jools 'n journals

Monday moodboard and another Sneak peek

2012-01-16T12:48:00.000+01:00

Warm hands, warm heart.
~Erna Price

Cold hands, warm heart is a myth, scientists reveal.The old adage that cold hands often conceal a warm heart has been dispelled by scientists, after they found how physically warm you are has a direct correlation to how nice you are to people.~Telegraph

So keep you hands warm, everybody!

1.homelab
2.afra
3.Ayca
4.JaneBoFelt

And here is another sneak peek mosaic of the Round Robin Art Recipe Journal I'm working on at the moment. A traveling moleskine notebook that with each participant gets more crowded with the most delicious recipes. Every two weeks there is another book on the doormat to fill with drawings of wonderful food.

These are for Melanie. I hope she likes them.

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Monday moodboard - Peek-a-boo

2012-01-09T09:00:00.000+01:00

Peek-a-boo Peek-a-booGolly jeepersWhere'd you get those weepers?Peepshow creepshowWhere did you get those eyes?
~Siouxsie and the Banshees

1.moonstation
2.PeachyPop
3.Starbags
4.HeavenlyCreaturesArt

And here is a little sneak peek of four of the ten cards I made for the Round Robin Traveling Sheets I've joined.

We are a group of ten people. Every two weeks we craft, paint, cut, paste, and write five pages (10 sides) A5 format filled with all of our creative work and ideas and send them to one of our peers. We do this nine times, each time we send it to another group member. After everyone has received their pages we bind them together into a booklet.

Marielle, these are for you!

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Monday Moodboard - Happy New Year

2012-01-02T12:17:00.000+01:00

Happy New Year everyone...
and remember

Dreams are the seedlings of reality
~ Napoleon Hill

1.Baghy2.Artmind3.zerabazaar4.bialakura

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Frontpage of etsy

2011-12-13T17:03:00.000+01:00

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
~Dalai Lama

Yeah, I'm a happy girl!
This week I was twice on the frontpage of etsy. Thank you, Jetty, who made this beautifultreasury

and Diramar, who made this lovely one:

Monday moodboard

2011-12-12T11:25:00.001+01:00

Hunger finds no fault with the cooking.
Proverb

thespottedsparrow
anek
?
mentalembellisher

I'm participating in a Round Robin.We are making a cookbook with illustrated recipes.
We will draw, paint, collage etc. recipes for each other and we plan to meet when the books are finished.
I'm having so much fun with it..(and so has my grand child Nesha!)...although I'll probably never cook a recipe from the book, 'cause I can't cook...but who knows.....

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Monday moodboard

2011-11-21T10:24:00.001+01:00

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.
~Johnny Carson

1.fizzaccessory
2.niftyknits
3.FishesMakeWishes
4.astashtoys

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Monday moodboard - Gypsies

2011-11-13T14:56:00.001+01:00

We are all wanderers of this earth, our hearts arefull of wonder and our souls are full of dreams.

~ Gypsyproverb

MoonsafariBeads
subrosa123
ThongbaiTatong
artdemix

I have always been fascinated by gypsies and gypsy culture, and Ithought of myself as one at heart. I'm drawn to them since I was a little girl and gypsies came to our town and knock at our door and asked if we had scissors to sharpen or if we wanted to buy onions...I wanted to go with them..

I made a journal dedicated to them, with lots of images of gypsies.

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Monday moodboard

2011-11-07T09:18:00.000+01:00

"Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror or the painter?"

~Pablo Picasso

1.rodistudio
2.lePetitFoyer
3.jeanettehouse
4.krize
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Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair

2011-11-06T16:55:00.000+01:00

I listed another journal in my etsy shop, I called it " Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair", 'cause it is filled with pictures of Frida Kahlo and other women with flowers in their hair.

The cover is made of a cotton shopping tote and a plastic shopping bag.

You can buy it in my shop

Flickr Favorites - My favorite food

2011-11-01T10:22:00.001+01:00

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.
~Jim Davis

1. Bami Goreng, 2. いただきます .. !!, 3. Sate Padang, 4. indonesian sweets 3

It's the first Tuesday of the month so we play by theme if you like. And the theme is 'food'.
Everybody who knows me knows I love food - just look at me! -I love to watch cooking shows, I have loads of cook books...but I hate to cook and I can't cook. My husband usually does the cooking :) I love what he cooks, but my mom knows what I love best: Indonesian food! Yummy!!

For more flickr favorites hop over to Artmind's blog

Monday Moodboard - Happy Halloween

2011-10-31T09:45:00.002+01:00

When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam,May luck be yours on Halloween.~Author Unknown

1.VeraCreations2.hypericumfragile3.MagpiesShop4.LeelaBijou

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First journals online

2011-10-09T10:59:00.000+02:00

It's been a while, life was really busy, but I finally managed to put my first journal in my shop.These journals are based on the Remains of the Day class I took. They are mainly made from found papers, some are thick card stock papers, while others are thin magazine pages. They have lots of flaps, pockets, clip art, old and new ephemera, stitched onto the pages.It has enough space though to make them your own with your pictures, journaling bits and scraps of paper, etc. I will list other journals this week, I had a blast making them!

The cover is made of an old shopping tote, fabric pieces and a vintage embroidery of a little cottage collaged and stitched together, it has a little German brooch. This journal is made with a shabby chic, tattered feel.

This journal is about strong women of the world. That's why my mum is on the cover :)

This cover is made of a cotton shopping tote, a found closure and an applique of a little bird.

This cover is made of an old shopping tote, fabric pieces and a vintage embroidery of a little bird, it also has a little German brooch.

Monday moodboard

2011-07-11T15:25:00.000+02:00

Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. ~Author Unknown

My 10 year old "cucu" = grandchild is coming, she already made a to-do list...I'm please to see that it is full of crafty projects! So she will be keeping me busy for the next two weeks.

roroism
MamaTita
LAccentNou
Kirevi888

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Flickr favorites

2011-07-05T09:58:00.002+02:00

“To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where this started and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus, and a clown killed my dad.”

~Jack Handy

The first Tuesday of the month we play by theme, the theme for this month: 'something you're afraid of'.
I'm afraid of clowns...maybe "afraid" is too strong a word, it is not a Coulrophobia...I just don't like the look of them.

1. Clown, 2. send in the clowns...day 155, 3. Clown, 4. clown

All the credit to the photographers who took the pics!

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Monday moodboard

2011-07-04T11:01:00.000+02:00

"I never promised you a rose garden. I never promised you perfect justice . . . and I never promised you peace of happiness. My help is so that you can be free to fight for all of those things. The only reality I offer is challenge, and being well is being free to accept it or not at whatever level you are capable. I never promise lies, and the rose-garden world of perfection is a lie . . . and a bore, too!"

~Joanne Greenberg

Not a bore at all, these wearable rose gardens, made of recycled material!

ZsBcreations
SatyrikonLab
Kwandera
StarBags

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Flickr favorites

2011-06-28T11:23:00.001+02:00

'Look for the dream that keeps coming back. It's your destiny'.

