Room 222

Next weekend the Elle Decoration Inside Design, a major Dutch interior design fair, will take place again in Amsterdam. Main attraction will be the exhibition in the Lloyd Hotel. Every hotelroom features different designers or interior design companies.
My Paperwork is invited to stay (and get sold) in room 222 for the weekend, together with paper and textile products of other designers. I am so proud! I'll be visiting the show on Sunday. Hope to meet you there!

Tasty parasol in the woods

Looks like a piece of folded paper art. But it is a Parasol-mushroom, with a diameter of at least 25 cm! It was found by a couple we came across today during a walk with my family in a forest near us. He was a goodlooking tall Italian, who knew everything about wild vegetables. She was a dutch 'white whitch', made her own elixirs, herb-oils...
I asked: Wow, what is that mushroom you are holding in your hand? He (with this Italian accent): This is the best pizza base ever! Put it in a pan, bit of olive oil, unions on it, parsley, pomodori, cheese...
I am a bit afraid of just picking mushrooms for consumption (besides: it is forbidden to pick them here), I think you need a good book for advice. The odd couple told me: if you don't trust it, just don't pick it!

Etsy treasures: tea towels

Who: Mr PS
What: Tea towels
Why: They look like little notes, drawings on paper!

Kitchen

Every Friday Peter and I reserve some hours for a new project: a real kitchen (finally!). We have only a small space, but ambitious plans...
Since I have no spatial aptitude (I even had to look this one up in my dictionary), I leave the spatial planning for a great deal to Peter and I stick to the styling. We won't have any high cupboards, only one long shelf and I really get carried away looking at all the Etsy-things that I could place up there!

The ultimate beautiful pan by Jens Quistgaard, designed for Dansk, at Etsy-shop Modbots



Vintage espresso-maker, Etsyshop: Modera


Vintage plates at Etsyshop: Menzo Collection


Enamel pitcher at Etsy's Finding Fabulous


And I hope to find more unique things like this Japanese salt shaker at Etsy's Modish Vintage

Fluid harvest

Since the year my parents moved to the country side, every autumn we had to eat/work ourselves a way through the fruit harvest as soon as possible, because of the decay. Piles of applepies, jars of apple sauce and baskets full of pears that needed to be eaten straight away...
Untill last year: My uncle Paul discovered the mobile fruit press!
Mobipers is a professional fruit press on a truck, that travels from village to village in Holland. On one side the apples and pears go in, on the other side your own organic (and pasteurized) juice is put in a so called 'bag in a box', in which it stays fresh for 2 years! The price is 1 euro for 1 liter including the boxes etc.
Yesterday we spend on ladders in their old high-stem trees, shaking branches, picking up pears and apples. The sheep had a feast: all the damaged ones were for them!

Emma's

I found Emma's blog, looking for inspiration to make a moodboard. Needed a nordic (swedish) touch for a new design for one of the biggest coffee company's in Holland. When I design patterns or products I first literally picture the home in which the design would feel at ease and then I start designing. I found the home here, at Emma's!

Colour celebration

Today - grey sky, lots of rain - I was desperate for some colour. Came accross this French artist, Sophie Cuvelier. She lives in a world full of garlands, mostly textile ones (sometimes paper as well!), which she makes by hand. Not only she does the colouring herself, she cuts them, sews them and puts them on a string. She dresses buildings, streets, huge ceilings. Don't forget to click on her 'diaporama', it will make you feel good and smile in a second!