Della was invited for a kids birthday bash today and we decided to make some last minute gifts.
Glitter snow globes- it was great fun and they got really appriciated!
We just used old glas jars from pasta sauces, jam or whatever we found at home.
Then we looked for small toys she could think of giving away
(She didn’t fancy giving anything away
- oh I miss them already…)
Small plastic crap is great - like stuff you get in a Happy Meal or a Kinder egg.
Also good is using some tall stuff - then you see them better.
I glued them with super glue to the lid.
Now we didn’t have much time so we made them really basic - but next time I will try to
decorate the jars as well. (Like the bottom and top).
I’ve heard it should be good to put a drop of washing soap
(totally forgot the word for the soap you use when you do the dishes).
But the water became really bubbly - maybe it will disappear… I’ll have to see.
Note: Well I tried the dishwash soap that’s what made the air bubbles. But like you said in the comments - baby oil or Glycerin will do the trick of the flakes falling slower. And another tip is to glue the lid to the jar!
So I am very proud to present another addition to our Dos Family!
Say hello to lovely Frank!
I am sure Jenny will tell you more about him soon
-in the meantime you can follow him and the family on Jenny’s Sammy Rose blog.
They are such a great sweet family!
With both of us having newborns at home our blog time here at Dos has been a little cut back.
We want DosFamily to be great
and since all our features are made by us - we need time to make them.
So please have patience with us!
(Tomorrow I will try to post photos from my wedding)
So he finally made it out into the big world!
This is Beppe.
A 4 kg lovely poopmachine saw the light wednesday morning at 01.11!
More about it later - right now I need o get back o my bubble!
Have a great day
xx
As usual click the image above to start the slideshow. Or view images below.
Since me and Märta had so much fun making the “Halloween costume project“. We wanted to do one more kids-fashion-photo-shoot, before her internship at my house ends. Märta came up with the idea to do a vintage-limited-collection at my shop www.sammyrose.se. She went on a vintage scavenger hunt and I love the stuff she found.
The items are available at Sammyrose, for a limited time only.
Thank you Viola, Malte, Bruno and Irma for helping us model our collection.
All photos by Me, Jenny Brandt And Styling By Märta Hansson. As usual click the image above to start the slideshow. Or view images below.
Me and my lovely intern Märta are working on a new project. This time it is for my shop sammyrose. I can not tell you much at this point. Just show you this sneakpeak and tell you that we find our inspiration in Astrid Lindgren´s Madicken, Candy Canes (polkagrisar) and TV.
Me and Erik got married in february!
I found THE Dress in a vintageshop and it was a perfect match!
(And cost nothing - like 800 kr about 110 dollares or €75).
But the dress was full lenght and I wanted it to end at kneelenght so I cut it off.
It was just enough fabric left to make a little matching dress for Della.
And now I found some more fabric - just enough for a little tutu!
So I don’t like to spend to much money on clothes for Della since she can wear them for like 2 seconds so I tend to buy second hand clothes or from the big chains and then customize them a little.
So this fall I bought this jacket from H&M and fixed the collar, made a flower, put her name on it and some other small details!
I’m going through Dellas old baby clothes for the soon to be arrival of the new one!
And this fleceoverall is going to be great - just need to change the name.
I used fleece to cut out the name cause then i didn’t need to zigzag around it.
This is my overall from the 70’s. The zipper was used up - so I just changed it to press buttons.
And added some dots.
These sneakers was Dellas first pairs, also a cheap buy from H&M at the time.
New laces, a skull, some flower ribbons and another kind of ribbond around the top of the shoe.
Before della learned to walk:
Gene Simmons and Mexican Wrestlers that Jens made.
Put the tail on that monster
Paper dolls
Viola had three friends over today for a small Halloween party. They played, had ice cream and managed to put lots of tails on a monster. Jens decorated small chocolate covered cream cakes to look like Mexican wrestlers and helped the kids to make paper dolls of themselves.
Yesterday me and my intern Märta had so much fun. We made costumes for Viola and took some photos.
I love the way Märta creates. Her guidelines are: Use what you have, if you don´t have anything try to buy it vintage or have a look in your mothers closet.
Sure, you can buy a costume in half the time, but this is way more fun.
If you find one piece that you like you can build a character around that thing. And that happened a lot when we were planning. Märta had some cool headpieces and we created the characters around them. For example: the over-sized hat in one of the photos is really a basket from IKEA.
