One thing that I really enjoy but don’t do often enough is playing with nail art. I’m far from an expert at it but what I love is that it allows me to sit down and just relax. I can’t rush it. I get to play with pretty colours and nail jewels and enjoy life right here right now.

Another thing I love is fresh flowers. This is the latest bouquet that I bought. I keep it in the window by my writing chair, brightening my day.

What do you do to treat yourself?

I’m writing again! I’ve finally committed to a new project and it’s not a tiny one either. Uhuh, I’ve decided to work on a trilogy based on Swedish folklore. At the moment I’m collecting story pieces for all three books. My goal is to add 1500 words 5 days a week until I reach 100k words. And that should be around mid August.

The image above shows my favourite book shelf. It’s filled with reference books on all kind of gruesome stuff like true crimes, Jack the Ripper, torture but there’s also books on dragons, gnomes, vampires and the Romans.

The image down to the right is the view from my writing chair. Today is the first time in ages that there’s actually some blue showing in the sky.

And last but not least, down in the left corner is yours truly with a big grin after reaching my word count goal for today.

I’ve been having lots of fun with my tin of Whoop Ass that I won over at Lynn Viehl’s website a week or so ago. I rarely win anything so I was really excited to see that I had won! But that wasn’t the only thing I won, oh no. I also won a copy of her book Nightborn (Lords of the Darkyn #1). I just started reading this the other day but so far it’s really good. It has a dark edge to it that I really like.

Thank you Lynn!

This is what my nails look like at the moment. Despite it being absolutely freezing outside, or maybe because of that, I wanted something with a spring feel to it. So flowers it was.