My search word for this weeks Flickr favorites was 'dream', inspired by the fortune cookie message in Artmind's blogpost: 'Look for the dream that keeps coming back. It's your destiny'.

1. dreams and wishes. 62/365, 2. Dream., 3. Dream A Dream, 4. 6/365: Dream

For more flickr favorites hop over to Artmind's blog.

All the credit to the photographers who took the pics!

Monday moodboard

2011-06-27T13:55:00.000+02:00

“It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stony street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun”

~Henry Ward Beecher

Kitty016
manonknits
hypericumfragile
sunshineartdesign

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Flickr favorites - collections

2011-06-21T07:59:00.005+02:00

“One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach; one can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few” Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Last week I couldn't play the flickr favorites game. So here I'll make up for that. The theme was: what do you collect?
I used to collect lots and lots of things: vintage pinocchios, vintage black dolls, old wooden boxes, children books, camels, elephants, (no, not the real ones!) vintage jewellery, bottles..

now I restrict myself to records, books, vintage jewelry and ephemera for my journaling craze.

1. Record Collection, 2. Book Piles, the Literary, 3. seashell jewelry collection, 4. box of treats

More flickr favorites at Artmind's blog!

Monday moodboard

2011-06-20T12:57:00.002+02:00

I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a warm coat
~Harold Wilson (loosley adapted)

After the unusually warm weather the last weeks we now have a cold and wet spell

ScrapunzelPixie
ingermaaike
vaisto
subrosa123

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It's a beautiful day

2011-06-18T08:40:00.005+02:00

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

~Mark Twain

Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without

2011-06-08T10:03:00.001+02:00

A little reminder to be thoughtful about what we use and use up what we have, to recycle, upcycle and reclaim.
We are kinder to the earth when we do.

Here are a few vintage items or items made of/with vintage materials.

Flickr favorites - garden party

2011-06-07T11:56:00.000+02:00

“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else do you need to be happy.”

~ Albert Einstein

1. Garden Table, 2. Table Indoor Garden Feast, 3. RSPB Hanging bird table, 4. Ugu's Pottery Garden: Buffet

For more Flickr favorites, please visit Artmind's blog

Monday moodboard: Beautiful People

2011-06-02T11:16:00.072+02:00

RomanticRona
iragrant
lamarquisedesanges
simut
ElviraDesign
nauliknits
LaimaShop
P8Accessories
byMarianneS
innovationdesign

Inspired by all the beautiful people of the Europeanstreetteam, I made this mosaic.

In march 2010 I started a Beautiful People Project on hyves.
A project for everyone, fat or thin, large or small, young or old, black or white, gay or straight, muslim, christian or jew, who is beautiful, inside and out, who thinks that inner beauty is more important than your looks, who thinks that everyone is beautiful.
With the pictures of some of the members I made a slideshow.

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Flickr favorites

2011-05-31T09:27:00.000+02:00

Yesterday the twig was brown and bare;
To-day the glint of green is there;
Tomorrow will be leaflets spare;
I know no thing so wondrous fair,
No miracle so strangely rare.
I wonder what will next be there!
~L.H. Bailey

1. growth, 2. Citrine Twig Ring , 3. RAD 11 "growth", 4. more twigs

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Monday moodboard - Recycling

2011-05-30T08:17:00.000+02:00

All these items shown here are made of recycled materials: recycled paper, sea glass, vintage hand painted and hand embroidered linen,
a piece of a dress, a sample of a curtain, leftovers of what was used for napkins, or table clothes...

astash
ahueofduckeggblue
starbags
piabarile

This week I took an online class by Mary Ann Moss for a Remains of the day journal:
"A Shabby Journal of Scraps is the antidote for all of those paper scraps that keep multiplying in your favorite scrap box and clogging up your artistic super highway."

This is a great recycle project! Yes, the best part of this class is that you already have everything you need in your studio to create your journal. The idea is to use your scraps, bits and pieces of things you've alraedy been hoarding, to make a journal you can later add writing and photos. Here is a sneek preview of my "blank" garden journal:

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Wordless wednesday

2011-05-26T12:29:00.004+02:00

Fish restaurant in Zanzibar

Flickr favorites

2011-05-24T08:30:00.001+02:00

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
~Henry Ward Beecher

1. Grow "art journal", 2. Art Journal #1 Overview, 3. Art journals, 4. Art Journal January 2009

Still in the mood of art journaling, I made this mosaic.
Yesterday I bought this signature by bonnierose:

I can't wait to receive it and get started with my art journal.

For more Flickr Favorites, please visit Artmind's blog.

Monday moodboard

2011-05-23T09:28:00.005+02:00

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
~Albert Einstein

ShabbyChicShreds
buechertiger
MindAndHandsTogether
Kreativlink

Inspired by tomorrow's Etsy lab in Brussels

image Dutchhandmade

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Music I love- boi akih

2011-05-18T07:47:00.003+02:00

Boi akih ("princess Akih" in the language spoken on the Indonesian island of Haruku, part of the Moluccan archipelago) is primarily a duo. Monica Akihary sings in the language of her ancestors, from the Moluccan island Haruku (she also sings in Indonesian and english).
In the songs of Akihary and her partner Niels Brouwer you can hear influences from jazz, raga, flamenco, traditional Indonesian music, but also from African and classical music.
The duo is regularly extended, among others with the Balinese gamelan player I Made Subandi, Dutch cellist Ernst Reijseger and Indian Tabla player Sandip Batthacharya.

You can read more here about their cd "Lagu lagu" ('songs' in Indonesian).

Monica Akihary | Lagu Lagu | CD Baby

Flickr favorites

2011-05-17T08:27:00.003+02:00

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

~Totie Fields

1. ~I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks~, 2. 090701 Supposed to be on a diet?, 3. kellog's matador, 4. Two women running on the beach

Last year I stopped smoking and had 2 operations on my feet, wich made me pretty immobile for quite some time. I gained 10 kilo that year! Now I'm desperately trying to loose some weight...with little-or rather no-results ... sigh.
I guess I should try harder and change my life motto: "a balanced diet is a cookie in each hand " in a new mantra: "If it tastes good, spit it out."

For more Flickr favorites, hop over to Artmind's blog.

Monday moodboard

2011-05-16T09:49:00.008+02:00

“How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown.”

~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I collect goose-items. Here are a few I have/want in my collection.

TheNebulousKingdom
marysgranddaughter
psyboom
TheNebulousKingdom

Me and my goose 'Roosje'. (I'm teaching her to fly...)

...We had saved her from the butcher. She was the sweetest goose that you can imagine. At first she was afraid of water, but soon she learned to swim with her friends, the geese from the neighbors, back in the stream. When we arrived in the garden, she came to meet us like a dog, "nuzzled" like a dog and tried to jump on our lap.
Often she went for a walk through the village with her pals. They became known and loved by the people in the village.
But one day we came home and there was no happy goose honking.
We searched for days, weeks, but she was gone.
I still don't know what happened to her, but I like to think that it was time for her to fly to the sun.

next time I will make an all EST Moodboard again.
More Moodboards you can see at Staroftheeast's blog!

