by Clarissa | Jul 2, 2018 | personal, writing |
So at the beginning of the year I set myself some goals, and now we are halfway through the year it’s a good time to look back and see how I’m doing on those. My goals for 2018 were: focus on writing improve daily routines look after me talk to friends...
by Clarissa | Jun 28, 2018 | dutch life, family, food, personal |
What’s the first thing you do when you have a new house? Go round the garden and identify what new plants you have, of course! (Well, actually first we picked the ripe fruits and have even made our first batch of homemade jam and relish from it.) We are lucky to...
by Clarissa | Jun 25, 2018 | personal, writing
I have just published a Facebook Page for me as an author. I have been playing around with doing this for a while, and today actually pressed publish on it. This is the next step for me taking myself an an author seriously and trying to build up an audience before a...
by Clarissa | Jun 18, 2018 | dutch life, family, personal |
We have just bought our second house in the Netherlands. It’s just round the corner from where we now live, and even closer to the children’s school. So we are very happy and looking forward to moving there and not moving again! But first we have some...
by Clarissa | Jun 8, 2018 | personal |
I am honoured to have been nominated for a One Lovely Blog Award by Amy Henry at Amy Henry Books. The Rules Thank the person who nominated you. Share 7 facts about yourself. Nominate 15 bloggers and inform them of the nomination. While I am very pleased to have...
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...
