Winter, snow, skating, Christmas, trees, birds, a fox and a badger, these elements all show up in my new Christmas collection. My new collections all have a cute girl inside and this time she is on skates. Skating in the open air has always been a real Dutch habit. In case there is snow. Holland is a land of many canals, ponds and lakes. Sometimes they are made by nature, floods, rivers, ice-age, but the Dutch always digged their own waters. There is so many water around us t

Darn, that is hard. But I will have mercy with these fun and crazy glocking birds. I eat a vegetarian thing today. It's not a big deal, I'm not American, so what do I have to celebrate? Anyway, for those of you that ARE American and those of you who are not, there are wonderful opportunities in my shop. Such as: Doorbusters, fun items for only $1, and those on Black Friday differ from those on Cyber Monday :) And then there is a wonderful sale with at least 30% off and on lot

Well, I think I chose the wrong Winter fairs for my stuff after all. Not that it weren't nice markets, but I didn't make a penny. I know it has nothing to do with my style or my kind of designs, LOL, at least I hope it hasn't! But really, there were more exhibitors who found it to be really disappointing compared to last year or to their usual Christmas markets and Winter fairs sales. So now I have all my attentions to what I will do now. And I think I really like to re-open

Wow! I will be on two wonderful Winter and Holiday fairs in the Netherlands. The one that comes first is the Wintersfeer market in St. Pancras. It'll be on the 15th of November 2015. I will add more information once I know more! The other market is in a wonderful castle in Heemskerk and will be held on the 22nd of November. Please note I will not be standing there with all of my products, but only the more Winter- and Christmas/Holiday products! There will also be info for wo

I see so many wreaths on the internet lately that I really liked to give it a try. I used stuuf I made for the Art boxes, but used them in a different way, making the icons into Photoshop brushes. I also had additional brushes, all made for Lilla Rogers' Global Talent Search, but never used for the original submission. I always try to make some brushes when I design for a project. It saves a lot of time and is great to use over and over again. And here it is... I might be mak

I just finished the first episode of this MATS B e-course, a course and a journey through all kinds of market that we are going to learn to design for. The first week was the paper market. The first two days we were sketching and the topic we sketched were toy trains. Isn't that great? So I searched on the internet and on my attic and I came up with lots of trains and locomotifs. I studied how they stuck together, how the wheels were attached to the trains, and what objects w