about
Hi! So glad you found my blog!
I'm Maggie, Dutch, but living on Curaçao, happily married, mother of three grown-up girls. I love to garden, knit, travel, write and take pictures. Among other things.
Please be patient with me if I mix up words or spelling. English is not my native language ;-)
Blogging
Oh my, what can I tell you about my blogging? It's all over the place, I'm sometimes completely fed up with it, but I always seem to get back to it after a while. I started blogging in Dutch in 2001 and have been on and off ever since.
I started my first English blog in 2006, inspired by crafty bloggers like Soulemama. You'll find my archives are a little messy since I've been deleting and restoring my blog a few times.
Knitting
I learned how to knit when I was eight and hated it. Tried it again when I was pregnant the first time (I was 19 and pregnant with twins) but that didn't work out too well. I knit a few things for my girls (had another girl 19 months later) but never really loved it. I now think it was the lack of someone to share my love of being creative with. The only people that I knew were knitting were very old-fashioned about it. Following rules and patterns precisely, no real creativity. That was not the way I liked to do it, but I felt like I should and slowly lost interest.
I think my real love for knitting started when I found Craftster in 2005. I learned to wing it and that was what it took.
Sewing
I guess my sewing had the same problem. Patterns, measurements, having to be very precise. It was Craftster again that learned me there was another way. I love sewing bags from scratch and making simple quilts. I'd love to make my own clothes, but I'm not sure I ever will.
Photography
I love taking pictures and I sometimes wish I had time and money to invest to become more professional. Maybe someday. For now, I enjoy showing my photos on the blog. I use aCanon Rebel T3 and a Canon Ixus 105 a Canon G7x. For editing, I use the simple editor that came with Windows 10.
I'm Maggie, Dutch, but living on Curaçao, happily married, mother of three grown-up girls. I love to garden, knit, travel, write and take pictures. Among other things.
Please be patient with me if I mix up words or spelling. English is not my native language ;-)
Blogging
Oh my, what can I tell you about my blogging? It's all over the place, I'm sometimes completely fed up with it, but I always seem to get back to it after a while. I started blogging in Dutch in 2001 and have been on and off ever since.
I started my first English blog in 2006, inspired by crafty bloggers like Soulemama. You'll find my archives are a little messy since I've been deleting and restoring my blog a few times.
Knitting
I learned how to knit when I was eight and hated it. Tried it again when I was pregnant the first time (I was 19 and pregnant with twins) but that didn't work out too well. I knit a few things for my girls (had another girl 19 months later) but never really loved it. I now think it was the lack of someone to share my love of being creative with. The only people that I knew were knitting were very old-fashioned about it. Following rules and patterns precisely, no real creativity. That was not the way I liked to do it, but I felt like I should and slowly lost interest.
I think my real love for knitting started when I found Craftster in 2005. I learned to wing it and that was what it took.
Sewing
I guess my sewing had the same problem. Patterns, measurements, having to be very precise. It was Craftster again that learned me there was another way. I love sewing bags from scratch and making simple quilts. I'd love to make my own clothes, but I'm not sure I ever will.
Photography
I love taking pictures and I sometimes wish I had time and money to invest to become more professional. Maybe someday. For now, I enjoy showing my photos on the blog. I use a
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