Clumsy

I already knew I was a bit clumsy, but everything I lay my hands on seems to fail these last days. I sat behind the sewing machine yesterday, sewing a skirt. Ever so easy, I thought. Until I found out that I seamed the waist band inside out. And that resulted into ugly seams on the outside of the skirt. After taking the seams out (what took me like, an hour?!), I did attempt two.
Failed..
The seam was all crooked now.

This morning, I thought to make myself a somewhat different breakfast than the usual quarck with walnuts and honey. I wanted to bake myself bananabread.
And since I didn't want a complete bananabread, I decided to quarter all ingredients and bake one small for myself.
Why hadn't I thought about the melting point of a plastic bowl? It all looks so logical and obvious now.

However, I have to say that I do like the new shape of the plastic bowl. It's some sort of inspiration. Maybe I can once make an object out of plastic, by just melting my materials in a mould in the oven!

Open Garden Days - general impression

Besides my aunt having a stall with flowers and garden accessoiries, there were lots of other stalls as well. Self-made postcards, paitings, crochetings (I bought an extremely cute crochetted cherry key-ring).. There was a tea garden where you could buy a drink and something sweet such as apple pie or carrot cake. Aaaand the weather was fantastic! This day was an absolute success!
And I left the garden with tons of inspiration!

Source of inspiration

What to do on a free sunday, when all shops are closed, and there is no family or relative to visit? Visit a free market! All sorts of rubbish put together in a huge hall. Antiques, retro objects, second hand rubbish, new clothing, outdated furniture, food stalls.. But after taking a better look around, you might find valuable antique objects, in a perfect state. Free markets are a great source of inspiration. And a miracle happened. My mum didn't buy anything, nor did I.

Slippers 'n sunglasses

I've got this new assignment in art class where I have to design a pair of flipflops, together with a matching pair of sunglasses.
These images here inspire me. It is important to put your individuality in it. But what is individuality, and more of all, what is MY individuality?
After a while I found out that the quote 'less is more' applies me. I prefer simplicity. Simplicity does not immediately mean it's boring. Simplicity can also come into existance while repeating a certain pattern over and over again. To my opinion, simplicity equals peace and harmony. When something is kept modest, every extra detail catches your eye. So details have to be chosen carefully and stay subtle. When everything fits and matches, details can give just an extra flow to it to fullfill the end product. Subtle details have something feminine. I prefer round shapes, organic shapes and soft edges. Natural beauty is created by subtlety as well.
Materials belonging to this preferance are for example fickle pieces of wood, little shelves, hair and soft fabrics. This leads met to natural colours such as grey, brown-greyish, brown, cream coloured, lapis lazuli and several shades of green.

Can someone inspire me for ideas for the design of these pair of slippers and the pair of sunglasses?

Kengo Kuma

Have you ever heard of Kengo Kuma? I didn't, until a few days ago. A Russian girl told me about Japanese architecture, and how well she liked it. I asked her for names, and she replied some. One of them was Kengo Kuma. Well well, Japanese architecture. I never really knew that the Japanese were so well known for it.
So I googled,
And I fell in love...

I got inspired.
I wish I could ever do such things. He uses so many patterns, but it still looks so harmonious.