Open House with Virginia from roddyginger

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This is an Open House tour you definitely don’t want to miss … because the house is gorgeous and full with pieces I would LOVE to have in our own house … Virginia from roddyginger is this week’s guest over at BloesemKids and not only is she showing beautiful inspirational images of her house, she also answers some questions about her fairly new label roddyginger, which you might remember from previous posts here on Bloesem …

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Blog articles …

Milk

Some very nice and unexpected mentionings for Bloesem last month in three fantastic magazines  …

101 woonideeen from the Netherlands … BoligLiv from Danmark and Milk from France … made me very happy and I’m very thankful, not only for listing Bloesem as one of the recommended blogs, but much more important for writing the very nice articles about blogging in general and encouraging their readers to visit blogs more often and creating a blog yourself too … SUPER! {more about 101WoonIdeeen here}

deluxa

Deluxa


If I would be living in Brooklyn I would definitly be a regular visitor of this awesome shopdeluxa … which opened in October of 2008 by founder Kristen Stocks.

Deluxa-kitchen


…perhaps in the near future we can buy some of deluxa‘s great products online as well!

Indiefixx :: Going Out of Business Sale

Indiefixx
 

Unfortunately the lovely Jen from the IndieFixx shop has decided to close up the shop …this was not an easy decision for her, because opening a boutique has been a dream of her ever since she was a little girl. Jen started her own jewelry line (tiltingswiftly.com), and later Indie
Fixx the blog
, but soon her interest in promoting other indie artists grew and her goal was to open an online boutique and later a brick and mortar shop, but running an online shop is a very labor intensive endeavor and other aspects of her life had begun to suffer as a result … so the tough decision has been made … the official last day of the Indie Fixx Shop will be March 15th and there is a ‘Going Out of Business Sale‘ until then, or at least until my
goods sell out … everything is on sale from 10% – 50% off and no coupon code is
necessary. Plus, every order will receive a free Chocolate Bon Bon
Soap, while supplies last!!

the small object

Smallobject


I’m usually not a big fan of tissue box covers … but when I spotted a great tutorial or DIY project on the fantasic website of the Small Object I changed my mind and understand how a tissue box cover can look nice in your home…

Thesmallobject

Sarah Neuburger from the Small Object creates the most lovely little things which you can buy in her shop, but I often visit her website because she so very kind to share with us super handy tips for DIY projects and lovely free downloads… Sarah believes "Sharing is good" and I believe that too…

Open House

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If you would like to see a little bit more inside a very inspirational house from one of my favorite children’s clothing designers than click here … Jimin form SmallVILLE studio is my guest over at BloesemKids

Starving Artists? Keep Your Day Jobs

300px-Untitled_acrylic_and_mixed_media_on_canvas_by_--Jean-Michel_Basquiat--,_1984.jpg Brazen Careerist author Penelope Trunk is known for all sorts of well, lively remarks on her blogs. Some of them seem a little too personal. Her divorce. Her love life. Her battle with bulimia. Somehow it makes all of career advice make sense. This writer isn’t sure why. So today she lectures the artists out there, who probably are already taking her advice without reading her online. She says keep your day job. Check. You don’t need to starve to make art. Double-check. “Art emanating from a hole is a choice,” she says. “There’s a reason that Jean-Michel Basquiat‘s paintings look like horror films: Because his life was a crack-house horror film.” We know. Another check on the list. Finally, real artists work no matter what. We knew that already, but it’s good to match with reality. She didn’t mention that it might be worthwhile reading her book, but it repeats a lot of the advice already on her site.

New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media

Eat Love … and more food

Eatlove


EAT LOVE … a fantastic new book about Marije Vogelzang‘s beautiful food designs and concepts … Marije is a well-known Eating-Designer in the Netherlands … the book is about Marije Vogelzang’s work in context of Dutch design, international design and trends in food, eating culture and society … the book is written in English by design critic Louise Schouwenberg and available via BIS publishers

More Food … a new column on BloesemKids … Cooking for Kids

Open House with Karen and Andy from OlliLime

Ollielime_openhouse   Thank you for all the nice comments and Birthday wishes … last weekend was simply wonderful and I truly enjoyed celebrating my Birthday with my new friends here in Kuala Lumpur … in case you have missed this: a great Open House Tour and interview I did with the lovely people, Karen and Andy from the children’s furnishings company OllieLime from the UK …

Birthday Giveaway

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Hip Hip Hooray … it’s my Birthday today … and to celebrate this I’m doing a small giveaway on BloesemKids … wish you a very nice weekend, I will be back on Tuesday because on Monday we will be celebrating Chinese New Year … are you curious to know what the giveaway exactly is, just click here … good luck, irene xx