Into The Wild

Spring is here and i'm feeling the spirit! I'm so inspired to plant and grow new big plants. A friend gave me a little baby sprout the other day and it has been standing in water for a week now. Waiting for those tiny little roots to grow before planting in soil.

Aaaaaand so I illustrated some plants and decided to put them in the Green Isle Studio shoppe!

I just couldn't decide on only one color so I made them in three different ones, have a look here:

www.greenislestudio.com

and for work in progress pics have a look at our instagram: 

instagram.com/greenislestudio/

The Woodland Cemetary

Todays inspiration comes from Skogskyrkogården, The woodland Cemetary, part of the Unesco World Heritage. Not many people know this but it's one of the most beautiful places to visit in Stockholm. The architecture and garden design in this enormous area is absolute grand and with all the chapels and graves it gives the most calming feeling. 

Today, I and a dear friend walked around, had a coffee, listened to birds chatting away, marveled at our view and talked of lost friends. Still, hours later I have this feeling of magical wonders.

I wish I could tell you I made these bracelets today while having my inspirational boost but these are already made and shipped to Helsinki, Finland. They will reside in the Paloni store - opening on june 10th!

For more pictures go to my Facebook page: www.facebook.com/carolinagronholm.creativeartanddesign

Beatrix Potter and Millesgården

I finally got to see the exhibition of Beatrix Potter's work at Millesgården. It was really cute but rather small. The sculpture park outside the exhibition was amazing, especially on this beautiful sunny spring day. 

Fun for the kids and young at heart adults? There were rabbit ear hats and childrens kitchen stuff to play with. 

Photos of Beatrix Potter and fantastic wall paper.

I'm mad about birch trees right now. I draw them all the time.

One cool thing I have to share is this music video of Sunshine Superman with Donovan. It was filmed at Millesgården in 1966! Love Donovan. 

Hope you're having a fantastic easter weekend!

/Carolina

Small holiday

I'm in the sun, walking, breathing in new fresh air. Loving the scent of pine trees. Taking strolls to the nearby food market. Enjoying talking to the cats and so on...

Tree art exhibition no 2

This was from my "in the woods" exhibition I did 2 weeks ago. The red and blue illustration & crochet frames are new to the nest and the green one are now sold. I'm planning on listing some of them in the shops soon.

The wonderful green and yellow colors in the background is all gone now. We had or are having a snow storm outside now. It's so cosy with a snow storm when you're inside but a big pain when outside. Believe me. Buses get stuck in the snow and the subway gets delayed or cancelled....I'm home now but oh the headache when thinking of what's to come the next 4-5 months! 

Det här var från min skogsutställning ca 2 veckor sedan. De röda och blåa illustrerade & virkade ramarna är de senaste i boet och den gröna är nu såld. Jag kommer att lägga upp de 2 första i mina butiker snart. 

Thank you all for your sweet words and thoughts on my latest post!

I'm here

Giardino di Boboli

I've found my beautiful hidden garden

and it's so beautiful there it makes my heart bleed. It's located in a very hidden corner of Skansen which is Europe's largest outdoor museum, how about that! I always go there once a year, preferably in spring but I think I'm going have to change that to late summers now that I've found that perfect garden to visit. It looked so perfect, so in bloom and it smelled wonderful! It's actually a herbal garden with hundred different varieties of herbal plants, witch's plants, medical plants and ornament plants all with old roots from Sweden founded in 1914.

My blond sister 

and her brunette sister, me!