Zeeuwse knopen - oorbellen - earrings - porcelain.

And yes we listed some new colors of our famous little porcelain "Zeeuwse knot" earrings.

 

And ofcourse the link to the shop 

"Contrast" cups - High fired colored porcelain in bright colors!

Yep we have listed some new cups in our shop!!
The "Contrast" cups in bright contrasting color combinations like yellow and blue.
They will hold 190ml {6,4 fl. oz.} of hot coffee but also a lovely wine cup it is :)

Here is the link to our webshop for these funky contrast cups - and in the beginning of November we will list some more great color ccombinations...

Stone & Color espreso cups......Sweety!!

Happy, happy.....so happy.
The new design of the webshop/site is looking good!! yehhhhh
And to top it all of my love gave me a lamp to make better photo's....even by night.
Here are a few of them and just so you know these are available ofcourse :)

New earring design on the website - "Domed Ovals"

Ok yes we have just posted this blog on our internal blog - but we are checking out wich one is working
the best...this blog made by blogspot or the one we can make in our site.....
So here we go again ;)

We have have listed a (for some farmiliar) new design in our new designed crisp & clean webshop.
The "Domed Ovals" - a beautiful baroque style earring with a domed and oval shape with lots of detail.

And many, many more will follow and here you will find our newest listings. :)

Copper dots, lines & stripes!!

Always have been a big green lover....
It has been i while that i had made a collection in this style....one of many styles i like to make :)

So it was time to pick it up again and i just listed them in our new starting to come together website/shop
These thin slipcasted espresso cups with no ears are decorated with copper green decorations like dots,
lines and srtipes..... Would you like to visit them in the shop please click here

Still lives in ..... Ceramics

Finally choices are made!!

Hi all,

I was out of the social media for a little while - busy in the workshop with costum orders.
The courses have started (3 evenings in the week) next to the shop....pfffff.
But feeling kind of happy.....

And finally we made some choices about our online shop.

After a great update from Strato we have chosen this to be our webshop master!!
We have tried Luondo and we loved it so we wanted to quit with Straot but after the big update and
some other issues....we stay where we started.
It is better for our international bussines because strato offers more easy going options for overseas costumers and after there update it is easier to work with.....so we are happy on this part.

But now....
We had to delete all our pages, catagories, products to start with a clean start....painfully but we did.
Ohhhhhhh men all of those precious hours we have spend on it.....again pfffffff.

But a clean and crisp start is there with a lovely search bar that is working correct <3

The domain name will be adjusted in the future but for now you can see for yourself at www.nootenzo.nl 
This is in dutch and for our english reading fans - top left you will find an english flag and this will show everithing in english and with $ pricing.......

So i'm of to fill up the shop with lots of spanking new goodies!! :)

Marylin Monroe on ceramics :)

Once a beauty....always a beauty....
The many pictures that are made of her wauwie...

She is the first famous person that i have put on my ceramics and ohhhh what
a joy when this little espresso cup came out of the kiln.









Marilyn Monroe with
bedroom eyes...
Hope to have more
colors and sizes soon.

But here is the link to this little cup...

Purple Ceramics...

Today unloading a kiln with all kinds of lilac, purple & mauve ceramics.
I'm a green lover but i think purple is a lovely mysterious color between red and blue.
When you search at Pinterest for purple i love the pictures that are shown as this one...

For credits please 
check out one of 
my pinterest boards:
Collages on my site


















I also was working without really realizing with lotes of shades of purple and lilacs.
From slipcasting, handthrown cups in combination with grey and Marylin Monroe.

Here are some slipcasted
thin porcelain cups in all
kind of shades of purple 
from my "Solid color"
collection.
And a link listing in our 
webshop...

And here are some 
just created items in lilacs.
The two grey stoneware
cups are also available online






















If you would like to see some other colors please let me know and i will show :)

NEW stuff!!

Hello all,

While i had a lot of pain on my hands due to my eczema...what i have for many years since i was 2
but i cannot remember it was this bad :( i have worked a little on the webshop again.
Listing new stuff like yarnbowls in pastel orange and some new online design of my porcelain jewelry.
Want to create again but it feels like i have fall into a sleep - a comfort one but still sleeeepy.
My hands are getting better with ups and downs....but clay does a good thing on that!!
Hope to get some work done in the next couple of days, throwing, glazing,kiln filling and such.

Next i'm off to have a good night of sleep....
And hopefully i have a productive day tomorrow in the workshop with ,throwing, glazing, decorating
and more of "hands in the clay" technics....looking forward to it and i hope i can realize my toughts.

Good night and a lot of creative dreams, Suus

Fleur du Joly - Porcelain flower earrings.

Ohhhh yeh!!
We still have our summer feelings high in our heads...
That is why we have listed these three super cute porcelain "Fleur Du joly" earrings today.
Please check this page on our website on regular bases for our newest products.

Webshop link

In the Spotlight!! - Het Zeeuwse knoopje.

In the Spotlight is an new theme in our webshop www.swartenoot.com

Approx. once a month we make a page al about a theme.
The first was Black & White and now we made one for our most populair earrings.
The famous and traditional Zeeuws Knoopje - from past times.
Here is a link to the dutch wikipedia of the clothing and traditions that comes with this button.

All of these pictures came from pinterest - i have made a board especially to give credits
for the used pictures...

Here is a small collection of what we have listed in our shop.

Wondering what the next Spotlight will be?

Organic porcelain jewelry

Making porcelain jewelry sinds 2005 and in all kind of styles.
Yesterday i listed organic shaped designs in our shop.
Simple tubes in black and matt colored petals.
Would you like to see more designs please click here.

