The ones that know me well know that I enjoy sad and dark books. There is something refreshing about reading a story that drills into your soul and makes you weep. I think the beauty is that you can simply close the book and be back to your own life that all of a sudden isn’t all that bad. Some people like jumping into an icy cold ocean, some like diving into a dark and mind-shattering books. I think we all need something that shakes us up once in a while.
All my life I have made stories in my head. This is how I fall asleep. It might be a sign that my stories are boring but it is nice to lull yourself into sleep by escaping somewhere else. I struggle falling asleep when I am too exhausted to make up stories in my head. My nighttime stories are mostly of happy nature but there is a certain dark element that haunts them. Ever since I was a kid I have been convinced that nothing that I imagine can come true…
When I saw the house in the photos below my mind went crazy. The house oozes of sadness and loneliness. I immediately started picturing all the sad stories that could have happened there. That old lady that lived there and that nobody ever saw except when she went out at night and walked around the island with an empty baby stroller. Those two little boys in rags that nobody knew who were but could be seen standing outside the house on a moonlit night. Or the old man that…
In any case I am pretty sure this house has some stories to tell. It is on Skogsøya the same island we took the pirate photos on. It is simply beautiful despite it being so worn and about to fall apart.
I made a dress for my daughter before we left on vacation. A purple dress, which happened to match the flowers surrounding the house perfectly. As nobody is living there I figured we could sneak up to the house and take some photos. The doors on the back where a little bonus we discovered. Beautiful!
The dress is made from the Antalya pattern. Truth be told, I wouldn’t have picked this fabric myself but my little girl’s favorite color these days is purple. Surprisingly there isn’t a large selection of purple fabric but we found Lizzy House, Butterflies, Chasing Butterflies in Grape Fizz at Hawthorne Threads which we could both accept. The white fabric is some old Stoff og Stil cotton I had with tiny little white dots. I love the shape of this dress and it feels quite unique. I however struggled a bit with the pattern. The illustrations don’t seem proportionate to the actual pattern pieces (might be size dependent) and the description for the opening on the back wasn’t quite clear to me. Otherwise it was a rather straightforward pattern.
Vaaa. Fallegar myndir æðisleg stelpa, kjóll og umhverfi.