Start a creative dream list
List five creative dreams that excite you. Execute dreams. Repeat. [start here]
It’s no secret that I’m an admirer of rainbows. And I understand that one of the reasons rainbows are special ...
“Why don’t you just buy something in a store like a normal person?”, my sister will ask me when I, ...
COVID-19 has cultivated an unhealthy obsession over my interior. I mean, it’s all I’ve been surrounded by pretty much 24/7. ...
I refurbished a vintage Yngve Ekström Ruster lounge chair. Sounds fancy right? And very Swedish. We bought the vintage chair ...
Don’t you think butterflies seem like these magical out-of-this-world creatures? Their colours. Their fragile wings. The whole caterpillar metamorphosis thing ...
Remember the giddy excitement you used to feel as a kid, when waking up on a Saturday morning with the ...
I recently listened to the audiobook Digital minimalism by Cal Newport. It inspired me to do a digital detox. My ...
Raise your hand if you have a Pinterest board with enough inspiration to fuel a lifetime of crafting and interior ...
Swimming outdoors gives me all the happy vibes. I used to swim outside in Gabon all the time as a ...
Start a vegetable garden and plant flowers I got interested in the idea to start a vegetable garden, when I ...
I learned how to weld. Joran’s brother taught us how. We created new dining table legs as a learning case. ...
I decluttered my creative office! Check out the video below to see how I accomplished my first creative dream (declutter ...
The concept: execute 5 creative dreams I am introducing a new feature on my blog: creative dream list. The idea ...
Set a weekly creative challenge
Do weekly assignments to help you train your creative muscle. [overview list]
Monday I started another creative challenge again. The challenge: Start your own radical self love bible What was difficult? In ...
It’s time for a new creative challenge again. For this last week of creative kindness month, another exciting assignment. The ...
Monday, I set myself a creative challenge. The challenge: Every day, illustrate an experience you’ve shared with a loved one. ...
This week’s creative challenge: Come up with 7 random acts of kindness every day and write them down. search for ...
Monday I set myself a creative challenge. The challenge: Capture the message ‘I love you’ in a picture every day. ...
It’s creative challenge time again! So gather your pens, paper and watercolour pencils, because this week is all about illustration/art ...
Ready for a new challenge? Then you are most welcome to join my challenge for this week. The challenge: Come ...
Occasionally I set myself a creative challenge for a week to train my creative muscles. You are welcome to join ...
I am starting a new feature on my blog. Every week I want to set myself a creative challenge to ...
I start off my weekly creative challenge, with the following: The challenge: Make an illustration for each day of the ...
Each week I set myself a creative challenge. This week’s challenge was: Make an illustration for each day of the ...
The challenge: Be an explorer of the world: observe the world around you, collect useless objects, wander around and live ...
Each week I set myself a creative challenge. This week’s challenge was: The challenge: Be an explorer of the world: ...
The challenge: Log your dreams after every night and visualize them in any medium you want. Write down your dreams ...
Each week I set a creative challenge. This week’s challenge was: Log your dreams after every night and visualize them ...
Every week I set a creative challenge. This week: The challenge: Write a haiku every day. A haiku is a ...
I set weekly creative challenges. The challenge of this week was: Write a haiku every day While my bed looks ...
The challenge: Dress the way you would like to feel rather than how you feel and record your outfit in ...
I set weekly creative challenges. The challenge of this week was: Dress the way you would like to feel rather ...
I started with my creative challenge a while ago. This week I present a new one: The challenge: Create a ...
I created the canvas painting above this week as part of this challenge. What was difficult? Starting. I didn’t feel ...
I set myself creative challenges and you are welcome to join any week if you like. You can take on ...
Inconvenient Bliss, acrylic paint on canvas ‘But I like the inconveniences.’ ‘We don’t’, said the Controller, ‘we prefer to do ...
As you know I set myself regular creative challenges. As always, I will do it anyway, and you are free ...
See here the creative challenge of last week. What was difficult?Keeping up with my challenge. Sometimes I forgot about it ...
It has been a while since my last creative challenge, but this week I am up for something new again: ...
My last challenge (in more detail over here): Do something that you have been willing to learn, for half an ...
I set myself creative challenges. This week I have a new one: The challenge: Make five postcards and mail them. ...
The challenge: Make five postcards and mail them. (More details on this week’s creative challenge here) What was fun? Producing. ...
