...and a selection of Art that I personally like and I hope you do too! Amy Ng, Ashley G and Heather Smith Jones all available at Artstream right here...more Christmas Gift ideas next week...wish you a very nice weekend!

Just a small selection of things I really like over at the Indie Fixx Galeria ... Kutz, Sloe Gin Fizz, Cori D, and BananaSaurus Rex...but there is so much more...

This Market bag from Moop!
And they made it here...only looking at Moop's studio makes me like their designs :)

These are my favorite art works from the talented Rachel Ann Austin...although I'm Not a camper at all, i love the mixed media work with the green tents...Rachel Ann also has a new journal, which she ships for free through the month of December.

The handmade brooches by Jimena are stunning, definitely a nice pick from the Lama shop, of course teapot by Ms. Lola Goldstein would make a nice addition to anyones kitchen too...

If you think you can only buy beautiful ceramic pieces like above at Portland based Elsa+Sam than I'm sorry to say, or should I say happy to say, you are wrong, well anyhow my lack of English is clear :) ...but Elsa just added a fantastic letterpress poster to her shop and she also sells these fun table-napkins. Wouldn't the lovely espresso spoon make a very nice gift?

So please let me start with Twig, Elizabeth the founder and owner wa on of the first who sponsored Bloesem and after almost 2 years still is! My Christmas wish-picks from Twig...a handmade rag doll by Jess Brown wearing a Wovenplay costume, a new adorable print by Ana Ventura and happy confetti garlands from France...do you agree with my picks or is there something you like better, would love to hear :)....

Peg, a flexible furniture system made up of simple components and it's soooo beautiful! Made by Studio Gorm...two former students of the design academy Eindhoven, John Arndt and Wonhee Jeong, have now set up their studio in Rotterdam...

...and I really love the #3 Chair too, so elegant, soft and clean looking. I think we will see a lot more of Studio Gorm in the near future.

How about starting this week with some really nice art pieces by Lisa Golightly aka Kiki&Polly. These are called her Painterly Portraits and each painting is based on a submitted photo, done in acrylic on canvas and mounted to a beautiful bamboo panel...if you would like to submit your photo just click here to read all the information...talking about a really nice Christmas Gift :) 

And I love these two prints form Lisa's etsy shop. So affordable and again beautiful presents for the upcoming Holiday Season. If you would like to visit Lisa's beautiful blog, please click here ...  

I was just writing over at B:Kids that my baby boy is sick ... they call it Bronchiolitis ... so please understand not so much text this week, but I will show some really nice images and gift ideas here on Bloesem.

...yes the concert was AMAZING!! It was just unbelievable how this woman can sing. Everything was pure, real, honest and all I could ever wished for ...my love for Roberta Flack if for always...

During my blog sabbatical in the summer I often saw prints that I really liked, like the work from Dee Beale...her new dove print will be such a nice Christmas gift!  Here you can find Dee's blog and here her etsy shop.

...tonight I will see her ... listen to her voice ... her magic music ... I can't even begin to express myself of what this means to me! Her music is magic... my favorite ...will she sing it for us tonight?

A long time ago I told my husband when we were watching her live concert dvd at home that I could only dream of going to a concert of her and just by coincidence my husband saw a billboard yesterday about tonights concert. Can you believe there were still tickets left...???

It's a beautiful day today.

and this is the calendar I'm planning to buy for the new year, I'm sure it will look very nice hanging next to my desk and  when a month has gone by I will frame the prints.Tara really has outdone herself this year!!

Update :: I bought it, it arrived and it's so much more beautiful when you have it in your hands and I'm very happy I have choosen this calendar!!

Suddenly I remembered that I have been planning to post about Fiasask from Belgium for a long time but somehow never have ... so when I visited Fia's site again today I saw her latest handmade designs ... gorgeous wooden lampshades .. Fia's blog ...

