2025 :: the year in pictures

that old daily photo project continues. i've been doing it more or less since i got that first dslr in singapore in may 2008. i'm clearly not actively trying to improve my photography these days, but more to document my life and help myself remember everything that happens over the year. the vast majority of my photos come from my iPhone these days, but i don't mind. i spent a bit of this lazy first day of 2026 looking back at 2025. 

january - the year started off pretty focused on textiles. knitting sophie scarves and weaving tea towels for husand's oldest. there was the weird incident with the swan on the road. i actually tried to scooch him off the road, since he was just sitting there and i feared a car would hit him. we called animal control and they came and instead of taking him away, they humanely put him down, since he apparently had the bird flu! the first swan i ever touch and it had the bird flu. luckily, i didn't get it. 

february - it was a pretty creative month, weaving, knitting, attending a talk with astrid skibsted, expanding my grove of avocado trees to include some lychee trees. we ate too many fastelavnsboller, as usual, but they're so yummy and their time is so fleeting. 

march - i went to arizona for possibly the last time. it was honestly a very nice trip - i celebrated my birthday while i was there and i also visited with family in minneapolis on the way. mazi had her kittens while i was gone. 

april - the first rhubarb, weaving, a loom for the museum, a one day course with  weaving legend winnie poulsen, doing some podcast interviews for work, and a party in the heart of copenhagen. it's funny how you can fill your days with work and creative projects and almost forget that the country of your birth is being dismantled in the most brutal manner. 

may - husband did a heroic humanitarian aid trip to ukraine. the lilacs and the rapeseed were in full bloom. i got two sweet ducks and finished the first batch of taylor swift-inspired tea towels for the lover album. i helped a friend paint her dying sister's casket. it was a most intense day that spanned every emotion - we laughed and cried and laughed again. i got started on the next era - reputation. 

june - was all about 3daysofdesign. the festival itself is only 3 days, but a lot of planning and work went into it. i still found time to make elderflower and rhubarb cordial and finish the reputation tea towels. i got started on my summer weaving project - rainbow sherbet. 

july - the child moved home from arizona and it was so good to have her home. i admit it was a big relief. we had a gathering with friends in the garden, enjoyed the summer produce, and i wove a lot of tea towels.

august - weaving, volunteering at the museum, playing tourist in copenhagen and my first week at a højskole weaving course. it was a good summer and all too short. i did a warp for the next era - speak now - mostly because i had the right colors for it and a plan for what to learn this time (something called color effect)

september - it was time for the child to start her next chapter (a master's program) in lisbon. i joined the noma coffee club and had the best coffee i've ever tasted. the harvests continued and it started to be knitting weather again. and we started up the bracelet production again to prepare for the release of the life of a showgirl. 

october - life of a showgirl came out and the binge listening began. i went to masker i marsken, a knitting festival in højer, and realized i had become an astrid skibsted groupie. i so enjoy her workshops, i get new ideas every time. i started to develop an idea for a weaving project, involving weaving a message into the work in sound waves. i met weaving legend hanne vedel. i created a work for our annual exhibition, using my great grandmother's quilts. we got the coolest floor in our bathroom. 

november - our annual trip to højer with our creative group was a much needed creative break. my sister took amazing photos of the northern lights. i inherited a bunch of art and weaving supplies from the same source as my newest loom. i visited the lærke bagger pop-up at arken and was, as usual, inspired by textiles. i finished a new runner for the kitchen just before hosting our best thanksgiving ever. 

december - felt like a whirlwind. several weekends volunteering at our local museum. then lots of visitors over christmas. i requested that for christmas i wanted to be able to take a bath in our new bathroom upstairs, so husband worked his butt off tiling to make that happen. it makes me very happy. my sister came for christmas and some old friends also stopped by for a visit. we continued our tradition of a christmas eve charcuterie board. 

the year felt like a good one from my little corner of it. with everything going on  - war in ukraine, trump and all of his destruction of, well, everything, plus his designs on greenland - it feels a bit strange to say that. but my little corner really was filled with creativity, laughter, good times and people that i love. i'll have some more of that in 2026, please.