Flickr favorites

2011-05-10T09:36:00.001+02:00

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”

~ Helen Keller

1. una de les meves preferides, 2. Barcelona - Coroleu 077 c, 3. In The Shade, 4. Conservatory Door

For me there is nothing more mysterious than closed doors.

More flickr favorites at Artmind's blog.

Monday moodboard - Facebook friends

2011-05-05T16:27:00.025+02:00

Without music life would be a mistake.
~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

OOgieboo
nauli
psyboom
rodistudio

One of my favorite facebook friends is Angela Correa. I met Angela years ago when she wanted to buy one of my necklaces. I saw on her profile that she was a singer and since I love to discover new music I suggested a swap for her new cd. She agreed and a few weeks later a package arrived with not one but 2 cds!! ...and I'm hooked ever since. Angela Correa is a lovely person and an amazing artist!!

Please check out the animation video on the Kickstarter page and help her and her band to release their new record!

"we have so much love,
but we need so much more"
~Correatown

Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without

2011-05-04T10:41:00.004+02:00

Flickr favorites

2011-05-03T10:41:00.002+02:00

Rich and rare were the gems she wore,
And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore.
~Thomas Moore

When I think of shiny, I automatically think of...jewelry, ofcourse.

1. Sterling Tree Necklace, 2. Sterling Silver Rutilated Quartz Ring, 3. Earrings - sterling silver oval hoops with crocheted silver lace and red orange carnelian agates - Just Smile, 4. Sterling Silver Ginkgo Leaf Pendant

For more Flickr favorites, head over to Artmind's blog.

Facebook friends

2011-04-28T10:01:00.006+02:00

I have been meaning to do a post on this for a while now.
Since I opened an account on hyves and facebook I met some interesting people.
One of them is Glen Marijnissen:
"I want to control trivial things like a sheet of paper.To form."
His hero is Alfred Jodokus Kwak... and Books are for smartasses!

...but otherwise he's ok.

Looking at his profile I found a painting I really liked, so I asked him if we could do a swap...and so we did. He asked his ma to look in the shed and he drove all the way from Tilburg to deliver it personally. In return he received a "fuelin 'around" necklace, which he gave to his ma.

Now I'm the proud owner of an original "Glen Marijnissen"

Pretty cool, isn't it?!
The man holding the Van Gogh painting asks:
"eej, Sjuul, Can you do something with that picture of that schizophrenic nutcase from Zundert?"

If you want to see more of Glen: Go and see "Faces of Life"

"Faces of Life is a project of Arts Society Tegendraads.
Located in the Johan de Wittstraat 166 in Dordrecht.

Three participating artists:
Karin Starmans
Adrienne Kusters
Glen Marijnissen.

They use the space with their art with the theme being the life stages.

This can be anything and become anything. The space is alive and continuously altered so that the visitor is continually surprised."

Flickr favorites

2011-04-26T08:43:00.001+02:00

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Yesterday I spend my day on the Grand Easter Monday brocante-market in Verviers in Belgium. The entire city was full of 600 professional and amateur brocante dealers over a distance of 4km! I enjoyed rummaging through all the wonderful treasures!

1. Tout à 1€, 2. Lommel, België, 3. Brocante 2006, 4. BPV_2010-04-05_DSC_9577_t

For more Flickr favorites, head over to Artmind's blog

Monday moodboard

2011-04-25T08:09:00.001+02:00

Just close your eyes again
Until these things get better
You're never far away
But we could send letters.
~Roddy Frame

shashamane
MyMonography
magalerie
artreasury

More moodboards on Fleurfatale's blog.

Flickr favorites

2011-04-19T09:07:00.000+02:00

The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend.
~Cali Rae Turner

1. I love thee to the depth & breadth & height my soul can reach. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 2. Our favourite Boro Apu!, 3. Sisters, 4. eye exam charts(Sisters make the best of Friends

For more Flickr favorites, head over to Artmind's blog

Monday Moodboard

2011-04-18T09:00:00.004+02:00

In my next life I'm going to be dead
~ Erna Price

matchstickgirl
Lazyfish
trotalo
Kteis

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Want ook de nacht mint het licht

2011-04-15T09:35:00.008+02:00

de nacht ontfermt zich over mij

en na verstilling tot aan onder
de wijzers van de zon
geef ik aan hem te kennen
zoals hij mij

maar ken jij ook de dageraad
vroeg hij en wuift loom wat blauwe fotonen
en verwachte weerstand weg
nog voor de komst van robijnrode uren

het afgeworpen zwijgen het begin
van weer een ander licht op theorie
en met in een tik en tel terug bij af
gaat deze verstrooiing tegen

want ook de nacht mint het licht
en meer nog het doorbreken

~Danny Danker

the night takes pity on me

and after stillness from below
the hands of the Sun
I'll let him know
as so did he

but do you also know the dawn
he asked, waving languidly some blue photons
and expected resistance away
before the arrival of ruby-red hours

the shedded silence the beginning
of yet another light on theory
and with a beat and a blink back to square one
this prevents dispersion

for also the night loves the light
and even more the breakthrough

~Danny Danker

Inspired by the wondrous words of Danny Danker
and the soothing sounds of Anne van Schothorst
I made this bracelet.

I was so glad to find that Anne bought it.

Thank you Danny and Anne!

Giveaway

2011-04-14T14:19:00.008+02:00

This giveaway is for a dindi charm necklace of your choice from my website

What You Need to Do to WIn:

Visit my website , come back here and leave a comment on this blog

telling me which dindi necklaces (there are more) are pictured in the header of my website.

Extra chances to enter!

For extra entries leave a SEPERATE comment for each (or any) of these:

1. Post about this giveaway on your own blog
(please leave a link to your post)
2. Tweet or Facebook about this giveway
(please leave your Twitter/FB name)

Then, check back here to see if you are the lucky winner!

The winner will be chosen using Random.org.

giveaway ends Monday, April 18th, at 10pm GMT.

The answer is:
I Am Really Just a Tambourine
24 Carrot
Throw starfish in the ocean
Unearth buried dream/I dig love
Save the jackalope

And the winner is: Carolie! Congrats Carolie!

Flick favorites

2011-04-12T12:23:00.006+02:00

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. ~Jean Giraudoux

One of my favorite musicians is John Martyn and one of my favorites of his songs is "Small Hours"

Inspired bis this I made this mosaic

1. Lunar Radiance, 2. Midnight Traffic, 3. Full Blooms in Dark, 4. 99/365 For more Flickr favorites, please visit Artmind blog.

Monday moodboard

2011-04-11T09:42:00.004+02:00

When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.
~Author Unknown

LiquidBrick
AtelierConti
nasoupo
magalerie

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Flickr favorites

2011-04-05T10:48:00.005+02:00

Dresses for breakfasts, and dinners, and balls;
Dresses to sit in, and stand in, and walk in;
Dresses to dance in, and flirt in, and talk in;
Dresses in which to do nothing at all;
Dresses for Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall.
~William Allen Butler, "Nothing to Wear"

1. hair decoration, 2. Untitled, 3. Farrah Sterling Bangle Set, 4. Thom McAnn 70s Wooden High Heel Brown Leather Sandals

Long dresses or tunics, loads of bangles and sandals...that's me...and further
I'm like Gilda Radner, who said:

I base most of my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. ~Gilda Radner

For more Flickr Favorites, please visit Artmind's blog.

