....along with some homemade mince pies and jam tarts in preparation for Christmas (to look the part of both a domestic goddess and new Mum...if he/she ever decides to come out!). Left cooling on my gorgeous new purchases from Skandi print company New House Textiles - Golden Orchard pot stand and Red Fox chopping board.
Documenting the train journey from Boras to Stockholm......the magic of the early morning mist slowly disappearing and revealing the Swedish countryside racing past us.
Documenting the textile museum in Boras, Sweden through my eyes and the SLR> a room full of machinery and yarn and fabric and collections and pattern and colour and labels and graphics.
Street shots of fabrics hung in windows around Stockholm - graphic, quirky, geometric, floral, repeated, printed, embroidered, monochrome or multicoloured....contrasting against worn and textural brick, wood and plaster.
Loved the Story Hotel in Stockholm, very creative and cool and definitely the place to be seen for a cocktail or two in the evenings....but the breakfast was my favourite time with hand-painted plates, mismatched egg cups, logo mugs and cereals in embossed coloured glass goblets (very Marimekko). Also very cool is the mirrored lift, spray-painted coat hanger, wooden door headboard, decorative wash basin and patterned tile floors (and the gorgeous Kiehl's toiletries!).
Out and about on the streets of Stockholm: quirky hand-cut borders, black&white photographs, pressed and punched metal, letraset numbers, trompe l'oeil graphics, entwined floral borders, hybrid tin forms, stylised tapestry patterns, painter+decorator frames, silk-screen and digital, overlaid and sprayed colour, photoreal prints, cut-out silhouettes.
So I still have more stories from Sweden, I realise that it was a much more inspiring trip than I first thought! I fell in love with the crazy and kitsch ceramic figurines at the Story Hotel where I was staying - the way they presented them was so modern and cool, and then I started to see them everywhere! 