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Precious beauties

June 16th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Jewelry, My Work

Last week we sold the ring “Green as Grass’! The ring is part of our series “Flying Saucer Rings “. In this series the rings more or less have the same basic shape but the gem and the way that stone is placed in the ring is always different. So on our list “Jewelry to [...]

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Flying Saucer Rings

November 19th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Fashion, Jewelry, My Work

Curious about what more we have done recently besides working on our new website? Well… we came up with yet another ring for our series Flying Saucer Rings. This ring has a beautiful opal set in a bezel of 18-karat gold. If you like to know more about this ring, please click here to go [...]

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New work and work in progress

November 1st, 2010 · 3 Comments · Jewelry, My Work, Work in progress...

Last week I made many different silver beads. Not sure what to do with them yet… but I think I’ll make a few more necklaces from the series “Nio” again… This is our latest ring “Green as grass”,  isn’t it a beauty? You can find more info on this big sterling silver ring in our [...]

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Wrapping up the week…

August 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Fashion, Jewelry, Uncategorized

This week Toast presented a beautiful new collection of clothing. And we (Jan and me) created a new ring called “Blue Eye” The actress Juliette Binoche bought a new pair of earrings, or is it the lipstick? And yesterday I stumbled upon these funny chicken-paintings of Nicolette Arens on the Internet while looking to buy [...]

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New jewelry and other things

June 25th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Jewelry, My Work, Uncategorized

We’re looking forward to a warm weekend over here in the Netherlands! What will I do? Painting the house, working in the garden and a canoe trip. And perhaps when there still is time we to go to East Site 2010, an exhibition of sculptures in Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle. I end this week [...]

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Sea green aquamarine

June 11th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Art, Jewelry, Work in progress...

Jan’s new sculpture “Wireman” is ready! It is made from Plexiglas wire and wood and measures 85 cm. high. He’s been playing around with a new idea and this is the prototype in copper. Last week we sold this beautiful ring. I am afraid we will never encounter such an amazing sea-green color aquamarine anymore… [...]

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In the meantime…

June 4th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Animals, Handmade, In the Meantime..., My Work, Uncategorized

Jan is working on a new sculpture… has Lucky Fons the dog, who was adopted by us from the shelter a few months ago, decided to trust us unconditionally and that makes life easier for everyone… has Lois of 13Threads, yes… the one of the beautiful handmade clothes, a new design skirt in her shop… [...]

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Snowed in!

December 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Jewelry, Life

How was your weekend? We were snowed in for 2 days! Our home is pretty far from the road and the long drive was, because of the more than 40 cm. layer of snow, impassable for our car. In order to do some much needed shopping, we dug out two hollows in the driveway to [...]

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Once up on a time…

September 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Architecture, Handmade, Jewelry, Life, My Work, Once upon a time...

This incredible blue turquoise in the big silver ring is a “Barcelona “ stone… Once up on a time we visited the beautiful city of Barcelona. We walked for hours through the city to visit collegue jewelry designers. We found little shops with wonderful jewelry in places you would not expect them at all. In [...]

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