It has been a while since my last creative challenge, so it is about time for a new one. As ...
An exercise to train your creative muscles, warm-up for any brainstorm session and strengthen your imagination. Maybe you already generate ...
Lately, I have been thinking about creative dreams. About how you have these big secret (or not so secret) goals ...
Today I will share some thoughts on what I learned from my two extreme weeks of painting. Hopefully my experience will ...
Live a creative and playful life
Gain tips, experience and ideas on how to create a playful, creative and happy life.
When I was about 14, I jumped into a canal with my best friend during an outdoors gym class. It ...
There is a gap between your busy everyday reality and the creative, happy life you would love to live. ...
Remember how you used to play outside for hours, climb in trees, play hide and seek, chalk on the sidewalk? ...
Question “If you could only give one advice on creativity to hundreds of students, what would your best advice be? ...
Not long ago I wrote about how you need to stop using bullshit excuses that block your creative potential. Today ...
You want to make more things, but somehow never get to it. Well, it’s time to show your supplies some daylight and get ...
This lemonade stand added dry ice to their cups. Awesome smoke effect. One of the benefits of travelling is you ...
Pippi Longstocking is one of my childhood idols. She is independent, incredibly strong, playful and strange in the most delightful ...
♥ build a fort ♥ play a game ♥ dance in the rain ♥ bake cookies ♥ build a piece ...
Image via, original source unknown Oh, the many hours I spent slumped on the couch, watching brainless television. So many ...
(via) We all need playfulness. It adds quality to our life and makes us enjoy the activities we carry out. ...
Last night, I was in my bed, staring at the ceiling. It was 2 o’clock. It turned 3 o’clock. I ...
♥ go for a walk ♥ bake cookies ♥ write a bucket list ♥ call a friend ♥ make sock ...
♥ pick an exotic travel destination and make a savings plan ♥ dress up and do a photo shoot ♥ ...
ukulele playing bear ♥ elephant in wheelchair ♥ butterfly-kite ♥ twisted alarm clock ♥ penguin on ice skates ♥ trampoline ...
A practical 10-step guide to view the world as a child and embrace the abundance of living. Just because you ...
An exercise to train your creative muscles, warm-up for any brainstorm session and strengthen your imagination. Maybe you already generate ...
Today I will share some thoughts on what I learned from my two extreme weeks of painting. Hopefully my experience will ...
Change the world
Brighten this world in creative and quirky ways and make people smile. This is my favourite mission.
“Have you ever played ding-dong ditch?” Standing in front of a group of children on a Sunday, most hands rise. ...
Once, before Joran and I started dating, I sent him a message written with invisible ink, which I discretely delivered ...
When you are brave enough to act upon the passionate ideas that live inside you, the world becomes a more beautiful place ...
This might easily be one of my craziest blog-projects so far. With the help of 25 amazing volunteers, an aerial platform ...
Love is not heart-shaped boxes with chocolates, red balloons and Hallmark cards with a cute pun (although, you know, they ...
Give umbrellas to strangers in the rain There was a time when I loved rain. On my little girls’ bike ...
“Yarn bombing or fence knitting is a (new) form of street art. Graffiti is illegal in almost all places. Happy ...
You want to change the world. You want to make a positive change. At your funeral, you want people to ...
“I don’t like my life anymore. I thought perhaps you could make me feel better.” It’s my sister. We tend ...
Remember when you found something amazing as a child? Perhaps you discovered a bronze medal in the parking lot, a ...
What could be better than confetti and guerrilla gardening? Yep, a combination of both. Joran gifted me some ‘Grow & ...
I was feeling somewhat blue when I rode off on my bicycle from Joran’s place. I honestly cannot even remember ...
I had slept for 4 hours, maximum. I had been working on my presentations in the train, on the airport and ...
Kindness Kit Magical mission videos Articles Creative challenges Guest posts DIY’s Creative Kindness Month has come to an end. What ...
Spring is in the air and I love it. I love the sunshine, the flowers, longer days, less layers to ...
I made a couple of fortune peanuts. I filled half of them with kind messages, and the other half with ...
So you are inspired, excited and ready to go out into the world and make it a happy place? Good ...
Armed with chalk and biodegradable confetti, which are both included in my kindness kit, I went out to spread a ...
