Jessica Backup

OMG. I’m joining you in video form today! Isn’t that crazy! I thought I’d upgrade my creative updates to video updates, so this is the first one! IT WAS SO MUCH FUN. Other things: I ordered business cards the other day!! Don’t forget to turn in your creations for Monthly Makers over at Stina’s . Here’s the link to the event for the exhibition I’m going to be a part of. The video is a lot longer than I set out for it to be. The first version was 20 minutes though :)))))) I’m meeting Emma next week! For the first time! Hype! And that was all I had to say! This looks like a pretty short blog post but considering the millions of words I said in that video I don’t think it is haha. Whatever. Hope you like it!

I was going to make a collage for this months Monthly Makers-theme. The theme is “thrift shop”, if you didn’t know, and I was going to use old books and magazines to make something. And then I spent one day playing with paint with my sister, and making a collage suddenly felt like the most boring thing ever. I didn’t want to stop experimenting with paint, and then Mikaela was just like “just buy something in a thrift shop and paint on it?”. Which was – like most brilliant solutions are – kind of simple and obvious. But still brilliant, so thanks Mikaela!! So I went over to the thrift shop across the street to find something to pour paint, and came home with three different trays. One of them was metal so I didn’t really believe it was gonna work out that well with acrylic paint (it didn’t) and the second one was some kind of varnished plastic that the paint didn’t stick to either.  Luckily the third one I found was w...

The new theme for Monthly Makers was released a few days ago, and it really doesn’t translate that well into English because “flea market” sounds like such a weird theme haha. Maybe “thrifted” is a better word? Anyway, that’s kind of what it is. You can head on over to Stina to see the presentation. I thought I’d put together a post with some inspiration on the theme! I’m thinking a lot about collages and stuff like that for this month, as I kind of just want to interpret in a way of reusing old things/things that were meant to be used for something else! Below are a few things that are inspiring me! Click the images to get to original! Angela Deane’s Ghost Photographs. Drawing on found photographs. Amazing. This blackout poem by Bokpoesi. This embroidery street art by Raquel Rodrigo.  Vilde Rolfsen’s plastic bag landscapes. THESE ARE SO STUNNING I can’t believe they’re plastic bags??? Also, shameless self-prom...

Had the best day the other day! The most colorful day of my life, probably. The morning was spent together with the creative superstar and blogger extraordinaire Anna María at the information breakfast for press for the exhibition “Colour Emotions” at the Hallwyl Museum! And in the evening I went to the opening. It was spectacular, really, and I thought I’d tell you all a little bit about my day + the creations. (Which were amazing, so keep reading.) But first a little bit about the exhibition! It is part of Stockholm Design Week, and curated and created by the talented (and ever so colourful) interior artist Sara Garanty. It’s been a yearly thing for three years now, with different themes every year, but one thing in common: it’s colourful. Sara wants to promote the use of colours in a country which is otherwise characterized by a lot of grey skies and white interiors. (Sweden, if you didn’t guess.) So she has curated this show of 10 female cre...