tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33040756426745364812024-03-14T07:43:13.940+00:00 Sandra van Doorn. illustrations. stories.Sandra van Doornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08957585046008576628noreply@blogger.comBlogger97125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3304075642674536481.post-20080938437359460422017-01-18T03:17:00.003+00:002017-01-18T03:39:18.447+00:00Behind the scene...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A lovely story </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">written by </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl, it will make the little people in your life want to do more sleeping and a lot of dreaming...</span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The artwork was created with pastels -Rembrandt pastels, Pan Pastels, and Derwent pastel pencils for more detailed work - and of course a little digital magic. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stay tuned as I will share more images about this</span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> lovely collaboration with </span><a href="https://www.lantanapublishing.com/shop/books/sleep-well-siba-saba/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Lantana Publishing</a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span><br />
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<a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/Sleep-Well-Sib-and-Sab-Nansubug-Nagady-Isdahl-Sandr-Van-Doorn/9781911373100?ref=grid-view" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Sleep well, Siba and Saba</a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> is due out in March 2017. </span></div>
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Sandra van Doornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08957585046008576628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3304075642674536481.post-63162768524117586172016-10-28T23:43:00.000+01:002016-10-28T23:44:06.831+01:00Beautiful nightmare<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Et puis un beau jour d'automne, je suis née au printemps. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Les feuilles ne dansaient plus dans le vent.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Les nuages se dégageaient, et le ciel se remplissait de bleu et d'eau salée.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pendant longtemps j'étais née en automne,</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But I have no idea where I'm going</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But tell me frankly</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Elles donnent un petit air de Dimanche à tous les jours de la semaine.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Quelque chose de presque trop beau se pose dans mon coeur…</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Telles qu’elles sont en se demandant pourquoi</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Telles qu’elles pourraient être en se disant pourquoi pas...</span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Suspendue dans le vide, mes pieds ne touchent plus terre. </span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you cannot make it to this event don’t worry. We have more events coming up and I will be posting the activity coloring poster so you can download it & create with us - wherever you are!! So stay tuned...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Apparently gardeners are the happiest of all. Spending days with flowers & all sorts of plants beats any commute & office boxes, right? but i secretly think i </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">have the best job in the world, and i have been busy… growing it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First exciting thing is that i am 3/4 of the way with book two: the illustration above is an extract from it, lots of pretty blues…</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have also been busy making some pretty things for you. Lovely new cards, soon to be listed in the shop (due to re-open in June!)… </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and looking to license some of my images to the paper industry (which is a bit of a dream…)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s all moving in the right direction - <i>albeit one sloooow tiny step at the time. </i>Sometimes it is a tad too slow for me but i keep reminding myself to focus on the journey not the destination. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meanwhile cultivating a little happiness is as much gardening as i get to do… </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The pretty weather makes it that much easier to enjoy s</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">imple things. Like packing a picnic & going on long bike rides, jumping out of bed for a morning jog by the beach, a couple of hours by a tree with a book. It’s all good.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I hope you get to do some growing<i> </i>too…</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Growing <i>your</i> dreams. Letting </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">your</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> happiness blossom… Being the happiest of all. xo</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week was all about flying &… scrapbooking icons!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">Not so easy. Scrapbooking is new to me - but as I worked on this submission, balloons, a little vintage feel topped with a dash of poetic colours unfolded beautifully on my screen. I decided to work in Photoshop </span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(somehow clear cut digital icons seem more popular then artistic </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">messiness…) </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One thing I have learned from this course is the importance of perfect icons, it took a lot of work to design each one of them.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh! </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the way, </span><a href="http://www.sandravandoornillustrations.com/2015/03/tea-party-by-seaside.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span id="goog_350458390"></span>last week’s piece</span><span id="goog_350458391" style="color: #666666;"></span></a><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> was featured in the weekly review by Lilla Rogers - got a shout out for distinctive style... Made me blush. Honestly i never thought it would get on Lilla’s radar because each week i visit the submission gallery and OMG, OMG,OMG - so much amazing artwork… </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So a little tap on the shoulder was lovely, thank you Lilla. </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A little progress at the time is all we need to focus on. It’s part of the process, isn’t it? to become big one must learn to be small.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanted to stay away from the traditional seahorses + sea scene, so I invented a tea party -by the seaside. I hope it is not too "</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>off subject”? </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And Because i<i> loooove</i> picture books, i also created this piece below… The illustration was done entirely with photoshop (even</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> made my own brushes & textures)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The artwork above is my submission… rather a kooky train, no? but If you follow me on </span><a href="https://instagram.com/mademoiselledraws/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Instagram</span></a> <span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">you can see the card was largely influenced by my latest travelling...</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I visited Holland,</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> absolutely loved the quirky narrow Dutch houses & old mills. Just so gorgeous. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I just <i>loooove </i>this season (i say that for every season…) it makes me feel so alive, like life is in full bloom….</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today is all about putting some lightness in your day - make it last for the rest of the month, ok? - with a happy little chicken. Hope it makes you smile? Makes you feel like you can fly?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gifts do come in many forms, small & big - and i do hope you will be spoilt in many ways.</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To me, Christmas is all about things that don’t come in boxes. People. Time spent together. </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Snow - oh those red cheeks -</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">can’t wait to feel that winter cold on my face. Flying kisses. Get-togethers'. Friends </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">& family. Happy red cheeks on all faces.. yes, </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">red cheeks is all i want for Christmas...</span></div>
