Vitrine in Gent ...

Last weekend we hopped on a train to Ghent to visit the last day of 'Vitrine' - a fashionwalk througout the city - different designers created a little world of their own in the shopwindows. To be honest, i was a bit dissapointed - there were not many windowhops that made my heart beat faster, but this one did...The shop is owned by Elisabeth Leenknegt, who is a silversmith, designer and glass artist in the heart and soul. She comes from a family of passionate glassartist so its no wonder she makes and designs jewelry out of hand-forged silver and mouth-blown glass. Her creations are characterized by a playful design and a great amount of colouring. Humour is the main ingredient of her work. This piece was my favourite: on the picture it is Elisabeth Leenknegt - the designer and owner of the shop, showing off her creations :). Go take a look at her funky website! And it was a nice way to walk around in Ghent - we stumbled upon a little live concert by classical musicians - those little unexpected things are what i love in a city!I found a great journal by Sukie in this shop 'huiszwaluw'(actually there were many more things i wanted to own but a girl can't buy it all, can she?).I'm allready using it to write, research and illustrate the things i want to make.And these rings were pretty darn cute too - i saw a similar thing last year at the jewelry exhibition in Mons. It's literrally sawn out of the porcelain plate! They are made by the 'vlijtige liesjes '.

We have this nice widget on our beloved applecomputer that counts down the days to our next vacation - 12 days, 2 hours and 17 minutes and then we are outta here - off to Naples and the Amalfi Coast for 10 days! Yay!!

Just having fun making things ...

Dawanda discovery sale 15% off - extended until tuesday

I'm participating in the Dawanda discovery sale that will run until tuesday 30th of june - if you buy in participating shops you have never bought before (on Dawanda), you get an automatic 15% discount when checking-out. So check it out, i'm participating :)

Dawanda has been good to me in the last couple of months, so good I discovered this: So hop on over to my shop there :o)

It was fun ...

... at the beparkte oplage yesterday. Many creative people, good buyers who could appreciate handmake work (which is always fun, isn't it?:) and a nice atmosphere. This is what my stall looked like: My very friendly neighbor had a XL clothesline so I could hang all my scarfs on it. It was a pretty sight because there is quite a bit of wind (it was colder inside then it was outside) and that made the scarfs move the whole time.
My fav. booth was the one were they sold these totally adorable brooches. Unfortunately I seemed to have misplaced their card, so i cannot give you a link to their website (but i gave them my card so hopefully they'll read this and let me know!).And there was one other Hasselos there (=Hasselos= slang for a person from Hasselt). She makes beautiful kids clothes and here website is somethingstrange.(on the picture here you see her sister, who i went to Thailand with two years ago, small world huh!).

I had so much fun that i'm going back for the next editions on august 23th and october 18th. So i hope to see you there ....

Visit me at 'de beparkte oplage'

If you want to see my products and me live in action (and you live in or around Antwerp), come visit me at the next edition of the Beparkte Oplage in Antwerp next sunday June 21th!You find the details about what, when and where there here.
The typewriter felt collection is also slowly being listed in the etsy shop:

A little sneak preview ...

... of a new, limited jewelry line soon to be in the Etsy shop. It's made with two of my fav. materials: old typewriter rings and felt. Even though the ring hadn't completely dried yet, i could not resist wearing it and showing it here ...

It's almost all about ducks ...

Last weekend we were walking around in my hometown Hasselt and noticed a big yellow duck in the water of the canal (and i had my camera with me). Did some research and found it it is the big start of a campaign to bring more art into the public sphere. Don't know much about that but looking at the duck just made me smile. I like those unexpected things in life, especially happy ones!Closer to home, but from a far-away place, is my mouse-pad ... you guessed right (or not) also a little duckling. It's from Tucano, an italian company, but i bought it in NYC. And this afternoon i did some well needed cleaning and sorting in my little workroom and also finally got around to hanging up my new inspirational flags, from a big chinese warehouse on Broadway, in ... NYC of course...
Hope they bring me some inspiration, they sure brighten up my atelier and my mood :)