My creative space

My creative space is a bit messy today. I will start off where I left things yesterday before cleaning up. I'm making the feelings shy and touched and this involves working with red clay. I like the little touch of color to the clay but at the same time it's hard not to get red clay everywhere.
Play along with your creative space at Kootoyoo

About sweet neighbors and so...

My neighbor, Mia, is the sweetest! She doesn't only look after our cat when we are away, but she also spoils us from time to time. Whenever she or I bake something, garantueed that there will be exchange of goodies in the middle of the street. Sometimes I make a mistake baking and she happily helps me finish it. We used to run together but I think soon we can go to the weight watchers instead.
Yesterday, she rang our doorbell and gave me a little something 'cause it had my name on it.
She couldn't resist buying it for me but insisted on me showing wearing it...
As I don't feel like running across the street looking like this, I preferred to post a picture in my blog so you could have a laugh too! :)
The showercap from Mitsie and the Blue Corn Facial Scrub is from the Body shop.

About secrets and such...

I started a weekly newsletter in January. I somehow felt like I wanted to 'connect' with the people I meet on line and share some of my bits and bobs with them.
After the first few newsletters I kind of start liking looking back at my week and writing it all down.
In the newsletter, I share how my daily life is keeping me occupied. Readers will be the first one to find out how new ideas turn into reality, what materials I love to use and other things that might surprise them,...
Readers can also expect the occasional shop update, give-away's and promotions. I sent my newsletter every Friday.
Do you want to know some secrets of ArtMind? Subscribe here! :)

New item in my shop

Haha, this is the first but will also be the last crocheted item in my shop!
I just love to crochet slippers since I learned how to do it but sometimes I get overconfident and want to do it my own way. So I used a different size hook and now they turned out too small.
I love how they look though and I don't know anyone with this size so I put them on Etsy. Click on the picture to go to the listing on Etsy. :)

Work in progress

A little view on the feeling factory... I'm having fun! :)

And the happy package winner is...

Wow, 77 people entered their favorite feeling.
Lots of you were dissapointed to only pick one and that warms my heart!
Thanks so much for letting me know your favorite although it may change everyday, like feelings always do.
We have one lucky winner of the special happy package...
I used the randomizer to pick the winner.
I entered all the names of the people who participated.
After I pressed GO!, this list came up.
You want a close up of the first line? Scroll down...


And the winner is: Re Jin Lee from Baileydoesntbark
She chose the feeling 'torn' as her favorite one.
Congrats Re Jin Lee! I'll be sending out the special happy package this week. Hope it will make you smile! :)

Bailey doesn't bark has a wonderful shop on Etsy full of whimsical and beautiful ceramic work.
This is one of my favorites:

The Easter Bunny's most sinful pleasure...

This is the third part of the series of questions I asked the European Streetteam Participants on the Secret Easter Bunny swap.
The question this time was: what is your most sinful pleasure?

This is the top 3:

1. Chocolate/ chocolate mousse / Double chocolate cake
2. shopping / buying too much clothing / expensive handbags / buying online
3. eating candy/ sweets / cookies and cream ice cream

Followed by:

• sleep until noon / just reading deco magazines, newspapers, a book, a movie and nothing else on Sundays/ lazy days / eating a big bag of crisps while surfing the net and not doing anything useful all day
• rich and wonderful food
  good alcohol
  red wine
  Eating more than I need
  Coca Cola
  drinking bubbles during daytime ;-)
  champagne
  Drinking a cold beer in the summer by the beach.

Some people questioned the question:

• Why pleasure is sinful?
• I never feel guilty or sinful about anything that gives me pleasure!
  

Some people have funny sinful pleasures - at least, they made me smile:

chick magazines

Sauna

I love raw meat - Boef á la Tartar

creeping into abandoned houses and photographing them

reading books about UFO's

not to be on a diet