sauerkraut stew with vegan seitan 'bacon'

sauerkraut stew with homemade seitan 'bacon'

seitan is a wonderful plant-based meat substitute, and baked this way it tastes like crispy bacon :-)
 
recipe for (lots of) seitan:
1 cup gluten flour
250 ml water with one mushroom broth cube
tsp yeast flakes

mix yeast flakes and gluten flour,
add cooled broth and knead together to make a moist and flexible ball
heat 1 cm vegetable oil in a pan and cut small pieces of the dough directly into your pan, the pieces will expand while baking in the oil, so make them about 1/4 smaller then the pieces you want to eat.

buy gluten flour here (in the Netherlands)
https://www.de-zuidmolen.nl/Tarwegluten_5_141.html

Portrethokje Kunstfestival Rododendronplein Rotterdam

portrethokje foto's Rododendronplein 2015

Nou Nog Mooier

Made in 2001: video of exhibition design by "Nou Nog Mooier!", our 3-lady design-collective. We no longer work together, but are still all in our own style active in the same field. I transformed to Dingsboems and started making small items that are for sale in my webshop, and work for public events, doing workshops, making parts of activity programs, doing public art installations etcetera...  
Former partner Martine now works at the museum we did this design for, and Sandra owns  vintage design store Spam.

portrethokje photo's Bazar Bizar Rotterdam

all portrethokje photo's at Bazar Bizar Rotterdam can be found on 

my flickr account

home sweet home

I found this old photograph of my street online, and was surprised to see that my house used to be a hairdresser. It inspires me to look into the possibilities of adapting my house and starting a home-based business...

making animal-shaped seedbombs with kids

outdoor activity for 2 elementary schools on Pijnackerplein in Rotterdam

painting installation 1.0

Working on a painting performance for the opening of Singeldingen, a child-friendly event in Rotterdam...
we will be using several cars to paint the logo of the event on the pavement.

Update: cars being used...


and the resulting drawing. we used the logo for the 5 year anniversary of Singeldingen to make a race course for the paint cars...

pancake walker / pannenkoeken-rollator

I used a walker to make a mobile kitchen for baking pancakes on the streets of Rotterdam, for events and parties...

First test-baking was on the last Queens-day, 30 april 2013.
Next year we will be celebrating that we have a king.

my stand with weed recipes at museum Oud Overschie

museum Oud Overschie has beautiful gardens where we had a little market for de groene loper event. It was a wonderful hot day and I prepared some weed pesto's, with comfrey and elder, and made rocket pancakes for people to taste. For drinks we had elderblossom sirup and rosehip sirup. I also prepared some thymesirup, very nice stuff for a sore throat.

The recipes could be taken home to try it for yourself. It's nice to be able to use the weeds that grow in your garden.  

building camera obscura installation Blauwe huisje @ festival Duizel in het park

het blauwe huisje is een camera obscura installatie in een huisje dat ondersteboven op zijn puntdak staat. 

the blue house is a camera obscura installation in a house that is upside down.

Portrethokje @ Museum Rotterdam

English:

Museum night in Rotterdam: My portrethokje was located at Museum Rotterdam, at the entry of the exhibition Family Portrait, I drew 46 visitors from 20 until 2 o'clock in the morning.

All photos will be shown here after a quick photoshop session later today :-)

Did I draw you and do you want to receive your photo print-sized? send me an email at odrada(at)box.nl

Nederlands:

Tijdens de museumnacht stond mijn portrethokje bij Museum Rotterdam, bij de tentoonstelling Familieportret. Ik heb tussen 8 en 2 uur 46 mensen geportretteerd. Alle foto's worden zsm op deze blog geplaatst, bent u zelf geportretteerd en wilt u de foto op printformaat hebben? stuur een mailtje naar odrada(at)box.nl. 

bedankt allemaal, het was een super avond! 

