Peachy words about Planet Fur

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Today I’ve been shooting a lot of pictures of our home. The project wasn’t made easy for me, Molly kept walking through every single picture and sat down with an air of nonchalance in front of the camera. As if to say “Hey, those pictures are one big failure anyway if I’m not on it!”

A very comforting thought is that Molly will fall asleep somewhere during the process. She did, on the chair in the studio of course (her new favourite sleeping spot). Next thing for me to do was deleting all the pictures with a moving black blob on ‘em and shooting new ones. It’s so nice to have pets. Never a boring moment.

What seemed to be a Planet Fur day like any other, suddenly changed when I opened my e-mail tonight. Sweet Tif of Dottie Angel (who doesn’t need any introduction, those who don’t know her have been living underneath a rock the last couple of years, which isn’t a bad thing, but go check out her work right now then!) wrote the most peachy article about my shop, home and, who else?, little miss Molly. I think I’ve grown a few inches after reading her kind words. And even though you might not immediately see (she’s again sound asleep next to me on the couch), I’m sure Molly is proud too!

So…

welcome to those who are new, so nice to meet you here! If you want to read some more about Planet Fur, pop over to this page! Feel free to comment or ask me any question, I’d love get in touch!

Picture ‘Blankity Bunnykin and pom-pom squirrel plotting pesky tricks’
by Tif, Dottie Angel

Project Polaroid Part 1

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It’s no secret I like to photograph. But what I love even more about taking pictures are the fabulous accessoiries that help me make beautiful pictures. The tripod…the high quality lens…the software that can make it seem the sun shined brightly the day I shot the picture (but secretly it didn’t and you could certainly tell if you saw the original picture)… I’m one little spoiled princess when it comes to shooting nice, blogworthy pictures.But then I got this Polaroid camera for my birthday.
It’s just a plain camera.
No excape routes with this device, you need to actually now how to photograph when using this one.
Oops. I shot a few pictures and, of course, I didn’t like them…at all. The fact that I took them during the most dark season of the year, didn’t make things better either.

I think I just needed to get my head around the fact that making Polaroid pictures is all about fun and that the retro-like feel of the pictures gives a whole new dimension to making them. Especially after reading Anki’s enthusiastic Lomo-posts on her beautiful blog Zilverblauw (which is also about her gorgeous colourful home and totally worth checking out) I decided it was time to make peace with the Polaroid again.

To celebrate our refound friendship, I took the Polaroid for a ride to a deer forest nearby. We had quite some fun! The sun was shining, the deer looked sweet and fluffy and didn’t move too much, so we could take some nice, sharp pictures. I even showed my sweet Polaroid friend around in one of my favourite thriftshops, to seal our lifelasting friendship.

A happy ending after all, I love that!

My super vintage Arabia jam jar

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I never expected to run into a Real Vintage Arabia Jam Jar ever, but what is that saying about things happening when you least expect it?

It just stood there.

I guess a dozen of people passed it, but nobody took it home.

I did..of course!

Isn’t she a gorgeous model (especially for the plain photo series)?

The sweet little Rice vase reminds me of a pineapple. It’s shape makes me smile. Just so you know :-D

Looking forward to a great creative-ladies-meet-up this weekend. See you soon!

Playing house

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..or getting a bit arty farty.

I should be sewing like a mad woman, instead I’ve been shooting pictures all morning. Inspired by the beautiful sober pictures at the blog of Dutch Designer duo Tas-ka, I decided to make some pictures with less going on (if you know what I mean), playing with focus and depth.

(With in the back of my head that little voice screaming: “you shouldn’t be doing this, you don’t have time for this!”)

Despite all the efforts to keep the picture sober, I couldn’t resist to put some color in the composition. And while shooting pictures, I also got inspired to make a new blogbanner, so even though this day is fast on his way to reaching the top three of most procrastinating behaviour days, I am still very happy with these “playing house” kind of mornings, when inspiration seems to be flowing elaborately.

Of course, I’m very curious what you think of the new banner. Please be gentle though, me is very pleased with it (maybe because of it’s tad-of-artyness ;-))

Most be off now my friends, so long!

Up close and personal with my new kokeshi doll

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I don’t know what attracts me so in these Japanese figurines,
but I can definitely feel a collection coming up.
I found this sweet lady on Etsy,
and another one is on her way to our home too.
(This may sound weird, but I just recently discovered the vintage section in Etsy. My Love is still making up his mind if that’s a good thing or not..he’s afraid I’m turning into some strange figurine-hoarder.)

If you’re a fan too check out these Flickr photostreams:
Otomodachi (my recent favourite)
Kokeshi fever Flickr group