Showing posts with label little sister. Show all posts
Showing posts with label little sister. Show all posts

Saturday, 13 June 2009

Little Sister: Best Pictures


We went to the beach yesterday, with the thought that we can allow ourselves to go someplaces beside on sundays, beeing our own boss. Of course pleasure was not the only reason, we were busy with finding sea urchins and other treasures too. On the way back we came across some wild donkey's, in the middle of the road. Untill mum could take out the camera they where already a little further away, but isn't this amazing?
I would love to see a picture you took, during your vacation or a road trip, only thing is, it has to be something special. Send me your picture and story behind the picture through Etsy's conversations or email!




Vadjutka: ''On the picture you see the very-very highlight of my Turkey trip: volcano Erciyes (hight 3700 m). It is very special for me, because that was the very first high mountain I ever climbed up. I am a very urban girl, and in Hungary the highest mountain is 1000 m high (but I have never been there before my trip to Turkey). So I wasn't a trekking person at all, and it was EXTREMLY hard for me to go up there, but I could do it. After that I changed my idea of what we call „hard” and „difficult”. It was a trip that really changed something. (More volcano and Turkey pics here).



IngerMaaike: ''Not one specific image I can choose, but an overview of the trip we made through the mountain region to the west of where we live. Rugged, empty, and unimaginable colors!'':



Babongo: ''This picture is taken in Luang Prabang, Laos. The whole trip to Laos was special, because we met so many lovely, warm people, which is why I love to travel, because of the people you meet, so different in many ways yet so much the same in what they want from life. One of the highlights of this trip was learning how to weave traditionally. I loved it so much. The silk is dyed by hand, the dyes are made from plants and bark straight from the forest. ''



MKaae: ''The pictures were taken in Nara...a historical city not fra from Kyoto. We just stumpled upon this scene where a genuine geisha says goodbye to her "customer". Luckily we had our camera ready! It is very rare you get to see the geishas and if you are a man and want to meet with one it is extremely expensive.''



ArtMind: ''It's not easy for me to choose a favorite picture as I have way too many of them! This is one of them, although I'm afraid of snails, I love this picture. They are beautiful animals, I only get itchy when I see the slimy trail they leave behind. :)''


SwiedeBie: ''It is taken in Ko Phi Phi Island, Thailand. My husband and I were on holiday, and there, I took interest in this particular shop that did Bamboo tattoos. What is the meaning? The name derives from the tool they use - Bamboo, for tattoo-ing. Some prisoners in Thailand use the bamboo (with seperate sharp pen like tip with a little hole that lets the ink runs through) and pigment inks to design and draw tattoos onto their fellow inmates, as the tattoo technical tools are banned in prisons. The artist who did the tattoo on my shoulder blade is a convict. It is not as painful as the usual machinery tattoo pen. He uses a technique called the prick and poke dot technique. Amazing with how meticulous and neat job he did.''


Kreativlink: ''The 400 years old olive tree we've visited in Cyprus. It may not be the oldest, nor the biggest olive tree that there is. But for me it's a very special one because after all the trees I've hugged already, there finally was one that hugged me :)''



Kraplap: ''Last year I made a trip with hubby and my dad to Friesland to see the places from my youth there. At the end of the trip we visited the graveyard where my Friesian grandparents are buried, because my dad keeps it clean twice a year. It was such a lovely peaceful quiet place with all these old graves and the old church, standing a little higher. Standing there I felt somehow my "Friesian" roots, more than in all the places from my youth we visited that day. They had changed too much or were very different as I remembered them. But this quiet place was there today just like it was 50 years ago. I loved it !''


Birribe: ''I have many lovely travel photos and memories. I found this solitude little house in Cambodja. We very visiting the floating village outside Siem reap. It´s a whole village built on pillars in the lake. This building was such a contrast to the other crowded parts. They told it´s a retreat for monks. It´s exciting thinking spending a time there just meditate.''


Jealousydesign: ''I could choose a photo from any of my vacations both from other countries and from here in Sweden but the place that is most special to me is where I live. Since we moved here this place is the most special for me. Have never felt so “home” anywhere before and I can never get tired of the nature around me…''

Saturday, 6 June 2009

Little Sister: Handmade


If you are an Etsier, you must know that they always ask the featured sellers this question: 'What handmade possession do you most cherish?'

I always find it a pitty that they don't link to a picture somewhere to get a better idea. I would love to see your favorite handmade item in your home (not made by you). The one in the picture is mine, purchased in a beautiful shop in Madrid, El Arco Artesania. Unfortunatly I couldn't find the card where all information about the piece and artist is written, but I love the simplicity and character of the piece.

So, send me your picture, through Etsy's conversations or email, with any additional information you would like to give!



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Kreativlink: 'These are my two most favorite handmade items at the moment. The Olive Tree from Psarokokalo and the Free Feeling from Artmind.'


