woensdag 21 oktober 2009
dinsdag 20 oktober 2009
All kind of things

A bit of everything….this Atc was in the mail this week, it is made by Anne from France. Thank you Anne. And here is the information about the exhibition in Tilburg. The first of my fabric book is ready, I am gonna make a slide show from it tonight and will try to post it tomorrow.
maandag 19 oktober 2009
Exhibition Impression
Its done again. It was a great exhibition, well organised and great lights. Compliments for the organisation! The comments where really nice. Yesterday we break off this exhibition and there is the next one! This weekend we exhibit in Galerie Holtrop during the Surface Design convention.
maandag 12 oktober 2009
zondag 11 oktober 2009
Lazy??
I am still working on two fabric books at the same time and it goes pretty well. The pink fabric book is on a break, I have the pages all ready but I want to do something special with it and I don’t figure out how. Fabric book two has already six pages and is going on its own. They form a nice distraction between the rests of the jobs. To be honest I was very lazy in labeling my art quilts the past years, I often kept delaying it, and even that I was so careful in registration the first 15 years, the past 4 years I really made a mess of it….I stopped somewhere at 129, pretty stupid off course because now I have to get everything in order again. Now we have so many exhibitions coming up and I don’t bring my work myself every time I shall have to solve this. I am now sewing a lot of labels, that’s a start. That I don’t have everything in order yet is my punishment I guess, this is gonna take a lot of my time to figure everything out but I better carry trough and change my life in the future :-)
zaterdag 10 oktober 2009
Lost in time
When you live some where for quit a time, you often don’t see how beautiful it is anymore. This morning I cycled to work and I looked at this beautiful sky. Fortunately I had enough time before work, so I could leave my bike for a while to take a picture. Sometimes these spontaneous actions give the best pictures. Last week I also had such a moment. I would love to use more pictures as a starting point but I don’t see how, yet…….
dinsdag 6 oktober 2009
Exhibition
Het maakt niet uit hoe vaak je dat doet, het blijft toch altijd spannend. Op dat moment stel je jezelf heel kwetsbaar op: wat als ze het niet mooi vinden, is mijn werk wel goed genoeg….. Herkenbaar?
Achteraf valt het altijd reuze mee, het was een heel leuk gesprek en die tentoonstelling komt er gewoon maar het is toch altijd weer een overwinning op jezelf. (Dat geldt voor mij tenminste, misschien zijn er mensen die er minder moeite mee hebben) Mijn agenda loopt behoorlijk vol dus, van het weekend heb ik eerst nog maar wat opbergzakken er bij genaaid. Er moeten ook nog steeds wat tunnels genaaid worden aan sommige quilts en er moeten nog wat latten gezaagd worden…..exposeren is leuk maar het werk er om heen vind ik stukken minder :-)
On Saturday I had an appointment for an exhibition, I had to go there with my portfolio. It doesn’t matter how often you do this, it is always exiting. At that moment you are very vulnerable: What if they don’t like my work, is my work good enough….Do you recognize that?
Afterwards it is not so bad at all, it was a very nice conversation and this exhibition is a fact but it is always a victory on your self. (at least for me, maybe there are persons who don’t have any trouble with it) So, my agenda is really full, this weekend I sewed some more bags for transporting them. I still have to sew some sleeves on the back and I also need to saw some sticks to hang them….exhibiting is a lot of fun but I don’t like the work that comes with it :-)
maandag 5 oktober 2009
Lost
zaterdag 3 oktober 2009
ATC book
The book from yesterday is started by accident. I was searching for a background fabric for the book I had in mind and coincidently I took this pink fabric I dyed and stamped some time ago. Sometimes work grows on its own…..today I started the book that I really had in mind, so I am now working on two books. I didn’t had anything to do anyway LOL..I forgot to mention that I found the ATC book from Isabelle Auroux in France. A while ago she mailed me to ask if she could use my work for the book, we traded some ATC’s a while ago. Off course I found it a great honour so I gave permission to use them. It supposed to be two ATC’s but seeing the book I realized that they used the wrong name on one of them. That’s a pity but still nice to see your work published.
vrijdag 2 oktober 2009
Vacation????


