Buttoned up

The day after I gave the bag of Willy-buttons (see below) to Bjørke she already created an amazing new necklace full of memories. Bjørke understands the art of sampling! Thank you so much, B!

Moss-graffiti

Tell the walls of your home-town your secrets in moss! Here's a recipe by Stories from Space. With thanks to Homemade Charlotte for finding posts like this.

1 can of beer
1/2 teaspoon sugar
Several clumps garden moss

You will also need a plastic container (with lid),
a blender and a paintbrush

Read the full instruction on their website. Hope this graffiti will replace all the bad spraypaint in the future!

Work for Bjørke!

A very special person, my almost eighty years old friend Willy, gave me these buttons last friday. Every button has its own story. About the dress she wore during the liberation in 1945, about her mothers winter coat, her hip and hot maxi-dress back in the seventies... It was great fun going through these boxes together!
I'll bring them to my Buttonqueen Bjørke, she will create another great necklace for me from these buttons and I can't wait!!!

Congratulations Jansje!

De wereld van Jansje is a store. A beautiful store, with the greatest staff ever and a wonderful assortment (ha, ha, they are selling my work), located in the very centre of Haarlem. Jansje proofs that it is possible: doing business with your heart! They combine a highly stylish store with doing good, not only for the local people, but also in selling fair trade and ecofriendly stuff. The people who work there are, as we call them, mentally disabled. But they work with so much joy, they use their talents and they don't don't mind their disability. What a great athmosphere!
Because of their first birthday I gave a little workshop in making minibuntings with my own designs. It was very inspiring, good vibes. Hope to show you some pictures soon.
Hurray for Jansje!

Salty biscuits - very sweet

I bumped into these on a market. It are Japanese salty biscuits in beautiful little kimono's. They are adorable. The woman who sold them told me she bought them at a shop in the Netherlands called Parfumerie van Wonderen in Dronten. But I am sure they will be sold in Japanese supermarkets anywhere in the world.

Arrived from Stockholm

Okay, my wonderful new Swedish 'Toffels' are a bit pale from the long journey but with a little olive oil (recommended by mr. Hasbeen himself) and some dutch summer dirt they will get their real natural colour.
The only thing: I need a course in walking on Hasbeens! Used to Birkenstocks, this feels so 'cloggy', my fist 50 steps I walked like a chicken.
I ordered them through the offical Hasbeens-website. Even with shipment cheaper than buying them in a shop in Holland.

Souvenirs from the south of France