NatNat

I am a woman living in Sweden with a love for art and the outdoors! Summertime involves a lot of gardening and hiking. When fall and winter arrives I spend more time painting, sewing and dabbling in different crafty things. Drinking good tea or coffee whilst making my cat, who thinks she's a dog, play fetch with fabric mice.

This October I will join an online challenge for medieval scribes/scrollwork/art. This might influence my ATC making. Maybe I even teach myself how to use gold leaf!

I love garment making, though I don't do it as often as I want to. It takes a lot of time, space and materials. If I want to still handle a needle, but on something smaller I like to design cute embroidery designs and make random small storage pouches or sewing kits.

I also like creating art. Watercolours is my go to. Sometimes I do acrylics or other mediums, but the spontainety of watercolour is something I really like.

This winter I got myself a set of proper carving sloyd knives and I am trying to slowly and carefully teach myself to carve spoons! It's fun, but messy. Wood shavings everywhere. So it's mostly an outdoor in the summer kind of activity.

I love creating ATCs, they're the perfect tiny size to be able to make something nice in an evening without having to commit to a huge canvas.

They are a nice way to wake up the creativity and try out new ideas, art forms and techniques.

There is a lot of things I like. I love random paper crafty items, like stickers, pieces of washi or die cuts. I don't have a die cut machine so it's nice to receive from others. :)

I love sewing notions, especially vintage. I make some of my clothes, I am into historical sewing(I mainly sew medieval stuff and Viking era stuff) and I do the occasional quilt.

My main colours I wear are earthy, forest tones and gold framed glasses.

While I do love most type of snacks, anything that melts won't work in the mail between November to March. My postbox is just above the radiator.

• A Art!
• B Botanical illustrations and prints!
• C Colour theory
• D Dried flowers
• E Embroidery. I mostly donscandi style folk art.
• F Food.
• G Gardening, I have a garden allotment
• H Hiking
• I Illustrations, and Illumination(thing decorated letters from medieval manuscripts)
• J Journaling. Trying to keep up with my bullet journal.
• K Kraft paper, I like its vintage vibe.
• L Lace
• M Masking/washi tape and Museums.
• N Nature and Notebooks.
• O Opals
• P Paper goods, and paper crafting
• Q Quills and Quilting. Since quilting is a very American thing, I only have expensive online quiltshops to go to so quilting things is something I won't be swapping I think.
• R Regency era (Think Jane Austen!)
• S Scrapbooking
• T Typewriters and thrift shopping! I also have a small tansy tattoo on my arm.
• U Unboxing all your wonderful swaps!
• V Vellum, Vintage sewing notions and paper ephemera
• W Wool. I wear wool a lot, but I am a bad knitter. Love wool socks! European size 38, US 7,5.
• X This is a too hard letter!
• Y Yule! Snow, lit candles and indoor trees.
• Z Zentangles. It was ages ago I did some, but they fit on the letter Z!
• Å Årstider! Swedish word for Seasons! Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn! They are all lovely in their own way.
• Ä Äldre papper (Antique paper!)
• Ö Örter! Swedish for herbs. Amazing in food, and smells amazing in the garden. Some also make nice teas.