It’s december again, and in the Netherlands that means Sinterklaas is arriving in our cold little country. Sinterklaas is a cousin of Santa, and he comes bearing gifts. The Sint doesn’t fly over from the south pole in a reindeer sled, but he comes over on a boat from Spain. And together we celebrate his […]
An overview of my latest projects and WIPs
A quick overview of my latest finished projects and some WIP’s (works in progress), and a little hint of a new project. Vintage fan ripple blanket I am still working on the ripple fan blanket. It is slowly getting a lot bigger. I am not sure yet how big I am going to make it, […]
Marilyn Monroe and panda bear linocuts
Yesterday my brother came over again and we did four more linocuts. We made two different types of Marilyn Monroe linocuts, one linocut of a friend of ours, and one of a panda bear. My brother did two outlines and colored them in where he carved out the lines, and then painted the whole thing in one colour […]
Cutting Corona bottles with fire and string actually works!
So I brought 10 (empty) Corona bottles home from work to try cutting glass like I have seen people do on Pinterest. I checked Youtube and found this how to cut glass tutorial. My brother came over to help and off we went. Materials needed some glass bottles or jars to cut cotton string lighter […]
Carving a linoleum world map
So my youngest brother came to me with this project. He wanted to carve a world map out of linoleum, and then paint it and hang it on his wall. He didn’t even know most people actually just use linoleum to stamp with and not as the end product. But that just made it so […]