Archive for the 'Inspiration' Category
• 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.
5 Comments November 28th, 2008• On the coffee table
I love that time of the year when you can start adding candles and lights to your living room. And I ‘have’ to buy all the christmas styled magazines, and I keep all trough the years. So at the moment I have quite a selection of holiday season magazines. For me waiting are now these, but unfortunately I will [...]
3 Comments November 23rd, 2008• Kaffe Fassett lecture in Leeuwarden
Today I went to Leeuwarden to attend a lecture of Kaffe Fassett on color. I learned about Kaffe Fasset by reading the book ‘The Gentle Art of Domesticity’, and was fascinated by his use and choice of color. The lecture was very much about inspiration and the courage to use, a lot!, of colors. One of the [...]
1 Comment November 16th, 2008• 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 [...]
1 Comment November 15th, 2008• Inspiration
This week I’m enjoying a holliday on Texel, one of the Dutch ‘Wadden eilanden’. Because we can use the summer house of the family, I have a whole room I can use as crafting room. I took with me some fabric, yarn and my sewing machine, so I can work on some WIP projects and [...]
No Comments November 7th, 2008• My first blog entry
Today is the very first day for me to post a blog entry, after reading many many inspiring blogs of others. I realy want to get in contact with those creative crafting souls. My wish is to be able to inspire others, and bloggin gives me an extra impulse to create. So keep in touch [...]
1 Comment November 6th, 2008My webshop
About me
I'm Petra, I live in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Besides my day job I’m running my own business: organising creative workshops and a web shop selling cute and colourful fabrics, ribbon and buttons.
In my spare time I love to crochet and sew. I’m always on the look for new inspiration on the web, in books and in magazines.
