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Monthly Archives: September 2013
Looking in the mirror
Art by children is one of My Favourite Things. Almost always it will lift my spirit and turn on the light inside. {if it doesn’t, well, that is worth another post, but I don’t want to stop any child from … Continue reading
Color Therapy
This weekend the online shopping club One Kings Lane is featuring a sale of interesting contemporary art. These paintings are pure colour therapy, perfect to hang above any sofa…analyse this, I’d say 😉 Michelle Arms, Cleopatra Gammill, Floral and Yellow … Continue reading
Posted in CREATIVE CAREERS, EARLY WORKS, ONLINE FINDS, REVIEW, TEXT, THE FABRIC OF HOME
Tagged American, ART, art sale online, Caroline wright, color, colour, Contemporary art, curator, Gammill, inspiration, Jen Garrido, Jennifer Moreman, Jodi Maas, Michelle Armas, modern art, One Kings Lane, painting, Sydney Edmunds, therapy
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Mole’s Breath is a colour
Interior alchemists Farrow & Ball have landed a lovely new range of paint colours, inspired by the Dorset Coast. The names are pure poetry and the results are fabulous… Dangerous stuff: they will have you reconsider your colour scheme at … Continue reading
Posted in ONLINE FINDS, PHOTOGRAPHY
Tagged colour, decorate, Dorset, Fall 2013, Farrow&Ball, interior, light, make over, names, new, Paint, painting, walls
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Of Love And Fans
Last sunday I went to the science museum NEMO with my son (8), where he attended a children’s lecture on satellites. A very interesting subject, and since it was my first visit to the museum, I had a look around … Continue reading
Posted in CREATIVE CAREERS, MUSIC, OUT OF THE BOX, TEXT
Tagged Amsterdam, dancing in the street, Energy, fans, flash mobs, human nature, life, love, Michael, Michael Jackson, museum, music video, mystery, NEMO, satellites, science museum, Technology
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The new Art Monkeys
My favourite art producing group in school is the 4 and 5 year olds. I like to call them Art Monkeys, as they use their unconditioned creativity to make the most inspiring and uplifting art. The new group (class of … Continue reading
Posted in (B)OOST, EARLY WORKS
Tagged Amsterdam, ART, art class, art monkeys, Children, Collage, creativity, Dalton De Meer, KIDS ART, Oost Watergraafsmeer, school, unconditioned expression, Visual Art
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Cake Inspiration
The store magazine Allerhande (by supermarket Albert Heijn) is celebrating its 30st anniversary with a big cake issue. 45 deliciously good looking bake inspirations on display made my breakfast rather restless… the additional tips and tricks make it look so … Continue reading
Posted in GEM OF THE DAY, PHOTOGRAPHY
Tagged Albert Heijn, Allerhande, anniversary, baking, big bake, Cakes, carrot cake, celebration, chocolate cake, cupcakes, cyn ferdinandus, erik van lokven, food, jacqueline pietrowski, jeroen van der spek, key lime pie, Martine Steenstra, Stephanie Verkerk, styling, ulrika gustafsson, Yvonne Jimmink
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From sex to abstract
In the post Stages of Daily Life the last picture shows a painting on the wall behind the desk, which reminded me of a once favourite painter: Christopher Wool. I can’t pin this one down to him, but it looks like … Continue reading
Luxury cracker
I noticed a few days ago, in the UK the Christmas shopping season is now officially OPEN! {first weekend in September!} Through the newsletters from the major department stores I get the feeling the best is for the early birds. … Continue reading
Interiors Now Vol. 3 | Stages Of Daily Life
Why do we love it so much looking into other people’s houses? I for one, find it inspiring to see the furniture and objects combined on show. What are they, how are they placed and what choices were made. … Continue reading
