end-of-semester-stress

In Swedish semester means holiday/vacation and in English it’s a schoolterm. It’s the English meaning I’m referring to here. I’m looking forward to haveing a little bit of vacation soon. School is crazy at the end of every term – and that’s why I haven’t been writing for a while. I have been creating though! ;P
   As I mentioned before it’s been a month full of celebrations and I have one more home made card to show you!

This is the birthday card I made for a little guy called Sebastian who turned 1 year in the beginning of May.
It plainly says “1 year”.

This is not all I’ve been doing though! I haven’t had time to to as much as I have wanted. But I have managed to make the four last images for the ceramic project with Ulrika. *Yay* I have also managed to promise a friend to attend a LARP night this summer and make the clothes needed for him – as I at the same time got the inspiration for a new outfit for myself (I already had a great few). I thought it best to start right away with my own outfit since it would probably take much longer – since it’s a kind of corset I’m making… XD

This is a pattern for a Elizabethan corset that I’m modifying to look more Rococo/Baroque. I got the basic pattern at a most formidable site called Elizabethan Costuming Page. I have made a corset almost like the one I’m making now loooong time ago, and it looks something like this:

Gosh, that is an old photograph of me, hehe ^^;
   I’ve also made some sketches, taken some photos, made some jewellry and finishes some unfinishes stuff. More on that later during the day! Check back in!

/Mia

gift times

GAAAAH! I wrote a whole post and then something happend when I was saving it and it disappeared (not – it’s not in my drafts!)
Anyways – I was talking about that I’ve been making some gift cards and stuff. Since it’s spring there’s a lot of birthdays and baptisms (in Sweden the norm is having your infant baptised). The last month has been a really dry period for me when it comes to money, haha ^^;
   Aaanyways – I promised you some pics of what I’ve made and here they come!

This first photo is a birthday card I made for a friend. I tried to match the colors with the gift and what colors I associate with her.
It says: “Congratulations Angelica 26 years”

This second and third photo is of a baptism gift for a little guy called Sixten. I tried to make it look gender neutral, not because I’m a constructivist (I don’t know what I am) – but because I didn’t know how the parents felt in the matter. In the reception everything was blue though, hehe.

Detail

/Mia