Storytelling

Image: Jonas Lampens

About a month ago I was invited by Conlibrio, a group of consultants, to participate in a story telling event for their customers. I was very hesistant at first because I don't feel confident enough to speak in front of large groups. But they said it would only be small groups and well I gathered it would be a bit like telling my story on a fair so I agreed. I packed up all my 99 feelings and drove to Antwerp. The setting was really pretty and thank goodness I had enough room to spread out my body of work.

It was a lovely experience and all the participants were really interested and taken by my '99 feelings' project. For me, it was also the first time that I told more about the reason how they came to life and that felt really liberating. I will share this with you too but you need to wait just a tad bit longer...

Image: Jonas Lampens

Troops

The troops have arrived in our home for some small renovations. We have this really cool 'hole' in our kitchen. In French it's called a 'vide' and it connects the kitchen with my former studio/ shipping room. To get to the 'vide', you have to climb a ladder and our cat loves it as she uses it as a scratching pole. So cute too to see her go up and down the ladder.
Since our family is going to expand, we need to close the 'vide' to make it child safe. Besides that, my former studio/shipping room will become the nursery now so it's time to say goodbye to the 'hole'. We loved the 'vide' for all the years that we lived in this house, it made it fun and different and we're all a bit sad it has to go. Especially our cat of course, she needs to find another place to scratch her paws Hope it won't be our couch or curtains.
But, we'll be getting an extra room plus a baby to fill it so I'm sure we'll easily forget the vide once he or she is here...

The making of... ambitious

I like making this ambitious feeling. The process involved is straighforward and fun. First I roll a thin slab of clay. Then I place a little paper tie onto it and cut it out. I trace the tie onto the feeling and scratch the surface a bit on the feeling and the back of the tie. Then I apply some clay slib and press the tie onto the feeling. I finish off the edges with a wet paintbrush.
Do you feel ambitious sometimes?

Quietly working...

... in my studio and enjoying it to pieces!
What are you up to? :)

Pencil case

The other day at our sew/knit/crochet group meeting, we all made little pouches to put stuff in. There were patterns by three designers and I chose to make a pencil case by Oon.
Since I'm building my fabric stash I had a nice range to choose from and decided that the bug fabric by LilaRubyKing would make a perfect pencil case. I love it &hope my nephew will love it too! :)

Making

It's a bit of a mess in my studio at the moment. I'm moving all my shipping supplies into my studio to make room for the planned renovations. A horrible task which I dread of course.
I just know that I'll be looking for things that got a new place and that I probably put away too well...
And I'm also quite busy with organising '1 square meter' which will be held on april 22nd in my hometown. It's fun & all participants are superenthousiast about it so that makes me really happy!

Seeing UFO's

I went supply shopping the other day and I couldn't resist buying more cotton yarn. And of course, I didn't know what colors I still had at home so I just picked some out randomly. When I got back home, I wanted to put my yarn away and saw that I still had SO many. Haha, I feel like a yarn hoarder now.
But it made me so happy to see all the colors and I came across an UFO (unfinished object) that I thought would be a good one to finish now.I started making these granny squares in November 2009 and somewhere along the way, I must have gotten bored of it and put it aside. All with untucked ends - yikes!But now I nearly finished tucking in all the ends and need to crochet a few more squares before I can finish the blanket. I can't wait to get back to my crochet hook and hopefully it will be finished by August so it can be a pretty heirloom for our baby.