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Free image tip – vivid green butterfly

Vibrant & fresh image of a vivid green butterfly - this image is sure to add a splash of colour and tropical freshness to your website. You can download this image from the Free Image Library. Join our mailing list to download this classy image and many others -...

Free Image – Wine & Candle

Stylish image of a dining table at a restaurant - in pretty muted colours - romantic & classy. You can download this image from the Free Image Library. Join our mailing list to download this classy image and many others - it's free : [whitespace size="18"]...

Free Image – Pastel Blossom

  Free image of delicate white blooms in spring. Perfect to give your blog post or website a dreamy feminine accent. You can download this image from the Free Image Library. Join our mailing list to download this classy image and many others - it's free :...

Free Image – Bright Blue Cranesbill Flower

Heavenly blue flowers of the Meadow Cranesbill - a lovely fresh green image perfect to brighten up your blog. You can download this image from the Free Image Library. Join our mailing list to download this classy image and many others - it's free : [whitespace...

How to share passwords safely by email

How to share passwords safely by email

  When you need to share your domain or website login details it's tempting to do so by email, because it's so easy. But because email isn't a very secure form of communication, sending private information by email is not such a good idea. Luckily, there's a...

Double your wordpress security in 2 easy steps

Double your wordpress security in 2 easy steps

One of the best things about a WordPress website is that you can login and edit your content yourself. No need to get a webdesigner involved each time you want to add or adjust something. But like for any other system that you can login to, there is a downside:...

Interview – Gill of Little Cup Illustrations

Gill is a wonderful and inspiring artist, specializing in beautiful pencil drawings that she uses to create a world full of cuteness and happiness. Going through her Instagram feed, it is obvious that her main speciality is soft, lovely pencil sketches in a dreamy...

Save time and improve your WordPress workflow

When you’re working on your WordPress website you may often find yourself going from one screen to the next. For example, you want to edit some text on a few pages, so you open the pages screen, find the page you want to work on, click it, make your edits, then back...

Free e-book: finding & securing the perfect domain name

Free e-book: finding & securing the perfect domain name

Are you looking for a lovely domain name for your business or online project? With a little bit of creativity and the tips, ideas and tools in our free domain name e-book you will get to your perfect domain name in no time!   [whitespace size="30"] In this ebook...

Interview – Miriana of Dollitude

I came across Miriana and her fabulous little dolls on instagram, and fell in love... The dolls itself are tiny little treasures, but she makes them even more special by presenting them in their own magical world; they all love to spend time outdoors, in nature, and...

Seven domain name brainstorming tips

Thinking up with a wonderful, short and snappy domain name can be quite a challenge! Here we have seven tips for you to help you get to that perfect online address! If you are a local business, include your town or location, for example, if vintageshoes.com is already...

Six tips for choosing the perfect domain name

  You're all ready to go with your wonderful business idea, and your next step is creating a lovely online home for it. When you are about to start your own website, you may have some questions. Actually, you may have tons of questions!! But you'll need to start...

Seven domain name tools for a perfect domain name

In this article we'll share seven domain name tools that we have found useful in generating ideas. Not all of these will create off the shelve ready solutions, but the ideas they generate might spark new ideas or new ways of thinking about your domain name, and in...

Domain names – Frequently Asked Questions

In this post we answer the most frequently asked questions about domain names. We hope it will help you on your journey to find the perfect domain name for your online home. Are you still looking for the perfect domain name for your webite & blog? Subscribe to our...

Winner spring 2015 website giveaway

Erin Moss is the winner of our spring website giveaway! Erin is working on rebranding her business, and she has chosen a brilliant new domain name for her new website. We're working on her site now, can't wait to show you the finished result! Congratulations Erin :)

Talking about websites in a sunny park – does it get any better?

