tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26416784283086816212024-03-19T03:19:27.123-07:00Tiny Little joys of lifeNimochkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04839099963372068872noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2641678428308681621.post-52163000990909868182012-07-16T00:40:00.000-07:002012-07-16T00:40:57.651-07:00Porcelain Painting Summer Camp 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> As I promised in my previous post today I am going to show you the porcelain dishes that I painted during the summer camp in June. Since we were painting every day from morning till evening for four days I got a lot of work done. I painted four big dinner plates and two cups and saucers during the four days. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> One of the cup and saucers was sold to a friend of mine immediately as soon asI arrived back home before I could take a photo of it. But here I will show you the photo of all the rest. I must say the plates are not done completely to my liking and I will continue to work on them. I think the colors can be stronger. All these dishes are painted in German style associated with Meissen and Dresden. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I photographed one of the plates right before the first firing. All the plates were fired at least three times so far. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I spent the first week of June in porcelain painting summer camp in North East of Finland.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The camp took place in a little town in Northern Karelia called Lieksa. The camp site was next to a beautiful lake and all around us was beautiful North Karelian forests with lots of tall ever greens. We spent several hours every day painting porcelain under the supervision of our lovely and very skillful teacher Aino Hoikka. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Unfortunately I was absent minded enough to forget to take my camera with me, so my photos are taken with my cellphone camera, so I apologize for the poor quality. But luckily this camp is an annual event and for sure I will be participating next year as well and I sure will remember my camera next time! Besides the scenery was so picturesque and glorious that even poor cellphone camera quality cannot hide its magnificent beauty!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Here are the photos from the area. I took these photos at midnight. So here you can see northern midnight sun! As you might know close to North Pole the sun never really sets during the summer, but only goes to a setting position, but instead of setting stays low for a short while and then rises up again. It is really beautiful. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Every night after our class ended and we sent our painted porcelain to the kiln I went to take a walk around the lake and in the local forest. It was a very enjoyable and relaxing holiday! I never felt so in love with my adopted country, Finland, as when I was walking in the local forest in Lieksa under the midnight sun!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Sorry for being absent for so long. I was away from home a lot and I was rather busy enjoying summertime outdoors activities otherwise. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Last weekend I invited my in-laws for some afternoon snacks. It was an opportunity to use my hand painted dessert plates. I served some sandwiches and pastry and some yummy fizzy watermelon drink. It was really easy to make. Just blend some watermelon with carbonated water, juice of one lemon, and add sugar or some other sweetener to taste.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Today I am going to take you through the steps of a porcelain painting project that I completed recently. The project consisted of seven dessert plates which I painted in vintage style. I have always loved and admired the old china sets for their colorful and sweet roses and flowers, their luxurious gilded decorations and the skillful mastery of their painters. I must say I am a total novice at this style so my results are on a much lower level. I also chose a rather simplified wreath pattern with two roses, pink and yellow and some smaller forget-me-not flowers on the sides.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> It was rather tough in the beginning, but practice and repetition is a foolproof </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">time-honoured </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">method of eventually getting it right! well...almost :) </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> After deciding how my pattern was going to look like here are the steps I took to complete this project:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> 1. First I divide my plates into equal parts and decide about how you position the repetitions of your pattern. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> 2. After marking the divisions with a Stabilo pencil I made some marks to indicate where my main roses and the curves of the wreath are going to be.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> 3. After that I had to prepare the colors. Porcelain painting colors come in the form of powder and we have to mix them with some medium. This part is really fun! I always feel like an old renaissance master who has to make his own paints, or a chemist working in a lab. We have to spread a little bit of the powder on a piece of tile and add a few drops of oil and mix it with a pallet knife until we reach the desired consistency.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> 4. Now comes the serious part! This style of painting is done by simple brush stroke and is done in many layers. Each layer has to be fired in the kiln before the next one can be painted on the top.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">You can see here that after the first layer is painted the pattern is rather pale and undefined<br /><br /><a class="pin-it-button" count-layout="horizontal" href="http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/"><img border="0" src="//assets.pinterest.com/images/PinExt.png" title="Pin It" /></a></span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> 5. After painting the first layer the pattern looks pale and and undefined but the base of our flowers and stems and leaves are visible. Now comes the second layer! We have to add shadow and depth to the bland spots of color at the base of our pattern and make the flowers show. In the same layer we can add some fine lines </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">with a very thin brush </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">which designate the contour of our pattern. This step really brings the whole thing to life! And after that off to the kiln it goes for the second firing!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> 6.The next step is to add the color to the rim of the plate. For this purpose the paint has to be made a bit runnier than usual because we need to tap it unto the surface of the plate with a pad as thinly and as evenly as possible. And again off to the kiln it goes for the third round of firing.