Filled with enthusiasm I started the challenge that Dutch art supplies store Hobbycompleet De Duif announced for this summer. However, what I could have known, but hadn’t really given enought thought, was that during the summertime the temperature in our house rises to extremes. We’ve ...

Fall is here, summer’s over. Thankfully the weather is still nice where we live in Southern Spain. Like today, with a blue sky and 26 degrees Celcius on the thermometer. Just like the previous summers here, it was nearly unbearable to do something creative in ...

Yesterday it finally happened. My parcel from Paperpads.nl was delivered, containing my newest ‘toy’: the GoPress & Foil machine! It wasn’t quite easy to actually get the parcel. For three days in a row DHL tried to deliver in the evening, while the business center ...

I’m going on vacation and take along… The last couple of weeks have flown by. Obviously because of the time consuming nurturing of Scruffy (see my previous blog), but also because our family visit and short vacation in the Netherlands. And in those weeks I ...

So I wanted to post a blog with new artwork at least once a week. Only to get sucked into a new adventure around a puppy! In our area (Southern Spain) there are loads of stray animals. And last week on Tuesday night I suddenly ...

Today I ran into something fun on Facebook. At Hobbycompleet De Duif they started the Summer Challenge today! (They are one of my favorite art supplies stores in the Netherlands) So, summer challenge it is. Which means that you’ll get an assignment every week for ...

BINGO! One of my favorite hobbyshops in the Netherlands has a monthly bingo on Facebook. And I liked the idea so much that I decided to participate. It’s actually pretty simple: at the start of the month they post a ‘bingo card’ with nine different ...

Before I start to post new blogs more often, here’s a little update. I can hear you thinking “well that took a long time!” Well yes… ehm… sorry, I actually seldom blog anymore, just didn’t happen and the threshold to do so got higher and ...

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 ...