Decorating sports accessories during the SM week.

As you may have seen on Instagram, I have given my longboard and skate helmet a new costume. In the middle of winter. Probably because I long for swept streets and spring, but it's actually mainly because I've been tasked to decorate sports accessories during the SM week here in Skövde. So then I must have something to show!:)

Because between February 1-4, I sat at the Kulturhuset in Skövde at their "After game" and had my entire hobby supply with me just to decorate sports accessories. Everyone who came and visited could bring their own sports items such as e.g.a helmet, ping pong rack or bandy stick and then I sat there and did a little make-over as requested. Such a fun assignment!

This is what my helmet looked like before.

...And this is how it turned out afterwards. Now it suddenly feels a little more fun to wear a helmet! I have gilded the helmet and then painted a leopard pattern on it. Then I had to take the opportunity to also change my longboard so it matches.

This is what my longboard looked like before.

Since I now work quite a lot with traditional decorative painting, I chose to marble it. This is what our dining room table looked like for a long time.

And this is how it looks so far. I will probably take and gild the trucks as well so it matches the helmet.

And this is what my little corner looked like at Kulturhuset during SM week.

There were many requests about leopard helmets. How fun! (Photo: Mattias Nilsson)

How cool?

Some helmets got some bling-bling on them. Works as a slightly more luxurious reflex?

Camilla in the picture and the owner of the helmet is also a reporter on radio Treby and did a small interview with me. The conversation can be listened to here: https://www.radiotreby.se/podcast/sanna-wieslander/

I didn't have time to take so many more before and after pictures during the evening. Time just ran away! But there were a lot of helmets, a bandy stick and a ping-pong rack that got a new costume. In addition to me sitting there decorating sports accessories, the house was full of performance, live music and the after work/game mingling foyer. A really lovely atmosphere!

Me and the family with friends also took the opportunity to visit the SM area and had a look at the men when they skied cross-country and parallel slalom. Kind of cool to have such a big event so close to your own garden.

Thank you SM week and Kulturhuset for a really fun assignment! And for all of you who came in and talked and handed in your sports gear to me. Now I'm longing for spring so I can use my own "new" leopard helmet :)

Marmorerade pelare i trapphus.

It's so fun to finally be working again after maternity leave and two years of craft studies. It felt a bit unsettled there for a while when I quit my studio in Gothenburg and moved to Skövde. Being completely new in a city where I don't know anyone. I kind of had to market, network and rebuild the company again (in the middle of a pandemic). But it's been so much fun and what a fantastic reply I've received! Skövde has really welcomed us with open arms and I'm enjoying myself so much here now! Now I also have more legs to stand on and focus more and more on decorative painting, and it makes me happy that so many people want to take care of the old craftsmanship. So you will get to hang out with me on many decorative painting projects in the future!

Last week I worked in an apartment building on Vasagatan here in Skövde where five columns were to be marbled in "Swedish green" marble. They just renovated the stairwell and repainted the walls from red tones to a bit more green and grey-scale and wanted the columns to match. So then I got to visit!

I was given a color code for the capital and base to be repainted, as well as sanding and priming the columns before I could start marbling. This is how they looked before (in the entrance):

This is how it turned out afterwards!

Surely it got a little nicer? They will also redo the stairs and polish the floors so it will be new and fresh. It will be super nice! More pictures from the process as well as pictures of the remaining pillars comes here:

Close up of how the base layer looked like before.

Capital and base painted and the pilar before marbling.

Building a first layer.

In the first layer, I also remove paint to create cracks and shifts. After that I make layer number two following by a top coat. The result turned out like this:

Thanks Celander for a fun assignment! And thank you all residents of the house for a lovely company :)

Svenskt Tenn

In September, I received a call from my dear cousin who works at Svenskt Tenn asking if I could make some marbled backgrounds for the photography of their Christmas collection - Atlantis. And I got so excited!

I received a clear sketch from Svenskt Tenn of which types of marble they wanted, measurements, shape and how it would be composed. Then it was time to get started! However, it was quite a tight schedule. I had about a week before they needed to be sent up for the shoot. During this time, I also worked a lot at Colorama in Skövde, so I had to sit every evening/night and work with this (From the living room to my family's delight haha). But it was an intense week but so much fun!

Here are some pictures from the process.

Large mdf boards that were primed and varnished.

Slowly a triangle pattern is built up with different types of marbles. Here I have laid brass as a base for one piece and made the first layer of a Swedish green marble on another.

One piece ready!

Done! This is how they looked before I sent them up to Stockholm.

Tada!After some magic in their photo studio, I then had these photos sent to me.

Cool huh? If you want to see more, the pictures are now also up on their website www.svenskttenn.com. And soon there may be more if you go in and follow them on Instagram ;)

Thank you Hanna and Svenskt Tenn for a super fun project!