05/12

Today children in Holland are looking forward to the arrival of St. Nicholas - Sinterklaas.

Children are told that St. Nicholas is very busy and has many helpers who dress like him and Zwarte Piet so that no child is left out.

Children place straw or carrots in their shoes for Schimmel and St. Nicholas replaces these with gifts and treats.

Adults will also exchange gifts and usually attach a funny poem or verse

If you want to know more details here is a good site.

I would reccomend geting your shoes out tonight and joining in the Dutch celebration

cafes in Sweden and Holland

mobile uploads from our trip

bloesem world tour

for all you world travelers out there
...go check out bloesem blog

lots of tips from us and another great little gem in Barcelona called Duduá
Thanks Irene!

Talking about world tours, today we can all go look at the Olympic opening ceremonies in China

Time flies

It has been a week since our last post.
We are now just about to start the constructions inside vonblum. We have taken out the fridges, the draft beer machine and are finding uses for many other things to be found inside the space now.
Hopefully, by next week we can start tearing the walls down and getting closer to what we imagine the space to look like.
Another reason for not having posted was a quick trip to the lovely city of Hamburg.
The Christmas markets where all being set up and you could feel that spirit all over the town.
Met up with friends and family, wandered the city in search of inspiring ideas for vonblum, and found some nice products to be part of our space.
Enjoy your sunday and we will be back sooner than later this time ;)

Dutch Design Week

While we are still going through all the information received during Eindhoven's Dutch design week.
We thought we might give you a quick glance at some of the lovely things we saw.
We will be back with more detailed info of great works and very inspiring days.
If you are in Holland, its well worth going to have a look (on until the 28th of October).
Thanks to Agnes & Hjördis for showing us around.