Goodie Bag item Webshop Till You Drop Event

I just sent some cool small notebooks to the Webshop Till You Drop Event goodie bag action.
October 12th and 13th Prien will join this event in DeFabrique. This beautiful, raw old factory is located at the edge of Utrecht.
At this event a lot of special webshops will present themselves offline. If you are looking for unique items or exceeding presents, join this event! If you want to go please sent me a message, so I can provide a discount card.

Workshop Pulp Printing - the pictures

Last weekend I joined a two day workshop at De Boekwerkplaats in Stedum. This little village northeast of Groningen is really picturesque. On holidays in your own country... De Boekwerkplaats is situated at the border of this village, next to the meadows, the view is outstanding and so is the hospitality!
The workshop was provided by Pien Rotterdam of Water Leaf Paper & Words. I learned a lot of new things and I gained inspiration for new booklets and opportunities. The workshop was about papermaking and printing patterns in the wet paper. Because of the used method the pattern becomes one with the paper, you don't feel the pattern, you just see it.

Sweet surprise

Last Saturdaynight when I came back from this great Pulp Printing workshop, a large bunch of beautiful flowers was waiting for me. Two dear friends sent it to me to congratulate me with my new webshop www.prien.nl.
Thankxs for this super sweet surprise J & J!

Workshop Pulp Printing

Today I will join a two day workshop Pulp Printing in Stedum - Groningen, The Netherlands.
The workshop will be given by Pien Rotterdam of Water Leaf Paper & Words.
I'm very curious....photos will follow !

www.waterleafpaperandwords.com

Beautiful leaf of a plant

Beautiful leaf of a plant

No time to go to the beach

So many things to do ... and not enough time ...
that's why I share this airy beach glass picture,
... for all my beach dreamings ...
soon I will make time for a long beachwalk!

Surprise in an old box

What a beautiful surprise I found in this old box of my grandmother.
Stamps with patterns from the past. An inspiration for new booklets!

Home Booklet

This morning I saw this funny and special bookdesign in a facebook post from Adelene from
ddots and I really had to share it. It has been designed for the exhibition Mi Casa Su Casa
in Singapore.

http://www.dddots.com
http://micasasucasajia.weebly.com/index.html

New Book Press

Yesterday I bought a really good and very heavy bookpress. The press has been manufactured
by Karl Krause from Leipzig - Germany. This company was founded in 1855 and has been very
important for the development of bookbinding. Karl Krause invented new devices for stack cutting, book presses and cardboard scissors.
Unfortunately I can't find any information on the internet about H.B. Ydo Machinehandel, the Dutch firm that sold this press.

  

 

Information about Karl Krause:
http://www.buchbinderei-koester.de/de/news/details/2009-03-20_Maschinenbau+Karl+Krause,+ein+Wegbereiter+der+modernen+Buchbinderei.html

http://www.maschinenzoo.ch/index.php?/root/karl-krause/

Ball of Light

Denis Smith produces beautiful photos by swinging lights around:

http://www.balloflight.com.au/

https://www.facebook.com/DenisSmithPhotography