So we move on. Constantly.

Things were a mess for quite a long time. I never imagined the road back to normal would be so bumpy and long. This blog, used to be home for a lot of good ideas and my own little corner of the great wide web. I kind of miss that. Blogging was so unpretentious and relaxed and fun and inspiring. I miss that too!
I decided quite some time ago that I was going to quit blogging for the magazine because staying to long in the same place always kills my creativity. Finally I got around writing that e-mail saying I wanted to quit. So now I'm here.

I will use this space to share whatever happens to be on my mind or in front of my eyes.
It won't be like before, because there is no such thing as a constant. Everything is moving. Always.

This is an image of an artwork by artist Ayan Farah. A projection of light that resembles the sun shining through two windows. I saw something similar to this at Malmö Konsthall once. There is always a possibility to create a little sunshine where there is none.

The art of holding things together.

It seems so easy sometimes. This little life of mine. Just tap the dots and act professional.
Thank you Miranda. Again - you are a life saver.
(Does anyone follow blogs anymore?)

I'm ok

Dear Friends, I'm posting to let you know that I'm ok and to say thank you for your support and your kind words. The last months has been a struggle in many ways but I'm happy to say I'm more or less through now. I haven't decided what will happen to this blog yet, but what I can say is that my focus in life has kind of shifted. So this blog will rest a little more while I'm catching breath.

Illustration by Yumi Sakugawa

The truth is.

Dear readers, friends and followers. I feel it's time I share this with you. I usually don't post things that are this personal since this is more a "blog-of-nice-stuff" than it is a blog about me.

The thing is, that for the second time in my life, the evil little bastard called cancer moved in to my body. I'm furious, frustrated and very sad. I thought I had done my round but suddenly he is back. Not as ugly as last time perhaps, but ugly enough

The good news are that it was detected at a very early stage and the doctors tell me that all the evil stuff was removed with the surgery I had. I will be undergoing chemo therapy for the months to come though, to make sure that awful son-of-a-bitch doesn't move back in. Therefore, this blog will be silent for a while.

Meanwhile I will be spending time with the ones I love and find ways to cure both body and soul.

I thank you all for stopping by and I hope to be back soon!

Image from here

Isn't it strange

When life is tough, people you've known for most (or all!) of your life strangely disappears. At the same time, people you've never met before turns up from nowhere to give you strenght and help you out.

Today we had a really awful day. Suddenly the doorbell rang and outside our door was this wonderful person with three books he wanted to give to my husband. Just to cheer him up. We've never met before.

Thank you so much! You saved our day, Egill!!

Today

Sometimes life hits you in the face big time. So today, when I have no words, I borrow from Isak Dinesen aka Karen Blixen. I won't be posting for a while, but I'll be back. I just need to be close to my salt water for a while. Love to all of you.
// Emma

Tourists at home and roof top drama

Sometimes when you have friends staying at your place you rediscover your own city and remember why you love it so much. Thank you Hanna, Robert and little Lee for two amazing days!
We woke up after the Nørrebro Distortion festival night and discovered a guy sleeping on the roof of the building facing our appartment. He kept rolling closer and closer to the edge (you can see his arm like a little bump on the bottom pic) and us shouting and whisteling was no way near enough to wake him. We ended up calling the police who came and woke the tired man up. I hope he didn't get into touble because of us, but it was just too scary to watch and not do anything.

Jag älskar min mamma!

Jag älskar dig mamma, du är bäst!
Happy mother's day mom. I love you. You are the best!

Collage by SCHELTENS & ABBENES

No nails

I often wish I was better at building stuff. I come up with all sorts of amazing designs, amazing in my head at least since my knowledge in carpentery is next to none. My father is a very skilled carpenter and I've kept some of the drawings I made of stuff I wanted him to build for me when I was a kid. Like the one of a candy kiosk for example. I had written down that the shelves in the kiosk were supposed to be 1 centimeter wide...(!) Very useful information for my dad I guess!
This invention above could certainly be something for me. Developed by israeli design lab Dag these little thingies were made to join all sorts of things in your house, even for building shelves!

Found via Shoebox dwelling

Afraid to tell you how stupid I am, Lotta.

I recieved a gift in the mail a couple of days ago. A really really beautiful print by Lotta Olsson. I had been planning to take a photo of it today and post it here. I laid it out on the floor and put some candleholders in it's corners so that it would lay flat. I only had three of them so i reached towards the sofatable to get hold of a... a... a... Coffeacup!!! How incredible idiotic and totally mindless was that!! I had to call my husband and shed a little tear over my clumsyness. So, no photo of the much appreciated gift, but an image from Lotta's website once again. Thank you so much Lotta, I seriously love your prints, and I'm sorry that I'm such a clumsy dumbass. I'm still going to frame it, but I think you would prefer me to show an image without stains, so that's what I'll do.

