brooch

Leather brooch €15  ©vansan

The brooch is built up in 3 layers, the black rear is of artificial leather to avoid stretching and loss of shape. €15 (ex shipping).

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Glass mail tube "flessenpost" by Zus&ik

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I wish I could blow that little glass tube as if it was a whistle to bring you back to life,

thank you so much that I could enjoy while watching and studying you... and holding you shortly in your Long Silence.

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ZIE je ik hou van je, 
ik vin je zoo lief en zoo licht -- 
je kraaloogjes waren vol licht, 
ik hou van je, ik hou van je.

En je snavel en dat rugveertje en je hoofd 
en je oogen en je buik waar 
je donsjes zit en je teen 
met je nageltje er aan.

Zie je ik wou graag zijn een fee, maar het kan niet zijn, 
het licht is om je, je bent 
nu toch wat je eenmaal bent.

O ja, ik hou van je, 
ik hou zoo vrees'lijk van je, 
ik wou het helemaal zeggen -- 
Maar ik kan het toch niet zeggen.

(vrij naar Herman Gorter)

pastels

 

 
My newest elaboration; a textile painting on the wall, measures 60x60 cm, all handprinted and handsewn in my favorite colours.....It is for sale, if you are interested, please feel free to send me a message.
Soft colours, even in my clothes....

birthday

It was my birthday the other day and I got these nice Collégien slippers which I had on my wishlist for quite some time.  The colour combination is wonderful. So the last couple of days I'm walking through the house with a curved neck and my nose on my shoes - looking a bit strange and being it a bit awkward - but I'm enjoying my slippers to the fullest!! Around the ankles the sock is a bit short, so I advice you to buy the longer sock ones for extremely cold days.

our new lampshade (by Marjolein Perin)

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inspiration

Emily Barletta, thread and paper

How does it work, inspiration?
I came across this wonderful work of Emily Barletta. She and I independently came more or less to the same forms.

Dutch sand and woods

my sketches

My form came from studies from Dutch landscape pictures while searching and finding patterns for my ++PLUSTWEE designs. Where did Emily's inspiration come from? Probably not Dutch landscapes?! I think that it's great to have different inspirational sources and end up with more or less the same. It's morphogenetic consciousness or as we say 'it's in the air'...

above: radiolarian, a deep see life form

Of course, these forms are NOT NEW as they are derived from who we are and what we consist of...   which are cells! Cells and especially the deep oceanic life forms interest me a lot lately. I want to make a few screens with cellular forms for printing.

bag preview

colour inspiration from documentary images of containers in a port

detail of textile painting

proven new friend

My first bag since about a year is finished! (see, i've sewn many )
Nowadays I'm happy again sewing bags because of my lovely new sewing machine. My old one (still comfortably on a corner on my working table) just couldn't sew leather which I wanted to try for a long time.
So now a shoulder bag was born today, one with leather bottom and self designed and home printed fabric on top, an adjustable strap (by poppers) from 66 cm to 125 cm, a key clip and three inner pockets, closes with a zipper, €95 excl shipping, incl VAT/BTW. You can order it here.
There's more to come as you can see in the pictures. What do think of  it?

I made a textile painting too. In my student days I used to paint a lot, now I try to make it look the same but with handprinted designs and layers of fabric and stitching.
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And you may congratulate Tineke and her blog Stop:watch here, it's their birthday tomorrow (April 24) :-)

featured

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

lolloping luring leather

 
 I've been doing some try outs with leather which is something I've long been wanting to do. But it turnes out to be more difficult than I thought it would be. The leather stretches and slips, is too thick etc. I always challenge myself... I cut my teeth on it ....I will succeed.... grrr.... :-)


In the meantime I made some more DIY Wander Wasbeer (racoon) soft toy kits ready to be sold in our Eco design pop-up store  (see post below).

Wander or Wiesje Wasbeer DIY kit €15

Spring

We're having an ECO POP-UP STORE in Groningen starting from Friday April 13 until May 5!

I'm not doing it all by myself of course- I bring along well known Dutch artists and webshops:
Green Moon, The South is Blooming,  Zo Simpel (a succesful student company),
Studio Vensterbank and Van San (that's me) are the organizers and shop fillers of this event. Additional the work of other artists will be for sale in our shop: Tineke Meirink's Worn Wood, Annet de Vries' Giving Attention Tea and Marjolein Perin with her wool felted lamp.
We' ll have lovely durable, eco friendly and handmade products.

On Wednesday and Saturdays you may attend our creative workshops for children and adults. Please see FB for more information.
Become friends with the Eco pop-up store and we'll keep you posted!

Eco pop-up store location: Oude Boteringestraat 14, Groningen > on the top floor in the same building as Walnutmixstore.
Openening hours: Thursday + Friday 11.00 -18.00 and Sat. 11.00 - 17.00h

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Groninger ‘Eco pop-up store’ bloeit

        Het is lente! En lente staat voor een frisse aanblik, nieuwe groei en hernieuwde ideeën. Ervaar het en geniet van bloeiende creativiteit van Noorderlingen in een nieuwe Eco pop-up store in Groningen.

        De Eco pop-up store ontpopt zich op zaterdag 14 april om 11 uur, op de bovenste verdieping binnen de Walnut Mixstore en zal gedurende +/- 3 weken bloeien. Alle producten zijn handgemaakt, ecologisch verantwoord en duurzaam; van Deens keramiek tot Hollands en Afrikaans textiel en van advies voor duurzaam wonen tot workshops voor creatief (her)gebruik.
Blijf op de hoogte via Facebook  en Twitter #eco #popupstore #noordelijkebloei.

Noordelijke bloei; Go local, go global, go duurzaam!

Locatie: Oude Boteringestraat 14, Groningen (bovenste verdieping van Walnutmixstore) Openingstijden: do en vr 11.00- 18.00, za 11.00 -17.00 (13 april t/m 5 mei)

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Green Moon

in the picture

picture: House of Design

I'm presenting and expaining our work to a by Gerard van den Berg guided tour group.
(picture:House of Design)

EXHIBITION
On Sunday April 1 a  ++PLUSTWEE exhibition is held at 'Open Atelier nr 103' from 11 till 16.30 h. (Dorpsstraat 103, Zuidlaarderveen). Also some solo work of Marjolein and me will be shown and can be bought. So if you missed out on the Wonen&Co Ontmoetdesign fair (meet design) last week, you're very welcome to pay us a visit next Sunday. The entrance is free.

WONEN&CO review
We had such great successes and reactions on our new collection at the Wonen&Co fair. People were amazed by our colour combinations and by our inspiration from aerial photographs of Dutch landscapes. The pictures of the cushions on my Pinterest have been repinned over hunderd times already!
We've met some nice designers too: sweet and modest Jildou Lindhout of Studio Zijn with her lamp Ivy and we had many laughs with lovely crazy sweet tooth William van der Velde aka Kunsteboer , who couldn't keep away from our softness (the cushions) and our sweet treats :-)

Come and meet us on Sunday 1st of April in Zuidlaarderveen!

William 'Kunsteboer'