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The first plate that I painted turned out rather different than the rest so I decided to paint its rim with a different color<br /><br /><a class="pin-it-button" count-layout="horizontal" href="http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/"><img border="0" src="//assets.pinterest.com/images/PinExt.png" title="Pin It" /></a></span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Et voila!! A nice vintage style desert-plate set is ready and hopefully it will be enjoyed and many a delicious and appetizing dessert will be served in them for many years to come! Thanks for visiting!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Today I decided to introduce you to my fabric collections. Thanks to Spoonflower.com I and many others like me who love to try new and creative things can now design and sell their own custom designed fabric and even make their own designer products with their own custom-made fabrics. This is such a fantastic opportunity which I jumped on as soon as I found out about online! We live in an amazing age! Actualizing our creative dreams have never been easier and more within our reach! All you need is a computer with internet connection, Adobe Photoshop, or Illustrator or some similar program, and a desire to create new and beautiful patterns! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Discovering Spoonflower.com actually inspired me more than I first suspected, since after designing my first few patterns and uploading them on Spoonflower, I decided to gradually move on to produce home-textile products with my own patterns and create my own brand name. This goal still lies ahead, but for now I have several colorful and cheerful patterns for sale at my <a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/nimochka" target="_blank">Spoonflower Shop</a> which I invite you to check out. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> But in the near future I am planning to sew aprons, kitchen towels, beddings, and other such products for home and sell them on my own website which like my products is still under construction. So I will create my brand as soon I am ready and you, dear readers will all be invited to visit my future online shop and have a look at my products. But until then I would like to show you a few photos of some of the fabric patters that I have in my <a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/nimochka" target="_blank">Spoonflower Shop</a> right now. I hope looking at them will put you in a happy mood (which is what I aim for in all my designs) and if you have plans for redecorating your home or changing your curtains or decorative cushions, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">or if you like quilting or sewing please </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">consider using some of my fabrics. They are sure to bring color and cheer to your home!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Today I am going to showcase some of my bird patterns. As you already know from my previous posts where I introduced my "Garden Birds" hand painted china set, I am crazy about garden birds! Nothing cheers me up more than a bird's colorful sight! So I decided to create some fabric patterns which would indulge my passion for garden birds. Here are a few fabrics from those collections:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The next pattern is my attempt at creating a<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toile" target="_blank"> toile</a> with the images of my favorite birds. This pattern is rather popular and is available in many different colors:</span><br />
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</div>Nimochkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04839099963372068872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2641678428308681621.post-88936497062367034322012-04-15T14:44:00.001-07:002012-04-17T07:59:39.606-07:00More Birds!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Here are the rest of my hand painted "Garden Birds" china tea set that I introduced in my last post. It consists of a three-tiered cake platter, a tea pot and a creamer all adorned with colorful birds and flowers. Here they are. Take a look:</span></span><br />
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<br /></div>Nimochkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04839099963372068872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2641678428308681621.post-33878854991285531832012-04-03T14:51:00.011-07:002012-04-13T02:24:39.950-07:00Birds Birds Birds..... and tea cups!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> It is official! I am a bird aficionado! They are beautiful and colorful, and their sweet sound reminds us of springtime. Here I want to introduce you to a tea set collection that I recently finished hand painting with pictures of my favorite garden birds on each piece of the set. The process started last summer and it took a long time since I only have access to a klin oven once a week. In porcelain painting you have to fire the paint in a klin in order to stabilize it and make it stick to the surface of the porcelain dish permanently. So let's start taking a look:</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> "The Siskin is a small finch, about the size of a Blue Tit and with similar agility.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They are generally yellowish-green and yellow with a dark streaked belly and striking yellow rump, wing bars and sides of the forked tail. The legs and bill are dark brown.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The male has a black cap and bib and bright yellow cheeks. The female does not have a black crown or bib and is more heavily streaked.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Juveniles have browner upperparts and are even more heavily streaked than the female.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Siskin, particularly the female, is often confused with the Greenfinch, but the latter is bigger and lacks the dark streaks."</span></div><div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I love this bird! It is so round and cute and rather cartoonish! I thoroughly enjoyed painting it on my cups.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> "The National Bird and a common favourite, the Robin is easily recognised by most people.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Robin is a plump bird with bright orange-red breast, face, throat and cheeks edged with grey, a white belly and olive-brown upper parts. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The sexes are very similar, if not identical, though some texts suggest that the brown forehead is "V" shaped in females, and "U" shaped in males, though even this is not always apparent. They have a brown bill and legs.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The juvenile Robin has speckled buff-brown upper parts and underparts. They have no red feathers so that adult birds do not attack them in territorial disputes. The speckled feathers are lost in a partial moult when the bird is about two to three months old.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> In the winter, resident birds are joined by immigrants from continental Europe, mostly from Scandinavia; these Robins are paler than ours, have a duller red breast. The immigrants are also generally less tame because they skulk in woodlands, only British Robins are a tame garden bird.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Robins are territorial all year round; during the spring and summer this territoriality is for breeding, but at other times individual robins hold territories for feeding. Robins will defend their territories to the death, and so in the poem "Who killed Cock Robin?", another Robin rather than a sparrow would be more likely:</span></div><div align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Who killed Cock Robin?<br />
