Guppies!!!

Goed nieuws voor wie bij mij in de buurt woont!
Mijn buurvrouw opent een kinderkledingwinkel in hartje Laarne: Guppies Fashion4kids (Lepelstraat 43). Ze verkoopt er heel leuke Belgische en Nederlandse collecties zoals Fred en Ginger, Nijntje, Hilde en co, Moodstreet, Tumble ‘N Dry, Little feet.
Ze heeft ook een gloednieuwe collectie accessoires van Fleurfatale!
Picnic: een reeks unieke oorknopjes gemaakt uit vintage retro stofjes,
Allen daarheen dus!
het openingsfeest is op 23/24/25 januari, dan krijg je 10% korting,
als je je inschrijft voor de nieuwsbrief hier maak je kans op een cadeaubon!


Good news!
My neighbour is opening a cool Boutique with kidsclothing, Guppiesshe has some very cool collections: Fred en Ginger, Nijntje, Hilde en co, Moodstreet, Tumble ‘N Dry, Little feet.
And also a colelction of Fleurfatale will be for sale in her shop:
a pretty collection of unique handmade earstuds from vintage fabrics.
Do hop over when you are in the neghbourhood (I know this will be very difficult for some of my readers, lol!)
but don't worry, Guppies will soon be selling a part of the collection online too!

Shop Update

Brand new japanese Winter garden earrings are in my shop!
If you want to read more about the creation of them, look here.
and here.



Have you seen the card I designed to go with this jewelry line?
remember the butterflies.
And do take a peep at Karuski's blog, :-)

what the postman brought me...

I love shopping handmade, and during the Christmas sale rush, I spoiled myself a bit with some pretty things that were already some time on my wishlist.
I love the work of Amsterdam based Designer Leililaloo,I simply adore the way she combines her illustration talent and her knitting skills. Her world of Polkadots, flowers, teapots, colors, houses, stools,... brings me in a happy moody! (find her blog here.)
Look what I bought!
In fact this is a necklace, I love the illustration, the long legs and the red pumps! I use it now to decorate, but I know one day I'll wear it on a lovely sexy dress , watch me!

And sweet Dana added again a nice surprise: A handprinted, fabric brooch: I am very happy with it, although my face does not show that on te picture :-))

if you want to know what I got from Dana somet ime ago, read here.

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