Anemoner

Jeg er begyndt at længes efter foråret! Derfor har jeg lavet et papir med anemoner. De har været noget af et arbejde, jeg skal have lavet et par skabeloner til æsker; men det er lige lovligt mørkt til at fotografere dem.

Anemones

I am rather tired of the winter! That is the reson for this. They have been a little complicated to draw, I am going to make some templates for boxes, but today it is too dark to take photos of the results.

Storm

Min far syntes altid,at Østersøen var en latterlig lille kop vand (han voksede op ved Vesterhavet); men nogengange er der nu rigeligt med bølger for mig, det er altid hundekoldt når vinden er i øst. Jeg vovede mig ikke ud, da vejret var koldest og bølgerne størst, jeg havde ikke rigtig lyst.

Storm

My father always said that the Baltic Sea was a ridicoulous litle cup of water (he grew up near the North Sea), but sometimes there is enough water for me: It gets terribly cold when the wind comes from east. I did not fell like going out when the wind was worst, so the photos are from the day after.

Fødselsdagskort med transparent forside

En kollega havde fødselsdag, normalt er det hende, som laver husets kort, hun laver nogle utroligt kønne kort af foldede teposer; men da det var hende som havde fødselsdag, blev det mig som skulle lave kortet.
Jeg syntes, at det ville være en sjov ide, at lave kort og æske som passede sammen.
Kortet er lavet af tynd printerkarton, den hvide firkant klippes ud, billede nr. 3 fra oven printes ud på transparent ark til overheads, klippes ud og limes på indersiden. Der er fire for at fylde arket ud.
Nederst er der skabelon til en æske, som passer til kortet.

Birthday card with transparent frontside

One of my colleges had birthday, I was asked to make a card and a box for the birthday present.
I thought, that it would be a nice idea, to make a box and a card with the same pattern.
The card is printed on thin card stock for printers. The white is cut out.
The transparent piece is printed on a transparent sheet for projectors, I made four, to fill out the sheet, cut out one and glue it unto the "backside of the frontside" of the card.
The printable template for the box is below.

Min mands nisse

Min mand døde for nogle år siden; Han medbragte denne sære nisse. Den har en historie: Min mand havde en onkel, som havde en ledende stilling i Crome og Goldsmidt, de havde en juleudstilling med "patriotiske nisser" i julen 1944. Min mand var da 1/2 år gammel, han fik denne nisse i julegave af onkelen.
Nissen var dengang udstyret med et gevær, det forsvandt; men ellers fulgte denne nisse ham gennem hele livet, og den var det første som blev sat frem før julen.
Den er jo ikke lige netop nogen skønhed, og noget ramponeret er den også blevet. Desuden ser den ikke udpræget rar ud, min søn tilstod for et par år siden, at han var bange for den hele sin barndom igennem; men den hører nu engang til.

My husbands "nisse"

My husband died some years ago; but he brought this strang thing into our marriage. It has a long history: My husband had an uncle who worked in one of copenhagens big department stores, in 1944 they had decorated with "patriotic nisser" a kind of "nissearmy", and my husband got this nisse as a Christmas present from the uncle when it was his first Christmas. It had a shotgun, but iit has desapeared many years ago. This nisse has followed my husband during his life, and it was the first decoration we put up every ear.
It certainly is no beauty, and rather worn out too, and it dosnt look too nice: my son, some years ago, told me that he was scared sick from it most of his childhood. But it does belong to christmas in this house.

Aurora

Det var som om der manglede noget lyst på mit juletræ, så jeg tegnede en sommerfugl til. Folk der har forstand på det, kan se at bagsiden er meget ukorrekt, men jeg hoppede over hvor gærdet er lavest.
Det er nemmest, at klippe forsiden lidt løst, og lime dem sammen for til sidst trimme dem lidt.

Orange tip butterfly

Something in a lighter colour was missing on my Christmas tree, so I drew this butterfly. The backside is not correct, It was too much work to draw it correctly.
It is easyest to cut the frontside a little "loosly", and trim the edges, when glued together.

flamingokugler

De er lavet for ca. 10 år siden. Jeg havde problemer med at få noget pænt juleagtigt stof, så jeg tog noget mørkeblåt lærred og malede på det med gutta til silkemaling, detvar en hurtig måde at løse problemet.

Polystyrene balls

They are made about 10 years ago, it was in fashion to make christmas ornaments this way. It was a problem to get some nice christmas fabric, so I tokk some dark blue fabric and painted some stars on it with silver paint for silk.
You take a ball of expanded polystyrene, cut some rather deep lines, cut some fabric in shape of the form between the lines (a little bigger), press the fabric down with a dinnerknife, wind some gold thread around following the lines and put a pushpin or a gold colloured roundheaded nail in top and bottom to hod the thread.