• Entrée des Fournisseurs

Right next to HOME Autour du Monde, Rue des Francs Bourgeois 8, you can find the most yummy haberdashery store I have ever visited. The shop is mostly full with buttons and ribbon, but they also sell Liberty fabric, wool felt and patterns.
I spent a fortune on French ribbons, I loved them and I now try [...]

• Autour du Monde

Another great shop in Paris is HOME Autour du Monde. I found a lot of inspiration there, they offer a nice mix of vintage like and design stuff. I visited their shop on Rue des Francs Bourgeois 8, which they call their concept store.
The street Rue des Francs Bourgeois is worth visiting all by itself, it’s [...]

• Antoine & Lili

Antoine & Lili was on the recommendation list of Clare, from the Lulu Carter blog. And she was so right, I was so overwhelmed by the shops, I couldn’t buy anything (lucky for my wallet ;-)) On their website I found out that they have several shops around Paris. I have visited the ‘flag’ store [...]

• Inspiration at the ‘Woonbeurs Amsterdam’ #2

1 Kidsonroof, 2 Studio Hielian, 3+4 Tas-Ka, 5 Saartje Prum, 6 LavandouX
As promised, some other colourful suppliers on the ‘Woonbeurs Amsterdam’. I realy loved the cushions of studio Hielian, they are colourful and funny. And at Kidsonroof they make all kind of stuff with cardboard, I really loved this deer.

• Inspiration at the ‘Woonbeurs Amsterdam’

1+2 101 Woonideeën, 3+4 VT Wonen, 5+6 At Home Kinderen
Yesterday I spent a few hours at the ‘Woonbeurs Amsterdam‘. I got two free entree tickets with my subscription to 101 Woonideeën (my new favorite Dutch magazine). It was fun to walk around there, just for inspiration, and have some chats with the stylists and shop [...]

• 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 [...]

• Inspiring blogs on Sunday

I found some new inspiring blogs today that I really wanted to share with you. I might make it a returning Sunday special, ‘Inspiring blogs on Sunday’.
Les Surprises de fifi mandirac

Fifi lives in Paris and designs paper and lovely stuff made with paper. The pictures above are from her blog.
Record the day

She calls herself Lobster [...]

• I could use some feedback

Sometimes I think that everyone is crafting around the world, because of that endless amount of inspiring blogs. But in my daily reality, that’s not the case…. No one in my neighborhood I know is crafting in any way, so when I am in desperate need of any feedback, I have no one to show my project and discuss…
But [...]

• Wet felting

The day before I ruptured my achilles tendon, I spent an afternoon in my aunt’s studio. She does wet felting a lot and I wanted to learn the process for some time now. The picture above shows my first project. I was really excited when I actually felt the wool, soap and water doing their job. I still think [...]