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CINDY LACKEY

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Happy Weekend + Travel

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Happy weekend, everyone. I hope you are having just as much fun hanging out with all your loved ones as I am right now. Have a wonderful sunny weekend!

PS This snapshot is from our short layover at the Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. More from our travels on my Instagram and Twitter feeds!

 

// around the web this week

FOUR more of my fabric designs will be sold on Minted very soon! Check out South West Key, Geometric Net, Golden Triangle and Seven Triangles.

This home is full of crafty inspiration (like a super awesome paper mache eye tray)

light up some calming incense in this clay DIY holder

Oh how I wish I could have gone to this DIY workshop

chocolate macaroon cake, um, yes please!

Happy Weekend + Creative Mornings

Today is an admin day at Swedish school so no school for me! What should I do with all this new free time? Wake up really early and go to Creative Mornings!

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Creative Mornings is a worldwide group (find your city here) meeting once a month to hear inspiring talks from local creatives. All the talks get put up on their website so you can hear with creatives in San Francisco or Berlin or Sydney think about a wide range of topics. This month’s topic is Ink so the Malmö chapter invited three inspiring illustrators to speak and answer questions on why ink is an important medium.  Oh, and there’s coffee and treats and, this morning, temporary tattoos, too! I connected most with the work of Tovelisa, who has done a bunch of awesome illustrations for Granit and also has a coloring book for adults (I love this idea!) coming out soon. You can find her work for sale here.

When you talk about ink, I think, you also have to talk about the opposite of ink. Which, right now, feels like it might be digital. As if ink is old media and digital is the new frontier where all your mistakes are a command+z away from perfection. But of course, it’s knowing how and when to use each that can make the most beautiful result. The very first architectural firm I worked for out of collage strongly encouraged starting all designs on paper and trace with ink first. It all felt like such a waste of time to me! Shouldn’t we get to the doing part? No one’s going to see the ink stuff so I felt like we should just start blocking things out in the design program and work up from there so as not to waste time. But they were right. Something gets lost, creativity slips away, when you can press delete so easily. Or worse, you go down a rabbit hole of how some little command works or that’s not the right thickness of line and how do I change it and what’s that new cool feature that is suppose to make everything better and how is it used? Before you notice an hour has gone by and you better well have something ready to present. Oops. So ink is a better start. I think it’s wonderful to find out how that new feature works, and maybe it will be really awesome, but when you need to create something ink is better. When I work I don’t want anything between me and getting all the creativeness out. If it comes out wrong, I can fix it later in that fancy design program, but first I have to get the creative out.

Sitting in front of a blank piece of paper with an (old) pen in your hand is a bit daunting. The only thing between you and a realization of creativity is ink. And maybe that’s better.

// what to do this weekend

another beautiful diy clay-as-ceramic piece. Now with more CHEESE!

craft up a spring time wreath

daydream of a coffee and food filled trip through Lucerne, Switzerland

Happy Weekend + Vårmässan 2015

 

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I was invited yesterday by  Helén Sandström of Ogeborg to Vårmässan (Spring Fair) 2015, hosted by Input Interiör in Limhamn. I had a wonderful time exploring a little over 60 different vendors products. We also were treated to a fabulous dinner with a stunning view of the Öresund bridge and strait at sunset. It was a really lovely evening with really lovely people.

This shot is from the Hay booth, which was amazing as always. I posted a few images last night and I’m going to be posting more of the image from the evening over the next week on my instagram and twitter feeds. So go follow me!

// what to do this weekend

drool over Cocorrina’s work for Jessica Photography. Stunning.

grab some spring flowers and decorate eggs

and pop them all in this clay egg carton

or be totally inspired to completely re-vamp your living room. Are you guys following this? It’s crazy and I love it.

Happy Weekend + Minted Wins

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Happy Weekend, guys! Its been a crazy first week of intensive language classes. I’ve made a couple new friends and I already feel much more confident about my Swedish.

And, I have some really awesome news. The Minted editors selected four of my designs to include in the third round of their collaboration with West Elm! I’m so excited to be a part of this new collection which will be released for sale over the month of April. Thank you to everyone who voted for my work on Minted. You guys totally rock!

The winning prints are: Blå Rådhuset Malmö + Palm Study #1, #2, #3

If you’re itching to do a bit more voting, I’ve got three designs up in the Minted Children’s Party Invitation Challenge: Lion’s Roar, Pre-Historic Party, Conservatory Of Flowers. You can see all my work on my Minted Challenge Pinterest board. Thanks again for voting, guys!

// what to do this weekend

sign up for some happiness in your mailbox

craft up something you’ll keep around after Easter (bonus! It’s another clay project)

plan the first picnic of the year

really get into the eyeball trend with these DIYs

Happy Weekend + Language

 

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I was totally taken by Maschmanns Matmarked in Oslo, Norway last week. Their display of groceries is so simply and yet so beautiful. We stopped in for lunch on a Sunday (yep, they are open on Sundays) and had amazingly yummy pizza. They also had scrumptious looking pastries that I will definitely be taking part in next time.

Next week I start intensive Swedish language classes with the state run SFI. I have been waiting four months to be placed in a school and I am so excited to finally get down to business! I’ve got some basic knowledge from our time at Folkuniversitetet but I’m not conversational or anything. The class will meet every day for five hours a day and, when I feel ready, I can test up to the next level until I complete the school. The whole process should take 6-8 months for me to complete.

One of our New Year’s resolutions this year was to really dig into Swedish life here in Malmö. For me that means becoming full fluent in Swedish is a huge priority. I’ll be dropping my posts here on the blog down to three per week so I will have enough time to focus on my fluency goal. Please check in on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays for new posts and wish me lycka till (good luck)!

// what to do this weekend

read the news in very basic Swedish

freshen up your desktop backgrounds

whip up some yummy desserts

elevate your instagram feed

craft up some woven wall hangings

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Hello! I’m an interior, user experience, and graphic designer with a love for purpose-driven minimalism. I am also a digital nomad originally from California, currently living in Barbados, by way of Colorado, with my husband and our two cats.

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