An address I never leave out when we are in Stockholm :
Two exciting materials, glass and clay.
There is always something beautiful to see.
*Fia

This wall at home needs some new plaster and paint, or does it really?
Couldn't help wondering what Ana Ventura should make of it.

All her works are pure beauty in all their simplicity.

*Fia

Was rummaging a bit in my box with cards and found this Easter motive again.
Small handmade keepsake-box with Easter chickens
+ vintage first baby smock.
You find it under Fialotta-things ,

and by the way, did you know that there is a sort of candy that becomes transparent if you lick on it long enough, and then when you look trough it the world is Pink?
Zeno taught me that and he is 6 years, so he should know.

Today's link blauwe ballon

*Fia

First sunbeam in house,
maybe it might be true then, that it slowly will be spring again anyway...

Today's favourite :
TABLE, music video for Rachael Dadd. Animation by Betsy Dadd.
Discovered via Camilla Engman
*Fia

This is Herbert, he lives here now.
It looks like his favourite place is in the curtains,
he still seems a bit ill at ease though.
Probably a bit lonely now without his big warm family.
Curious to learn more about Herbert and his relatives.
To be continued.....

Today I finished a small box with a variation on the traditional women’s dress for festivities.
The roses are not the ones that normally are used for the rose hat (only worn by unmarried women)
Last summer I had a coffee-talk together with six older ladies from Dalarna. There was discussed about my boxes and whether or not it was important to correctly follow how the different parts of the traditional clothing should be used. The ladies didn’t grant me much freedom, the common conclusion was that it had to be followed correctly.
This I normally always do, however only this once there is another rose pattern that actually belongs to the scarf of the dress for everyday life.
You can find it in the fiasask webshop.
Illustration
*Fia

Got this ribbon as a marriage gift long ago. It is hand-woven by Stina, a sweet lady from our second home village Siljansnäs, Dalarna, Sweden.
I guess Stina is around 80 by now and still she is weaving, and at every visit there are 7 different new baked cookies for with the coffee.
The woollen blanket in the background is from the collection by Mia from Lyckaform, who also works with traditional patterns in new designs.
*Fia Veerle