Fleur Magazine is the Belgian professional florists journal and is packed with great advice for anyone running a florist shop as well as pages filled with inspiration, new designs and background information about plants and flowers.

Personally i was pretty impressed with the overall look of the magazine and the articles, that are fun and interesting to read, even for non-florist me.
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I love how the magazine provides the floral entrepreneurs with hooks and stories that can help sell more flowers and plants.

We are over the moon to be featured in this lovely publication with not only one, but two products. Check it out!
When clicked, the images should enlarge in a lightbox so you can read the actual (Dutch) text. 

Blogger Sarah Militello-Wilson (based in Los Angeles) wrote this lovely piece about our Flower Constellations back in June on her blog Milk & Flowers.
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Impressed by how she took the time to write a piece of original content about our design, i thought we shouldn't let the feature just disappear in the archives without an extra mention.

​What i love is that Sarah mentions flower frogs in her post about the Flower Constellations, which is in fact a flowertool used in Ikebana, and something we looked at while developing our design.
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I also really like how she went into ways you can source your flowers. For example: "If you’ll be using wildflowers, you can leave more out in nature for others to enjoy."

<Read the full blogpost here on Milk & Flowers>

​Thank you for sharing Sarah!

If it wasn't for our sweet friend and creative colleague Meike pointing this out to us, we would have completely missed this lovely post by Designcrushblog from back in September.

Here's what blogger Kelly from Pitsburgh wrote about the Flower Constellations (which she catalogued under 'Create / Grand Design'):
"I love having fresh flowers in my home and will pare down a bouquet as it wilts until only a few blooms remain. Flower Constellations make floral arranging using only a few stems super easy thanks to a flat brass disk with openings that can expand and contract to fit a variety of vases."

<Read the full piece here on designcrushblog>

Thank you for sharing Kelly, and thank you for pointing us towards the post Meike!

Jonathan Lo launched his blog 'Happy Mundane'. back in 2006, and -in his own words- it's all about "Celebrating the ordinary and the extraordinary, good design of any kind, and taking a moment to appreciate some things that get overlooked in the everyday."

Jonathan about the Flower Constellations:
"Speaking of plants, do you ever find when you have a bouquet of flowers, some flowers die out faster than others? The creative team at House of Thol have come up with a solution. They’ve made a “flower constellation” metal disk that sits over your vase to provide a way to display single stems. The best part is the arrangement of the holes is based of astrological sign! A great gift idea!"

<Check out the full gift guide here>

We've been so insanely busy in the months of September and October that even in late November we're still working through the pile of work that was 'put aside for a moment'. 

For example, we never got to tell you about our Volkskrant magazine publication in October.
We are so happy to be featured in the magazine, and in the Design special no less!

At the time, we were actually at the VT Wonen & Design beurs. We had a blast there, but it pretty much consumed all our time and definitely all our energy.

Anyway, here it is, maybe you spotted it back in October already?
It might be more than a month ago, we're too proud of the publication not to mention it!

Last weeks' Libelle (#49) featured the Flower Constellations!
Did you spot them?

We were just in time to get a copy ourselves and are very happy to be part of the 'Groene Vingers' (Green fingers) segment. 

​Thank you for featuring our design Libelle!

We love it when one of our designs gets featured on a blog, especially when the blogger in question takes the trouble of writing an original piece of text.

Frances of new blog Franpress wrote a lovely (Dutch) piece about our Flower Constellations that shows she's familiair with trying to nicely arrange a few flowers.

Thank you for sharing Frances!

<Read the full piece here>

In Dutch we have the saying: 'that's a one-cent whistle', or, more accurately 'that's a wistle of a cent', for something that's really easy.

In English you'd say something is a 'piece of cake', which if literally translated to Dutch doesn't really mean something.

Anyway, we're happy with this Kekmama publication of our Waterworks-set, which states keeping your plants alive with Waterworks is a whistle of a cent.

Thank you for sharing Kekmama!

Hey there Linda readers! 
Spotted the Flower Constellations right there on page 15?!
We're over the moon with this little mention as a 'hebbedingetje' (something you want) in this months' Linda.

Thank you for sending us a copy, Linda magazine people! It was a wonderful surprise to find our Flower Constellations in there.

We're very happy with this sweet mention in Plus Magazine. 

We're not exactly the Plus magazine target audience and would have undoubtedly missed this little publication if it wasn't for the nice people from Plus Magazine who sent us a copy of this edition for our administration.

Did you know they'r the largest monthly magazine in the Netherland?

Thank you for the mention @ Plus Magazine!

The Flower Constellations will be launched in a little over a week and Eigen Huis & Interieur featured them in the magazine that came out last week. 

Thank you, lovely people!
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The large photograph and sweet text is definitely worth checking out. ​

Got this months' EH&I?
Scoop through to page 252 to get to the update. 

​No access to the magazine?
​Luckily the photograph above should make it possible to read the (Dutch) piece.

ps. don't forget: Earlybird discount runs out August 26th!

This publication in Volkskrants' summer magazine V-Zomer brought something about: orders started pooring in in our webshop and we ran out of stock! 

Nothing to be worried about though: a batch of glassware is on its way to our studio as we speak, and we'll be restocked by the time we get back from our little break. 

Definitely worth to check out the text, love the cheeky happiness (in Dutch)

We first met Annelies from Dirksdotter during last years' Dutch Design Week. We got to chatting and she ended up highlighting our work in a DDW roundup (click).

Since Dirksdotter is a fellow flower- and design lover, we gave her a head's up about our new Flower Constellations. We love the sweet post she wrote. Check the full (Dutch) piece here: click

A few weeks ago we spent a good part of the day with the lovely folk of Renault life, shooting an episode for their Renault TV Youtube series focussing on sustainable innovations and design.

