Challenge Review XI

Already time for another challenge review (you can see the previous ones here). These challenges are so much fun, that we don't miss any of them!

All I want for Christmas- hosted by SwiedeBie:



Back to Nature- Hosted by RavenHill:



Gnomes and Trolls- Hosted By JealousyDesign:



Dance challenge- Hosted by Ayawedding:

In the Kitchen- Hosted by Kraplap:

Under the Sea- Hosted by Artistudios:

Our Creative Space...

I was planning to show you our project we have in our hands, a very nice bag. So I grabbed our camera and went in to our sewing room to take the shots... no reaction of the camera. Have tried about an hour, nothing happened. Also my cellphone has been blocked for a very anoying reason, just not my day with electronics, I suppose.
So today's creative space will be visiting camera shops...

You can see more workspaces at Kootoyoo's blog!

Flickr Favorites

1. Urchins, 2. White Collection I, 3. 365/70: Whispery White & Green, 4. a gift from the sea

I have been thinking for quite a while to take photographs of sea urchins. To sell them as postcards at the Giftshop. But not sure of my photograph skills, and quite simple camera and if there will be any interest in them. Maybe a project for the future. In the mean time I found these yummy, creamy and dreamy sea urchin pictures on Flickr.

See more beautiful mosaics at ArtMind's Blog!

Monday Moodboard

1. binkaminka 2. ArtMind 3. alatceramics 4. eleanors

A monday full of textures. This feeling must be as I have some urchin work to do :)

See more Moodboards at FleurFatale's blog!

Our Creative Space...

Most of our jewelry are one of a kind, but with some sea urchin models we make more. According to how they sell we keep a little stock so that we can send packages off right away so that our customers don't have to wait longer than needed. This week our creative space is making new stock of some models. It looks pretty funny all those little urchins in a row.



And eventually they'll be like these:

You can see more workspaces at Kootoyoo's blog!

Flickr Favorites- All in the Air

1. Hot air balloon at dawn, Berryville, VA, 2. Seagull in flight, 3. Flying Brother! :P, 4. B17

I love the result of this mosaic it has something playful, like a child's dream.

Explore more mosaics at ArtMind's blog and join the fun!

Monday Moodboard

1. Kreativlink 2. Mysticfibers 3. Homelab 4. DeerLola

Some yummy mustard colors this week to make a spicey monday :)

See more Moodboards at FleurFatale's blog!

Image from Jensteahouse

Magical Facts

Beside the weekly challenge the EuropeanStreetTeam has now started another fun game, the idea came from IngerMaaike. Inger listed a sales fairy in her shop (for material and shipping costs only), the person who bought it made one and listed it too and so on and on. I caught mine yesterday evening, made by ArtMind, isn't she mighty cute??
And of course to keep the magic going I made a fairy right away and she flew out of the shop in a second, she will be flying off to Holland on monday...

You can see the whole process and all the other fairies on our Team's blog!

Happy Halloween

Mum and I are both in bed with the flu, so here a Happy Halloween wish from bed to you, boohhhoooo :)

Image from here

Our Creative Space...

Mum has been in the flower factory almost the entire week, creativity is addictive as you all know. After the sunflowers of last week she is now busy with roses...



You can find the sunflowers in our giftshop!

As for me? Not much creativity going on, I'm busy with fever, coughing and producing a nice amount of snot, yuck...

You can see more workspaces at Kootoyoo's blog!

Flickr Favorites

1. Bouteille-6, 2. 20060701_211, 3. Robbin's Egg, 4. yellow faucet deux

No, I don't miss summer and I don't miss the sun, we just said goodbye two days ago. As soon as winter time started weather changed too and there is a huge amount of rain falling down, perfect for the thirsty earth and trees.

I wanted a peaceful mosaic, calm and green and somehow it turned out sunny too...

Explore more mosaics at ArtMind's blog and join the fun!

Monday Moodboard

1. Kraplap 2. Aranwen 3. Matilou 4. IraGrant

I find this deep red a bit dramatical, which I love in fashion and decor, so here a little drama to share with you all!

Find more MoodBoards at FleurFatale's blog!

Image from Channel4

Laundry and Blogging

It is funny how things go. More then 2 years ago mum told me she wanted to start blogging, a little outlet to ramble. It suprised me as my mother is not a chatty person, and beside all the blogs she reads, she reads as a lurker as she is too shy to comment, cute hey? So I set up this blog and she wrote her things and I posted them. I must say that it was not a love at first sight situation for me with Blogland, I actually found it a bit useless and nonsense.



After about 6 months with a blogpost per week I started to see the world and our life in a different way. I mean things we see here daily are not so normal for others in far away countries. This thought made us both see things more, and my camera is usually with me to capture those moments and to share here with you and our lovely readers. After that I started to get addicted with blogging and I love seeing and reading other blogs, especially the more personal or creative ones, to feed my curiosity of people's life's.

So here we are after more then two years still blogging and loving it. And what are these pictures? Well something I wouldn't think about picturing if we hadn't our blog. These are our mops, each day we use a clean one and at the end of the week they all go together in the washing machine. Mops are a hell to keep clean so this is a nifty system and here hanging on the washing line is just a fun view we wanted to share.

Thank you all for reading our blog, and for your sweet comments in the past 2 years, we will be here for hopefully many more...

Our Creative Space...

So what happened? A Hurricane? A Tornado? Oh wait it was my (super)mum...



She has never been good at basketball...

And somehow she is always complaining about cleaning things up, I wonder why...

And now you might wonder why oh why was all this mess needed... Well it is pretty but compaired to the huge mess pretty small, a fabric flower.

You can see more workspaces at Kootoyoo's blog!

Flickr Favorites

1. Vancouver When you sleep, 2. Yes.... he sleeps on the bed!, 3. Morning Coffee, 4. Op de laptop

Yaaaawwnnnn, Good morning!
Just got up and thought to share my morning's today! Sleeping, alot of sleeping dogs, coffee and laptop, every morning...

See more mosaic at ArtMind's blog, you can make one too!