sail 2012

Yoga-sailing cruise, september 2012 with wind, beaches, small greek villages and twice a day YOGA
1 sept tot 8 sept 2012 www.zonnigzeilen.nl met yoga docente Vera www.dutchessceramics.com
                                                   hebben al 2 boekingen, wie gaat er mee !!!!!

Workshops 2012 are online

                                                  Keramiek www.dutchessceramics.com
                                                  Beeldhouwen www.bleekhoog.nl
                                                  Rhoon www.deteunishof.nl
                                                  Frankrijk www.arara-frankrijk.com
                                  Turkije en Griekse wateren, Sail Yoga week, www.zonnigzeilen.nl

                                                                 come and enjoy !!!!

Exhibit in Leiden

Sold all !

febr.2012 to kunstuitleenZoetermeer

Ceramics classes in de Batavier Nieuwerkerk

3 things

There are three things important in life:

Honesty, which means living free of the cunning mind
Compassion, because if we have no concern for others, we are monsters
Curiosity, for if the mind is not searching, it is dull and unresponsive !

Beatrice Wood

ARARA B & B Frankrijk

Montfaucon d'Argonne, is het dorp met de nieuwe B & B van Jan en Lenie, mogelijkheid voor workshops of een weekendje weg, makkelijke route en ongeveer 4 uur rijden vanaf Rotterdam, wij zijn afgelopen weekend wezen kijken en zijn heerlijk verwend door Arara. De kamers superschoon en de bedden slapen heerlijk...dus dutchess-house heeft een nieuwe locatie voor 2012 !
Verdun - 30 min
Parijs - 2 uur
Reims-1 uur

                                                               Lokale cafe om de hoek !



Prachtige locatie voor workshop schilderen, beeldhouwen en yoga met lunch tussen de oude stenen en prachtige bomen




Hou 2012 agenda in de gaten voor details www.dutchessceramics.com of www.arara-frankrijk.com

Wise word

Happiness is like a butterfly you cannot grasp if you chase him, he will land on you if you are relax and accept him !

Sunset

Beautifull sunset ........!









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Making molds and painting

Busy morning, painting the stairs and went for a stroll on the beach to search for crabs and shells to make molds for the ceramics class and for my theme sealife this year





Press them in the plaster and you can make great molds


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One more week to walk on the beach

Searching for shells and driftwood for my ceramics works, teapots and bowls, after nearly 4 weeks vacation, ready to go back to work, classes and yoga classes.


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Location:Faria beach the most beautifull beach in the world

Faria beach

Beautifull day at the beach. Nice surf and sunn, with our friends . Bill, Stuart, Doug, Bud, Gilbert and Kathy, Bill and Margeret, Christine, Lynn

Time to travel

Namesteh....how lucky I am to be

leaving soon for CA and have signed up by Valerie for a workshop www.freemanart.com and YES is will be at Beatrice Wood studio in Ojai...!!!!!!

First SALE for India

DUTCHESS first SALE for www.indiasorphans.eu

Webshop ONLINE

www.dutchess-chai.com is our new webshop !
All items are for donation www.indiasorphans.eu

summer arrived

Just a Ceramic Day

Nice platter for Sushi or Nuts.....

Thankfull that I can make ceramics

Alway's Friendships around the world

Working always on something !!!!!!!

end of dutchess-house

the end

End of Dutches House in Picardie

After 4 years we ended Dutchess-House in Picardie, France, we had a good time and

we met some nice people, but its time to go and explore other paths in this world......

.thank you for all the good moments .

wisdom

Orphans in India connecting with webshop Dutchess-Chai

Welcome to Dutchess-Chai a new product from Dutchessceramics and is connected with the organization  www.Indiasorphans.eu   and WFC. Wellnes for Children.

All ceramics products are fully donated for 100% to this project for  India’s Orphans in Hardiwar, Noord India.  Vera is very involved in this project and has been visiting this area since 2008 and got connected in 2010 with  Dr.L.Raju.Boedt the founder of this new project. This Ceramics-project will be personally guided  by Vera and she will be teaching and developing this ceramics department on Campus. From the Netherlands she will be in charge of the webshop. Couple of times a year she will be going to India to be sure that all products are made with high quality and be send out in the proper way. All products are handmade. You are buying a unique piece and helping a honest and pure   project which we are you very thank full for,  this project will give the possibility to the children, their new family’s a change for a  better live .  With  the family’s they can be self supportive, they learn a trade and the children can bring in ideas for the decorations on the cups, plates, which we can use for future items. Only children older than 15  can work in the ceramic studio. Because we are now in our starting – building phase,  all ceramics pieces are at the moment made by hand in Dutchess Ceramics Studio in the Netherlands and made by Vera herself. www.dutchessceramics.com  .

 We are hoping to start in 2012 with our ceramics from India

A piece of land is bought (3000m2) in 2010 in the village Patri, a small village 20 km from Hardiwar which is a famous pilgrim place for the Hindu people on the banks of the famous river Ganges and also the famous yoga-city Rishikesh is close by and you can organize walking tours  on the foothills of the Himalaya’s,  district Uttarkhand.

Around  end of 2011/2012 we hope to start to build the first family-houses and then continue with a B&B for tourists and Art/ceramics Studio, Yoga-Studio. Also for Yoga-groups it will be interesting to come and stay on campus and be learning about the hindu-life, Indian cooking, meditation and Yoga.

About the foundation WFC

Wellnes for Children foundation, wil give orphans a permit and stabile home

Every child will be raised and taken care by a foster parent on campus. Where the childern can feel and learn family value’s and have brothers and sisters.  They dont grow up in a orphanage with caretakers. WFC will build homes which maximum 6 children in one home with a couple. WFC thinks only then the children and the fosterparents can give another time, attention, love to grow into a balanced,  beautifull person. WFC selects the fosterparents en will guide them  to be a good parent, WFC will give india’s children their  own country , culture a future !

 www.indiasorphans.eu