london (home)

up: teapot and glasses from labour and wait. also bought these for our shop.
down: nice water

london (outside)

yesterday we were in london. we saw some nice and inspiring things, but we felt a bit lost in this big crowded city! but we saw what we wanted to see! we didn't make so many pictures...

london (inside)

a beautiful tap and sweet mice candy from a very nice shop in liverpool street.

new!

we are really happy with our kulkue marimekko teatowel!

we're going to london tomorrow! for 1 day!

a pink beard and a blue beard

for our graduation postcard (in 2006) we both choose something with a beard.
up: veroniks card with a pink papercut beard
down: miekes card with a videostill from a boy knitting a beard

kado bon bon bon

this is going to be our gift voucher! we are so proud of charlotte's work!! we sold already one! (the quality is not so great because this is a picture of the printed card)

colors

we like the works of rienk. take a look at his website.

in the newspaper

look at this little girl. she grew up between the wild animals. we love the photos. she looks so happy! there is a video of tippi here.

started

started working in the place where our shop will be. we found really nice tiles under the paint. with a lot of help from our friends we scratched it all of. luckily the floor was like that already...

in the zoo

this is a very nice book. our friend charlotte made it when she was a child.

big bear

this big big cookie we are going to eat on the opening party!

celebrating

because we are opening our shop next month. we've been dreaming

about this since the day we've met. we had to be quiet about this

for so long but now: SPREAD THE WORD, MIEKE WILLEMS SHOP

IS COMING SOON.

things we both have (13)

beautiful handknitted hats by our oh so talented friend renilde.

pinocchio

a hanger and a spinning tops.

funny

funny sponges and a mushroom in crochet. (and a tiny tiny cheburashka pin)

edward and the horse

look! this book by ann rand and olle eksell was maybe a bit too expensive but it's maybe one of the most beautiful children books ever!! our favorite page is the orange one with the big white horse on it. it's soooo good!!

houses (2)

a pillow made by renilde(not finished). and a house in the right corner of an old pillow.

houses (1)

a white house, one of leen's houses, a kids embroidery's house.

7 random facts

we were tagged by famapa, danica and when skies are grey to tell you 7 random facts about us.
so here they are:
1. we like to wear braids in our hair
2. darkblue is our favorite colour
3. veronik likes drawing and cutting papers
4. mieke collects all the nice things in the world
5. veroniks feet are always frozen
6. mieke has the nicest bike of antwerp
7. mieke makes good soup and veronik the best salads

on the photos you can see our braids, veroniks papercuts and miekes favorite finds.

pink, white, blue and red

a box with random things. tomorrow our random facts.

theodore and the talking mushroom

these pages are from a leo lionni book.

another present

yesterday veronik brought these nice origami papers and glow in the dark pearls to mieke. the letters on the package are magnets. the m for mieke and the o because it just looked so good.