Dress in meat

How far would one go to get famous. This is a dress worn by Lady Gaga made by meat. This is this too much outside the box to be good?



Above: Lady Gaga in her dress of meat.

Why not make your own case for your Iphone. Here is two creative women who made a blog were you can upload your own work of your crossed stitches:

http://korsstygnsarkivet.blogspot.com/2010/06/glasogonfodral-med-dalahast-och.html

Cool jewelry

Why not taking it cool with some ice jewelry. Up here in the North we are getting closer to the dark and cold period so I don´t think this jewelry would be very appreciated here but in some warmer areas perhaps. And it is inspiring to try and think outside the box. If you like to read more about this artist named Katharina Ludwig. Press this link:

http://guestofaguest.com/gift-giving/the-best-guests-come-bearing-gifts-ice-jewelry/

All the best
Anna Axelsson
jewelry designer - Jord Sweden Collection

I never take them off

I tend to have lots of bracelets on my arms. Usually when I make/design a new one I put the first one on my own arm. After testing it for quite a while to make sure it feels good, I usually keep it on my arm. I never take them off. Right now I have one unisex bracelet, one heroine, droppe. On the other arm I have the Stormrider and another one not in the webshop yet. Interesting to know is that I have had one the unisex bracelet with black braided leather for approx. 4 years. The heroine for little less than a year. The stormrider for a few months. I shower, bathe and do anything with these to test them. I put a bit vaseline or vax or creme on them once in a while so they don´t get dried out.

All the best from me
Anna

I have bought cute curtains in pink for my little girl

I have tryed to make my little darling like other colours but pink.She has a determent mind and often refuse having anything but pink. I have surrendered. Her room is now filled with her favorite colour. I can show you her new cute curtains with princesses and pink.

These are to be found at both www.Halens.se and www.Cellbes.se for only 138 krones.
Sheap if you ask me.

Hope you are having a great time
Anna

White is the Nordic colour

Now and then we go to Ella garden to have a nice brunch on a Sunday. This is a photo from one of those occations. Italian fresh food in a swedish way. The best thing is the Swedish enviroment. An old farm made into a big white dining room.

All the best
Anna

Hello there! It´s been a while. I have had my hands full with Easter and sick children. When everyone thought spring was coming it started to snow like never before. We haven't made a snowman in two years and suddenly there was enough snow for that kind of activity last Sunday. We were out all four in the family enjoying the snow. I think I was the one enjoying it the most. Today most of the snow is gone with the rain. Hopefully we have some warm winds coming in soon. Could you send some here... I know I have some visitors from places like Hawaii, China, Portugal, Africa and other places with agreeable climate.

In Sweden we have lots of space and green areas. The older generation live in their houses in nice enviroments. The younger generations pay huge amounts of money to buy their place to build and live. Me and Fred have been dreaming about a house for several years. The house prices have increased in a frightening way the past years. One thing is for sure: we should have bought a long time ago. Today you have to put everything you can earn in a house if you want one. Today old houses are as expensive as new houses so we are thinking about building one. To build a house in Sweden is like living out a Kafka story. We have lots of green areas and lots of rules what to do with them. We found a spot where we wanted to build a house. The owner wants to sell. The neighbour doesn´t want any new people around. Some time ago when the road comittee in this area was having a meeting the members joked with this man and told him that he ought to come up with some rare kind of sponge so that they wouldn´t have to have any newbies coming there. After this that guy told the town council about a very special kind of sponge only he has seen. They trusted him. Since it is difficult to find a place to build here we are anxious to do it right here where the owner wants to sell. We are also much into green living so if there is a rare sponge we also think it should be protected and it would have been safe in my garden. The problem is that no one seem to have seen this sponge and we wonder if it is only in this guy's head. It is strange in Sweden cause the owner of this land can do whatever he want with the area as long as he's not building a house.
We never thought the city council would object to this for a fungas noone care to go out and confirm is really there. Do we have people from the petticoat government ruling our city?!
This seem like a funny story that is not so funny for us and we would sure need some help to solve this.

So one thing to learn from this is that if you don´t want someone to build in sweden just come up with a funny sponge. It seems to work.

Audley End, Saffron Walden, England

Yesteday I was out surfin at Youtube trying to find a film from Audley End in Saffron Walden. We were 4 visiting this summer for a picnic concert and it was a great day even if it started raining after a few hours. I looked at this film and suddenly I saw a photo of us in white rain coats. It is Mr H showing cause we were so much into listening to the music a revival from the eighties with lots of great artists (tpau, belinda carlile, limal, james ure etc.)

I can really recommend the picnic concerts in England were they set it all up in a beautiful park with a castle in the background. No crowds. Every one is sitting and enjoying old times. http://www.picnicconcerts.com/

All the best from me
Anna

People aren´t prepared that the robbers are in the bank

Something that seemed so difficult to understand has suddenly become pretty clear to me. I am talking about the savings 70% of the Swedish people are doing in funds for the retirement: Tonights show of “Uppdrag granskning” (a Swedish TV-show that investigates supposed injustices) showed that Swedes rank in the top all over the world when it comes to this form of investing money. They are putting all of their savings into pension funds and at the end they realise that they have given away approx 38% of their money to the bank because of all the fees?! Is this what we want to do?
They explained a lot of things in this show last night like noone are supposed to understand where the bank got their index from. They just want you as a customer to believe that you have put your money in a good place and feel safe even if the funds are hitting an all-time low. That is what they use this index to. They just want the reader to see the headline and that is meant to give you a good feeling. The journalist asked a retired CEO of a bank department, if he and his wife could understand the meaning of the information that followed with the fond payment at the end of the year. And not even they could understand the essence of the information. The reflection after realising what the real profit was: that they were trying to hide it and to make the fees invisible. As I see it the only winners here are the banks. Yesterday I was thinking about saving more, but now I am certain that I should save in other forms (like in the matress) or spend the money, but to do it myself. I can lose a great deal of money and I wouldn´t have lost anything if I would have done that since I don´t need to pay the bank fees any longer. Like one of the guests at this show said: “People aren´t prepared that the robbers are in the bank.“

All the best from me
Anna