END AND BEGINNING

Happy new year dear blog readers! I belive that 2014 is going to be a great interior year, year of new styles and darker colours. This new year also means big changes for me personally and as you know one of them is that I'm moving to Stockholm. But I've also decided to shut down my own annaleena web store indefinitely and I will focus on selling my design only through retailers now. I will make a new website in the spring where you can see my design without buying function, but before it´s finished you can find all my retailers in the closed web shop. So all trade of my design is made from now through resellers.

INSPIRATION_________ black minimalism

Even Christmas season is behind the door and interior blogs are filled with christmas inspiration, I wanted to share some elegant house / interior design pictures from Ns-Architects found via. I Love the velvety, clear lines and black minimalism that is so present in these pictures.

INTERIOR _______ old and new home

I flipped today through my photos that I´ve taken during 2013 and I found these pics from our house. December has been a crazy month and it feels that I´m living right now between two homes or two houses, among all christmas decorations and moving boxes. We´re moving after the new year to Stockholm where we have planned to build a new house. As we made the most ourselves in our this house for 8 years ago, the staircase, kitchen, round firewood storage (my husband is a ambitions builder:) we will build the new house ourselves too. We have started to sketch up the new house and we have found a nice plot to build on. So the next step now is to find a great architect in Stockholm who can draw up our house, can´t wait when the process starts to take off!

SHOP __________ coffee table pyramid

New white decoration pyramid has finally arrived in the shop! This pyramid is perfect to style your coffee table with and to make it look more appealing! Have a lovely sunday!

-Le shop

ONE PIC__________

Love the circles, always had always will. Today's one pic is one of the pictures which I will update in my porfolio today. I been so busy last month´s so I havent had the time to add my latest work there. I´m changing that today. If you want to work with me or see more of my work please take a look at my website here www.annaleena.se or mail me at annaleena@annaleena.se

DEKO __________ feature/interview

The Finnish interior magazine Deko featured me in their september issue with an really nice article about my style and how I decorate. But because Deko is not available in Sweden I haven´t seen the article until now when I finally got a copy of it. The feature was in Finnish but I think that english version of Deko for the international audience had been success, I love that magazine! But of course we can always enjoy of their english website Scandinavian Deko here.

-profile picture by Karin Linde/Don´t blink with thanks!

MONDAY SNAPSHOTS _________ diy x-mas

Today´s monday snapshots is about making your own christmas decor. Last year my decorations looked like this, but this year I started twisting round circels of brass and copper wire and folding geometric shapes after I saw these cute templates here.

INSPIRATION. ___________ uh la la

Todays one pic is from the u la la studio in Copenhagen that belongs to the talented Danish ceramicist Julie Bonde. I visited her studio with Emma while we were working in Copenhagen and I was blown away by the beautiful creativity that both she and her studio radiated. Her work makes me think of nature and stones, and she has used nature as a reference point for the pieces, creating glazes and textures that turn them into large, but very tactile pebbles. Love!

-uh la la ceramics

2014 ___ all time favorites

Here´s some of my all time favorites for the new year 2014, but there is more. Posting new ones next week.

/apollo light, Lucie Koldova

/natural stone vases from Michael Verheyden

/WFH perforated calendar white

/aluminium luminaire, Holgaard architects

/parquett cubique, Dante

/clean desk Michael Verheyden

/marble tray Michael Verheyden

DIY _______________ copper/plaster candle holder

For me candle holders are so Christmas and just the thought that it's almost Christmas makes me want to get/make some new ones. So after I saw this cool DIY that Ivania did on her blog with plaster I wanted to do a new candle holder for the Christmas with plaster instead of concrete. 

The mold I used for pouring the plaster in was just a shoebox cover and the copper tube caps for the lights are from a hardware store, but my previous candleholder that I did with hexagon nuts (here) could also work. All you need is,

/a shoebox cover

/plaster

/copper tube caps size 2,2 

/plastic wrap

/sand paper

/Cover the shoebox cover with plastic wrap to make it waterproof and to get the plaster out of the mold when it is dry. 

/Plan in advance where you want your candle holders (copper tube caps) to be. 

/Blend your plaster mixture and pour it into the mold. I used for this 9 dl plaster and 3 dl water.

/Press gently the copper tube caps in the plaster mix.

 /Let it dry for at least 2 hours. Use sandpaper to smooth the edges if needed.

Done!