I was starting to run out of subjects for Friday Findings and had been thinking about something new that I could investigate and share every week, and I think I found it :)
People (including me) are often curious about little things. Especially now that we are all alot in cyber world we often do not know a lot of things of people we talk to, daily. Not a suprise that the TV program 'Big Brother', where you could watch people day and night, was such a huge success.
I'm not going to be Big Brother, but I do want to find out and share tiny little pieces of peoples lifes, all of them will be connected to the Etsy community, world wide.
To start with something welcoming and warm, I sneaked in to 4 different bedrooms from different places of the world....
Devi of
Glasfaden makes gorgeous unique jewelry of felt and lampwork beads, not the average things you see daily. She also has a passion for photography and shares her pictures often in her
photography blog, besides her
other blog. She sings in a chore and has a 'normal' job too, busy girl.
She lives in Germany with her son and has moved in to a new house a few months back and has been renovating and decorating ever since. Her bedroom is not finnished yet, it might take a while as she likes to do it right and slowly. Devi descripes her room as 'You can see that it looks more like a studio than a bedroom or maybe like a student's room? Well, I always think, if a bedroom is there to sleep only.. what a waste!! So it is actually my sewing and drawing room, as well as my wool inventory room with a corner to sleep. Later on it will be my beading room too - at the moment I'm doing it in the dining room. :)'
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So who is the owner of this -jealous making beautiful- bedroom? Charmaine aka
High Desert Diva has two big passions, the first is her
Interior Designing bussines and secondly Vintage, no worries she does love her husband (who is a very talented
metal smith), cat and dog too :)!
Charmaine moved with her husband to High Desert of Central Oregon, USA, and made of a trailer a dream house, with their own bare hands and very hard work, you can read their story and more pictures at
her blog.
Their trailer became so beautiful that it has been professionally photographed by Philip Clayton-Thompson of Blackstone Edge Studios, as part of her portfolio.
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She, her husband, 3 sons and 2 dogs recently moved from the Netherlands to Norway, and has been one of the luckiest persons ever since.
Houses in Norway are mostly made of wood as there is so much of it. You can see that outside the window that they have lots and lots of snow. I noticed a gun in the corner and of course had to ask about that, imagining wild bears attacking them, but it is a very old airgun, they practice with at summer time (on painted targets, not animals).
Their tiny bedroom is just enough she says, nice and cozy and enough room for their bed and a tv, the art photographs on the wall are of
MatchStickGirl, they are each others huge fans.
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Frances, originally from New Zealand, lives in the fashion town Milan, Italy. She is a very talented professional fashion photographer and has recently been chosen as one of the worlds 200 best add photographers by LUERZERS ARCHIVE 2008/2009.
She also has another shop for her open editioned works at
EnchantedPond.
As she is used to the wild open nature life in New Zealand, she often finds Milan too small and crowded, but her little apartment is her way to escape from that world and live in her own, when she is in Milan. She says she likes it because:
'It's nice and warm and packed with my things...all the things I love ...
I need more rooms like this :D but for the moment as a transient photographer on the move it is a nice little nest to come back to.'
You can find some fairytales and gorgeous photographs at
her blog too.
Next peeks, next week!
Thank you Devi, Charmaine, Inger and Frances for sharing your photographs and little bits of your lifes!
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