Nancy van den Boom
vibrant oil painted jewelry

Exhibition!

January 8, 2012

Until Feb­ru­ary 3d 15 of my paint­ings are exhib­ited in Artshop Arts of Lecadre in Bus­sum. I am very happy with this oppor­tu­nity to show my paint­ings (big and small) in Bus­sum again.

You are wel­come to have a look from Tues­day to Sat­ur­days from 10.00 am — 5 pm!

Thank you Mr. and Mrs. Bechger for this opportunity!

Evening with Theo

December 13, 2011

All we hear in the barn are the sounds of 4 horses eat­ing their hay…and from time to time a bit of step­ping in the stall.
I take Theo out of his stall, with­out a rope and lead him to the front of his stall, so we can groome him. Until today we tied him to a bar of his stall, but I felt like not doing that today. He started to eat from the hay in front of his stall. Then he found out there was no rope so he stepped aside and started to eat Ivy’s hay and started explor­ing a bit.

We brought him back to his “own hay”. He under­stood, I mean, he did not walk away and was sat­is­fied with his hay. Cor brushed him. I sat close by on a bale of straw and enjoyed. I got up and stood next to Theo’s head. He stopped eat­ing, had his head low (which doesn’t hap­pen very often with this alert spirit) and enjoyed the atten­tion of Cor tak­ing care of his hooves and me, talk­ing in a low voice. What do I tell my horse? That’s our secret.

When Cor told him to move to the other side so he could do the other hooves, Theo responded like he always does. He coor­po­rates.
This was a new, nice exer­cise for the three of us. Groom­ing, tak­ing care of Theo, when he’s not on a rope and chooses to stay with us (and don’t for­get the hay), where he could eas­ily go walk through the barn.
Amaz­ing spirit. When we make our inten­tions clear enough, Theo does it. Like, at the end of the brushing/​talking ses­sion. We open the door of his stall and he walks in, on to his “hay­bag”.
I was tired today, and came back from Theo with a very relaxed, happy feel­ing.
I won­der, do you think about hav­ing a horse too?

It’s my birth­day Decem­ber 23d and Cor is work­ing on a very beau­ti­ful pen­dant for me.…Silver 2 mm with a golden tail. I am a lucky girl.

Miniatures in oil paint

December 4, 2011

This post is about my minia­tures. I love to do them. Some of them are used for the jew­elry. Some for dec­o­ra­tion on a desk, or on a wall. I hope you enjoy the splash of colour and subjects!

Rain in the Netherlands

December 1, 2011

And I am singing in the rain!

Such won­der­ful items I found on Etsy!

Sky­set­ter

Hop­scotch­graph­ics

Rachelledyer

Notjust4rainboots

The week­end will be rainy and stormy the weath­er­for­cast “says”.

Let’s be cre­ative and make best of it!

Have a lovely weekend!

- Nancy

Poppies in autumn

November 21, 2011

I love to paint pop­pies. no mat­ter what sea­son it is!

Here are my new poppies-​​earrings!

And I made a paint­ing of pop­pies for a neck­lace as well:

They are avail­able in my shop on Etsy

Beautiful weekend

November 20, 2011

I had a beau­ti­ful week­end. Lots of won­der­ful moments, being out­side a lot. Enjoyed being with Theo, and I painted again!

30 x 40 cm, not ready yet, work in progress.

And to wrap the week­end up, I made a mosaic from beau­ti­ful ETSY-​​items.

The artists:

Jen­son­lug­gage

Cozy­sea­son

Jas­glas­sart

Paper­moth

Wish­ing you a beau­ti­ful fresh week!

- Nancy

Love for Ireland

November 19, 2011

I vis­ited the beau­ti­ful Valen­tia Island in Ire­land 10 years ago. Ire­land is such a beau­ti­ful coun­try! It inspires many artists on Etsy…I chose 4 beau­ti­ful works con­nected with Ireland.

The artists in this mozaic:

Car­olfletcher

Ravy17

Mkbeck­ley

Celtic­fan­tasy

Wish­ing you a beau­ti­ful weekend!

Can’t sleep ;-)

November 16, 2011

I can­not sleep, it is 3 am. I go to etsy and look for “illus­tra­tions cat”. Look what I found, it made me smile! Such a tal­ent and such great observations.

These draw­ings are made by Jamieshel­man

I think I’ll try to sleep again now…I hope you enjoyed these draw­ings by Jamie Shel­man as much as I do.

Misty Monday Moodboard

November 14, 2011

Goodmorning.…It’s misty in this part of the Nether­lands today…Is it misty all over Europe?
The promise of the sun com­ing through the clouds, later today.
Wish­ing you a won­der­ful week.

I found some beau­ti­ful misty items on Etsy, from the Europeanstreetteam.

The artists:

JKPho­tog­ra­phy

Flow­ers­byKara

Febystan

Sun­shin­eart­de­sign

For more Mon­day Mood­boards with Euro­peanstreet­team­mem­bers take a look at the inspir­ing blog by : StaroftheEast

Monday Mood Board!

November 7, 2011

Such beau­ti­ful green items from mem­bers of the Euro­pean Street Team!

Grey­heartof­s­tone

Astash­toys

Piabar­ile

Elfin­house

For lots more Mon­day Mood­boards go here: Star of the East
Wish­ing you all a Lovely Week!

New Family Member

October 25, 2011

Sep­tem­ber 10th we went to see Theo.…and we decided YES.…
Sep­tem­ber 17th he came to live close to us and we are so happy with him.

And mov­ing images here.….Theo’s mov­ing! Theo

This fan­tas­tic Horse is the rea­son why paint­ing isn’t the first thing for me right now. We are enjoy­ing this won­der­ful crea­ture as much as we can.

Theo is an 11 year old geld­ing, and his full name is Theodore…

He is sweet, beau­ti­ful, and very friendly. A gen­tle giant and an amaz­ing new friend.
We do every­thing to give him a happy horse-​​life!

Autumn Colours

October 9, 2011

Beau­ti­ful items from

Ayca

Ibics

Lep­etit­foyer

Dinafragola

And this is my autumn necklace:

And a big­ger autumn tree I painted last year. “Autumn in Que­bec“
100 x 80 cm

wish­ing you all a won­der­ful autumn!

The bigger paintings

September 10, 2011

I have been paint­ing tiny tiny for the jew­elry. I think I should paint big again soon.

Like these!

Hello Sunshine

September 1, 2011

Sun was out today! Won­der­ful after so much rain in the Netherlands!

My lat­est Trea­sury to cel­e­brate the sun­shine. You can click on the image to see the Treasury!

Preparing for Art Fair Utrecht Netherlands September 4th

August 28, 2011

To present our jew­elry for the Art Fair Utrecht, Cor and I were brain­storm­ing this morn­ing and this is what we are going to do to present our jew­elry on the Art Fair Utrecht Sun­day Sep­tem­ber 4th!

It would be great to meet you at our booth Next Sun­day in Utrecht!
Swiede­bie will be there too! Swee is attend­ing Sep­tem­ber 3d and 4th! We’ll be neigh­bors on the fair on Sep­tem­ber 4th! We are look­ing for­ward to this day a lot.

Are you there too? Vis­it­ing or with your hand­made items?