Fox + Hare

As some of you may know, I graduated from Hyper Island - Motion Creative this June (yay!) and since then I've been busy having a well deserved summer break but I also managed to draw a bit. I'm currently working on different projects such as an animated music video, illustrations for an exhibition in August and a lot of personal projects. Many of them will be finished and released this fall. Below, Red Foxy Fox and Pink Lepus. Available as prints in my shop. 

Pet portraits SALE! LOVE!

I do love drawing someone's loved pet, either it be a dog, cat, hedgehog or the cutest little pig. All animals are wonderful to draw and the most fun is to bring out that special trait from their personality. Or have the pet be in a another place and space in the drawing. One thing I always wished for but never gotten the chance to do is to draw animals in people's clothing. 

I've been somewhat close, drawing cats in superhero capes and in roller-skates. 

During the rest of July I will draw your beloved pets with clothes, or without, in space, 

in the wild, as a lion. Just the way you want it. 

I'm reducing the price from $200 USD to $130 USD throughout the entire month in my Etsy shop. 

Here are examples of commissioned drawings:

Thank you everyone for your love and support! 

/Carolina

Preview of new textile prints!

A little preview of what's to come this weekend! New pillowcases will be added to the shops tomorrow. 

Grey & yellow, coral & grey.

New shawl (test sample) to be continued and worked on...

This new triangle wave shaped pattern was inspired by my love for mountains, geometric shapes and triangles. The printmaking itself is endless in it's variations with this geometric pattern. In some angles it looks like thick hair braids when added together in lines. I'm having so much fun experimenting with it and of course there will be more of everything from scarves, totes, prints and pillowcases coming. 

These rectangular scarves are already in the shop. You can find them here: www.latenightdrawing.etsy.com

Stockholm Etsy Christmas market 2012

So the Christmas market was this last tuesday as you may know from earlier posts.

 I had so much fun organizing the event with the 2 other girls to begin with and the outcome was everything we had hoped for. It was great meeting other Etsy sellers, and it went really good sale wise as well. 

Here's some pics of the event:

My table set up! 

The standing rack for the clothing accessories in the back is actually an old wooden frame for holding up an oil canvas. I put some legs to hold it up and painted it with coral red paint and voila!

An old hat box for my screen printed shirts and bags.

Jewelry display was made of an old Ikea frame and was painted with the same coral red. 

I made lots of new brooches and necklaces that will be up in shop soon. And new card sets as well! 

They sold quite well during the day. 

The place itself was great for us but I do think next time we're probably going to need a bigger place as there were more sellers interested that wouldn't fit within that space.

Raquel from Deco Tape Paradise was my lovely table neighbor. She sells as the name reveals tape in all sorts, very kawaii and I bought some of course. Can't get enough of washi tape! 

We got a visit from Mark of Etsy Inc New York who brought us some cool stuff from the headquarters.

My favorite Etsy sticker!

And here I am in action with ghost hands and a smirky face at my table.

New necklaces to be added to the shops, I hope you like them as much as I enjoyed making them. 

Wishing you a great Christmas holiday! 

/Carolina

Christmas Fair - Etsy STHLM

Yup, the Stockholm ETSY team is having their first christmas fair! 

It's all very exciting and we also have a great venue downtown at Mariatorget. 

I got the chance to do the official poster for the event:

 Facebook-eventet med mer information mm. finns HÄR.

Vår hemsida med utställare och blogg hittar du på Designmarknadstockholm.com

Starting from today till monday 23-26 november I'm having a weekend sale over at my ETSY shop:

Wishing you a great weekend

/Carolina

Custom Pet Portrait

My first try on a dog portrait, what do you think?

I was approached on Etsy by a lovely customer who wanted a portrait of Cinder as a necklace, like my illustration necklaces I have in shop already.

This was my first take on drawing a dog, although I've drawn lots of other animals before. Anyway what I was thinking of was perhaps offering to do custom pet portraits in my shops, is this something that you would be interested in? 

Nerdy Playful vs. Clean Modern

This is me. In my private life and work life. It reflects on everything I do and I may seem scattered to some, I mean I sometimes feel that way myself...If you believe in astrology I guess I should have been born in the sign of gemini and not of virgo. Here are some work examples:

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You can find some of my nerdy playful totes and clean modern scarves in my Etsy shop: Latenightdrawing

( I now have a 10% discount on all things with the code SUMMER2012. )

eller i min svenska Nordic Design Collective butik: a Creative Cat by Carolina Grönholm

Wishing you a wonderful Sunday!

