Dear readers! It took me a while...no post last week because I was in the hospital, emergency surgery, got my appendix out! I am recovering. Not easy for me: piles of work, millions of plans and ideas, and even more promisses and deadlines....

Some of you might know that I worked as a stylist for IKEA Amsterdam years ago. A strange world, creative in a certain way, with the loveliest co-workers you could wish for, but locked up in a large blue box every single day.
And there I met Ellen, she actually was my 'boss', and we became friends. We kind of didn't fit into the IKEA mold and we felt extremely unhappy in our XXXL unisex stylingteam IKEA uniforms, on a daily basis children used to point us out: 'Mummy look, there goes Bob the Builder!'
You can imagine Ellen and I asked ourselves: is there life after the blue box?
Well, there is! She came a long way: but here is
Ellen van der Wiel!
She has built up a beautiful little company in felted home accessories, which she all designs and makes herself, partly by hand, partly with her huge new felting machine.
The icing on the cake for her: her plaids and cushion covers where used in the huge
VT-Wonen-magazine stand on the Dutch Interior Fair called
Woonbeurs (see photo's above), that was held last week. And her work is on the cover of this months issue of VT-Wonen.
Ellen, I am so happy for you, you go girl!