And the Winner is.......

TEE THOMPSON !

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Congratulations !

Looks like you can now make your husband a new flowerpress - Yay!

Come over to One Little House and I'll get you into the workshop. 

All the others, try again next time, there will be more give-aways in the near future :) In the mean time you can of course sign up for the Flowerpress workshop, classroom opening today too

♥ Happy Valentines Day ♥ 

 

Give away for Valentines Day !

I am about to teach this gorgeous new workshop at One Little House ! And I thought, instead of receiving gifts (14/2 happens to be my Bday)  I will GIVE AWAY a gift....a FREE spot in this class which is starting on Valentines Day as well ! All you need to do is:

a Rafflecopter giveaway

 

and everything else will just happen, so enter, keep your fingers crossed and wait a few days ! Good Luck :)

29 Faces # 5

For 29 Faces today I thought to repost this face/portrait with the post, because if you read carefully, today will be your last chance to go into the draw to win a spot in my newest on-line class !!! This is one of the projects in the classroom, this one is called "Medusa"

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 I am teaching Fresco projects at the Trodden Path now 

and to celebrate this, I am giving away one FREE spot  !

If you like to be in to win:

* follow me here on my blog and leave a comment for one chance,

* like my Facebook page for a second chance

* blog, share or tweet about it for extra chances. 

I will be drawing the winner on September 7th

Give away time !

 I am teaching Fresco projects at the Trodden Path now 

and to celebrate this, I am giving away one FREE spot  !

If you like to be in to win:

* follow me here on my blog and leave a comment for one chance,

* like my Facebook page for a second chance

* blog, share or tweet about it for extra chances. 

I will be drawing the winner on September 7th

Drumrolls......Ta ta tadaaaaaaaaaa !!!

I was in my studio and do not have a computer there, so no random.org generator, but I had the list of names, so I made tags, folded them, put them in my favorite cup and "scooped" out the winner...

And the lucky person is............

 

♥ 

Glycérine !

Send me your details ma chérie and the journal will be 'on voyage'  to you :)

♥

 Bisous xoxo

♥ Mail and all cleaned up ♥

Busy, busy day again....beautifuil sunny ☼ and nice and warm. A day with a little star again too: Firstly I received this amazing altered domino book in the mail today ♥  I was the lucky winner in a blog give-away from Laura  at Artfully Musing (go on, click here and have a look, she makes wonderful things !)

and then I went to my studio/workshop and cleaned, cleaned, cleaned ! I just can't help it, I had to take another couple of pics today :) Telephone got connected as well and tomorrow I can start bringing in stuff, YAY ! Also there are videoclips waiting to be edited for the Fresco workshop (yes dear students, we are going to finish this large project as well ;) 

 

 

and the winner is :

Hellooooooooo
First of all, my apologies for the little delay in drawing for this give away...I had a Birthday to celebrate of course and a couple of days with splitting headaches after....(not related but a big pain !) It's getting better now, so to pick the winner of my Loving Post Give away, I asked my daughter to help me a bit. I wrote the names on the back of assorted red and pink hearts and folded them in half, put them in a cute circle and asked my daughter to pick one and reveal the name underneath, and the winner is..............(drumroll)

Mary C. Nasser 

Congratulations Mary !

please get your address to me, so I can send you the prize....
your choice: One of these three  originals !

Little Time Lapse and ♥

I made a quick little time lapse to show you all the steps I took to make the painting of the Delphic Sybil.

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and don't forget my Valentine's Day Give away! 

if you still want to be in to win, leave me a comment !

post on your Facebook for an extra chance, Twitter or Blog for another etc.etc.

Just let me know where you have spread DA LUV ! 

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♥ My Loving Mode ♥

 

So......let's talk about love !

 Everywhere you look at the moment there are ♥ hearts and cards and red and pink and loving things.

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We're getting into the ♥ Loving ♥ Mode of the year: 

♥ Valentine's Day ♥

When I grew up in Holland they did not celebrate it much, of course now they do, sell more red roses, chocolates and many other 'loving' ♥ things. Strange, in my opinion we should show our love ALL YEAR long, not just on one day of the year where all prices for all things red and hearts and lovely get hugely inflated, just because..

♥ 
so I have decided that this Valentine's Day I will have a Give away......YAY !!
I won't say yet what you'll be able to win, that is going to be a SURPRISE......but if you want to be in to win, leave me a comment, post on your Facebook for an extra chance, Twitter or Blog for another, you get my drift. Just let me know here in the comments where you have spread DA LUV ! ♥♥♥♥♥

 ♥ Funny day (happens to my Birthday too) ♥

Le Frog and the Nixie have landed !

