My Friday Night Outfit

Wine & Plum earrings by Fleurfatale
Padma...ligt grey by cocoricoo
red shoes by passepurses
Rose Petals - luxurious rosy pink crochet fingerless fairy mitts, wool and soya
by Vaisto

My creative space today

Look at these little treasures,
new Chinese turquoise,
beautiful vintage buttons (I love the mustard color!)
pretty brass cabochons
antiqued golden filigree beads

I enjoyed bringing them together in this moodboard or still life,
(what a stunning colorcombo: turquoise and mustard, isn' it?)
but soon they will be used in new creations :-)

Do you remember that I love putting my scissors into vintage handbags, to cut little flowers out of it?
I found this leather bag a while ago at the thrift shop (only 1 Euro) , It's a gorgeous blue,
but back home I could not tear it apart into pieces, in fact it's perfect to use as it is!

So I decided to cut some leftovers of leather and tried these new forms of petals!

These below are already in my shop:
find more of my 'repurposed leather jewelry' here.



Want to show your creative space? Hop over to Kootoyoo's to play! It's fun! :)

What the postman brought me

I've been busy all day with lots of new things!
As you may know, I am following Silversmith classes since september.
It's not always easy to drive half an hour each monday evening to my classes, but I am so motivated and I like it so much that I don't mind the distance.
I bought my own torch yesterday and I've been practising a lot! Tis opens so many new ways for me! First some tries with copper... and then I finished a pair of silver earrings I am very excited about! They need to be sanded now and polished and then I'll take pics (iff the weather allows it) tomorrow.
Keep an eye here, I will post my new handsoldered earrings soon!

The past weeks the postman had so much suprises for me, some of them unexpected :-) I will show them all one by one, the following weeks. Be sure to take a peep from time to time :-)

This is a package I got from my sweet creative friend Veerle (Nevousinstallezpas)! I really have to show you the beautiful packaging too: a delight to get a present in such a sweet package!

In the package was one of her 'Lariats' a silk crocheted bead combined with an ethiopean silver bead and african trade beads. Beautiful!
thanks so much dear Veerle! A toast on our creative and inspiring friendship

Thrifting my interior

Another new years resolution:
styling my interior.
It was about time. I've been fed up with oh so many other things. But this year I definetely want to give more attention to my house and interior. Not easy in a house where we live with 6 (of which 4 kids) and all the stuff that comes with each person, ...
I decided to do it the thrifted way: cheap and original!

This deer (which costed me 2 Euros) will get a place in my workroom,
I wanted to paint it completely white, but my husband protested, he was convinced it would ruin the expression on the poor deers face! What do you think?
White? or just leave it the way it is?

and for the fun some lovely blogs to follow:
full of whimsical thrifted, repurposed and handmade stuff !
dottieangel
MiekeWillems

Shop Update

Icy Water hoops in Sterling Silver

I will be listing new creations the coming days, so keep an eye on the shop.
And to make place for new ones, I put some items on Sale, find them in the SALE-section.

a pie a week

One of my new years resolutions is to make more vegetable pies.
I used to make lots of pies years ago, but getting kids also changed my cooking!
Now I am determined to serve them once a week a pie with vegetables, (sometimes also meat or fish added) I do hope they learn to like the pies!

here is my first attempt:
it's an easy-peasy recipe!

- ready to bake pastry
- 5 eggs
- 20 ml low fat cream- 1 spoon sausbinder (riceflour thickener)
- 2 tomatoes
- 1 courgette
- 500 gr brocoli
- gratedcheese (parmesan or gruyère)
- pepper salt, thyme

Prebake the pastry in a baking mould (150 degrees till it's light brown)
Mix the eggs, the low fat cream, the grated Cheese, the riceflour thickener, pepper and salt and thyme.

put the sliced courgette on the pastry
(the courgette avoids the pastry of becoming moisty)
put the broccoli on the courgette (in little parts)
put the sliced tomatoes on the broccoli
pour the egg mixture on the vegetables
Put in the oven for about 30 minutes (180 degrees)

Serve with yoghurt sauce and luttece (made with the Tzatziki herb mix from Oil and Vinegar)

Monday Moodboard

Chocolate Chips Cookie Coasters -Set of 4- All natural by Sabahnur
Free shipping.Ebba. Textile necklace with flower ooak. by Birribe
molly... crochet 'granny' cushion cover by Emmalamb
Autumn Leaf. Crochet Beret by Escaodesign



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