I’m glad you all liked our special “sneak peek trailer” for the upcoming
workshop! However, I did notice that some questions arose about the
“Mixed Emotions” workshop.

Yep, this workshop is about exploring emotions, but

IT IS NOT THERAPY!

After all, an art journal workshops should be fun, and ours will be!
We don’t expect you to poor out your heart and soul on the pages,
we don’t expect you to share your deepest feelings with us.
If you want to do that, that’s OK ofcourse, but we are prepared to
the fact that you want to keep your deepest feelings and emotions
to yourself.

There’s no need to be scared that you will be forced to open up.
Each lesson comes with questions and quotes that will help you
to explore the highlighted emotion in all directions. You can go
as private – or not – as you wish. The techniques that come with
each lesson will be fun to use in every way.

OK.
Now that’s cleared up I hope!
If there are any questions left, shoot me en email and I’ll be
happy to answer them!

On to some creativeness then…

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Thank you for all your birthday wishes dear friends and readers!
I had a relaxed, easy going day with my two men last Saturday,
and I was spoiled rotten! Look what my sweetie bought me!

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Aaaah – a video camera!!!! (or is it called “cad cam?”)

Whenever I wanted to make a video-tutorial for my online workshops,
I had to borrow the camera from my neighbour.
It became quite annoying, for her as well as for me, but now I have my own!
I don’t know how to use it yet – my beloved knows ’cause we spend
the weekend making movies for the upcoming workshop – so I was
in front of the camera showing techniques…

And my dear son is a genius in picking presents – he bought me this!

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He never asked what I wanted
for my birthday – he just
dived into the bookstore and
from all the books that are
for sale there, he picks THIS
from the shelves!!!!

HOW COOL!

And how WELL he
knows his mom!!!!

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And yes, don’t worry,
there is some creativeness
in this blogpost too!
I finally have something
to show you.

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When I look back on last week I can hardly believe this all happened in just
a few days… I took a photo of my weekly art journal page just now and it
contains photos that I feel were taken a Month ago. Was it really just last week
that I met Thinkie? Some weeks just simmer and then there comes a week
in which so many things happen. Good things this time! The week flew by!

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Hello my FEMALE friends!

Yes, I’m almost sure you are all female… do you think men
would write a post like this one, about hair and hairdressers?
And do you think other men would  comment on that with their
own experiences as much as you all did? Ha, I don’t think so!

So goodmorning, my straight and curly haired female friends,
I’m glad you stopped by again! (And if you happen to be a male visitor,
you’re very welcome too! No talking about hair today, so come on in!)

What DO I talk about then?
Well, for instance, the meeting I had yesterday.

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Thanks for the nice compliments on my “symbolic rings” layout (see
former post) And thanks Lena, for pointing this out to me:

“Oops… I just caught you telling a little lie…
Your mom did take off one of her rings.
The one she bought after chapter one.
She gave that one away to the winner of a little witch contest.
Guess who that winner was…
Yep, my dd Carmen and she still wears that ring!!
(send you a pic later!)”

Lena is right, my mom DID take one ring off…
I found the old pictures of the book presentation (October 2006)
so here is another “little witch story” for you!

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The weeks fly by when you’re busy… it’s Friday already!
Hey you guys!

I was very busy over the last 2 weeks with writing articles for CmF
and in between I am also working on lessons (and “extras”) for the new
online art journal workshop with Michelle… it’s hard NOT to tell
what we’ve been up to because we have soooo much fun!
I can tell you this much: it’s going to be ONE HECK OF A WORKSHOP!!!

If the participants have only half the fun Michelle and I have
while working on it, it will be a blast!
For more info and registration for “Mixed Emotions” look here.

With my guest blogpost at Yvonne’s blog last Tuesday (BTW you still have
two weeks to participate in my little challenge – click the link for the info)
I haven’t had the opportunity to show you my weekly art journal from
the week before. And I even managed to get another layout done last weekend!

Here they come…

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Good morning friends!
It’s a chilly and rainy day in Holland.
Just perfect for writing and reading 😉 blog posts.

Were you curious after I showed you the sneak on Friday?
Yes, you were!
That’s why you’re here isn’t it?
(Or do you just love me? That’s OK too of course…)

“Something nice is about to happen on Tuesday” I wrote.
Well, that’s today!
And today I am a guest blogger on Yvonne Yam’s blog Do More with Less

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