It is poppies blooming season right now and I want to celebrate this beauty with a week dedicated to this flower. All my posts, paintings, patterns and photographs will be poppy-related. Starting off with a collage of the poppies all around me – basically in my own garden and in my neighbour’s frontyard. (you know,… Read More
oh, how I love magnolias!
Due to our Amsterdam adventure a couple of days later – here is Clara’s April page: Spring is officially here now – let the lovebirds sing!
Yes, spring is here! At last! Sunshine, birds and flowers! And you know what the assignment for the first week of MATS B was – to design a winter holiday card … featuring toy trains … That’s business, I guess, you never know what you are assigned to do and then you start working to… Read More
I used to knit a lot. I even used to have a knitting blog. I started this dress 3,5 years ago when I was pregnant with my second daughter Carolina (blogged here). Then I stopped knitting this dress. Because of the belly. Then because of breastfeeding. And then painting came my way again. 3,5 years… Read More
February is such a hybrid of a month. There are still those winter days, when my feelings and paintings look like this: And then, there might be a day, like Friday last week, that feels like the first day of spring, with sunshine and blue skies all day long, a certain sweet and fresh smell… Read More
… is more purple & green this week. A new dress and tulips put me into spring mood and mode.
Here they are – the anticipated first snowdrops of 2015, spotted yesterday in the neighbourhood. On a new early record day – February 4.
It is February, it is still winter and my paintings reflect that, I think. *snow yoga queens with strange noses* *tulips maybe soon* And to keep you warm and cuddly, you can never have enough pillows. Just for fun I mocked up some of my paintings on pillows. Stay warm!
February has arrived. And feels like another unspectacular winter month. But yes, there will be green, amongst the grey and the white – as Clara’s calendar promises. Maybe catkins (love that word). And definitely snowdrops, like always in February around here.