Alas for our English visitors, the complete recordings of Akaija Goes India are not translated yet. But to give you an idea, here you'll find a small piece of the texts, copied from one of the reports that we've sent from internet cafes in India while we were visiting the city Jaipur in India to contact casting companies able to support us in making the Akaija.
We went there because we encoutered a problem: the Akaija, cunningly simple as it may look like, proved to be a real difficult design to get properly finished. It's design, a hollow wire frame, is impossible to finish by machinery, so hand labour and man-power is needed to do the job. The first 1000 Akaija's were all casted in the Netherlands and finished by me, but after spending months in a row doing nothing else than finishing Akaija's from early in the morning until late at night my hands got callous and my mood was going down. We needed a solution to keep going, a good solution, and we saw the solution in India. But... whoever we would start dealing with, we wanted to meet these people in person, and see their working grounds. And we decided: Akaija goes India.
Below is a small text. I hope to be able to translate more soon.

Report 1, Jaipur - India - October 2006: "Just to make things clear (because not everyone knows why for Heaven's sake we suddenly end up in India)... The Akaija-jewel has gone beyond everything we've expected. That was meant to be of course, but this confronts us with problems and problems need to be solved. Our initial plan was to bring an original mother model of the Akaija to a casting company, let is be cast and finished, add a nice box to it, take the orders, include an invoice and send the package and voila... we are in business!
But not this time... The cosmos had other plans. Of course they have other plans. As soon as you're dealing with the cosmos everything, by definition, take a different road than you're able to imagine. But funny non-the-less.... after you've solved the problem as you'll understand.
Neither in the Netherlands, nor in Belgium we found a solution. We contacted 6 casting company and even 2 dental laboratories to ask them to cast and finish Akaija's. The last ones we expected to able to do the job, but especcially these two produced such poor quality that we wonder what quality they then put in our months.
Luckily we found one company that could cast the Akaija in a good quality, but finishing... no way. No one in the Netherlands can do that, unless you pay exorbitant prices. Apparently large scale hand made jewellery isn't for the Europeans anymore. So what did this teach me... To start finishing myself.
The first 100 Akaija were a piece of cake. I whistled while working and thought... wow... I like this. The second hundred idemdito. But after 300 Akaija's I started wondering what I've got myself into. Now the counter points 944 and I'm fed up with it. Every minute I need to grind, sand, polish, clean, etc Akaija's. Marianne has taken over the administration and the house get dirty because of the red polishing paste that get stuck in carpets everywhere. This can't go on! Problems need to be solved. Time for a solution...

You want to know how this goes on.... please forgive me... time still is precious here, but I'll try to translate everything in the next months. But for pictures from India.... you can download the Dutch version of 'akaijagoesindiaNL.pdf' (less than 1 Mb)

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February 2008:
And now for the sequel: Akaija Goes India - Reloaded.

Our first trip to India was succesful, but certain new problems came up. And we have a new jewel to present: the Suzy-ama. The outcome of this trip will be presented on this website as soon as possible...

The Akaija didn't come into existence pure by accident.

There's an interesting, but in some ways also very sad story behind all this...

'The Fifth Day' tells about our remarkable experiences during Linda's illness and the unique contact we were given after she died, resulting in the making of inspired art and jewellery, one of which is the Akaija. It's written in a very intimate style, and people just love it or dislike it. Find out for yourself. To get you into the mood we'll copy a fragment of it here.

The stone circle that I described to her during such a visualisation, was the basis from where Linda could start travels. I had once heard something about cosmic birds, so I contacted one of these birds in my mind and asked him to come to Linda’s stone circle. And there he came: a huge bird circling high above the stones. But coming closer he seemed to shrink and when he landed he folded his wings and didn’t seem that big anymore. He had a very friendly face and was eager to take Linda to wherever she, or we, wanted to go. So one time they flew of over the sea and I asked him if he could travel backwards in time, to the ancient continent Atlantis.

There she was awaited by an Atlantean priest in an orange dress, with an Egyptian Ankh who gave her a special treatment using the Ankh as a means to remove negative energies, cancer cells and pain. The priest gave her a special crystal, that she could keep in her hand, but when she laid on her back and put the crystal on her belly, then the crystal would levitate and grow very big, like a powerful healing stone, harmonising energies.

Also she went to other planets, one of which was inhabited by some kind of grey coloured panthers, who gave her information about their way of living.

Was it all our fantasy? Well... for us it certainly was no fantasy. Amà, the light-being that we came in contact with, gave us so much love and company that we were enlightened and very happy while she was present. Even afterwards... her love carried us through a big part of the day. I’ve never experienced so much Love, and I’ve hardly ever seen Linda being so happy. Was that fantasy? I don’t think so. Fantasies don’t give you THAT special feeling of Love and Happiness.!

Wish to read on? (Please forgive us the spelling and grammar): The Fifth Day (PDF-file less than 1 Mb).

For those living in the Netherlands... This short story now has developed into a full grown book that will be published in the Netherlands in May 2009 by 'Uitgeverij Akasha'.

And we won't stop there. Now we are searching for an English publisher...