KADO KADO 2012

This year is is the second edition of KADO KADO , a temporary shop in Ekeren , near Antwerp.

There will be a good variety of items at affordable prices available, perfect for your Christmas shopping.
Want to know more about the participating artists and their work, head over to the facebook page.
I hope to meet you there :)

Sweet Saturday: Aniseed icecream

As you might or might not know we moved house. In the house we bought we found a good as new ice cream maker, nothing fancy, but worth a try now we finally got some nice weather. I made strawberry sorbet following the recipe and than something I came up with, an ice cream with aniseed. Once I googled I soon discovered  was not the first one, but well what did I expect; not so difficult to replace vanilla with aniseed ;)

In the Netherlands you can buy aniseed flavourited sugar cubes. To make warm aniseed flavoured milk, lovely in wintertime. For a mug you would use about 4 cubes. I used 12 cubes for the ice cream, this gives a strong aniseed flavour.

• 125 ml cream
• 125 ml milk
• 3 egg yolks
• 45 gr sugar
• 12 aniseed sugar cubes

Heat the milk and the cream, bring to boil and than turn of the heat. Mix the yolks and the sugar until it become whitish in colour. Add this to the milk and the cream also add the aniseed cubes. Bring this to the boil and boil for a couple of minutes, leave to cool.

Take your ice cream maker and pour the cooled mix into it, let it work for about 30 minutes (same as vanilla ice cream, as I'm not sure that all machines need the same amount of time).

Once finished I put it in a plastic container and back in the freezer for (minimum) another 30 minutes. I served it with home made berry juice/jelly, works well together, the acid of the berries is a good contrast for the aniseed.

Bon apetit :)

Friday Find: M.OSS design

Today I want to share with you the work of a Netherlands-based designer Marcel OSSendrijver; M.OSS design. I think his lamps are just so light and pure. And somehow cute too.

If you want to find out more head over to the facebook page of M.OSS design.

Fridy Find - Esther Hörchner

Somewhere on the internet I came across a cute teacup. It made me smile instantly.

It was by a design by a Dutch illustrator: Esther Hörchner

There are more cups, saucers spoons and teapots in this series named "blote meisjes" naked girls. 

Someone has been a sweet tooth and emptied the sugar bowl :)

 Be sure to check out her website for more awesome illustrations, creations and paper-cut art.

Friday Find: MouseBlossom

Today I want to share with you the work of Yvonne de Jonge, the woman behind Mouseblossom. 

She has a great hand for drawing and her illustrations are so delicate and sweet. She uses her illustrations to decorate a variety of objects, like brooches in fabric and felt, so you can carry these adorable little creatures with you at all times.

To see more see and read more:  Mouseblossom.

Belgium Obsolete

We finally got the keys to our house in the Netherlands,so I'm adjusting all my banners which still had Belgium in the name. So a new banner for this blog, my etsy shop and my twitter-account. All thanks to the talented Alex from Ralev, who designed my logo in the first place.

Apart from a change in banners you will notice much more from my move. I shipped most items from the Netherlands anyway as it was cheaper, so better for both of us. But in the background I've closed my Belgian company and set up a new company in the Netherlands. Lots of paperwork, especially the closing of the Belgian one; I'll be glad when it is all sorted. I'll keep you posted on the makings of my new workspaces. Yes, I'll have 2, one atelier for the clay, silver and glass and and office/library/gallery where I'll be making parcels to post, keeping up with admin, taking pictures of new items, blog, tweet, .... and so on. Will be so much better than the current temporary solution.

Friday Find: MOTE

Today I want to share with you the creations by MOTE.  

The woman behind MOTE is Annett Fischer, she creates together with her husband with felt and clay. They have something with lights and create them in any shape possible, both in felt and in clay. 

They also finds inspiration is in Zeeland, the area of the Netherlands where they live.

A set of a mug and a dish with a place for a typical Zeeuwse Bolus, a sweet cake/cookie. 

The hairy bikers discovered these strange looking, but great tasting sweets as well, as you can see here.

Zeeland is famous for it's mussels too, wouldn't this make a great tile for you kitchen back-splash, just set in among other plain ones as a feature or a wall with only tiles with mussels, as if they're washed up on your kitchen shore.

Besides lights and Zeeuwse items they makes much more, have a look at their website.