Monday, December 19, 2011

365 DAYS

2011 turned out to be the year for accomplishing personal milestones!
-I travelled to great new destinations such as Montréal, Shanghai and Warsaw
-hanged around in more "familiar" places such as Tokyo, New York and Paris
-visited dear friends in places all over the world
-could welcome my family and close friends for nordic holidays at my home
-celebrated my 30th birthday beside the swimming pool
-got my driving license after an intensive driving course on the swedish countryside
-got double nationality belgian-swedish
-gave new life to my "Model Talk/Fashion Flash" cartoon (this time as an online blog)
-got a deal for monthly publication in Elle Belgium with "Model Talk", my fashion cartoon
-got a deal with Rabén&Sjögren -a major swedish book publisher- to illustrate the book covers for the "Vildhäxan" series by Danish writer Lene Kaaberbol.
-got promoted to a new design job within H&M, as designer for a new concept which will be launched next summer
-won the christmas tree design competition at H&M and got my design made, to decorate the H&M design headquarter here in Stockholm
-created a lot of new embroideries and illustrations
-and last but not least; won for the second time the Elle Gala dress design competition!

With other words: 2011 has been quiet an amazing year and I feel very blessed to be able to share it with wonderful people around me. I´m very much aware that luck and happiness is not always omnipresent all the time, yet I hope that 2012 will bring beautiful and happy moments too. That´s something I try to look and live for, but I also wish it to everyone around me! A beautiful life is like magic, sparkling stars that are there for you to look at, enjoy and share. To wish everybody good fortune, I´d like to send you all a star; a source of endless creativity, warmth, light, love, luck and happiness!

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

AND THE WINNER IS...

A while ago I send in an application for the H&M in-house Christmas tree design competition. To my delight, my idea ended up being the winning concept!
So today -after the Lucia choir brought us angel voices- my Christmas tree also got its moment of glory. The tree was called "Fly me up to Heaven", and the concept behind it was "thinking outside of the box" and "reaching for the stars". With this in mind we had attached dozens of midnight blue helium balloons to the tree. Each week it´s also a brand new color, with the return of the golden light as the climax to celebrate Christmas.
As a reward I also got a most amazing book about Tree houses, the perfect present, knowing that I´m just totally in love with tree houses and since ever dreamed about one day also living in one myself! This book will be the inspiration for many new projects!