recycling doll hands and feet

i found this doll a few months ago and took her home with me. She looked too sad laying there in her underwear on the bin in the street.
today decided to cut her hands and feet off and make molds of them. filled them with cement so they'll be heavy enough not to float to the surface when i pour silicons over them.
I'm sure I can turn them into a small edition of very cute coat hangers for kids. don't know the material to make them with yet, but i'm sure i'll figure that out too someday soon.

concept hut village in Heijplaat, Rotterdam

With stichting Kunsteiland we are building huts in the playground at Heijplaat, with materials donated by the builders and demolishers active in the neighbourhood. A large part of the houses there are being torn down, and new better ones will be built. During this proces stichting Kunsteiland wanted to do something positive for the residents and created this childrens project with a lot of reuse of materials.
Children are building happily to make their own dreamhome...

Portrethokje @ CampingRotterdam festival

I spent last weekend with the drawing booth drawing people at the Camping Rotterdam Festival. Through all kinds of weather everybody kept their spirit up, as well as their drinking. Witnessed lots of people sinking in muddy fields, having hair curled and toenails polished at the beautysalon and then  playing outdoorsy games, with rainboots or bare feet in the mud. can't control the weather, but the party must go on.

More photo's of the drawings can be seen in my flickrstream 

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Summer-Shop @ Gesamt Galerie

The lovely Karin of Gesamt Galerie has my soap guns in her summer exhibition, and wrote this post about it on her blog. I took the liberty of copying it here.

Visiting Rotterdam? Don't miss this!

Gesamt Gallery will sell a selection of unique and handmade products at the Summer-Shop. Products from our own studio as well as that of various designers and artists.

featuring:

ZILAR - silver jewelry
Suus Notenboom - (recycled) ceramic tableware
Dingsboems - soap pistols
- - - stiksel - - - bags and accessories
Bom Design - recycled design
Antoinet Deurloo - stoneware, porcelain, ceramic tableware
Röling Ontwerpt - screenprinted tea towels
Pierre Elitaire - shirts/bags
Senay Akin - silver jewelry
Suzanna Scott - mixed media assemblage & collage
Kim Welling - DIYkits, postcards
Tas Makas Kagit - handbound notebooks

Also, we have a collection of small vintage and retro items and furniture. Come shop at Gesamt at the Pijnackerplein (Pijanackersquare) in the old north of Rotterdam. Nearby are lots of nice places for a coffee or lunch break to complete your shopping experience!

We have an adjusted Summer timetable: Thu 13.00/17.00 pm,
Fri 13.00/17.00 pm, Sat 13.00/17.00 pm.

Hope to see you all soon and have a great Summer!!!

hairy bags for sale at Rotabs Stylecenter and Sluijter & Meijer, Rotterdam

some of my Hairy Bags are for sale at 2 lovely shops, Kunst & Knödel at Rotabs Stylecenter and Sluijter and Meijer, both in Rotterdam

city poetry

the writing on these shutters says: I am not going to explain anything to anyone for a while, and it was written in my neighborhood where i past it month after month, and was intrigued by the person who wrote this. the owners of the building painted over it last year so i am happy i caught it on time

rotterdam loves burlesque

just posting a few photos of the party last saturday, i decorated the room for the party, made some nice namesigns for the podium and table decorations inspired by garters...

burlesque is hot

Burlesque is hot! Deze showstijl waarbij alles draait om extravagant, uitdagend en grappig is ook in Rotterdam erg populair. De Royal Residence op de bovenste etage van restaurant Engels verandert regelmatig in een klassieke nightclub uit de film noir tijdens burlesque feesten.


Burlesque is hot! This show is all about extravagant style, it's challenging, funny and very popular in Rotterdam. The Royal Residence on the top floor of restaurant Engels  frequently changes into a classic nightclub from the film noir during burlesque parties.


next weekend in Rotterdam. i will be responsible for styling the room...

vintage finds yesterday

in a few weeks i am going to participate in a homemade event,  with my homemade curry and jam, and of course i want my stand to look pretty. these may come in handy :-)