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The plastic caps project

May 18th, 2012 · No Comments · Art, Jewelry

Due to the Opsterlandse Open Atelier Route this weekend and the next, I am quite busy making our Atelier presentable, mow the grass, polish jewelery, wass the windows, rake the gravel and a few more other things. I hope the sun shines tomorrow and that we may welcome many visitors in our Atelier! For more [...]

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An Art Fair + Atelier Route

May 14th, 2012 · 5 Comments · Art, Jewelry, Latest Design, Life, My Work

This week we will be very busy, so I am afraid I will not do much posting on my blog this week. Thursday May 17, 2012 we are joining Buitengewoon Kunst op Nienoord in Leek The Netherlands. Its an Artist Fair where about 50 artists and designers will show their work. Plus coming weekend (and [...]

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Reminiscence

May 8th, 2012 · 4 Comments · Jewelry, My Work

It seems that we finally have come a little further with our plans for a new website. For a long time now we are busy with the preparations for a new website, new texts, another webshop, a new font, an endless choice of which picture to show and much more decisions that need to be [...]

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Deep Purple Ring

April 30th, 2012 · 5 Comments · Jewelry, Latest Design, My Work

For all of you who think we only make brooches … I just placed our latest ring from the series “Flying Saucer Rings” in the online shop! It’s a fairly large sterling silver ring with a beautiful purple amethyst in the middle set in a basel of 18 karate gold. If you like to know [...]

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Ancient crafts

April 27th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Handmade, My Work, Uncategorized

Swiss watchmaker Vacheron Constantin has launched Cercle 250, an association designed to preserve and promote ancient crafts but mostly to underline their contemporary relevance. Crafs such as … Burnishing technique, making metal smooth by hand with a special burnishing tool … Weaving … Watchmaking, on the photo a dial is fashioned and Silversmithing … in [...]

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Images of our Jewelry Presentation 2012

April 25th, 2012 · 10 Comments · Jewelry, Life, My Work

The first weekend of our jewelry exposition is behind us!  Our collection of BIG BROOCHES was presented to the public! Always very exciting … but everything went well with quite a few visitors and positive responses to our new collection … Gallery Terbeek, the location of our presentation is a gallery with a great ambiance. [...]

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Exposition of “The Big Brooches”

April 21st, 2012 · 3 Comments · Jewelry, Latest Design, Life, My Work, Uncategorized

Today our Atelier will be closed because of the launching of our series “Big Brooches” The exposition takes place April 21-22 and April 28-29, 2012 from 13.00-17.00 hours in Gallery Terbeek in Beetsterzwaag, The Netherlands. If you like to see a preview … please click over here to read the wonderful post Montserrat Lacomba wrote [...]

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New jewelry

April 17th, 2012 · 6 Comments · Jewelry, Latest Design, My Work, Uncategorized

A few last minute pieces … Last week we made a few more jewelry pieces. These pieces are the last ones we are making for the Jewelry Presentation we are having coming weekend. Two new brooches by my partner Jan Kerkstra of Atelier The Jewelry Story and the long necklace is a made by me. [...]

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Our Jewelry Presentation 2012

April 13th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Jewelry, Latest Design, Life, My Work

Almost there! Next Friday we are going to set up and arrange everything for our Spring Presentation in Gallery Terbeek in Beetsterzwaag, The Netherlands. The weekend of April 21 and 22 and April 28 and 29 2012 we are showing our new series of Big Brooches, our latest rings and necklaces. Invitations have been send [...]

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Graphic and geometric jewelry

April 11th, 2012 · 4 Comments · Jewelry, Uncategorized

Tore Svensson is a jeweler I greatly admire. Tore lives and works in Gothenburg, Sweden. Only a few weeks ago the beautiful and very informative blog of Montserrat Lacomba had a post about Tore Svenssons latest work; his brooches. Today I like to show you some of his older work. This very graphic necklace is [...]

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