Playshapes by miller goodman ...toys for us or for kids? I love them ...here's to a new golden medal!

ps. a question for you...do you like this 'linkwithin' widget? I'm not sure yet, perhaps a bit messy and to much info...would love to hear your opinion!

Zig zag, a pincushion and measuring lint from Cocca in Japan...done in the most beautiful way you can think of.

I also liked this idea of creating your own wall-piece by covering a board with your favorite fabric and then put some artwork on it...I'm sure if you browse through cocca's website you will enjoy although the information will not be easy to read :) ...fashion, zakka, interior and more ...Cocca.

No this is not the house where I live :) but ever since my husband and I landed here in Kuala Lumpur this incredible house intrigues us enormously! We often drive by 'the spaceship', as my husband and I like to call it, because our friends live nearby...of course from the road you can only see so much...so yesterday I thought I'm going to search on the internet for this property and it quickly popped up on my screen ... the CoolHunter recently wrote a post about the stunning residence and the architects who designed it...Paris-based Agence Jouin Manku.

(images via theCoolHunter)
...wouldn't it be nice if one day the family invites me over for a coffee so I can see this incredible place from within it's walls. I never expected it to be this big, because it's so modest and well done from the outside.

I told you about how I wished I could go to the Dutch Design Week this year, but this morning I was already happy browsing through the incredible work by Lenneke Wispelwey, who together with Paula Arntzen, is showing her porcelain and paper designs during this event.... wowo...everything Lenneke makes is just stunning and a feast for the eye ...I started with her 'flower me' (vases) series and have sent an email to Lenneke immediately to see if she can ship this vase overseas :) ...

Then I clicked on Lenneke's 'buttons' ...and was stunned again by the beauty I saw...the buttons are available here and here...

and ohh how could I have missed these 'cakestands' series last year... Lenneke, thank you for creating your beautiful things for us!

This weekend the Dutch design week 2009 starts and oh how I wish I could go there ... if you have images from this event you would like to share with me on Bloesem, please shoot me an email...I would like to sign off this week with the incredible textile designs by Mae Engelgeer, aka fabricfreak. She designed this 'Muse Collection' as an ode to her muse: the bow and the collection was manufactured at Audax textile museum. Some of the pieces are available online at Wannekes. Enjoy your weekend! ..irene

I don't know about you, but I feel that there is an explosion of new blogs lately ... at least once a day a new blog is being presented to my eyes and some of them are just to good to be true ... like Dos Family ... wow this truly is eye-candy. And what I really like about this gorgeous blog is the fact that most images are taken by the authors themselves. Jenny, Staffan and Isabelle, all from Sweden, visited houses they like, take images and create spectacular posts for us ...

DOS Family is definetly my Favorite new blog! ...of course I have invited them to come and visit our house :)...!

Via this nice blog, i found this nice blog and there I found this nice blog and wow then I saw these images I just had to tell you why I like them so much ...
first of all I noticed these chairs ... and how I love these “Safari Chairs”, they were designed by N. Eilerson marked made in Denmark. And for the longest time I'm looking for a beautiful wall piece like the one in the right image...Juli and John are the authors of Kitkadesign and they live in Toronto (i wish they already had their blog when I was living in there too) ... one of their recent projects wat the renovation and decorationg of their cottage ...

I just love it when a simple idea is being executed so very nicely ...these little notebooks are simply fantastic! Perhaps a title Archie should add :: bloggers I met and liked ... you can buy them here, they will look fantastic on a mantel and are very nice gifts.

An online shop packed with Japanese paper goodies ... yes I Like it! I truly didn't know that you can buy superfun orange peelers like this cute bird or 'rice-bal' erasers and there are whole sushi eraser sets :) I'm  a person who can really enjoy simple objects being displayed in a clean and crispy  way like these Mini Capsule Colored Pencils, they make any desk look nicer! Yep if you are looking for original paper products I can highly recommend Ginko papers to you...