You don´t have to dress up into something with an existing title: like a ballerina or a lumberjack. You can combine the two, like we did, and get a lumberjackballerina!
The cat and the king are more traditional costumes and these are really easy to make:
The kings Crown is made out of leafs from the park. Märta folded them and stiched her way around it. The cape is an old sheep skin. You can attach ribbons to keep it shut or use safety-pins. It ads a little Lord of the ring-feeling to the king, I think.
A cat has to have a tail, ears and paws, so that is what she started with.
The ears are made out of fleece and cotton, attached to an old hair-band (Alice band).
She made the tail out of the same kind of fleece and stuffed it with cotton. It is easily attached to Violas pants with a safety pin.
For paws Märta went shopping at H&M, she found cheap black gloves and socks. And in Violas sock-collection at home she found one lonely pink sock. It was perfect for paw-pads. And OH so thrifty.
Then we started to look for black clothes in Violas closet and found a set of Long Johns, that worked out great.
The LumberJackballerina needed an oversized bow. Märta found an old skirt in her mothers closet and turned it into a cotton-stuffed bow. Fortunately Viola had an lumber jack shirt from Wallmart in her closet and it made a perfect match. Märta painted Violas eyebrows with eyeliner and used lipstick on her cheeks. The ballerina dress is made by Violas great-grandmother who made it for Violas grandmother when she was 4 years old and took ballet classes.
Red socks and Ruby red slippers completed the look.
Yesterday my lovely intern Märta started working for me. Many of you might remember the Dos Visit of her home and also the darling wardrobe/playroom that she made. She will be helping me for 8 weeks, with photography, blogging and with the shop, and I am sure we will have lots of fun.
Today we have been planing for a Halloween-costume-photo-shoot that we are doing tomorrow for Dos. I really wish that Isabelle´s daughter Della could join us but Isabelle and I live 7 hours away, so my daughter Viola will have to do all of the modeling tomorrow. Märta has made a lot of cool costumes and accessorizes that I hope will put you in a Halloween mood.
This is one thing that have been making me utterly happy these last days.
The little spiderman enemy hanging around.
I love the small crazy details Della introduce to our home.
Makes me smile and feel blessed!
It’s fun to see how we tend to think alike.
Many times I get an exellent ide to discover it in a book or a magazine the day after.
The small world and the ideas travel fast.
I guess we are all more connected and alike than we want or tend to think…
Anyway, a couple of years ago I rennovated my old dollhouse and now Della plays with it alot! It’s such a great way to rennovate a house without to much hustle!
New wallpaper, paint and flooring.
An old babydrawing of mine on the staircase.
I scanned a pillow from my sofa and printed out a copy for the wall.
Baby Della as a painting on the wall.
I guess Yoda drank too much yesterday, fell a sleep on the floor and threw the tellie upsidedown.
I have been meaning to decorate this bed for so long. And this morning Viola and I finally did. It is an old IKEA bed that I found on Blocket.se. Although it is not very exciting to look at it is very practical. As the child grows you can make it bigger.
With a little paint and some decorating I think it will do for a while.
My dad has been saving 4-5 boxes of stuff from my 70’s childhood. (What a hero)
Clothes, toys and books.
These are the latest contributions to Dellas room.
Everytime I give her some of my stuff I enter some small memory chambers I didn’t know existed.
I can so remeber fueling up the cars, taking the little people to the shoeschool and paying the store.
If someone of you still have some coins left but no maschine I would love to buy them.
It’s shorties b day today.
The left pic is from last year on her birthday the right from a couple of days ago.
So much happened and still so little.
Oh all he love I feel!
Yes, we are both knocked up again!
Dos Family is happily growing and so are we.
The morning sickness has kind of been taking the edge of our daily intention to blog.
(Who named it morning sickness anyway?
- It’s more like the rollercoaster-all-day-never-ending-long-sickness…)
But soon we will be back again.
With a vengeance and more kids!
So we went to my mother in laws friend Ann.
She has a truly amazing garden and in a corner stands this old birch beauty.
Apparently it was this old man forcing the whole neigbourhood to buy them back in the days.
I have to make one my self.
The head nods, all the hair is made of scrubbing brush hair and the small details are great.
Della became an instant fan.
