Prue - Based on Wildwood by C.Meloy

 Some days ago I jumped into 'The Impassible Wilderness'! Find it back in Wildwood of Colin Meloy and with super thrilling drawings of Carson Ellis! I'm a huge fan of her work and that's the reason why I bought Wildwood and look now...the story is taking me every evening to the woods...with my coffee;)! Very short : Prue's little brother is kidnapped by a bunch of crows and taken to the woods on the other side of the river...nobody ever went there! :) And then it begins! 

Watch the trailer of the book on this LINK!
www.wildwoodchronicles.com

Welcome La famille Victor

FINALLY!

We can come out with our treasure.

La famille Victor started selling and is still launching.

The little books are ready to order in the first shops : De stoffenkamer, Bambiblauw and Stoffenidee 

Our Facebook-page is growing and booming, feel welcome to follow our steps together with that special family. We are so proud to present them all to you.

The website will be launched very soon and the first sewing fans started their project!
Let's inspire each one of us!

All the books that we start selling now are in Dutch, the version in english, french and german will come up later! So if you want to wait for that version I suggest that you can make us already very happy with a VOTE!

How to vote?

La famille Victor is still in competition with 9 other finalists in the Boost Belgium contest of Belfius. 

We are now 6th. So please, with all your votes, a vote a day!, you can really help us to may'be a4th place or 3rd or even higher? :) 

GO TO THIS PAGE :  www.boostbelgium.be/la-famille-victor

MAKE A ClICK on the button STEMMEN (voting) and connect with your Facebook or LinkedIN-account

and so you gave us your vote for today. Still 17 days to go. 

Thank you so!
Isabelle Finet, Katrien Annys and myself!

La famille Victor

In september I started to draw for a very new project. 

It's all about one family, the family Victor or La famille Victor. 

All the stories about them are coming together in little books and every story is conected to a sewing pattern. So you could call it a sewing-soap :)

I was asked by the family to be their illustrator and of course I hadn't to think twice about this question ;)

There is the family and of course WE who bring them all to life!
 Isabelle Finet ( creator of the family), Katrien Annys (graphic designer and creative owner of Jacques Books) and I.
Half january the website will be launched and after that the books will be start to travel to the shops all over!

We are ready to release our treasures!

You are very welcome to follow our last steps to the final release on our Facebook page / LA FAMILLE VICTOR.

Cross your fingers!
We are ready to jump!

Nueva Vida!

 I cannot explain you the joy when making and doiing this! Next week I will finish this one and I'm ready to explore that impressive mountain ridge on the border of Switzerland and France with my guide from 1925 :)

The knitted week

 My Edelweiss is growing in our little garden! Don't know why but I couldn't leave this little plant in the gardencenter last time. It has something weird...is it a flower or a succelent or may'be it will grow as a tree? We will see! Meanwhile I'm finishing this schoolyear and also my course 'Making Books'. So finishing my last projects with the little time I have and here a little view of the cover I designed for a book named 'Ou est- ce?', a book about all lovely places, natural parcs, monuments and things in this world. I tried to embroider the title. I'm a newby! Last saturday I surrounded myself again with more nature and more yarn! In the garden of Hanna we came together to knit with a group of girls. Anna-Denise brought us together on an Etsy Lab and with the help of Emilie and Johanna we started our little knit-project! Oooooh, this place, that energy, those people and that atmosphere gave me so much inspiration to start knittig again after years!

Thank you so girls! And Brussels is truly a very beautiful place full of creativity!

It was sooooooo nice and knitty!

x

Photo /Emilie Danel

Photos / Anna Denise van der Reijden 

Patterns for books

ABC - book in progress

I'm cutting and cutting, my back is hurting a lot...but I'm close to the finish and my own creations keep me going on. This viking turned out even more sympathic then I wanted, soon I fall in love with him :) Love the proces...colouring is so much fun!

Mushroom-pattern

This huge paper will come into the new Alice in Wonderland-book I'm making in my course. This will be the paper inside. One in the beginning, one in the end. Time to stitch the restored book! :)

More books!

 And  my evening classes (The art of books) goes on and I love it! Here some first trials with a Japanese stab binding. I'm getting loads of paper from my boxes on the attic and finally I can give them a new life! Like the last cover is made from a Peruvian schoolplate about all the fruits the country can offer :) New sketchbooks with a soul. Yesterday I started from an old book that we have to demount totally and restore if required and binding again with a new self-designed cover! So time to draw some Alice. The book is from my mom and she is very curious how it will start his new life :))) Me too! :)

C

AB and C....so the next one, about eating the most delicious chocolate spread like Nutella...we called it 'choco', mostly all the kids love it and it starts with a C but sounds like a ssssssschhhh :)
I'm cutting away more and more letters, linoleum is flying around, drawings are flewing out of my hand...I have so much fun doing this! Soon more!

Dalíbook part 2

 This little book makes me crazy in a very good way! I finished my idea of a sticking cat on the last page of the book with outcoming legs :) I will always love puppets of this kind! And so happy I could realize my idea like I saw it in my imagination. The cat is brought on paper with ink and then printed on magnetic paper. And the way to close the Dalíbook is a very loooooong mustache! Hope Dalí will like it :)

The pleasure of paper and books!

 School began again and besides being a teacher of Arts I love it to go on with studies and learn more and more about the things I love to do. Finally I started  this branch of 'making books'. I learned it once in one hour, very quickly and I had to do it with that base of knowledge. Happy I'm into the class of Katja Clement (NL) and so curious what we will learn this year. My first exercise / A leporello book, a little book by folding.

Made my little cat-book...it's not finished yet...want to make a little Dalí puppet for it...you will see...want to finish it very soon! ;)
ooooh...and just on the radio...this song is a perfect beginning of this day!
Bon Iver and Holoscene
ENJOY it!