by Clarissa | May 18, 2018 | family, personal |
My Mum gave me some hexagons that she’d paper pieced years ago and had then been sitting in a cupboard since then. Today I took them out of my cupboard and started playing around with different patterns and designs. In the end all I managed to sew together was...
by Clarissa | May 14, 2018 | family, personal |
For my birthday last year I asked my family for a lego dragon, but I got a helicopter instead. For Christmas I got one though, and now he lives in the kitchen, keeping an eye on me and guarding it from anyone. Every so often I re-pose him, but I keep him there so he...
by Clarissa | May 10, 2018 | dutch life, family |
Swimming is considered very important here in the Netherlands, probably because most of the country is below water level and everywhere is surrounded by canals, rivers and dikes, as well as the sea. So there is alot of water around and alot of emphasis on all children...
by Clarissa | May 8, 2018 | writing
The blog challenge was fun. I enjoyed finding words to fit each letter. As I was doing CampNaNo in April too I actually wrote all of the posts in mid-March and scheduled them in advance. This meant that I didn’t have to remember to write them everyday. The...
by Clarissa | May 4, 2018 | writing |
I didn’t win. But it showed me how much I can write. Though writing fast became my focus, not writing well. I know there are things I will have to edit because I didn’t stop to check or look things up. But in a month I wrote over half of a novel....
