10 things that will make you happy when you are in London

1. Sit in Victoria Embankment Gardens near to the memorial of Robert Burns and enjoy the plane trees and a cup of tea (Embankment)

2. Take a boat from The Tate Gallery to the Tate modern

3. Take a ride on the old Routemaster Buses

4. Listen to the old “Mind the gap” announcement on Embankment Station

5. Visit Oval Station for good music and “The thoughts of the day”
6. Buy postcards of old London Underground posters at the London Transport Museum (Covent Garden)

7. Visit the “Music and goods exchange” store on Pembridge Rd, W11 (Nottinghill Gate) and browse through the art magazines

 8. Listen to the goof announcements on the website of Emma Clarke (she is the “voice” of the Underground)

 9. Walk from Tate Modern over the Millenium Bridge to St. Paul’s

10. Walk from Putney Bridge Station down to the Thames

Collage Mini Book Sale

I have made these Collage Mini Books in 2011 and selling them now for a special price. Please check them out at Etsy. You can also see more pix there. Thank you very much!

Rainy Bus ride in London

I'm just back from London and had a wonderful time.
But lots of rain too. Taking a bus on a Friday evening and keeping my camera eye on all the lights, the blurs and bokehs makes it a great trip in the end.

 

 

 

In the woods

Standing in the woods. Now in May, it’s wonderful, the tender green of the birches, the rushing silence of the spruces and bird songs everywhere. Beauty all around. I am walking the dog, gathering sticks and twigs. We do not have much forests in this part of Germany, so being in the woods is more or less a seldom event for me. Later that day, I am making my typicals little „spools“ out of the sticks and twigs I have collected. They are grinded and treated with oil and wax. The colours of sand, wood, stone, ashes and honey. I am madly in love with earth colours these days. Some sticks carry magic signs and pictures under their bark. Do you see the centaur? Sometimes funny things came up, like this little garden marker gnome.

To live in the present

I wish I could live in the present. But now in February (and always in February) one wishes with every fiber, that spring will come and winter will be gone for good.

Maybe one will miss such sight, but there are so many other sights to let go off a "wow" when spring does come.

 I love how winter makes the landscape pure, simple, peaceful and soothing.

 

 

Winter days, Mini books and a special box

 Winter is going on. We have some snow again.


So one enjoys staying inside.
 
Cosy, cosy, cosy....

Svea is 11 years now! Time flies...
 

 
She spends most of her time drawing.



I am working on Mini books most of the times. And mini means matchbox size.
 

 Some of them are called "Kvinna books". Kvinna is the swedish word for "Woman", which I find very inspiring, because it sounds so close to Queen.




So happy to find the collage box #4 in my weekend mail!




It has travelled all around the world from October 2011-January 2013.
You can read the whole story here.