AN OVERVIEW OF MY WORK
Michèle’s Portfolio
WRITING
Hereby just a few examples and a tiny little taste of my past writing work. My writing-style: bright and colorful, but always very to the point.
Happinez International Edition - 2018
Click here for the full article in English
and here for the full article in Dutch
Happinez Magazine -
A creative Oasis
For Happinez Magazine I wrote this portrait of Susanna Nova and the creative oasis she created in the magical ricefields of Ubud, Bali. This article was made for the Dutch edition, the International edition and the French edition of this inspiring magazine.
Méditerranée Magazine (Dutch)
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Méditerranée Magazine - Sardinia, Paradise for eternal living
Together with photographer and friend Nadine Maas I create soulful travel stories. Stories with a personal touch. We always try to find the less acknowledged and less obvious story of a destination, hoping that people will be inspired to see the world and themselves with new eyes.
Grazia Magazine (Dutch)
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Grazia - Global Living
A personal story about my digital nomad years and living without my own home for five years. The enormous sense of freedom it gave me and the challenges I encountered. It all began with the question: how can my life feel more like a holiday all the time…?
Online platform &Bloom: content & columns
Click here for a column on The Simple Life EN
Click here for The Simple Life in Dutch
Online Platform - &Bloom
I worked with photographer Denise Boomkens on her amazing project &BLOOM and helped her in the beginning with the editorial part of her platform. A digital spot for fierce women over 40 who live their life more than fully. Because aging is not what it use to be. It’s way cooler!
BOOKS
I Love Me, 25 ways to live your life fully (2010, Scriptum Publishers, Dutch Only)
Feel your Sparkle, 15 ways to live lighter (2013, Scriptum Publishers, Dutch Only)
Pure Travel Guides - Slow Travel in the City: Books and App (2014, Unieboek Publishers Netherlands, Dutch only)
With my inspiring friend and freelance colleague Jessica van Zanten I created and wrote the Pure Travel Guides. We created the whole concept of Pure Travel Books and App from A-Z in cooperation with Unieboek Publishers in The Netherlands. It’s the first series of travel guides on slow travel. There’s a focus on ‘honest’ hotspots and Pure shows you the ‘green’ side of a city. Pure guides you to organic farmers markets, honest local restaurants and lots of lovely small, special and ‘green’ accomodations. There’s a growing demand for slow, conscious, green and pure living & travel, and that’s what the Pure Travel Guides are all about.
ONLINE COURSE: FREE YOUR INNER WRITER
Free Your Dreams
I created a platform and online course ‘Free Your Inner Writer’ where I inspired, motivated and helped others that wanted to write a book. Free Your Inner Writer gave a taste of the freedom writing can provide on different levels. It sprouted from my former brand: Free Your Dreams (Dutch only).
ILLUSTRATIONS
My illustrations that are free work and in assigment both (for example for magazines, companies or private sales). Also I made a small collection of birth announcement cards for a company that sells online cards (2015). At the moment I’m working on a picture book with my text and illustrations (JOY!)
Love Warrior
Originally created for a small picture book
Happy tree
Originally created for a small picture book
Free as a bird
Originally created for a small picture book
Just zen
Originally created for a small picture book
Made for an article in BeautyMAG magazine
Made for an article in BeautyMAG magazine
Made for an article in BeautyMAG magazine