The Dutch Kiwi

Croissant Soft Textured Blue Medium Wallpaper These delectable croissants with their subtle warm texture, one of my best results in a design challenge on Spoonflower. They placed 29th in April 2024. I have notice over the last few months that they are consistently featuring in my 'designs sold' monthly posts. I looked up the search term 'croissant' by best selling and they were the first result! Croissant Soft Textured Blue Medium The croissant design is available in three sizes, small, medium and large. Since they were selling well and showing up in the search results, I decided it was time to add some more colours. You can see the whole collection called Delicious Croissants by clicking this link , or each photo will take you to that particular design. Croissant Soft Textured Sage Green Large Spoonflower has a more recent feature where they group the same designs of different colours together automatically. That way if you were looking at the large size in one colour ...

Still a few sales coming through. Not enough to be totally excited but still hopeful. I think it might be time to put more effort into promoting and marketing, rather than only creating and relying on organic traffic. That might be a plan for next month to see how much difference it makes! You can check out the Sales Graph if you are interested! I made a total of 9 sales in September 2025. Serene Soft Green Cream Wave Swirl Design A regular feature in this little line up of sales is the Serene Soft Green Wave Swirl Design. I am beginning to think I might need to revisit this design and make a few more colours and sizes! Croissant Soft Textured Medium   x 2  Another regular feature is the lovely croissants. They are already available in three sizes so I don't think I need to add more. A lovely soft flowing design for both fabric and wallpaper. It would be just perfect in a dining room or kitchen. (S) Soft Green Blue Grey Textured Ogee  The symmetry and softness of th...

I have a few cute little Halloween prints available on spoonflower now. Since the spooky season is getting near I though I would share them with you! I have created a Halloween collection that contains them all. Or you can check them out below. If the design is too large or you would like a different colour, please just ask! You can find my contact details on the  contact page . Modern Retro Circles Halloween Large I love the simplicity of these little circle spiders. A lovely retro vibe that would bring some colour and cute warmth while still being perfect for Halloween! This is the most recent design of this list and was designed for a design challenge. In fact, now that I think about it, almost all of these will have been designed for various design challenges. Ghostly Garden Floral Halloween in Orange  Ghostly Garden Floral Halloween in purple Ghostly Garden Floral Halloween in Black  Ghostly Garden Floral Halloween in White  I love the flowing nature and soft t...

I finally noticed that since July this year Spoonflower has been withholding 30% of my earnings. As New Zealand is part of a tax treaty with the United States of America, and I had never had income withheld before, I had no idea why this started. This is what it looks like if you are wanting to check yours. After emailing Spoonflower I learnt that... "Our system has updated to reflect the correct treaty status present on your income tax form. You are seeing these withholdings because the Tax Treaty Benefits portion of your income tax form is incomplete or you are not within a tax treaty country." So my next problem was getting back in to the Avalara software to submit a new W-8BEN form. You will be given login codes but just remember that if you have logged in before you will have been prompted to change your password. So, the password code may not work and you will have to remember the password you chose. That took me a little longer than I'd like to admit to realize! Bu...

I am excited to announce that my Autumn Pheasant Scene made the top 100 in the Spoonflower Autumn Hunt Club design challenge. It came in 73rd with 110 votes and 179 favourites.  I loved drawing this design. I am a sucker for bold graphic style designs with bit of texture to add depth. It's always tough trying to decide when enough is enough. I can get caught in a trap of adding more and more details or elements, only to remove them later. Often I find less is definitely more! Autumn colours are not my usual choice but I really enjoyed working with them. That is why I love design challenges! Always pushing me outside my comfort zone and forcing me to try new things. I hope you like it too!  

I feel a little comeback starting...fingers crossed! The sales are starting to trickle in again with 9 sales this month. Not quite the back to the high of 24 in February but I have hope. Solid Colour Soft Light Grey Blue Green Hexcode B6C9C4 Germany (XS) Spray Paint Hearts Flag Colours   Germany (XL) Spray Paint Hearts Flag Colours  Aeroplanes Outline in Diamond Formation Mid Blue Dogs on pink Small Textured Fish Large Green (M) Preppy Gingham Pink Green Blue Minimalist Textured Chevron in Pink (L) Preppy Modern Floral with Bows Art Deco Scalloped Flowers Teal Pink on Dark Teal Medium Wow, that took a while. So much variety in this months sales. I think I might need to come up with a grid design to make it a little less scrolling for you all!

Well it has been a little while, the sales have continued to drop and motivation has been a little bit low. But lets get back on the horse and play a little catch up! July had a total of five small sales, which is better than the three in June. Muted Geometric Circle Flowers Soft Grey Blue  Serene Soft Green Cream Wave Swirl Design Kazakhstan Spray Paint Hearts Flag Colours  Aeroplanes Solid in Diamond Formation Mid  Croissant Soft Textured Medium  Well that is a very blue themed month. I love all these designs, but I feel like I might need to make a few more aeroplanes...watch this space!