Another Milestone...

Some time ago I wrote about a new Animal Characters illustration project. I make an animal character a day for 100 days. Today I placed Ronnie Rat, character 070. 'Only 30 to go.... I love it!

I'm not the only one who loves it :-)
Today I reached already 3500 Followers, another  milestone!

If you like, you can follow me too on Instagram
You are welcome!

Elle Aime Mini-Market

Today was the first day of the Elle Aime Mini Market:

Elle Aime is a very nice craft and desirgn shop, just around the corner from where I live. Zwaanshals, Rotterdan Noord. So it was extra special when Lisa, the owner of the shop asked me to join this Mini-Market. Together with 11 other designers / illustrators.

For me it is also a very nice opportunity to present the book 'stil verwateren' which I recently made with Flemish author Geert De Kockere.
The reactions were heart warming :-)

Also very nice and inspiring to meet the other designers, who show and sell their work on this Mini market. Tomorrow (Sunday, the 14th) there's  another chance to visit Elle Aime. Open at 12 o'clock till half past 5. I will be there too!  If you are in the neighbourhood, come and say hello! You are more than welcome!

More blog features!

I'm happy to say today my work is featured on the inspiring Artistic Moods blog,
a blog full with beautiful Art, illustrations and inspiring artists.
So it is a real honor to be featured here :--)

And if that's not enough...

It was such a nice surprise to see my '100 Days of Animals' project featured
on the Zo wie So blog yesterday :-)

You can still follow my animal project on Instagram. I post an animal character a day for 100 days.

Blog feature on Print & Pattern

Hooray, I just heared my work is featured on the Print & Pattern blog today!

It 's a very inspiring and cheerful blog, with all kind of patterns and lots of other whimsical stuff. Every day some new inspiration. And today it's my turn. That makes me happy and
I feel honoured  :-)  You can find the blogpost here

I must say the 'make art that sells' e-course I did with Lilla Rogers gave me a lot of inspiration to make these works. Some of them I even made during this inspiring course, so thank you, Lilla! :-)

My work In the media

This week you can find an illustration of me in Dutch Magazine FLAIR.
In cooperation with Flair, Monique van der Vlist from the HappyMakersBlog (inspiring blog in dutch) selected 8 'happy illustrations' to add as postcards to this weeks magazine. A special gift to their readers. My 'girl with birds' is one of them :-)

Also in this month FLOW magazine....

Sjoukje van de Kolk wrote an article about thinking different. She asked me some questions about where I get my inspiration. It's a short piece about how I play with reality.

For the dutch followers: Als je het stukje wilt lezen, klik dan hier of nog beter kijk in de Flow :-)

Haiku book project

Great news! I'm working on a book together with Flemish author / poet Geert De Kockere.

It will be a luxurous book, more than 600 pages. A combination of 1001 haiku's and my drawings. Old and new ones. This could be a possible cover:

We did work together before on the 'real face book project'. Remember?

This cooperation is a fun and interesting creative process. Sometimes Geert makes haiku's inspired by my drawings. and sometimes I  make drawings inspired by his haiku's. So I draw a lot lately, which I love doing.

The text will be all in Dutch and unfortunately difficult to translate.
Will be continued :-)

hip hip hooray!

Hip hip hoorayyyyy, just reached 100 sales in my Etsy shop todayyyyy!

...and I'm not sold out yet...  You are welcome!

Red Cheeks Factory in de Winterwinkel

On the 7th of November was the opening of the Winterwinkel in Amsterdam. I was there and took photographs, but they didn't turn out very well. (wrong settings on my camera, stupid!!)

But I was lucky enough my favorite brother was so sweet to visit this lovely shop and took some nice pictures. Thank you very much, Jan, highly appreciated!

First a photo of one of my newest products: Affirmation Angela.
I've heard she's a bestseller in the Winterwinkel :-)

Below a photo of the etalage of the shop in the Oudezijdse Achterburgwal 121:

One of my prints in a frame: 'ode to the bird':

Some more Red Cheeks Factory giclee prints, presented in a very special way on these modern wooden plates with nicely colored typography:

You can also buy my DIY Dress Cat Mathilde and Ralph and ofcourse the Red Cheeks Factory Magnificent Magnets:

Below: my cactus giclee print has a nice spot in the shop, on the photo you also can see Barbara on the photo. She's one of the Ka-Ching Collectief members who are organizing this nice event:

There are a lot of fun postcards available, also Handsome Herbert, the one with real breasthair:

Below a view on the Red Cheeks Factory 'çolor your world' Zebra poster (which I had printed especially for the Winterwinkel).and  a nice view on  the shop:

And ofcourse you can buy the Muscle Man Paper Doll (one of the bestsellers from last year :-))

Ofcourse there are lots of other nice products from 25 other participants available in the Winterwinkel. It was nice to meet a few of them during the opening!

