Mini-expo @ Huiszwaluw, Gent

Proud to present you older and new work on the wall of a very cosy shop in Gent, Belgium.
All ways are leading to Gent these days! :)
Discover my illustrations and designs in Huiszwaluw ( Dutch translation of Martin)
My brooches, originals, prints, tote bags, garlands, notebooks, postcards and buttons.
They are waiting to welcome you!
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Heel fier presenteer ik ouder en nieuw werk in het oergezellige Huiszwaluw in Gent.
Alle wegen leiden daarheen dezer dagen! :)
Ontdek er mijn illustraties, broches, originelen, prints, tote bags, notitieboekjes en zoveel meer.

Ze verwelkomen je daar allemaal!

 HUISZWALUW

Hoogpoort 3b

9000 Gent

OPEN : Mon/ Fri 10u30 - 18u

www.huiszwaluw.com
Facebook : Huiszwaluw

New brooches

Here they are, my new little ones!

Made out of airdrying clay and painted with acrylics. Sealed with a layer of varnish
Approx. size is like max 4cm, they are all different and unique as well!

If I am fast enough I can put some of them on Etsy ;)
If you think there is one that asks your attention, just mail me

kathydewit@gmail.com and feel free! 

Last week Lolly Pop-up Store and flu-times

 It looks like ages that I came onto my blog but I was so busy with giving workshops, teaching, participating in different little projects that I forgot myself, my mind and my body. So there was some damage, I needed again an operation on my big toe and I really hope this was the last time my nail choosed to grow a little bit different then normal. Looks like he wanted to be creative too but after months of pain again the doctor teached him a lesson! Anyway...meanwhile I started recuperating of this little surgery a huge flu turned me into a worthless kid. Even worthless kids can paint! :) I finished this morning these 4 new brooches to bring them to the Lolly Pop-up Store in Antwerp! Damas y caballeros!!! 

The LAST days of the pop-up store are here! Go and get something unique, handmade and lovely!

All info you can get on their Facebook page. You have untill SATURDAY the 25th of february...yes THIS saturday! 

Dreaming of drawing something on a piece of paper. Let's draw a flu! :)

De Dikke Kat - Expo!

New brooches and a new Exhibition!

Of course Valentina (do you remember her?) was so happy to leave finally to Antwerp after being at home for months. 

So she welcomes you this time in De Dikke Kat  (The Fat Cat in English), Kasteelpleinstraat 26. I'm showing there my work together with two other artists. 

One of them, Anke De Potter, is a good friend and collegue at the academy where both of us are teaching arts.

Welcome for a warm coffee, latte, hot chocolate and so many more. Just sit down, relax and enjoy of our creations. x

Meanwhile the Lolly Pop-up store is still open and kicking!

Not even that far from De Dikke Kat! Perfect combination!
See you!

Thinking, dreaming, drawing...living

oooohhh...here I am. After some very busy weeks and finishing projects. Busy times aren't over yet but there is a little bit more air to breath more easily...and not to many thrilling deadline moments. One is waiting for next friday...the opening of anoter exhibition of my work meanwhile my new products are selling very well in the Lolly Pop-up store in Antwerp (more about that in the following days). 

The brooches are LOVED and I'm receiving so nice support from many people. That keeps me growing and going in what means LIFE for me! Creating every day something that touches me and hopefully so many other souls.

I want to wish all of my readers a sunny weekend with nice things to happen! Hear you!

Eldibujodelgato in Antwerp!

 And finally the LOLLY POP-UP STORE opened his doors friday evening! 

Such a warm feeling to be a part of this happening together with more then 40 other designers.
(Play to win a goodiebag on the Lolly Pop-up store Facebookpage!)

I had the most busy week of this still very young year.
 Preparing all the new brooches, bookmarks, postcards and prints for this shop was only one of the deadlines I had to counter but lucky I am I could bring each one to a very nice end.

Enjoy the new product-pics I made for my Etsy-shop of the bookmarks. At this moment the brooches are all for sale in the store in Antwerp. I decided to make every one of them 100% unique and I will never copy one. I go on with the tradition to give them a Quechua-name with a special meaning. Every cat with his/her own view and caracter...my little boys and girls! Glad to sell them in this wonderful little store, although little...but full of the most different and refreshing designs and nice things. If you are close pop in some hours!!! That's what you will need! Next friday another post about the designers in the store!
WELCOME!
And a huge thanks to An and Heidi who had a dream someday and made a reality of it today!
We can be all so proud to be part of that dream!

Soon in Antwerp!

Ik stoom dezer dagen alle creaties klaar die ik wil meenemen naar de Lolly Pop-up Shop in Antwerpen!
De shop zal openen op vrijdagavond 20 januari en er zal werk te zien en te kopen zijn van meer dan 25 Belgische ontwerpers die tevens allemaal een Etsy-shop op het net openhouden. Ik ben zo fier dat ik eentje van hen mag zijn! Samen zullen wij de shop openhouden tot 25 februari. Iedereen is natuurlijk van harte welkom. De broches zijn ondertussen de oven gepasseerd en maken zich volledig op voor te vertrekken naar hartje Antwerpen! Ik hoop je daar te zien!
Mijn broches verschenen in Weekend Knack (boven) én op de online versie:
http://weekend.knack.be/lifestyle/mode/shopping/25-belgische-ontwerpers-krijgen-plaatsje-in-pop-upshop/article-4000029073568.htm
Zo fijn!

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I'm finishing these days all the products I want to take with me to the Lolly Pop-up Shop in Antwerp!

The shop will be opened on the 20th of January and will show handmade stuff made in Belgium by more then 25 designers who also sell their work on Etsy. I'm so proud to be one of them! All together we will keep this little shop full of treasuries open to the public until the 25th of february! You are so welcome! The brooches passed the oven, time to paint and bring them to the place to be! Hope to meet some of you overthere ofcourse!

Back into 'play'-mode

 It was a very nice time ending 2011 and entering the brand new 2012. Like I told your before we entered the new year on a isle of Holland, named Texel. It hurted so much going back to the mainland...and after that driving three hours back to the south, to our home. Sitting on that boat was my farewell to a well deserved fourdays-trip where we found rest and could breath again after busy weeks of work. So, all those memories are living in our hearts and luckily in my sketchbook...and time has come to look forward to so many new adventures. I was preparing the base of so many new brooches I will paint this week.  There is coming closer a very nice event for me and 24 other designers of handmade creations.

Tell you more about it a next post! ;)

Featured

So happy! My brand new brooches were featured on Irene's Imaginative Bloom, an extraordinary place on the web,  like she writes herself : The seeding place for craftive people with a genuine taste for handwork and art's production. Already more then a year this site is into my favourites! And now Irene picked also my brooches up to publish together with other incredible creatures! 

Go and lose yourself in a very good sense! x