burlab & berries

The burlab coffee sacks I found in Maastricht and I had to have them without knowing how to use them. By chance I stumbled upon Mayas inspiring blog yesterday. She makes beautiful burlab buckets and also offers the sewing pattern on etsy, which I happily purchased.



garden harvest: cherries and berries are ripe and so delicious

one morning you wake up and you are 40

paperdolls in Maastricht



Yesterday I entered into my 40iest year on this planet. My feelings about leaving the thirties behind are divided.
For those of you who haven´t "crossed the border" yet, you have to find out on your own how it feels for you :). Contemporaries probably know what I´m talking about. I spent a lovely and oh so hot day in Maastricht.

Thank you all for your prompt help with the sewing machine issue! It´s still not solved, but I can get a friend´s machine for substitute for the first.
Thanks also for the bleaching tipp! Is stamping bleach really possible? As far as I know it is very aquaeus... but will have to find out more about it.

-- Note for Magda (Poland): the messages I´m sending you to the email-adress you gave me, can´t be delivered to you, says the auto-response-email.... --

days like these...

I carved a rubber-stamp, but it didn´t come out the way it was meant to be and also the stamped color was absorbed by the denim fabric immediately.

Only 2 weeks ago I had my sewing machine at repair and machine care. Yesterday new problems... the bobbin thread is showing up on the frontside of the sewn piece. It´s not possible to get a clean and regular zigzag stitch any more. I tried everything (?), from changing thread tension to using other needles, other thread, other fabric. But it was all the same. Do you have any further hints/tipps???

My PFAFF dealer is 4 weeks on holiday and an other PFAFF destination I asked for help didn´t feel like helping me today and let me know it´s not their business if MY dealer was on holiday.
That´s service in this country, friends....

I have orders to fulfill and just the thought of waiting 4 weeks until I can complain the last repair, makes me nervously shuffle my feet.
Maybe I can borrow a machine.

The new figure I am working on was inspired by this plate

Chris Gilmour makes incredible things with cardboard

summer evenings...

...with party planning. My birthday is coming...



and enjoying the silhouette of thistles in the dusk

where art and feces collide

yesterday evening, a Gershwin themed Jazz concert down in the sewerage system of Cologne city.

Every visitor was served a peppermint twig before going downstairs...

and that was for good reason...

as feces were passing by very close to our left side...

But after about one hour we took the stairs to the skylight happily and filled with new impressions and wonderful music.

Thanks so much to all of you who accepted our special offer. Friederike and I are thrilled! We are looking forward to pack and ship your flying horses tomorrow when we are back in the studio.

A happy Sunday to you!

special offer - flying horses

as promised, we have a special offer for you. Our flying horses!

Flying horses is a paper mobile kit (first edition of 200) designed by Friederike! and me. It comes with:

- 8 flying knights horses printed on heavy weight paper (250g/qm), ready for cutting out. paper size: 42.0cm x 29.7cm / 16.54inch x 11.69inch
- 6 mobile wires
- thread
- a brief instruction, printed on the paper sheet

The mobile is timelessly designed, playful, joyful and fun to make. If by chance you don´t have a sheep by your side to help you with the making of the mobile, you maybe ask another person for a little help.

The mobile kit is packed in a pergamyn cover and shipped in a solid board envelope for bend protection

The new price is 8 EUR (before 14.90 EUR) plus shipping

shipping to Germany: 2 EUR
to European countries: 4 EUR
to USA, Australia, China & rest of the World: 6 EUR

We accept Paypal

You can order a mobile-kit by sending an email to: info(at)herzensart(dot)com or by filling out the order form on our website

A happy weekend to you!

still TOP SECRET

but already a tiny preview what´s coming next....

Don´t forget to check back tomorrow, for the special offer.

new studio window

Yesterday I rearranged my studio window. The white birds had to leave and the horses moved in. On Friday, I will have a special offer for you. You will recieve the flying horses mobile kit for discount price. So, please stay tuned.

We are proud that we are featured at Double Rice, a luxury pet products company in Hong Kong.

I´m currently working on a new design and pattern - Pfaff is back after repair ....


wire work by Armel Barraud

if...

... you follow this path...

through the woods...


you will find a little house hiding in the trees...


a few savaged steps will lead you to the porch...


and front door...

but think twice if you knock at the door...

better quick cross the wooden pier...


and you will find....



this beautiful lily pond

the way

herzensart is turning 4 this year. Maybe it´s because I´m still without my sewing machine and therefore got some extra time for mulling, maybe it´s because soon I´m entering the 4th decade as well... anywayI find myself stuck in a midlife and business review.

In the last days I felt somehow overwhelmed with all my thoughts and troubles and was looking for a more structured way to have a closer look at some life and business topics. On my Internet research I found 2 sites that I think can be helpful and inspiring to get the ball rolling. I want to share them with you, in case you haven´t heard about these sites already


The Art of Nonconformity - unconvetional strategies for life, work and travel by Chris Guillebau

Zenhabits - simple productivity by Leo Babauta

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

P.S.: Oh and I changed my blog layout, hope you like it?