on my desk...

tiny stuff, made from cardboard and paper. Working on new desings for Little Tiger again.

Last weekend I´ve been to an inspiring place, the workhall, shop and restaurant of Dutch Designer Piet Hein Eek
in Eindhoven/Netherlands. I brougt home some Italian silk fabrics, which belonged to a former tie
manufacturer in Milano. From these silks also these beautiful lampshades are made.
 

Unfortunately most of photos I took came out very blurry, only a few made it to flickr.

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spring is in the air, you can see it, you can feel it

"instant holidays" against winter depression
{via blinkblink , love Annas blog}

lovely card from a customer

 

these decorated matchboxes holding little treasures make my heart sing
{via scissors and paper rock }

projects

swallows lived on my desk for a while. The best part of finishing a project is cleaning the workspace
afterwards and making space for something new, don´t you think?

Another already finished project I haven´t showed you yet...
I got some pictures of the EARLY BIRD fair January 2013, held in Hamburg.

  Little Tiger stand, with a herzensart corner on the right.

I had designed new items for their spring collection: Viking breakfast boards (made in Germany) and limited edition
fine bone China mugs (made in Great Britain) . I couldn´t be there, but was happy to hear, they got great response and orders.
Mugs and breakfast boards will be soon available in my webshop too.

Got snow again, but I´m so ready for spring! PLEASE!

London

Hi friends, London has new fans. What a crazy and kicking city.

Thanks you for sharing your tipps with me!

We were so busy absorbing the dynamic of the city, that we didn´t make it into any museum (shame, shame). Besides a Bus and Thames Boat Tour we wore our feet out by running through the city all day long. We got glimpses of Soho (Denmark street was Michaels guitar heaven), Hackney, Shoreditch - thanks to Camilla, what an inspiring area. Next time, I´d like to stay here too.

Elisa, I loved Ryantown and the other little shops on Columbia Road. We´ve also been to Camden, it was as crowded as expected and Little Venice was a nice, quiet retreat afterwards. Thank you Anja for the advice! Last but not least we visited London Central and Westminster. Our hotel was in Belgravia, just around the corner of Victoria station and a good starting point.

Meeling / ibb Portobello Market is on the list for the next trip.
Time flew and I´d love to see more, more, MORE.

Some trip pics here

honor guard

a new Grenadier troop arrived and is ready to be stamped on whatever needs a little guard -
letters, cards, boxes, T-Shirts, fabric, ....

original drawing made into a cute rubber stamp
print size: 6 cm in length, mounted on wooden block; available here

On Thursday I´m heading to London for a couple of days. Soooooooo looking forward to it!
Any "secret" tipps?

Plush Toys!

I got a copy of this book already at the end of last year. Louis Bou is the author and
he collected a nice selection of world wide art toys like from
 Nechepurenka, plushPlay, Outsiders, Hiné Mizushima just to name a few.
I´m happy my work is in the book too.
The book is in English, has a lovely, handy format and was published by Spanish Monsa in 2012.
It´s also available at amazon.

2013

lots of happiness, health, love and good fortune to you!

2013.... doesn´t that sound futuristic?

waiting for snow

Dear friends, merry Christmas to you and a happy new year!

Thank you so much for following this blog, although updates were rather rare the last months.
I promised myself to take more time for blogging again with the next year.

Therefore, hope to see you again. Take care and enjoy the cookies.

brrr, it´s cold

and shadow's are falling early again


wish you had a cozy weekend