Wednesday, 13 April 2011

NUMBERS: ONE




Yesterday, 12th of April, my small company turned one year old. Company, where only I work and where I only work with illustration. (Thank you mum for making my bookkeeping and tax reports!) Little I knew a year ago, but it became all possible. There has been so many heart-touching persons, always interesting commissions, long conversations, very few phone calls but thousands of emails over the seas, mountains, oceans, wilderness. Through all the seasons and weather. And it all has made me so happy. Deeply I thank every one of you who has been there supporting me with commissions, orders, emails, letters, parcels, comments or lately even saying hello in the towns that I walk or bicycle. Thank you, thank you so much.

It has been wonderful and I make my best to do it again this year. With you.

Dear Jill made a small interview with me and I painted a little something about what I saw that day.

These photos are from August 2007, after my last summer in Iceland. The first one is from my grandparents´ garage which never saw a car, but a lot of strawberries. The other ones are from my home town, the three last ones from the summerhouse of my parents. In the last one I am washing the dishes. I wish all the places were as clean as that lake.

More days to color landscapes, to walk and see.

Thank you.

Hearts.

All the pictures are taken by S.

36 comments:

  1. So beautiful landscapes. OF these photos gets free a lot of serenity !
    My grand mother is danish and when she was child she lives near a lake, and when i try to imagine with her words, it can be like that !
    All my greetings from France and St Paul ;)

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  2. Congratulations and many more wonderful years to come! The second photo is fantastic by the way, beautiful light!

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  3. how wonderful. congratulations and my best wishes for all the years still to come. lovely set of fotos. i specially like the one of u and the green leaf but they are all beautiful and full of good energy. its always a pleasure and inspiration to visit ur blog.

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  4. happy birthday for your company!
    may there be many more to enjoy:
    how lovely to wash in a lake:
    lucky:
    beautiful:
    like your created space:

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  5. Congratulations! I hope you will be majorly succesful! Because a talented person like you deserves that.

    Beautiful pictures, like always!

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  6. congratulations! i´m just about to get my own tiny company, just by myself, and it makes me feel a bit confident how happy you seem to be with yours (of course no wonder with your talent and your delicate way to put pictures and words...). to many many more years of success to you!

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  7. Congratulations!!
    Do you wash the dishes in the lake??!! It has to be a very clean lake!
    When I was in Brazil (in a rural zone) people drink water directly from the river... It also have a very clean and transparent water...

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  8. happy birthday company! here in germany it feels so strange not to have to start a company in the way we do in finland and sweden. i got my tax number the other day and it's not just mine - it's johan's as well. it came a bit as a shock, it's like we're one person.
    good luck with another year together with your company :) hugs from berlin.

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  9. Onnea onnistuneesta yksivuotis-taipaleesta! :) Kuvia katsellessa kaipuu kesään sen kuin yltyy. Haastattelu oli kiva lukea. Oon seuraillut sun blogia jo tovin, vaikka aiemmin en ole tainnut kommentoida. Sulla on ihana tyyli kuvata asioita, sekä kuvin että sanoin. Yksi lemppari blogeistani. :)

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  10. Oh hello and congratulations! Lovely pictures and somehow I expected you to look like a creature from Nordic fairy tales : )))

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  11. Congratulations! your illustrations are so lovely.

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  12. Beautiful pictures! I love your work;-)

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  13. to all of us you have given a sweet gift of inspiration and beauty. love these photographs of you.

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  14. Congratulations! Just imagine, in ten years we, your visitors and admirors, will be able to say "oh, we remember her first year very well" :))
    Keep up with the beautiful work!

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  15. Oh congratulations! To be able to support yourself with your beautiful work is such an accomplishment. And thanks for sharing these photos, they are beautiful.

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  16. Beautiful pictures!
    Anno-Emilio! I wish you many more successes, great artistic ideas and possibilities for their implementation.

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  17. How wonderful. Have a gorgeous celebration...you certainly deserve it. It's always very inspiring to stop by.

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  18. Congratulations!! You're doing so wonderfully.

    It would be lovely to one day support myself off my illustration too :))

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  19. paljon onnea anna emilialle vuosipäivästä! haleja jenkeistä!

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  20. What wonderful pictures))))
    want to grow your company)))
    and yet - spring will come))

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  21. onnea annan juttu ja toivon paljon hyvää ja lisää numeroita!

    voi kesä näissä kuvissa ja mielessä. kukkasia kasvaa jo meidän kotikadulla, pyörä odottaa keväthuoltoa ja keväisiä pyöräretkiä. samoin minä!

    kevättä!

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  22. Happy birthday to your company. I have just found your blog and wanted to tell you that I love your work, its beautiful!

    I dream of travelling to Finland one day.

    What beautiful photos you have here!

    www.inspirenordic.blogspot.com

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  23. Happy Happy Birthday to your lil company and beautiful illustrations :)

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  24. Happy birthday, small company. You are a good one.

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  25. dear anna emilia, very, very lovely and heartwarming congratulations for your 1 year company birthday:)) i´m really, really happy, to found your blog one day because in your posts and pictures are so much heartwarming impressions and feelings and vibrations.:)) so, so nice your weather diary. i´m a "fan" of the weather, too.;) love clouds and skys, the sun, the rain, the snow, the earth with all her nature. ... wish you good look and much, much nice and happy moments for your second year in your small anna-emilia-company. greetings from berlin, lotte.:)

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  26. BIG hearts and HUGS flying your way.
    You have touched us all...you say we have touched you...but I know that your work calms and puts smiles on all our faces.
    Thank you and Happy Birthday to your Company.

    Lovely photos.
    Char.x

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  27. oh this is so wonderful, this post made me feel a bit choked up. the photos are just stunning and warm and i loved seeing who you are instead of picturing that person in my mind. congratulations on one year of doing something you truly love, how many can say the same? you are an incredible artist!

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  28. Congratulations on a marvelous year. Your work is so beautiful and you are clearly talented. It makes me happy that you have found the support you so richly deserve! xx

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  29. Ana Emilia, congratulations!
    Your work is so lovely!

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  30. congratulations! these landscapes are just breathless!

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  31. Dear Anna Emilia....congratulations on your 1 year anniversary of having a company. you must feel so proud....I think it is so wonderful what you create with your mind and hands...thank you so much for your lovely words...I will very soon write back...have a wonderful weekend..it is pouring rain here in sydney....but it should be sunny in Germany....hugs from me to you

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  32. Happy birthday. I adore coming to your blog. Your pictures and words make me sign and feel relaxed even on the darkest days. x

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  33. Thank you deeply dear you all! It made my day (and the week) to have you here. So much happiness to you all from me.

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  34. happy first anniversary! congratulations to you and wishing you all the best for the next year to come :)

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  35. such a beautiful post and stunning images.
    congratulation on your first company birthday. i hope you have many more. your work is so delicate and lovely.
    x evie

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