Memories of Italy in the bathroom

This is a wall in my bathroom, all white tiles exept this one space - or two actually but I did only take one photo - where I have some nice memories of Italy.

This is some pieces of ceramic tiles that I have found on my walks on the beaches of southern Italy in beautiful The Amalfi coast.
I collected them during a holiday in Positano some years ago, and thought that could come handy one day.
And here they are now, in my bathroom so I can remember Italy every day.

Houses on water in Borneo

And as I promised yesterday, here is some photos of other houses on water, these are from Malaysia, in the island Borneo. You se one young inhabitant here in the picture.

As the ones in Thailand the homes ar made of wood and they are built on stilts in the water.

The people that lives here are also called "sea gypsies", just as the where named in Thailand.

And here you have one more photo of the village in Borneo, we came there with this small boats, or canoes that you can see in the picture.

Houses on water in Thailand

I have been to two different places, one in Thailand and one in Malaysia, Borneo, where people live on water.

Like this one here, a small willage that visited some time ago in Thailand, not far away fom my then holiday location in Khao Lak. A place that now is completely rebuilt by the way, my hotel was hit hard by the tsunami, just 7 month after my stay there.

Here is one more picture of that village, it's really a tourist attraction these days, but people actually lives there, on water.

Tomorrow I will post pictures of some houses on water in Malaysia, in Borneo.

The James Bond Island in the Phang Na Bay.

And this is wood

My mother usually used clay to work with, and made it look like wood. This time I can show you one piece that really is made from wood. The one to the right in this picture.

And the other one, to the left is - as you can understand now - in ceramics as usual. But they are both inspired by nature. We all come from the same place, the same earth.

Summer in Uppsala

Again, I wish you all a happy new 2012!

As you may now by now, vinter is not my favorite time of the year. So I will start this year with som summer photos from Uppsala. In the picture abowe you can se the Fyrisån, the small but beautiful river of Uppsala.

Uppsala is the fourth largest city of Sweden and is just 67 km north of Stockholm, it is also the seat of the Archbishop of the Church of Sweden. You can se the big cathedral in this picture.

Uppsala University is very old, the oldest one in the country, founded in 1447. Here you can see Carolina Rediviva, the main building of the university library.

Here is a picture of the commercial center of Uppsala, it has plenty of nice shops and restaurants.
What I will say, it is well worth a visit!

Happy New Year!

I wish you all a Happy New Year! I promise to write more stories and give you all more updates from my home here in Sweden, with a lot more of my mothers work and I will also bring you more stories from my travels abroad.

So - see you all next year, 2012!

Male and female - in art

Here we have som more art from Gunvor, first out is this one that is a motherly statue made of ceramics. A mother with children.

Then you have this female torso in ceramics - but it looks like wood. Like wood worms have made their marks in. You seen it before her on my blog.
My mother loved the nature and everything that she could find out there, then she made some art of it, mostly in ceramics. But not always.

Then we have this torso here, not as naturalistic as the other one, but just as strong.

And then - this is a male torso.