READY FOR 2013

I spend some days at my parents' house during christmas. My mother made this beautiful and tasty chocolate-raspberry-brownie-pie with whipped cream. Hope you've had a nice christmas.

I have gotten a little bit lazy due to the holidays. However today I started doing useful things again; I made the day-to-day calendar of Flow Magazine.

Flow Magazine is my favorite magazine, it has interesting and diverse articles and it offers small, creative craft paper materials. Unfortunately it's in Dutch, however they've come up with an international copy (click here to see where it's sold).

So, with the calendar completed I'm ready for 2013. Wish you all a good New Years Eve Celebration!

Liefs

DIY LABELING

Finally a new post! I've been ill in bed over the last week, but I'm happy to be out of bed now. I'm moving around again carefully and creating small things. I made these labels for my cables because I never can distinguish which one is what, they all look the same.

I used a blue checkered ribbon with a white lace on one side, a pen and a needle with red thread. I wrote the name of the object (which belongs to the cable) on the ribbon. I wrapped it around the cable and fixed it with a stitch of red thread.

The labels aren't only functional, they also add a personal twist.
Hope you are having a good weekend.

Liefs!

WINTER SEASON IS COMING

It finally had arrived, the DVD of Moonrise Kingdom. A beautiful film by Wes Anderson with perfectly stylized absurd and comic scenes. I watched it this weekend together with my family.

While watching the movie we drunk tea and we ate 'pepernoten', which are Dutch small spiced cookies especially meant for the 'Sinterklaas'-holiday (our kind of Santa, but than different ;). As you can see Sinterklaas also brought some gifts, I'm wondering what's inside!
It was nice to sit warmly inside with the whole family. Meanwhile it's getting colder and colder outside, I started wearing my gloves last week, winter is coming...

Liefs!

SONGBIRDFESTIVAL

Last weekend I went to the Songbirdfestival together with my brother in Rotterdam. The festival had a great line-up full of very good singer-songwriters. My brother and I had the perfect evening!

Newcomer Douwe Bob (Dutch singersongwriter) sang beautiful ‘country-ish’ songs.

I had not heard of Justin Nozuka before, but I love his voice. His songs have a pleasant dreamy ambiance.

My brother and I especially came for Lianne La Havas. We are intrigued by the stories she tells in her songs. Her concert was great, she sang beautiful and she’s such a nice and charismatic girl!

Unfortunately we could only see the last fifteen minutes of Michael Kiwanuka’s concert and we were at the far back of the music hall. Anyhow, the songs he played were even better than the record! I would have loved to see his concert up close..

Hope you’ve had a nice weekend as well!

Liefs

TEALIGHT JARS

The other day I made these little cute tealight jars.

The jars used to contain organic yoghurt, yummy! I bought the jars in Antwerp a few years ago when I lived there (I was on an internship for a couple of months). I cut straps out of a white cotton textile with a Dutch Delft print and wrapped them around the jars as a band. The light of the candles shines beautifully through the textile!

Currently I'm thinking about adding the tealight to my Etsy-shop. However, I still have to find a way to pack the Tealight jars for shipping. Have a nice week.

Liefs

LITTLE AUTUMN BIKE TRIP

I had been working for a school project all day inside the house. I wanted to get out and catch some fresh air of this nice autumn evening. So I went on a spontaneous bike trip together with Paul to the West part of Eindhoven (The Netherlands).

             

Liefs!

DOUBLE-SIDED

Today I updated my Shop on Etsy. I added a new design which I finished yesterday: “Laptop Sleeve Brown Soft Wool Vs. Flowery Grey” The brown wool is so nice & soft and it matches perfectly with the grey floral pattern, I love it!

As you can see you can choose which side to show by turning the sleeve inside-out and the other way around. I also took new pictures of the other designs to show the double-sided option of each design. 

The Dutch Delft Blue can also be turned inside-out to show the Plain Blue side. 

And the Tanzanian Pink has a beautiful clean Off-White Cotton side! Hope you like it as well.

Have a nice weekend, Liefs! 

RAINY SUNDAY AFTERNOON

Holland knows a lot of rainy Sunday afternoons, just like this Sunday. So what better to do than to stay in and to create a new sleeve design! The sleeve will soon be finished and added to my shop. Hope you've had a good weekend as well.

Liefs!

BRING IN THE GREEN

Now that Autumn has come and the days are getting colder I've decided to bring a part of my Mint and Basil plant inside. Since most of the Mint plant already died, I took the best leaves and put it in a small jar with water to have the Mint grow roots again. As you can see this worked out well! The Basil still dirty from outside got a nice place as well.

After a week I put the Mint plant also in a pot, now its roots are nested in the soil. Together the Mint and Basil live in my windowsill now.

Furthermore I planted some Anemone De Caen and Ranunculus bulbs in hollow bricks on my balcony. I hope they will flower my balcony with colours upcoming spring!

Liefs!

A NEW LAPTOP SLEEVE

Today I added a new Laptop Sleeve to my Etsy Shop: the Dutch Delft Blue Sleeve. Just like the Tanzanian Pink Sleeve I can make it into any size you like. From now on my sleeves are also available for an iPad!

Furthermore I went to the market the other day where I found these inspiring textiles. Maybe I will use them in one of my future designs.

Liefs!

BIRTHDAY DINNER

This weekend I celebrated my birthday with my friends and family with a big homemade Indian dinner! I had been cooking curries, snacks and soup for two days. I love to cook and share my meals with friends and family. Cooking is such a nice and relaxing process, I can put all my troubles aside and totally focus on creating great tastes. Since the curry scent was all over me I quickly took a shower before the guests arrived.

The dinner was perfect, the food was delicious and it was nice to catch up with friends!

A FLOWERY WEEK

I got a bouquet of roses a couple of days ago. Unfortunately they started to die early. I would love to have the happy colourful flowers around a bit longer. So I cut the stalks short and I picked the dead flower leaves. I put the roses in these little cute glass jars (which used to contain organic yoghurt, yummy!) The flowers looked alive and coloured my room once again!

WELCOME!

Hee! And Welcome to my first blogpost.

Finally after some time and effort I was able to open my very own Etsy-shop: JulieHornix. Now it’s just a small shop with my first listing, the Tanzanian Pink Batik Laptop Sleeve. But it will continue to grow with more designs of laptop sleeves and probably other stuff! I hope you like it, I will keep you posted.

I will also show and tell about my daily experiences. When I am not busy with Etsy or finishing my Master degree in Industrial Design I like to cook for friends, sew other things or go on little trips to explore the world!

Liefs!