The lady with pin cushion hair

As an art student you usually get alot of stuff laying around like clay sculptures that are just sitting around the place. I needed a new pin cushion and so I crocheted her a little bun wig. Looks a bit voodoo!

Engraving on my mind!

The same day I was celebrating one week as a Växjö citizen they had their annual culture night (for me? Aww, you shouldn't have!) and so I went with my sister Alice and her boyfriend to see what was goin' down. Besides chocolate testing, a pyro/dance show, art exhibitions and live music we got to try out some engraving on glass at smålands museum. The machine was kind of like the ones tattoo artists would use.

Once one got the hang of it twas easy to get carried away. Maybe it's my new weapon of choice?

This is what I did...

And here's Alice, looking like a pro.

Fancy a plate?

Today I visited artist Iréne Haglund (Marintodesign) and she showed me the ways of porcelain decorating which is a skill she learned from her mother who besides being a housewife kicked some ass at pimping porcelain.

One of her mother's designs. Gotta love that old wrinkled up tracing paper!

 Iréne is mixing the powder and medium to make porcelain paint.

As for my own design - I went spontaneous... for about 2,5 h!

Good thing I'm only half hindustani or else there would be some serious over-decoration going on ;) I didn't have enough time to do anything revolutionairy (since I'm in the midst of packing my things and moving to another city) but next time there might be unicorns. Now let's just hope this thing survives the oven.