Today it was our turn to decorate the shop window at the NieuweOntwerpers.nl in Rotterdam. So for us that could only mean 1 things: have fun with our collection and origami on a large scale!

Spela is busy preparing the large paper shrimp we folded, so we could hang it from the ceiling.

Finishing some last pieces amidst a landscape of knitwear, a penguin and 2 flying shrimps.

NieuweOntwerpers.nl is a store completely dedicated to new designers. Located in the center of Rotterdam, it provides designers with a great platform to present and sell their collection to the public. The shop has a really nice vibe and we are really happy we can sell our “cup of tea” collection there.

Our little cute cup of tea collection

So if you are in Rotterdam, be sure to come by and check the store out. Not just for us, come see all the other unique designers and products: Anne Wine, Cebine, Floor Hattink, Henk Koers, Jennie & Jana, Kirsty Nagel, Label Bouazizi, Label DVDV, Maartje Dijkstra, Malou Bags & Accessoires, Massuniq, Monique Brockhus, Mono Blanco, Puur Anders, Reach to Recovery Surabaya, Strong Beads, Sweet Rebels, Textring, Tjarda van Vugt en Wil Kooman.

The address: William Boothlaan 13a, 3012 VH Rotterdam Centrum, for more info: www.nieuweontwerpers.nl

“The devil is in the details” is a phrase that keeps going round and round in my head the last couple of weeks. Every day seems to consist of chancing the smallest tiniest details in our web shop. It might be a button that is not properly aligned, or something as dumb as a spelling mistake. Each day I see something I don’t like yet, or think can be done better.

But sometimes, little ideas become big ideas, and before you know it, you end up with all sorts of little fun extra’s to your shop. The picture above is our friend Roberta, who helped us tremendously by being our model. It all started with us having the idea to show the Snow Flower Scarf in its natural habitat: snow! Not entirely coincidental it has been snowing since Friday, so what better opportunity to have a photo shoot? Thanks to Roberta’s modeling, we ended up with a perfect picture for our homepage. Then it just came naturally, like a snowball, dropped from the top of a mountain becoming an avalanche on the bottom. So the whole store was soon rebuild. Be sure to visit and let us know what you think about it!

We just received word that Spela Tabak is nominated for an Iconique Award in the category “illustration”! This is great news and a real honour for us! Its great to be between such other talent, and we wish everyone good luck!

Click here to see the awards website and all other nominees!

Since we decided to make out fashion models out of paper, we couldn’t leave ourselves behind. But trying to find the right papers that fit with your personality is still quite a challenge. Especially since we build up quite a collection of origami papers these last months. So here we are, Spela & Andreas as origami, being the faces of Mimoods.

And being from paper is great I can tell you. You can just change yourself so easily. Getting a different hairstyle, just takes a different paper and some glue.

In between participating in workshops, knitting scarves and folding origami, we’ve been busy making a web-store to start selling our handmade scarves.

So last week we have been photographing all the scarves in our studio (part-time studio in fact, most of the time it functions as a canteen or a music rehearsal room) and dressing them on our origami top models.

But after a hectic week, we are almost done and tomorrow we’ll present our new scarf collection and launch our web-store. So see you tomorrow!

We had our very first street sale with Mimoods at the Modetent in Rotterdam. This is an event organized by the shop Nieuwe Ontwerpers. Because we are going to start selling our clothes at their store, we were asked if we wanted to participate in the street sale. All in all it was a great day (unfortunately with not so great weather), because it was the first time we could show people Mimoods and see if they liked our things. Thankfully we got nothing but great reactions and a lot of interest for our knitwear. A big “thank you” to everybody that bought, or wanted to buy, but couldn’t (next time we’ll get a pin-machine), a Mimoods piece!

We are busy preparing the final little details for the Modetent #4 tomorrow. It is going to be our first street sale, so it’s quite exciting for us. We’ll be selling a variety of items: unique sweaters, t-shirts, leggings, IPod socks, and because (unfortunately) autumn and winter are slowly approaching, also a lot of scarf’s and hats.

If you are in the neighbourhood of Rotterdam, come visit us and who knows, you might find something you’d like