Monday moodboard

2011-04-04T13:04:00.004+02:00

“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.”
Blaise Pascal quotes

MamaTita
LAccentNou
irisoconnor
PressButtonA

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Flickr Favorites

2011-03-29T09:47:00.002+02:00

But for a woodpecker
tapping at a post, no sound
at all in the house
~Basho

Last tuesday Artmind wrote about the Flickr explore pictures
I never heard of those before. So for today's mosaic I decided to take a look. The first picture I found was a beautiful image of old houses in Monschau, a beautiful little town close to where I live. And since I'm in a "houses mood" (see also my last blog post), I looked for other houses...and this is the result.

1. ~~"Monschau" a tiny, cute village in Germany (on explore), 2. Marshall Park - Charlotte, NC, 3. Urban Textures, 4. hotel work

For more Flickr favorites, head over to Artmind's blog.

Monday Moodboard

2011-03-28T16:24:00.003+02:00

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
~ George Bernard Shaw

A few days ago I entered a giveaway on tuckooandmoocow's blog
...and I was the winner!
Soon I will be the lucky owner of a little house necklace by ARTISANIEeurope

Inspired by it I made this moodboard:

1.eleuthera
2.ARTISANIEeurope
3.NiuTaller
4.MariaSiyanko

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Euroweek - a retrospective

2011-03-28T10:53:00.002+02:00

"Recession and Ice Cream Crowds have taken over"
~ Robin, a customer

Euroweek is over.
I make up the balance:
I was featured in lots of treasuries, 4 made the Frontpage of Etsy:

I was featured in Etsy Fashion email:

This brought me loads of new hearts, a wholesale inquiry, 4 custom orders and 3 sales.
Not too bad, given that
"Recession and ice cream crowds have taken over".

Sales fairy

2011-03-23T08:42:00.003+01:00

When the winds of March are wakening the crocuses and crickets,
Did you ever find a fairy near some budding little thickets,...
And when she sees you creeping up to get a closer peek
She tumbles through the daffodils, a playing hide and seek.
~Marjorie Barrows

On a grey Saturday afternoon Inger from Ingermaaike listed a fairy in her shop: a Sales Fairy. A fairy, that should bring sales. A few moments later vadjutka bought it. At this moment the Sales Fairy game was born. It was vadjutka's turn to make a Fairy, to let her go and then someone else would make a new fairy etc etc.

I only found out about the Fairy just when the game was over, but this year I catched a very beautiful sales fairy made by Mari from ChoochMagooz. She flew all the way from Spain to Germany. Isn't she gorgeous?!
I was very glad to hear that the fairy I made found a good home with Esther and Estella from Staroftheeast in Turkey.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?
~John Lennon

Flickr Favorites

2011-03-22T09:33:00.001+01:00

Springtime is the land awakening.
The March winds are the morning yawn.
~Quoted by Lewis Grizzard in Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You

1. Leaf Ornament, 2. eyespot1, 3. Earrings (Silver Sterling earwire) - April, 4. sweet_bouquet

I made this mosaic with Etsy Euroweek in mind.

For more flickr favorites, please visit Artmind.

Monday Moodboard - Happy Spring and Happy Etsy Euroweek!

2011-03-21T12:40:00.005+01:00

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
~Charles Dickens

karoart
AmourAmi
nevita
iragrant

These sellers offer a discount during Etsy Euro Week.

Today the EuroWeek starts on Etsy (and it's also the first day of spring in Europe).
Last year I missed out the entire week, but this year I offer 10% discount untill 28 of March in both shops if you use coupon code ''Euroweeksale'' when you check out.

For more moodboards, please visit Fleurfatale

Flickr favorites

2011-03-15T10:15:00.001+01:00

I like to wash,
the dust of this world
In the droplets of dew.
~Matsuo Basho

1. Old Japan, 2. JAPANESE GEISHA WITH SAMISEN, or THANKS, OKINAWA !, 3. The Beauties of Old Japan, 4. Old Japan

For more Flickr Favorites, please visit Artmind's blog

Monday moodboard

2011-03-14T09:36:00.001+01:00

Sometimes I dream
of a white house with white rooms
and white furniture

....only sometimes

1.nurdanceyiz
2.PamelaAngus
3.magalerie
4.secdus

For more moodboards, please visit Fleurfatale

Flickr favorites

2011-03-08T11:50:00.005+01:00

I found these images on flickr while searching for "Carneval"!
I don't really like Carnival, that's why I liked the pictures, they don't look "carnivalesque".

Yes, Carneval is in town now...

that means spring is around the corner...

1. classic view, 2. This Mardi Gras is about more than greed. It's a shout-out to everybody, and we're coming back strong. (Quote by Julio Cesar, brazilian football player), 3. Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. (Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke), 4. venice

For more flickr favorites, head over to Artmind's blog.

Realitieit is ook maar een droom

2011-03-03T11:27:00.007+01:00

A few days ago I met Marjolein Schuurman on facebook. She sought people who wanted to play the lead role in a satirical blog post written by her?

It sounded fun. A little extra publicity for my shop
is always good.
I sent her a list of caracteristics and after a day or so I got a test blog, and after my approval, she put the post on her blog.

In that post, I am a foresthippie (a cross between a forest nymph and a hippie) who lives and works in Love Forest surrounded by strange creatures and with the help of seven wolves carries out her mission to innocent wood ramblers and Muggles (a Muggle is a person who lacks any sort of magical ability and was not born into the magical world).

And what is my mission then? My mission is to connect old and new jewelry, to restore jewelry in their former glory,to give back their value, to put my stamp on it and to show people and Muggles how much beauty there lies in imperfection.

Nicely written with lots of imagination and attention to detail she shows that reality is only a dream.

And what's also great, she fell in love with my jewelry and put them on a wish list for her husband, who promptly ordered a necklace.

You in the leading role of a caricature blog post?
Always wanted to play a leading role?...... You can:
http://watikmetjedelenwil.blogspot.com/2011/02/klein-kapje-en-de-7-wolfjes.html

Een paar dagen geleden ontmoette ik Marjolein Schuurman op facebook. Zij zocht mensen, die de hoofdrol wilden spelen in een door haar geschreven karikaturale blogpost?

Dat leek me wel leuk. Een beetje extra reclame voor mijn webshop is altijd mooi meegenomen, toch.
Ik stuurde haar een lijstje met eigenschappen en na een dag of zo kreeg ik van haar een proef te zien en na mijn goedkeuring plaatste ze het stukje op haar blog.

In dat stukje ben ik een boshippie (een kruizing tussen bosnimf en hippie), die in Love Forest leeft en werkt, omringt door allerlei vreemde wezens en met de hulp van 7 wolfjes haar missie uitdraagt aan onschuldige boswandelaars en aan dreuzels (een dreuzel is iemand zonder toverkracht, zonder magie).

