I'm back...

I 've finally taken the time to sit down and do a blogpost. After suggestions from all of my two followers, to update the blog, I felt I really should make the effort. Actually I love my blog, it's just that time FLIES...and there are more important things in the pipeline THE WHOLETIME. But I'm going to try and blog everyday now (please don't hold me to it...).
Yesterday evening, after my drawing class, I stopped outside the shop window where I work as I left to go to the car, and took some photos of my latest window displays. I love doing the windows at Gredelin, Especially when I have a theme, whether it be colour, style, season or technique.
One window is Autumn. I chose colours appropriately and some apples, checked and striped "country" fabrics, and lots of real leaves and rose-hips which I picked from the little wood opposite my house.

The other window is in stone colours and navy blue. The inspiration came from a little photo sent to me by my niece in England - it's a picture of her husband collecting shells on the beach with their two little girls, Ceski and Alyx. I did a scrapbooking page using one of the new papers we have in the shop with a map on, the colours went really well with the girls' pale pink fleeces. Then I distressed around the outside, mounted the map paper on a navy blue cardstock, and started to decorate it. I still have shells which my kiddies collected during our many English seaside holidays when they were little. Beautiful blue mussel shells and little pieces of broken china, washed overboard from ships and bufferted by the sea to be made smooth and shabby. Perfect for glueing onto the layout. Then I stamped into some pieces of Cernite clay which I had flattened to look like pebbles and cloured them with watercolour paint once they were baked.
Cut out the letters "Shell collectors" in Swedish and glued them on.
The rest of the window is full of powdered pigments, tissue paper and scrapbooking papers from Bo Bunny in wonderful grungey patterns...