This Week So Far...

 This week so far I've mainly been working hard to get all orders done for the week as we're going away today. It'll be nice with a mini holiday in West Wales for sure. I really really need it now that my belly seems to have reached a massive proportion. It is heaaaaavyyyy!

 As usual it is a mix of things in on the order list, but it keeps me entertained and it's nice not to do the same thing over and over again (which I guess I do anyway...).

 Been trying out some different packaging ideas for MobiLOVE as well. And I think this one is the winner so far. It will obviously be in colour, but my printer toner has run out so I need to sort that out. I want to make a backing sheet as well, but I haven't figured that part out yet. Maybe next week :)

 There is a few new patterns in the making. I was drawing like mad the other day and came up with quite a few ideas. We'll see how they come out when they're finished.

 The Lotus flower study is coming along well too. I enjoyed drawing the lotus leaves and think they will look very pretty once coloured in and put into a pattern. This will probably be the most elaborate pattern I've made so far. It will be a challenge but I am looking forward to it. Just hope I won't mess it up along the way with my zero experience in making patterns hehe.

 This has been a long time coming. I have finally started building a website for myself as an artist and designer. I've wanted it for many years but it is so expensive to hire web-designers these days and personally I know nothing about web. But I found this page called Squarespace.com which is absolutely brilliant for someone like me. It costs about $8.00 /month which is a great price. And they let you build your website and customize it for FREE!

So you can try it all out before you pay and design your whole website to see what it would look like. If you like it, you pay and VOILA! You got your own website. And it is absolutely user friendly, anyone can use it. It gets five gold starts from me!!! I am not finished with it yet and it's not live but I hope to be within the next few weeks and would love your opinion on it once it is finished. It is so hard to write about yourself and try to promote what you do. But I think I'm getting there!

Anyway! I will see you on Monday when I get back from Wales. Hope all of you have a great week and weekend! xxx

Drawings, drawings, drawings...

Happy Monday peoples! Here it is bank holiday today, so another day of rest.... For some anyway. I treat it as a normal working day and I have been working more or less all weekend. I started this pattern that you can see above about a week ago and yesterday I finished it. It was meant for a phone case but I think it is to detailed to come out nice on the actual case. I might make a test print at some point but for now I will keep it as it is. I think it would look cool on tiles funny enough.

I tried it with a black background and a white and I think I like the black the most. Reminds me of an old coffee tin jar.

Tiles for the kitchen maybe?

 I've been drawing quite allot over the weekend. Just trying to get things off my mind and on to paper instead. They're a bit easier to handle once they're on paper. I don't have to think about them anymore then. I've been doing a lotus flower study and I want to create a real nice and floaty pattern out of them. I am thinking in the colours of maroon, mint green, yellow and pink. Need to do a study of the leaves tonight and get some more variations of the flowers in there too.

 This little cutie I drew last night as well. It's been a long long time since I used markers, but I decided that just because one is in to graphic design must not everything be made on the computer. I thought it would make a nice addition to the MobiLOVE phone cases, and it look brilliant on the actual case.

Meow?!

 You can get it for both iPhone 4/4S/5/5S and....

Samsung Galaxy S3/S4...

 I am working hard on giving MobiLOVE an identity at the moment. Right now the shop is in one big mess as I am trying to make the change gradually. It is to much work to be done in one day, and I am still trying to find the right feel for it. I never thought it could be so hard to give something so simple an identity. But maaan I am struggling.

 I am getting a bit closer everyday though and am trying to give it that hand-made feel. And with some rope, a glue gun and a bit of cardboard and a little help from my true companion the computer I think the new Logo looks mint!

What do you think? Does it give you that hand-made feel?
That is that for today. I've got a few orders to finish off today, and on Wednesday we're heading up to west Wales for a few days of rest and rehabilitation. I really need it... Just to get away from the madness of a busy Bournemouth. I can't wait for the silence and the bird song, fields as far as the eye can see and the sea. We're going out on the sea. It will be the first time for me on the actual sea here in the UK. I can't wait and I'll make sure to bring you some juicy pictures from my mini holiday.

What Nature Can Bring...

 Good morning everyone out there! My first week of freedom have started and this is what I've done so far. I started the week with having a smaller meltdown due to the stress of getting everything ready for the babys arrival I guess. We've got everything ready so I really don't know where this stress comes from. I think it's just the hormones. So Monday was a complete write off besides the fact that it got me out. I needed air and I also needed to sort out some props for my new mobile phone cover photos.

 So we took a stroll down to the beach, which has become one amazing effort. It took a good while to walk back I can tell you that much. It is all down hills to the beach, which means it is all up hills coming back. It is no walk in the park when you're pregnant.

 I did find loads of free props on the beach and in the woods though. Pine-cones, seashell, oyster shells, white stones, branches and sticks. The feathers I bought of Ebay UK and they are stunning too. I have always loved feathers, but I don't like picking them up in the nature anymore, unless it is an Amazing one. I collected feather when I was a child and I can remember that sometimes they had little mites and stuff on them. Ueeeeak! I don't want that in my home so I rather buy them. But as a kid you just don't care about those things I guess.

 I kept some of the pine-cones natural. But found two that hadn't opened up yet. I think they look almost like armadillos and for some reason I thought painting them in black and while would look cool...

