Hello there, I'm back again after spending a week on the sofa with a nasty cold.
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My friend, Roel, is one of the founders of ixxi. By now I think you all have heard of this amazing company that makes decorative wall systems. I've been thinking about an ixxi for my own for a while now but couldn't come up with one as I didn't want to just enlarge a photo. Frankly speaking I'm not keen on family photos on the wall or anywhere in the house for that matter.
So after some pondering and contemplating a large bare wall in my basement studio I came up with an ixxi crochet wall hanging. I individually photographed 25 unique crochet starburst rounds on a white paper background, cut and resized them all to the same size in Photoshop and uploaded them to the ixxi mainframe.
Once I had my ixxi at home and up on the wall I thought it looked boring with the x's and i's onto the back, as it's supposed to be. So I thought I could have them the wrong way round as it looks like a cross stitch instead. It worked and I love it!
The cool thing is that I can order more cards of the various startburst rounds and make the ixxi larger. I have my very own ixxi crochet blanket!
Get in touch with me if you'd like an ixxi/yvestown crochet blanket for yourself.
Hello I'm back from my work/play trip to London with a new feature for my blog.
As I'm quite addicted to films and books I thought it would be a fun idea to share with you what I've seen and read each month and what I think you should see and read.
Let us call it "The A list" as in; "a book to read, a film to see and so on". I'm not going too much into detail so trust me, if books and films made it up here I've seen and read them personally and I'm hysterically lyrically about them.
I will be in London the next few days working, playing, shopping, cooking and eating with my friend Charlotte. I don't know if I get the chance to blog, otherwise I'll be back Friday. You can always follow me on Twitter and Instagram (@yvestown) and see what I'm up to.
I've been baking cookies, initially for sending them along with the cards but it got rather messy so they are in a cookie tin for us to eat now.
Someone over at Instagram asked me where I got the plastic cookie cutters from but I can't remember. I think I've bought them on eBay as there's Japanese writing on the box they come in. So maybe you should try eBay. I don't eBay as much as I used to so I'm a bit out of that scene ; )
The recipe card is a new feature, drag and print or click and save and print, or don't print ; )
Last Wednesday Anki, Iris and I went shopping at oxo interiors in Den Bosch The Netherlands. Once (or twice) a year they have a super sale and everything in their shop is up for grabs. Wallpaper and fabric books, sample fabric and wallpaper, Fermob furniture reduced, Hay furniture reduced. It's a mayhem of fabulous interior stock up for sale.
This year I had a very good loot. I bought the red Fermob bistro chair for Bo's study, a roll of Studio Ditte wallpaper and some other bits and bobs.
After lunch I spotted the green Jieldé pendant in the Vintage Room's window and had to have it. It's just the perfect green for that room.
The oxo super sale ends February 18, so hush hush.
UPDATE
Oh crap, I forgot to tell you what we saw. Well quite obvious we saw a really awesome property we wanted to have a closer look at. It's an amazing old gymnasium but too small for us to live in. Totally crazy as we have an amazing home that we are still renovating but we have this dream to live in something crazy and we thought this could be that crazy property for us. That was it. Have a lovely evening x
Yesterday Bo and I went to Anki and Casper and we played in the snow, like most people in western Europe did. It always amaze me that people seem to really complain about cold and wet weather as if we live in a tropical sun swept climate the rest of the year. There should be snow in January because it's January.
Alistair Appleton wrote something so funny, and true, about the subject:
"Perhaps it also explains British people's absurd misery over the rain. As if in any other year it didn't rain in England. As if Britain was a tropical island maliciously haunted by a temperate rain God that taunted us. Why are we always surprised and cross that it's raining? It's like being cross because it gets dark at night, or because we only have two hands not eight."
On our way back to Anki and Casper's home we saw something amazing, something Bo and I are going to look at today. I'll get back to this as it's too exciting but probably a little too good to be true. Will tell you all about that an other day.
It's so bitterly cold outside but oh so bright and light inside. So light actually that I could shoot the photos in this post using just 100 iso. Now this is super geeky and I'll not go deep into this subject but I'm super excited about that as my study is always really dark.
I received a copy of Just Being Audrey by Margaret Cardillo and Julia Denos today. I'm in love with it, I don't think love is something that describes my sensation about this book enough so I guess I'm utterly in love with this book. The illustrations are so pretty, so Audrey, and the story (about Audrey's life) is wonderful. Wonderful!! It's for all ages, it's for all true Audrey fans.