I said the Sparrow,<br />
With my bow and arrow,<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And these are my renderings of this cute and chubby bird on a porcelain cup:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> "At first glance the acrobatic and cheeky Blue Tit is a blue and yellow bird.</span><br />
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A closer inspection reveals bright blue wings, tail and crown, yellow underparts, greenish back and mantle, white cheeks, and black eye stripe, bib and collar. They also have a black streak down the middle of the belly, and a white wing bar (across the coverts). The bill is black and the legs are a blue-grey.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The sexes are similar, though the female is slightly paler.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The juvenile birds are duller than the adults and have greener crown, wings and tail, and yellow cheeks."</span><br />
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This stunning bird is now quite well known all over the world thanks to the popular computer game "Angry Birds". The cardinal is a major character in that game. But I have always loved its sharp red color and majestic crown!<br />
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Here is a description of the Northern Cardinal according to www.allaboutbirds.org:<br />
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"The male Northern Cardinal is perhaps responsible for getting more people to open up a field guide than any other bird. They’re a perfect combination of familiarity, conspicuousness, and style: a shade of red you can’t take your eyes off. Even the brown females sport a sharp crest and warm red accents. Cardinals don’t migrate and they don’t molt into a dull plumage, so they’re still breathtaking in winter’s snowy backyards. In summer, their sweet whistles are one of the first sounds of the morning.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 19px;">"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> In my first blog I did not mention that I am also a lover baking and cake decorating. I am always just waiting in the wings ready for a birthday or occasion to come up that can give me a chance to indulge in baking a fancy cake and decorating it! My little daughter turned 3 last week and that was a perfect occasion for me to indulge in my cake passion thoroughly. My daughter is a sweet little girly girl who is an avid fan of non other than Hello Kitty! So for the longest time she had been asking me to bake and decorate a Hello Kitty themed cake for her birthday.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> And here is the back of the Kitty figurine which is the same as the one that I saw on YouTube. I found the fashionable back of this Kitty Figurine's gown rather charming!</span><br />
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</div>Nimochkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04839099963372068872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2641678428308681621.post-88939296756595908682012-03-20T03:11:00.005-07:002012-04-12T15:30:04.251-07:00Iranian New Year (Nowruz)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Iranian families gather around the Haftseen table at the start of the new year while praying and meditating for a blessed and and successful new year. After the new year begins the families start a long visiting tour of all the elder members of their extended family. People go from home to home and everywhere they are greeted with hospitality and warm welcomes, warm tea, nuts, sweets and fresh fruits! The Nowruz holidays last for 13 days and on the 13th day it is customary to spend the day outdoors on a picnic. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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</i></b></span></div></div>Nimochkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04839099963372068872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2641678428308681621.post-21243593190422635622012-03-19T08:46:00.010-07:002012-04-12T15:28:14.537-07:00My First Post!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hi everyone! My name is Nima and I am a 34 y.o. mother of a beautiful little 3 y.o. girl. I live with my husband and daughter in a little dreamy town in Finland called Kerava. Here we have icy-cold white winters:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I can describe my style as "grandma's style with a modern twist"! I always loved vintage and old-fashioned designs with lots of flower motifs and laces and charming needle work, but I find the old-fashioned colors a little bit too dull for my taste. I am nothing if not an aficionado of bold, bright, strong colors! Pink, turquoise, bright red, lavender, green, purple, you name it!!! I cannot live without a lot of color surrounding me! So much so that I painted a whole wall in my living room bright purple! Here! Take a look:</span><br />
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</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So the concept that I follow in my designs is to build upon old-fashioned and vintage pattern that people can find in their grandma's house, but use more bold and bright and modern looking colors and combinations. I hope there are enough people who share my taste and would appreciate my fabrics and other creations.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> This is my kitchen dinning table and my style of "Grandma with a Twist" is pretty apparent here! Although my table cloth is not my own design. It is from Pip Studio, one of the brands that I love very much!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So here I am! I am going to be blogging about my projects, my creations and my adventures while creating my projects. I will also be posting beautiful pictures of interior design and other beautiful things that capture my imagination. I hope you will follow me in this journey and enjoy my posts and photos. Make sure you take a look at my fabric collections on <a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/nimochka" target="_blank">Nimochka's Spoonflower Shop</a>.</span><br />
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