Good morning and good Friday you all!
For the ones who missed the news and/or my last blogpost this week: The Netherlands have a new king.
Why do I tell you that – again – you ask?
Well… my book title haiku for Haiku My Heart Friday is about the king this week!
| Brieven aan een prins
De koning van Nederland Van dichtbij gezien |
Letters To A Prince
The King Of The Netherlands When Seen In Close-Up |
Each Friday I join the circle of haiku-lovers. I add my name to the list and I go say hi to all my fellow-poets, especially to our hostess Rebecca who generously opens her blog Recuerda Mi Corazon for all haiku lovers on Fridays. YOU are very welcome to join too.
I haven’t showed you any pages from my Chronicles art journal over the last couple of weeks. That is because I had a difficult time and I did not create any art journal spreads, I only wrote a couple of sentences on the pages and I like to keep those for myself. Last week, I picked up the creating again so here’s the latest spread.
The Chronicles of Marit – Week 17
The collage on the right is a card I received from my neighbour… lovely, isn’t it?!
Thanks Miriam!
I visited Sara Jansen’s blog Adventures in the Fun Room this week and my-oh-my… it was SNOWING where she lived! Eeeckk… I am glad to say we finally left winter beyond and today is bright, sunny and colourful… this is how my front yard looks!
I cut some branches from the tree in our garden to put in a vase…
Spring is in da house!
April is over but Tammy “Daisy Yellow” Garcia continues her mission to share the love and link up to fellow bloggers.
I think it is such a great idea to share links to bloggers and/or blogposts that got our attention this week. After all, don’t we all love it when visitors find our blog, read our posts and leave a comment?
Sooo… I continue to share some links on Friday in May.
- I named Sara Jansen in snowy Alaska already – here’s the link to her blog Adventures in the Fun Room
- I found Sara through “WOYWW” (What’s On Your Work desk Wednesday) – a fun ‘event’ that is hosted by the lovely Julia on her blog Stamping Ground You can read all about woyww here.
- I discovered a blog from a creative and – most of all – brave lady. Candace took a deep breath, a huge leap and changed her life around. Now that is some woman! Us Three By The Sea
- I made me another gelatin plate yesterday – it’s in the fridge right now and ready to be taken from the pan. I definitely will show you the monotypes I make with it and then I also link the post to Carolyn Dube and her May’s Colorful Gelli Print Party! so stay tuned for a ‘monotype blogpost’ next week!
- I ‘know’ Glenda for quite some time now (four years?) and I LOVE her journal pages. She is a host at ‘A Year In The Life Of An Art Journal’ and I am a fan of her fun and quirky art work! View her latest art journal page in this blogpost that is called Coffee Rocks – I’d say: Glenda Rocks!
Hope your weekend is sunny and bright and filled with pink blossom!
Your haiku is fantastic- love the photo of your new king! Thanks for the shout out and sharing your beautiful tree full of spring joy and your vibrant chronicles!
So enjoyed this post!!! Wishing you a grand weekend!
Loving the royal portrait and the front of your home is gorgeous! LOVING the pink!!! Great page too!!
Wonderful haiku and creative as always ~ Happy Weekend ^_^
Lovely post! I especially love your spring blooming tree. It looks like a cherry!
I always love getting a glimpse into your world…new royalty is such a fun concept…much better than the movie stars, musicians, and athletes that we seem to idolize here! Great pages, if only a couple…beautiful photos…ahhhh!
Book titles as current affairs. Nice one.
Marit you made my day and I think you rock too!!! Love your journal pages and how lucky are you to have that gorgeous pink flowering tree??? All we have right now is a tiny bit of snow that is melting and a ton of mud! haha Here’s hoping that spring is finally on it’s way though as we had a freak snowstorm just last week!
A great haiku, and your front yard is splendid!
oh marit,
i love Spring is in the House!!! for many it was a long wait. cause to celebrate with flowers and haiku! i love too that you are continuing your link with love. it is always wonderful to acknowledge others. you are so good at that.
enjoy a spring kissed weekend!
Wonderful post marit. Your blooming tree is lovely inside and out…I visited the links you shared enjoyed those too. Love the idea of your Chronicles journal.
Mooie boom! Zo 1 hebben wij ook. Hij staat nu in ook in bloei. Goed idee, ga ik ook doen op mijn blog 😉
How lovely to celebrate your king’s ascension to the throne with poetry!
Scattered Stars
Marit, Thank you for joining with me on the MISSION to spread the link love. I will explore your suggestions in the days ahead. And I am thrilled to see you journaling again. Hoping you are feeling happier.
Love your haiku! Very appropriate. Love your journal pages as well. I want to explore silhouettes in my art journal. Love your journal and happy spring! 🙂
Great Haiku, I am sure the new King would approve! and I will be checking those links out this weekend!
That is a great collage and those pink blossoms, Wow!
Have a great weekend
~Dawn
Thanks for coming by my blog and leaving the very nice comment…I plan to check out your blog further. I had heard the queen stepped down and you have a new King now.
Cheers!
Mary
Long live the new king! Have a wonderful weekend! Haiku My Heart Dancing
The sweet “0” of the little girl’s expression steals the scene. Adorable.
Hi Marit! Thanks for your nice comment about my new puppy!! He is fun! I thought I was a cat woman myself, but my first dog (Zip, who we still have as you saw) made me really like dogs more than I ever thought I would so I figured I would try again. So far so good!!
WOW! A new King! How exciting. I’m sorry I missed your last post, I’m going to check it out next!
I am also going to be making a blog post and it is about monoprinting! I already wrote about it on FB so I am a bit late 🙁
Hope your muse returns and you get to feel like creating soon!!
xxD
Marit! Love all of your links…where I also linked to other links…and got a little lost, but had a fun adventure of discovery thanks to you!