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Dailystills: February 2015 overview

Every time when I've finished another month of Dailystills I feel really accomplished. It's quiet the commitment to keep up to date with a daily photo challenge! Today it's time to share February's overview. Check below for the challenges.

Dainty news: Business cards

The last couple of months I've been working on my own branding design, I wanted to take this blog a step further and there's a lot going on right now. But, first things first. I redid my logo and I've made business cards with it. In my favorite color of course! I wanted to keep it dainty and simple.  So this is it, my new business cards. What do you think of them?

I'm handing these out everywhere and people really like them, so that's good right! I can't wait to share more news about The Dainty Dream blog, but not yet!

A little bit of change.

Ladies and gentlemen, maybe you might've noticed that my blog isn't very much alive anymore. Yes, I do post my project life pages and my name paintings every week (at least, I try to), but I used to do so much more for my little bit of space on the interwebz.

A couple of years ago I did have a lot more time and my blog was my number one priority. 2 years ago I completely changed my life and I got other priorities. I rather spent my time couch potato-ing with my (not that new anymore) boyfriend, running and other sporty activities. This change in my life is a reason I don't blog as much as I used to. I once started this blog (more than 10 years ago) to blog about food, art and scrapbooking. Scrapbooking has changed into Project Life and art has changed into name paintings. Next to my full-time job as a graphic designer, the custom orders for the name paintings and Project Life I don't have lots of time left to do any art for myself and I don't really mind.

So I was trying to figure out how to get back into the blogging world and I've decided that I'm gonna introduce some new topics. I need to write about topics that interest me right now.

So this is what I came up with: 

• Fitness - In this topic I will write about my experiences in sporty events, like runs, obstacle runs, bootcamps etc. 
•  Blogging Tags - I often get tagged to do a Q&A kind of post and I always forget about them or I don't feel like I have the time to do them, which is nonsense. I think it's a nice opportunity to get more personal and for you to get to know me better :) 
• Trips and Travels - I often do fun stuff in the weekends and I'm going to share more of that right here on the blog. And since this is a lifestyle blog, so this will fit perfectly on here! :)

Of course some of the old topics will stay on here: 

• Project Life - I will try to post my Project Life pages on a weekly base, like I used to, every tuesday. 
• Name Paintings - These will be on my blog when I have custom orders. Right now I have plenty to make, so this won't be a problem. 
• Monthly Reviews - About the movies I've seen, the books I've read and fun stuff I did. Snippets of my life - Picking this up again :) 
• Recipes - When I think up something delicious, I will share it with you! 

So I hope you guys don't mind and like the change around here. After such a long time of blogging it's hard to stay focussed and I hope this change will help me!

Namepainting: Fenna

Another namepainting for a newborn is finished! Excuse me for the blurry photo, natural daylight is hard to find these days, when I go to work it's dark and by the time I get home it's dark again.

Name Painting: Stijn

Name Painting - 20 x 20 cm - Mixed Media

Name Painting: Isabel

Name Painting - 20 x 20 cm - Mixed Media

Name Painting: Sam Casper

20 x 20 cm - Mixed Media

Namepainting: Jill

Name Painting: Hidde

Mixed Media | 20 x 20 cm (8")

Name Painting: Maud

Mixed Media | 30 x 30 cm (12")

Name Painting: Lisa

Mixed Media | 20 x 20 cm

Free Download: Project Life tags - summer

Hi guys! Here's another, totally free to use downloadable pdf with journalingcards you can use for all kinds of crafting. I'm using it for Project Life. Let me know when you're using it! Please share a link with what you've made with it :)



Click here to download the pdf!

Scrappy Saturday #43: Cas

Another namepainting, this time for Cas, it's a small one again (20 x 20 cm).

Scrappy Saturday #41: Teun

Teun's baby announcement card was really sweet and simple. So I did the some thing for his little namepainting (20 x 20 cm).

Scrappy Saturday #40: Yaniek

This is a bigger size namepainting (30 x 30 cm), that's why a last name fitted on there! I really enjoyed making this one!

Scrappy Saturday #31: Madelief

Close-up:

Scrappy Saturday #30: Jens

Close up:

The glue turned invisible when it was dry!

Free Download: Project Life by Dainty Dream

Hi guys! So here it is, a totally free to use downloadable pdf of journalingcards you can use for all kinds of crafting. I'm using it for Project Life. I've made English and Dutch ones in two different colors. Let me know when you're using it! It's always fun to know your work is appreciated! Enjoy :)


Download this one here.


Download this one here.


Download this one here.


Download this one here.

Oh, Deer mister Wabbit!

I've made some new Stencil Art Paintings the other day! They're called "Oh, Deer mister Wabbit!",
they're available to buy.






Size: 18x24 cm
Price: €25,00 per piece
Contact me if you're interested: thedaintydream@gmail.com