Back from Sweden with lots of finds

I´m back from a wonderful weekend getaway

in Sweden. Sunny and warm.

Good company with friends and lots

of flea markets.

What more could you ever wish for.

This is the little cottage we stay in. Our friends cottage in 

the little town Lindshammar, just across the border to Småland.

I was aiming for some flea markets 

and did find a few.

This place is an old farm with stuff in 5 buildings.

I have been here before - it´s a good place

even though the prices had gone up since last time

I didn´t manage to take photo the other place.

One was a little flea in a garage at an old ladies house

and one was in the middle of nowhere, in the forest.

A really strange place with a really strange owner.

Lets just say, I was happy we were 4 of us - lol

I had never ever seen anything like that, but digging in,

I found some really great stuff.

I´m going to show you my finds

from this trip.

I´m really  really pleased 

lots of old magasines from the forties.

Aren´t those front pages cute.

some old cashier books and a well worn album

two old photo albums - leather ones.

one is filled with old swedish postcards

some pretty teacups for the bears

silverware and vintage tins

a bunch of vintage letters with pretty writing.

a box with lots of vintage pen nibs

pretty vintage linen

and a bag full of vintage curtain clips.

I´m very happy - can you tell :-)

A lot of this will go in the shop

so if you´re interested, keep an eye out.

As soon as the weather will allow

I´ll take photos and list.

I hope you´ll

all have a beautiful day

my friends

Tina ♥♥♥

Off to Sweden

this is just a short post

I´ve spend 3 days fighting a nasty bug

on my computer and my website.

Everything is fine now.

Would rather spend my time sewing though.

anyway

here´s a few pics from Venice

I love those wall ikons

You see them everywhere in Italy.

So beautiful

It´s holiday over here today

and bankholiday tomorrow

so I have a nice 4 days weekend ahead of me.

I´m off to Sweden with my husband

and some good friends.

Aiming for lots of Swedish 'Loppis'

Wishing you all a beautiful weekend.

Tina ♥♥♥

New Bears and a Virus

Finding out that I have a virus on my

website 1/2 an hour before update with new bears

is NOT good - uurrrgghh 

The website will be taken down very soon and 

hopefully fixed very soon too.

In the meantime

I do have new bears available today

Alfred - 4.5 inch

Ellen - 3.5 inch

Lixue - 4.5 inch

Vincente - 4.5 inch

The bears are available

on my studio shop instead.

Go here

No virus on that site

it´s all safe

Thanks for visiting

Tina ♥

Venice Part II and {bear} sneak peek

Venice is also

narrow streets

canals

beautiful old doors

and pretty flower

mood pictures from my trip

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New bears tomorrow

Here´s a little sneak peek

I´ll send out information through

my mailing list

It´s a beautiufl sunny day here today

and the weather report is great for the weekend.

cross our fingers the spring have arrived now.

it was still night frost last night.

Wishing you all a beautiful day

Tina ♥♥♥

Venice and That Book Shop

I´m back home

from a wonderful trip to Venice, Italy

We arrived on a rainy day

but that didn´t really mattter.

Everything is SO beautiful in Venice.

here´s the view from our window at the hotel.

The next day was sunny and warm

and we started to stroll the city 

I wanted to show you my visit to THAT bookshop

on the first day.

Those of you, who have taken the 'Ticket to Venice' class with MAM

know which one I´m talking about

The most beautiful book shop in venice

That´s what the sign says.

there were so much stuff to look at.

sorry for the blur on this pic., but I had

to show you the gondola and the decoration inside the shop.

it - is - so - fab.....

books everywhere

even a staircase made of books.

If you climb up here, there´s a 

wonderful view to the canal behind the shop.

I didn´t had time to go through all the books

Would have loved that though.

Bought a few cards for memories

and my travel journal.

Venice Part 1

more to come....

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Miss Venice

but Happy to be back..

Have a beautiful day my friends

Tina ♥♥♥

Vacation time

It´s almost time

Early tomorrow morning

I´ll lbe out of the studio for a weeks vacation in Venice, Italy

{travel books}

If the WiFi works at the hotel

I´ll blog from there

{embroidery for a quiet time}

otherwise it´ll have to

wait till I get back home

{travel journal suppliers}

Weather forecast says 

sunny with some cloud and 68 - 70 degrees.

That´ll work :-)

probably with some rain in between but that´s okay too.

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New bears are planned  to appear

on my website on May 4th.

make sure to sign up on my

mailing list to receive information

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Wishing you all a wonderful week

Tina ♥♥♥

My {travel} Journal for Venice

I´m going to Venice

and this time it´s not a class

it´s for real

In one week, on April 22th I´m flying in

for the Marco Polo Airport and will be spending

one week in beautiful Venice.

I´ve never been there before so I´m looking very much 

forward to this trip.

I´ve made myself a travel journal for this trip.

Gathering paper for the pages.

The blue book cover with the pretty flowers

you can see in the right hand upper corner in this

photo is going to be the cover for my journal

preparing the signatures

sewing the spine.

I´ve used some of my book cloth tape

and some pretty matching waxed thread

I´ve also sewed in some pockets to store stuff

made from pretty overlays.

Here´s a look at the pages inside.

different sizes

and pages made from my vintage photo albums 

Here´s the finished look

This is the first time I´m going to bring a 

travel journal like this.

Can´t wait to start using it.

Still need to decide what to take with me

as journaling suppliers.

Looks like spring is on it´s way over here.

Finally.

Have a beautiful day my friends

Tina ♥♥♥