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Someone else's vintage photos

noreply@blogger.com (Ellen van de Sande) — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 01:58:49 PDT

I bought these photos and negatives the other day. It's always a bit puzzling how these photos end up at a flea market or in a thriftshop. As if no relative was interested in holding on to these photos as a memory. A bit sad actually.

I was happy to have found them, though!

Oracle for women

noreply@blogger.com (Ellen van de Sande) — Sun, 26 May 2013 04:50:10 PDT

This collection of books is an ABC for women, I bought it at a flea market. Unfortunalely, one part is missing. It's an encyclopedia from the fifties, the pictures and illustrations are truly hilarious. I just love to browse through them and read the patronising text.

Sunhil soap by Unilever published these books. An absolute must have for vintage lovers!

Two vintage games

noreply@blogger.com (Ellen van de Sande) — Fri, 03 May 2013 02:08:20 PDT

The vintage version of well know sliding puzzle. I had a few of these small plastic puzzles. With a company logo or an illustration. I was never able to solve these unless the pieces were numbered.

This game is from 1950 published by Jumbo. I love the small box and the beautiful typography on it.

This game was far from complete when I bought it. All the game pieces were missing! Don't know why I bought it at the time...

It's a game from 1973.

Crochet for kids clothing

noreply@blogger.com (Ellen van de Sande) — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:29:34 PDT

I never got the hang of crochet, knitting was more my thing. But I love these old needlework books. I actually have quite a few in my collection. All beautiful ones with wonderful graphic illustrations and - sometimes - hilarious pictures.

Friday fruitday #10

noreply@blogger.com (Ellen van de Sande) — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:57:04 PDT

I need a new Moleskine!

Found alphabet

noreply@blogger.com (Ellen van de Sande) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:23:52 PDT

I'm still looking for F and K! Any suggestions? I come across a lot of Xs, Cs or Ys to make a few alphabets but some letters are quite difficult to find...

Another vintage book about dogs

noreply@blogger.com (Ellen van de Sande) — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:58:44 PDT

I'm always on the lookout for vintage books about dogs, about different breeds or about raising dogs. The vintage photos can be so hilarious at times!

I just love how this German Shepard flies!

Emily Barletta

noreply@blogger.com (Ellen van de Sande) — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 04:03:05 PDT

Emily Barletta's (recent) work is amazing. It reflects what I love; repetition and stitching. Especially the way she uses colour in her work is very inspiring to me.

Garage Gallery:

'Barletta’s repetitive gestures, marks, and shape building techniques accumulate and combine in mass to create larger works. Each object she makes is to be viewed as a physical container instilled with the memories and experiences that occurred while it was being made. Through her art she builds imaginary machines that organically grow to reference patternmaking, weaving, flesh, blood, cells, plants, topography, molds, and diseases.'

I once set myself to do a stitching project as well (absolutely no comparison!). I loved doing it, but it was extremely more time consuming than I thought when I started out. So I can only imagine how much work Emily Barletta puts into each piece.

Emily has a blog as well.

Kra learns to sings

noreply@blogger.com (Ellen van de Sande) — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:53:22 PDT

A Belgian book for the youngest who learn to read.

Vintage tin cans

noreply@blogger.com (Ellen van de Sande) — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:25:00 PDT

New tin cans!

The locomotive and other stories - Godfried Bomans

noreply@blogger.com (Ellen van de Sande) — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 06:12:00 PDT

I bought this lovely book at a flea market at a church. I bought it by judging the cover. At home I realised just how wonderfully illustrated it is. Especially the last story about the fish (please scroll down!). The stories are written by Godfried Bomans, a well known Dutch writer, the illustrations are by C. van Velsen. The book is from 1954.

Linn Meyers

noreply@blogger.com (Ellen van de Sande) — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 06:09:21 PST

Linn Meyers' work revolves around drawing. Each dense and intricate ink line drawing is the result of a nearly meditative process by which Meyers lays down consecutive lines into largely organic forms, creating rhythmic repetitive patterns. Working in a range of scales, Meyers has in recent years moved from the page to creating site-specific wall drawings. Ambitious in scale and labor, these drawings can take several weeks to complete, their shapes responding to the architecture of the space and the surrounding elements.

Her work inspires me because it's quite similar to my way of working. I recognise the mediative process and the rhythmic repetitive patterns. I would love to work on a larger scale than 100 x 70 cm!

INTERSECTIONS: at the time being by Linn Meyers from The Phillips Collection on Vimeo.