We had so much fun working with the professional crew and experiencing an official film shoot including clip-on microphones, lighting set up and (more than a few) retakes.
Our self-consciousness about being in front of a camera quickly faded while working with the skilled and friendly team. (thank you David, Tom & Vincent!)

Us working through the night getting the studio cleaned up and film-ready was definitely worth it.
​Although if you look closely it did result in a few bags under our eyes while filming.

Not being used to seeing ourselves on film, you can imagine we had no idea what the final result would be and we kept pretty silent about the whole thing in eager anticipation of the premiere.

Well, the time has come: This afternoon 'our' Renault life episode premiered on Youtube!

We love the beautiful images of our workspace and green surroundings the Renault team shot,  and how they did not only catch our story but also made us look pretty comfortable in front of a camera, just being ourselves.

Check out the full episode below and let me know what you think!

Want to know more about the projects in the video?
Check out Waterworks here (or buy here), and read all about the Flower Constellations on this page (pre-order here).

Renault life made more episodes with sustainable and innovative designers that are definitely worth checking out. 
Find their official YouTube channel here and make sure to give this video a thumb's up while you're at it.

The World Packaging Design Society runs an influential packaging design blog featuring contemporary packaging designs from around the world.

We're very happy we made it onto their feed with our Waterworks box! 
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Definitely worth checking out on Instagram.

We're very happy to be featured in one of the Netherlands' biggest magazines: Libelle.

The Libelle Tuinspecial is definitely worth a read, and i'm not just saying that because Waterworks is in there: i'm in love with the relaxed gardening style and lush green gardens the magazine showcases.

​Anyway, here's a close-up of the publication: 

A -rough- translation of the text:
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"Forgot to water your house plants again? This funny Water reservoir solves the problem (and your feeling of guilt). It's called Waterworks and does what it's made for: gradually distributing water and preventing the soil from drying out." 

​Click here for a pdf of the publication

We were so happy with Kickstarter awarding us with the 'project we love' batch as soon as we launched, and to also have our project featured on their instagram... We're over the moon.

I mean: think about it: thousands of live Kickstarter projects, and the Flower Constellations made it to the official Instagram account. 
Yeah! 
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Being the Flowertrade mogul that we are, the Netherlands has a special 'Bloemenbureau' (Flower agency) that is always working on promoting flowers and flower-related innovations.

The Flower Constellations caught their eye, and Bloemenbureau Holland wrote a lovely piece about our design.
Check out the full (Dutch) post here.

Jessica and Fleur, the two lovely ladies behind blog and Instagram account PRCHTG, fell in love with our Flower Constellations.
Lucky us!

We gave them two prototypes to play with, and in return they delivered us gorgeous photographs and a lovely post on the VT wonen Blog. 

Check out the full article here: click here or on the photographs (in Dutch)

Don't speak Dutch? Don't worry, the article is still worth your time for the beautiful and professional styling and photography.

Thank you Jessica & Fleur! 

Check out this lovely article by the Florist / Florist magazine.
We're so happy to be featured on a blog that's specifically aimed at a professional floral audience. 

Check out the full piece by clicking on the image or here.

Dutch website Tuin&Balkon is full of tips for urban gardening.
A while ago they wrote a lovely piece about our design Waterworks (click -in dutch) 

And now they wrote this very sweet piece about our new Flower Constellations. - Thank you Mathieu!
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​Check it our here (in dutch)

Running a Kickstarter campaign is all kinds of exciting. Believe me when i say we're never far removed from our cellphones and laptops these weeks. 

The initial Flower Constellation frenzy subsided somewhat and we've reached the (apparently unavoidable) plateau.
It gives us some time to send out press releases and try to build an international audience for our Flower Constellations. 

​Still...  we'd love to reach a stretch goal, so we hope the plateau won't last too long.

Our kickstarter dashboard gives us great insight into our backers and the progress of our Flower Constellations crowdfunding campaign.

Yet there's another website that's very helpfully calculating if we're on track for a stretch goal: Kicktraq. 
According to Kicktraq, we're currently trending towards over €9000,-.
​Needless to say, that would be a result that we'd be very happy with.

Are you curious like us? 
​Check out our campaign on Kicktraq.

​When we first showed a little sneak peak of our Flower Constellations on Instagram a few weeks ago, the design immediately caught the eye of Lossebloemen.nl, a Dutch blog dedicated to celibrating the beauty of (single) flowers

We got in touch about our project and ended up prominently featuring a quote of blogger Chelan in our Flower Constellations project description.  
Turned out she had been following us already, and has been a happy owner of a Waterworks-set for a while.

Have you ever ordered flyers?
And? Did they lure you into ordering the next batch up?
You know: 2500 instead of 1000 because 'the difference is only €25,-' and 'i don't want to risk running out of flyers'?

Well, we just did exactly that: we just ordered 2500 Flower Constellation flyers instead of a 1000.
On Eco paper, mind you. So still bad, yet a tiny bit less bad.
Now what we need to do, is get these babies distributed....

Please let us know and we'll try and get our flyers in their coat room / waiting area / powder room and/or on their counter as swiftly as we can.
We'll be grateful till eternity. Or at least till May 5th.

Urban Jungle Bloggers is a global society of plant lovers, at least that's what's stated on the Urban Jungle Bloggers website.

The website is a mix between a blog and a platform and was founded in 2013 by Igor Josifovic (Happy Interior Blog) and Judith de Graaff (JOELIX.com) with the idea of bringing more green into homes and blogs.

Judith and Igor are now head of an enthusiastic army of green-interior-lovers hashtagging away with #urbanjunglebloggers from all parts of the planet. (Check it our on Instagram)