 And so I did... And they came out pretty cool don't you think? They work great as props! I wanted to keep the props quite simple, with neutral colours, so that they don't take away too much from the actual case I'm selling.

 More pine-cones and stones. I ended up giving the stones a lick of paint as well. I wanted them to be proper white and not a sandy white. It is impossible to find proper white stones unless you buy them. But I'm not ready to spend £10 on something I can get for free in the nature.

 I also ended up painting the twigs and sticks I found in black an white. They came out great too. I started the actual photo shoot yesterday but didn't finish everything. It is so much more work then you think but so far I am very happy with how the photos are coming out and my new photo library already have 40 different variations of promotional photos for my phone cases. Here are a few sneak peaks on what I achieved yesterday:

I would love to hear what you think. Do you think it will give my MobiLOVE shop a good face lift?

Phone cases...

Blog entries have been a bit sparse this week as I've been working allot. And I am really sorry about that. The patterns from the other day are up on phone cases at MobiLOVE anyway and ready to be purchased. Next week I will start a little series called "The Week in Pictures". Basically I will do a blog post every Monday with photos from the past week. These photos can be of anything that has happened during my week, but will mainly contain photos from my every day work. So I am looking forward to starting that, as I have loads of new projects coming up.

 Have a great weekend everyone and I will see you on Monday again! You can click the pictures to be redirected to the case you fancy.

Yukai Neko...

 I don't know if you remember these three. I did them about a year ago and was going to make plushies out of them. They didn't come out the way I wanted them to so I decided to scrap the idea completely. However I did cut them out and have kept them hanging around the office since I find them extremely cute. I saw them last week after they'd been hidden behind my office curtain for a while and thought they'd make great phone cases.So I took up my pen tablet on Friday night and had a go and this  is what came out of it...

 I thought they'd look super cute with a cheerleader sort of name patch and tried it out. I think it works really well.

 What do you think?

Yukai Neko YEEEY! Click the pictures to get redirected to the MobiLOVE Etsy store :D

More Patterns!!!

We've added TUNS of NEW patterned cases to the "Patterned Cases" section in MobiLOVE! Go and check them out. It's a super duper colour BURST!

Patterns patterns everywhere...

We've got a loads of new patterened cases up in the mobiLOVE shop today. For the simplicity of it I was thinking. Sometimes it can be nice to match your clothes or your bag with something simple like this. Hope you like them! I loooove them! hehe
Check them out in the Patterened Cases shop section!

MobiLOVE is now OPEN!

Hey guess what?!?!?!?! MobiLOVE is now LIVE! Yupp my new Etsy store that I have been working for for about a year now is finally real. It took a long time to get this going the way I wanted it to and for the first time in my life I decided to invest in something expensive. So here it is! MobiLOVE! There's not loads in there just yet, only these six cases. They're only available for iPhone 4/4S and iPhone 5/5S at the moment, but will be available for Samsung Galaxy S3/S4 from next week at some point. Also during March the store will fill up massively with loads of cute accessories for your phones. I would love to hear what you guys think and please feel free to give suggestions of things you might want to see in the shop in the future.

You can also find a little Mini Shop in the right side panel here on the blog. ---->

GO mobiLOVE!!!

30 Years Old...

So yesterday was my 30th Birthday. I can't believe how quick the past 10 years have gone. But looking back at it I have achieved so much. I always thought 30 sounded ancient when I turned 20, and now here I am. I must say that I have achieved more or less everything I wanted to achieve and turning 30 is feeling great. I don't feel a day older and to be honest I never think I will. I will always be a big kid really. A big kid with a kid hehe. 

Anyway, my first plan was to go home to Sweden to celebrate but since I am pregnant I felt that I couldn't be bothered with another travel to Sweden. It is hard on me anyway and I seem to catch every lurgy there is out there at the moment. It was sad not to go home by Ceri treated me so well an brought me a little bit of Sweden anyway, by buying more or less all my favorite snack food from Sweden. I also got this adorable Momiji doll that I didn't even know of! I collect them and this is probably the most adorable one I have ever seen. So I squealed like a little girl when I opened it. It is just to die for!

 I also got this huge book of paper monsters! I LOOOVE PAPER TOYS! And I got 50 of them to fold now. I will wait till I have gotten another shelf dedicated to paper toys only though. I tend to knock mine over allot where they sit now and I don't want to ruin them!

 I am so starting with The Blob anyway! Made by my favorite Dolly Oblong of course! He is sooooo cool!

 Also, got this huge bouquet of flowers from my parents in law. I didn't have a vase big enough so had to empty the spaghetti jar lol...

 They sit in the kitchen and smell absolutly amazing!

 So what's happening here at Tomodachi Island headquarters at the moment then. I know it's been a while but I am working hard to get everything ready for the opening of mobiLOVE next month....

 I thought I'd give you a little sneak peak of two of the cases that will be available from the 1st of March... These two kawaii cuties! There will be soooo much more to choose from though and I am really excited. The printer is working beyond all expectations and these prints just wont come off. I tried scratching one that got a bit messed up and I seriously have to dig a hole in the case to get the print of. So I am sooooo happy.

Also the office have been re-made again. We decided that we wanted to have our offices together so I had to rethink things and this is how it ended up. Also got myself a huge wardrobe that can fit all my crafting materials and fabrics which is great. Just need a little shelf for my toys now and it'll all be sorted.