Mijn ‘Quirky Dutch Summer’ event – een serie inspirerende posts
in het Engels én Nederlands – start op 12 Juni. Lees meer hier.

Yesterday, my son called that he had ‘a gig’ in our city.
Is it called a ‘gig’ too when you have to go to a concert as a photographer?
Anyway – however – he had to take photos at the Elvis Costello concert
that evening and asked if he could sleep over at our place.
Well, of course you can!

He came at the end of the day to drop of his stuff before he went to the
concert and I gave him the keys in case he would be home late at night.

…and late he was. Very late, apparently…
I had trouble falling asleep but when I did in the end, I’d still not had
hear him come home – but here’s what I found on the table this morning.

My keys and flyer’s for upcoming concerts with a note written on it…
..

I especially smiled over the last words.
Isn’t that polite?

I subscribe this haiku to ‘Haiku my Heart Friday’.
Haiku my Heart is hosted by the wonderful Rebecca who gathers haiku
lovers around her every Friday. You can find the list with all participants
on Recuarda Mi Corazon.

and here’s another letter…

Letters from the Wasteland – 12th letter

Size: 16 x 11 cm - 6.3 x 4.3 inch.
Materials used: very thin paper (blotter?), mod podge, acrylic paint,
sewing machine, black thread, cut out text from an old book.

And that’s it for today folks. Hope to see you Tuesday at
the first Quirky Dutch Summer blogpost!
Enjoy the weekend and, especially for the Dutchies,
enjoy the match tomorrow!

After all the excitement about the release of FEATURING magazine
I spend the weekend with my mom at the poetry festival in Landgraaf.
It was nice to be away from the computer, talk with my mom and the
other poets (I know most of them from former meetings), take a long
walk in the Limburg hills and listen to poetry.

Being away for the weekend means that I didn’t manage to finish my
weekly page in the Chronicles (I hope to work on it this afternoon)
but I have something else to show… ’cause I’ve been working on some
small ‘ in between works’ and I haven’t showed you those pieces yet.

This is the birthday card I sent to my friend Lena a week ago
(of course I also sent her a present along with this card.)
I don’t do these kind of collages and bright-coloured pages much
lately and it was fun to just fiddle around, choose happy colours
and doodle a bit.

Materials used: scrapbooking (patterned) paper, border and image
of young birds cut out of a magazine, doodling with puffy paint
and black & white sharpies.

I also worked on another ‘Letter from the Wasteland.’
I find working on these letters is almost like meditating (not that I meditate,
but I presume it comes with the same feeling of ‘being in the moment’ with
nothing else on your mind.)

Letters from the Wasteland – 5th letter

(Size: 16 x 11 cm - 6.3 x 4.3 inch.)
Materials used: gesso, acrylic paint, 'template' sequin waste,
washi tape, left over paperscraps, strips (text) from a fairytale book.

I hope to have some more free time this week to get my hands dirty
with paint and ink in between tweeting and ‘facebooking.’ FEATURING
magazine daily presents sneak peeks on facebook of the articles in the
debut issue and we tweet about it a few times a day. We don’t think it
will make it to ‘trending topic’ – but nothing wrong with trying is there?!

While typing this blogpost, I hear the mailman coming and my
beloved’s voice from downstairs: ‘Marit, did you expect a package
coming in from Lena?’

..huh?…

Well, that is an unexpected and nice surprise!
Look at this…

My dear friend sends me this to congratulate me with the magazine!
The book has 25 gorgeous templates and I decide right here, right now
to DEFINITELY get CREATIVE today!

Sorry guys, I won’t visit your blogs this afternoon –
I’m off to spray some ink around!

THANK YOU LENA!!!
You made my day!