New Etsy shop!!

Back again from blogging hiatius and with some really good news: I've started a brandnew Etsy shop. I'ts all about the vintage watch:

Strawberry Earth Wonderland

Haven't had time to tell you all about the amazing eco-fashion event Strawberry Earth Wonderland by my friends Mette te Velde & Ikenna Azuike. I was there selling MooiVintage jewelry together with big sis fashion designer Marga Weimans. I also hosted the Fashion Blogger camp. I great discussion with some well known Dutch fashion journalists like Georgette Koning Milou van Rossum en John de Greef and bloggers  Andy Torres  of StyleScrapbook.com and Ernst-Jan Pfauth the Dutchproblogger. More pics to come soon, but here's the video:



Strawberry Earth Wonderland from Spiral Move on Vimeo.

The market of 1001 tastes

I've been living behind the Amsterdam foodcenter for almost two years now. It's a huge wholesale market where a lot of small and large Amsterdam shops come and buy their fruits, veggies, meat and fish. This Sunday they had an open day for the public. Which meant loads of yummie food I sampled till I couldn't sample no more;-) I bought some carrots at a stall selling socalled 'forgotten' vegetables: red, white and yellow carrots, and beettypes we used to eat a lot in Holland say 100 years ago. Check out those beautiful tomatoes!

Mushrooms galore.




I bought asperagus sprouts from van der Plas Sprouts. This company grows anything from well known alfalfa, to sprouts of garlic plants and the taste is amazing!

The traditional Dutch raw herring on a piece of 'roggebrood' or black rye bread with a gurkin was a little too much for me, although it looked great. I did take a bowl of what looked like a red fruit stew with cream. It contained raisins and berries, but the main ingredient surprisingly enough was 'gort' which is kinda like rice. Very unexpected and lovely dessert.

You can wake me up for a lemon curd tartelette any hour of the day (seriously) so these cute lemon merengue tarts had to come home with me. Not all of them of course, just two. 

This tiny shop in a car had a wide variety of foods, anything from sausages, coffee, cheeses and anchovy.

Photocollage of people working in the foodcenter in the past decades.

While the public was enyoing all the food, this lad still had to work and deliver the bread on time.

Check out this months new N.E.E.T Magazine for great indie handmade and vintage fashion but also to see my new ad. But of course you can see it here too;-) Actually it's nothing new, it's the same as my main blogphoto, but I like it so much I just had to use it. It's one half of a Mimi di N designed fox buckle.

On October 17th I'll attending Strawberry Earth Wonderland, a very cool eco fashion event over here in Amsterdam hosted by my friends Mette te Velde and Ikenna Azuike. Together with my sister fashion designer Marga Weimans, we'll be selling some of her clothes and my vintage jewelry.

It's gonna be a busy day, because at Wonderland I'm also hosting the Fashion Blogger Camp, in which  Andy (from Stylescrapbook) will talk about how to become a good  blogger. Other guests at this talk will be fashion journalists Milou van Rossum, Georgette Koning, Bregje Lampe and John de Greef. They all work for national newspapers and magazines here in Holland. So if you're in Amsterdam on the 17th do join us for all the fun! I've made a video for the event. I heart iMovie ;-)

Trifari

One of my favorite vintage jewelry brands is Trifari an American company founded in 1910. What I love about their jewels is the attention to detail, the variety of styles and the sheer beauty of most of their designs. Their ads are pretty cool too with a high dosage of Mad Men. In the shop I have some pretty amazing modernist Trifari necklaces for sale!

This ad reminded me of the orginal I-pod Ads:

Fulvio Bonavia

I just discovered the work of photographer Fulvio Bonavia. Because of the shop I really want to know more about product photography and he's a master at it. Just look at his new book 'A matter of taste' it's been out for a while:

De Rotterdam

This past Sunday I had a nautically good time in my hometown of Rotterdam. Together with my sister and my adorable nephew and niece we visited Katendrecht in the southern part of town by the harbour. This used to be known as a rough area best to be avoided. But now Katendrecht has turned into the next cool area to live and hang out.

We visited a playground that's a stone's throw from 'De Rotterdam: a colossal Titanic look-alike  which used to be the flagship for the cruiseship company The Holland America line in the 50s and 60s. Now they've completely restored the oceanliner and it's a hotel, restaurant, bar, partyboat and tourist attraction in one.

I love how they've remained the original feel of the 50s on board. On entering we were welcomed by a picture of the amazing Eartha Kitt standing in front of some Heineken boxes in 50s Rotterdam. Her outfit rocks...

But there were more stylish 50s pics to be found all over the ship...

Even my niece was impressed by all the beautiful photo's on board.

Of course we had to take a peek in the shop. These sailor hats and yellow booties for kids are too cute.