Today is the fourth anniversary of my blog, hooray! Wow, four years already. I can’t believe how time flies. So much has happened in those four years! For starters, I’ve published 346 blogs on Marjolein in het klein (and a few more on other websites). I’ve given about 70 lectures. I’ve seen the attention for […]
Tiny House TEDx talk
Monday January 21st was the day, finally. After months of preparations, the very first TEDx event of Alkmaar took place in a sold-out Grote Sint-Laurenskerk. The crowd listened carefully to no less than 18 inspiring speakers, including yours truly, alternated with music and theater. It was an incredible day! The talks are now online on […]
Warm weather, warm people
A couple of days ago I wrote a very personal blog. Though I was a little anxious to write so openly about parts of myself that I find to be less beautiful, and to show that everything is not always peachy in my life, I had no second thoughts about whether or not I had […]
New new new!
Woohoo! After weeks and weeks of hard work, finally today my new website is online! Until now I did everything for the website by myself – you can come a long way with WordPress. But it was time to take the website to the next level and I asked David Web & Media to help me […]
Tiny Living: nice and quiet?
Um. Wasn’t more time and more peace one of the reasons for living in a Tiny House? You wouldn’t say that now. I’ve started working for myself full-time since November 1st, and as a start-up you need to invest a lot of time in your business. Lately I’ve been working just about 7 days a […]
Running around for the Tiny House movement
What a week it was: Monique and I have given two presentations and two workshops. We might not be neighbors – hopefully in the future we will be – but we get to spend plenty of time together! My week started with a visit to Mill home this Tuesday. I’ve known Gerard of Mill Home […]
A weighty issue
Well that was quite a week! It started on Friday 8th of April with the information evening about Tiny Houses organized by political party ‘Groen Links’ Alkmaar. The Leader of the party, Christian Braak, was present at the interview Monique and I gave in Hoorn and was so enthusiastic that he immediately asked us to […]