Sketching

I've been playing around a bit with my son Lewis' drawings and my doodles to see if I can make a new book of friends for him.
I really like the idea of mixing the two styles, but perhaps his drawings attract enough attention. No need to steal his thunder...

From you to me... (part two)

A few years ago I left Edenspiekermann after working there for 11 years. Working there was not only good for me carrierwise, but socially it meant a great deal to me as well. So, as a goodbye gift my colleagues gave me a poezie album. A lot of hard work was put into it, especially by Miranda, who bound all those pieces of kind words, great pictures, drawings, poetry, craftmanship and friendship together and made it into this great album/artwork!
Thanks again ex-colleagues (especially Miranda, Margriet, Jenny and Stijn)!!

From you to me... (part one)

I wasn't planning on posting something that had to do with Valentine's day, but when I woke up this morning and found a big bouquet of flowers (!) on the diningroom table I decided to post something about friends and friendship.
In the Netherlands the little girls used to have a 'poezie album' (roughly translated: poetry album). They let their family and friends write a little rhyme, poem or verse in it and they used to decorate it with small images. The pictures show you my old album.

Danni's friends

Im getting really experienced in making these friendbooks. I've made 4 of them so far; 2 for Mila, 1 for Lewis and 1 for Danni, Mila's friend. I order them from Blurb, quite expensive but definitely the best print quality.
If anyone is interested I can make one especially for you, just e-mail me!

Mila's friends

Of course Mila is a friendcollector as well. I made her a friendbook last year. She started in a new class, with new kids so she 'needed' a new book. It's great to see how enthousiastic the children react!

Lewis' friends

New kid on the block needs a book to collect his friends, right?! So I designed this book for Lewis, he's very prood to have his own book. He's a very enthousiastic 'friend-collector'!