A Flower–Loving Heart Behind 

Welcome. These pages have been waiting for all of us a long time — more than fifteen years of beginnings and quiet erasures, as I hesitated, unsure whether this unusual dream could truly belong. Today the wish to live it has grown stronger than any fear.

For many years, while publishing magazines for home seamstresses in the Czech Republic — Marina Quilt (2010), later Pepitta and Pepitta Folk Art — I painted quietly, tucking my work into drawers and boxes, taking on a few cherished commissions.

In 2017 the name WABEL was born: three letters from Bellet — my magazine pen name — joined with a simple a and my husband Witek's initial .

And then, almost at once, came a pause — one that slowly stretched into eight long years: our daughter's cancer, my husband's stroke, my own illness. Out of that time came The Gentle Angel motif I painted in 2017—held like a promise—and, eventually, the first WABEL Co. Signature PDF Lesson. 

In the autumn of 2025, I finally set my feet on this path with deep gratitude for life, and for you, who leave both small and lasting footprints in this story.

With Love, Ivana

ivana.havelkova@gmail.com or studio@wabelco.com