995.................................1000

How to win a goodie bag with a 20 Dollar gift certificate!

Only 5 sales to go and I reach the magic 1000.
I decided to give a special treat to the ones who purchase one of the next 5 sales to go!
I made 5 goodie bags, in 2 of them is a gift certificate of 20 Dollar to use in my shop!
I'll ship the goodie bags together with your purchase!

check my shop regulary, I am adding lots of new designs for the upcoming season:

brooches, earrings, necklaces...

old barnwood in my creative place

Yesterday I got a beautiful package. I bought this Diptych 'old barnwood and recycled wood'.
Charles puts together some pieces from old barnwood with as result perfect stunning combinations!!!

Some of his work was already in my favorites. When I told some EST friends I bought these, the answered it would fit perfect in my jewlery pictures. In fact that was my first thought too!
as soon as there was enough light (I photograph with natural light) I started to take some pics: and i am really happy with the result! I think these Ditptych would be nice on my booth-table at fairs too!
but I they fit perfect in my interior too, I only still have to decide where hang them (I will let you know soon!).
You can find Charles artwork here: http://www.chalecco.etsy.com/
He offers free shipping till september 15th!

And look at all the nice presents Charles included in my package, too sweet.
Some gorgeous artwork of his wife Dana (who's work I admire since a long time) : she has two shops on Etsy:
http://www.leilaliloo.etsy.com/
http://www.danakomjaty.etsy.com/

Follow her blog here: http://www.leililaloo.blogspot.com/

find more creative places on Kootoyoo's blog.

Fall is near

This is the new theme of the Euopean Street Challenge hosted by Sumikoshop. find the other beautifull entries in her blog.

Why is it that fall and autumn are so inspiring, the warmcolorpalette maybe?

I made two entries: a felted pod necklace and a pair of earrings.

They are available in my shop! Click on my pictures to go to my shop.

Endless Summer

A new brooch in my FALL 2009 collection

A pile of wool felted circles with sewn on the top: a fabric Hortensia flower.

Some species of the hydrangea flower bloom from june till october, and they can be dried very easily, that inspired me to give my brooch the name: Endles Summer.

Find here more about this beautiful flower mostly used in vintage gardens.

You can find this sweet pin in my shop!

Last week of summer holidays!

One more week to go and school starts again! In the meantime the kids (and a bunch of friends)are having lots of fun , because the weather is still so summery! I hope this nice weather will continue for september and october too! Sun gives vibes (as long as it is not too hot :-)!

While taking pictures I have noticed the sunlight becomes more and more orange and soon the colors of the trees in the garden will change colors: Fall is near!
So I have to think about a fall collection and new designs.

This new designs are already in my shop! Click on the pics to go to my shop!

Keep in touch, more new things will come!

Shabby Romance Necklace

Shabby Romance earrings

Swirl leaves earrings

Leaf of gold earrings

Cool Cats and a super Goody Bag

It has been a busy week, a week full of kids, who came to play with mine, sometimes I had the feeling my home was a playground!

But I managed to keep up with my Etsy shop: I made lots of pictures of new designs and of the cat brooches I made during my holiday! I love love love making them! Not one is alike as I form them by hand and wetfelting, it's a time consuming work, but I am so happy with the results afterwards!

Here you find the brooches in my shop, some of them al already underway to a new home in Finland, Japan and Switserland, yay!

And I am proud to announce that I was the first one to receive a goody bag at the booth of Artmind on the craftparking fair in Maastricht, of course I am an addicted follower of her blog, I wish I had the time to do all the tutorials she posts!

Look what cool goodies were inside the bag!

Belgian Sweets in Holland

Yummie breads and cakes in this bakery located in Wyck,

a district in Maastricht (near the Railway Station)with a a special ambiance and lots of trendy shops.

As you know we did a lot of shopping in Maastricht, not only on the Craftparking fair! In Maastricht we visited a very famous bookshop: 'Selexyz Dominikanen, a bookshop located in a 16th century Dominicaner church, described als the most beautiful bookshop in the world in the Guardian!

There I stumbled upon the book 'Sweet Belgium', (weird to be in a Dutch bookshop to find a book about Belgian Sweets!) a little description:
Belgium is world famous for it's delicious chocolates, but it has many more sweets to offer to sugar lovers! Sweet Belgium pictures more than 150 sweets, with mouth watering photographs, nice descriptions (in 3 languages) and fascinating details. Give in to the temptation of waffles, chocolates, biscuits, cakes, pastries and many more...

I thought this book would be the perfect gift for Apple, the Chinese fiance of my brother. It's so cool to learn from each others food and kitchen! The first time we met Apple we overloaded her with Belgian chocolates :-) In return we get to know the real Chinese kitchen, and I must say, we like it!

Inside the beautiful bookshop

Some pictures of the book 'Sweet Belgium'