Bolwol: Flavourites Fave

This weekend was FlavouriteLive! Flavourites is a Dutch site with the coolest, cutest webshops. Once a year they organize a weekend where you can visit many of these webshops 'live', to see all the beautiful stuff for real. And beautiful it was. The place was burstling with colour, creativity and do-it-yourself. It was nice to talk to some of the shopowners and meet the people behind the shops and blogs.

A short impression:

First thing I noticed when entering the hall were the gorgeous trees from Booom. Wood, especially scrap wood, always makes my heart bounce quicker.

FlavouritesLive via Booom

Xkieke was a real discovery. Handmade items are very carefully picked and disposed. A natural and distuinguished style. How about these gorgeous folders? Great to store pictures.

photo: xkieke

I couldn't resist buying a few Japanese paper fish balloons at Roppongi. Also discovered there Madame Mo and their great, great Japanese ABC wallhangings. Go check 'em out.

photo: madamemo

Of course there were ol' time favourites like PSikhouvanjou (hard to resist buying something there) and ClubGeluk (can I have the everything in the stand please?)

At Musjes I discovered a bunch of children's clothing labels, soooo cute. Many from Scandinavia, which it the place to get nice baby en children's clothing. Mostly organic/biological materials, very well designed, and great fabrics. How about this babysuit?

photo: musjes

Also great babyclothing at Unitnl.nl

Most charming with the ladies from House of Dots in their gorgeous dresses with, yes, dots..

Oh, and so much more charming stuff, like the DIY sewing, stichting and crochet packages of De Geranium , beautiful fair trade decorations at Zylja.

photo: Zylja

Another lovely find was Echtstudio. They bring crocheting to a new level! They also introduce a new material to crochet XXL: zpagetti. The fabric is made from residues from the textile industry and you need big crochet hooks!