Delft
Yesterday I visited the lovely Dutch city Delft. It’s quite an old city, and very close to Den Haag. I…
Three eggs
Happy easter! In Dutch we have an old song: Eén ei is geen ei Twee ei is een half ei Drie…
Dark sunset
Today I painted a sunset, and tried to create real dark colours without using black. It kind of worked, but…
Sokkengekte
Sinds een paar weken is hij weer van start: de Sock Madness. De tiende editie alweer. De Sock Madness is…
Finished Rose & Thorn Socks!
My socks are done! In only 4 days! And I hardly knitted on Tuesday… I never knew I could knit…
Aquarelleren
Sinds een paar weken ben ik dagelijks druk bezig met schilderen. Het was alweer een tijdje geleden dat ik mijn…
Sock Madness round 2
Today when I woke up, I had an email from the Sock Madness organizers: I’m in team Kweechah Knotweed! Kweechah…
Fun with flowers
Now that I have this nice crafting spot, I have to use it, of course. No problem, no sir! I…
Ready to paint!
We made some more progress on my crafting corner! I had already cleaned out the back part of the storage…
Knit & Knot
Another intense day today: time for the first edition of the Knit & Knot knitting fair in Tilburg! The first knitting…
Lots of work…
Today I decided to clean up our storage room a bit more. It’s a very narrow room (about 1.7 m…
Wonky me
I still felt like painting this afternoon, so I decided to do a quick portrait study. And not with just…
Grounding
I have been working on the Amsterdam canal painting a bit more. It really needed more depth, because the boats…
Amsterdam Canal
I did it! I have painted on my hot press paper, despite being afraid to ruin it! And it works.…
Sunset at Haagse Hout
Today’s painting is of the same forest as the one from yesterday. You may recognize the bridge (we are looking at…
Forest light
Yesterday was such a busy day that I didn’t get to do my daily painting. When I came home, I…
Sinterklaas in spring
Huh? Sinterklaas in spring? That’s right, today I’m celebrating Sinterklaas with a couple of knitting friends! Officially Sinterklaas should be…
Stormy sea
Another seascape postcard today! This time I was trying to make it less vibrant, more stormy. Higher waves, greyer sand,…
It’s madness, I tell you!
Knitting one pair of socks in a week, and not even working on them all the time! I didn’t know…
Trial and error
After the big painting of yesterday that turned out way nicer than I anticipated, I decided to only paint a…
Wet wet wet
Yesterday I started a new painting, and really messed it up by adding way too much water. There were pools…
Wet galaxy
Just a bit of playing, really. Using lots of water, and spattering on the stars after it had dried a…
Frankenau
My parents in law have a small holiday house in Germany, right at the edge of a national park. It’s…
On my heels
The SlipStripeSpiral socks are coming along nicely. I’m not in a hurry, there’s plenty of time to finish them, so…
Experimenting
Yesterday was a really busy day, and I did not find the time to paint. Today I was going to…
Toes are up
At first I was a bit busy with other things, but two days ago I got started on the Sock…
Mending
Amazingly, I have never learned darning yet. On the first Dutch Knitting Days there was a workshop about it, but…
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