Highs & Lows

 Blue Bird & Blossom in Purple feeling high in Paris

Everybody is familiar with days that are filled with highs and lows (and if you are not you must be from another planet).  To mention a few from my side:

Highs
* Featured by wonderful Louise on Table Tonic blog
* Featured with give away by beautiful Shari on Little Blue Deer
* Fabulous Dawn of The Alternative Wife blog as follower number 100
* Moving into my new inspiring studio
* Painting for 4 hours non stop in my new studio

Lows
* Hardly time for blogging, let alone responding..
* Hardly time for following my blogger sisters (and brothers), let alone commenting..
* MAJOR car trouble (bless my apple green bike as back-up)..
* A house that feels "amputated" as I moved 4 car loads into my new studio (probably my car feels it too)
* ONLY 4 hours of painting since a week

BUT I am still happy to live the highs and the lows, there is nothing more human!

NOTE: If you wish to add a bit of high to your day enter the give away on Shari's Little Blue Deer blog, a set of 10 boxed notecards that I designed for the Royal Delft museum.

Thank You Table Tonic Australia!

We are all girls (and boys) doing our best, every day with what we are and what we have (after Elizabeth Gilbert). Since getting into the blogosphere last year October I continue to be amazed every single day by the enormous energy, passion, drive and talent of the blogging community. A whole new world has opened to me. The mutual respect and support, new friendships, bucket loads of inspiration and food for thought. Yes it is virtual but at times also very personal. Today I "appeared" on Table Tonic's blog. Every day Louise Bell manages to post so many fantastic impulses for our brain that I keep wondering how she does it, being a mum of two, running the succesful Table Tonic webstore, happily married to an equal busy man.....A big thank you Louise for taking time to do such a wonderful posting on my work! And for those of you who are not a follower or client of Louise yet do check out her inspiring blog and delicious webstore.

Note: The winner of the give away "You are a Gem" by Dutch artist Anook Cleonne will be announced this Friday. Entries are still welcome (we extended the period due to the 2 week May holiday in The Netherlands). For information click here!