For Christmas 2019 I received the new set of Derwent metallic pencils. It’s a limited edition, but if you look good enough, they’re still available online. There’s also the common set of twelve Derwent new metallic pencils. I say ‘new’, because previously there was a set of twelve Derwent metallics, but those were water-soluble pencils. The new ones are not ...

A couple of days ago I received a new Amazon order: the new Stabilo Pen 68 Brush pens set of 24 colors. Yesss! I had already ordered a set of 20, but that set didn’t have all the colors. Stabilo has made some strange decisions with composing the sets (although, marketing wise maybe not so strange…). I’ll explain that later ...

This blog post starts different than usual. I’ve recorded me reading this blog post and made a video of it, because some people prefer to listen to instead of reading it. Maybe you’re one of them. From now on you can read as well as listen to my blogs! To read this blog, just scroll past the video. All read ...

Two blog posts ago, at the end of that blog, I started to tell the story of my husband and me, which started way back in the early eighties. The story continues, but first… Before I continue our story, I first want to give you a review of some great new colored pencils I’ve bought recently: Faber-Castell Black Edition! Of ...

About a week ago I got a question. Whether I would like to do some kind of comparison. Well, I’m always willing to help someone out, and I actually liked the idea. Not knowing what I would get myself into by the way, since this turned out to be a mammoth task. Not exactly what I intended. Comparison or employment? ...

Dutch sentiment A while ago, November 2016 to be specific, I bought the then recently released coloring book ‘Typical Dutch’ by Global Doodle Gems. Being Dutch and living abroad you can sometimes get excited about typical Dutch things. Things that weren’t that special while I was still living in the Netherlands. I mean, a windmill… there are so many of ...

At one point someone in a Dutch coloring for adults Facebook group asked if people had experience with the Lyra Art Pens. You must know I’m quite curious by nature, and when I looked them up on the internet they aroused my interest. With the result that I immediately ordered them. And what a coincidence that Amazon had a special ...