Meet the Artist - What Activities Do You Enjoy?

First and foremost, I'm mostly a homebody. I love getting immersed in something at home, from reading to movies, from art to just watching nature outside the window. While there's tons of nature in South Africa, I didn't stay in a small enough town where the wildlife could be just outside your window. Now, I'm so enjoying the fact that there are bunnies, squirrels, ducks, and geese around, not to mention all the other birds! I could really get into bird watching if I put my mind to it, haha.

Something else that has really surprised me since I've moved to the USA is that I'm listening to Afrikaans music so much more now than I ever did before. And I'm loving it, actually. Joshua, of course, is going to have to learn how to "langarm" (a Afrikaans way of dancing), haha, but I'm sure he's going to be ok with that as he'll love any excuse to hold me tight. In my romantic mind, we'll langarm even when there's no music playing in the background.

I also enjoy going to events that highlight heritage. Recently, my future mother-in-law, Lisa, and I went to the Tulip Time festival here in Pella, Iowa, which celebrated their Dutch heritage. They had been settled in the 1840s by a Dutch minister named Scholte. I had a stunning time.

These were just some of my favourite pictures of the tulips that they had all over the town. Of course, I also had an ulterior motive for going to the festival as I wanted to take a look at who else would be at their market. I saw quite a few fellow soap and body product vendors, but nothing quite in the same line as what I envision our line to look like by this time next year.

Honestly, there's so much that I enjoy doing, and I'm sure that with Joshua there is going to be tons more things that we're going to love doing together, just because we are doing it together.