Thank you thank you thank you!!

Thank you so much to everyone who has left me London tips, I'm feeling so excited about this trip now! You are the sweetest!
I have a feeling that the upcoming weeks I won't be the most frequent blogger, since I started a new job last week. It's at a small book publishing company and I'm very happy about it, since I always dreamt about designing books for a living. Jubii!! But, you know what it's like when you start a new job, it can be quite exhausting. If it's quiet here, you can always pop by my other blog @ Elle interiör, that one is updated at least a couple of times a week.

The London trip is this upcoming weekend and one thing I will be sure to do is to have Afternoon tea at some really nice place. Teapot above is by Ettore Sottsass. Like a building almost.

London - I want your best tips!

 

We are going to London for a few days in the middle of february to visit Simon's sister and her fiance! I've been to London a few times but I never really fell in love. I am absolutely sure that this is because I haven't been to the right places! I'm sure our hosts have tons of great tips, but I thought I'd ask you too! So... I'm interested in everything; Museums, restaurants, current exhibitions, shopping, nice areas, cafés, clubs... everything! Fire away!

Oui oui oui!!

Look what I found in my mailbox the other day! This great tote made by Mette that I won in her secret birthday lottery last week! Lucky lucky me! Thank you so much Mette <3

Sorry for the mess...

Puha! I'm trying to change the layout of the blog. It looks terrible right now, but I wanted to be able to show larger images. I'm trying to fix it :)

Two-thousand-and-heaven!

We bought ourselves a new camera. I've always considered myself a pretty lousy photographer but 2011 (or twothousandheaven, as my best friend calls it) is the year of learning new things. Besides learning to play the ukelele I also hope to become better at taking pictures.

Happy New Year!!!

I wish you all a very very happy new year! Thank you for following, it means a lot to me, and I hope you will continue to swing by every now and then in the upcoming year! 2011 will be a beautiful, wonderful, fantastic year!

Image from Confetti System

Things I liked in 2010

Since 2010 is almost over and I know 2011 will be great! I just know it! For me the past year has been very varied and a little bit strange but in the end, it came out just fine. This blog has grown a lot in the past year and I'm so happy for all the interesting and inspiering people I've met through this blog! Thank you so much!! You are great! I've picked out a few things (one for each month) that inspiered me this year, the link is within the image, like a little recap of 2010.

January - Move in with me!

February - A gift from mom

 
March - Just perfect

April - Faye Toogood

May - C'est la vie oh la la

June- Bagggggs

 July - It's so hot in Copenhagen

 August (in august i didn't post anything because I was on vacation and got married ;))

 September - A house in Norway

October

November - Make faces

December - To live with less

News news news!

I've started to blog for swedish ELLE Decor! This blog will be focusing on smart small space soloutions and inspiration for those of us who live with few m². The blog is in swedish with a summary in english so I hope some of you will follow me over there. 50 danska kvadrat will stay here, and continue as usual :) Looking forward to seeing you over at Elle's!
Follow the link here: http://vinklar.elleinterior.se/

So long for a little week!

I'm going away for a few days to teach a workshop in illustration here. I'm excited to meet with the students and Becci and I hope to inspire and surprise them a bit. A lot of exciting things are happening in my life right now (finally!) and I hope to share some of it with you soon. Until then, take care and visit some of the excellent blogs in my blogroll! See you in a little week!

Animated gif via ffffound

Principessa?

I grew up thinking, at least up until the age of 4, that everyone at some point of their lifes would become a prince or a princess. It was all very simple, life was endlessly long so there would certainly be time for all of us. And like in all games you take turns playing the most desiered role. I remember having an argument with an older friend about this, the same boring friend that tried to convince me that "one thousand" was actually more than "one hundered".
I remember this so clearly, I think it was probably during this argument I realized that maybe the world was not so fair after all.
The closest I ever got to princess was a Lambada (a very childish and far apart one, not at all like the kids in the video) during my dancing lesson in fourth grade with a boy who would later become the boyfriend of one of the princesses in Sweden.
I'm pretty ok with the fact that I will never become a princess nowadays, in the same way I'm ok with not being a priest or a nanny, two other childhood dreams of mine. Life oh Life.

The daybed is called Principessa and is designed by Doshi Levein