my creative workspace

Lots to do today.

creating

taking pics

pricing

A friend of mine has an open house next weekend, where she will sell my jewelry,

so I have to create some new pieces and already price them. I take pics of every piece and store them in my flickr account.

As you see I use my trolley as a work bench today. It's fun to travel around in the house and find the must sunny place, quite ecologic too, don't you think?

Find some other creative workspaces on Kotooyoo's blog.

feels like spring...

Some new spring designs in my shop , and before I use the verdigris findings in my creations, I first play around a bit with collages ... do you already feel spring?

(click on the pics to go to my shop)

Mix and Match

I have been mixing and matching my beads and materials. I like sorting them by color, by size, by origin...

Trough the years I collected so much findings that it is such a pleasure to use them now and search for the perfect match!

I sort these necklaces under my 'textile jewelry', as the main ingrediënt is textile (in this case the ribbon, the silk beads and the merino wool felt)

Click on the pictures to find them in my shop.

spoil yourself!

Hubby is abroad again...

that means more broken nights ( I don't sleep so well when hubby isn't home)

and all the household and children stuff for mummy...

- bringing and getting the kids to school

- bringing kids to after school activities

- cooking

- helping kids with the homework

- putting kids in beds

- playing with kids

- baking the bread

- doing the dishes

-...

Well, I decided to spoil myself. (after I visited the blog of Petitplat, I ran off to the bakery) and I bought myself some yummie pattisserie!

repurposed apple dishes

I don't know how it is elsewhere, but here in Belgium fruit is mostly sold 'packaged.'
It's strange but the packaged fruit seems to be cheaper then the fruit you can buy without package. And as we are a big family (with only one decent income) , and eating lots of fruit,
I do have to chose for the most economic version: the packaged apples!
But as we try to minimalize our ecologic footprint I don't throw them away , I reuse them! or better say repurpose:

They are quite handy for sorting my beads :-)

(the apples look very yellow in the pic, that was because of yesterdays evening sun!)

Het valt me op dat fruit dat verkocht wordt in een papieren schaaltje toch goedkoper is dan het fruit dat je koopt onder verpakking. Alhoewel ik mijn verpakte aankopen probeer te beperken, moet ik toch rekening houden met het 'gezinsbudget'. Als 'groot' gezin verzetten we bergen fruit (en ander voedsel) en met maar één deftig inkomen moeten we toch wel op onze tellen passen!
Het moet gezegd, deze schaaltjes gaan hier niet rechtstreeks de papiermand in, ik hergebruik ze!
Zo houden we onze ecologische voetafdruk toch enigszins binnen de perken :-)

Zeer handig om kralen in te sorteren !

just a little boudoir mirror

Ik was al een tijdje op zoek naar een leuk, origineel spiegeltje. Zo eentje dat ik mee kan nemen als ik met mijn shop op verplaatsing ga. Vrijdag vond ik er eentje, een prachtig spiegeltje met de naam " just a little boudoir mirror", van de hand van glaskunstenares Pamela Angus , een Ierse die momenteel werkt en woont in de Franse Pyreneeën. Voel je vrij om in haar shop te snuisteren :-)
Nu nog een plaatsje vinden in mijn werkruimte, niet dat die veel weg heeft van een boudoir, maar ik denk dat het wel perfect zal passen in ons ecclectisch interieur :-)

Ik maakte nog maar eens een leuk mozaïkje met het "boudoir' spiegeltje van Pam,
een 'nest' broche van mezelf.

een prachtig foto van Felicitycrew,
en een origineel moss terrarium van Weegardens.

For some time I have been looking for a little mirror. One I can take wit me when I am on a fair with my Fleurfatale shop. I found one on Etsy. Made by the French Irish Glass artist Pamela Angus.

Take a peek in her shop to see the other most beautiful things she makes with glass.

Now I have to find a place in my workroom for that gorgeous little mirror. I think it will fit perfect in the ecclectic interior we have! Willl show some pics of it later!

I made another mosaïc to show 'the little boudir mirror'

a nest brooch made by me,

a beautiful fine art print 'maggy' is from the hand of Felicitycrew,

and the Moss terrarium is made by Weegardens

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.