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….following in the footsteps of two fabulous Swedish designer women, Frida and Karin is yes, another Swede. However, I am a Swede gone American. Living in Boston for five years, currently working in the city as an Industrial Designer.

My own blog, red.house, is where I dream about the perfect home [a red house in the Swedish country side] and everything else that I find inspirational within the realm of design.

I am so excited to be sharing some of my inspirations with all of you! Thank you Grace for this wonderful opportunity!

I am hoping to focus mostly on textiles, but there will also be some prints and illustrations in there from both sides of the Atlantic. : : enjoy : :

lena corwin has always been queen of patterns to me and i think she’s really on to something with her printed wooden blocks. she tested out a new piece in her home and it was too cute to pass up. i’m hoping if all goes well maybe she’ll start selling pieces like this on found wood…such a fun idea.

every year i wish i had gone to this show, but thankfully reluct has some gorgeous photos from the grad show at eindhoven. click here for a fantastic slideshow of designs showcased this year at the design academy eindhoven. enjoy!

thanks so much to the wonderful karin eriksson for her fantastic work on the guest blog these past two weeks. she had some really beautiful finds and i hope you’ll all continue to read her blog now that she’s back “home”. as we say goodbye to karin, it’s my pleasure to welcome a relatively new blogger- anna of red.house! since she founded her blog in july of 2006, anna has been tracking some of the best scandinavian design on the web. a designer herself (and a native of sweden), anna will be sharing some of her best scandinavian design finds (focusing on textiles and prints) as well as any other great tidbits she comes across. so, welcome anna! click here to check out her debut posts.

[after these three scandinavian bloggers we'll move to a different region...so fret not if you fear i've gone scandi crazy over here]

My time on the guest blog is over. Thank you Grace and all readers for having me! I hope I’ve given you some food for thought and inspiration. If you want to get to know me more, please come visit my blog.

I shall leave you with a heart from Dada’s Diamonds “That’s Amore” collection and a bird brooch from Grainne Morton. Bye, bye!

Many of you really liked Maxine Sutton’s work, and I asked her whether she sell to anywhere in the US? She doesn’t yet, but she’s working on it. In the meantime, contact her directly through her website.

ac and i are off to the mohonk mountain house for our three year anniversary. we’ll return on monday evening so i’ll be back blogging on tuesday. stay tuned tuesday for a brand new guest blogger and on wednesday, november first: the next crop of designers at the d*s shop! so, if you want to order any of the october goods get em while they’re still up! we’ll be closing the shop on sunday evening to tally and prep for wednesday. have a wonderful weekend and we’ll see you on tuesday! until then here are some design links to keep you going through tuesday…[the print above is by amazing artist jacqui oakley for the junior boys album cover]

• fresh design at d*s on hg (updated daily)
• karin’s last days at the d*s guest blog (thank you, karin!)
• submissions for the letterpress guide (thanks to everyone who has emailed, i’ve gotten so many emails i haven’t been able to reply to them all yet- sorry!)
• the d*s newsletter- now weekly!
• free people’s blog, via joy
• mia hanson, via poppytalk
• think pink at print+pattern
• design in literature at ace jet 170
• my last day at jon’s site