feathers

 You can find feathers everywhere. In Amsterdam most feathers you will find are grey pigeon feathers. I am always looking for dark or black ones. big black crow feathers are my favorite ones.

beetroot

Handmade ceramic bowl with matching tea towel.

printed cotton totes

Small cotton canvas tote with yellow beetroot print and two multi functional handy pouches. €25 and €20. Contact me when interested.

arita house amsterdam

Located adjacent to the Rijksmuseum, just around the corner of my studio-store Atelier Tempel is a wonderful exhibit of Japanese porcelain. A design project of a bunch of European designers with local arita porcelain makers, co-designed and curated by design duo Scholten & Baijings. 

Go there when you are visiting Amsterdam and have a look at the beautiful walled garden too. Designed by my favorite garden designer Piet Oudolf.  Ruysdaelkade 2-4, Open until dec 2016.

here in my house

I made some pillows and this lamp too

scalop dish

Hand shaped dish with photo transfers of found objects

spring flower vases

Since a few months there is a new flowershop in the neighborhood where you can buy flowers by the piece. That is great. They seem to have nicer flowers than elsewhere. There are these old-fashioned cottage flowers, field flowers and parrot tulips you can see on classic paintings. The shop has no windows, just a warehouse door open to the street when the shop's open. Find it at Gerard Doustraat just past het Gerard Douplein.

dip glazed

there is a bird on the bottom branch

I filled some of my vases and combined them with flowers from my own garden. The bottom vases have stacked compartments like the tulip vases from the 16th century.

paeonies, parrot tulips, camelia, akebia

Atelier Tempel tea towels

Beautiful spots in Amsterdam l

This is the new bicycle tunnel underneath Amsterdam Central Station. Designed by Irma Boom. Handpainted Makkummer witjes

garden inside

 my little garden at the kitchen window

 green leaves from the garden and flowers from the market.

70's ashtray with lava glaze on a hand painted plate by Atelier Tempel  

my old little bear

While sorting out old suitcases with clothing from the past I found my good old Steiff bear. Do you like the wallpaper in the background? It is one of my fabric designs.

mister Michael Kors

Believe it or not, today mister Michael Kors visited my shop!! The things on the photo were his favorite items. And he loved the scent of a vase with hyacinths.

solar eclipse 2015

This morning from my garden in de Pijp, Amsterdam, the solar eclipse was just visible for a few minutes round 10.47 due to cloudiness.

on paper

art prints

and postcards 

in my Amsterdam shop

blue monday

 What a dark and wet day it was...

here are some summer flowers to cheer up!

Ariadne at Home

The januari edition of the lifestyle magazine Ariadne at Home features an article about my work. Six pages of interview and images. Beautifully styled and photographed by Linda van der Ham and Dennis Brandsma. Such nice people! It was a joy to have them around for the day.

Ina's photo project

Ina Conkic is one of my neighbours, she made this photo. She photographs the little shops in the neighbourhood.

  De Pijp is in the south eastern part of Amsterdam, close to the city centre and it was built in the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.The neighbourhood has many special small shops, but things are changing fast now. The neighbourhood has become popular and big chain stores and fastfood restaurants are moving in. Ina wants to capture the authentic atmosphere before it is gone. Thank you Ina!

sea blue

dishes in my shop

green glaze

copper oxide glaze has beautiful green shades

                  a vintage fruit plate re-decorated

                                          small bird dish

sea glass

Just a few weeks back, I was on the beach in the little town of Montgat, northern Spain. It is a great beach for finding sand washed sea glass and tile fragments.