Creative extras
I hated these shoes in the picture and could not keep on being in them. I bought new ones, put the supporting paper material that was in them into the old shoes after a little handling and left them in a café.
A hot air balloon and me with two travelers.
A party bread cake
I baked four fish cakes when graduating from University.
The rest of my fish soup was fed to the bread that came along with the soup.
Once I had a very peculiar sweet potato and his friends in my fridge.
These little sweet rolls were fast and easy to make.
When I work as animator in Sweden I made an aeroplane cake on my birthday. This one took amazing 12 eggs.
Sewing
Sewing is what I do when time allows. Most of these I gave away to special people.
The rat is owned by the children in my sisters school class. I think London is one of the most wonderful cities in the world and I love the good old tube as well. In the evenings you can usually spot some fauna there.
The towels were made to a person I appreciate and love very much. Soon he'll get them!
The poems written on the towels are from the Finnish epic poem, Kalevala. These are their English translations:
The Beast grew beautifully Mielikki, forest mistress
came up to be most graceful- put this into words:
short his leg, buckled his knee "I would fashion claws for him
a chubby smooth-snout teeth too I would fetch
his head wide and his nose snub If he were to do no harm
his fur fair, luxuriant; and get up to no mischief."
but as yet he had no teeth
nor had his claws been fashioned.
This tiny puppet was improvised and not planned.
This is Albert in his actual size sitting in my kitchen and waiting for an armpit
surgery and some proper clothing.
My sumo wrestles were improvised and not planned. They just appeared to hang from my roof!
The bad has small pockets in his wings for memory cards and such. It was given to a British photographer.
The bear toy has sand in him to make him feel nice and heavy.
This coverlet took maybe 250 hours to sew tho I am not sure. But I enjoyed making of it, specially because the person who I made it for really deserves it! :-)
A detail of the coverlet above.
And naturally it was for my hero Mr. Stephen Fry:
Arnie the Armadillo
This last picture is of puppets I made together with a friend when we were somewhere between 14 and 15. All of them were characters from The Lord of the Rings. This was a wonderful way to spend most evenings and weekends and a very functioning way to spend the better part of my money.
