NEW PROJECT | WINTER JACKET

This is my old winter jacket. I made it by hand a couple of years ago. It was the first piece of clothing I ever made. Since I did not know how to make a jacket I based the pattern-making on one of my favorite jackets (which unfortunately was totally worn out). It took me a long time to finish it, but in the end I was happy with the result.

Right now, 3 years later, I have decided to make a new winter jacket (for next year's winter). Yesterday morning I went to the market to shop for fabrics, I found a beautiful woolen black-grey textile which will be perfect for the jacket. I still had the woolen textile with the Nordic print, which I bought last October. Furthermore I will use a black smooth textile for the lining.

The jacket will be based on a pattern of BURDA that I ordered online, it has a poncho-shape. Now I have to wait for the pattern to arrive. When there's any progress I will let you know!

Liefs!

I'M BACK

It has been a while since I updated my blog. I've had some very busy and chaotic days due to deadline-work for my study. I even forgot to buy breakfast one day! The Netherlands look very fairytale-like at the moment because of the snow. I am happy that I've got some free time ahead, I'm thinking of making a nice walk in tomorrow.

A few weeks ago I went on a little trip together with Paul to Antwerp, Belgium. We ate the usual Belgium Waffles, went to FoMu (Photo Museum) and visited a couple of nice second-hand shops.

I bought a beautiful reversal film in one of the shops of a family I don't know, I'm wondering when the picture was taken and where.

Enjoy the weekend, Liefs!

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