Creative Vitamines

For those who have doubts: Creativity is Healthy :)

Any doubts left?

(I recieved the images through email, don't know the real source, thanks to Huismus I know now that these are the work of Saxton_Freymann)

Flickr Favorites- Wonder Cabinets

1. Sea Shell Spring, 2. globe collection, 3. Portrait of Ginevra d'Antoino Lupari in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2008, 4. Macro of a Snail Shell

We just launched our new collection, The Wonder Cabinet Collection. This mosaic is all inspired by those cabinets. Visit ArtMind's blog to see more mosaics and join the fun!


Cabinets of curiosities (also known as Wunderkammer, Cabinets of Wonder, or wonder-rooms) were encyclopedic collections of types of objects whose categorical boundaries were, in Renaissance Europe, yet to be defined. Modern terminology would categorize the objects included as belonging to natural history (sometimes faked), geology, ethnography, archaeology, religious or historical relics, works of art (including cabinet paintings) and antiquities. The Kunstkammer was regarded as a microcosm or theater of the world, and a memory theater. The Kunstkammer conveyed symbolically the patron's control of the world through its indoor, microscopic reproduction. (Images and information are taken from WikiPedia).




We have been experimenting with treasures we found during our walks on the beach and forests, to keep them safe for a long time. The best and most interesting results gave the idea to cast them in resin (epoxy) which gives a glass effect and which will make sure that the finding will be safe for a very long time. The treasures reminds us of the Wonder Cabinets, which were started at the early 1500's by rich men, collections of natural and non natural finds were all shown in the Cabinet (room) of Curiosities. Beside the natural finds we will be using alot of vintage finds for this collection, to give that good old feeling. These pieces are the first ones, and we are still in the process of making many others...

Some More Packages

We have sent 27 packages for the Swap, we recieved another bunch of packages and are still expecting 11 more, yummy!


This yummy package is from Devi aka GlasFaden. She sent us two fabulous handmade (by her) lampwork beads, please note that one is like an Urchin! And as a Steampunk lover I was super happy with the vintage clockmovement! Thank you so much Devi!! Please check her wonderful shop where she creates amazing glass and felt jewelry, she also has an inspiring blog.

Ayperi who has two shops, Periay and 1dream has sent us a super cute amigurumi critter and a lovely scarf, perfect for cool summer nights.

Thank you so much Ayperi!

You can visit her handmade shop here and her supply shop here .

PetitPlat has sent us an amazing miniature, she also guessed my favorite tart, I love these kind of tarts yumm. Although I know her work I have been nicely suprised that it is even better in real, awesome details. Thank you so much! Stephanie has a wonderful miniature shop and blog full with tiny goodies.

Pınar aka Toosis has sent us some lovely romantic candles, thank you so much!

She makes gorgeous jewelry which you can admire here, she also has a lovely blog.

Maria of Neraidodhmiourgies sent us some yummy vintage buttons and lovely shells from Greece, thank you so much! Maria has a lovely jewelry shop here and also a supply shop which you can find here. And explore more on her blog!

Can't wait to see the other packages!

Challenge Review VIII

Already time for another challenge review (you can see the previous one here). These challenges are so much fun, that we don't miss any of them!


The Wild vs Elegant Challenge hosted by Vilte:

The Audrey Hepburn Challenge hosted by Meltemsem:

The Pastel Challenge hosted by AmandaYuDesign:

The Traditional Costumes Challenge hosted by Kraplap:

The Checkmate Challenge hosted by StormsHandicrafts:

The Dots Challenge hosted by StaroftheEast:

Flickr Favorites and a Little Visitor

1. Lizard, 2. Salamander, 3. LIZARD OF OZ, 4. There's a lizard in my gizzard

This week's Flickr Favorites is inspired by a little visitor we had at our kitchen window a few days ago. Hop over to ArtMind's blog to admire more mosaics or join the fun!



One of the funny things of living here is that we are so much closer to nature then when we were living in Holland. The most exotic visitor we got there were mice, who were not so welcome. We had a little salamander visiting us, they come often but usually escape right away so it is not possible to photograph, this one was a bit in shock when I opened the kitchen window and froze so I could take a picture.

My hosting time of the challenge 'Dots' is over, you can find the new challenge on IraGrant's blog!

Monday Blues

Only Etsy addicts will understand today's post. This morning I woke up with Etsy down for maintance as if monday blues are not enough! The plus side was that I actually could clean up some mess during the Etsyless time. And when finally Etsy was back I discovered that my Blue Treasury is on FP, yaay! After all a good start for a monday...


Talking about Etsy, we have reached 3000 conversations, just wondering are we very chatty or is this a normal number? Let me know how many convo's you have, love to find that out!

And to make our monday even brighter, we are featured in the online magazine VivalaModa, page 59!

More Yummy Packages

Yesterday we recieved 5 more Swap packages, it is so much fun to get so many packages without knowing what is inside of them, here they are:


Petronella aka Kraplap has sent us a beautiful vintage doll, mum has a collection of vintage dolls so it was perfect! Thank you so much Petronella!
Visit Petronella's Kraplap shop to find amazing button creations and bags and to find great button stories and history you can visit her blog.

Evihan has sent us a lovely bell, in the shape of a cute cat. He already has a place in our home, and looks all smug to the dogs :) She also attached a beautiful handmade glass evil eye bead, which is always handy. Thank you so much Kristin! Kristin has a beautiful shop full with amazing glass jewelry pieces.

Carmenesque sent us a sexy sleep mask, perfect for my imsomnia times :) Beside the mask their where also beautiful vintage cabochons which will be of great use. Thank you so much Krisztina!

Find Krisztina's gorgeous beaded jewelry in her shop, and explore more at her blog!

Karuski's package is so cute, I had to show it too. Inside the box is a vintage pendant with abalone shell, simply gorgeous! Thank you so much Minna!

Minna makes beautiful bags and jewelry which you can find in her shop. She also has a blog with gorgeous pictures.

PlainBananas has sent a cute cat for storing rings, quite nifty as we told that we have alot of jewelry :) Thank you so much Christiana!

Christiana has a lovely jewelry shop and an awesome blog too!