Postcard for the holy days

Yesterday, i finally completed a postcard for the upcoming holidays / winter days / christmas days.
it took me a while, i'm surprised by my own patience to draw again and again and again the same mittens. This is the result..

I doubted a while about the size, i think it actually was perfect size 120x120 (square)... But it's much more expensive for mail (you need special envelopes), so i kept the regular postcard-format. 
Do you think it's good to take this into account? 

The cards are in print now
(and for those interested, available from saturday!)

a tree

tree / crayon with special watercolor-effect

prince of Denmark.

to show you that i didn't disappear
(and i know it's been over a month since my last blog post...)
here's something i've been working on.
apart from this, it's been very quiet on the make/draw/design-side.
(i spent my time with a lot of work, drawing classes, and staring at a screen during the Ghent Film Fest).

but yesterday, i opened a new sketchbook
and a christmas/holiday/new year-card is becoming alive in my head.
more news next week, i hope.

so, this is a flyer for the long expected concert of my boyfriends band.
welcome :)

the cake party

last week, it was my birthday. (i like to remember it for some weeks :))
a good occasion for some cakes, i thought.
so i sent this invitation to my friends:

I spent some hours (or more like half a week-end) in the kitchen,

with my friends flour, sugar, chocolate and butter (mostly)

and with some stress moments 

(like this one below - happened several times.).

But i have to say: I LOVE BAKING CAKES.

The result was this table:

some party elements, and my at my best:

close-up of the best (and easy-to-bake) cookies in the world (i found the recipe here).

the chocolate cake is even more peanuts, i found the recipe here.

and i succeeded to make a really tasty, healthy lemonade.

Needless to say, it was a tasty sunday worthy party.

mmm. london.

birthday breakfast! with good coffee and french toast. 

white cliffs of Dover

as a birthday present, my boyfriend took me on a super short trip to London.
We went by boat (and missed the first one..) to Dover, and drove some hours.
It was quite a trip, but once in London, i instantly loved the city (i was never in London before!)..

and now it's clear, being on the road (and being on holiday, even if it was for two days)
gives me a lot of inspiration for drawing.

on the boat, i draw some strange impression of the white cliffs of Dover.

the fishing family / voor janne

last weekend, my boyfriend went fishing with his family (an old tradition)
in a super nice environment.
it feels like you're in the wild nature (although it's not far from a city),
there's a lake with a little house (size of a summerhouse, but fully and cosy equipped)

The house (property of his sisters boyfriend) is now for sale.. 
although i've been there only twice,
i think i will miss it. it has a special atmosphere, and an 'instant holiday calming effect'

i took some deep 'pure air sniffs' and
used my new pencils (they're great!!).

i didn't work on this sketches on my computer, so there's not much contrast. 
but in this way, the colors stay more like they are in my sketchbook. 
i don't like it when the scan changes the 'atmosphere' of my sketch...
(maybe you know some tips/tricks for this?)

(janne: ik hou de originele schets bij voor je!)