Tea Party

Last Tuesday I had a lovely little tea party with some lovely ladies. I dug out my nice china and baked lots of deliciousness that unfortunately didn't make it on to film. But my ever so dainty table setting did. Lots of gold and lots of glittering candles. It was a really nice time... I hope to host lots of lovely tea parties in the future too. New Years resolution perhaps...

The 1920s

I've drawn a new decades drawing... this time the 1920s.  I loved drawing all the art deco details!

All I need to do now is get it colored in. And then draw the 30s and the 40s :)

First of Advent

Yesterday was the first of advent. I love that it is officially Christmas and we can finally put up all of our decorations and lights. Everyone in Sweden has an advent star or light in their window, brightening the darkness! woo hoo it's so cozy and wonderfully gorgeous. I love it!

Boyfriend and I bought our first traditional advent light for our living room window too. Plus we put up our advent star and the few Christmas decorations we own (Santa pants, and a few glittery slippers in our rosemary/xmas tree.) Boyfriend even bought me a poinsettia!











Oh and then I finally got my pretty in pink Fifi Lapin framed and placed on my mini dressing table.

Pretty huh?

Happy Anniversary to us!

I had a really lovely weekend. Like, really really lovely. The boyfriend and I celebrated out 3 year anniversary on Saturday with a delicious dinner and lots of hugs and kisses (teehee!) Friday even started our weekend off in the right direction. We went into town and bought lots of yummy food for our special dinner, at Söderhallerna (one of Stockholm's gorgeous indoor food markets.) We adore grocery shopping especially when we get to treat ourselves... we can spend hours in these markets, so much yumminess to look at... and try. We bought 3 types of oysters, smoked Swedish shrimp, and a Pärlhöna (Ginnea Fowl I believe).






Saturday evening couldn't come soon enough, I was just so excited to start slurping up oysters and sipping on crisp white wine, while getting ever so giddy and giggly. I even dolled myself up for our evening at home.

Our first course included...
Swedish oysters (which were ridiculously over priced and not so tasty)
French oysters in two sizes (yummy)
Served with classic red wine shallot vinaigrette or Ponzu with seaweed sallad
Comté cheese
Smoked Swedish shrimp
and a bottle of dry crisp delicious Riesling

Our second course included...
A perfectly roasted ginnea fowl on a bed of mirepoix
Celery root puree and a Chanterelle mushroom au jus reduction sauce
Parsley for decoration
and a bottle of aged red Bourgogne

Dessert included...
A cup of hot tea, a few pieces of chocolate and lots of kisses.

Our Sunday was lovely too, I'll fix another post about that though. 

Hope you had a lovely weekend too!

A Mogi Christmas

Christmas finally feels like it's on it's way... now that Thanksgiving is over I suppose. No turkey, pumpkin pie, cranberry sauce, or even sweet potatoes covered in marshmallows for me this year, sigh. Oh well, Christmas is my favorite anyway. This weekend is already the first of advent. I look forward to putting up our star in the window and getting a few new advent candles to light up the darkness with.

I just finished a Christmas-y header for a lovely lady named Malin, who has a very popular Swedish blog, Mogis.se she wrote a really lovely post about my work too.

It's it lovely!?!

It shall be a very stylish Christmas indeed!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!


I'm thankful for all of my EmmaKisstina fans so as a big Thank You I have been putting together a few sets of illustrations on Etsy at a reduced prices and I've got a nice deal on Free Shipping on all orders Black Friday through Cyber Monday too, just use code: Xmas2011

Thank you!

More Scarves

Here are the three other designs I made for the first collection. What do you think?

They are size 40cm x 150cm (16" x 60") Same design, in three colors. Find them in my web shops now!

My Scarves!

I am just so excited that I can finally announce the arrival of my first collection of silk scarves!


I nearly ran all the way to the post office. Haha! Though I took the subway and a bus to get there instead (no need to go too crazy!) They are all sewn perfectly and the colors are vibrant and perfect.

Just a small note: I only took home a small shipment of the scarves, so there is only a small number of each design available before the holidays. I will make my next order soon though, and they will be ready after the New Year.

Finally in store (can't believe it is for real now)! On Etsy.com and Meinto.se

I'm in love with them! They are seriously gorgeous. Hope you love them as much as I do.

Campadre!

I'm running a campaign on Swedish shopping site Campadre today through Sunday. Very exciting! You have to be a member to take part in all the fabulous daily deals, so if you're a resident of Scandinavia you should sign up. I'm offering 40% off a selection of prints and print sets, fun huh? Plus there are tons of other popular and upcoming brands featured on the site right now too. I think the site idea is just genius!

Scarf Update!

I've been getting a lot of questions about my scarves lately so how about an update.

I wish I had more information about when they will be available but I don't. I think I've been saying they are coming tomorrow for about 2 weeks now, very irritating... Plus I had promised they would be available November 1st, so I'm way off schedule! It is embarrassing.  And the hard part is that it is out of my control. Blah. The company sewing the scarves has been taking their time and have been very bad at communicating with me.

I hope the extra time means that the scarves will be extra gorgeous (which is what I imagine they will be.) But bad communication is just no fun!

Maybe, just maybe I will get them tomorrow. For real this time! And as soon as I do I will make them available in my web shops. Promise...

Shalimar...

I made a new illustration today... Shalimar by Guerlain. It turned out really gorgeous, if you ask me... and a little different from my other illustrations some how. I guess it's the darker more potent colors. I think it's a start of something great. What do you think? Any one have Shalimar as their signature scent here?

When I was a teen my father helped me look for my very own signature scent. I loved the idea of having my very own scent, that smelled perfect on my skin, oh so very glamorous. We tried Shalimar (though the light version as I was so young) because it's my Aunt's signature scent, and we're very much alike... but it smelled just awful on me. After some searching I found my scent... Oui by Lancome. I wore it happily for a few years, unfortunately it is now off the market (or at least I thought so). I'm not even sure I remember how it smelled. Since then I haven't really found anything to replace it. I very rarely use perfume these days, but if I do, I think Stella's In Two Peony is just perfect.

I think I'll go spray some on right now...

A red toggle coat...

I bought myself a present! (Well deserved I think, it's been a while since I last bought myself something nice) A new winter wool coat from TopShop is what I treated myself too. It makes me so happy, it's really warm, and super classic too. Love!