January 2, 2025.

When it comes to keeping track of things, I'm queen in my collecting kingdom. On the one hand because I was raised like that, but also because of a lack of money when I started living alone. My apartment then was furnished with furniture and household items that I received from people who had a little too much and wanted to donate it. For which I am still grateful to them all, by the way.

BUT

As a creative person, it is of course also true that you can use a lot of things to do something with them, and so 35 years of creativity accumulated into a cluttered chaos in my home with pieces of decor, theater costumes, fabrics, haberdashery, hats, hair accessories, drawing materials, canvases, brushes, jars, interspersed with things where I wanted to do one or another creative project. Add a lot of my and my daughter's clothes and stuff and you have the contents of an entire thrift store.

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