My cup of tea...

It's time to go ahead with my teapot cards collection,

I draw the teapots myself and cut them out of a mix of all sorts of papers I gathered trough the years (vintage wallpaper, japanse washi, handpainted papers...) I use also some gorgeous stamps on Etsy in this shop. of Norahjane.

This is a little sneak preview,

and then back to my worktable,

I will list them soon in my shop.

Silk Diva

My Silk Diva necklace is quite popular in my shop,

one of them was even featured in a saturday shopping list of this blog (guess what: it sold on monday :-))

It's a pleasure making them, felting balls, making silk beads and then finding the ultimate color combination or even combining with stone, precious stone or seed pods.

Can't help it, it's just me liking to work with different materials, mixing and matching,

I can't stuck to one material, one technique, one discipline...

Quite tiring...

Wearing the necklace is a pleasure too, I guess (in fact I know, because I have one for myself)

the felt choker makes it so very lightweight, you just aren't aware of wearing a necklace.

(watch out when you're gonna take a shower!) :-))

Some of the pieces above are available in my shop.

paper (felt) flower tutorial

A while ago I found this tutorial somewhere, chaotic as I am , I don't find back where I found it (so if someone knows, give me a comment!)

It's a great idea to make these flowers as embellishments for Christmas packaging.

I am thinking of trying with different sorts of papers: vintage wallpapers, handmade papers, maybe also fused plastic and cardboard. I tried with felt (I made two spirals that I stiched together) and finished it with some embroidery,

doesn't it ook like a brooch now?

Een tijdje geleden vond ik deze handleiding, ergens op een blog of een website, maar ik ben redelijk chaotisch en vind dus niet meer terug waar ik deze haalde...

Een leuk idee om deze roosjes te maken als versiering op kerst en eindejaarspakjes!

Ik ga alvast aan de slag met vintage behangpapier (waar ik er tonnen van heb :-), maar probeer ook met handgeschept papier, oud inpakpapier of karton, enfin we zien wel wat er voorhanden is! Ik probeerde eerst eens met een vilten lapje, maakte eigenlijk twee spiralen (in twee kleuren)die ik dan ineen naaide en versierde met wat borduurseltjes: een leuke broche is het resultaat!

Lately I've been working on creations with sterling silver,

I am so stuck to copper (I like the warm color of it), but people keep asking me if I don't have hooks in sterling silver, they like my creations but can't wear the copper because of some allergic reactions, so,ther we go, and there is more to come in my shop.

Leon , Amelie & Gérard: Cat-brooches

Eind november sta ik op de beurs van de Steinerschool in Gent (de Bazar),
het wordt dus hard werken geblazen de volgende weken om mijn shop gevuld te krijgen.
Gisteravond nog wat Kattebroches gemaakt (In brugge vlogen die de deur uit!).
Deze zijn allemaal verschillend van vorm en grootte (pièce uniques dus),omdat ik niet werk met een vorm waarrond ik vilt, ik breng ze gewoon in vorm met de hand!

Het leukste is achteraf naampjes voor hen verzinnen...

(Amélie vond al een knus plaatsje in mijn shop!)

I am attending a fair end of november and I am working like crazy to have more stuff, since I sold a lot in Bruges this weekend,...

More cats this time , not one of them is the same since I don't work with a dummy (a piece of cardboard), They are formed by hand, always a big surprise how they turn out, ..

Giving them names is the most fun part of the job!

I am working on other animals too,but that's for another blogpost!

(Amélie found already a cosy place in my shop, but is ssurely looking for a new home!)

Rose & Thunder

Het thema voor de European challenge was deze week: 'What a man should give to his woman'

Het thema werd aangebracht Daniel van Swedishjewels , één van de weinige mannen inons Europees Team!

Mijn Rose and Thunder necklace is het resultaat.

een halssnoer gemaakt met koraalkralen en een prachtige halfedelsteen (jasper) de ketting is koper, simple but beauty! Te zien in mijn shop!

De twee andere halssnoeren maakte ik voor de tentoonstelling in Brugge, waarover later meer!!!

The thema for the European Challenge this week was: 'What a man should give to his woman' .

Curated by Swedishjewels, one of the few 'guys' we have in our team :-)

The result is my Rose and Thunder necklace.

I combined a gorgeous textured jasper stone with coral beads and a copper hoop.

Well, my man should give it to me, if it weren't for sale in my shop, haha!

The two other necklaces were made for my Exposition in Bruges about which I will blog later.

once upon a time - il était une fois...

Some time ago I went to Lille, France with a blog-friend, Veerle. The purpose was supply-shopping!! (what else :-)

I bought some gorgeous stuff about which I will blog later.

Just before we had to catch our train we dropped into a bookshop (a friend of Veerle collects bookmarks and we saw some in the shopwindow).

Entering a bookshop in France is deadly for me, (as I am a Children books addict!!!)

France has so many great and talended illustrators and authors (you all know some of them who sell on Etsy), and those books are not always available in Belgium, so I HAD to bring two awesome children books with the money I had left...

at home I let me inspire by the colors and the beautifull illustrations and made a matching Fairy-tale necklace with some vintage findings and japanese washi paper. soon available in my shop)

Les Mots à la bouche, Aurélia Fronty, une collections de poèmes sur les gourmandises

ISBN 2.01.391181.5

L'oiseau de Mona: Mona et ses parents ont fui, leur pays en guerre pour s'installer ici. La vie est belle pour Mona, elle a beaucoup d'amis.

Mais un oiseau noirlasuit partout,jouretnuit

il lui rappelle qu'elle n'a pas les papiers, les bons papiers, pour rester dans ce pays qu'elle aime....ISBN 978-2-35504-039-9