En wat is mijn missie dan wel? Mijn missie is het verbinden van oud en nieuw, sieraden in eer te herstellen, ze hun waarde weer terug te geven, er mijn stempel op te drukken en mensen en dreuzels laten zien hoeveel schoonheid er is in het onvolmaakte.

Hardstikke leuk geschreven en met veel fantasie en liefde voor detail laat zij zien dat realiteit ook maar een droom is.

En wat ook leuk is: zij werd verliefd op mijn sieraden en zette ze op een verlanglijstje voor haar man, die er prompt eentje bestelde.

Jij in de hoofdrol van een karikaturale blogpost?
Altijd al een hoofdrol willen spelen?......Hier kan dat:
http://watikmetjedelenwil.blogspot.com/2011/02/klein-kapje-en-de-7-wolfjes.html

New website for dogs and their owners

2011-03-02T14:19:00.007+01:00

A friend of mine has recently launched her new website.
Chandra Djoenaedi is clearly a dog lover. Patoef.nl is a website for trendy dog owners and their trendy dogs.

In the shop you will find beautiful blankets and smart toys for smart dogs and lovely shoulder bags (and soon hats, I've heard) for the mistress. The shoulder bags are perfect for storing everything you need for a walk in the forest or a picnic, but they are great too when you go shopping.

What makes the items in this shop so special is the fact that everything is handmade with recycled materials. Padded jackets, ties, army socks, grandma's old skirt, old chains and neighbour's embroidery, everything is recycled and transformed into something beautiful.

Go and look for yourself

http://patoef.nl

Een vriendin van mij heeft onlangs haar nieuwe website geopend.
Chandra Djoenaedi is duidelijk gek op honden. Patoef.nl is een website voor hippe hondenliefhebbers en hun net zo hippe viervoeters.

In de webwinkel worden dekens met enige applicaties en slimme speeltjes voor de pientere hond verkocht en mooie schoudertassen (en binnenkort ook mutsen, heb ik gehoord) voor de bazin.
De schoudertassen zijn ideaal om alles in op te bergen wat je voor een flinke boswandeling nodig hebt of voor een picnic, maar ze staan ook niet mis wanneer je de boodschappen doet.

Wat de artikelen van Patoef zo speciaal maakt is het feit, dat alles handgemaakt is van gebruikte materialen. Gewatteerde jassen, stropdassen, legersokken en de rok van oma, oude kettingen en buurvrouw's borduurwerk, alles wordt hergebruikt en omgetoverd tot iets moois.

Ga zelf maar een kijkje nemen!

http://patoef.nl

FLickr favorites

2011-03-01T10:53:00.004+01:00

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

Epicurus quotes (Greek philosopher, BC 341-270)

1. Dream., 2. Dreaming of freedom, 3. Gypsy caravan, 4. Gypsy Caravan

More dreamy mosaics at Artmind's blog

Flickr favorites - solitude

2011-02-22T09:24:00.007+01:00

A video by filmmaker, Andrea Dorfman, and poet/singer/songwriter, Tanya Davis.

HOW TO BE ALONE by Tanya Davis

If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you've not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren't okay with it, then just wait. You'll find it's fine to be alone once you're embracing it.

We could start with the acceptable places, the bathroom, the coffee shop, the library. Where you can stall and read the paper, where you can get your caffeine fix and sit and stay there. Where you can browse the stacks and smell the books. You're not supposed to talk much anyway so it's safe there.

There's also the gym. If you're shy you could hang out with yourself in mirrors, you could put headphones in (guitar stroke).

And there's public transportation, because we all gotta go places.

And there's prayer and meditation. No one will think less if you're hanging with your breath seeking peace and salvation.

Start simple. Things you may have previously (electric guitar plucking) based on your avoid being alone principals.

The lunch counter. Where you will be surrounded by chow-downers. Employees who only have an hour and their spouses work across town and so they -- like you -- will be alone.

Resist the urge to hang out with your cell phone.

When you are comfortable with eat lunch and run, take yourself out for dinner. A restaurant with linen and silverware. You're no less intriguing a person when you're eating solo dessert to cleaning the whipped cream from the dish with your finger. In fact some people at full tables will wish they were where you were.

Go to the movies. Where it is dark and soothing. Alone in your seat amidst a fleeting community.
And then, take yourself out dancing to a club where no one knows you. Stand on the outside of the floor till the lights convince you more and more and the music shows you. Dance like no one's watching...because, they're probably not. And, if they are, assume it is with best of human intentions. The way bodies move genuinely to beats is, after all, gorgeous and affecting. Dance until you're sweating, and beads of perspiration remind you of life's best things, down your back like a brook of blessings.

Go to the woods alone, and the trees and squirrels will watch for you.
Go to an unfamiliar city, roam the streets, there're always statues to talk to and benches made for sitting give strangers a shared existence if only for a minute and these moments can be so uplifting and the conversations you get in by sitting alone on benches might've never happened had you not been there by yourself

Society is afraid of alonedom, like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements, like people must have problems if, after a while, nobody is dating them. but lonely is a freedom that breaths easy and weightless and lonely is healing if you make it.

You could stand, swathed by groups and mobs or hold hands with your partner, look both further and farther for the endless quest for company. But no one's in your head and by the time you translate your thoughts, some essence of them may be lost or perhaps it is just kept.

Perhaps in the interest of loving oneself, perhaps all those sappy slogans from preschool over to high school's groaning were tokens for holding the lonely at bay. Cuz if you're happy in your head than solitude is blessed and alone is okay.

It's okay if no one believes like you. All experience is unique, no one has the same synapses, can't think like you, for this be releived, keeps things interesting lifes magic things in reach.

And it doesn't mean you're not connected, that communitie's not present, just take the perspective you get from being one person in one head and feel the effects of it. take silence and respect it. if you have an art that needs a practice, stop neglecting it. if your family doesn't get you, or religious sect is not meant for you, don't obsess about it.

you could be in an instant surrounded if you needed it
If your heart is bleeding make the best of it
There is heat in freezing, be a testament.

1. ...alone...apart..., 2. solitude, 3. alone in the train, 4. Reading alone

For more flickr mosaics, please visit Artmind's blog

EST weekly challenge

2011-02-21T21:40:00.004+01:00

Jonna from The Pottering Shop picked me as the winner of the EST challenge for last week.
If you'd like to take a look at the entries, here is her blog post about it.
Thank you Jonna for a great challenge!

This week's theme will be:
pink and turquoise (or magenta and teal)

Yeah, I want you (European Street Team members only) to make pink and turquoise entries, list it in your shop or write a blog post about it and send me the link to enter for this challenge!!

Read here more about the weekly challenges and see here all PREVIOUS CHALLENGES of the Europeanstreetteam.

Here are some inspirational images to get you in the mood:

yellena
staroftheeast
DeerLola
sebsurer

I will collect all entries after this post and the winner will be announced Monday February 28th at 22:00 pm.