The shop will be open till 24th of December. From Wednesday till Sunday, 12.00 - 18.00 hour.

If you visit the shop, give Barbara, Babette, Annabel or Margriet of the Ka-ching collectief my kind regards :-))

Announcement Opening WinterWinkel in Amsterdam

Today La Grande Opening of the WinterWinkel in Amsterdam. Just as last year the ladies of the Ka-Ching Collectief  organised a pop-up Shop in the center of Amsterdam. I'm happy Red Cheeks Factory is selected to join with 25 other participants!

Here's a photo I took of the building when I brought my products last Friday:

It's in a nice building (a former pleausure house ;-)) with 3 levels. Enouph room for a shop, an office and a workshop space. The opening is from 16.00 till 18.00 hour at the Oudezijdse Achterburgwal 121. You are all invited!

Above a photo from last year's WinterWinkel with my prints.

The shop will be open till the 24th of December.

Affirmation Angela

Let me introduce you to: Affirmation Angela, supporter of positive thinking. 

Positive thinking

I'm not always good in positive thinking. I know it helps to do so, but sometimes negative thoughts take the overhand. Some time ago I've read the book positivity from Barbara Fredrickson. Inspiring!

It really helps to transform negative thoughts into positive ones. Or to get inspired by a nice and stimulating sentence as: 'make it happen!' It makes me happy ;-)

New product

Because I know I'm certainly not the only one busy with this subject, I thought it would be nice, to develop a product to support people on their journey. And what could be more supportive than  a kind of 'guardian' angel. So I developed this little angel Affirmation Angela. 

You can cut her out, fold her following the instructions. Put her on your desk, on your kitchen table, in your bookshelf or wherever you want. She can hold an affirmation card on her lap. To inspire you or to remind you to be positive.

Affirmation cards

The package includes 8 cards, 12 different affirmations.
(4 on the backside, also 4 blanc cards to fill in your own positive texts)

If you like some positive support or you know someone who can use it,
Affirmation Angela is available here

quote of the day

 Look at this: Featured today on the Make It In Design blog as quote of the day :-)

hello, this is me!

Some people were asking lately if I had a photo of me. I always avoid to post it.
I prefer to show my work and I'm not such a 'selfie' person. But I also read a lot
about people wanna see the face behind the company...

This morning I went with my brother to the Kralingse Bos in Rotterdam
and he shot some pictures of me in the early morning light.

So, here I am Nelleke Verhoeff, owner of Red Cheeks Factory
Hello :-)

kunstfestival Schiebroek

Coming Saturday the 13th of September I will show and sell my work
on the Art-Market Schiebroek.

Last year I was there too, but then it rained and there was a lot of wind.
Now they promise sun, so that sounds good!

The Market is on the Rhododenderonplein and the Peppelweg in Schiebroek near Rotterdam  It's from 10.00 till 16.00 hour. There will also be street theatre.

You are very welcome to visit the festival and if you do, come and say hello to me. :-))

Red Cheeks Factory on the Flow Magazine blog

Today Red Cheeks Factory is featured on the Flow Magazine Blog:

It's in the series Saterday Market, where they feature a shop each Saturday.
This time I'm very happy it's Red Cheeks Factory :-)
Flow Magazine is one of my favorite magazines! Thank you!

You can read a little interview with me (in Dutch) here

3000 likes - give away time :-)

Unbelieveable! More than 3000 people like Red Cheels Factory on Facebook!
Time for a little party. Time for a give - away:

You can win a party postcard set; including 5 Red Cheeks Factory party postcards:

How can you win this set?

Simple! Go to my facebookpage and give a comment on my facebookpost
Then I know, you are in for this party. I will pick the winner on Tuesday, the 1st of July
Good luck!

Red Cheeks Factory on Pinterest

Hooray, hooray! Today I finally registered on Pinterest!

I doubted for a long time, because I know it can be quite addictive. But today I gave in. And it's fun! Yes, also addictive, but that will be a challenge to deal with. Click here if you want to follow me. You are welcome :-)

featured on Artistic Moods Art blog

A nice start of this week:

My work is featured today on the Art blog: Artistic Moods
It's an inspiring blog full with great work of people I admire,
so it's an honour to be featured there :-)

It's all curated by Sandra Apperloo a Dutch Art lover
TIP: She's also got an inspiring page on facebook

exhibition at Aan De Kade

This month a few of my works are exhibited at Aan De Kade.
It's an initiative of artist Marilou de Poorter. She's organizing monthly
exhibitions at her small gallery Aan De Kade.

The exhibition is till 28th of February.
See the other exhibitions here.

red cheeks

I made this red cheeks drawing some time ago.
It's now available as giclée art print here

Red Cheeks Factory on Etsy

Today I opened a brand new shop on Etsy

You are very welcome to like, to buy products
and to follow Red Cheeks Factory on Etsy now too :-)