model

Sometimes you are looking too hard, the solution is closer than you think. 
I finally found a model, she's my friend. We did our first photoshoot yesterday, just us two.
Isn't she great?

featured

Click here to read Flavourites blogpost (in Dutch). It's nice to see they took my products :-)

exhibition

The exhibition of my work has been prol_____onged at the shop of Sarah Zoutewelle-Morris untill the start of the Summer vacation!
The litlle craft shop is open on Fridays and Saturdays from 13.00 till 16.30 h.
Baron van Asbeckweg 7, Warfhuizen
If you pay a visit - look here for the location- you'll probably end up in a inspiring conversation with Sarah and have a nice cup of attention tea from Annet's teapot.

You can read more here (Spoonful) and here (Art calling) about the shop and Sarah's inspiring (and reassuring and soothing for me) ideas on art and actions of the heart!

StyleCookie

My cloud cushions WOL(k) are featured at the StyleCookie! 

I'm very happy about that! Nice picture, thanks! 

nice

Colleague Marjolein and I are featured at StyleCookie which is a nice and fresh online magazine.  See here.... and here

DT > NT > DA

Last weekend was great... and busy... but great!

I was preparing my livingroom for the concert and Pop-Up Gallery for days. For the Gallery I wanted all personal belongings out of sight (which is a lot! And you'll only find out when you start cleaning out things) so it wouldn't distract from Megan's, Annet's and my handmade stuff. So... open cabinets were covered with lace and makeshift doors, I dusted the windowsills for a change, removed Bruinis (our floor cowhide), Marjolein and I installed her lamps and window frameworks - which was very nice to work a bit together again. (I really miss our workshop Werkpost, since I crave for collaboration).

Day time:

Night time:

We had 25 guests who'd come to listen to 'Port of Call' (Pieter van Vliet: singer songwriter, age 21! He's a real talent!) and Serbian duo 'Mesta'. Afterwards there was a jam session with Pieter, Jaap (neighbor, friend and organizer of this concert) and my husband Albert.

Day after:

A complete make over in the living, we've never had such a nice shop! Visitors who had attended the concert and turned up the day after were all surprised by the different look of the living.

Annet and Megan turn out to be excellent cake bakers: carrotcake, chocolate cake with vanilla icing, muffins, apple pie.... yummie! Our visitors enjoyed Annet's Attention-tea and the sweets. Our products were scrutinized and well sold. 

We have plans to keep on doing Pop-Up Galleries. So if you have a nice living, hall or big barn or some other more or less empty space (shop/office); please contact one of us. We are open to community and collaboration in arts.

More pictures from Annet on her blog!

gloves on

Oh yes, this picture looks way too sunny because snow is coming soon!

Next week I'll be joining other Dutch designers, crafters and artists for a chilly but heartwarming pre-Christmas and Sinterklaas market in Groningen on Sunday November 28. (It'll be Sunday shopping too).

We'll also be giving kids workshops with fellow workers from Grun(n)Gemaakt and Werkpost. Hope to see you there!

Information here.

And I'm always busy prior to a market even though I agreed with myself not to:

* finish one bag

* sowing 3 more WOL(k) cushions

* designing 3 more baskets

* create a display clarifying my new 'charity bags' project: 'het Mooiste zit vanbinnen'

* ensure that we have (nice handmade) lights during the market day

* ensure that we have enough awning to protect our goods and bums from snow and wind!

* etc etc

And I've sold this lighthouse lamp, so now it's time for me to create another...I enjoy this so much because it has nothing to do with fabric...

surprise

 

Remember this earlier this year in February? Our home and my work was explicit and detailed in national magazine '101 Woonideeen'! 

To my big surprise I noticed something familiar in this here:

 

I'm feeling very happy about it ! Thank you, 101 (Annemarie, Kim, Monique and Ernie!)

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Look here, that's nice :)

 

our house

Look here! One preview picture of next issue of magazine '101 Woonideeen' !
(picture by Labl for 101 Woonideeen)

Bloesem

I'm jubilant! I'm about to have an interview in the Open House Tour column on well-read blog 'Bloesem Kids' ! So if you want to know what my home looks like (with beautiful pictures taken by Simone), and learn more about me and my family, stay posted because I'm busy answering all Irene's questions! In the meantime visit her other blog Bloesem .