🇬🇧 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 […]

🇬🇧 Here’s an update about my studio! I had to wait for two years and now that it’s finally happening and I’m so happy! There’s a lot of mess and noise… but I’ll take it. 😉 I can’t wait for it to finish! 🇳🇱 Hier een update over mijn […]

🇬🇧 I’ve already spent a few wonderful days crafting with the refugees in our village! As soon as I can, I visit and take several creative activities with me. I gave all children their own portfolio (a file with empty sheets) in which they can draw and craft […]

🇬🇧 Mark your calender: on December 19th there will be an exhibition from Art class 6+. The kids will show you what they made during their classes and there will be a surprise auction! I’ll be there too and I can’t wait! 🇳🇱 Noteer in je agenda: op […]

🇬🇧 What I used:– Printable Sint & Piet– Black and silver paint– Toilet rolls– Markers for coloring Print out the coloring pages and give Sint a nice beard and Piet curly hair! I used silver paint for Sinterklaas because I printed on white paper. But you can also […]

🇬🇧 What a lovely evening we had! Earlier this week I’ve been busy making a treat for all the kids. Well… for 50 children. If I’d known there were going to be so many kids, I’d have at least doubled it! Soon the first children came to the […]

🇬🇧 The minute I take a seat and want to start working on my laptop, Guusje immediately flaps her wings and wants to come sit next to me. I have to come over and get her to take her with me… haha. And then she just sits next […]