• Retail therapy

These shops above are two of my favorite shops on Texel: ‘t Lant van Texsel and De Witte Engel.
‘t Lant van Texsel is full of lovely stuff for inspiration and just to have… they sell Rice, Anne-Claire Petit and lots of other stuff in my favorite colours. De Witte Engel is a shop full of [...]

• Basil 2010 catalogue

Yesterday I found an unexpected treasure at the bike shop, the Basil 2010 catalogue. I already own a very lovely shopper that I can hang on the back of my bike, so I knew the brand. But when my eye fell on this booklet in the rack, and I opened it up, my heart made [...]

• Crochet inspiration

I admire the work of Anne-Claire Petit. She designs funny crocheted things in the most adorable colors. All items are a huge inspiration to me, and some of them I would love to own myself, for example the vase with flowers seigh…..
Yesterday I was so lucky to find some anne-claire petit items on the ‘vrijmarkt’ in Amsterdam. [...]

• Fancy pants

I did this wrapping last week, I loved it so much I had to take a picture of it.
Yesterday I made these fancy pants for the daughter of a friend. I like to create such girlie stuff, and I was looking for someone I could create it for. As the model wasn’t around during the [...]

• Crocheted hearts garland

I’m, almost there: the flowers are attached to the hearts, and the string is half way finished. Hopefully I can show you the completed garland this wednesday. I thought I could finish it today, but I found out that crocheting the string is more work than it looked like…

I have already selected the next crochet project, [...]

• Vintage craft magazines and buttons

Last year I started to spread around that I love old sewing supplies, like buttons, fabrics and bands, and old craft magazines. And this week it was treasure week! My aunt has a friend who gave me her old magazines, and a friend of my mother cleaned up her mothers place and found a bucket [...]

• It starts to feel a lot like christmas…

The last days I’m aware of the short days here in The Netherlands, and together with the first christmas fair I visited, my inspirational thoughts are all in a christmas theme. So I had to buy some christmas goodies, the ribbons I bought at the christmas fair and are from East of India.
 

• Happy things

During my holliday in Japan I found this mushroom tea mug in a little store in Kyoto. It was late that night and I was tired, I didn’t buy it at that time, I thought ‘We will come here again, or I will find it in an other store’. But we didnt’ come back there [...]