First entry a blue and purple butterfly ring from ALittleDotty

.... a beautiful card by aegeansea

....surreal stacked button earrings by amoroni a

...and another pair of earrings by vadjutka

...an animal necklace by dyouwelz

...a printable wedding invitation by em papers

...a shoulder bag with flowers by Kirschbits

...a snail brooch by cherrytime

...a very big crochet ring with lace by sexyhandmade

...a bugs, bees and butterflies necklace by staroftheeast

...a flower brooch/pin by oneperfectday

...a multi-strand bracelet by creationsbyeve

..and a little fairie by Arjatunsdaughter

And the winner is.................Kirschbits with her shoulder bag with flowers!
Congrats!!

Monday moodboard - A glimpse of spring

2011-02-21T10:35:00.004+01:00

fleurfatale
artwatercolor
starrybluesky
Kitty016

....and a glimpse of spring in my dindi shop:

For more Moods made by European artists, please visit Fleurfatale!

Flickr Favorites

2011-02-14T23:17:00.003+01:00

I love stories.
That's why I love books and I love shadowboxes. Shadowboxes are little universes that tell stories. I made a little wearable shadowbox for my Arjatun's daughter collection:

and a little mosaic with some lovely shadowboxes I found on flickr

1. *oNCe uPoN a TiMe sToRyBoX* antique box assemblage collage vintage paper altered art paper FaiRy doll, 2. Once upon a time..., 3. bugged, 4. Untitled#5565665335748

For more flickr mosaics, please visit Artmind's blog

Monday Moodboard

2011-02-14T10:23:00.004+01:00

Oneperfectday
Elbenta
LePetitFoyer
Stephmel

For more Moods made by European artists, please visit Fleurfatale!

Win one of these pretty safety belts by davir dog designs!

2011-02-09T10:38:00.004+01:00

My friend Virag from davir dog designs is having a little game:

You can win a superb seat belt if you comment on their blog post and tell them which one is your favorite davir dog design artifact.
The game is also running on their facebook page. If you want to participate doubly, then like, share and comment on there, too.
Besides, if you mention this game on your blog (please let them know), you can take part in it triply.

The winner will be drawn at random on 22th February! :)

My dog Jordi sporting his davir design collar.

Flickr Favorites

2011-02-07T21:01:00.003+01:00

I redecorated my kitchen. I painted the green cabinets in a lovely light-blue colour. Then I sanded a little bit here and there, so the green color came through. I had some fabric with roses that I bought years ago from aegeansea on Etsy, I cut out the roses and stuck them on the kitchen cabinets. Tadaa...I calll it my wabi-shabby kitchen.

I looked on flickr for shabby chic and I found loads of inspiration for my kitchen:

1. Cupcakes and a shabby chic tea towel, 2. 134_3484, 3. treats for myself, 4. My kitchen corner

For more Flickr Favorites, please visit Artmind.

European Street team challenge - Monday moodboard - Middle Ages

2011-02-05T18:25:00.004+01:00

It's been ages since I participated in the European Streetteam weekly challenges.

It's not about winning, but these challenges are perfect to let the creative juices flow.

This week's challenge is hosted by Kim from viltalakim and the theme is

"the Middle Ages".

This is my entry:

A picture of a beautiful medieval woman sandwiched between two label holder frames.

I adorned it with the words: "In a land far far away", "a long time ago", "yesterday" and "back then".

A fresh water pearl dangles from the pendant.

You can use it as a piece of jewelry, it makes a great wall accent too or you can use it as decoration.

I made a monday moodboard with other medieval designs of European Street Team members.

Pendant by MiddleEarths

Hat by Vaisto

Pendants by PetitVillage

Book by artreasury

For more Moods made by European artists, Please visit Fleurfatale!

Flickr Favourites

2011-01-25T15:09:00.003+01:00

1. From my window, a screen of young maple trees!, 2. Rain Train, 3. Fata Morgana (rain drops on my window), 4. any way the wind blows

Wanna see more flickr favourites? Head over to Artmind!

Monday moodboard

2011-01-17T11:50:00.003+01:00

'Free Spirit' by Balanced
Circular Rainbow Hippie Vest by Loveandknit
Long turquoise necklace by toosis
Blue Calfskin Tote by byloomandhyde

visit fleurfatale to view more moodboards from etsy sellers

New creations with flowers as a tribute to Frida Kahlo

2011-01-15T14:23:00.003+01:00

I want to show you my newest creations. The necklace above is created from vintage sterling silver chain, new sterling silver cable chain and vintage copper chain, wire wrapped with copper and 20mm sapphire blue Chalcedony facet nugget beads. I adorned the copper chain with three beautiful big fabric flowers. The focal point is an original hand-painted (by me) portrait of Frida Kahlo set under Ice Resin in a heavy sterling silver bezel with Lapis Lazuli.

This simple but beautiful beaded bracelet contains chalcedony, blue lace agate, kyanite and sodalite and a big Magenta fabric flower, attached with sterling silver wire.

Simple beaded bracelet with pearls and one rose.

Arjati's daughter

2011-01-12T12:40:00.004+01:00

I opened a new shop on etsy last week. The shop is called Arjati's daughter.
Arjatun's daughter is a line of jewelry, created with a combination of new and vintage materials and repurposed found objects, given a second life.
I still keep my dindi shop for hand stamped sterling silver jewelry with quotes, words and sayings and colorful creations.

Please, tell me what you think.

*Thank you, everyone for sending me lovely comments through etsy and facebook, because the comment box didn't work here ( I think, I solved the problem now).
I really appreciate it!

Sparkle

2010-11-26T14:46:00.003+01:00

This necklace is my entry for the Europeanstreetteam Challenge on etsy hosted by Arctida
The theme is "New Years Eve Glitz & Glamour!".

I'm not into glitz & glamour..... so I made a simple bracelet that says "sparkle".

You can see more entries here

Monday moodboard

2010-11-22T15:06:00.003+01:00

Our house is a very, very, very fine house

schalle
irisoconnor
CreatedBySonja
EdgeInspired

See more Moodboards at Fleurfatale's blog!

Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting

2010-11-18T14:05:00.003+01:00

This necklace is my entry for the Europeanstreetteam Challenge hosted by http://www.etsy.com/shop/bijouxdellostregatto The theme is "Waiting for Christmas".
You can see more entries here:
http://lecreazionidellostregatto.blogspot.com/2010/11/european-street-team-challenge-waiting.html

Great Big Stitched Postcard Swap

2010-11-14T10:47:00.003+01:00

I made this up for the Great Big Stitched Postcard Swap. The theme was "HOME" and I
like how it turned out and I hope the recipient will too. I draw with pencil and colored with copic markers than I stitched the decoration on the chocolate with white thread.

This card I received yesterday. It is made by SVM....isn't it adorable?!

Shoes can change your life....ask Cinderella

2010-11-04T15:51:00.003+01:00

This necklace is my entry for the Europeanstreetteam Challenge hosted by http://Kraplap.etsy.com "Cinderella". You can see more entries here.

Great big stitched postcard swap

2010-11-01T16:50:00.003+01:00

I've joined the Great big stitched postcard swap hosted by Beth Nicholls at Do What You Love, Love What You Do. The theme this time is "HOME".
I have never made a stitched postcard before, but it looks like fun:
Create a handmade, stitched postcard with a HOME theme. Mail it to your partner and wait for your own handcrafted postcard to arrive!
You can take a look at the Flickr group from last time.

