Yesterday we brought a visit to Veerles garden-exposition. Veerle is a textile-jewelry artist. She showed a lot of gorgeous necklaces, brooches, rings, an scarves in a cosy family-garden, where my kids immediately found a place to rest.

The kids allowed us to visit another art-garden where we could enjoy beautifull Flamenco-dance. In the last picture you can see Veerle's flamenco-ring.

This is how I got to know Veerle: searching for 'flamenco' on google brought me on her blogspot and website! This ring is on my wishlist!

And here all the earrings (in boxes) that have been shipped last week,

It seems people are shopping in the weekend, Friday and Saterday-night, I sold 6 pair of earrings and a brooch, so a lot of packaging to do!

My jewelry boxes are also handmade:

you just need some serviettes and a special kind of glue, Crea Coat, a sealer on Waterbase.

First apply the glue with a brush on the surface of the box, then position the paper and finish with applying again some glue.

beading - kralen rijgen

Some of my latest creations:
I found some gorgeous beads in Zahia (turquoise and chinese writing stone)
I combined with tiger ebony wooden beads and czech and japanese glass beads.
The hooks are handmade and hammered by myself.

Beading: it looks so easy, but it is not.
I spend hours with my 3th daughter to learn to bead,. When I was a child I liked that so much and I wanted to give that joy of beading to my little daughter.
(But the fact that she has Down syndrome didn't make it easy ) We began with beads with a hole of 1 cm and a thick electricy thread. Unbelievebale how easy it is for a child without retardation.
My son, who is younger than her, took a thread and beaded it/ I thought, how is that possible, I never learned or trained him? I spend hours training her, using different threads and beads, I was glad she succeed to have 3 beads on the thread. It is stil not easy for her, but she likes doing it, she sees the result (a bracelet or a necklace), she sees me making all these things and she admires it.I think one day she will be able to make the most gorgeous creations!

My daughter Mies is on the left side, Briek, the youngest is on the right, the kid in the middel is a friend: they're having a great time beading together!

and guess what: I am 'artist of the day at Ixelas blog, An Italian girl with Belgian roots who also has a gorgeous jewelry shop at Etsy. Thanks so much Ixela!

Birds and bees

These are some of my graphic work, collages

after drawing the images I cut it out (quite a work!) and combine it with (vintage) fabric, cardstock and other findings.

impression

Fotocollectie van enkele van mijn recente ontwerpjes.

Impression of my newest creations.

(available in fleurfatales shop)

Polkadot Fever

Ik weet niet meer wanneer het begon,

het was nog voor Meron begon met Flamenco dansen (en dus de nodige schoentjes en jurk moest aanschaffen).

De bolletjes-rage: overal waar we kwamen en er werd een rood-met-witte-bolletjes-ding gespot, werden de oren van mijn hoofd gezaagd;-(
Nu is ons huis er vol van:

- Polkadot kindertheeserviesje

- polkadot balpennen

- Polkadot pennezak

- oma's zelgemaakte Polkadot rok (voor elke zus eentje)

- Polkadot-jurk

- polkadot sjaal

- polkadot pop

- polkadot haarband

- polkadot kaftpapier

- ....

Alleen kleine broer heeft de polkadot koorts nog niet tepakken.

Zin in een polkadot-ding, maak hier je keuze:

1.Red Apple Magnets

2.Hippe warmwaterkruik van Anne-claire Petit

3. flamenca jurk van aapnootmees

4. Grote zus met polkadot topje

5. Homemade pin met vilten bloemetjes en polkadot lint
6. Dottie Retro Swimmie

7. beret van dadaya

8. sewn art van the Flashbulb

9. Kleine zus met polkadot jurkje

10 kleine broer in superman marcelletje

11. flamenca schoentjes van aapnootmees

12. happy Dots feestslinger van Engelpunt

...

...

I can't remember when it began: the Polkadot-fever.

It was long before Meron took courses flamenco and needed a polkadot dress and shoes.

Everywhere we came and the girls spotted a polkadot-thing, my purse wasn't safe anymore;-)Nowadays, the house is full of Polkadots:

- Polkadot shoes

- Polkadot dress

- Polkadot balpoint

- Polkadot tea set

- Polkadot scarf

- Polkadot puppet

- polkadot wrapping paper,

...

only little brother escaped that polkadot fever, he's into superman;-p

Want to grab a polkadot thing?

1.Red Apple Magnets
2.Hippe warmwaterkruik by Anne-claire Petit
3. flamenca- dress by aapnootmees
4. Big sister with a polkodot halter top

5. Homemade pin with felt flowers en polkadot ribbon

6. Dottie Retro Swimmie
7. beret by dadaya
8. sewn art by the Flashbulb
9. little sister in a polkadot dress
10 little brother in a superman marcel

11. flamenca schoes by aapnootmees
12. happy Dots partyflags by Engelpunt

The teapot in the first picture is a creation of me and my daughter Maia.

Polka dot is a pattern consisting of dots. Polka dot patterns are quite variable: they range from a series of dots that are equally spaced and sized to a random arrangement of multicoloured dots of different sizes. Polka dots are most commonly seen on children's clothing, toys, and furniture, but they appear in a wide array of contexts. The pattern rarely appears in formal contexts, however, and is generally confined to more playful attire such as bathing suits. Occasionally white on black regularly spaced polka dots appear on more formal clothing.
While polka dots are ancient, they first became common on clothing in the late nineteenth century in Britain. At the same time polka music was extremely popular and the name was also applied to the pattern, despite no real connection between them.

Nieuw in mijn shop (althans, eentje is al ribbedebie)

Ik vindt koper een heel mooi metaal om mee te werken en om kralen en hamlfedelstenen mee te combineren, koper is een lichtbruin metaal dat zwart en daarna roze wordt als het uitgloeit.