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 higher. But when I had typed a complete post for my Facebook page last week ...

Happy Easter! First off, I’d like to wish you a Happy Easter (the Dutch celebrate two days of Easter, so today is the Second Easter Day)! Did you decorate the house? All in yellow and light green, an Easter branch decorated with little eggs (or chocolate eggs, mmmm), fluffy chicklets and an Easter bunny? For a lot of people, especially ...

Doodling with Johanna Ans About a week and a half ago Johanna Ans came with a question for the members of her Global Doodle Gems Review Team, of which I’m a member as well. It was about a coloring and drawing book of hers for which she would like to have more exposure on the internet. Whether we would feel ...

Dutch sentiment A while ago, November last year 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 ...

Last children’s coloring book review Through Kleuren voor Volwassenen I recently received from BBNC Publishers a third children’s coloring book: Little Pony, for which I’d like to thank them. This is the last one and then I’ve completed the task of reviewing children’s books. In a recent blog I’ve explained that coloring in children’s books is not what makes me ...

Scared little Pete, coloring picture book From BBNC I received, on behalf of Kleuren voor Volwassenen, the Dutch children’s coloring picture book Bange Pietje (translated in English: Scared little Pete). Thank you BBNC. The book was drawn and written by Martine van Nieuwenhuyzen. This is the third children’s book that I received lately and in all three of them I’ve ...

Nice mandala coloring agenda Through Kleuren voor Volwassenen (Coloring for Adults) I received the super nice One and Only Mandala Coloring Agenda 2017 from BBNC, for which I thank them! Now it’s quite clear that I must write a review about it haha,  so that’s what I’m about to do. The size is 18 x 17,6 cm groot and 2,4 ...

Every month a drawing to color BBNC Publishers sent me, on behalf of Kleuren voor Volwassenen, a copy to review of The One and Only Coloring Calendar 2017. Many thanks to BBNC! It’s quite a large monthly calendar, 30 x 30 cm, with every day enough space to list appointments etc. Every month has its own design to colorize according ...

New colored pencils When I recently received my 100 pieces Marco Renoir tin I was super happy. I had never before experienced pencils sent from China that were this well packaged. To me it felt like there were thirty layers of bubble wrap around the tin! Coloring with Marco Renoir Full of confidence I started my first coloring sheet with ...

2017 Is just around the corner Through Kleuren voor Volwassenen (Coloring for adults) I received from BBNC Publishers their Dutch ‘De Enige Echte Kleurscheurkalender 2017’. Translated in English it would be ‘The One and Only Coloring Block Calendar 2017’. First I’d like to share my appreciation and gratitude for this calendar. I had the previous one for 2016, so I’m ...