In this category I’m telling you something about products I like. In this posts I want to introduce you to Kikkerland.
Kikkerland makes fun colourful gadgets and home accessories. I like Kikkerland because their gadgets look great but are also useful. Lots of gadgets from other makers are fun but nothing more than that. Kikkerland creates cool things that actually come to use like a cushions that look like logs , a pencil sharper that looks like a vintage camera, a solar powered radio, kaleidoscope coasters and a funny family of wind up toys.

Awika

Blok Power Strip

Solar powered radio

Kaleido coasters

Log head rest

USB cabels

Camera pencil sharpener

Tea for two

Flip clock

I want to start some new categories on my blog I want to write about every week or month. One of them is the product category where I want to show product brands I like. This week I want to show the products of the Danish brand Hay. I like Hay for their colourful but simple designs. They use simple geometric forms and patterns. The other thing I like about them is how their photography matches their products. In their photos they cleverly use colour, shapes and composition to display their products. The combination of their photography and products is what makes their brand stand out.

I love to look in magazines like 101 woonideeën to collect ideas for my own place. Since a year me and boyfriend have our own place which we like to decorate with products we like. Before he lived with his parents and myself with two room-mates so we never had a real place of our own which we could style and decorate the way we wanted. We started here with stuff I already had from my old place but in that time I bought stuff which I liked just a bit because it was cheap and kind of nice to look at (or because it was cheap). Furthermore we had lots of stuff which I got for free from my parents who recently moved to a new house so they got lots of spare furniture and accessories. So over the past year we got rid of lots of old stuff which we didn’t really like anymore and only bought new stuff which we really like and fits with our style. I posted some photos of our house on my pinterest and want to make some more photos soon (after I organized everything)

This week it was time to replace our coasters! Today I went to Amsterdam to buy paper for my exhibition and on my way back to the trainstation I paid a visit to De Bijenkorf and found these real cool coasters from Kikkerland . You can rotate the transparent top to get a kaleidoscope effect.

One of the things I like to most about christmas and wintertime is to decorate my home with winter themed decorations:

Every year I bought an advent calendar at the supermarket. A cheap paper one with small chocolates inside. This year I couldn’t find them at the store because apparently they found something toxic in the paper. So I decided to make one myself. I had to make 24 small envelopes but it looks better than the ones from the supermarket and the chocolates I put inside are way better!

Last week I went to the Woonbeurs in Amsterdam and found some great products and ideas:

Use framed photos if you don’t have a window.

Ariadne Huis – Vintage radio and photo

Gelderland Colour Wood

Gelderland pillows

101 Woonideeën huis – Triangles

101 Woonideeën huis – Love this tray! Don’t know who made it..

101 Woonideeën huis – The rabbit looks like it’s real !

101 Woonideeën huis – Yarn with glue lamp

Felt Lamp