As winter settles in and the year draws to a close, there's just something special about gathering to create with intention. Join us on November 8 for a warm afternoon of collaging where you'll craft wishcards for the people you love (whether holiday-themed or not) and design vision boards (“wishmaps”) for the year to come that turn your dreams into visual reminders.

As part of the Amsterdam 750 celebrations, this special edition of lifescraps is all about the city we call home. Amsterdam isn’t just canals, bikes, and clichés — it’s a collage in itself: layered, messy, beautiful, sometimes chaotic, always surprising. Through sustainable scrapbooking and collage, we’ll capture fragments of what it feels like to live, love, and land here right now.

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

lifrescraps: la-la-land(ed) is a workshop about those collisions: hopes vs. reality, chaos vs. calm, imagination vs. “real life.” Through collage, we’ll chart the places (literal or metaphorical) we’ve landed in — cities, relationships, moods, states of mind.

On August 27, we launched lifescraps in style at cosy Bar Bario, turning a regular Wednesday into a night of paper, glue, and DIY joy. Curious locals, fellow collage lovers, and unwitting tourists wandered in, grabbed a glue stick, and got scrappy.

On August 23, De Ceuvel opened its creative shipyard for a free neighbourhood street party. The day blended music, food, art, workshops, and community — a playful festival of sustainability and imagination right in the heart of Amsterdam Noord.