Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Sometimes I just can't believe what these two come up with :)) When I came into the living room this morning they were having their oatmeal with their diving glasses on. I quickly grabbed my camera but I was too late to make a shot of both of them wearing them. By the time I came back into the room with my camera my daughter had already took her neon yellow pair down... But that didn't matter because I thought this is a nice enough shot of 'the having a quick breakfast before going diving couple' as well :))))))
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
A while ago I got an email from an editor with the Dutch magazine called ‘Flow’..a real beautiful kind of magazine. The editor who contacted me was interested in knowing if I would like to be featured in the Etsy courant they planned to create in the June issue of Flow magazine this year. Well YEAH!!!! Off course I would like to be in their magazine!! I jumped up and down from joy, this could well become my first very much desired editorial....and in such a super cool magazine on top of that!
After two months or so, just before the magazine was due to come out, she contacted me again to tell me her boss editor had chosen others and not me to be featured...and that she was sorry...
Well, so was I...Hopefully my first editorial isn’t far away...
Today I bought the magazine because I was so curious who they had picked..and there on page one was my dear Etsy friend Nina, with her beautiful Etsy shop, Nina In Vorm
Congratulations Nina J
Monday, June 13, 2011
Friday, June 10, 2011
*These pics I took around her studio...they are colors samples she made. She uses them to decide what glaze/color combinations to make on her clay sculptures.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
******If you feel like giving me some feedback on them you are more than welcome to do so :))******
Sunday, June 5, 2011
... Here i have harvested the Elderflower. I am ready to pull off the flowers so they can be put in the glaze pot. I want just the white flowers to be in there without any of the green parts.
Put all the delightful white flowers into a closed glaze pot filled with water and just let it rest on a shelf for 2 days. This way the elderflowers' enchanting smell and taste will be pulled from the flowers into the water. This water becomes the lemonade later on.
After 2 days you sif the water really well in a super clean kitchen towel. then you put it in a pan on your stove and add lemon and sugar to it. I have used 1 kilo of sugar for 3 liters of water, and 3 organic lemons as well.
Then you boil the water and the sugar really well...and put it into the sterilized bottles you have prepared...
Thursday, June 2, 2011
And on top of that I came across a few still blossoming elderflower bushes. I was so happy! Elderflowers blossoms hold my total attention this year. Last year I already was dying silk and cotton fabric with them, but this year I tried some more, currently I am making syrup to make fresh and delightful lemonade with. Because of this year’s extremely warm and dry whether their blossoms turn into berries a lot earlier then normally, so I was out harvesting the blossoms a few times last week and could find just enough blossoms to dye another batch of fabrics and make the lemonade. What I would like to try next year is to make fried elderflower blossom as an entrée at a dinner party and to make some facial cleaning tonic as well. As I read the list of what one can do with this magical flower it seems so incredible this can all be done with these blossoms. Their smell alone is mesmerizing...Coming up in a new blog post are some pics of the lemonade being made and a translation of the syrup recipe.....
Some beautiful architecture pics seen at the NDSM shipyard...
This building i find sooo beautiful! It's an apartment building build partly over the water.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
The 30th of April 2011 was my D-day! D-day was about finally feeling the strength and the courage to initiate a major change in my life and the lives of my two children.. divorce! Just days before my D-day I made this drawing. Looking back, and even in that moment I drew it, it feels like this was exactly pinpointing the sore and the pain in my marriage that had been there for so long and had gotten worse and worse. It feels like some level of me was talking to another level of me, and saying; Please finally agree with me! Please finally open your eyes and see the problem and see you are on a dead end street!
I finally let go of that heavy load I was tied to..and it feels like I am able to breathe again! I hope this feeling will last forever! I know I should not ask for the impossible, life is no picnic! So in the mean time I will enjoy it to the fullest (while it lasts). Thank you universe!
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