I had such a good day yesterday. I was high energy, even went to do yoga, and I went to sleep with a smile. I had a bit less sleep last night, about 5 hours and my energy levels were definitely lower today. This morning I worked on a blogpost, one that made me anxious. I finally shared it after a couple of hours of...

This is the fifth post in my 'hitting the digital brakes'-series. These are the previous posts in this series: the joys of imperfection Do we really need the latest tech My e-reader made me a worse reader Not everything needs to be in the cloud The inspiration for this post came to me in three ways. Yesterday, I had...

It’s the meteorological start of autumn! I’ve made a little zine filled with tiny poems I wrote about autumn. Most are from years ago, some are brand new. I’ve handwritten them in Procreate. I fear they may be unreadable but I’m sharing them anyway. I’m also posting the separate images below, thanks to zine cutter,...

It’s so funny, sometimes I have a great idea for another blog post, but then I tell myself: STOP! You can’t post more things on one day on your blog! That’s just silly. Who said that? Who wrote the law that says: thou shalth not post more than once a day on thine blog? The blog police? God? Ugh!!!! So done with...

I can’t believe it, it’s the end of August and I’ve posted every day this month! I’m so bloody grateful. I finally have a routine in my blogging again, after years of struggling. Forcing myself to post something every day also made me look outside of the usual things I post, made me experiment, made me feel such joy...

dear creative soul is a series of letters from my creative heart to yours Dear Creative Soul, Have you ever been hit by a swarm of gnats on a warm summer day? If you have, you know they buzz around your head in great numbers, and all you can think of is, “I need to get away from them as soon as humanly possible!”...

(this is a stream of consciousness post about how you can use your journal to find what you need to write) I feel lost, a bit, sad in my body. I don’t know why, really, I just feel it. I need to write a blog post. There’s a video playing in the background of a woman doing everything to avoid packing. She has a...

This is the fourth post in my series called Hitting the Digital Brakes, where I explore my journey into my use of technology to ditching some aspects of it now. The first post in the series was about the joys of imperfection and in the second post I asked if we really need the latest tech. The third post was on how...

One of the things I’ve most read about Dolly Parton in posts online is that people say there will never be anyone as good as her. I have pondered that ever since I read the first couple posts. Yes, there might not be anyone like her ever again, she was the embodiment of good, or, as Jad Abumrad says in this video,...

I’m writing this in my favourite cafe, while enjoying a cup of really good cappuccino. The weather is great, the forecast is that it’s going to get worse in the coming days, preparing the country for autumn, I guess. I’m so happy to be here, to write in this calm space. I’ve suffered from a bad throat ache for the...

We went to the zoo in Emmen for my birthday! I took so many good pictures (and some crappy ones that bring me joy) so here is a LOT 🅰 These pictures were taken with my Campsnap Pro. The entrance to the Asia area of the park I made a beeline for the elephants :) This was such a highlight. I managed to get this...

this has been an idea file in my blog folder for weeks, and today, it just wrote itself. The world is overwhelming, and it’s hard to find ways to deal with that. I know one way, a way that has been part of my life since my childhood: crafting. Instead of getting angry about whatever is in the news, pick up knitting...