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My last post for this week...I'm so much looking forward going to the Netherlands this week and being together with our family and friends again...especially spending a lot of  time with my mother and my son together...we will be celebrating our mother days together and what would be a nicer gift then one of these lovely milk bottle/carafes made by Stu and Janet from Three Potato Four ... Mothers day is may 11, don't forget!! {...and Stu and Janet will be donating $1 from each Three Potato Four Milk Bottle Carafe sale to Action Against Hunger}

..I will be back on Monday, wish you a wonderful week, and hope to see you back real soon!..
..ps. Jan is guestblogging over at D*S, don't forget..

Going home...

{image by Pia Jane Bijkerk...click here to see more}
Going home...yes after almost one year it's time to visit our family and friends in the Netherlands (joehoe I'm so excited, mama here I come!)...we'll be leaving at the end of this week and today I'm going to start packing, wrap-up some gifts and do some last minute groceries...and looking at this great image from Pia Jane I get goosebumps all over my body...this is it...this is Amsterdam and I lOVE it....I truly enjoy living here in wonderful Kuala Lumpur...but Amsterdam will always be my hometown and the only place on earth that makes me emotional when entering the heart of the city...

reading material

I just saw these beautiful paintings over at Tas-ka...they are from Dutch painter Niels Broszat, apparently his specialty is creating stills of flowers using a wide range of different techniques.

...and speaking of Tas-ka a little while ago I did an interview with them over at BloesemKids, maybe you want to have a look at the images of their studio and houses ... they are very inspirational.

Iceland

My dear blog friend Anne from Pret A Voyager just started a great new column on Design*Sponge..."regional roundup"... and she starts of with a great tour in Iceland...click here to read more...

Fabrizio Dusi

...more from Milan today, but not from the fair but from a great ceramic artist...this artwork is part of the Conversation series by Fabrizio Dusi from Italy. After his study at the Corsican ceramic Cova school in Milan he started working as an assistant at the office of Milan ceramists Fausto Salvi and Silvia Zotta and in October 2005 Fabrizio opened his own brick and mortar shop in Milan in Soffredini 77, where he sells vases, accessories, panels and large ceramic wall installations like this one.

here you can read the original site in Italian and here you can find the translation via google.
{via Kris from Color-stripes}

Milan...

{Branch series from PostFossil}
...last week I started the new week by showing a preview of the Milan furniture fair and of course this week I have to show you something as well...because I wasn't there myself I have to use the wonderful information given by Yatzer and MocoLoco...

...first the branch series by Post Fossil, as I understand it they are branch holders and absorb branches and give the impression that trees are growing out of walls...Bloesem blossoms...see a complete overview from Yatzer's trip to Milan right here...

...and secondly... Farm by Studio Job...see all the images here..

Weekly Gallery

As promised a new Weekly Gallery, this time at the beginning of a new week, which will be a hectic one for me...on Friday we are going to visit our friends and family in the Netherlands..joehoe...really looking forward seeing them again...but first some new great artwork by different artists...Claire Elizabeth Platt makes stunning hand-embroidered pieces, which you can find here and her journal to read more about Claire right here...

Please have a look here to see more of Jessica Gonacha's new great artwork...

New Spring Print Sets available at Port2Port...it is a letterpress printed collaboration between Mav and Lena, they will be doing all four seasons...the set is available right here...

Andrea Courchene is the designer behind Paper Sparrow...lovely paper goods and art prints, available in her shop.

Gretchen Wagoner  told me about her the opening of her show last Friday together with Rose Umerlik, at Nahcotta in Portsmouth...you can also find her work at her website of at her blog.

Terry Graziano

Hope you had a great weekend...I heard spring has arrived in New York and when I was living in there I always wore heads, because I think they make such a great accessories. Unfortunately back then I wasn't familiar with Terry Graziano her beautiful heads otherwise I would definitely had bought hers, she makes them with so much care and attention and the details are just perfect...

..."a modern approach to a traditional art form” is how Terry describes her signature line of soft, drape-able fabric hats. The fun thing about her hats is that you can wear them differently all the time and have a different look. You can order her hats online or send her an email if you have  a special request.

Lisen Adbåge

..and I just ordered this fabulous poster, illustrated by the very talented Lisen Adbåge , whom I discovered via Elisabeth her beautiful blog, fine little day...

I wish you all a very nice weekend...I have to prepare dinner for my guests for tonight...I'm almost finished with my new selection for the Weekly Gallery but I will be showing it to you on Monday...hope to see you then!

Skinnylaminx

...speaking of tea towels...my package from Heather just arrived...and I'm so happy with these handmade ones..we're having guests over for dinner tonight...at least the towels in our kitchen will look great! ...if you would like some in your kitchen, click here for the shop...

Defyra tea towles

Tanneke just send me an email about some gorgeous new tea towels she has added in her online shop...the towles are from Defyra (all their products are awesome!) and available here.

What to do...

A little while ago Holly had a question for me...not an easy one...I must say..."what to do when you don't know what to do"... Nathalie from DesignUndercover commented on Decor8 a couple of weeks ago asking Holly the same sort of question, so Holly invited a couple of designers, artists and me to help answer the question...here are my answers...

Ladak

Ladak...a new Dutch brand offering some great blankets which are made from recycled material...the base  is an old blanket (I don't know the English name for it, but normally they are being used for transporting fragile goods) ...some old sweaters, jeans, strong fabrics and ribbons are being used as details to give the blanket a new and surprisingly nice new look! Of course each blanket is unique and handmade and... has its own name; named for a homeless and or hero.

These blankets are perfect for an outdoor picnic or and early spring celebration on the terrace. The designers Jantien de Wilde and Jane Stroink are socially involved: 15% of the proceeds will go to a shelter for the homeless in Amsterdam. Their motto: when you are comfortable, they are comfortable! I love Ladak! Would you like to order one ..send the women from Ladak an email. (ps. google translate can help you with the Dutch language)

Yoo-ii

'My garden' is the title these beautiful prints, a new series from one of my favorite artists, ah_yi. These new limited edition is a collaboration, design by ah-yi • letterpress by lynn russell...i just ordered two other ones in her shop, so i have t wait a little while before I can get these and am really hoping they will still be there, but these beauties will definitely sell as hotcakes, print and quality are just amazing!

Wiener Papp

Since I was a child I have a thing for journals, notebooks and agenda's and seeing such amazingly  detailed journals like these it just makes me very happy. Esther Diering from Berlin makes them and you can buy them in her shop Wiener Papp. Here you can read a little more about Esther, really funny! Another specialty of Esther is designing cd-cases, you can find some great ones right here.