Was it the weather? (perfectly sunny - not too warm) Was it the crowd? (Happy people in a good mood interested in local and organic food and beautiful handmade products) Was it the location? (A lovely park with sunny lawns, beautiful old trees, a deer park behind the...

local food and craft market in the Netherlands

Looking forward to tomorrow! We'll be spending some lovely time at an outdoor local food and craft market, talking about websites and dreams with some very creative and enterprising people. The event is held in a beautiful and romantic park, in a city where I once...

just a moment – 16 may ’15

May, my favorite time of the year... This year it is quite rushed, we have a way bigger vegetable garden to work and prepare than the years before, and we are also preparing for our trip to the Netherlands. We have been busy producing leaflets, and other materials for...

just a moment – 25 april’15

Another spring, blossom again, but I never get used to it!! This time of year is so breathtakingly beautiful in the countryside in Bulgaria, especially when the sun goes down and shines through all those tender little flowers. Unfortunately it is also always over in a...

just a moment – 9 april’14

So many things with soul in the small villages in Bulgaria, I just love the green colour of this door, and the little owl adds some magic to it.. who lives here? Probably someone with a lot of wisdom :)

Simplicity Theme update – spring 2015

We have recently updated the Simplicity theme, and there are some new features that we'd like to tell you about! choose from several link styles You can now choose from several link styles for the look of your links. You can for example choose from bright colourful...

just a moment – 15 March’15

Busy times, but we took a break to enjoy a little walk on a sunny but cold day - so nice to get outdoors, even when you feel you don't have the time for it... feeling grateful :)

just a moment – 20 feb’15

A beautiful nest I found during a bitterly cold but sunny walk in the woods. You can still see the feathers that once kept the baby birds warm. Looks ready for re-use sometime soon. Can't wait for the spring, I want to walk barefoot in the garden again. Shared as a...

Awakening from hibernation

It feels a bit like awakening from hibernation here :) I have been really busy over the past months, with completing our second Wordpress Theme, with the holidays, with staying warm when temperatures dropped far below zero, digging snow. We have also had many visitors...

Blushing shy pears with a texture

I have been admiring all the wonderful pear images that came along in the Start to Finish photography group over the last couple of weeks. (I am doing a still life photography course). What a lot of loveliness :) Most of you used the pears really well to make moody...

Confused walnut trees and a touch of vintage

Finally "found" some time to look at the paper bag photos I took as part of the Start to Finish still life photography course. Chose to combine the paper bag with walnuts collected by my daughter in the garden. There are very few this year, the leaves crumpled and...

Autumn Treasures

It starts to feel like winter already in the evenings, with how dark it is so early... But during the day there is still some lovely autumn weather. Morning mist followed by sunny golden days, some of my favourite weather ( I have many kinds of favourite weather :))...

Finding the light & finding the right gear

When the still life photography course with Kim Klassen started, we were very excited to get started. We had a hybrid camera. Not a compact camera, not a digital SLR, but something in between. A lovely camera with an integrated zoom lens (35mm – 420mm) that we have...

just a moment – 4 nov ’14

All the snow has melted again, not surprising because the temperature never went below zero throughout the whole snow saga. Very glad we are getting some proper autumn weather again now, this change from summer straight into winter was a bit too much... Sunny weather...

snow came too early…

The predicted light dusting of snow turned out to be a lot more.... 40 cm of snow in October! Many trees are still in leaf and were catching a lot of snow, the branches became too heavy and started breaking, trees came down on powerlines. No electricity and internet...

Interview: Studio Tuesday

Time to share the tips and insights of another inspiring artist that just blows my mind away with what they create... Last time I asked Susie Ghahremani of Boygirlparty to share some of her tips and work. This time it is David Scheirer of Studio Tuesday. David lives...

Have you ever met the Amethyst Deceiver?

Have you ever met the Amethyst Deceiver?

What a beautiful mushroom! And its name is just amazing; Amethyst Deceiver - Laccaria amethystina. Amethyst because of its purple colour, and deceiver because it changes so much as it ages, so that it becomes difficult to identify it. This one is obviously in the...