'a walk' part 2

All Pictures by Fleurfatale

- stone and flowers earrrings (available in my etsy shop)

- 'a walk' necklace (soon available in my etsy shop)

a walk

Prachtig weertje gisteren, even gaan wandelen in de Kalkense Meerssen. We nemen de buggy bewust niet mee, omdat Mies anders van begin tot eind de wandeling al zittend doet :-) Sowieso gaat het wat moelijker voor haar door haar lage spiertonus, maar blijven oefenen is de boodschap! En af en toe eens op papa's schouders kan ook nog :-)

Such a nice weather yesterday, we just had to do a walk. Not always that easy, because Mies (with down) has a low muscle tonus and that makes she can not walk as long as a normal child of her age. But practice makes perfect, so we never take buggys on our walks. And still there are daddys shoulders to sit on, if walking is too difficult.

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