Billy banan, mig & de andre Makroner: 2011

I have been collected Irma artist-cake-boxes forever. We have boxes with Henry Heerup, Carl Henning Pedersen, Tal R and many more and we use them for al kinds of things; coffee, rice, cakes etc. The original idea began in the late 60´s - early 70´s and my childhood was full of wonderful boxes, which my parents had carefully chosen. I began doing the same when I left home - and for many years I have been seaching in vintage shops for the ones I have liked - and well yes now we have a quite big collection. Though out the 90´and 00´s Irma did not do any co-operations - but last year they began again, and I added Julie Nord, Tal R and Kirstine Roepstorff to my collection. This year; 2011, the Irma-artist is John Kørner and I have bough his cake-box, his shopping net and today his 2 coffee cups. I am not sure if Irma has done cups before - but I am already loving the concept and hope they will do many more cups in the future. I think it´s impossible to find cool coffee cups anywhere and I would love to serve coffee just as pretty as I serve cakes.

(Link: Irma)

ATTENTION TO DETAIL

I am spending a lot of time in our flat these days due to a bit of overweight ... should have about 7 days by myself left - but lets see if the little guy thinks that´s enough or too much. Spending time at home; makes you pay attention to details and well yes - our home is full of small details. My sister thinks, that we have a lot (and maybe too much) of "stuff" and I might agree with her after photographing around the 90 m2 ... I think "stuff" makes a flat cozy and our "stuff" are memories from our life; basically everything has been found on travels, given to us by good friends, bought for special occasions or made by the two of us (maybe just by me) when we were kids.

GLYPTOTEKET

Last week I went to Glyptoteket to see the Gauguin exhibition. I have tried to go there before, but did not succeed due to way to many people in line for the show - but last Tuesday I managed to get into the treasury. Beautiful - that´s all I can say ... the colors (actually the color combinations) are so fantastic that I have no words to describe it... But in order to keep the colors bright and fresh, one is not allowed to take photo´s and all I have is from the winter garden - which is also quite fantastic. If you never been to Glyptoteket and are not sure what to exspect, try to go on a Sunday - it´s free of charts (you save 75 dk kr) and just go to the winter garden and sit on a bench and breath in the atmosphere... you feel different afterwards - I promise you ... it´s a fantastic place.

EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP

Boyfriende and I watched this movie not long ago ... I though it was about Banksy ... a super cool british street artist that I, to be very frank, did (do) not know very much about (but does anyone ?) - but the movie did not turn the lights on him ... it was about a dude called Thierry Guetta; and it showed how crazy (and stupid) the commercial art world is and how fantastic (and unselfish) the street art world is. I was so inspired afterwards and wanted to hit the streets with with stencils, paint and a ladder - but 9 months pregnant I realize that that might not be the way to go and I have stayed at home at night and instead I have expanded my collection of street artists - it´s a small small collection, but steady growing - with a German guy called Tasek. But the movie was cool, so is the dudes that takes the streets with art (NOT tacking) and I fully recommend "Exit through the gift shop" - not as a movie to learn about Banksy, but as chance to appreciate street art.

(Video: YouTube)

STOCKHOLM

In mid October, Boyfriende and I went to Stockholm on our last "holiday" as a two-some. We ate, walked, talked, had fun and ate some more for a hole weekend plus a Monday. It was perfect and we fully enjoyed each other and the city. I love Stockholm and wanted to show it to Boyfriende who had never been there before - and now; he loves it as well. It was a super idea to go and I can fully recommend it to soon to be parents. We have been told by people (with kids) that it´s a good idea to spend time together just the two of us and do things that will be more "difficult" when we become three - so since we came back from "the world" we have be out for lots of dinners, to the cinema more that often and have made lot of trips to places with stairs. Now we only have 2 weeks left to do this - but to be quite frank; both of us would rather want to meet the little fellow than to go to more dinners or movies. Patience my dear ... patience ... but it´s hard.