pink

Pink? It will never become my favorite colour. For this occasion I made an exception though. With all my heart.
I designed a special pink wishboat with a ribbon-pattern for Pink Ribbon, the yearly magazine of the Breast Cancer Organisation. I must say: what a surprisingly fantastic mag!
Great interviews (a small one with me...), beautiful subjects, couragious women and a fab styling and photografy. The paper of the magazine is thick and matt, the typografy and graphics beautiful.
In other words: buy this present for yourself, read, look, fold a boat (collectors item: PINK!!) and support the Breastcancer Organisation for only € 5,95.

interior living show

I had a busy Amsterdam-day last Thursday so I only popped in for a very quick visit at the 'Woonbeurs'. I avoided the men in grey suits selling Quookers and gel-fireplaces and went straight on to the 'houses'(huge stands with several rooms) of our Dutch interior magazines. VT-Wonen and 101-Woonideeën were certainly worth a visit. 101 Woonideeën was very 'tactile', with a beautiful colour palette and a very fresh Asian feel.
VT-Wonen made a statement: colourful, masculin, no nonsense, crafty, with deep dark colours! Actually, their house was so dark (and crowded) I couldn't take a proper picture!
So above you see a tiny bit of the 101-house. The ceiling was covered with lovely laundry lines with hanging patches in these great Asian pastels...loved it!

style cookie

Style Cookie, a new stylish shopping 'e-zine', is online! Style cookie guides you - with great, inspirational photographs - directly to the shops that offer the presented products.
I've seen many great pictures taken with my Bloms but this one is the cutest of 'em all! Blom and I feel honoured.
Thank you Sanne (photographer) and Anke (stylist) for doing such a great job.

oh my Lloyd!

We 've spent our Sunday in Amsterdam, on the Elle Inside Design Show in the fab Lloyd Hotel.
My 12 year old son Eise insisted on coming with me and that made it very special.


He took great pictures overthere and I really think he has 'the eye' (but then again: I am his mother...) ! Some photo's you can see here, others are only to be found on his cute own photo-blog called My View.

The settings in my camera were somehow wrong (or do I need glasses for taking pictures?) so lots of pictures were kind of soft focuss. But - together with the ones my son took - they are still nice, I think.



Anyway, we had a great day! We saw beautifull things and every step I took I met an old friend or a new acquaintance. Besides I ended up having a lovely dinner with Karin, Sabien and Sandra! My cool son went home by himself, by train, from Amsterdam to Bussum. To be honest: that was harder for me (let go, let go) than it was for him!

premiere

Today I roll out the red carpet for my latest edition of paper angels called Sing! They are available at my wholesale company right now and at my stockists very soon!


As soon as I have time I'll unite them with their older sisters - who are still available - on my website!
So, dear angels, spread your wings, fly away and sing!

swallow summer souvenir

My weekend: Met my friend Anneli in Amsterdam (who's my Swedish distributor and owner of Cosas). We talked, walked, laughed, drank and had dinner at night. It was good to be 'out', especially with Anneli!

Yesterday Annemieke, Ellen and I went to the promising 2nd part of the Paper Biennale in Rijswijk. I went to part one in the Coda museum some time ago and it was a stunning little paper exhibition. Yesterday it was the last day of the Biennale, therefore the Rijswijk museum even had a Paper Market. Sorry to say: it was a deception. Maybe I am a spoiled brat concerning paper, but I didn't feel the inspiration that I felt in the Coda museum. And the market: it was boring, dusty. They could have attract so many nice young paper crafters in Holland! Nevertheless we had great fun just spending the day together. And that counts.


Inspiration? I find it in small things, like the new swallow bracelet by my dutch friend Björke. She gave it to me together with some sweet Swedish souvenirs (she bought piles of presents at Lagerhaus) that I hope to take pictures of some other time....

car booth treasures

Friend Linda and me went to a car booth sale early this morning. The sale was held on a field between gardens and greenhouses, next to the river Amstel. Sunshine, nice people and lovely little treasures, what a good way to start your Sunday!