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 

Healthy herbs

Made for a friend who prepares all kinds of healthy little bottles with magic herbs in it.

This little drawing will come onto her products very soon ;)

To think about

That forest...my forest. Very close to where we live in this country full of people and houses, streets, cars, industry and all the things that makes us crazy...in the middle of all those things lays my forest, close to the border with the Netherlands. I took one picture today while my short visit on this warm and very sunny sunday.

This is it. With a phrase I found through Pinterest on 'I can read' ( wonderfull place to hang around!) and a little teepee that reminds me of wild-camping and vacation in all kind of countries where I needed courage, where I found happiness. On the moment I took this picture...I felt happy. To be there, to see this view and still I don't believe this is Belgium. I felt happy because I thought a while I was in a Polish forest close to the border with Russia and it lies just some 5 minutes from our house :)

Have a wonderfull week full of courage and happiness!

Patterns for books

Eva is born!

How a watercolor turned out into a card for the birth of Eva.

Eva is a new wonder on this planet made by my neighbours, no, not yet mine ;)

 and I'm so proud to show you the finished card, finally! :)
(and very happy that I could design this one!)

Merci Ingrid en Joel ;)

Valtari hour - Sigur Rós

If you love the music from the Icelandic band Sigur Rós and you are living in the Americas then there is coming one hour of beauty your way. Go to the link and see when that hour arrives in your country.
This music blows you of the globe!
And because I never can relax and calm down I had to make a Sigur-Rós doodle...this is what I should do while listening ;)
Go and enjoy this gift!

http://sigur-ros.co.uk/valtari/hour/

Space is were we belong

 

After more then 3 months I guess I returned to my drawing table and  that feels so good!

It was a very hard time, there wasn't yet a spring, the world was like turning in the other direction...I said farewell to my grandfather, he is now somewhere....not to far from us I think. While drawing this there was that song on the radio of Absynthe Minded, a belgian group, 'Space is were we belong'. That makes me thinking that even the dead isn't that worse. Life is good and so this drawing to finish a long period of pain, tears and awfull thoughts.
I'm gratefull for this life and I want to give you these words that I founded through Pinterest :
On the other side of fear lies freedom.
Enjoy this week, your days, this life!

x Kathy

Tipi-time

 Last monday, we went to the airport and we came back with our tickets! for PERU!!!! FINALLY!
Such an emotion...4 weeks of this year I don't have to spend in this country :) Another emotion! :)

The lovely mosaic I discovered in Aalst and that day ended up in the brand new 'tipi' of our neighbours. Making a fire, 3 liters of beer and cava, some 'cancha' (toasted peruvian corn) and a horrible almost stormy weather outside...but we cosy chatting and dreaming of the big planes...far away.

Homesale @ De Dikke Kat

Een laaaaang weekend komt eraan!
Welkom op de Sweet Homesale in De Dikke Kat!

Dinsdag 1 mei 2012 van 14u tot 17u

Een verlofdag met allerlei zelfgemaakte spulletjes die anders voornamelijk in webwinkels te verkrijgen zijn.Naast juweeltjes, schilderijtjes, behangsilhouetten, cupcakes, foto's,  taart en een live-optreden van allemaal ander creatief geweld zullen al mijn nieuwe broches, prints, postkaartjes en bladwijzers meereizen naar de warme pels van De Dikke Kat.

Laten we er samen een hele gezellige mei-dag van maken!

See you in Antwerp!

Esperanza

Months are flying away...and I hardly can take a paper to just sit down and DRAW! 

I'm still taking time to reload and inspire myself with new ideas. I just thought I could start again with new energy and just now my grandfather started balancing between life and dead due to a horrible disease. This is pushing me with my back to the wall and obligated me to reflect about thousands of things in my life. 

The sadness is huge but what could help me better then ART! 

The first image is a picture of a postcard from the work of a Belgian painter, Gustave Van de Woestyne. His work always attracted me and these days more then ever.