This week’s creative challenge: Come up with 7 random acts of kindness every day and write them down. search for ...
I sneaked into my boyfriend’s house when he was away, to leave a surprise message to let him know I ...
I went out to spread the miniature envelopes from my Kindness Kit. I wrote tiny encouraging messages. I hope they ...
I went on a magical mission (click if you can’t see the video). Magical missions are creative acts to brighten ...
My Kindness Kit includes a number of ladybirds and printed clover templates that you can cut out. I went for ...
Psssst: Although I normally sell my Kindess Kit and its contents, you can download the FREE printable Kindness Manifesto here! ...
Magical missions are meant to create positive feelings. That doesn’t mean that the process always feels that way. So what ...
Doodling on bananas isn’t something I have never done before. I even had a dream about starting a doodled banana ...
We all have been there. Those days when you don’t feel like dressing up and that old sweater with warm socks ...
We adults, we just walk. And in the exceptional case that we do use those legs of ours in a ...
Letters make words. Words can cheer you up and bring you down. Can express, communicate, invite, hurt, teach and touch. ...
There is a woman outside of the supermarket every day standing in the cold, begging. I never gave her any ...
Your birthday is the day to feel special and have people around you who love you and celebrate with you ...
I love the idea of the crane project and this movie: Have you ever experienced you wanted to help someone, thank ...
To kids small things can appear quite significant, meaningful and exciting. Perhaps finding a coin does not make your heart beat ...
Somewhere between waking up still foggy minded and going to my university, I decided to quickly wrap up some valentine’s ...
Sometimes the smallest things can make a difference. Sometimes those small things might be peanuts. Literally. Last week I showed ...
I folded 1000 origami paper cranes. About a year ago, I decided that a year from then I wanted to ...
So I had this idea to bake cookies for my entire building for Valentine. That is 7 apartments filled with ...
Translation: everything will be OK, here is a free smile, hi stranger you are beautiful, not perfect is also good, ...
I was talking to my boyfriend over the phone [mushy lover alert]: “Do you know how much I love you? ...
[if you can’t see the video above, click here] I spent half a year in India a few years back. ...
Two years ago, I started to fold 1000 origami paper cranes. I finished folding the cranes after a year by ...
Invite play & magic to grown-up life
Create magical moments & playfulness in the midst of everyday chaos and routine.
Remember the giddy excitement you used to feel as a kid, when waking up on a Saturday morning with the ...
Joran and I hosted a Time Travel themed dinner party the other night. The concept is simple: everyone dresses up ...
About a year ago, it snowed. Heavily. For Dutch terms. That doesn’t happen very often around here, so I went ...
Once upon a time, I went on a safari. It was my dad, my sister and me. I felt so ...
If you’ve been reading along for some time, you know that Joran and I organise dinner parties with fun themes ...
So, what do you do when you love rainbows but cannot find any when you look at the sky? Exactly, ...
Have you ever been to a party that was utterly boring? Nobody got your jokes, lots of awkward silences and ...
The great thing about being a mini ninja spy is that nobody sees you. A good spy doesn’t get caught. ...
I love dinner parties. Wait, let me rephrase that. I love dinner parties if I get to do them in ...
Why wait until your birthday to bake yourself a cake? Yes I’m talking to you with your Pinterest boards full ...
I was in the biggest water fight you can ever imagine for three days in a row. I’m celebrating the ...
Here is an easy recipe that I use for baking cookies all the time. Shortbread cookies are quick. They also ...
Learning to take better pictures is something that I have wanted to do for a long time. This summer, I ...
Want to have an intergalactic night of fun, quality time with a bunch of great people and enjoy a cuisine ...
One of the best things about Mary Poppins was her ability to simply snap her fingers to clear out any ...
The other day I was pondering about how to make life more awesome. Yes, I ponder about things like that. ...
When I saw the photographs of the artist Ruslan Khasanov from his project ‘Pacific Light’ I simply knew: I had ...
Meet Lars. Lars loves laundry. He eats it. The dirtier the better. Before I adopted Lars into my humble room, ...
One of the things I wanted to do this summer was make a kite. I once made a kite together ...
It’s that time of the semester again; meaning crazy workloads and deadlines and little time left. At the one hand ...
I don’t get bored that easily. In fact, I am almost never bored. I somehow always find some way of ...