Teesha Moore fabric journal

2010-10-05T16:38:00.004+02:00

I have been really enjoying making a Teesha Moore journal, following instructions I found on her website.
I hate sewing, but I decided to give it a go, 'cause it looked so great and easy to do. Well, it was. I finished my journal in no time and I think I will make some more.

The Sketchbook Project: 2011 » Art House Co-op | We build art projects and communities

2010-07-29T09:26:00.003+02:00

Flickr favorites

2010-07-27T12:06:00.003+02:00

Since I stopped smoking seven months ago, I gained 7 kilos!! Those, of course, I want to lose. I have tried some diets already, but nothing worked! Perhaps, the grapefruit diet will help?

1. Tutti Frutti, 2. Happiness is .. a grape fruit, 4. Kiss

If you like to play this week, go to Artmind´s Blog ! There you can see much more Mosaics!

Monday moodboard

2010-07-26T15:01:00.004+02:00

Great ideas come from great bike rides!

1. life is for living by nasoupo
2.bike inner tube journal by palepink
3.I heart my bike necklace by tizzalicious
4.french messenger bag by ikabags

To see other moodboards, please check out fleurfatale's blog.

Beautiful People Project

2010-06-07T12:21:00.003+02:00

Beautiful People Project on hyves:

Make a difference

2010-05-27T10:53:00.002+02:00

We can't save the world, but we can make a difference!

There once was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach before he began his work. One day he was walking along the shore, as he looked down the beach, he saw a human figure moving like a dancer. He smiled to himself to think of someone who would dance to the day and he began to walk faster to catch up. As he got closer, he saw that it was a young man, and the young man wasn’t dancing, but instead he was reaching down to the shore, picking up something, and very gently throwing it into the ocean.

He called out, “Good morning, what are you doing?” The young man paused, looked up and replied, “Throwing starfish into the ocean.” “I guess I should have asked; why are you throwing starfish in the ocean?” “The sun is up and the tide is going out. And if I don’t throw them then they’ll die.” “But, young man, don’t you realize that there are miles and miles of beach and starfish all along it. You can’t possibly make a difference!” The young man listened politely, then bent down, picked up another starfish and threw it into the sea, past the breaking waves and said, “It made a difference for that one.”

From: The Star Thrower by Loren Eiseley

Playing with wordle

2010-04-18T10:24:00.000+02:00

www.wordle.net

Flickr favourites

2010-03-09T10:56:00.001+01:00

Flickr favourites
1. Girl in Gallery, 2. imperfect, 3. plant 60262 , 4. Project 365/60

More flickr favourites you can see at Artminds blog

Dichtslamrap

2010-01-20T13:17:00.002+01:00

Thursday, 28 January 2010, Dicht-Slam-Rap 2010 in restaurant En Garde! in Boxtel, The Netherlands.

Dicht-Slam-Rap is a contest between poets, rappers and slammers, which takes place annually on Poetry Day in the Dutch town of Boxtel.
Also on January 28th: the seventh Dicht-Slam-Rap collection is published, containing a selection of some of the highlights submitted in the run up to the 2010 contest.

And again this year two exhibitions take place about Dicht-Slam-Rap:
1. From January 5th an exhibition in the library of Boxtel. St. Lukas students have created designs for posters, flyers and covers.

2. After 28 January, in the same library: works of art from a number of regional artists. The works are based on poems from the new collection.

The book Dicht-Slam-Rap is on sale from late January through bookshops and via http://www.stichtingwaterstof.nl/uitgeverij.htm

I created the necklace using the poem "in blauwdruk" van Danny Danker.

Other participating artists this year: Wouter Gresnigt, Henk Groenendaal, Susan Reijnders, Alexia Pnevmatikos, Huub Thorissen and Ruud Sleumer.

See also http://www.dichtslamrap.nl or http://dichtslamrap.hyves.nl

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Dicht-Slam-Rap 2010 -- Finale-avond donderdag 28 januari 2010, Gedichtendag, in het monumentale pand van restaurant En Garde!, Markt 35, in Boxtel.! Dicht Slam Rap is een wedstrijd tussen dichters, slammers en rappers, die jaarlijks op gedichtendag plaatsvindt in Boxtel.

Op 28 januari verschijnt tevens de zevende dichtbundel Dicht-Slam-Rap, volgens de jury een greep uit de hoogtepunten die in de aanloop naar de editie 2010 binnenkwamen.

Ook dit jaar in Boxtel weer twee exposities rond Dicht-Slam-Rap. Vanaf 5 januari in de bibliotheek een expositie van SintLucas-studenten die ontwerpen hebben gemaaktt voor posters, flyers en omslag bundel. Na 28 januari zijn in diezelfde bibliotheek kunstwerken te zien van een aantal regionale kunstenaars. De werken zijn gemaakt aan de hand van gedichten uit de nieuwe bundel.
De dichtbundel Dicht-Slam-Rap is vanaf eind januari te koop via de boekhandel en via http://www.stichtingwaterstof.nl/uitgeverij.htm

Ik maakte bijgaande halsketting aan de hand van een gedicht in blauwdruk van Danny Danker

Andere deelnemende kunstenaars zijn dit jaar: Wouter Gresnigt, Henk Groenendaal, Susan Reijnders, Alexia Pnevmatikos, Huub Thorissen en Ruud Sleumer.

Kijk ook http://www.dichtslamrap.nl of http://dichtslamrap.hyves.nl

Time in a bottle

2009-03-25T09:36:00.003+01:00

Inspired by "Time in a bottle" by Jim Croce.

If I could save time in a bottle
The first thing that I'd like to do
Is to save every day
Till eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you

Jim Croce - Time in a Bottle

New line of jewelry

2009-03-19T16:03:00.002+01:00

Thought I’d share some photos from the new jewelry designs I’m working on, which I'll be posting in my shop soon. In these designs I incorporate found objects, ribbon and lace and leather, freshwater pearls and vintage ephemera.

I'm having a blast.

500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art

2009-02-09T20:59:00.002+01:00

by Philip Scott Johnson

Music: Bach's Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yo-Yo Ma

Nominated as Most Creative Video
2007 YouTube Awards

For a complete list of artists and paintings visit http://www.maysstuff.com/womenid.htm

Winter solitude

2009-02-04T10:25:00.002+01:00

"Winter solitude
in a world of one color
the sound of wind"
~Basho

CountryDreaming

TheNebulousKingdom

matchstickgirl

JKphotography

judemcconkey

NatureMandalas

eleanors

Met dank aan Danny Danker

2009-01-29T14:46:00.002+01:00

dindi proudly presents her new posey jewelry in Dutch in collaboration
with the lovely and talented writer and poet Danny Danker.

Danny Danker seems a jack of all trades.
A proud mother of four children, she also works as a drama teacher,
writes and directs plays, provides poetry workshops and lessons for children in various age groups, exhibits, travels through the whole country for guest appearances and provides literary and journalistic contributions to newspapers.

What is her driving strength?

