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A new brooch inspired by Azzedine Alaïa

January 26th, 2012 · 7 Comments · Jewelry, Latest Design, My Work, Uncategorized

This is Alaïa a new sterling silver brooch we made recently. The brooch is inspired by a detail of the dress by fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa.

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The first brooch of 2012!

January 3rd, 2012 · 1 Comment · Jewelry, Latest Design, Life

Hope you all had a good time and a wonderful New Years Eve? Like every year we tolled the bells of the small church we live nearby and afterwards went to a party to dance the night away! Sunday was a lazy one and today everything went back to normal, so … This is the [...]

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Moondance One a new brooch

December 8th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Jewelry, Latest Design, My Work

And again another new brooch straight from your Atelier! I just added this brooch named Moondance One to our online store … So if you like to know more about it … please click over here …

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My favorite brooch

November 12th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Jewelry, Latest Design, My Work

Sometimes people ask me if I find it difficult to sell certain pieces of jewelry I make. The answer is yes, sometimes I do. Thank god not with every piece, that would be very stressful to want to keep on to all your jewelry and getting upset all the time when selling a piece. But [...]

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The choice of Mr. X

October 27th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Jewelry, Latest Design, My Work, Uncategorized

A few weeks ago I wrote about Mr. X from Odessa, Florida who wanted to give his wife a brooch for her birthday. His wishes were simple and clear, please make me a brooch made ​​of wood, silver and maybe a fern leaf. So that’s what we did, we made 3 brooches and had a [...]

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Autumn

October 18th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Fashion, Jewelry, Latest Design, My Work

Today when I am looking outside there is no doubt about it, this is autumn. So high time for … The wonderful shawls and the luxurious knitted accessories by Australian textile designer Danielle Sanders. Please click here for her online store, she ships worldwide. … a very strange toadstool like this one in my garden… [...]

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Lazy sunny afternoon

September 29th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Jewelry, Latest Design, Life, My Work

The weather has been wonderful in the last 3 days… So guess what … instead of slaving away and making beautiful jewelry we decided to take the day off. I released my pigeons, they took a long bath in the rain barrel and flew around the house. We played frisbee with Lucky Fons the Border [...]

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Collage of 3 new brooches

September 13th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Latest Design, My Work

What can I say? We don’t seem to stop making brooches … Soon in our online store …

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Gone teaching …

September 6th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Jewelry, Latest Design, Life, My Work

A new school semester started so Jan left this morning to teach his jewelry making classes. For him that means spending less time in our own Atelier, for me it means taking over several of Jan’s “jobs” in our working life. So this is it … the end of summer… But it was a rather [...]

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The continuing story of the brooch

August 22nd, 2011 · 2 Comments · Jewelry, Latest Design, My Work, Uncategorized, Woodwork, Work in progress...

Just listed a great new Brooch in  our online store. The title of the brooch is Kleine Beer, (Little Bear) and is somewhat similar to Grote Beer. The brooch is made of ebony, silver and rose wood. The Kleine Beer Brooch is a design by my partner Jan Kerkstra. If you like more info about [...]

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