 



And today is another good day !!!! Two of my globe trotters made it to their destinations :) Nolwenn received her portrait in Canada and loves it ♥♥♥ and also Le Frog has landed !!! He made it all the way to Scandinavia. I sure hope he doesn't feel too cold though, but then Lone who won him in my Blog giveaway is a beautiful knitter and will surely knit him one of her gorgeous sweaters, hehe ;) You might want to check out her blog as well, if only because of the funkiest name she gave it : "Flowermouse Design" and of course she loves him ♥♥♥ who wouldn't ..... kiss the frog and .....

♥ Lucky Frog Lover ♥

Yeah yeah, I know, it's Tuesday the 10th here already, that's me though, working late again...I'm a little Morepork (this is a New Zealand native nightowl, hehe, but I'm "imported" actually, that would make me a what-ya-me-call-it....exotic, haha !) well all this midnight mumbling aside....
The surprise Giveaway is to be revealed...tatatadum...drumroll here...it's a handmade (yes by me !!) journal - I called it "Frog Lover" and it has an assortment of papers inside. There is quick sketch paper, canvas textured paper, black pastel paper and watercolour paper. All for you to enjoy and fill with your thougts. Of course also the two folded cards :) and who knows what I still might stuff in the envelope.....here are some pics ♥

I wrote all the names on pieces of paper, folded them all twice, mixed them around and pulled one out, unfolded this and ..... the lucky winner is .....

 

 can you read it ? 
♥ Flowermouse Design ♥


so send me an email with your address ! 
To all the others, don't despair, I decided to have more giveaways this year, so keep your eyes open for my posts :) Thanks for playing !

SHHHHHHHH - still working

I am still working on a variety of things I cannot yet share ..... but soon now ..... so just a little longer ..... but not quite yet, for now I am still working, SHHHHHHHHH ! 
I WILL be back on Monday to draw my surprise Give away, so if you have not left a comment, you still have a little time..... 

♥ xoxo 

will talk again soon

Meet Amelia and Nolwenn

Meet Nolwenn and meet Amelia the protective dreamer

I will try to explain in short why and how.... The first time I met Nolwenn was last year, I don't even know anymore through which other on-line-art friend, but I read that she was looking for a name for the Innervoices-girls she paints. And she chose my suggestion (Nixies) -YAY !- and then she sent me a print of my choice as a thank you......:) 

And then in December I saw a photo she posted on her Facebook page

and I felt drawn to paint this beautiful face, probably because of those eyes, it's just a feeling I sometimes get. So I thought it would be kinda nice to join her with Amelia, make those two dreamers one. I hope she'll like it, I added a few subtleties, I'm gonna send it off to her tomorrow.

Thanks Nolwenn for the inspiration xoxo

If you like this style of portraits, I am available for commissions, just contact me here   -And don't forget to enter my Blog Give-away too, the winner will be drawn on 9 January ! (I know I added lots of links in this post, I am a curious person and like to share all the fun background information with you as well)

Yay for the New Year ! - number 1 of 52 playdates -

This is the journal page I did last night for my "playdate" If you like to join Jan Fox's 52 Playdates, you still can, she will give a prompt each week, I thought it would be nice to participate this year and see what prompts she comes up with, sometimes you wouldn't do some things, just because you're looking in a different direction. This was a collage spread with a posiotive message starting with an image from a magazine. I can't help myself and put more hand drawn/painted elements in than hers, but I did start out with a cutting :)

Oh and don't forget my GIVE AWAY ! just click here to go to that post and leave a comment to enter !

WELCOME 2012 - the old Year 's in the BOX - and a GIVE AWAY !

Happy New Year to all my Blog friends and followers !
Of course I also want to wish that everything you wish will come true for you this year. I can now continue with my "waiting-to-be-published" posts. In this one I will share two cute boxes I made as Christmas gifts for my Mum and sister. They got a little delayed on the sleigh-ride, so they opened them last night on New Years Eve. I first woodburned the design and the words in the wood and then gave them a paintwash and painted the details. They both have some glitter and goldleaf happening (that doesn't always show up on the photos so they are even better i.r.l.)

 

  ↑-The Frog Box for my Sister-↑

↓-The Bird Box for my Mum-↓

 

I made some cards with the images as well, they are so cute and available in my Etsy shop now. 

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NOW : For the New Year's GIVE-AWAY: 

The first this year, I am planning a few more for 2012, so stay tuned ! This one is going to be ...a... ? SURPRISE-package that will include these two folded cards with envelopes and.....more....but what ? you may ask......well that will be disclosed on the day I announce the winner !

So.....if you can stand the suspense, if you are curious and adventurous and ready for a surprise.....just leave a comment on this post to enter. If you like to do a blogpost on your Blog about this or mention it on your Facebook page, please come back and tell me with another comment and you'll have another entry ;) The lucky winner will be announced on Monday 9 January ! I hope I have managed to show you that I really appreciate you coming to visit my blog and support me again and again and hopefully many more times to come.

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