my new blog

It has been a bit quiet here. I have a new blog and home on the net. Hope to see you there!

www.fialottajansson.com

Hugs and kisses!

giveaway - astrid print

You can win a print with words by the fantastic Astrid Lindgren. Here is how you enter:
One ticket - comment on this post (remember to say how many tickets you´re praticipating with)!
Two tickets - share the giveaway on your blog, on facebook or Instagram (@fialottajanssondesign).
Three tickets - like Fia Lotta Jansson Facebook page.

Giveaway ends April 26th. Hope you want to join!

You can still pre-order the print by emailing med at fialottajansson at gmail dot com.
The print is size A3, the price is 250 SEK (26€), shipping included within the Nordic countries. If you live outside the Nordic countries please ask us for shipping prices!

Have a great week!

Astrid Lindgren print (förhandsbeställning)

Jag är överväldigad över den fina responsen och stora efterfrågan på denna bokstavsillustration med Astrid Lindgrens fantastiska ord! Nu trycker jag upp den igen! Vill du ha en print i A3-storlek maila mig på fialottajansson at gmail dot com och säg antal och adress. Den kostar 250 SEK (26€) inklusive porto inom Norden. Jag tar emot beställningar senast söndag 26 april!

Puss och kram och ha en skön helg!

the start of my year 2015

Hi!

It has been a really long time! I have been concentrating on my freelance work, (lettering/bokstavsillustration), and my family for the past months. I am working on two big lettering projects and some custom orders and it takes up most of my day time plus most of my free time as well (except for the time I spend working in the shoe shop and with my family). I am not a very social person right now, but if you want to achieve goals and get better at your craft you need to invest time and hard work. I can see that I am getting better, and I really love doing what I am investing my time in.

I am bursting with joy and honour on the big projects I am working on, but they are still secret, so I cannot brag about my great collaborations. But it will be sweet when the collaborations are being reveiled later this year!

I am continuously a member of the Andetag team and blogging at Hufvudstadsbladet (a collaboration with the Finnish Lutheran Church) about everyday life, faith, joys and fears.

A really, really fun part of my freelance work is that I get to hold Lettering Workshops and meet other type enthusiasts. So far this year I've held an longer one week course at Novia for students and four short one day workshops, together with Nykarleby Arbis, Kronoby MI and Inpress and Personlig Almanacka in Uppsala. Someone i Uppsala had found my Instagram profile and wanted to arrange a workshops, so they gathered a bunch of friends from work and we had a great day of lettering! I love it when people arrange workshops at their work or with their friends! And I love being invited to hold Lettering Workshops, the courses are really inspiring for me as well, there is so much creativity in one person, and to meet groups of creative people is fantastic. I am always surprised at what people create during a workshop and at the same time I know that when a person is saying "I cannot draw or write well with a pencil" there will come great things out of that hand holding the pencil. That is the magic of these workshops, everybody will create new and good looking letterings, whether they have done it before or not. And everybody seems happy after a workshop, it is intense so you get tired but everybody has been giving me positive feedback. That they CAN draw, that they WERE ABLE to make lovely letterings, something they never thought they would make. Makes me very happy!

Below is the first part of my 2015 in pictures:

I dressed up in monochrome (just like most of my letterings :) for my Lettering Workshop.

Flying over the north of Ostrobothnia where I grew up.

 

(This black and white photo is by Johanna Högväg, she attended my Lettering Workshop in Kronoby.)

You can follow workshop participant's work on #letteringworkshopfljd (fljd as in Fia Lotta Jansson Design)!

A group of type enthusiasts in Uppsala.


I wish you all a great April!

the words of dear astrid

I have a huge weakness for Astrid Lindgren, and I am not the only one. In June I lettered a quote by the world famous author of children's books, as a gift for our wonderful kindergarten personnel. It says: "Show the children love, more love and even more love and common sense will come by itself". It was not meant as an advice, because these women and men know this by heart, but more as an encouragement to keep up their great work. I am very thankful for the personnel at our kindergarten!

I printed this one in a limited first edition, but many have asked for it, so I am thinking of printing round two. Stay tuned! (And if you are interested in a print don't hesitate to ask via fialottajansson[at]gmail[dot]com!)

I wish you all a great week!
S

Typografikalendern 2015 - ännu finns tid att förhandsbeställa!

Ännu har du tre dagar på dig att förhandsbeställa Typografikalendern 2015 till ett rabatterat pris! Efter den 16 november kan du såklart beställa den som vanligt via fialottajansson[at]gmail.com eller genom att maila oss via vår facebook-sida. Kalendern sänds ut från och med första veckan i december.

