Saturday Shopping list with a vintage touch

I planned to go to a sale of vintage stuff with my blog friendVeerle, we promised each other to have a cup of coffee and a chat afterwards.

You can imagine my disappointment when I stood up this morning and found a little note from hubby that he already left for a lecture in Utrecht. He totally forgot to tell me before!!!

I could not find a babysitter, but Maia (the eldest) was willingly to look after the little kids

and I promised her to keep in touch with my mobile.

So far so good, I went to Ghent and did some quick vintage shopping with Veerle, but we could not have our cuppa, as I did not wanted to leave the kids alone for long...

So Veerle, we'll enjoy that cup next saturday and have yummie muffin surplus !!! :-)

I bought some awesome vintage treasures (will show the later) to make future creations.

And this explains why my Saturday shopping list is all about vintage or stuff created with vintage findings. Do browse the shops of these artists, they have the most beautiful things :-)

- flower hair pin set (with vintage cabochons) by Elvesgarden

- farmhouse doly set by MollyMoovintage

- Large vintage style fabric flower by Roseisrose

- blue flower frame pouch (with vintage fabrics) by Karuski

Do you want to see some more Saturday shopping: find the list of other bloggers who make Saturday lists in the right sidebar of Charlotte's blog.

My creative space today....

Well, this is how my workspace looks today.
(it's only a glimpse of my workdesk, I don't want to show you the mess -)
I am busy making orders for necklaces for Nathalies shop.
She has an 'Open Door' this weekend and asked me to create some new necklaces.
They are all packed up and I brought them to her shop in Ghent.

and now time for something else...

Right now I feel like creating with all natural materials like seed pods, wooden beads, stones, beautiful striped shells... (double click on the pics to have a larger pic)

Come back later on my blog to see the results.....

You can play along about your creative space with Kootoyoo , who inspired me to this blogpost today (Thanks Art).

collection cabinet

Tijd voor een lente schoonmaak,

wel moeilijk, nu de poetsvrouw ziek is. Tja, ik bedoel dus niet het huis, maar mijn werkruimte ::-) Het wordt echt wel eens tijd om mijn atelier aan te pakken. Ik ben zelfs er nog niet in geslaagd om de schuifjes van mijn nieuwe kast te vullen.

Mijn shopje draait nogal , en nu het lente wordt voel ik de nood aan lentefrisse nieuwe ontwerpen. Heb dus veel leuke nieuwe kralen, stenen, viltwol, stofjes en nog allerlei moois in huis gehaald , die liggen daar te lonken op mijn werktafel , dus van poetsen of sorteren en ordenen komt voorlopig niets in huis :-(

Voor de fun heb ik wel eens wat spulletjes samengebracht in een 'moodboard'. Moet ik meer doen. Ik ben van jongsaf een verzamelaar van leuke, nutteloze hebbedingetjes. Die krijgen nu een tweede leven in een 'collectie'. Misschien laat ik er wel kaarten van drukken.

Heb me wel geamuseerd hiermee, maar intussen blijft mijn werkruimte een 'mess'.

Ik troost me met de gedachte dat ik die chaos nodig heb om te kunnen creeëren -)

Spring is in the air, time for the big spring-cleaning.

Bad timing, as the cleaning lady is ill!

Well I don't mean to clean the house, but I am thinking of ordening my workplace.

I even haven't had the time to fill my new cupboard.

With spring upcoming, I feel the need to create fresh, new things. For that I have been supply shopping: new beads, stones, fabrics,wool roving, they all lay there waiting for me...

so I just don't feel like cleaning and ordening, I want to start with new ideas and creations.

Looking trough all my stuff , I just had fun making little collections (in the same color, 'ton sur ton', remember :-) and taking pics of hem. I like them, maybe they will look good as cards too...

In the meantime, my workroom (and house) is still a mess. Well , let us say that I need the chaos to be able to create. hm hm :-))))

homemade moo cards

I usually send a little card with my packages. I hope people keep them or give them to relatives.

I haven't any more in stock, so it was time to play with photoshop and make some new.

they measure 8 x 8 cm, small but handy and a good format to make a mosaic.

So, soon my little cards will be spread all over the world! :-)

You can find more designs on my flickr account

lavender dream

My last challenge entry. Did not have the time to blog about it.

It is already sold, but I still want to show it!

The challenge theme by Janebofelt was Combination of Dissonant'. You can see the other entries on her blog.

I tried the combination metal (copper) and fabric (silk), and it is also 'ton sur ton' (using one color in differente shades).

Palepink was the winner of this Challenge and chose the theme SPRING! YAY!

To show my 'Lavender Laia' Necklace I made this Mosaic,

and combined with the work of two talented artists.

-Rose by Aliette

- world of flowers by Monicaj

(click on the names to see more of their work)

'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.