gedichtendag

gedichtendag vandaag!
Bij deze een grappig schrijfsel van Tom Lanoye, met prachtige illustraties van Sabine Clement. Ik hou ontzettend veel van haar werk!
(klik op de foto's om te vergroten)

In het boek ‘Ik wil je’ staat de passie centraal, de passie die je vleugels geeft, maar die ook verschroeiend kan zijn. Sabine Clement uit Kortrijk vrolijkt de verzen op met tekeningen. ‘Ik wil je’ is uitgegeven bij De Eenhoorn uit St-Baafs-Vijve.


Poetry day today!
I found this nice poem with gorgeous illustrations. Sabine Clement is one of my msot favorite Belgian Illsutrators.
click onthe pictures to enlarge them

Haiti Relief

picture rca102887
I could not be on the sideline in this, so from now on I will donate 10 % of the profits of my sales to the Haiti rebuilding project, In belgium this is Haiti 1212.
My two eldest girls saw the 1212 Haiti show on TV last thursday and they wanted to do someting too, one of our adoption friends Jamesson is from Haiti and he was a guest in the TV studio to tell about his biologial family in Haiti. So we really feel connected!
So my kids sended me to groceries for chocolate and cornflakes and on friday eve they made a pile of chocolate rocks. On sunday they sold them in the neigbourhood and earned 45 Euro, entirely for aid to Haiti! I love my kids!

my Benetton family :-)

An exciting experience for my four kids: they did a real fashion photoshoot, for the new opened kids fashion shop Guppies in my neighbourhood!
I posted already a picure of Mies, and now you can see a few pictures of the other kiddies Maia, Meron and Briek.
My Little boy is the long blond haired in the middle:-)

photoshoot !

Toen een vlinder neerstreek
op een roze bloem in 't gras
zag ik
dat de vlinder bloem
en de bloem vlinder was

en dat ik in het een dat leeft
het andere herken
en dat ikzelf
een levend deel
van alle leven ben

gewoon, omdat ik dit een heel mooi gedichtje vind!

en misschien ook omdat ik wou dat er meer kansen en mogelijkheden waren voor kindjes met een beperking, in deze maatschappij die zichzelf voorbijholt.
hm, ik moest het eens kwijt :-)

*bedankt Nathalie dat ook Miesje mocht poseren voor de photoshoot van Guppies*

Monday Moodboard

Empty by Ischaphotography
Rainbow earrings by Kosmika
Granny Chic Handbag by Karuski
Beadwoven ring by GR8

A very busy weekend with lots of socialising lays behind me.
I am happy to be here now , on my own, complete silence.
I think a nap will do me good, just have to catch up some sleep!
Enjoy the EST-Monday moodboards!

If you want to create a moodboard of your favorite European Street Team Designs, make your mosaic and add a link to your blogpost (NOT your blog please) or Flickr in Mister Linky (click on the button below and fill in your name with the link to your blogpost or Flickr picture).



Wooohoo!!!!!, I am nominated for a handmade poppy by Poppytalk, a well known Canadian design blog collecting inspiration and promoting emerging design talent.
If you like my creations, please go vote for me here!

more time, more sleep...

Weekend wishlist
(find some other weekend wishlists on Karuski's blog)

Only two things on my wishlist: more time and more sleep.
(I had two terrible nights (with too less sleep), I feel a wreck:-()

Last week:
I've been busy with orders(remember the recycled paper necklaces!)
made a bunch of Japanese garden earrings,
finally did some sales shopping in town (in a hurry)
bought these in olive green.
saw this 'moving' theatre play
catched up with a friend I had not seen for months
tried to find a nice holiday-place for this summer vacation


I truly wish I had more time to practice my metal class skills.
Hm, I need to investigate in some more tools too, and these are not cheap,...
I've been soldering lots of rings (little ones, bigger, copper, silver).
and I already assembled one pair of earrings with some rosey copper rings, I like the quirky rough touch of the rosey copper, a lovely contrast with the translucent aqua/teal/mint color of the agate stones.
Te earrings are in my shop now.
A matching necklace is on it's way!

Alice

Haven't found the time to show you this.
It's created for the Challenge hosted by Kreativlink "make something you never did before"
I made a journal.
This is the cover, I still have to finish it and make the inside.
The illustration is from a vintage 'Alice in wonderland' book I found at the thrift shop last week. The fabrics are all vintage. ANd I just love the stamp.

hm, this reminds me I have to pop in the thrift shop today, you never know which treasure I will find this time.