I built some seriously awesome stuff last week. Stuff that made me feel pretty smart (in a genuinely geeky sort ...
Some things are truly fascinating. I mean, many things are, but some to an extreme extent. These pictures are the ...
I built a house with my bare hands over Christmas together with my boyfriend. Not irrelevant detail: it was a ...
I have put my new adorable moustache cookie cutters to the test today and I love them! The great thing ...
I had been feeling slightly restless and unproductive the whole day. At one point I decided that I had had ...
Some products are just too awesome not to own. Luckily for me my siblings recognized the glister in my eyes ...
I made a unicorn piñata! You thought I was kidding with my unicorn farm, didn’t you? But no, for a ...
Let me tell you about the original birthday present I planned for my boyfriend. The only thing I told him ...
Declutter your space
Create a calming creative environment for yourself.
The junk in my closet started to turn into monsters. They slowly took over my room, my space and my ...
One of the best things about Mary Poppins was her ability to simply snap her fingers to clear out any ...
Last Friday I showed you the enormous bulk of items I threw away. I would like to share a book ...
Somehow, my tidying, decluttering and organising attempts always seem to end up in play. My laundry monster Lars made sure ...
Somewhere last year, Joran and I went for dinner at friends of ours. They bought their house a few months ...
I decluttered my creative office! Check out the video below to see how I accomplished my first creative dream (declutter ...
I recently listened to the audiobook Digital minimalism by Cal Newport. It inspired me to do a digital detox. My ...
Create a happy home
Create a playful and joyful home full of colour and creativity.
Lets talk about the importance to make space, literally, for your passions. Your space should represent what’s important to you ...
“Why don’t you just buy something in a store like a normal person?”, my sister will ask me when I, ...
“I’m looking for a plant that can survive without light and can bear cold temperatures.” The girl behind the counter ...
Don’t you just love butterflies? I certainly do. So much in fact, that I decided that I would love to ...
Raise your hand if you have a Pinterest board with enough inspiration to fuel a lifetime of crafting and interior ...
My dad has a man cave. A dad’s shed. It’s filled with every tool you could ever dream of. And ...
COVID-19 has cultivated an unhealthy obsession over my interior. I mean, it’s all I’ve been surrounded by pretty much 24/7. ...
I created my book shelve with hanging jars & mugs together with Joran. It holds a lot of creative and inspirational ...
Don’t you think butterflies seem like these magical out-of-this-world creatures? Their colours. Their fragile wings. The whole caterpillar metamorphosis thing ...
I refurbished a vintage Yngve Ekström Ruster lounge chair. Sounds fancy right? And very Swedish. We bought the vintage chair ...
I created a whimsical art gallery wall. It displays a flamingo painting, ukulele painting, elephant shrew painting, ukulele, faux taxidermy ...
I built a tree house. Not a real one. It is cold outside and I don’t have a yard, let ...
Paintings
Imagine. Paint. Create.
The word for ‘bow tie’ in Dutch is ‘vlinderdas’. Vlinder means butterfly. Das means tie. So what you call a ...
The colours in this one are hard to transfer to a digital screen without insulting the original artwork. The first ...
I think the fun of painting is in creating dream worlds in which anything is possible. Ever since I folded ...
One of the fun things about painting is creating a magical dream world in which anything goes. A red helium ...
Lately I have been painting more again. I do not always make time for it, but I love to do ...
This weekend I finished another painting I have been working on for a while. As Mr. Giraffe (actually I am not ...
I created the canvas painting above this week as part of this challenge. What was difficult? Starting. I didn’t feel ...
I have something that I can’t believe I haven’t shown yet, because I made it ages ago. Ages ago meaning ...
Acrylic on canvas, 80x80cm I made this painting as a present for my mother’s birthday.
I haven’t painted on canvas in ages. And I have been wanting to for a long long time. I just…. ...
Today I dug up a drawing from the past for you guys. I made this drawing more than 6 years ...
I might do a liiiitle retouching here and there, but for now I consider it finished. One out of seven: ...
The fun thing of my two weeks of extreme painting, is that it allows me to push myself creatively. I ...
In my last post about my birds painting I mentioned that I was working on a hipster monkey. Although that ...
A small painting for a small creature: a duckling on a tiny swing. I always enjoy seeing the process of ...
I painted a human figure for a change. I know my current line of work has been mainly animal focused. ...