One of those lovely days!!

Yes a lovely one.....great creativity vibe in the shop & workspace.
Working with clay, wax or just having a nice cuppa coffee :)

The big wooden table in front of the shop - where a lot of creative people are having creative fun...

Mr. Noot being creative with some wax the surealism way...

And mom working on some ceramic art faces....

Always enjoy it big time when these days happen makes me happy!! :)

Mini holiday with my love....Part 1

Jip working my but of and liking it!!
We will be on a short holiday from 21 to 26 of july.

I had some costum orders to finish before leaving.
From soup terrines to bridal gifts...

Here is an impression of what i was working on the past few.....days i think :)

Ristretto/espresso cups especially made for Restaurant Eendracht.
in all kinds of high fire stoneware clays - a lovely natural palette of colors.

Porcelain big buttons for some funky caps....
Idea from a good friend - Niels Hendriks with a nice Borte logo a wolf!!

To go with some soup bowl i have costum made a soup terrine...two sizes so the costumer can choose the best fit :)

All handmade with love....

Dutch design handmade in holland :)

Birds and rabbits on porcelain....

Ohhhh yehhhh....Happy with our collaborations!!We started out with a funky one with 
Dezsö van Leeuwen and his two designs.
"Bakkie Pleur" and "Two girls one cup" the iron decals were put on our recycled stoneware cups.
And to tell you they are a hit!

For the fans!!We sell them in our brick store at the Zwaanshals, online and 
at Groos rotterdam.

And here is a new one!!

A collaboration with Magda Rinkema illustrations
Original pencil drawings of her made into iron decals and are fired onto the thin colored
slipcasted porcelain cups handmade by Suus Notenboom.


Also the sweet prints are available online!!
Check it out...here....

Libelle Blos and herbsticks go well together!!

Yesterday we've got mail - in an enveloppe and in there was the new Libelle Blos Magazine....
And they send it to us because we are in that magazine.....sooooooooooo nice.

With our herbsticks....but ofcourse lots more on the website

And here is a dutch link to the herbsticks!! :) - and here the link in english.....

Restaurant Mevrouw Meijer - Rotterdam

Jip!!

Also ceramic tableware made by Suus notenboom (Noot) is used at Restaurant Mevrouw Meijer
in Rotterdam Noord.....i will say what you get nearby from neighbours is good!!

There is no website but it is highly reconmended to have a diner there.......yummie.
Here is a Facebook link

www.potter.cm

A great new site for ceramic artist....
You can make a account and show and share your work - love it.
And what a beautiful creations you see here.
Also there is a ranking by day, week and month - to see what is most viewed.
If you are a ceramic fan or artist just have a look!!

Also a facebook page is available to check out!!

Spotlight - All about Black & White!!

A new Spotlight is made....
And this time all about the black & White products we have in our shop.
To top it off with a nice collage.

Swarte Noot's spotlight - Black and white.

You can click here to see our listed products in this catagorie....

Solid color espresso cups - A little movie...

"Solid Colors"

Espresso cups.....yummie

And the pastel aquamarine set of 4 espresso cups is already available trough our online webshop!1

An other ceramic addiction!!

Okee - i'm going overboard with my plaster molds.....
Making a new collection of flat dishes in my "Solid color" style.
A very simple basic design (many designers use this shape) - it is a sweet one.

Here are some pics of the work in progress in my workspace.
The dishes are greenware freshly scrapped and sponged clean to be bisc fired.

They look really pastel colored and i love this - i will be working on that but these
sweeties will be rather colored after there second high fire....
Soon you will see...i hope :)

Dutch design made in Holland!!

And i'm proud of it..... :)

That is strange!!

I opened up the kiln the other day.....and look what a strange thing had happen!!
I don't have a lot of broken ceramics in my ceramic artist life - but this was a strange one.

I tried to figure out what had happen but my brain could not find any reason.....
The other bowls made of the same stoneware clays and shape turned out the way they supposed to be.
In ceramics there will be always suprises lurking around the corner.....oh well keeps it intriguing.... :)

A creamy espresso cup set!!

Yehhhhhhhh the 144 cups are almost (20 more to go!!)  finished - and not even al 12 kinds of stoneware clays are in these pictures. The typical thing is i have noticed that i warm up after i have thrown like 15 of these cuties.......the model is in my hands, brain and life at the moment!! ;)

A big part of the collection....

Keeping the cups close and with love ofcourse before they will arrive at there new home....

1. pure porcelain 2.PCLI paperclay (gives a lovely subtle texture) 3. Cream with medium spots and 4. cream with very fine spots - 'they make a lovely set!!

And if you are interested - they are listed in our online shop.
And the cafe size will be listed sooooooon!!

An instagram serie....

I'm getting a bit hooked over here...
Yes to instagram - for a ceramic artis it is wonderful to explore.
And i'm going to post some pics i find there in kind of a serie.

First serie - Randomly:
A nice cup of tea in a cracled glaze cup.

Convers sneaker collage....

Today i had a walk from Rotterdam CS station and saw some nice items to make 

some pictures and this was one of them - many locks on a door three i have captured

 in the picture but there were two more!!

Sanding lots of ceramic cups....

Really happy i have got a nice and big order of my "Rock" collection!!
144 for cups in espresso and cafe size....

Only one thing is heavy (not complaining at all) but just wanted to share these cups are sanded twice.
The first time is after the bics fire and the second time after the second fire - for a matt smooth lovely natural stone feeling.

It goes someting like this:

Why did i put on nailpolish anyways!! :)
So 144 x 2 = 288 cups sanding away - but i'm still smiling because they look and feel sooooo
nice when they are ready to go to there new home...