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24 juin 2009

Souvenir de Freiburg (part 2)

Freiburg is one of the greenest cities I've ever seen. Of course the fact of being in the Black Forest it's a good starting point, but all over the city you can see how they have taken care of this aspect. They have several city parks, many houses have...

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Tags: cities, holidays, personal, photography, travel

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28 juillet 2009

Ikea is here

Yesterday was the offical opening of Ikea Dublin after a long and hard expectation. Personally, being welcomed by people in Swedish folk costumes and ABBA music playing out loud was quite a surreal experience for me but it didn't seem to affect the Dublin...

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Tags: cities, garden, shopping, interior design, botanic gardens

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24 juin 2009

Souvenir de Freiburg (part 1)

We spent last week in Freiburg , Germany, visiting friends. It was the second time I visited the city but somehow this time was specially enjoyable. We loved the summer weather, the smell of lime tree blossom everywhere, the good company of our friends...

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Tags: cities, holidays, personal, photography, travel

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18 juillet 2009

A golden tag

Last week I was busy helping Elaine with the gilding of her very luxurious bed. We had a great time and she took advantage of it to TAG me :-)So... Five favorite songs - Se telefonando (Ennio Morricone, sung by Mina)- Insieme a te non ci stò più (Paolo...

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Tags: personal, craft, blogs, furniture, gilding

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3 février 2010

I'd like to start my new 'blogging season' -this

I'd like to start my new 'blogging season' -this is, blogging again after a long busy period without internet at home- with some pictures from our holidays in Sicily last Christmas. The most delicious tangerines ever, from my boyfriend's family land....

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Tags: nature, holidays, landscape, trees, travel

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10 août 2009

Goodbye Dublin, goodbye Ireland

Only two days to go! As a farewell to Dublin and Ireland I've put together a list of the nicest places and things I've come across in the last three years. You can check them on THIS MAP too (with pictures!). The list is very limited, unfortunately I...

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Tags: cities, shopping, personal, travel, food

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4 mars 2010

Self portrait in my school assignment

It doesn't happen very often that you can wear your school assignments. I suppose this is one of the privileges of studying textiles. The project was about a colour: I chose pink. It was about making something to represent it: I chose crocheting a shawl....

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Tags: textile, projects, creativity, fashion, crochet

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27 février 2010

Batik and me

This is a batik piece I made on silk. I've been learning this technique in the Textile Dyeing workshop at school. I'd like to show a quick photo sequence of the process as I learned it: 1. Preparing the wax by melting it together with paraffin and filtering....

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Tags: textile, projects, craft, fabric, batik

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24 mai 2009

A pile of magazines

During my latest spring cleaning I came up with a solution for the storage of the interior design magazines I had. I realized that from each issue I only really like a few articles, let's say a 10 per cent of the magazine. By "really like" I mean things...

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Tags: sketchbook, interior design, magazines, storage

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28 mai 2009

Africa Day in Dublin

Last Sunday was one of the sunniest days I can remember since I came to Ireland three years ago. I know it sounds desperate, but for a Southern European living in this latitude a clear sky all day long and 25 degrees is just a miracle and can only be...

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Tags: cities, dublin, events, festival

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30 juin 2009

Souvenir de Freiburg: a mini shopping guide (the list)

So this is the list of the shops shown in the map above, organized by category. Fabric/Yarn/Haberdashery: One of the reasons why I didn't want to come back to Dublin. In Freiburg the shops selling textiles and yarn are many, and most important: I like...

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Tags: cities, holidays, shopping, travel

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26 avril 2009

Moodboard for the dynamic girl

One of the exercises of my Interior Design course was to make a moodboard for a "client" -in this case a person of the course played the role of the client- describing her personality after a short interview with her. My client was a woman in her late...

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Tags: collage, moodboards, photograpy, design

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6 mai 2009

Random screeprinting #2

Another experiment from Liz Nilsson 's screenprinting workshop. I was trying to use in a different way the screen with circles I had prepared for this design, and somehow the mesh got blocked so I got these 'faulty' print with some not printed spots....

