wish the dress on the top photo was mine, but no:( In värmland all the trees where filled with berries but no leaves, kind of strange.
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Today I had two good meetings. First with mr perswall and then with sagaform (with Karin!). I think my presentation went really well this time, I feel more relaxed in the presentation situation now. Interesting to see what the future brings!

Play

Just playing around in illustrator with some shapes im working with, having fun:) I like the tracing tool but can never use it when I actually work cause I feel the lines get so different. By now you know how important my lines are to me!
Anyone sitting on some good knowledge about the tracing tool, how can it trace more accurate?

Göteborg Daily

Linda runs Göteborg daily and is also a part of the same spira project as me. If you are interested in what happens in Göteborg, take a look!
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Tomorrow I´m going to my 3:rd and 4:th portfolio presentation, jihaa!

Enjoying work!

The book on the top image I borrowed from karin (who is back in blogland) I really liked it. I have read quite a few of the books about patterns and printing and this was one of the best so far. Only available in swedish though, here.
Karin and I are collaborating in a project and today I got to use my new lightning table and I spent the afternoon drawing. It´s been MONTHS since I drawed a whole afternoon. Welcome back creativity!
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I said I would post on last weeks weekword. I didn´t. Have a look here to see who actually did what they said they would do!

Weekend

V and I enjoyed our Värmland weekend. I love to come home and catch up with things and people. Everytime everything feels a bit smaller and further away, but still really close in my heart.

Värmland

We are in Värmland. Just hanging around... I will give you more photos tomorrow!

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.