Want. All. Of. It.

 My favourite. The small one. Now that I'm writing this.... Should have bought it. Dang!

 Can't remember in which store it was, but the collection was mind blowing. Waaaaaaaaay out of my budget, but what a joy to see all those great things.

 I say: Mad Men!

The last two photos were taken at Appartment, between Lexington St. and Valencia St. This is a vintage lovers idea of heaven. And the staff... The friendliest and super-funny. Had a good laugh with the owner, but that's a different story. The photo above is of some factory, in the 50's, in Virginia. Ok. Why not? Looks pretty cool, though!

Street signs & fonts

 Old street sign for sale, originally from Texas. It didn't fit in my handluggage...

First of all. Pardon the different quality of photos. I need to bring my 'good' camera to the repair-man tomorrow. Don't know what's wrong with it, just know that it's not focusing as it should. So for my trip, once again, to San Francisco I took some pics with my old compact camera.
 The USA is so full of the coolest Mid-Century treasures. Specially when it comes to signs and fonts (lettertypes). So many gems everywhere you look.
The dodgiest places have the best signs, basically.
Still dreaming of going to Palm Springs, someday... I bet the best 'Mid-Century-Everything' can be found there! For now, not complaining at all! San Francisco was great, as always. Spent my free day, once again, in the Mission. Basically on Valencia street. More pics will follow.

COMING SOON!

COMING SOON!

Latest update, january 2012:
The illustrations are ready (thanks to the fantastic Emanuel Wiemans) & the packaging is done.
Now getting ready to bring KRATNET to you. Your bike is going to be sooooooo cool! So.Hang in there! And hang on to your stuff, for now.

Go check out my website! (Still under construction, but still...  it took me a lot of effort and time)

XOXO

Favorite SF-pics

To top it off, here my 3 favorite photos.

XOXO

Valencia street, the Mission

Here a small impression of the wonderful shops on Valencia str. The styling. They sure know what they're doing!

Mid-century in Frisco

Wow.
That was almost a century since my last post. Guess I needed time for some new inspiration. Well. It's here!
Just came back from a trip to San Francisco. I went to the neighbourhood 'the Mission'. I was really really really impressed. My favorite: Valencia Street. ALL the shops were cool! No, really. All of 'em.
And the cafés and restaurants. Aaaah. Sigh. The first day I had a sundaybrunch at the Foreign Cinema restaurant on Mission street. The next day a great breakfast, with friends, at the cutest bakery Tartine.
Here some pics, more will follow!

XOXO

Seafood-frenzy

Montpellier, 5 euros for 6 oysters and 2 gambas. Seriously, I need to get myself a house there.

In the end, the score: 18 oysters, 4 gamba's. Low carb, right?

La douce France

After a long absence, I'm finally filling up my blog again. Here some pics I took during my vacation in the South of France (hence the long absence...).
I got great inspiration about writing some stuff on my blog, all I need now is some peace and quiet-time to write. So, coming up later this week. For now, enjoy France!