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Signs

noreply@blogger.com (Ellen van de Sande) — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:28:25 PST

A sign bought at my favorite thrift shop. However, I have doubts about its authenticity.

A Belgian car sign which my son found in an abandoned village

I bought a vintage zoo stroller a few years ago at the Amersfoort Zoo. Really beautiful item but too big to hold on to. So we screwed off the horses' head...

Vintage lotto game

noreply@blogger.com (Ellen van de Sande) — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:48:00 PST

A lotto game from the mid fifties.

I guess the game pieces got lost, buttons were used instead.

Jack and Jill - nursery rhymes

noreply@blogger.com (Ellen van de Sande) — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 10:53:47 PST

I thrifted this book a while ago in the local thrift shop. Vintage English children's books are quite hard to find here in the Netherlands so I'm always pleased to discover one!

#iseefaces

noreply@blogger.com (Ellen van de Sande) — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:31:05 PST

Paper sculptures - Li Hongbo

noreply@blogger.com (Ellen van de Sande) — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 04:55:21 PST

Chinese artist and designer Li Hongbo makes sculptures out of paper. What first seems like a plaster sculpture turns out to be made out of thousands of layers of paper, glued and carved. The sculptures open like a flexible sculpture. Watch the video to see how it works.

Via de monsterkamer

Li Hongbo demonstrating, how his paper sculptures work.

from Dominik Mersch Gallery on Vimeo.

Li Hongbo - Pure White Paper from Dominik Mersch Gallery on Vimeo.

Encyclopedic Cuttlefish & Mussels

noreply@blogger.com (Ellen van de Sande) — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 10:54:40 PST

Edmund de Waal

noreply@blogger.com (Ellen van de Sande) — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 07:01:39 PST

British ceramist Edmund de Waal is one of the world’s leading artists working in ceramics today. He is best known for his large-scale installations of porcelain vessels. Much of his recent work has been concerned with ideas of collecting and collections: how objects are kept together, lost, stolen, or dispersed.

I'm not particulary interested in pottery and ceramics but I can enjoy it very much. But this goes beyond pottery. His large scale of the collections is what makes his work so beautiful.

MixMax

noreply@blogger.com (Ellen van de Sande) — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:00:39 PST

To think I actually doubted to buy this game! I didn't like the illustrations at first but when I photographed it the game actually grew on me. Such fun!

It's a classic theme, of course, mixing and matching the several pieces. But it never gets boring.

This Ravensburger game is from 1972. I was happy to discover it was complete.

The Fire Bird - Russian fairy tales

noreply@blogger.com (Ellen van de Sande) — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:07:19 PST

I found this gorgeous children's book in a thriftshop. It's an English translation of Russian fairy tales, with beautiful titles. Such as: the fire bird, the frog Tsarevna, chestnut grey, Emelya and the pike, Vasilisa the beautiful.

I'm always interested in vintage books from Eastern Europe. The illustrations are always so interesting and beautiful. The drawings are by Igor Yershov and Ksenia Yershova. The book was first published in 1973 by Progress Publishers Moscow.

Sam Winston

noreply@blogger.com (Ellen van de Sande) — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:33:34 PST

Through his explorations of language Sam Winston creates sculpture, drawings and books that question our understanding of words, both as a carriers of messages and as information itself.

Esther Dudley, Lecturer in Design History, School of Art & Media Plymouth University:

“His methods of production are certainly of our time: statistics, data collection and analysis, computer programming. Yet he is dependent on craft as well: drawing, doodling, cutting and folding. Concepts are revealed and emerge through his interrogation, until they are utterly logical and clear. They are also inspiring, leading the viewer to a fresh understanding of an art that can be constructed from typography, opening onto a beautiful aesthetic composed of text as image.

Mother reads to us

noreply@blogger.com (Ellen van de Sande) — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:00:00 PST

Lovely vintage children's book which goes to show that you should never judge a book by its cover.

I wasn't triggered by the cover but fortunately I leafed through the book and saw the wonderful illustrations.

Jip and Janneke jig saw puzzle

noreply@blogger.com (Ellen van de Sande) — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 09:15:45 PST

I just love Fiep Westendorp's work. Her Jip and Janneke drawings definately stand out, considering she drew these characters in the fifties.

I bought this wooden jig saw puzzle at a flea market. Too bad one of the pieces is torn off a bit.

Drawings - Lars Schreuders

noreply@blogger.com (Ellen van de Sande) — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 08:33:38 PST

Lars Schreuders plays in his work with architecture and light. His ink drawings almost seem to light up.