I was so excited to see the Palm Springs design challenge! I love Palm Springs! We travelled as a family in December 2024 through to January 2025. As the name The Dutch Kiwi suggests, I am Dutch but live in New Zealand. I had not been back to the Netherlands in way too long, so it was time for a visit with a USA stop on the way. The first stop...Palm Springs of course!!! We flew into Los Angeles arriving at the crack of dawn. Since we arrived so early we decided it wasn't worth waiting around for a motel or paying for two nights to check in extra early. We grabbed the rental car and made our way from LAX to Palm Springs, with many stops to make sure we stayed awake...which was much harder than I had imagined. But it is a 12 hour flight from Auckland, New Zealand to Los Angeles, so we were running a little low on sleep! Palm Springs was the perfect place to relax and enjoy the warmth which was plenty warm enough for me even in winter. When we arrived much too early, the motel was ki...
Welcome! I am starting this blog to share my journey into surface design in April of 2022, predominantly focusing on Spoonflower. I had so many questions when I first started that I struggled to find answers for. The most pressing question was, does anyone actually make any money selling designs on Spoonflower? So in the interests of transparency and sharing information I am planning to document how my earnings are progressing (slowly!) since my start in Spoonflower.