Here you can find all earlier parts.Memories of my mother – Part 1 – 12 Mom and Dad have the opportunity to buy this house at Bloemendalstraat no. 2.Dad worked very hard there for a long time and when we moved here in 1965, a lot had changed and in the near future it became […]
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Our vacation is coming to an end and so I actually like a week at itmemory book would have worked, it did not happen. There are opportunities to work on a theme book in felt and paper under my direction. Let me know if you are interested. Also on the agenda was the princess dress […]
It’s been a year since Dad, the last of his generation, passed away. When only 8 months later my brother, the first of our generation, dies, life becomes very relative.When I work in my book here and now, in the time when we are born, it is only conceivable in my mind that he is […]
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Memories of my mother – Part 10
The paperclip doll If you’re being held back from doing something similar because you think you barely have any memories, I can tell you they are, those memories. As soon as you start working with them, they slowly surface. While I was working on the doll, the word ‘friekele’ came to mind. (Freely translated, I’d […]
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Memories of my mother – Part 9
It took a while, but now an extra long contribution. I have now arrived at page 17. This text is also a handwritten text by Mom. She called us her cloverleaf.Could ‘t blumche van de mam’ (‘mothers little flower’) (wood sorrel) have been given this name because of this? But first back to where we […]
If Mom was still alive, she would have turned 90 today.What she would have been like at that age is almost as hard to imagine as what she would have been like as a child. I’m still working on the textile page, but in honor of her birthday I want to send her a greeting […]
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Memories of my mother – Part 7
Page 8 is finished. I started with the felt textile page.I’m trying to imagine Mom as a 10-year-old. It is war.The people are poor.Where did she find the things she used to make and dress her paperclip doll? And what did that look like? I can only guess and give my interpretation. It remains exciting […]
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Memories of my mother – Part 6
The first 7 pages are finished. It took quite some time to finalize the pages. I write the texts on a separate paper and stick them in. I first write the colored texts in thin pencil and then go over them with colored pencil when I am satisfied. Now I am preparing for the next […]
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Memories of my mother – Part 5
The embroidery of this page needs a little more time.Without it really being intended, the list evokes the same feeling as Jan’s princess suit. If I remember correctly, Mom embroidered the decal on Jan’s suit. Mom’s gems are generously replenished on the free markets. That was already on the agenda. Searching for how I want […]
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Memories of my mother – Part 4
Here’s the start on the cover. Her call sign. The story of this man. Your name, like your handwriting, will be with you for the rest of your life. Or as Neeltje Maria Min puts it: ‘Call me by my deepest name’. I found the Maria amulet in her materials. Mary had a special meaning […]