Whoaaa! I made my first abstract piece of art! Talking about trying things out of my comfort zone. I found ...
I painted myself another imaginary friend. He is small and fluffy, sees almost everything (and therefore is easily distracted) and ...
Street Art
Find colourful inspiration & low-key ideas to try out!
What would happen, if you would set a flock of flamingos free in the public space, and challenge people to ...
About a year ago, it snowed. Heavily. For Dutch terms. That doesn’t happen very often around here, so I went ...
True story: inspired by the movie ‘Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain (or short: ‘Amélie’), I once went down the Internet ...
Josine Beugels has a thing for eggs. In fact, she declared 2018 ‘year of the egg’. For the second year ...
You might live in the cutest-rainbowiest-happiest neighbourhood imaginable. Or, more likely, there is room for improvement: add a little sparkle, ...
It all started with a simple idea. What if we wouldn’t start a yarn bomb project, but an enormous yarn ...
Some days, you wake up in the wrong sleep-cycle, you forgot to buy breakfast the day before, and the moment ...
1. John Cleese inviting you to do a silly walk The tunnel of silly walks, inspired by the infamous Monty Python sketch ...
I made a little friend. We both love travelling, discovering new places, and seeking exciting adventures. He’s never discouraged by ...
When you are brave enough to act upon the passionate ideas that live inside you, the world becomes a more beautiful place ...
This might easily be one of my craziest blog-projects so far. With the help of 25 amazing volunteers, an aerial platform ...
“I don’t like my life anymore. I thought perhaps you could make me feel better.” It’s my sister. We tend ...
For your daily dose of inspiration, here is a photo impression of a local graffiti festival I went to. I ...
During my visit in Denmark, I stayed in Odense most of the time. However, I had a short day left ...
About Christiania Christiania is a neighborhood in Copenhagen that declared itself as a free state within Denmark. It was founded ...
I was walking with Adam through the lovely streets of Odense. He was giving me a small tour through the ...
The weather has been beautiful here for this time of the year. So on a sunny March afternoon, I decided ...
Armed with chalk and biodegradable confetti, which are both included in my kindness kit, I went out to spread a ...
The first time I read about April was on Uncustomary, where she used her ‘balloon graffiti’ to colour the streets. ...
Magical missions are meant to create positive feelings. That doesn’t mean that the process always feels that way. So what ...
A little while back, I got into some good old painting fun with the Big Bug Collection. Because of the ...
Past Sunday was a laid back day, in which Anne and I strolled around a flea market and visited a ...
This weekend I was strolling through the dark streets of my hometown (which I actually do not really consider my ...
Although technically it is still winter, the weather seemed a bit confused today thinking it is spring already. I am ...
Do you look at clouds and project your fantasy upon them, making them into big white fluffy elephants, ships and ...
I have another ‘Spread the love’ post for you guys. Spread the love is about initiatives of people all around ...
Remember how a while ago I made a creature from a big white paint stain on the street? Well, since ...
Ever since I painted a stain on the street for the first time, I have been seeing stains everywhere throughout ...
I am addicted. I painted a stain on Saturday, and got such a rush from it, that when Sunday came, ...
Those of you who have been reading my blog for a while will know that I love to turn ugly ...
Sometimes when we paint stains we get curious people who pass by and ask us what we’re doing. I find ...
What I love about visiting cities you don’t know very well, is exploring, seeing things that you normally don’t and ...
Pep talk: it’s going to be OK
For when you could use some hope, encouragement & joy if you’re not feeling the rainbow vibes.
My inner critics have some sort of conspiracy going on against me. I’m pretty sure they are taking shifts, making ...
Monday I felt absolutely terrible. There was no real reason, no real trigger. I just felt blue, out of the ...
I’ve been thinking lot about beauty. It started from a negative place. I compared by pale skin to the beautifully ...
[sneak preview: close-up of one of my 1001 idea lists] Yesterday was the first night in a while I fell ...
Did you know I have a cleaning job two days a week to be able to do the things I ...
For those of you feeling gloomy, grumpy or plain out depressed, this is for you: You are awesome, appreciated and ...
Let’s talk about rejection, failure and pain. The other day I was a bit bummed out because I faced a ...
These days I jump from being somewhat sad and confused one moment to feeling cheerful and on top of the ...
