North Sea walk

- beautiful painting of Leon Spillaert in the PMMK Museum of Ostend
- Mermaid lounge lets bury our dreams underground. by Jacqleenblue
- 'angel touch' necklace by Fleurfatale, soon in my shop!
- scallop bowl by elementsclaystudio

Last week, hubby and I spend two days on the Belgian coast (in Ostend). Hubby had booked a B&B there, but found out an hour before we were leaving that he booked the wrong days, so we had to search (in a hurry) for another place to stay, :-(
We found the Burlington Hotel, not that cosy as the B&B, ........well, everything was better then staying at home....

We did not planned anything and just did some loooong walks along the sea. Only the facts that we weren't home and without kids were so relaxing for us. We found an incredible yummie restaurant near the beach where they served fusion kitchen (one of our favs), and walking back under a starry night made this evening complete -)) I chose a sashimi, Japanese kitchen is one of my favs :-p


We visited the Mu ZEE (the PMMK museum) , it had been so long we were there!
and I discovered some not so very known work of Leon Spillaert, an artist who's work was there before, but that never catched my eye, maybe getting older makes you see and like other things in different ways.... ::-)
They also have some work of Panamarenko, his constructions always makes me smile in a way!
The advantage of a little museum is that they have some works that are not so wellknown, but sometimes more beautiful just because of their modesty :-)
There was a little bit time left for supply shopping, but that is a blogpost for later!

h is for house!

My saturday shopping list is all about houses!

Discover these beauties and the shops of these artists:

- House rule n° 9 by wunderlust

- brooch, my sweet house by Leililaloo

- H is for the house where the flying sheep lives by Mummysam

- impresion casiat by sylviagandara

playing with stamps

Lately I've been playing with little stamps. Throughout the years I collected lots of stamps, and I thought it was time to finally do something with them! Oh, if I had the time I would like to experiment much more.

For a while now I've been admiring two stamping artists on Etsy: Leililaloo and Lapomme , check out their shops and blogs , they make beautiful creations by the use of handmade stamps on fabric.

I made some tags and embellishments for my packaging.

The little flower stamps are a set, it's a french edition, in fact I bought the for the kids, but I ended up using them too! the possiblilities are endless with these stamps, as you see I use them for making cars and pimping my jewelry boxes.

I recently bought also some clear stamps, a kind of plastic stamp that can be reused, with these curly letters you can form any word you wish.

The big wooden stamps are from India . I bought them in the local Fair Trade shop, the sellers asked me what I was going to do with it, well I had no idea, I just had to buy it -). and now it's here, just being decorative.

Daydream

No blogpost the last few days,
I was with hubby at the belgian coast. Enjoying two days without the kids.
I will blog about these days out soon....

In the pics some new creations of mine:

a necklace and a new pair of flowering earrings.
Available in my shop.

I found the other beautiful pics on Etsy:
- the clearing by mindystrauss
- in thewoods by mgibson

Haven't had much time this weekend, spend sunday afternoon at my parents in law :-)

When I came home I felt the urge to do something creative , or at least to spend some time on Etsy, mmmm, what a relief....

So I enjoyed making this mosaic, it features my EST challenge entries.

The EST challenge was this time hosted by a lovely friend of mine: Veerle from Nevousinstallezpas. Veerle opened her Etsy shop a few weeks ago, but I know her some time longer.

I met Veerle online. funny Story. I was browsing on internet and tagged with the word Flamenco. My Ethiopean daughter has Flamenco classes and maybe I was looking for shoes or a dress. But I found a flamenco ring, made by Veerle! With the ring I found her blog and website, a while later I followed a crochet course (with Veerle as a teacher) at the Miat museum in Ghent .

Since then we have met several times in real life and we have a lot of creative plans together.

you'll see :-))))

The brooch and the necklace are available in my shop

The beautiful painting is an artwork of Lindstromcommac

The funky illustration Mybirdofhappiness is made by johnwgolden

I need a cuppa....

From today on I join the 'shopping list saturday'.

Charlotte from Fancypicnic started the 'shopping list saturday' because it is sometimes so hard to get a treasury on Etsy. This shopping list is a great way to show cool finds and discover new shops! The list of all the participants is on Fancypicnics blog. (do browse them to find cool creations!)

So here we go with the first one: as you see, all I could think about this morning was a cup of tea (I needed it desperately after a bad night with kids awakening)

- Tea...8x10 Reproduction Print by Michelemaule

- Moss GreenTeapot with Bluebird by redhotpottery

- cuppa tea towel by MRpS

- Tea time adjustable ring by worksandfinds

- Coffee and cupcakes hand stamped linen tape by craftpudding

- Cup cake embroidered purse by tabidesigns

Want more? Please look at the right sidebar of Charlotte's blog for a list of other blogs who participate in this blogging meme!

My Keycolors

I just knew it would become an addiction, I love making the mosaics, and it's a great way to discover the work of other artists and share them with you!

Two brand new creations in my favorite colors.

Turquoise combines so good with the coral red, well, that's my opinion!

The ring is available in my shop!

Discover also the outstanding work of the following artists:

The keys to the Winery is a photograph by Honeytree.

Heartwindow is a photograph by Picturepenelope.