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MERRY CHRISTMAS! GOD JUL!

winter greetings to you from northern Sweden! xxx

Morning joy

Isn't it funny how we (well me at least!) so easily tend to do anything else than what we should really be doing... 

Well, I got up early, with the intention of finishing off some editing of pictures and getting them sent of to the printers.

But, I've spent the last hour reading blogs wrapped up in a warm blanket. 

I just want to have a cozy day. 

I've got a whole load of blogs that I read regularly, some of them more than others. One of my favourites is Drömma Lotta,  I am a bit in love with her. She has got a shop in Gothenburg selling vintage dresses, jewellery etc. She writes about her shop but also about her life as a single mum with 4 kids, love, poetry etc. Her writing is lovely. Check her out here. (only in Swedish)

I am impressed with bloggers that constantly update their blogs and keep readers informed with images and text. Well done you all! I am truly amazed of how many creative fantastic people there are out there that publish for us all to follow their processes, of whatever it may be. 

So, anyway, I shall boil some more water, make another cup of tea, and perhaps do a bit of work.

Tally ho.

x

Some more

Photography and design Copyright Sara Norling

Photos for 'Bespoke'

Working on some images for this weekends showcase to go on the wall behind our stand. What do you think?

Bespoke Design Showcase

This weekend, 6-7 Dec, Three Little Birds will be part of the Bespoke design showcase again, it is our second time doing it. It is held in the Princess Hall at the Corn Exchange in Rochester. We will be promoting and selling our fascinator hats, and will also promote and send people on to the Nucleus shop, where we will sell all our other bits. We will be running in between the two trying to get people to spend their Christmas money on us :)
Maybe see you there!?

xxx

Shoot at Fieldstaff Antiques

Jane at Fieldstaff Antiques is a great woman, and as a return favour for letting us sell stuff in her shop, I did some photos for her website. Zara is modeling their coats.

Our own shop!

Wow wow wow..!

We are a whole bunch of creative lunatics that have been fortunate enough to be able to make use of an empty shop-space for a couple of months.

The last 4 days have been spent in the shop painting painting painting painting, phew... how many coats can it really need??... It's been going from dirty patchy stained yellowy walls with green worndown door/window frames and banisters, and dark brown and green terribly stained and damp carpet tiles.. TO; white white white walls! white ceilings, white bannisters, frames, stairs... And grey painted floor plus charcoal grey carpet (where floor quality was too poor to paint). Oh wow how different it looks!

This space will be used as a shop/gallery and local artists/makers/designers/musicians etc (including myself) will be exhibiting and selling our work in there, starting from this coming saturday!! Wooo! It has all happened really quickly, in one week it has gone from finding out and being given the opportunity to having 25 artists involved and many many many dirty hands working hard to make it happen!

I am really excited about this opportunity. I will be able to sell my crafty bits, such as sewn and crocheted pieces but also my photography.
AND, I will be having a studio space upstairs!
This building is 4 floors high so plenty of space to make creative work in!
And we are planning on making use of it by introducing live music, poetry nights, movie nights etc...

I will be in my studio space as much as possible working to promote my own photography but will also sew away on my pretty Singer in there and am also planning some other things in there...... but will keep you posted on that, as things need to fall in place before it can happen. One step at a time..!

But anyway, am really excited, and been down the shop most part of this week to help out, and a fantastic group of people been doing the same thing, I love to see people so enthusiastic and involved, everyone helping out as much they can to make it all happen, for all of us.

Below are a couple of pics of work in progress, taken on monday, first bit of work, only a few hour in between the shots but already you can see quite a difference.
Will post more pics after the weekend, when it is all brand spanking beautiful!

xxx

I like

Fieldstaff Antiques

in Rochester High Street are now stocking some of our Three Little Bird stuff! Pop in if you are nearby, the shop is a fantastic antique shop with loads and loads of fantastic jewellery, clothes, photographs, post cards, books, old tins, suitcases etc etc!