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Psarokokalo: This is one of my favorite handmade possession, I got it from Etsy, it was what made me enrol to Etsy! This piece is made from one of my favorite artists Danny Mansmith and is now in my living room (at the right side) as you can see in the first picture. And a picture of the piece itself:


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Vaisto: 'Here's something I cherish...hand made by at least Etsy standards. It's art by my hubby, taken with selftimer when I was expecting our child...he is standing behind me in the photo, one hand is his, the other is mine.
And a bit off topic, the funky lamp is one of my favorite objects, the shade is vintage from granny and it's supposed to be a ceiling lamp, the leg came from hubby's sister...ah creativity!'

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Kraplap: 'My favourite handmade piece in our house is a painting of an uncle of my hubby. He had been in a concentration camp during the war, and had to recover from TBC in a sanatorium. His room was looking at the chicken-run, and he started to paint them. He was very much intrigued by those hens, and painted them in all possible postures and colours. I was allowed to have a chicken painting of him at the cover of my PhD thesis, and we bought one of his largest pieces for our home, which is the one in the picture.'

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DeerLola: 'We spotted this photo print a few years ago at the exhibtion of a young Belgian photographer. He was showing several animal pictures and had printed his work on round plexiglass. He shot this photo on vacation in Indonesia. It's a tame deer that lived near the beach. And for those wondering, the deer is not yelling, it's yawning and staring at the sun coming up... It's a weird picture because it's shot from an unexpected angle. We came across the photographer and this photo last year and immediately fell in love with his work all over again. That's when we decided to buy this adorable piece...'


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plainbananas: ''This is the handmade item I most cherish. It is a big star made out of magazine pages. I love it so much because when my sister came to visit me and stayed at my new apartment when I moved to Crete, the place was generally pretty bare -- especially my walls. One day, when I came back from work I found this on the wall! She said she couldn't take the bareness and decided to make me something to put up. It made the place so cosy and I just love it!''

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Alatvian: "This is not my favorite hand made thing I have in our home because I love everything I have around me equally. This is a small clay ... (vessel, dish, holder?) made by my youngest son about 3 years ago and gave it to me as a present."

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Inger: The frames are made by the kids when they where little. In one of the frames is the first written letter that Tom wrote when he learned to write. The necklace is a little turtle, one of my very first Etsy purchases bought at Marmar. And the ceramic Hate feeling by Artmind.

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Vadjutka: From February, I have been buying some pictures for my wall: mostly from my friends on Etsy. They all were love at first sight: I knew I have to buy them, no matter what. Finally, the last piece arrived, and now I can go and have them framed.
1) Floating on creative bubbles from Artmind.
2) Birdpool ACEO from Annarubyking.
3) Hungry dog from Kreativlink.

Saturday, 30 May 2009

Little Sister: Collections


Don't we all love to collect 'things' during the years? Beside the regular things as stamps and foreign money there are many with interesting collections. Mum and I are both collectors of all kind of things, mums latest passion is vintage French beaded flowers. The old ones are so fine and sweet. I would love to see one of your collections! Send me a picture through Etsy's conversations or email with your story about how it started or whatever you would like to tell about your collection!



PetitPlat: ''I started a tiny bjd (ball-joinded-doll) collection. I only have two right now, but I guess there will be more. They are quite expensive so I won't have 50 but 10 is possible lol! Here are my current two: Eleonore is the white skinned, a pukipuki lily from fairyland. Alice is the tanned girl a lati white sp gloomy from latidolls.'' You can see them having a lovely breakfast, made by PetitPlat herself:



Kreativlink: ''The most important things I collect are experiences and memories. Yeah - maybe that sounds a bit sniffy but, it’s the truth. Wonderful things I collect in my head. Just for me. Ha! But - the other things I collect are books. It’s not so much that I collect them, they just pile up here in the house. They are everywhere. In the living room, on the stairs, in the bedroom, in the bathroom (yes!)… but the biggest piles are in that little guestroom upstairs. No more emtpy shelves to fill. I think, soon we’ll really have a problem …''


ArtMind: ''I have a lot of stuff but I don't really collect anything franticly.What I've been buying lots of lately is yarn! :)''


SwiedeBie: ''I have the main CD-Rom back in 2004, and have a growing number of extension packs (which most are left in Singapore), these that I have now are the most commonly played ones by me. I am still investing in more extension packs for my Sim. As it may seem like a childish collection, but the total graphical simulations never fails to amaze child within any adult. As you can see my interest and love for designing, building, construction, manipulating and executing the way my Sims will want to live their lives. I will pass on this game knowledge to my daughter when she is older, oh well, of course I have to wait 9 more years for that... You never know...''


Kraplap: ''I am a real collector from almost everything, so it's a bit difficult to choose... But the most striking part to be seen in our house are the traditional costume prints that hang everywhere. The picture shows the wall along the stairs. It's part of my traditional costume collection on stamps, coins, postcards, and also books about ir, and costume parts like hats, skirts, jewelry etc....''


LaTouchables: ''I love to collect books and strange art objects--a skull from a cow (I think of it as art), a gold-leaf-painted box from Mexico, and this enameled silver and copper brooch from my old metalsmithing teacher. I love very few possessions, but the few I have are of significant sentimental weight. But I always keep in mind that I may lose them, and if so, I would be able to live without.''



