Astrid knits her way out

fern and waves fo

The fern and waves shawl is now officialy a finished object.

 

MeMo

I am a big fan of Saskia knits it again. At her site a saw this. Thought it might be fun.

The explanation was copied from Saskia's site (who copied it as well!)

Here it goes:

The concept:

A. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.

B. Using only the first page, pick an image.

C. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd's mosaic maker)

The Questions:

1. What is your first name ? astrid

2. What is your favorite food? pasta

3. What highschool did you go to? titus brandsma

4. What is your favorite colour?  red

5.  Who is your celebrity crush?  al pacino

6. Favorite drink?  red portwine

7. Dream vacation?  molivos, greece

8. Favorite dessert? creme brulee

9. What do you want to be when you grow up?  old knitting lady

10. What do you love most in life?  my family

11. One word to describe you. restless

12.  Your Flickrname.  astridpersons1

birthday birds

artist: sushipot purchased at etsy.

The 10th of june was my birthday. I had to work that day which was in fact useless. Hardly any work was done because of cake eating collegues and receiving kisses and hugs. In the evening we went with a total of 8 family members to a restaurant and enjoyed a delicious meal. A great day.

Ofcourse there were presents. I will show you the present that my husband gave me: I could choose a bag at Mirjam Zwolsman, a dutch bag-designer who happens to live in the same neighbourhood as I do. Besides bags she designes this very cute hats for children, Buddybugs.  You can change the picture at the front, cool prints of typical kiddo-animals are included. (crocodile! shark! puppy!)

I gave her the content of my old working bag and asked her to design me a bag in which all this clutter would fit.

This is the result. I am so happy with it, I love the birdie, the place for my glasses, phone, keys, agenda, wallet, workingpass and more.

the front

the back

the inside

detail of the inside border

detail of the bird:

And  if you are wondering what the first picture is all about: because I turned 46 and received my holiday  payment "vakantiegeld", I allowed myself to buy a little bitsy piece of art.

graphic design festival breda

In my hometown the Graphic Design Festival takes place. The Graphic Museum
De Beyerd wil be opened on juni 11th.
There are exhibitions and a lot of posters from graphic designers. There is also a poster of the graphic design studio Battery&Battery that has designed our snb logo:

There are projections on buildings:

(see the knitting motif?)
There is already a lot of contraversion about the festival and the museum about a poster and flags. But that is what Dutch people do: nag, nag, nag when there is something new and innovating.
I think Breda looks more vibrant than ever. Visit us and enjoy!

The ferns are growing