b l o m !

The designing itself was a lovely and interesting path to walk - developing and producing this one was rather hard. Fortunately I easily tend to forget all the troubles and I enjoy my newborn!





This weekend I'll notify my retailers and I hope Blom will travel all over the planet!
And this (below) is my product text, translated into English by Anne Paris from Cloud 9,who did a great job!

Summer or winter, Blom is always in bloom!
The beauty of Blom is everlasting, in a vase or dropping through the letterbox to greet or congratulate. Thread Blom flowers on a string to create instant floral bunting or attach to a cocktail stick to turn fairy cakes into trendy cottage garden treats!

Make your own Blom bouquet by pressing the flowers out of the A5 card and threading them onto traditional florist wire. The cards are available in various colour combinations and each card contains 5 different flowers.

Blom, 3 cards (15 easy pop out flowers in total) + 4.50 m florist wire
Recommended retail price per pack EUR 7.50
Soon available at my Dutch and international stockists!

etsy treasures: illustration

Who: Inaluxe
What: art, illustration, prints, cards
Why: Australian illustrator Kristina Sostarko has an amazing feeling for colours and a simple graphic style that I adore. She uses my favorite paper: matt & recycled. And... she has an inspiring blog as well!

no-tree paper bowls

Bought these paper bowls yesterday. I fell in love instantly. They are made from reed pulp and waste of sugarcane, so the material is in fact a 'no-tree paper'.
The bowls are part of a wide range of amazing disposable tableware designed by Wasara from Japan.
Why disposable, I'll keep them forever!

domestic candy

Found Domestic Candy through Enna's blog yesterday, about whome I wrote a post some time ago.
Somehow the name Domestic Candy did ring a bell, but I was surprised by the wow!!! -factor of Kerstin's blog and the products in her DaWanda shop. It is striking that we share the love for certain flower shapes and background structures (my lanterns), must have been something in the air?
Of course: what Kerstin does with it, so different, so lovely! What a subtle, simple and sweet designs, just...wow!
Again a German pearl.

pom pom pom pom pom

This morning I opened the curtains....again a thin white layer of snow in the garden. I am getting a bit fed up with winter (sorry!). In order to speed spring up a bit I searched for 'festive', 'paper' and 'colours' on Etsy. And I found hundreds of pompoms!
These lovely ones you can buy at Orange Kisses and Party Poms.

But it must be real fun to make pom poms yourself as well. Made real easy with a little help from good old Martha!

a cup for life

These Kuksa are made by Laplanders from Finland. The kuksa is a hand carved drinking cup made from birch burl. Laplanders have a personal Kuksa that stays with them throughout their lifetime and has been used by Laplanders for as long as anyone can remember. They use it for everything they drink: coffee, tea, vodka and water from the stream. The cup will not hold any flavors from previous drinks.
In other words: the most sustainable cup I ever came across!
Available in several shops throughout the planet (like kellamknives), but it might be even better to craft one yourself, with help from: Jon's Bushcraft

socklights

Completely focussed on fabrics since last Thursday.
We saw these knitted lights by Beeldenbouwers in the museum shop of the Textile Museum, they are so pretty! The fun thing is, the knitwork is hard as glass because they used epoxy. Not very sustainable (is there an eco-epoxy on the market?), but oh so beautiful. I forgive you, Beeldenbouwers!
Available at BijzonderMOOI*.