The making of... tough

I've been quietly making feelings in my studio lately. At a very slow rhythm, really nice to work stressless. Tough is a fun one to make although a bit tedious to get five nicely shaped and sloping cones. When I make tough, I always make a few as it's easier to work in a serie so I get to pick the best cones per feeling.

Flickr Favorites

1. hand dyed color picker, 2. Untitled, 3. pure morning, 4. Bright Pastels 2

The last mosaic of the year 2011 in my series of Flickr Favorites. It's been a fun, moving and colorful year. Searching for images is such an inspirational pasttime & I never look at it as wasted time. I hope you've enjoyed playing along or popping around at Flickr Favorite Tuesday. This will be the last Flickr Favorites too as I want to go 'pressure-less' into 2012 what my blog concerns.
So, I like to thank you for playing along all this time and hope that you'll still make mosaics and enjoy Flickr as much as I do.

Happy holidays

image by Park St.

While things have been a bit quiet around here lately, I now officially want to wish you the best of holidays. May your days be filled with family, warmth and fun. And may those that can not be with you, be near in your heart.
It's been an amazing year for me and I would love to take the opportunity to thank you all for being part of my community by following my blog, supporting my work and for generally being super awesome. I'm so grateful that your support allows me to do what I love and I sure wish that 2012 will be at least equally wonderful! :)

Flickr Favorites

1. handrail, 2. permanent waves,
3. reflection *past,future,present, 4. tregua armata

It's been a long time ago since I made a red and white mosaic. And with X-mas being so close, I think it's a quite appropriate color combo. I love red as a color - it's so vibrant and alive.
Do you think that these are the most used X-mas colors because of Santa's costume?

North Story - OOAK

When Anna from LilaRubyKing was here in November, we did some decal work together. Anna asked me to prepare some special shapes for that. She drew the shapes and I transferred 'em onto clay and handcut 'em. The process is the same as the other pieces but hand cutting each shape makes it even lengthier. And all edges need to be kind of rounded so that it's not too sharp to wear of course. But how fun it has been to work on them together. We were ooh-ing and aah-ing the whole time while making them and it was so much fun.
They have been turned into pendants with a sterling silver chain. And best of all is that they will be one of a kind (OOAK) as the images have been applied much like a collage.A fun detail is that even though we had the same shapes and decals to use, both our work is so different. You can find the ones that I made in my shop and the ones that Anna made in her shop. I went for minimalism while Anna went for artsy. :)
Do you love 'em as much as we do?

The making of... relaxed

After last weeks post of the making of the feeling sad, I though it would be fun to share some more images of how I make the feelings.
Feeling 'relaxed' is certainly one of the more tricky ones to make. It's hard to hold the feeling when I move up the layers towards the top and the edges are very vulnerable while I work on it.

Talking about feeling relaxed - ha - just what I've been doing lately. I'm taking things a bit slower and I'm really enjoying the free time I'm allowing myself.
I think it's a good time of the year to relax, don't you?
So don't worry if I'm not posting regularly these days, that means I'm either reading, knitting, sewing or doing nothing at all. I apologize for being lazy! :)

Flickr Favorites

1. The Door, 2. A door and two shadows,
3. 0328 red door (hdr-cross processed), 4. The seldom-used door.

Belgians have some really weird traditions. I'm not sure that the following is a folk tradition though. Birthday's are celebrated different everywhere and here, when you turn a new decade, there is this expression 'getting a new front door'. And this is what's happening to me today.
So quite often you see a real front door in someone's front yard, and if you're friends are even crazier you see perhaps 30 or 40. Thankfully I don't have any crazy friends who would actually gift me a real frontdoor - what a relieve! I'll just celebrate this quietly, go to work today and then afterwards go out for dinner and enjoy the new number. The older we get, the wiser, right?