Advent calender

I bought a lovely traditional German advent calender from the Battersea car boot last month, where each day you push a new character into the picture. However, I didn't realise at the time that it actually starts on the 6th of December, which is celebrated as St Nicholas Day in Germany. So finally I have been able to start the calender today so it really feels like Christmas now!

I've also been busy making Christmas cards at the moment, I have a bit of a graphic look going on inspired by some mirrored card I bought in the art shop at Chelsea college when I was there for a project last week. Only 30 more cards to go ; ) it seems a bit crazy making them when there are thousands of styles in the shops, but everyone always comments on how nice it is to receive them and I like to create something unique and handmade.

Documenting textiles

Documenting the textile museum in Boras, Sweden through my eyes and the SLR> a room full of machinery and yarn and fabric and collections and pattern and colour and labels and graphics.

Hundreds and thousands

Simple but beautiful. Seen at the RCA work in progress show today, by Steven Emmanuel.

Vintage knit patterns

Possibly more retro than vintage (and great for the 80s comeback!), I found a huge bag of knit patterns in my Mums cupboard as we were searching for the instruction book to her old sewing machine (that I'm hoping will become mine). I love the styling, the folds and creases, the yarn shop stamps and the titles, particularly for the baby - 'warm-as-toast baby', 'lovely & lacy baby', 'high-fashion baby'.

I also loved the fact that as we went through the patterns, my Mum commented..."oh yes I remember you in that one, I have that one still in the wardrobe, this one your brother wore after it was passed down from you....." It would be great to get them all out and do a photo shoot alongside the original patterns.

Patterned windows

Street shots of fabrics hung in windows around Stockholm - graphic, quirky, geometric, floral, repeated, printed, embroidered, monochrome or multicoloured....contrasting against worn and textural brick, wood and plaster.

Between Coming and Going

A little plug for my talented friend Andy Parker who currently has an exhibition called Between Coming and Going at the Light&Wire gallery in LA. Andy sent photographic stickers of various stages of his working progress from his London studio to LA, where the directors of the gallery stuck them to impermanent, discarded objects around the city and photographed them. 'It is this documentation that creates the exhibition; the artwork itself exists only as a temporary, physical gesture'. (Images from the gallery website)

Home still life

Trying to capture fabrics, textures, light and depth at my parents house at the weekend.