På Fia Lotta Jansson Designs facebook-sida och på Instagram kan du också delta i giveaways, fem kalendrar lottas ut allt som allt!

Hoppas vi hörs!
Sofie

förhandsbeställ typografikalendern 2015 (scroll down for English info)

Jag är så fantastiskt glad över all uppskattning och fin feedback jag fått för typografikalendern! Jag har sett den i användning i många hem och jag har själv två kalendrar i användning varje dag. Vi har en familjekalender som hänger på kylskåpet och så har jag en för mitt arbetsschema och mina frilansjobb, för att hålla koll på projekt och deadlines.

Typografikalendern 2015 består av tolv fristående A4 ark med handritad typografi på lyxigare papper. För varje dag i månaden finns det gott om rum att skriva in roligheter och viktigheter. Kalendern kan hängas upp med magnetclips, pappersklämmor, på galgar, med tejp eller nålas upp på anslagstavla.

Ett kalenderpaket innehåller förutom själva kalendern även en blyertspenna med uppmuntrande ord, allt snyggt paketerat!

I år säljer jag inga kalenderpaket med magnetclips eller pappersklämmor, de kan du enkelt köpa härifrån, härifrån eller härifrån.


Så här beställer du Typografikalendern 2015:
Priset för ett kalenderpaket är 220 kr (inkl. moms)/kalender + expeditionsavgift 60 kr/beställning.
Maila mig på fialottajansson[at]gmail.com för att beställa. Kom ihåg att meddela din adress och hur många kalendrar du vill ha! Jag sänder faktura med i paketet.

Förhandsbeställ och få rabatt!
Om du beställer före den 16 november får du Typografikalendern för 190 kr (inkl. moms)/kalender + expeditionsavgift 60 kr/beställning.
Maila mig på fialottajansson[at]gmail.com för att beställa. Kom ihåg att meddela adress och antal! Du kan även lägga en beställning via Fia Lotta Jansson Designs facebook-sida. Där finns även en giveaway, gilla oss på Facebook så ser jag om du deltar!

Typografikalendern 2015 sänds ut under första veckan in december.

Jag svarar gärna på frågor angående kalendern och ser fram emot din beställning!

Pre-order the Typography Calendar 2014

The Typographic Calendar 2014 is a practical hand lettered calendar with twelve separate sheets of A4 size papers. All text is in Swedish.

A set of the calendar and a pencil with a hand written quote is 220 SEK (including 25% VAT) + shipping 60 kr/order.

If you pre-order before November 16th you will pay only 190 kr + 60 kr/order.
Order your calender by sending me an e-mail to fialottajansson[at]gmail.com. Remember to tell me your adress and how many calendars you want. You can alson order the calender via the Fia Lotta Jansson Design Facebook page.

The Typographic Calendar 2015 will be shipped during the first week of December.

I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have. Looking forward to your order!

sunday morning family picnic

summer memories

Some memories from our family's vacation in Finland in early July.

A lot of painting went down during our weeks in Kronoby. Here my sister repaints the terrace to my mother's house in a classic painter's cap.

Below is a paint stained cover I used when painting a summer house on my brother's farm.

My wedding dress and veil is still in my closet in my childhood home. I just had to try it on.

 

My husband gave me a great birthday gift: he made sure he had a car and drove me anywhere I wanted to go second hand shopping for one whole day. We chose to go east towards Seinäjoki and stop whenever we saw a "kirppis" sign (flea market sign) on the road.

Classic things of my childhood surroundings: fields and woods.

the accidentally great photographer

I accidentally hit a button on the camera of my phone, and before I found out about it I had snapped some weird photos, and this one mesmerizing photo. Of my skirt and shoes, maybe not the most exciting objects, but the photo is surreal and nice! And we are on our way to the beach so the photo gives me good vibes!

Happy weekend y'all!

loppisrace i purmo

This is how happy I was was selling my out all my vintage stuff at Loppisrace in Purmo in early July. More pictures can be found at Loppisrace.fi.

Aja Lund is the photographer of the photos in this post and also the coordinator for the whole Loppisrace (Flea Market Race). Aja is also running the fabulous Lundagård together with her husband and two companions. We are both night owls so when we meet we mostly chat the night away. She is an inspiring woman and entrepreneur.

Thank you for another great Loppisrace, I got really burnt from standing in the summer sun all day, but I had so much fun! And a big thank you to Elina who shared the space with me!

Aja is shooting us from the second floor. Some of my favourite persons are on this picture, my pregnant sister-in-law (yes, I am gonna be an aunt!!!), her sister and my brave and beautiful friend Lina. Me and Lina are cooking up something sweet. More to come!

 Some of my vintage fabrics that I said goodbye to.