While at the DDW

So I spend some time at the dutch design week. It was fun.

First of all I had to finish the room. More about the room later, I promiss. That was a lot of work. Then I came back to see some beautiful stuff and enjoy the ambiance at such a nice event.
Some great stuff I saw!

Look at the work of Paula Arntzen and Lenneke Wispelwey. Together they designed a Porcelain and Paper Party!

I think they make gorgeous stuff!

The paper lamps and garlands are the work of Paula Arntzen.

While the beautiful porcelain is from Lenneke Wispelwey.

And I think it worked really good together!

Both fun!

An idea I'm having for the room with a mission. Not sure yet if it can be done and not sure yet if I really think it is going to work...
But it is kind of fun to stick all those dots on the wall!



Also some relaxing time with the new magazine Flow today in my mailbox. Later I will have a moment with this magazine and a cup of tea. Looking forward to it..

A room with a mission

At this moment I am working on a project about a room (on the picture below) in The Klokgebouw (picture above) in Eindhoven. All because of this.
Lots of work. Very exciting.
At this moment I am just telling myself not to panic. I have only 10 days left to make it a smashing fantastic room!

I'll keep you posted about this project!

Back again

I had a long and unannounced blogbreak. I am sorry for that but I also enjoyed it very much. It gave me some time to breathe and made me focus on all the great things happening in my life.

And now breathing again and with my eyes wide open, seeing so much nice stuff, I am confused where to start...

Maybe here.

Or should I start telling you my list of 30 favourites, which I made for my birthday.

What about my new job! Or about the great project!

I can also start to show you all the beautiful things I gathered this summer.

But for now I just start to show you this picture.

Happy to be back...

About some music

Listening to this and this.

About June

sundaymarket Amsterdam june 21

Rasberry weekend june 27-28 Mister D letting go of a balloon, if you find it: please send back a card and make him very happy!

This June was packed with markets for me to go to! I had a booth on almost every cool market in the Netherlands this month. Now june is almost at its end and I can breathe again.

I had a lot of fun! I sold okay and I met a lot of nice people!

Helenaveen Artmarket june 28

Craftygardens Eindhoven june 7

Craftymarkt Amsterdam june 6

Check out Mamutopia at etsy. With this lovely girl I shared a booth at the sundaymarket in Amsterdam.

At the same market I drooled over the very nice booth of House of dots!

Also I saw these extremely cool monsters!

Last weekend I was present at the Raspberry weekend which took place in my home town! And enjoyed all kinds of rasberry delicatesse. Mmmm...

Early June I had a booth at the Craftymarkt in Amsterdam. Which was a very good market for me (sold a lot!).

There I met planet fur where I bought a beautiful necklace.

About change of colours

I had peonies.
Lovely.
I like peonies. Very, very much.

They were pink, really pink.



Later (about a week) they were almost white!

About green

The green from my garden.

Thinking about this garden too (found via here). Wouldn't that be great to realize!

About a new list

I'll try this again

31 things I like to do before I turn 31

1. Make pictures in a photobooth
2. Try a dish in a restaurant wich I haven't tasted before
3. Have a pillowfight
4. Colour my nails
5. Teach Sjors some english words
6. Organise all photo’s. Make photobooks! Via blurp
7. Write a creative text. A story or a poem
8. Do guerilla art
9. Drink a caiprihna
10. Run, without hesitation, into the cold water of the sea
11. Organise a party for someone else
12. Visit a museum where I've never been before
13. Purchase the perfect summerdress
14. Make a selfportrait everyday, for a whole year
15. Do something that makes me feel very proud of myself
16. Go old fashioned rope skipping
17. Make a new skirt
18. Design 3 prints
19. Collect all funny statements/sentences from the boys
20. Dance in the rain
21. Learn Driek how to ride a bicycle
22. Get muscular pains from laughing
23. Surprise someone
24. Explore the familiar
25. Make new friends
26. Plan for a miracle
27. Read a dutch classic novel
28. Try not to complain for 21 days!
29. Enter a competition
30. Fill a book with special things, ideas/pictures/words- start an Angelique project
31. Take a subscription at the library

About Merci

This looks like a place worth visiting Paris for.

(If you need a reason at all)

It is like a secondhand bookstore, flowershop, thriftstore, artgallery and fashion magazine in one!

read more here, here and here

Merci
boulevard Beaumarchais 111
Paris

foto's via
read about the spot in Elle wonen

About the list

Last year I made a list. Now I am 30 and I didn't made it to do all.


1. Make a rithmic, smooth, really incredible slideshow [started, but never finished]
2. Buy myself a digital camera [unfortunatly, didn't buy one yet]
3. Design and organise a wedding [the wedding was cancelled. Ouch, bad vibes]
4. Visit at least 2 musea or exhibitions [How come I didn't achieve this?]
5. Learn 3 new recipes [I went wild on some soup recipes!]

6. Organize a dinnerparty [Had an easter brunch for my family.]

7. Drink a Caipirhna
8. Write a handwritten love letter to my husband and post it from abroad [Done]

9. Plant tulips in october [Done]

10. Make myself a beautiful skirt [Done]
11. Learn how to knit [Made an appointment with my primaryschool craftteacher! I am going to learn how to knit, yeah!]

12. Make a gratitude journal [Done]

13. Plan a guerrilla art project
14. Plan a adventurous day out with the kids with zero euro budget [Done]

15. Design a copple of prints [Done but not worthy to show here!]

16. Clean and organise the house radical, throw away all the stuff i didn't use over the past year

17. Write a childrens book with Virginie, or at least define the concept [We discussed it, does that count?]
18. Read 3 books [Done]
19. Go shopping in a city I never visited before
20. Hang art and pictures in the house [done]
21. Make 20 new collages and/or moodboards
22. Call or mail the person I unfortunatly lost contact with [Done! Cynthia I (we) soon will see you again!]

23. Write a buisnessplan of the kids culture club idea [Still in my head]
24. Design a wie-is-de-mol-game and organize it for a group of people [Done]

25. Get a massage [Done, sorry no pictures available]

26. Visit the theater 3 times [Done! and had fun!]

27. Spend a weekend alone with my husband [Yes! Fabulous.]

28. Surprise somebody [Done]

29. Do something, which I normally wouldn't or maybe even don't dare to do [Euh...well...]
30. Go for a walk with friends [Done, but only once. The intention was to go on a regular base.]

About 30

I am 30 now.



Had a party featuring my favourite things and trying to spoil my lovely friends.

Made gifts by number, which could be won by playing Bingo! Nobody knew what they could win, they only saw the number of the gift.

Played Bingo

Made a whish.

Which was a present I got! How cool is that!

At midnight I let the dreamflyer go, when I turned 30...

Coco Avant Chanel NL

Ohh... I want to see this movie.

About queensday

This was supposed to be a happy day...






I'd like to comfort you with beautiful words, but all I've got is this cloth to catch your tears.

But then this happened.
I am devastated.
So is the queen and everybody else.

About eyes

Thinking of printing these on canvas. I only need a good picture of my husbands eyes and a better one of mister S's eyes!

I think it can look great printed big, hanging on my wall.