Norway for 10 days, just us 5, outlaw and happy … see you soon
Monthly Archive for March, 2010
Posted by Wiebke from Line+Liv
I love to sit on the windowsill, in front of the house or in the street café and watch the hustle and bustle on the street. I think that every street, every place and every moment can be honest and inspiring.
For B:Kids “What to wear today” I have invited 4 beautiful women and asked them to look for us out of their windows and have asked them: ”Please take a look at the street: What is very special about the (school) children in your city?” Perhaps also connected with the small desire of mine to be able to just look at these streets of these cities at some point myself.
Today please meet Tami Nguyen Rael and Miriam Bernstein:
Tami (Nguyen Rael) is designer and owner from the kids fashion label ismodern and lives with her family in New York City :
“Children in New York City are very lucky. They live in a city that is diverse, vibrant, eclectic, bustling, and cultured but yet daunting, impersonal, noisy and crowded. These good and bad exposures create independent, confident, and tolerant mini citizens. That is the hope.”
Miriam Berstein is one of three sister, who founded the charming Israeli label Ada Ada. She lives in Tel Aviv/Israel:
“In Israel as a whole and especially in Tel Aviv (which is a very hot and humid city) the weather plays a big part of what we wear. The Tel Avivian children find creative, beautiful and funny ways to handle the heat and humidity which rule for the majority of the year. You can see them for example wearing extra big clothes of their siblings and fold them endless folds so they fit them in length but hardly touch them. Because they dislike hats (apparently it is no longer “cool” once your past 6 years old) they take old, worn out shirts of their parents and rap them around their heads (like the “CAFIA” from the Arabic culture). So in general you can see that they use their imagination, are influenced from cultures that are masters of dealing with heat- all to keep a little bit of chillness and their own chick. 
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… Sunday was the beginning of spring and with him came back the sun, my friend the wren, lemon butterflies streetcalk and pure luck…
…I feel this is also on the sides of Elisabeth Dunker ’s blog fine little day, in which she share with us her daily live with her family, so magical sweet as a bag of candy.
Together with the artist Camilla Engmann she share the Studio Velvet in Gothenburg… and soon, you can see these wonderful works by Line+Liv.
(Elisabeth´s daughter Tovalisa)
Which flower and what feelings means to you the Spring?
For me spring is more like the earth returns to it’s verdant state with lots of garden flowers in bloom than one specific flower. Spring is hope.
Kära Elisabet, jag var så glad att du har delat din VÅRKÄNSLOR med oss. Tusend tak!.
Bienvenue à Line+Liv…. out à fait magique marie et rose-alice de la France
(images marie et rose-alice)
image Kristina Klarin
… they look like big candies, they feel like the first spring days and the colors remind me of vanilla ice cream with strawberry meringue… my new necklace of Kristina Klarin
Erika Harbets is the heart of MIKODESIGN, a wonderful little dutch label. She designed and printed fabrics, which she “enchanted” into unique products for babies, children and women.
In her blog mikodesign she shares with us her wonderful work and her creative life with her husband and their two lovely daughters and today with us her spring feelings:
Which flower and what feelings means to you the Spring?
Spring is by my favourite season, I love that first day that I can sit in my garden in the sun out of the wind without a coat ( but still with scarf) and I love watching my garden wake from her wintersleep to see what suprises it has for me.
Dear Erika, how wonderful that you shared your lovely spring feelings with us. Dank u voor uw vriendelijke woorden!
… I look for warmth and that the wind coming across the sea, I look for sand under small feet and delicate fabrics on the skin.
With the summer 2010 collection by Ada Ada from Israel you hold the summer in your hands.
Ada Ada by Line+Liv
Dear Miriam, thank you for your lovely work and the nice surprise for my Molly.
I love beautiful things, where you can “sense and feel” the crafts and honorable holds in your hands, and these things are the works of Arounna Khounnoraj and John Booth from bookhou from Toronto/CA. I have the great good fortune to show some of their wonderful objects at Line+Liv … and you have the joy that Arounna shares her “first” spring feelings with us.
Which flower and what feelings means to you the Spring?
What spring means to me:
living in Canada and enduring the winter months can sometimes be hard – spring means the return of light, means pleasant walks down the street to visit our favourite cafe, means more trips to the park with the kids – it’s invigorating
Dear Arounna, thank you so so much for sharing your wonderful thoughts with us.
… with full force the winter came back over night. I could never have dreamed that I would even say: I WILL NO LONGER!
I miss my little friend the wren, I miss my Latte Macchiato in the street café, I miss my girls – face down on the ground – saying Hello to the first knops, I miss dry feet in my Converse, I miss my freckles and much much more…
To warm our hearts a little, I have invited a few lovely women from my blog world and asked them to share their spring feelings with us.
Anne Postrach is online editor of the wonderful children’s magazine LUNA, but for me much more “Sachensucherin” and therefore ”soul mates”. Inspirient, happy, loving are her blog posts on LUNAmag and always worth reading, just like her spring feelings:
Which flower and what feelings means to you the Spring?
It is a big job to decide which flower means ‘Spring’ for me, because somehow I like them all, the small, delicate, the snooty, slender and plump,robust. Perhaps I adore the one or other flower a little bit more – for anemones for example, or white tulips, but around me, I’d like to have them ALL (yes, for flowers I develop delusions of grandeur).
In the spring I dig up new courage and my bike, smiling dreamily over milk foam and find myself in constant hum- loudly – in the office and passers-by in the face.
Dear Anne, thank you for your love happy spring thoughts. I like to think of you again.