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Live on-line and in the air

Tomorrow night May 28 at 7pm EST Marichelle from Heart Handmade will be hosting a "Shop Live" event at Etsy's Virtual Labs. She has chosen to feature one of my products together with a range of goodies from other Etsy sellers that you can spot above. All shops featured have special sales tomorrow. I will offer free shipping during the whole day and -20% off all prints and cards. Join in and get the code to get -20% off one handmade item too! It will be 2 a.m. here when it starts, but I look forward to staying up late and seeing you there! Read everything about how this works over at Heart Handmade!

A reporter from the local radio station paid me a visit on Monday to interview me about my work, the interview is on-line, if anyone of you happen to speak Swedish and is curious to hear what I had to say! Nadine from the radio took this photo of me :) The last pic of me in my old glasses I hope, I just ordered a pair of new ones, yay!

And the winner is...

I should give away stuff more often! 183 comments, wow! I used my friend, the random number generator at random.org to help me find a winner and the lucky number is 80! That is pikku-kettu, who happens to be a fellow Finn, she is also a talented quilter! There is still a chance to win the book if you hop over to Victoria's blog (you need to check out her new dolls anyway, they are just awesome)! AND I am offering you all a -20% disount on one purchase (can be several items) from my shop. Shipping is not included in the discount.  Just enter the code 183 in the message to seller! Offer valid until Sunday night May 24th.

There will be another little sale in my shop soon! Marichelle from Heart Handmade will be hosting a "Shop Live" event at Etsy's Virtual Labs on May 28 7pm EST and she will feature one of my products! I will need a lot of coffee this day because that is 2 a.m. Finnish time... I have been wanting to check out one of these events so I am looking forward to it! Hope to see you there too! I will let you know the details next Friday!

This lovely picture was a nice surprise in the latest issue of home decorating magazine Koti ja Keittiö (Home and garden). There is my road cushion and a little soft house + a set of cupcake coasters on the table that you can't really see :) I owe the people at this mag, they are being so kind to my things! I will be making more of those road cushions as soon as my linen delivery arrives, I have been waiting for it over a month now!

Book give-away: Quilts, BABY!

I am very happy to announce that I have received a copy of this modern, innovative, and exciting baby quilt book to give away! It features this quilt design by me :) Meet some of the other wonderful artists: Laurraine, Malka, Victoria and Julie (her fab quilt is on the cover)!

All you need to do to be in the draw to win a signed copy of this book is to comment on this post and let me know which one of these art prints is your favourite. You will receive a print with the book if you're the lucky winner! Comments are open until Monday night Helsinki time!

Happy weekend everyone!

Mini quilt Monday

Inspired by our Mother's Day walk and Malka's mini quilt Monday project I started the week by making this little quilt. Lovisa is now taking a stroll in the Spring forest full of wood-anemones. The birches just got green, we call the small leaves "mice ears"! The little quilt is in the shop!

We had a very nice day yesterday, we packed some lunch and drove to Ruissalo, which is an Island right outside Turku, known for its wonderful nature and the amazing wooden villas from the beginning of  last century. They used to be Summer residences for wealthy people, but are now mostly owned by corporations.

I wish this veranda was mine... But I am also very happy that this area is open to the public and that the kids can ride their bikes really fast in this beautiful nature and historical miljeu.

More pictures in my flickr!

Interactive project stage 9/10

Hey folks there's only one more step to go on the interactive project! I'm going to miss this when it's over! This time Mr Random picked Anita's suggestion, she said: CAT - A cat with the feet hanging the line of clothing ... So here you are Anita, hope you like the little tiger I created! I added a little fishy too for all off you who suggested I would hang some fish on the line. Now please give me your suggestions for the last thing to add to the picture!

This girl seems to be quite eager to do the washing-up, poor kitty does not look content :)

 

Here comes the rules again!

I will:
1. wait until I have got (at least) ten suggestions for the next motive
2. draw one of them
3. do my best to do as you wish using fabric and thread (and buttons?)
4. go through 10 stages
5. draw a winner among all the people who has come with one of the ten first suggestions at any stage. This person will win the finished piece of art work. (before this I will most certainly get it scanned and printed so that everyone will have the chance to get a piece of the cake)

Feel free to join in! You can see the whole process in my flickr. Only one more step and we will have a finished piece of art!

And a few words about something else! I got a mail from Elina the other day, she wondered if I had seen this bag in Oma piha gardening magazine, so I ran off an bought myself an issue, the picture is huuge, thank you! These bags are available from Elina's web shop patio.fi only at the moment!