Collected Paper Trails by Up The Wooden Hills

I can't tell you how happy I am to finally be able to share with you "Collected Paper Trails" - a project that I've been working on during the last couple of months. Some of you might already be a little familiar with it through sneak peaks on Instagram and the bazaar I attended here in Gothenburg a few weeks ago – where I secretively launced it as a test :)

Collected Paper Trails is a paper decoration collection that consists of hand-folded cranes, origami balls in two different sizes and an origami set with folding papers. All the hand-folded items functions as home decorations.

The patterns are inspired by childhood memories, summer, the beach, ice-cream, sunshades, graph paper from my mom's stationary notebooks, old amusement parks, Paris, some graph paper my dad used while making drawings of interior details he built for ships, candy bags, sprinkles, candy-floss, cakes, confetti and my grandmother's cross-stitch embroidery. Some of the patterns derive from old maps and the rest are original designs made by me.  :)
I have been working with this project parallell to designing the  Take Me To The Hamptons Collection clothing collection and they share a lot of the same inspiration.

As the title implies, it's really about collected trails on paper, old things and memories, people and trips to different places, that somehow leave a track in the heart. I have interpreted these feelings into different patterns.

 All the paper items are now available in my shop. I hope you like the collection! :) All photography by Up The Wooden Hills 2013.

Springtime and Cherry Blossoms

Cherry blossoms, cherry blossoms and cherry blossoms. I guess you can figure out that they were going to be one of the flowers of this month here on the blog. :)

Last week I was out in the sunshine and took these photos when the first cherry blossoms had started to burst. When I walked by these trees yesterday they were in full bloom. I have to admit that it was hard to "kill your darlings" when it came to these photos that I took, so I guess you're gonna have to bear with me and scroll through all of these! :) I hope you like them! Every year I feel intoxicated by the beauty of these particular flowers - their shapes and perfect light pink colour. These flowers are also a definitive sign of spring. I've longed for this season for so long, and now it's finally here! :)

Work In Progress: Up The Wooden Hills - Take Me To The Hamptons (Summer's In The Air And Baby, Heaven's In Your Eyes) 2013

As promised here are the first sneak peaks from my upcoming collection! So much has happened this year, and it has made me busy with a lot of work with the brand, including orders (thank you so much!)! So the new collection had to wait a little. :) But hopefully it's going to be ready to launch during the end of this month.

This time it's titled "Take Me To The Hamptons" and it's going to be an all year around collection for 2013. Even though Up The Wooden Hills is based on the gloomy and sometimes very rainy west coast of Sweden, I figured it can be spring and summer here all year anyway, at least in our minds.

I started putting together the first sketches of the collection in end of last year. Gothenburg was so dark, cold and grey. I watched several episodes of New Girl, listened to Lana Del Rey and Jessie Ware and dreamt of ice cream in pastel colours and summer days at the beach in the Hamptons. I scrolled through Fieldguided's capture of greens & pinks from last summer and felt nostalgic about summer vacations from my childhood that included sleepovers at my grandmother Signe's place and road trips together with my family in Southern Sweden and on the island Öland, located in the Baltic Sea.

During the winter here I longed for my grandmother's garden with all her flowers that included peonies, lupins, dahlias and roses. When I was a child I used to sit there and look at all the flowers and we always picked fresh raspberries, red currants, carrots, potatoes and parsley together in her garden land. During sunny days we spent a lot of time sitting out on her porch, having coffee under a parasol with floral fabric inside.

On the road trips with my family we always stopped by at numerous rest areas and had coffee that we brought in thermoses and food in a cooler bag. Sometimes we found our own spots near the roadsides by the woods and took out tent chairs that we brought with us, had fika and listened to the birds singing. :)


In every collection I always try to find the essence of Up The Wooden Hills that is "happy, beautiful and comfortable". I use dress models from past collections and rework them so that they become better and better each year when it comes to fit and look. The fabrics I've used are classic tana lawn that are included in Liberty's "Flower Show Collection". Take Me To The Hamptons also has lots of blues, similar to The Blue Hour from last year.

This year I've also put more focus to my brand's graphic profile and designed a few patterns for my paper tags, business cards, button cases and thank you cards. These patterns are also closely connected to another project that some of you already know about that I'm going to tell you more about here on the blog next week as well. :)






P.S. The cherry blossoms have started to burst here, so I guess spring time is finally on it's way. See you next week! :)
 

Basar - Vintage & Design Market in Gothenburg

Yay! I'm getting the first sneak peaks of the collection ready, but in the meantime I thought I would do a post about this!

Next Saturday, April 27 I'm hosting a bazaar here in Gotenburg together with Lotta Lunberg behind Drömma and Carina Östlund behind the brand bib. I'm going to be one of the vendors as well and bring dresses from some of my collections and a few from the new one that I'm currently working on! I'm also going to have a mini launch for another project that I can't wait to tell you more about on the blog during May.

If you live in town or happen to be here next weekend it would be so much fun if you would stop by - chat with us, enjoy the premiere of spring and have a look at the beautiful items from all the vendors!

If you have a Facebook account you can read more about the event and RSVP here :)

Hope to see you there! ♥

Flower of the Month

The flower of this month is the poppy anemone! This flower has become a new favourite of mine  recently and its combination with the best features from poppies and anemones makes it so stunningly beautiful.

The flowers on the pictures were my first boquet I ever bought, but not the last :) I'm happy that we are moving towards spring. Next month feels like an amazing flower month. And I've already decided that during May there will be posts about more than one flower :)

Next up is actually a sneak peak from the new collection. It feels like the collection has become a secret project until now, but not for too long! The launch will be in May this year. A bit later than usual, but it's coming, I promise! :)

Places to Visit: The Royal Café (Copenhagen)

The Royal Café / The Royal Smushi Café
Amagertorv 6
1160 Copenhagen K

When I was in Copenhagen in March I visited The Royal Café / The Royal Smushi Café, next to The Royal Copenhagen shop. It is a beautiful place where the interior and environment feels like a mix of historical eras and modern city life.

The café includes designs, furniture, porcelain, textiles and so on, from Royal Copenhagen as well as other Danish designers like Fritz Hansen, Kvadrat, Holmegaard, Georg Jensen and more.

The café has a chic, modern and elegant feel to it, with its big windows, high ceiling, pink walls, white tiles floor, long tables, mirrors, big historical paintings, flower illustrations on the wall and still life in little glass boxes here and there. The interior style is playful and humourous with its mix of many historical interior styles that go from Baroque to today.

When I was there I got the feeling that it was a place full of life and pulse - the essence feeling of a trendy café in a modern big city. Everything was served on beautiful porcelain and I especially recommend their chocolate cake with walnuts and rose petals. It was delicious!

Happy Easter & Flower of the Month!

Happy Easter! I hope you guys are enjoying the weekend/holiday and are spending it with your loved ones. Soon I'm going to leave the office work behind and take some time off.

New clothes are in the making here in the studio together with another little project that I can't wait to reveal more about soon!

The flower of this month is the lovely daffodil. I actually had another flower picked out in the first place, but since Easter came earlier this year they had to switch place. The daffodil's vibrant yellow colour really shines and brightens up every place. It's been nice to see daffodils here and there lately, another reminder that spring is coming!

See you after the holidays! :)