Kimminita

Creativeness runs through my veins! Mostly in drawing, but these days I love fabrics and I have tons of ideas which one day I WILL create.

I just started my own business three years ago in teaching others how to draw mandala's and guide them through personal processes with that. I work for a boss in logistics 4 days a week, so only 3 days a week left to work for my passion.

Living together with a musician definitely rocked my world. I learned to really listen to music and I can appreciate most of it now. But my favorite music is:

♫ On Monday: Dance! I need it to get over my Monday morning blues.

♫ On Tuesday: new age/meditation music. This is when I write meditations and mandala drawing courses for my own business.

♫ On Wednesday: Rock. Hey...I need balance for the Tuesday. Guitars pleazzz.

♫ On Thursday: I like to listen to a radio station that broadcasts the latest and the top 40.

♫ On Friday:all of the above in a mix

♫ On Saturday: 80's and 90's

♫ On Sunday: I try to listen to the quiet. Less music is more.

I L-O-V-E to read. I crave for page turners/ Any tips?

Authors I adore:Marianne Fredriksson, Karen Slaughter, Dr. Brian Weiss, Greetje Molenaar, Saskia Noort, Susan Smit

I would love to read a novel by Joanne Rendell. Have not yet read one. Recently I read a book by Maeve Binck and I am curious about other books she wrote. Same goes for Julie Parsons and Sallie Bissell.

Feel good movies. And I printed out the Gilmorisms to watch what the Gilmore Girls watch in the series.

Dark purple, olive green, all shades of blue, turquoise, red, yellow, orange, brown. For inspiration you can see the boards color, fabrics and my style on my pinterest

See what I make on my flickr account.

♥ Drawing. I love my paper and color pencils. I still have some Karisma pencils. In the US known as Prisma. AS these are no longer available in the Netherlands, you know what would make me happy!

♥ Doodling: recently discovering doodling with ink. Zentangles and zendalas are a result of that as well.

♥ Cooking and baking.

♥ Photography (owning a Canon EOS 1000D)

♥ Sewing. Especially bags. So bag-making supplies would make me jump of joy. Rings, handles, anything.

Favorite color: purple, lavender, red, pink, lemon green, bright white and natural colors

♥ white or off white doily for my special project

♥ Sans & Sans tea from Barcelona!

♥ crochet flowers of approx 6cm diameter (2 1/2 inch) to make my garland complete. Any bright color is fine!

♥ bias band and piping in all colors.

♥ (handmade) gift tags. Would love to receive some in a swap.

♥ handmade greeting cards

♥ colored ink fine liners, colored markers, and colored (fountain) pens

♥ anything of what you believe it can contribute to my drawings

♥ I collect hippos since I was a child.

♥ I would love to have an ATC stamp

♥ vintage/retro ribbons, fabric

♥ scissors that cut shapes

♥ punches! I own only a few so big chance whatever you send me I do not yet have.

♥ herbal tea (infusion) , chocolate, cookies (I am a girl!) I do not like green and black tea that much.

♥ a good book and my couch. Book tips welcome!

♥ trees. Do not send me a tree....but anything with trees on it I like. :D

♥ birds

♥ tape with prints

♥ white vintage/shabby look photo frames all sizes (to put on my red wall with my B/W pics in it)

♥ cooking a meal for friends

♥ the spiritual world

♥ candles and (real) incense

♥ Soy to make my own candles (soy only please)

♥ (hand-carved) stamps

♥ butterflies

♥ foreign craft or decorating magazines/books

♥ (sewing) patterns for fabric crafts

♥ Felt in all colors

♥ pretty fabric and ribbons

View my list on Wishpot »

♥ Jane Ray

♥ Escher

♥ Vermeer

♥ 60's and 70's pictures

♥ anything with a mandala on it

♥ Salvador Dali

♥ Cathy Delanssay (thanks to French people if you can send me more of her cards!)

Never thought I would add a column with things I would not like to receive, but a few months on swap bot made me realize it might be best if I want to receive things I love only and let people know what I do not like so much.

-FB's. I have no intention in filling them in and I can only wait for a profile in a swap that likes them so they will be stuck with me for quite a while.

• Ear rings and bracelets. Necklaces I love though!

• Unwashed smelly fabrics. I have received fabrics and crafts out of fabrics that smelled like smoke heavily. That took a lot of joy out of opening the package.

-Diddle, hello kitty, Disney items.

• paper scraps. I have TOO many of them already so I would appreciate you don't send me more. I will heart you anyway if I see you have put great effort in making your swap. Not just for extra's.