I rediscovered his work in the Museum of Arts in Gent while there was the exhibition about Ford Madox Brown. I love his work and above all ' The last of England', it's a whole story in one painting and it's even today very actual. And of course, once these masters were little too, like my little niece...and I love it to see her painting although she colours those Disney-things. :)  I turn back for now...I need some time to go trough all the painfull moments but the next post is for sure a drawing of my hand, I promise you! x

A moment of inspiration

 Enjoy these images like we've enjoyed walking there and reload our batteries and refresh our minds for the next 100 years :)
x

New Andes-inspired brooches!

 The 1st of April I spended on a little handmade-market. All the new cats/brooches came with me. Postcards, originals, prints, bookmarks and even Valentina, they were all present on the Mercado Loco Loco in Zolder. It was a weekend full of handmade events spread over flanders and the northern neighbours of The Netherlands. I wished I could go to every market but that new family of cats, foxes and a llama asked my attention for 200% this weekend. Happy to present them to you. If you have a favourite one or you are interested to adopt one of them, let me know! I and even they would be sooo happy!!!

Whale in the movie!

Remember the letterbook that I designed and illustrated some months ago. The loveliest man in my life shooted his images when I was making the last illustration/print. Now, we can show you the finished video he made about it. He is sooo talented and I'm so proud of his work and of him of course!
Love is bringing together talents :)
Have a lovely monday/week!

Paperdolls to color

Vandaag opende de nieuwe tentoonstelling in het Plantin Moretus museum in Antwerpen " Reizen in het onbekende".

Mijn aankleedpoppen zijn volledig klaar, de platen zijn te krijgen in het museum maar speciaal voor wie dat wil kan je ze hier in 1 klink downloaden, printen en starten met kleuren en spelen.

Maak er iets moois van en vergeet niet van me een foto door te sturen naar kathydewit@gmail.com
Dalí is alvast begonnen aan zijn eigen pop! :)

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The new exhibition about the big Belgian cartographer Mercator opened today in the museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp. These are the paperdolls totally finished.

Especially for all of you!

Download the images above, print them out and start playing with your colors!

Don't forget to send me a picture of your finished doll with her favourite clothes to kathydewit@gmail.com

LOOK! Even Dalí is making his own doll! :)

Dolls from paper and love

Dear friends,

I'm still alive, still.

These months I'm feeling like doing the best to not drown in the bath of work and deadlines. I'm doing the best I can, I'm enjoying the work I do but my mental mood and spirit is suffering a bit.

The best thing is that I really love my different jobs, just combining all of them can take sometimes too much energy. Look, I'm drawing paperdolls inspired on images made in the 17th century. Love to do that and sure  if you know that soon kids will can take their piece of paperdoll-paper in the museum and go colouring and cutting the dolls designed by me. Soon more, and also about that globe of Mercator.

Promise you to don't stay away too long from my beloved blog. Have to tell so much more!

Don't forget this place, I'm still here on the globe :)

You too I hope!

♥

Kathy

Earth & Music

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Two things that inspired me since I was born came together this week.

First my fascination for globes and maps. For the educational part of an upcoming exhibition in the museum where I'm working I'm redesigning the globe of Mercator, belgian and worldfamous for his maps, globes and projections, for kids. They will go home with their own little Mercator-globe...if I manage it this week to finish this project! And today just opened an exhibition in Sint-Niklaas about this man and his maps. Like I was waiting for it to inspire me more and more...I'm ready to make a nice educational plate of it.
Already tried a little print...later more!
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And even it looks like I'm not drawing anymore, I do but still busy times in the museum...so time for my other inspiration : Music! We went to Utrecht (Nl) yesterday. Never been there, enjoyed the afternoon strolling around the lovely houses and little shops, drinking to much latte and eating lemoncake...to finish the day in Tivoli to pick up the concert of Lianne La Havas. All because we were to late to buy a ticket for her concert in Brussels...so luckily we are to live in the smallest country of the whole world...driving to another country for a concert isn't that hard. Lianne was just perfect and made our day/weekend! Discover her tunes and be overwhelmed by this brand new voice and enormous talent!

Time for a new week, a lot of work and still hoping to find some time to draw a gato ;)

Have a nice week wherever you are...we are on the same cosy globe! x