HAPPY 29

Yesterday it was my 29th birthday. I had a lovely dinner with my Love and friends, and saturday I´m gonna give a hack of a party!

I got some really nice presents. My yoga teacher and good friend gave me a little pack of floragami or kirigami.

Kirigami is an art form related to origami, but with a difference that is reflected in its name. In japanese, oru means "to fold" and kami means "paper". Kiru means "to cut", so kirigami is when cuts as well as folds are used to turn paper into works of art.

I already made some kirigami flowers as you can see on the pictures down below.

I goot some really nice bracelets to. From left to right: the green one with the silver button or zeeuws knopje I got from my aunty, zeeuws knopje means "button of zeeland" the dutch province where I was born and where these buttons are worn with tradition; the purple bracelet with the anchor my sweet cousin made it, she´s very talented with jewelry (just as I am); and as last the beautiful bead worked bracelet comes from India and my friend Veena, who´s half Indian, gave it to me. I´m very happy with these beautiful gifts! And I had a great sunny birthday!

 

I LOVE PAMELA LOVE

Sometimes I think I get a bit obsessed with Pamela Love...aaarrrrggghhh her jewelry is so gorgeous!!!

And she inspired me to take a jewelry course myself, something what I always wanted to do since high school, but I went another direction and studied Design of Equipment.

Yet, I always made jewelry (as you can find in my Etsy shop) but never with precious metals.

Now my dearest granny gave me the chance to take this jewelry course. She offered me, for my birthday, the money for the course. When I got it in the mail, I got so excited and couldn´t shut up how happy I was (still am). Thank you so much granny for this chance!

Now I´m full of ideas and hope to start make jewelry and make my daily job out of it. This for me is really a dream coming true!

Now here have a look at some of my favorite Pamela Love pieces...

 



  

 

  

 

  

 



 



...AND SOME MORE PEACOCK...LOVE

Wauw look what I found!

After my post about the peacock bedendings from Family Love Tree today, I´ve found this picture of Pamela Love´s her wedding and look what is in the background! One of the peacock´s bedendings! What a coincidence!

By the way, I love Pamela Love and recently got my two very own pieces from her collection. I got the Day Of The Dead necklace and ring in antique silver. Hope to show you some pictures from the pieces after my birthday party next coming saturday...

 

 

 

FELL IN LOVE WITH...PEACOCK

Wauw and wauw!
Found these gorgeous peacock bed endings true Moon to Moon who always finds the most gorgeous things on earth!
You can find these bedendings, also peacock chairs and much more lovely things on the Family Love Tree website.
They´re a bit expensive for my pocket, but tottaly worth it, because they are all hand made and I respect those who ask a good price for there handcrafts.
Maybe one day Í´ll buy one...and make my bedroom my dream room...
 

 

 

 

 



MY DOG

Here are just some pictures of my dog Samson when we were on holiday next to the beach.

And the last picture, can you see what it is?

 



COCONUT, LEMON AND LIME

Wauw! Just love this picture, it says so much...it has such a story! On top of the roof, after the rain, with the sun shining true the grey clouds on this pretty girl.

Found it on this fun blog Coconut, Lemon and Lime

 



I´M BACK

Back from a short holiday on the beach...I´ve been, in my mini van, in Melides this place where I´ve lived before. It was great!

Lovely weather, my friends, b-day party, carnaval party, beach, long walks, singing, creativity, painting, music, loneliness, my dogs, sun, rain and lots of happines!

Didn´t take so many pictures, I didn´t have any batteries and was just to lazy to buy some...

Yesterday was great! Great valentines day. I woke up my baby with a special breakfast, homemade heartshaped muffins and melted chocolate saying "AMO-TE" wich means love you in Portugese, together with a selfmade heartshaped card with an invitation for a heartshaped chocolates culinary lesson from me to my love.

That was a lot of fun to, to do. We made all kinds of chocolates with coconut, sesame seeds, cherry jam, but in the end I was really full of chocolate...

Later we had a great dinner out at a great restaurant, I really enjoyed Valentines day this year!

Thank you baby for your existance!

 



PONY GOLD

I was wondering around my favorite blogs and got to this image from Pony Gold, I really love it because it is so simple yet so eyecatching. This woman makes the most beautiful drawings wich I love! Got to try drawing things like this myself.

 



FRACTAL

Yesterday I´ve finished this fractal painting, painted with fluorescent paint. This will look great in the blacklight! Today I´m going to start another one but a little more complicated...so keep tuned to see more of my great art work.

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WORK IN PROGRES

I´m totally into painting now. It is so good I finally started painting, because sometimes I just need to push myself into doing something, but when I get started I can´t stop!

Making some beautiful geometric fluorescent paintings, one of them will be a present to a friend of mine who´s birthday is next week, but ssshhh don´t tell anything!

 

 



LOVE THIS...

Really love this image of this dreamcatcher!

 



LONELY CACTUS

Yesterday I finally got to painting! Long time I didn´t paint anything and it felt so good!

The painting is called "Lonely Cactus" and I love the colors and the mountain detail. Hope you love it to!

 



LUCKY NEKO CAT

This is Neko the lucky cat.

My sweetest mom sent me some nice things, together with this DIY paper cat from Thailand, where she´s spending some good time with my dad.

If you want a cat like this I can send you the print by mail, all you have to do is be my google follower and leave a comment here below with your email and I´ll send it to you for free!

Have fun putting it together!

 

 

 

 



NEW CROCHET BAGS

Finally I´ve got some nice new bags and things in my etsy shop! Come and have a look, you will love it!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/Artenciel

 



BUFFALO GIRL

I´m so totally in love with these pictures from Buffalo Girl, this great shop with the most georgeos handmade bags, jewelry, belts and much more.

 

 

 



HYACINTH BULB

I was reading Poppytalks blog yesterday and she gave me such a good idea! She posted about winter flowers with this beautiful picture with bulb flowers, wich reminded me I got a hyacinth bulb from my yoga teacher as a christmas present. I love hyacinths because they always bloom when it´s my birthday.

So I got this idea to make a hanging hyacinth in an old glass lamp cover. What I did was making a macramé string and tie it around, put some earth in it and then the bulb on top of the earth. Now I just have to wait it will grow and bloom, it will look great when it starts growing!

 

         

 

This picture below is where I got the idea from...

 



 

Poppytalk

OH SO CUTE!

My aunty showed this today on facebook and said that a woman makes teddybears for her mouse...ain´t that the cuttest thing ever!?

 



TURQOISE



FLINTSTONE

This house is just so georgeos that I had to post about! Who wouldn´t love to have a little fairytale house like this!?

 



NOSTALGIC

First at all, happy new year!

Hope you all had a great reveillon night, I had for sure!

My boyfriend and I went to a party in the mountains, there was a life band playing classics from the sixty´s, seventy´s and so on. My parents would of loved it, I know I loved  it!