Vitrine in Gent ...

Last weekend we hopped on a train to Ghent to visit the last day of 'Vitrine' - a fashionwalk througout the city - different designers created a little world of their own in the shopwindows. To be honest, i was a bit dissapointed - there were not many windowhops that made my heart beat faster, but this one did...The shop is owned by Elisabeth Leenknegt, who is a silversmith, designer and glass artist in the heart and soul. She comes from a family of passionate glassartist so its no wonder she makes and designs jewelry out of hand-forged silver and mouth-blown glass. Her creations are characterized by a playful design and a great amount of colouring. Humour is the main ingredient of her work. This piece was my favourite: on the picture it is Elisabeth Leenknegt - the designer and owner of the shop, showing off her creations :). Go take a look at her funky website! And it was a nice way to walk around in Ghent - we stumbled upon a little live concert by classical musicians - those little unexpected things are what i love in a city!I found a great journal by Sukie in this shop 'huiszwaluw'(actually there were many more things i wanted to own but a girl can't buy it all, can she?).I'm allready using it to write, research and illustrate the things i want to make.And these rings were pretty darn cute too - i saw a similar thing last year at the jewelry exhibition in Mons. It's literrally sawn out of the porcelain plate! They are made by the 'vlijtige liesjes '.

We have this nice widget on our beloved applecomputer that counts down the days to our next vacation - 12 days, 2 hours and 17 minutes and then we are outta here - off to Naples and the Amalfi Coast for 10 days! Yay!!