So I spend most of my time in the country. Doing nothing - not even my internet conection is working. I had lovely visit from my Belgian friends Lisbeth, Bartje en their kids. In the pictures they are exploring swedish waters. Daddy Bart and Pernilla looks like Po and Lala. Soon I will be heading up north and hopefully catch some more houses, flea markets and sweet Dalar vibes!
Isabelle , I don´t know if I have told you about a friend of mine called Märta? Well actually it´s a friend of my sisters, but anyway. I have featured her here a lot. First in her own apartment, then in her Mothers house. And today I will do another post on her stuff. You see she is very talented, and I wanted to show you her latest project.
She took an ordinary closet in her mothers house and turned it in to a small hide out for her niece Selma. A little nest. “It was all very simple and thrifty” she tells me. Since she liked the color she did not repaint.
For the bottom shelf she bought an old mattress at a flea market and made a new cover for it. This makes a nice seating place . She used the stuffing out of old pillows to make the cloud-like cushions.
The squares of grass are from Rusta , she bought them for the floor and stars that glow in the dark for the ceiling. But when she realized that the grass wasn’t very nice to walk on she flipped the sky and the ground. And hung the grass above and the stars below.
To the left on the wall in the first picture you can see a window-like square. Märta wanted to enhance the feeling of it being a window so she stapled a fabric with a forest print to it.
On the opposite side of the closet she painted an alphabet. On all of the letters she glued a small dot of Velcro (kardborreband). And on that dot you can stick small pictures, with Velcro on the back, that Märta has illustrated herself. She has started to sell this product. Made to order. Contact me or comment to get in touch with her.
On the inside of the door Märta painted swallows on a wire and Madicken flying from the roof top. And she hung some more Velcro illustrations on the wall.
My daughter Viola came along for the shoot.
“Room for grandkids and other rugrats”. Thank you Märta for having us over.
I’ve been hunting for a kind of drawing desk for Della.
Now I found this dessing table - it has a mirror that I just havn’t put on yet.
It’s great cause she can store paperrolls in the little compartment at the back.
I’m ging to paint it and fix it a little.
Chalkboard paint like her old table - it will be great! I’ll show the result soon.
Funny I just wanted to post this about our latest blog battle and then Jenny just been in here doing the same!
I finished 2 of 3 things. I made a little hideawayplace unde dellas bed with windows.
She loved it! Slept there directly last night when she saw it - great!
Great when its not only me who likes it but also she… I mean its her room…
Then the hoop. I just turned the back to the front and put on some stickers. No more logos!
I also wanted to make a kind of tree at the left side of the bed but I think I changed my mind…
She loves emmehemme (Emmet & Henry) - very cool boys to look up to!
Maybe she going to be a tatoo artist - who knows.
Springy legs and a addiction to band aids…
Todays outfit.
So young and she allready understands the beauty of a TV-dinner!
Other peoples kids ain’t that funny but I just can’t help myself.
I love Skansen.
Such a beautiful place!
Each time and at each age it seems like I find something new that I enjoy.
It was the first time I found the old Konsum store and got lucky cause it was open.
I think I scholuld try to build a Kåta at our summerhouse.
Like Jenny, I love the quirky little things scattered around my house that belong to my daughter.
I even think, sometimes, that I enjoy them more than her - at least the look of them. Like I don’t love them as much when I stumble on them or get a little piece of lego stuck in my toes…
But most of course I love my little Della - here she thinks she is trying our new bed of nails (thanks motherinlaw!).
And I just can’t bring my self to put my weddingdress in the closet - just watching it hang there is like prolounging the honeymoon.
I’m so tired today so thanks God its Friday! In my kitchen I made a walls of different tiles which after 3 years still makes me happy.
Dos Family made this playroom at Design Passion 2009.
Design Passion is a 2500 square meter large design exhibition at Stureplan, Stockholm.
Open from 18 april until august 30th 2009.
Birger Jarlsgatan 18/Grev Turegatan 3
Dos Family made this playroom at Design Passion 2009.
Design Passion is a 2500 square meter large design exhibition at Stureplan, Stockholm.
Open from 18 april until may 30th.
Birger Jarlsgatan 18/Grev Turegatan 3
Dellas first bed was like a giant rabbit or a Finish mumin if you like.
I loved making that bed!
Then she grow bigger and this is what her room it looks like at the moment.
Added some paint and bought an old Ikea bed with a slide.
Still need to fix the little hiding space and some storage underneath.