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Tags: print, design, textile, screenprinting

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19 mai 2009

'Exit: pursued by a bear' project

This is the CD cover I designed as part of the final project for my Type and Image course. I was attending this course during the winter semester at NCA D with designer and photographer Aris Venetikidis . The task was to design a CD booklet for Exit:...

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Tags: graphic design, drawing, music, projects

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26 avril 2009

Moodboard for the spiritual girl

This is another moodboard I made for a "client" - role played by my friend Elena- for my Interior Design course, describing her personality and taste. As a good Italian she loves sun, sea and food. She's very interested in buddhism and meditation, other...

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Tags: collage, moodboards, design, photography

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22 avril 2009

I like building sites

I had never paid special attention to building sites until I had one in front of my house in Milan. There use to be a row of old houses on the other side of the street and one day when I was walking round the corner I heard a great roar: they were knocking...

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Tags: architecture, memories, cities, photography

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26 mai 2009

Interdependence: the Tree Project

The International Fiber Collaborative organized this community project called Interdependence . Over 7,000 textile leaves arrived from all over the world to contribute to the making of this full size tree that was exhibited in April. You can browse pictures...

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Tags: mixed media, textile, art, exhibitions

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30 juin 2009

(the list continues...)

Art/Antiques/Curios: Difficult to visit all of them on a short trip. These are some that caught my eye. - Langenbeck (Gerberaustrasse 6): metal antiques and replicas for period hauses. Beautiful period tiles from Replicata .- Silvia Steinhauser (Gerberaustrasse...

Posté par Laura Freire à 10:49 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: cities, holidays, shopping, travel

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20 août 2009

Sunny days and no internet

I am now in Spain, enjoying a real summer with high temperatures, picnics and trips to the beach. I don’t have an internet connection at the moment, so regular blogging will be difficult in the next weeks. As soon as I have my own place and proper internet...

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Tags: animals, nature, holidays, personal

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18 novembre 2009

Dionne Swift, textile artist

(picture from http://www.craftmaker.co.uk/dionneswift/) My favorite artist exhibition at the Knitting and Stitching Show in Dublin was the one by Dionne Swift . The first picture is one of her devore works on velvet. She also sells kits to experiment...

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Tags: print, textile, artists, exhibitions

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30 juillet 2009

The little boat sails again

As I mentioned before, Elaine and I are doing a skill swap: gilding for stained glass work. In the past weeks we were working on the gilding of her royal bed , which is a nearly finished project (can't wait to see the final results!) and I had my 2 day...

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Tags: pattern, workshop, craft, stained glass

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19 septembre 2009

Spain coast to coast

Well, it seems that my life is going back to normal after a month of holidays/relocation from Dublin. I arrived to Barcelona two weeks ago and I've been so busy since then: I spent three days going around the whole city to view rooms to rent, then I had...

Posté par Laura Freire à 17:26 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: cities, personal, photography, travel

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25 novembre 2009

Thai Textiles

I went to visit an exhibition about Thai Textiles in Casa Asia , a fantastic Asian cultural centre in Barcelona. Apart from organizing events and courses, they have a specialised library and media archive and three floors dedicated to exhibitions, all...

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Tags: textile, exhibitions, asia, oriental

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26 juillet 2009

Mum's magazine

While going through my little craft library I found a magazine I had 'borrowed' from my mother some time ago. It's a collection of Yugoslavian embroidery patterns published in 1978 by the Spanish publisher Realce that specializes in needlecraft pattern...

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Tags: craft, books, embroidery, vintage

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1 juillet 2009

A Swiss moment

In the latest posts I got very excited talking about Freiburg and I forgot to mention that before we arrived to Freiburg we spent a few hours in Basel, Switzerland. Here are some pictures: This is one of the moving objects in the very eccentric Jean Tinguely's...

Posté par Laura Freire à 22:37 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: holidays, photography, travel

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