The journey

I wrote about this favourite book of mine before!
Dan Eldon. His earliest books!

You can see more of his dummies here! So much inspiration!
(Last weekend i already bought my travel journey and the lonely planet of Ethiopia! That's why i got here again!..)

Dike

North of Holland; we could see Ameland and Schiermonnikoog. The dike at Ternaard.
(Zoom in at the Waddenzee...such beautiful colours and shapes!)

waddenzee...i'm in love!

Marieke

Marieke is almost having her third baby! Isn't she a beautiful pregnant woman....

cherry blossom

We are enjoying our spring holiday...and the beautiful trees; i think it's still a couple of days before they are all on the ground...
Cherry Blossom - Sakura

Africa

The last time i was in Africa was in 1997-1998, South Africa. I celebrated the new year in Cape town. I was also working/playing at Sunshine Place, a childrens home in East London. I made a book about their life.
At the end of september i'm going to Ethiopia together with my aunt who is a midwife. Since january 2009 her collegue Tineke moved to this country to set up a klinik and now we will visit her Kliniek Hidi. I am really excited about this trip! I wonder who i will meet...

Diel Fashion

A couple of weeks ago i had a whole bunch of children in the studio. Didi and Elise have designed a new summer collection of ecological girls clothing. I was really fun working with these kids!

Diel Fashion

Rebours

Amsterdam Klezmer band speelt...

Op de dagen na hemelvaart een nieuw Gronings festival!
Kom solar-cooking en zonnecellen maken! En natuurlijk genieten van o.a. deze muziek, theater, circus en meer...

www.rebours.nl

This is about a new festival in Groningen, the city where i live...you could come and join too!

married!

He wanted to marry her too and fell in love with this cake!

my sister

Bunnies

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Like all the other years, this amazing easter bun gave us a visit last week. All the neighbour-kids were searching for eggs. There was only one-golden!


And remember we went for her dress...this weekend my youngest sister is getting married! So these bunnies came too late for easter, but this couple came in time for celebration!

(More of these in the shop on saterday!)

street walk

I also bought the book of Keri Smith, "How to be an explorer of the world". I think i will join this group soon!

Ik schenk aandacht

This is a project of a dutch artist Annet de Vries. This afternoon the postman brought me an envelope and i love it. I already did...at Werkpost we sell her teapot, teabags and buttons. It's all about awareness. ' I pay attention to '. Be aware of spending time with each other, taking time in this world where things are going on and on...
...that's what i meant when meeting the lady

But find out for yourselves and read all about it here!
if you want to buy something, visit werkpost ( i will be there tomorrow) or have a look here! Annet also has a blog

I must say...it's in dutch tough...

Blom!

Spring, today it was more then 20 degrees in our garden...wow! And on this day also spring arrived in a box! BLOM, the newest product of Jurianne Matter. (DIY) So this saterday in the shop!

WERKPOST

Lode Pemmelaar

This is the work of Lode Pemmelaar I fell in love with the first one immediately. Yesterday I saw that one in the house of the lady. I had never seen his work before.

"De onderwerpen van Pemmelaar zouden triviaal genoemd kunnen worden. De uitgelegde lucifersdoosjes, vloeihulzen, pillendoosjes, enveloppen, zakjes en taartdozen zijn op verschillende manieren zo gemanipuleerd dat ze een scherpe figuratie en tegelijkertijd een onduidelijke associatie zijn gaan bezitten."

I'm curious about more of these boxes, envelopes and paperbags...

the paperbag lady

Remember the paperbags in the newspaper...a lady of 82 years sent me an email, telling she would love to give her collection of paperbags to me. We met through NRC-next and by surprise we live in the same city.
I gave her a visit this morning and stayed for almost 3 hours! We talked a lot about craftwork and art and ofcourse she told me every story that goes with the beautiful paperbags!

And i didn't surprise me at all that she had lots of collections!

That's what it is all about. Meeting people, listening to the stories, memories and things to look out for... i made me happy when i cycled home with the sun in my face!

curiosities

We had fun with these!

I'll show the last paperbags this week, i have to make some time to finish the stories behind and i have to tell you about a lady who i met trough these bags.
It's an amazing world.

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family matter

This photo i made 2 weeks ago, too bad the collection is not mine, but it runs in the family!


The newspaper was sold out at my store in the neighbourhood so i haven't seen today's paperbag. So more tomorrow...the last day!

Mexico

At that time he was my boyfriend, living for one year in Mexico. I visited him for almost 3 months. It was 1995. While he was working i visited Bilha's school and i met Magda from Poland who did a summercourse. These two girls i never met again. Ofcourse i strolled trough this little town a lot!

I made a small book and this serie at that time.

PS Now he is my husband!

NRC Next

After the publication in Uppercase Magazine...now this week NRC NEXT is featering my collection of paperbags. I will tell you about them here!

Today you see a greek paperbag. After finishing AKI, Welmoed and i started a project. She living in Greece and me in the Hague (NL)we wrote eachother letters in the up-comming emailworld. We put all kind of daily finds in these letters too. A couple of years ago i was trying to find her, but since a couple of months we are back in touch. I think her paperbag in the newspaper today is the start of writing again!

Dear Ms. Hyacinth

"G.van der Tuin / Kamer- en kasplanten in kleuren / Meulenhoff natuurgidsen" For sale and here at Marktplaats!

The street where i live was sunny today.

Almost

It was sunny, but still cold. You can feel it's in the air...


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