wassenaar

Wednesday: walking in the dunes near Wassenaar together with Sophie, felt a bit like sneaking away from work, but very nice to do once in a while.

studio IJM

Last week I moved to my new atelier: a work space at studio IJM. I can use a very nice space, some kind of attic. I'll show you some pictures once I'm finished giving all my materials and equipment a good place.
I will be working there on my own jewelry, but will also do work for Frank.
On these pictures you can see some sketches for garlands (for a magazine) and paper "jewelry" that will be used for a fair next week.
I made myself a temporary workspace in the studio. When I'm working for studio IJM, I always like to be in the studio itself, so I can be surrounded with colours and materials. When I work on my jewelry I will be working in my own studio at the "attic".

Bonne and I will close our shop end of February, until then I'll only be working there on Sundays. Bonne will be there mainly on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
It's a pity we have to leave, but we're also both excited about what will come next.

Wish you all a Happy New Year!

Drenthe (1)

Somehow I forgot about these pictures. In October my boyfriend and I went to visit his two aunts, sisters from his mother. H. lives with her husband in Kibbelveen, in an old farm, where she and her sisters grew up. They breed horses.
Sister A. lives with her husband on an old farm in Nieuw- Zwinderen, that belonged to his family. It was a very nice day. We see them during birthdays, but we very much enjoyed seeing them at their own houses. These farms have a lot of charm. I took many pictures. The weather wasn't that great, lots of rain, so some pictures turned out a bit too dark. But I also like that, makes it even more nostalgic. In the last picture you see some of the trophees their horses won, the cupboard with all the cups was too blurry to show.

Wish you a happy Christmas and lots of fun this weekend!

curacao, soft tones

curacao, fabrics

These pictures were taken on a market in Willemstad.

Curacao, blues

delicate work from Eva

Miss Rosy View

Eva Schreuder is the initiator of this temporary shop in Leiden. Bonne went to Leiden yesterday to deliver work from her and me. I think I will pay a visit, I'm very curious about the other work. In my next post I will show work from Eva. She also showed her work in Eindhoven during the Dutch design Week at Meesterlijk. She makes beautiful work and had a wonderful presentation.

architectural models

architectural models via allthemountains

Gunta Stolzl

Gunta Stolzl via a drawing diary

Curacao, shades of white

It's been a while since my last post, but that's because I just returned from a wonderful trip to Curacao, together with my boyfriend and his family.
The island was very wet, and although we had beautiful weather sometimes, it also rained a lot.
Probably still because of the hurricane Tomas. For Curacao the weather was extraordinary.
But luckily for us it didn't rain all day, so we could often relax at the beach (with big turtles swimming in the sea) and we made daytrips.

Each house is painted in bright colours, you hardly see white. So I thought it would be nice to start with these pictures. More pictures are coming soon.

(and I got some sad news while on holiday, there was a burglary in our shop. They stole a lot of jewelry from Bonne and me. I was very happy that Bonne took care of everything. We also got a letter saying the whole building, including our space will be sold in January. So we have to leave our tiny little shop. We both think something good will come out of this, we both wanted a bigger studio, so maybe it was time anyway for new plans. I'll keep you updated.)

Maeve Magazine

Hooray! One of my pieces is featured in Maeve Magazine. Belinda (she has a beautiful blog) submitted finds. Very happy that she choose my brooch as well. It's quite small on this image, but here you can see it bigger.