FROM SASKIA

Received from Saskia in Holland, September 2012.

Saskia from knoopjes has send me the most beautiful letter. From her holiday in France where she has been camping with her husband
and two children in Britanny, she has been visiting fleamarkets. And so sweet of her she thought of me when buying some of the
treasures.

My beautiful letter full of treasures.
On her holiday Saskia manage to buy an old typewriter which has the most beautiful font.

A photo taken by Saskia and a pretty "fleur-de-lis" to the right. It's traditionally used to be put in the Kings Cake around the Christmas season.
The plate with the blue/white lines is stunning.

This little handmade thing, perhaps a button is the most beautiful piece in the letter. I'm totally in love with it and will now start to look
for these when visiting fleamarkets myself.

A pretty handmade Hedebo embroidery.

 From the beach, a pretty stone full of holes. I think it's wonderful and a good inspiration for new weaving structures.

Another moo lover like myself.

Dear Saskia, thank you so much for your wonderful letter.
I'm so in love with the little stone full of holes and the little blue/white handmade button, which is hanging in my studio now.

FROM EVDOKIA.

Received from Evdokia in Greece, July 2012.

A wonderful letter came to me in the beginning of July from Greece. Evdokia is a grapfic designer, who also likes to work with ceramic, which you can see on her etsy have a kookie page.
I like the way her blogname have got the name! On have a kookie she writes:
"my family and friends are calling me kokie.
...& because i enjoy eating cookies
i made it a little bit sweeter ;)
 so have a kookie!

A little while ago I send my letter to Evdokia, which can be seen here.

The whole letter from Evdokia. I'm in love with the little pressed flower.

A mobile with small origami boats which she has dyed with black tea, to give them the sepia color and painted afterwards.

I simple love the torn paper!

Evdokia have send me this beautiful photo she has taken on the Naxos Island. Like her, I love the shadows the lamp gives in the picture.

Pieces of different kinds of textiles and handmade paper.

(NOT ONLY) TEXTILES
Love it!

Dear Evdokia, thank you so much for your lovely letter. Your mobile with the folded boats is hanging in my window at my studio.

FROM ZENOBIE.

Received from Zenobie in England, June 2012.

Zenobie lives in London and likes to make things out of yarn, walk, bake bread and listen to folk music. She is half Greek and this is where her beautiful name comes from. She has studied history at the University, but her passion is to work with plants. She has a beautiful blog called Queen of Carrot Flowers. I love the name.
Zenobie loves the process of hand making and started knitting when 15, but her biggest passion is crochet, especially the freestyle crochet. She feels it's like painting with yarns. I believe her description is beautiful.

Zenobie have photographed my letter in such a beautiful way. Please have a look here.

My letter from Zenobie. I don't know how to describe the feeling I had when opening it. I feel so lucky.

I did not knew that feathers were something that Zenobie treasure a lot and I send her one.
She send me in return a freestyle crochet feather made in cotton and embroidery thread. It's inspired by the technique used by a Japanese artist called Jung Jung who makes crochet vegetables.
I'm so much in love with it and have already start wearing it. The details is magnificent.

Like me Zenobie likes fleamarkets and these doilies have she found on her favorite market in London.

A little bouquet of daisie flowers and beautiful fabric from Liberty of London.

Dear Zenobie, your letter make me so happy. It was a fairytale oppening it.

Your freestyle feather crochet is excuisite and I have it at my home, so I can put it on my clothes, so it can brighten up an ordinary day.

FROM TERESA.

Received from Teresa in Portugal, June 2012.

Teresa is an amazing young woman. She has just graduated as an Architect and got a Master in Urbanism and Public spaces. Congratulations!

Teresa is in love with the analogne photography, she started doing this when she got an old camera from her Grandfather. If you want to see more of Teresa’s amazing work, you can see it here. She lives in a small village in Vila Nova de Gaia, but is actually from Porto.

My pretty letter, where blue is the “red thread” in the whole letter. So beautiful.

Teresa like collecting small pieces from the nature. I’m totally in love with these little blue flowers, called Miosotis from her garden.

Pretty beach stones.

A crochet doily made by Teresa.

In her freetime Teresa makes crafts like crochet, embroidery, painting or playing with different papers and make collages.

Snapshots of Teresa’s photos, taken in Porto. I think the last one is a little portrait of sweet Teresa herself.

Dear Teresa thank you so much for your lovely letter. Your pretty  Miosotis flower is hanging on my wall.