Vadjutka: ''I „collect” two things – this means that if I have a chance I buy them, but I do not search them all the time.
-Glass! I love vintage and/or colorful glasses. I collected quite a few throughout the years. I store them on my bookshelf: most of them are from the flea market in Budapest, but I have a few from Japan and Macau.


-Jewelry! I love traditional folk art jewelry and I always buy something when I am abroad – and I also get them as gifts.
Ont he picture: Seed necklace from the Caribbean sea, Necklace made of African pressed beads (the pink one), Carved bone bead necklace with Buddhas from Tibet (in themiddle), Plastic necklace from Paris (black-orange one), Belt embellishment from Turkey (hanging on a string), Earrings from Tibet, Necklace from Afganistan (at the bottom).



IngerMaaike: ''I collect but one thing and that is life. Every day one day more in my collection of unique, happy, intriguing, exasperating, wonderful life.''



TortillaGirl: ''I collect many things but the one that I cherish the most is my rosary collection. I am a practicing Catholic and I pray the rosary so it has significance for me, but I also appreciate rosary beads for their handmade beauty which is why I am always on the lookout for a new rosary to add to my collection.''


RavenHill: ''My husband laughs at me as I am always collecting things. My present passion is threads of all kinds for embroidery. I am just dreaming of finding time to use them all!''


Vilte: ''I don't collect something on purpose, but when thinking about this subject I just had to admit I have a habit of collecting stones everywhere and bringing it home. If I am travelling somewhere or just going sight seeing, I usually pick up stones I like. We have found some bigger stones in the land we are building our house (1st and 4th photo), I also want to make a stone river on the land there. Our table with glass top is all filled with stones from Lithuanian and Italian coast lines (3d photo). And I have stones put in decorative vessels everywhere in our home (these are stones from Tuscany in Italy on the 2nd photo).!!''


Meltemsem: 'I recently started a bell collection, it started when I heard that bells bring luck. I try to buy an interesting bell in every country I go, for now there are 6 of them.'



Alatvian: "I collect almost nothing since I lost everything when our house burned down and I realized that I don't need most of the things I had collected. But it is difficult for me to throw away the school-reports, awards of my children and gifts made by them. So one may say I am collecting them. :D"


DeerLola: ''I'm not really the type to collect stuff (unless boots count ? ;) but was thinking of items we have in or around the house in high(er) numbers. That's when I realized, and quickly noticed sitting out on our terrace today, we are the only ones in our street with half a forest in our backyard. We don't have a lawn or a nicely landscaped garden, we have trees. Lots of them. We love them. They offer protection and shade and provide housing to the birds and numerous squirrels. Unfortunately, trees have become something of a rarity in our neighborhood since people prefer grass over trees. And that's okay. But we love trees. I once read somewhere that one mature tree produces as much oxygen in a season as 10 people inhale in a year… So there you go. We're very proud of our collection.''



Martice: ''I was thinking of things that I collect, and I actually think that I don't collect anything...BUT I have some things that are present in our house in more then average numbers. ;-)I can take a few things (partly) on my account. The green stuff on the balcony is very addictive... especially when you use your own seeds! And well, the yarns don't need any explanation. Then the books... this picture captures only a part of the collection... :S I dream of a in-house-library with library stairs etc etc etc... maybe one day? And last but not least: my pictures! I like to fill walls with pictures in different frames.''

Saturday, 23 May 2009

Little Sister: In the Fridge


I'm just back from groceries shopping, the mission impossible to fill the fridge. I'm quite satisfied as all the empty whiteness is gone for now, but in a day or two it will be empty again. Is it just us? Do we have some secret housemates who empty our fridge? We are just with the two of us and I have the feeling that I just keep feeding the fridge monster. How are people doing it with a bunch of kids, do they ever leave the Supermarkets?? To find out the answers of these questions, I would love to see your fridge and wondering if yours is an eating monster too!

Send me your fridge picture through Etsy's conversations or Email!

IngerMaaike, family of 5: 'Our fridge is but a small one and holds mostly milk butter and some jam, on occasion some other sandwich spread. In the bottom part a pile of fruit. Where most of our food is kept is in the huge freezer in the cellar. It came with the house and holds enough for a 2 weeks siege (or in case we get snowed in...). This year we hope to fill it with a large stock of fruit and some veg too that we will grow ourselves.We shop mostly once a week and sometimes in between if I have to deliver a package to the postoffice.'



Vadjutka: 'Small flat, small fridge :) But now it is full: because my family is coming for lunch…in an hour…so I’d better prepare something.'


Meltem's fridge: 'I usually go to the weekly Bazaar on Saturday's for my groceries. This week I'm a little late so the fridge is still a bit empty!'


Kreativlink: 'As usual, rather emtpy. Good stuff doesn't last long in this house. What stays are the "standards" and the things nobody wants :)'



Alatvian's fridge: "Our fridge is usually rather empty. Otherwise I would eat even more. :D It looks pretty messy, but there is not a tiny possibility to have more order in it because of the kids. :D" :


Dinafragola seems to found a tric to keep her fridge full, wondering what her secret is...



Sabahnur's fridge is empty but please note the doilies on the shelves, in Turkey doilies are very populair and it is loved to cover everything with them!