happy birthday to me

Can you smell the sweetness of the freshly baked cake in the air? No?! Me neither!
But that's because I'm in Paris, breathing French air at the moment, and it makes me quite happy. Jokes aside, today's my birthday. I'm turning twenty two years old today, which is more than a 1/3 of the age of my grandpa and it's freaking me out.
I may write a post about about how ageing scares me, or how very unsatisfied I am about what I've accomplished in two decades.. but I won't! Instead, here's a gif of my Guinea pig munching a carrot~

Sorry for the very random post, but birthdays make me sad.

Have a great day!
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(I'm aware that he cage looks super disgusting.. I was about to change it but couldn't resist the urge to film his little muzzle in action *onomnomnomnom*)

BRB!

Inspiring People: AnkePanke

Every artist needs sources of inspiration, so I decided to dedicate a few post about inspiring people, new and old acquaintances of mine or just bloggers that I admire from the shadows.
I want to start this series with AnkePanke, a Dutch illustrator I had the chance to meet through instagram (@ankepanke).

The perfect way to introduce her to you, in my opinion, is to show you what I received yesterday in the mail:

smash sunday: packaging inspiration

Don't you just love wrapping presents? I really do! I'm the family member in charge for present wrapping during Christmas, and I always enjoy picking up pretty wrapping paper, ribbons and what not; But it doesn't have to be Christmas to beautifully wrap a present, right? So today I'm going to share a bit of packaging inspiration featuring some lovely people that joined my swap ☺

1.  Bright coloured tissue paper: you can't go wrong with that, especially if you tie a pretty tag with thread around it!

pic © jolien

freebie friday XXV

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Hi guys!
For this Freebie Friday I have something different for you.
I was thinking about what is something I often send to my penpals and "a list of favourite books" popped in my mind, so I decided to make a printable to send them in a much nicer and fun way ☺

click here to download.

Please let me know if you'd like to see more of this kind of printables or not, and feel free to suggest more things I could make in the future!
Have a lovely weekend
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EDIT: Thanks Em for letting me know I messed up the link! It should be OK now!