The one in Den Bosch

A couple of weeks ago mum and me went to Den Bosch, there is another post about this city, which you can find here. This time we visited the Stedelijk museum and the Noord Brabants museum.

One of the temporary exhibitions was about the eighties. On display was the dress worn by our former Queen Beatrix when she was crowned in 1980. I am digging the Queen Beatrix wallpaper adorning the walls!

 Happy as a bird with a French fry when I spotted some vintage cars

The other exhibition showed work from Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota. This installation was made from about 2,000 balls of wool, held together by approximately 10,000 staples. If you're interested, and would like to know more, you may want to check out this short video.

Staircase inside the Stedelijk Museum

Seen on our way back to the train station

 

Some pretty doors were spotted along the way too, but I'll show those in a separate post. I think they deserve a post of their own :-) Have you visited any museums lately?

The one with another market

One and a half week ago, me and mum attended the 'Zelfgemaakte' (Homemade) market, in the city of 's-Hertogenbosch. The market was part of an art festival named Artibosch and was located at the foot of St. John's Cathedral, which is a beautiful spot. We had a bit of a different set up from the previous market, with a different display for notebooks (at the side of the stall) and we took along some printed baby onesies and a number 1 printed prize. 

For future markets I would like to have a banner with my shop name made, and a display for totebags. I need to cook up something that's easy to take along, and can display lots of different bags. I took more bags with me than the ones pictured, but there was no room to show them. 

We did enjoy ourselves, but sales-wise the market wasn't a big success. Hopefully the next one will be better. We were feeling pretty cold during the whole day, even though it's still only september and both of us were wearing winter coats. I was even thinking about going shopping for a hat! The next market will definitely be one that's taking place indoors. I am thinking about making some cards especially for the holiday season.

I don't like having my picture taken, but here's proof that I was really there ;-)

I did a quick walk across the venue

Our neighbour for the day's stall, who is a seamstress

Loved this display and the brightly coloured dreamcathers

The one with a market and a quick shop update

This sunday I'll be taking part in my third market ever. It's in the city of Den Bosch, where I studied business economics and lived for 1,5 years (until I quit) (it took me quite a while before I realised that I prefered the lessons in law and marketing over the actual economics...) many years ago. My mom is a sweetheart and she will come along to help me out. The market is outside, and so far the weather predictions aren't very good.... As I am typing this, it's raining cats and dogs. Maybe a good thing, because the rain we are having now, can't be falling again on sunday, right?

This promotional squirrel is made by Studio WellWaar and more info about the market (in Dutch) over here. 

Shop update

I've been listing some new items lately, including the pretty pink paper (new quote prints are coming too!). Here's an update.

 you are my person notebook

Never trust a pretty girl notebook

Market print

Nap all day postcard

Hope you're off to a great start of the weekend. Today I'll be preparing for tomorrows market. What are you up to? Enjoy!

The one with Mariken van Nieumeghen

As you might know, my name is Marieken, and I live in a Dutch city named Nijmegen. There was another Mariken living in the same city, in a medieval miracle play from the 16th century.

In the story, Mariken lives near Nijmegen and is send to get groceries at the market in Nijmegen. She is supposed to spend the night at her aunt, but the two get into a fight. She goes back home praying desperately, not caring if she gets help from God or the Devil. The Devil hears her and takes her to the cities Den Bosch and Antwerpen, where they live in sin for seven years. After that, she returns to Nijmegen, and regrets the things she has done. She seeks forgiveness, which is finally granted to her by the pope. The moral of the story: no mather what you've done, it's always possible to get forgiveness.

Mariken is quite famous over here, there's a statue (which I can almost see from my home). There are a street, a sportsclub, the biggest ladies run of the Netherlands, and a train named after her. Not quite sure if I should be happy to share a name with this lady though!

The one where we visit Den Bosch

The weekend before last, I visited Den Bosch with my mother. I moved to this city when I was 18 and lived there for 1,5 year. It still feels a little bit like home. It's only half an hour away by train, but it's very different from where I live now. We had a little walk, a big lunch, visited the cathedral and spent some time at the renewed museum. My mom also blogged about it over here.

There are canals througout the city, if you like boats (which I don't 

because of an incident years ago) you can have a guided boat tour

A moustached house

Our big lunch

Saint John's cathedral

A gorgeous ceiling in the cathedral

Mother, in the museum

Super fun Schiaparelli sunnies

My favourite item of the jewelry collection, a big brooch

A necklace, not sure how this one works

The museumshop was one of the best I've seen, lots of books and 

other things (like these bears) that I wanted to take with me

The one with the trip to 's-Hertogenbosch

Last saturday I had lunch with some old school friends (or oldschool friends?) in the city of 's-Hertogenbosch. I lived there for almost 2 years and it's one of my favourite cities. Lots of places with good food and drinks, small streets and a Zara (which we don't have over here). There's also a store where you can gush over shoes like Louboutins and a store that's named 'the Chocolate Company'.

Urban decay

Mary's in the city

bright

My wallet is very happy that I am not able to walk in heels

Chocolate-heaven

blue skies are always a good excuse for a party

not my best photography-work, but the train was moving - fast