🇬🇧 It was a year of many different creative activities, trying many new things and finding my creative flow. Too little space in our house to be able to do crafts, all craft supplies in moving boxes. The renovation in the attic to build my own studio. I […]

🇬🇧 December, as always the busiest month of the year: Even more creativity in the shelter. Two exhibitions of the children in the art classes. Decorating my studio – it’s going to be beautiful! Several beautiful creative projects for Guusje! Of course preparing for and celebrating the holidays. […]

🇬🇧 Take a look at how we celebrated our wonderful Christmas! With lots of food, gifts and above all lots of love and fun. On to a fantastic New Year’s Eve! 🇳🇱 Kijk mee hoe wij onze heerlijke kerst hebben gevierd! Met heel veel eten, cadeaus en vooral […]

Here’s to Christmas: A time of rememberingA time of lovingA time for givingA time of believingA time of gratitudeA time to slow downA time to simplifyA time of magicA time of peace We wish you a very merry Christmas! With love, Dionne & Guusje

🇬🇧 Starting January 2023 I will be teaching the art class for children from 9 years old together with Rianne! We have already talked about the lessons together and we really have so many great ideas. 🙂 Would you also like lessons from us? You can register here! […]

🇬🇧 The wonderful evening has come, the evening of Sinterklaas… But we had already celebrated Sinterklaas before, nice and cozy at home with chocolate and ‘pepernoten’ and of course a bag of presents. How spoiled everyone is! Yes, everyone, even mom and dad and Guusje are spoiled with […]

🇬🇧 Sinterklaas has been in the Netherlands for a while now and of course we baked ‘pepernoten’ (ginger bread) and… decorated our own chocolate letters! For the ginger bread we used Kant & Klaar Kruidnotendeeg. It couldn’t be easier: take the dough out of the packaging, roll into […]

🇬🇧 What a month! Building my own studio, painting pumpkins, volunteering for refugees and organising creative activities, celebrating our Dutch holidays Sint Maarten and Sinterklaas, finishing my family photo yearbooks, volunteering kids crafts in our library, finally painting again and new assignments for parrot portraits… I can say […]