Special treat for you

A little sneaky one to give you an idea of what I did yesterday!... Hope you like :)

(copyright; me)

Hello November

Welcome you new month. Your first day is so wet. I went out and took some quick shots for tomorrow's shoot. Change of location. Hope you'll bring some November sun tomorrow. 

x

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Listening to

Fatboy's new record

More info here

Newsletter

I created this banner today to go out with a business e -newsletter. Also wrote a few paragraphs about what we do, and our new TEAPARTIES! yay, contact me if you want to know more!

sneak preview

My weekend was spent with my lovely friend E and yesterday we did a little shoot, 

here she is modeling one of my hats. Thanks E for a nice weekend! x

Cake girl

came home with me the other week. Couldn't resist her. Think she will be holding small small flowers in the spring! 

I am in love with Elisabeth Dunker and Camilla Engman and their work, and now their joint Studio Violet has got a new website and a shop! Fantastic bombastic!!

xx

Nice

I love the color and simplicity in this dress from Monki
Their website is supercute with supercute illustrations. And, they are opening a shop back home in my hometown, wooo!
If you want to know the story of Monkiworld go here

On my christmas wish list

Calendar for 2009 by very talented Swedish illustrator Camilla Engman
Buy it for me here :)

For rainy days

Bono Mugs by Catharina Kippel for Design House Stockholm

A postcard from Finland

arrived yesterday. I like it alot and I can't quite decide if it should live with the spice people or the matryoschka and the musicians...

Thank you V, A and pikku A! 

Shoot

A reminder for you who haven't read on our Three Little Bird blog - On October 19th we are doing a photoshoot to promote our fascinator's, bags, badges, brosches..... etc. If you'd like to be a model, or want to assist with clothes, styling, make up... Please let us know. No money involved but a fun day!
Short brief; Vintage themed tea party.

:)

Love! x

KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON

I bought a reproduction of this poster yesterday. It's been around for a while and I wasn't planning to get one, but I just love the message behind it and the graphic simplicity with its striking colors.

Stuart and Mary Manley owns a secondhand bookshop called Barter Books in Northumberland. One day a customer brought in a box with old books and in that box was this old poster. Stuart and Mary framed the poster and put it next to their till. It became very popular with customers so they decided to reprint it and sell. By doing so they started an international craze.
You see this message printed on clothes, bags, different color posters etc, all over the world!

If you want to get one, go to Barter Books and get one straight from Stuart and Mary, it's printed from the original in the original red/white colors and it comes at a bargain £3.60. 

For the history of the poster, which is great, go here.

x

I want

a ginger cat and a Jack Russell terrier. Pleeeease.

Inspiring flat

These are some pics from a friends flat in Stockholm, I love the way it is all laid out and the quirky little details. How about using a kitchen cupboard for your books!

© one little bird

Pippi på Pippi

är vi i Sverige

On the road

Hat modeled by Sofia in Stockholm, Sweden

Some other bits

that I've made recently. Many more to come. More hats to be photographed. 

x

Here they are!

You can get one in either 'Blue Hibiscus', 'Green Hibiscus' or 'Rosa Yellow'. All lined in chocolate brown cotton fabric. 

You know you want one! 

Send me a message and we'll sort it for you. xx

Oilcloth Joy

I told you before about the fantastic oilcloths I saw in Amsterdam. Well today some Mexican flowery oilcloth arrived in the post,(weeeee!). I have made 5 make up bags tonight. They are oh so pretty! Pictures will come shortly! 

x

Photo journey

'On June 18, 1968, Paul Fusco, then a photographer for Look Magazine, was a passenger aboard the train carrying Robert F. Kennedy's coffin between New York City and Washington DC. '

A pretty fantastic document

(Photo copyright Paul Fusco, Magnum)

Hat lady

This is how great you can look with one of our hats on! I made this fascinator for artist Jane Pitt to go with her show-outfit for her 'Wunderkammer' experience in London last weekend, as part of London Festival of Architecture, see here

For more on Jane see her website.

(Photo by Jane Pitt)

Organized Creativity

Sarah Neuburger aka The Small Object has got the loveliest little stamp kits and other little lovely small things. I saw this about a year ago on her site, and only just remembered it again. 

A crafty organization card, that will keep your projects on track - what a great idea. Rather than having them shipped all the way from the US to little me, I will keep my carbon footprints low and make my own ones, inspired by hers,  using recycled scrap papers - hopefully it will all get my creative life a wee bit in control. 

(Photo by The Small Object)

Blue shoes

Got some new shoes. You like them?