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Carolina

Evening Sky

New shawl!

Crocheted in gorgeous wool yarn with lovely colors.

Will be added to shop very soon. 

New designs

I haven't updated my jewelry & clothing shop with new stuff in what seems forever. I've been so caught up with my illustrations. I have these periods when I'm so concentrated on one craft that the others get terrible neglected.

BUT now I feel somewhat balanced when it comes to that. I've been bulking up on new and old designs and I will try and list every one of them starting today and next week.

I had a photo shoot day this friday and took loads of new pics for listing. That wall and that light in my diner room is perfect for this. It's all natural light and I had my camera on self-timer, like always. I do have a problem looking natural when someone takes photos of me. It's better to do it alone, for me anyways.

Card Set

After some requests. I now have Sunday Morning Walk no 1 & 2 as a card set in the shop.

Hmmm...something weird is going on with my pictures on the LinkWithin thing, down under this text.

 Has anybody else got this problem? It could be because of all the customizes I've done on this blog though....?

Nu finns Sunday Morning Walk no 1 & 2 som vykortset, bla här.

Free Shipping!

I'm having a free shipping weekend on all my A5 prints over at my etsy art shop, come have a look!

  

and I'm also giving away a free card for every order made. 

My weekend will be full of work and meeting dear friends, what are your plans?

Just nu över helgen har jag gratis frakt på alla mina A5 tryck så kom och titta in i min webbutik!

New Bangles

 finished! The blue and grey one was a custom order and the white & pink bangle was something I made last night in a instant rush of creativity. I love when that happens. 

Will be in shop this week. 

Nya armband! den blå & grå var en specialbeställning och den rosa & vita gjorde jag igår när jag fick en pust av plötslig kreativitet. Det är härligt när det händer. 

Dom kommer att finnas i mina butiker nu i veckan.

Postcards

for free on every order made in my shops!

Nu får man ett vykort gratis för varje order som görs från mina butiker.

Tree art?

I had a little exhibition (for myself) out in the woods and in the parks today. We had perfect autumn weather, I just had to make something out of it and I think my little bird really liked it out there..! 

SauSau on her pile of cushions are not yet in shop, but soon!

Cirque du Fleurs in a different composition.

Up against the cold

New cowl! I used a very thick wool yarn this time - new yarn for me, and I found it to be very comfortable to knit with. The result is very chunky and very warm, perfect for these winter days up north. Will be a regular in my jewel & accessories shop. Made as a special order for a lovely and very talented fellow etsian and customer. I'm getting some of her great things soon as well.

 I'll show you all in time. Have yourself a wonderful weekend!

Ny tubhalsduk! Denna gång använde jag ett väldigt tjockt ullgarn som jag verkligen tyckte om att sticka med.

Resultatet blev en väldigt varm och mysig tubhalsduk - perfekt för dessa kalla vinterdagar. Den gjordes som en specialbeställning till en underbar och talangfull etsy-kamrat och kund. Jag har beställt lite smått och gott från henne med. Jag kommer att dela det med er vid tillfälle.

Ha en fin helg alla!

Blog giveaway baby!

My first giveaway! 

This is what you can win:

Birdie on a twig - Brooch. Mini illustration with crochet frame in grey and pale blue. This was made just for the giveaway!  

4 folded mini cards of my illustration I Dream Of Yarn Curtains. This is not in the shop yet, you'll be the first to receive it! 

This giveaway is for all, means international, hurray!

So how to enter?

1 entries: Follow my blog (or just say hello!)

2 entries: Simply go to my shop www.latenightdrawing.etsy.com and leave a comment telling me what your favorite item is. 

If you do both entries you get even more chances to win! The winner will be randomly selected and don't forget to leave some contact info in your comment so I can tell you you've won! This giveaway will end on 30th October.

Min första giveaway, för er mina bloggföljare!

Du kan vinna Birdie On A Twig - Brosch

och 4 illustrerade mini kort.

Hur gör man?

1 bidrag: Följ min blogg (eller bara säg hej!)

2 bidrag: Gå till min shop www.latenightdrawing.etsy.com hitta din favoritvara och kom tillbaka hit och lämna en kommentar på vilken det är. Om du bidrar till båda så ökar chanserna att vinna! Vinnaren plockas på måfå, glöm inte att lämna någon slags information om hur jag kontaktar dig om du är vinnaren! Avslutas den 30e oktober.