This vacation is really terrible. Before when went on holiday I had a bit toothache and during the holiday my back tooth has broken. So far no problem, I didn’t feel anything. Yesterday I finally had an appointment with the dentist and he placed a temporary filling because it needs a permanent tooth ( I couldn’t find the English word for this? It is some cover the put on your teeth?) After that I was really in pain, I really felt bad and my flu head was back again. This vacation is not working. In spite of that I started a new book yesterday (before the dentist) I have a lot of things to do but I was so much longing for something new….This morning a feel a bit better, unfortunately it is my last day of the vacation :-( but if this is vacation, I love to go to work again LOL….
dinsdag 29 september 2009
Exhibitions
It goes very well with TeXui, we have a lot of exhibitions coming up. Starting with the handwerkbeurs in Ahoy – Rotterdam on 16 October. This means that this week needs a lot of work. Now that I couldn’t do what I wanted to do this holiday, I have to go over to plan B, this means finishing a lot of work so that there will be some work that have never been exhibited. I have a lot of pieces who don’t need much work anymore, but I keep delaying it. Fortunately I still have this week free from work so I can try to do as much as possible. This quilt is the only piece I work on during the holiday and it isn’t even finished………….
maandag 28 september 2009
Sick!
I am back! The plan was that Arend was going to do a lot of kilometers on his bike and I was doing a lot of kilometers sewing but things were a lot different. The day after St. Marie (Val d’Argent) Arend became sick and the off course the day after that I became sick too. We came home a day earlier than we had planned but I needed some days to recover. Today I feel better and I did spend some time on my sewing. Not much to show you, but I will make it up later on.
maandag 14 september 2009
Second piece
Als ik dan een keer bezig bent gaat het hard, hi, hi....dit stuk is gemaakt van een overschot van het break down printen..
When I am on the run, I'll go very hard LOL...this piece is made from a leftover from the break down printing.
zondag 13 september 2009
New work
Waar begin je dan aan na zo'n drukke week? Eerst maar eens wat lagen over elkaar gezet voor een klein werk. Ik moet slechts nog een paar dagen werken en dan naar Val d'Argent dus het is erg moeilijk weer aan iets nieuws te beginnen. Ik hoop in ieder geval een heleboel inspiratie op te doen. Na Val d'Argent heb ik vakantie en deze keer blijven we thuis dus dat betekend veel werk verzetten:-)
So where do you start after such a busy week? First I added some layers together for a small work. I only have to work for a couple of days yet, before we are going to Val dá Argent, so it is very hard to start something new. I hope to get a lot of inspiration there, because after Val d'Argent I have vacation and this time we are not going anywhere so this means I can get a lot of work done :-)
vrijdag 11 september 2009
Exam
woensdag 9 september 2009
In between studying
And in between studying I do some painting with Koh-I-Nohr. I bought this wonderful landscaped sketchbook in Birmingham. Just two more days..........
zondag 6 september 2009
All kinds of things.....
Cats and quilts, they really like them
Een paar dagen niets van me laten horen en deze week wordt ook moeilijk. Ik heb aanstaande vrijdag examen en ik wil het halen dus ik moet even hard aan de slag anders kost het me nog meer tijd. Ik zal het goed maken met een heleboel foto’s want tussen de bedrijven door werk ik nog wel :-) Vrijdag zijn we bij Sandra geweest, Annette, Laura, Corryna, Willy en ik. Emmy zou ook komen maar was niet zo lekker, jammer hoor. We hebben gebatikt. Hier is een deel van het werk, sommige lapjes heb ik gespoten, andere zijn geverfd met proxion. Het was heel erg gezellig en Sandra was een fantastische gastvrouw, ze heeft ons heel erg verwend. Deze dag is zeker voor herhaling vatbaar. In de tussentijd ben ik ook nog aan het schilderen, donderdag heb ik samen met mijn zus en Evi de eerste opzet gemaakt en iedere dag een laagje erbij. Ik ben nog aan het quilten, aan het leren en aan het ontwerpen. Genoeg te doen dus.
You didn’t hear from me the past days and this week is also very quiet. A have an exam this Friday and I want to succeed so I have to put a lot of time in it. If I don’t this costs me more time. I shall make it up to you by giving you a lot of pictures, because between all this I do work. Last Friday we went to Sandra, Annette, Laura, Corryna, Willy and me. Emmy would also come but wasn’t feeling well, which is really a pity. We did some batik work. This is some of it, some fabric I have spray painted, some is dyed in the proxion. It was really a nice day and Sandra was a great host, she really spoiled us. This day is really worth for repetition. In the mean while I am painting, Thursday my sister , Evi and I started with the painting and every day I add a new layer. I am also busy with quilting, learning and designing. A lot of work though….
woensdag 2 september 2009
New site
Wat mij betreft mag het echt nog een poosje zomer blijven hoor.
The days are getting shorter again; nowadays it is dark again when I wake up. That’s why I was delighted to visit as one of the first visitors the new jewellery website from my friend Lucy. What a great colours!!!! So cheerful!!!!Well, look for it yourself:-) www.che-sieraden.nl As for me, I hope it will stay summer for a while.
dinsdag 1 september 2009
Diversion


Ik ben nu weer helemaal bij en ga proberen het iets beter bij te houden. Nu nog wat meer discipline zien te vinden ha, ha…
I can’t find the right work rhythm at the moment. I am easily distracted, which is very normal when you see the pictures LOL….In the evening it is so lovely outside and I can get myself to go upstairs to my study. Do I have a summer ? It is not that I don’t feel like it, the time just flies too quick. My computer starts to act strange again; probably there is something else wrong with it. So I was very behind reading blogs. If there are so many posts to read that I can’t comment on all, sorry, but I want to get even with it…..I am now starting with a fresh list, and I will try to keep it that way. If I only could find more discipline.


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