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Open Atelier Route 2013

May 16th, 2013 · 1 Comment · Art, Life, Uncategorized

The weekend of 19 and 20 + May 25 and 26, twenty artists and craftspeople open their doors throughout Opsterland, a beautiful county in the northern part of The Netherlands. Atelier The Jewelry Story also participates, Jan and me welcome you on both weekends. Lots of new designs and new jewelry. For more info: Kunst in [...]

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Making long necklaces!

September 20th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Jewelry, My Work

What am I doing you ask? Making last minute necklaces to show on Meesterlijk next week in Amsterdam. Only one week left before the event and there are still lots of things to do: making jewelry labels, cleaning and wrapping up all jewelry and many more things that need to be arranged, so these are [...]

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Our latest jewelry pieces

September 17th, 2012 · 4 Comments · Jewelry, Latest Design, My Work

The event Meesterlijk is getting closer and closer. On Thursday, September 27th very early in the morning we’ll drive to Amsterdam to showcase our jewelry pieces and at 12.00 the doors open to the public. It is allways very exciting to show your jewelry to hundreds of people … These are the latest pieces we specially designed [...]

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Two fun Fairs and a restaurant called Proef!

September 2nd, 2012 · 2 Comments · Ceramics, Culture, Design, Food, Life, Uncategorized

As some of you may know, Jan and I are very busy at the moment preparing for the Design and Craft event Meesterlijk in Amsterdam where we will present our latest jewelry late September. We are making lots of new jewelry pieces and we also have to think about fun ideas for ways to show [...]

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Inspiration

July 31st, 2012 · 3 Comments · Jewelry, My Work, Uncategorized

I think I showed you these brooches before … so sorry I am showing them again but the other day I came across two images which go so very well with these two … Brooch “The second Wall”, cedar, silver and copper, design by Atelier The Jewelry Story. For more info here Inspiration came from [...]

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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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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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On Sunday …

March 18th, 2012 · 11 Comments · Jewelry, Life, Woodwork

What are we doing today you wonder? Making tables for our upcoming SPRING PRESENTATION. Always a challenge, to come up with something new to show of our jewelry! We bought 2 thick oak planks, planed them smooth and put oil on them. As I write this Jan is making the legs underneath the table. In [...]

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Remember the Lapis Lazuli?

March 16th, 2012 · 7 Comments · Jewelry, Latest Design, My Work

A few weeks ago I showed you this strand of Lapai Lazuli beads. This is the natural color, by that I mean the beads are not painted blue … the Lapis stones have in some places a tiny dot of (gold) pyrite and have a matte finish … This is what I made, a simple [...]

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Colorful and austere jewelery

February 22nd, 2012 · 3 Comments · Fashion, Jewelry, Textile Art

Are colorful and austere words that go together? In the case of the jewelery of Ingeborg Vandamme, I think both words are certainly applicable. And what a wonderful mix of materials and techniques Ingeborg uses in her jewelry. Ingeborg Vandamme lives and works in Amsterdam. In Tilburg she attended the teacher training handicrafts and textile [...]

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