My Other Half

Want to meet my Love?
Hop over to Heart Handmade where my hubby is part of the Other Half Series.
And since he is too modest to pitch himself in an interview about how it is to be married to me, i will do it for him; check out his music on myspace!

Saving the World

Sorry for my lack of posting, i was out saving the world.
Or maybe not really. Just enjoying some time with one of my girls from back in Amsterdam, who is visiting me and New York City.
There's a lot of shopping, coffee breaks and yummy food! And of course a whole lot of laughs and chitchats!
Maybe in the end that makes the world a bit of a better place. Ha. Me, saving the world?

Top left - One of many NY coffees
Top right - Sneaker shopping on Fulton Street Downtown Brooklyn
Bottom left - Lucky Cats in Pearl River Mart
Bottom right - Mini cupcake at the Cupcake Cafe

Writing in Embroidery Stitches

Blue embroidery floss on pink wool felt with added flower embellishments.
Just for fun.

Pretty Fragile Labels

No i don't mean the labels are pretty fragile, they are pretty and say fragile.
Since i started listing more and more decorative vintage items in my etsy shop i had to think more and more about getting the items safely to their new owners when they sell. So i invested in a bunch of new shipping boxes and some bubble wrap. But still, you cross your fingers and hope the post office people are careful with your package just because you wrote 'fragile' on it with a thick sharpie!
Maybe these labels bring a smile to the faces of the postoffice people and maybe that will cause them to actually handle my packages with care! Pretty Please?

Sunday Owls

I love Sundays as you might know

The entire week feels like I've got no time to loose, everything is in a rush and then when Sunday arrives i wake up with such a calm feeling. This is my day. I can take a walk with no specific destination or hang on the couch the whole day. Or, if i happen to choose so, i can even do some work. But in a very relaxed way. It feels like everything i do get done on a Sunday is a bonus.

This last week was a busy one. Did you notice the lack in postings on my blog? Not that i had nothing to show or tell, just didn't set time apart to write. oh oh. I have been working on some new illustrations, but nothing finished yet. Trying to set up some new ideas for the future. Did a lot of thrift shopping and found some wonderful goodies that are either already up in my shop, or will be very soon. I did list a lot of new items in the shop, mainly vintage finds and a couple of Japanese craft books (oh, thank you Shibooya for your sweet post about the books you bought!)

What's up with the owls? I don't know really. But there's always time/room for cute owls in my book! Especially when they come in pretty blindboxes like Nathan Jurevicius' Peleda wind up toys! Or when they are dark dark brown candles found in my local thriftshop!

Is it Candy?

Is it a bowl of candy? I think it looks like something sweet you would like to eat.
But no, in this house a bowl of colorful sprinkles is just a bowl filled with paper scrappies left over from making a bunch of new spiral bound journals!

I made a whole stack of them, most are already up in the notebook section of my Etsy shop, or waiting to be put up, or already sold!
Hope you love!