Danny: "The art is to find the smooth movement
of life and to learn to follow this movement, unforced.
To fall and get up on your feet
and follow the path without
purpose other than
the road itself. To
continue to the next
'to do' has more
value and more
'feeling', then a product
that is already finished."

Available in my shop

The girl and her goose

2009-01-21T12:49:00.002+01:00

Me and my goose 'Roosje'. I loved her to bits...Now, she is gone..Goosy, goosy gander, where did you wander?

serpentmandalas

annzania

corid

sleepandhersisters

DUDADAZE

TheNebulousKingdom

The Proximidade Award

2009-01-18T18:18:00.003+01:00

Today I received a blog award from a fellow European Street Team member ChichiBoulie. My first award ever.
She has a gorgeous etsy shop HERE and a sweet blog HERE
I am touched that she picked me as one of the recipients - Thanks Gretchen!

Proximidade is described as follows:
'This blog invests and believes in PROXIMITY - nearness in space, time and relationships. These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes for self-aggrandizement! Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers!'

This blog award should be sent to your favorite eight bloggers and they, in turn should forward to eight of their favorites. You should include the text for Proximidade (above) in your announcement blog.

As I have to choose only eight, the Proximidade Award goes to:

Star-of-the-east
HeliS
Creations by Eve
JealousyDesign
Kraplap
Antigoni
Nanouke
FleurFatale

Their blogs are all on my must-read list!

Weekly challenge

2009-01-12T13:53:00.002+01:00

This week´s challenge is hosted by Heli and the theme is: The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera.

I wanted to make something different and not just put one quote on a piece of jewelry since there are so many remarkable phrases in this book. I wanted to let the symbols represent the quotes…and I wanted to add a lot of levity and kitsch in it.
I had to dig very deep in my jewelry boxes and this is what I came up with.

♥ circles:
-eternal return
-Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

♥ Love charm
-Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.

♥ bird charm
-The heaviest of burdens is simultaneously an image of life's most intense fullfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into new heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?

Is lightness better and weight a burden, or does meaning only come from weight?

♥ Shoe charm
-And at some point, he realized to his great surprise that he was not particularly unhappy. Sabina's physical presence was much less important than he had suspected. What was important was the golden footprint, the magic footprint she had left on his life and no one could ever remove.

-A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

♥ Hat charm
-There's only one thing; he doesn't like my hat.
(I couldn´t find a bowler hat, I will replace it when I find one, but for now this one will have to do)

♥ Tag hand stamped with “Einmal ist keinmal”
-"Einmal ist keinmal", says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.

♥ kitsch
-The feeling induced by kitsch must be a kind the multitudes can share. Kitsch may not, therefore, depend on an unusual situation; it must derive from the basic images people have engraved in their memories: the ungrateful daughter, the neglected father, children running on the grass, the motherland betrayed, first love.

Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass! The second tears says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass! It is the second tear that makes kitsch kitsch.

You can wear it as a brooch or as a pendant.

update: 04.03.2009I´ve replaced the hat for a bowler hat, the shoe charm for 2 brass feet and I´ve added a tear charm.

Father and daughter

2009-01-08T10:44:00.002+01:00

Me and my father in 1958.

One of my favorite short films by Michael Dudok de Wit.
It won the 2000 Best Animated Short Oscar and loads of other awards.

FriendlyMade

VignetteStudio

stilettoheights

thisisalliknow

SarahHavard

justmadbooks

lonelygirl

Happy New Year

2009-01-02T10:11:00.002+01:00

I made a little video about my last day of the year for Heli Sengezer's weekly blog "Friday is my Day".

This is the result:

I want to thank: Andrea Dorfman:
and: Andre Salters for giving me permission to use their video.

Weekly challenge

2008-12-22T20:03:00.002+01:00

I'm the winner of our European Street Team’s weekly challenge (drawn by Staroftheeast).
The original idea came from Kreativlink, to get us motivated to create new things.

This week’s challenge is...

Craft your favourite quote! (since I'm a total quote nerd.)

…the craft wouldn't have to include the actual quote, just be inspired by it.

Because of the busy times you will have 2 weeks to participate, deadline is the 5th of January 2009.
I'll collect the entries in this post.

dindi

"What game shall we play today?"
~Chick Corea

ingermaaike

"Who told you life has to be a serious thing?"
~ingermaaike

antigoni

"All is flux, nothing stays still"
~Heraclitus

ExoticFlavour

"Even married people were once strangers"
~Daisaku Ikeda

helisengezer

"Home is not where you live
but where they understand you"
~Christian Morgerstern

Kreativlink

"Es ist nicht genug, zu wissen, man muss auch anwenden; es ist nicht genug, zu wollen, man muss auch tun."

"It's not enough to know, one must also apply. It's not enought to want, one must also do"
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

enchantedpond

"may the road rise with you "
~Jonny Lydon PIL

GiftsandStars

"It's raining cats and dogs"

Arctida

"Two things are infinite: the Universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the Universe."
~Albert Einstein

Artmind

“I live on good soup, not on fine words.”
~Molière

kraplap

"Arsenic and Old Lace"

fleurfatale

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today"
~native American (Cherokee) proverb

nanouke

"Always Look at the Bright Side of Life"
~Monthy Python

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(¸.•´ (¸.•´ * ♥ ♥ ♥Thank you everybody for participating in this challenge. I love them all!!

And the winner is.......

..........Heli!

Weekly challenge

2008-12-18T13:17:00.003+01:00

This necklace is made especially for the European Street Team 'challenge of the week'. This week´s theme is: "Frida Kahlo"

This challenge was initiated by Staroftheeast.
You can find all the items made for this challenge here.

In her diary, Frida Kahlo drew a sketch of her amputated foot with the caption:
Pies, para qué los quiero
Si tengo alas para volar.

Feet, what do I need them for
If I have wings to fly.

For Art

2008-12-11T10:48:00.002+01:00

A really sweet video that I found on YouTube. Enjoy!

Music video by Andrea Dorfman for Tanya Davis' song "Art"

art
I wondered what would be the worth of my words in the world
if i write them and then recite them are they worth being heard
just because i like them does that mean i should mic them
and see what might unfurl
i think of the significance of my opinions here
is it significant to be giving them does anybody care
just because i'm into this does that mean i should live like it
and really do i dare
art, art i want you
art you make it pretty hard not too
and my heart is trying hard here to follow you
but i can't always tell if i ought to
so i pondered the point of my art in this life
if i make it will someone take it and think it's genuine
will they be glad that i did 'cause they got something good out of it
will they leave me and be any more inspired
i question the outcome of the outpouring of myself
if i tell everyone my stories will this keep me healthy and well
will it give me purpose, to this world some sort of service
is it worth it, how can i tell

New backgrounds

2008-12-08T15:39:00.003+01:00

I´m trying out new backgrounds for my jewelry.

and another one.

What do you think?

Giveaway

2008-12-04T17:31:00.002+01:00

Jenny from pearlswirl is having a giveaway!

All of you out there who are looking for a hopelessly romantic necklace for yourselves or for a beautiful Christmas gift, look here.
Good luck!!