20/12

We have arrived at the fourth advents (last Sunday before Christmas!!)

So while you sit enjoying all your candles lit and wrap up your last presents

Here are some lovely ideas

from oh hello friend's :) exchange

09/12

great christmas project for the home

by chez larsson

08/12

build your own ginger house

with a little twist

its a moomin ginger house

01/12

You still have time to make a lovely brown paper advent calendar as seen on

this great post at whip up with many more ideas for your own calendar at home

wool fillers

one of the many inspiring things at the Design Week

are Heleen Klopper wool fillers

am already workin the holes of all our sweaters :)

MOre on Eindhoven Design week to follow

TWENTIETH

lovely origami wreaths tutorial at bloesem for today

THIRTEENTH

Follow the link to maya's blog and look what a lovely family tradition.... Leon will have something to look forward to the following Christmases ;)

"It's such a surprise every time you unfold a snowflake, but the magic of opening one that my grandfather had drawn just for my delight cannot be described in words."

its sunday again

It has been a while since our last post. For those of you who are following us through the internet - much has happened in this time.

Apart from our second brunch today....
we are not melting in vonblum anymore as we have a super super potent new ufo like aircondition installed and
we have new people working with us ..... Welcome Nuria and Fernanda!

Bruna is now also giving on site instructions at vonblum how to fold those little lucky stars we have close to the till - can you find our jar in the photo above? ;)

Today, tough I came across the best origami site via swissmiss, for those who just don't seem to get all that little folding right, enjoy instant origami!!

one hundreth post

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At vonblum we always find a reason to celebrate, today it's our 100th post!
So we got you a little something...
Click on the image above and save it to your computer on the size that fits your screen best.
Then you will have your very own vonblum Barcelona desktop image.
Enjoy.

P.S: Thanks Diego

If you would like to use the image for any other purpose than private do let us know
by emailing to info(at)vonblum(dot)com

one more because its sunday

and now look at this good use of a bird house
I found on emmas blog
enjoy your sunday bed side reading
appropriate with ken kesey's book ;)

Sunday FUN

Today is Sunday, in Barcelona the sky is grey and it seems like it might rain any minute now.
As we go through all our paperwork, we decided to share some different paperwork with you.
Follow us to the website from David Balihar to make your own Dirkon pinhole camera.
Enjoy and let us know how it went.

22ND OF DECEMBER

We have made our own Cristmas crackers this year!
We added candy, lots of glittery stars and a riddle or a fortune or even a dare.
If you like you can also add little gifts.
We will also add names on our crackers and use them on our Christmas table as name tags.
Here are some easy to follow instructions.
2 days left for Christmas eve

21ST OF DECEMBER

This idea comes from one of the blogs we always read.
Again, thank you swissmiss for showing it to us!
If you would like to do see how it was done, go straight to the site of London based design consultancy company, johnson banks, and see how they got it together.
They have loads of lovely projects on their site.
Advice: stumble around their site a bit :)
Only 3 days left for Christmas eve.

17TH OF DECEMBER

We spend our Sunday wrapping Christmas presents.
Here are some of the ideas that make our Christmas different:
the weekends newspaper and a nice ribbon ( the FT has a lovely pink colour)
aluminum foil and a cut out a snowflake for extra decoration
a piece of material that can be used later on to make a table runner or a pillow
wrapped as a candy around the gift.

If you have any other ideas, do let us know.

14TH OF DECEMBER

Remember the Holiday Ornament swap we posted about in the beginning of November? We have already send out our ornaments and received one! If you want follow up on whats happening, come check on FLICKR and get into the crafty Christmas mood!