settled in the lovely Kent countryside in the UK.
I love everything meaningful and beautiful,
which I try to capture in different media.
My inspiration for all of this: the people that I love,
and the love that God has for me.
Ek deel graag met jou die vreugdes van dit
wat mooi en betekenisvol is.
Stap
Writing
Creating pictures with words & building it into stories
Arts and Crafts
Creating with lines, shapes, colours & textures
Sketchbook
Painting
Embroidery
Series 13
Cooking
This is about imagining, preparing, serving & enjoying food can always be a feast.
Elsa Schiaparelli once said: A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
Blog
Flavoursome relationships
During the Easter holidays our family of foodies had a most enjoyable time baking, cooking, and enjoying the results around the dinner table. Whilst my son-in-law tried his hand at baking bread, we chatted away about the wonder of a teaspoonful of yeast...
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Red toenails – a perspective
Living abroad, we are from time to time kept in the loop about a friend or family member’s terminal illness via WhatsApp messages. One of the precious messages I received was a picture of the beautiful red toenails of a dear friend in her hospital bed. The...
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Crisis management – a new way
Like many a South African male, my husband dreamt about having a farm: to be near nature, to be busy with farm animals. What joy when he and a friend were able to buy a piece of farm land, wíth cattle! What glorious activity to herd the cattle into a crush...
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Cecile
I decided to bless this beautiful young woman with a beautiful, colourful, fun apron inspired by John 13 + 1 Cor 13 love. Dressing again smartly for the office the next day is what we do - adaptable, competent women of today! Cecile kom kuier al die pad...
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Hélène
Lovely Hèléne Kytides Kabutz had to get a flamboyantly colourful apron symbolizing her passionately loving heart - love for her children, her husband and God ánd for the people around her. Hèléne not only serves with love, she also is an accomplished...
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Kittyhawk in the sights
Our hero was raised on a farm and had little training as a soldier seeing that he was an army cook. Thus, within the first few days of being on the battlefront, he noticed a German plane in hot pursuit of an Allied Kittyhawk and grabbed his gun. Needless...
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While on holiday in the lovely Cape, my dear friend Esthie decided to buy me a pair of shoes, to symbolise the beautiful feet of “a messenger who announces peace, a messenger who brings good news, who announces deliverance...” NET Bible I needed black low-heeled shoes...
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Battlefront Cook in Egypt and Italy
Like a veritable Indiana Jones, Danie had to be enormously practical and resourceful – as a cook in North African desert field kitchens, in the POW camp kitchens of Benghazi, Sardinia and Italy, as a foraging escapee in the hills of Tuscany, and as a...
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Our young hero learning to feed the forces at the Pretoria Police College - peeling a mountain of potatoes, making notes, AND finding time to take the love of his life to the Burgers Park in Pretoria. Coming from a family of 14 children, Danie had a knack...
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Kintsukuroi – the wonder of healing
Kintsugi (金継ぎ?, きんつぎ, "golden joinery"), also known as Kintsukuroi (金繕い?, きんつくろい, "golden repair"),[1] is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, a method similar to the maki-e...
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