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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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Tips for under the Xmass tree

December 18th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Design, Jewelry, Textile Art

Today I am finally full time out of bed ! The sun was shining especially for me today so I made a nice long walk with the dogs. A Coffee tasted like coffee again so I declare myself cured from this awful flu. Reading was all I did this last week. In this time of [...]

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Scandinavian design

August 31st, 2011 · 4 Comments · Design, Fashion, Jewelry, My Work, Once upon a time...

Once up on a time we lived in the United States of America. To be more precise we lived in the middle of nowhere in a tiny little place called Watkinsville, Georgia. Just like now we had our own Atelier and made our own line of handmade jewelry. We sold through galleries and did many [...]

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Recipe for a brooch

August 25th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Life, My Work, Walking the Dogs, Work in progress...

These ingredients lay waiting … until I return from walking the dogs under typical Dutch skies …

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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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A slate wall and inspiration

July 20th, 2011 · 6 Comments · Architecture, Jewelry, Latest Design, My Work, Uncategorized

Remember this photo I used in this previous post? In Belgium and French, en route on our holiday we saw many more of those walls. The walls sometimes have fantastic patterns and are mostly made of slate, although I think the blue tiles are made of copper. I think it was Erica Hogenbirk, who pointed [...]

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Latest design jewelry

June 2nd, 2011 · 3 Comments · Jewelry, Latest Design, My Work

For the last half-year or so I’m under the spell of brooches. Suddenly all kinds of designs and ideas about brooches pop up in my head. This is the latest … brooch made ​​of ebony, silver and acrylic isn’t she a beauty? Jan my partner is experimenting with an idea for a simple (wedding) ring. [...]

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A few new designs

May 11th, 2011 · 8 Comments · Jewelry, Latest Design, My Work

We have 2 expositions coming up, so we are rather busy making new jewelry. If you go over here you will find all the information about these 2 events. In the meantime we also played around with taking photos of our jewelry. These are the results so far … Beautiful necklace made of wood of [...]

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Inspiration

May 9th, 2011 · 6 Comments · Life, My Work

Inspiration is a strange thing, how it works that is… For me inspiration is still a mystery, sometimes it works very indirect, sometimes it hits me in the face. Like with this one … I am sure, one day this will become a brooch. So sorry, I can’t give credit for who took this picture. [...]

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Meeting in real life!

March 31st, 2011 · 4 Comments · Design, Life

What made our Open House very special was the amazing weather, the beautiful work of the artists, all the lovely visitors, the compliments we received about our jewelry and last but not unimportant; we made quite a few sales…. Thanks everyone of you for visiting and all your kind words! Oh … and yes we [...]

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