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<a name='more'></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Suitcases are out. Ready to be packed for a short Christmas holiday. And i am also moving studio next year - so boxes are everywhere… It feels busy in here. Sometimes i look around, feel overwhelmed & i don’t know where to start - so i just sit & panic for a minute. Mademoiselle said <i>"close your eyes, you will see much better..”. </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>(</i>I did. And started dreaming of a beach holiday…totally off subject). </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyways - long lists of things-to-do always work when you are in panic mode, right? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Talking about news page... Have you noticed... with quick up-dates via social medias it seems like most readers, well....don't read so much anymore - but appreciate a quicker way to know what's happening. So i have been thinking... as of next year, let's change the way we stay in touch on the news page - i am exploring options (other than Blogger) Mademoiselle will still be there to inspire us, of course - But it will be short & sweet. Could that work? </span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am hoping to post a couple more Mademoiselles to wrap up this year, <i>beautifully</i>... </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Printed, packed .. & now listed in my </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://sandravandoorn.bigcartel.com/products" target="_blank"><b>new shop</b></a></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">!! </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway. Great week in the home decor department, the assignment pushed me </span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">way</i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> out of my comfort zone i almost gave up! So i am rather happy i managed to finish it :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first assignment was all about creating art for bolt fabric based on a theme: Root vegetables & casserole. </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a very new field for me; i have never done fabrics before and i absolutely loved it.</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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Sandra van Doornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08957585046008576628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3304075642674536481.post-3584875425112912742014-07-24T10:52:00.000+01:002014-07-24T20:04:10.186+01:00Secrets & books<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">❀ Mademoiselle said everyone should do some butterflying- to cultivate your secret garden. Think of all small things that make you happy, keep them in the one place. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s like filling up your soul with so much bubbles & excitement, you feel like you are going to burst…❀</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, I have been in love with the beach since i was a little girl (i suspect i was a mermaid in a past life…) so my secret garden is full of sunny memories. And just</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> the way i used to collect seashells - popping them in a box so i could take a look later - </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i love to collect ideas when i am travelling. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>My head is full. My notebook is looking messy & fabulous. </i>I took all that home with me, </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So it makes me equally happy to be back at work - especially now </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am working on my next book! more on that later.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was baking a <i>fondant au chocolat</i> when… my book arrived in the mail this morning!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A BIG thank you to the many of you who ordered a copy a while back - your support is so very wonderful. You put a big smile in my heart.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Feels like i have completely vanished from blogland! If you </span><a href="http://www.gramfeed.com/mademoiselledraws" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">follow me on Instagram</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> you know June has been filled with a little globetrotting & some school fun. Busy, busy.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So. Back to the story. After a few trips here and there, i got back to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> London to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> attend a class at The University of the Arts London.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The course was all about translating what i do on paper (drawing) into computer work. I have my own way of doing this, but i really wanted to fine tune my skills. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of the advantage of digital work is that you do not need a studio full of materials - A good option when traveling, isn’t it?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This month i took a break from my computer & pencils - and anything remotely related to drawing - to do a bit of nothing and to work on a completely different kind of creative project: filming a short video about my work...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was such an exciting project! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For a while now i have wanted to organise an open studio for you guys; </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the thing is i just can’t have an open studio. Because…well,</span><br />
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1. I don’t have an actual “studio” - (</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That’s a good one, isn’t it?) </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">W</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hat i call <i>"my studio"</i> is an afterthought attic, perched high at the top of our home, small & accessible only via a skinny awkward ladder </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">❀ not so handy for open days ❀</span><br />
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2. And of course… I am here in London. </span><br />
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So this short video will be a simple way to invite you into my quirky little world & i cannot wait to share it with you!! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Filming was such a fun experience - it actually gave me a huge boost of energy! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was getting busy in my head for the past few months - which can be quite paralysing, you know what i mean? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">❀ But Mademoiselle said not to worry - sometimes doing nothing is the best way of doing something. Walking away from reality for a bit always helps put things into perspective. And into place ❀ </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And so it made sense to take a short break too. I spent a lovely week-end in Barcelona; It was a sunny break though not warm enough for a first swim - summer was not quite there yet. (<a href="http://www.gramfeed.com/mademoiselledraws" target="_blank">Sunny Pictures HERE</a>) ❀ </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mademoiselle too was happy to take a break from our work routine & reinvent herself. Like her new look? Shop the new look <a href="http://www.sandravandoorn.com/store/p103/Peekaboo.html" target="_blank">here</a> ❀</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So while we wait for summer - and for the video to be ready - i’ll leave you with a few <i>behind the scene </i>snapshots from the shoot; part of it was filmed @ the gorgeous <a href="http://thelibraryspace.com/" target="_blank">Library Space </a> below:</span><br />
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