On our big trip, we stopped in Tokyo for a couple of days – luckily for us, we left again just before the earthquakes and the following devastation in northern Japan. I like souvenirs that can be used and for me that often means craft stuff; fabrics, beads, feathers and scrapbooking supplies. This way I [...]
Two new little people have seen the light of day in our immediate family the past few months, two little girls with given names beginning with E.  First out in defiance of the harshest winter was Eira, firstborn daughter of  dear friends Y & K, and with the first songs of spring came niece Emilia, [...]
Ha, you thought there wouldn’t be any more wedding stuff on this blog, didn’t you? You were wrong. I have one or two things left, for example our wedding rings. They were, like our engagement rings, made by Lars Torvaldsson in Stockholm and designed by us and him. David fell for some unknown, strange and [...]
Happy New Year! 2011 has started, I celebrated it with a horrible cold and spent most of the holiday days snug on the sofa with fever and coughs. I guess this year can only get better! New Year’s eve was celebrated in a rather non-glamorous form in our household this year – last year we [...]
Naturally, most of the christmas cards were made, enveloped, stamped and carried to the mail box before it occurred to me to take any photos of them, but here are a few that lagged behind and got caught on camera! Paper and envelopes are from Ljunggrens pappershandel in Stockholm’s Old town and the xmas stamps [...]
For a few years, I’ve make a xmas necklace for myself at this time of year: 2008 it was Silver chain and xmas and 2009 Christmas love. This year the xmas necklace is, surprisingly enough, not red in any way but silver and two shades of pink! It all started with the ornamental filigrees that [...]
This wrap-and-tie bracelet is made of washed silk that I’ve rolled and stitched. If possible, try to find ready made silk ribbon, as stitching the slithery material can take a while. After completing the ribbon I made lots of little “pendants” to put on it of wire, beads, pearls and crystals. Here you can also [...]
These freshwater pearls are topdrilled, which, if you like and they stay where they are supposed to, gives the necklace a zig-zag look. Between each pearl I have put a larger seed bead in clear glass with a black center, and also behind the neck since I didn’t have enough pearls to get the length [...]
This necklace is quite long and dangly and flappery, it falls down to below my waist if I don’t tie it up in a knot. It’s mainly plastic beads as I find glass and crystal gets too heavy when a necklace is made from so many beads. I think only the misty beetle green are [...]
Welcome to  [...and harmony]‘s new home! The old address was a bit dodgy, and it’s not my main domain anymore and so here we are! I hope you’ll find it just as easily and that you enjoy the new theme that I found, called A Bus Full of Hippies! I have not quite finished the [...]
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