I love TED

My favorite way of 'watching television':

really inspiring, informative and alarming talks on TED.com on hundreds of topics. From global issues to creativity, from innovation to love, etc.
For example this talk on sustainability surprised me (stick with him because he goes fast!)

sweet tooth

I have a bit of a sweet tooth and my kids too. But I want us to eat healthy sweets at tea time instead of all the cheap rubbish with white sugar and artificial colorants.
(help, Sintmaarten is coming! i.e. kind of Halloween).
Hence I bought these raw chocolate and energy bars from Chocodelic. They have the following assets:
*full of minerals
*full of antioxidants
*rich on love chemicals
*low on glycemic values
*they taste really really nice! 

I ordered the mixed boxes but if you ask Irene nicely she'll probably send you a sample of each bar/taste. Right Irene?

new

Vintage woolen blanket iPhone holders, also suitable for pocket cameras or cell phones; soon for sale in my shop.

 Beautiful print by Zoe de las Cases, looks great in my freshly painted (white) living.

I fell for the ginkgo leave...

Inspiration board in my workspace (at Werkpost).

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expecting something

 Picture by Ana Ventura

Pregnant! Who, me? 
Nope... but Werkpost colleague Marjolein is! And her baby is expected in December.

hush

No time for dinner....she's writing a novel!
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first try

Since my workspace is at home do not work much. I am distracted by the computer which is too near in the living. Sitting behind the screen makes me really unhappy and discontent with myself and it clogs my creativity. So... no more screen for days! Except the screens to print fabrics! I wanted to give this a try for weeks.

This is my first try of a two colour image, printed on line. Previous work was one colour only (photo below print on vintage woolen blankets).

this photo is taken at the window but turned out a bit dark due to stormy weather today.

I feel so much better now....!
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birthday

It's my husband's birthday today, hurray for his 44 years!
I promised him to make portrets of the girls and print them on canvas. I started too late with this assignment, no doubt. The major threshold difficulty was how to put the two girls in a picture in a representative way since they can't seem to act normally and are constantly making funny faces when they are the focus of your attention! So I ended up photographing them apart and doing a hell of a job of layman-photoshopping!
So I ended up with this....

and I started with this....

I can't see things clear anymore after hours of staring at the screen. What do you think of this result?

Comments are very welcome!

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walls

Inspiring work of Ana Ventura , from Portugal!

things

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brooch

And this arrived today, all the way from Spain! It's from Depeapa. Don't you just love this?