I couldn’t help but come staring at my homepage, it all looked so dull. No shine, no nothing. So I decided to add some pink to the design… Okay, it’s not that big change, but still, it helped me to move on for a while ;) This design has been up since 2009 already!

Apart from that, I added some of my projects on the right side, which should have been there for a while, like Vie Nomade (my travel blog), Hello Chiang Mai! (my tourist/expat guide) and last but not least… Mashed Potatoes!

Mashed potatoes is actually brand new – born today. I used to have a tumblr account before, but I decided to self-host it and use WordPress instead. And since I didn’t have any time yet to create an original design for it, I just grabbed a beautiful WordPress theme from WooThemes: Crisp.

Back to basics… So Mashed Potatoes, it’s an intercultural and multilingual mix of links, images, videos and quotes of all sorts that I collect during my interwebs travels. Worthwile, or fun, or touching, or interesting, or helpful… Who said mashed potatoes is only about potatoes anyway? You can actually put a lot of spices and stuff into that to make it tasty.

If like me you would like to import your tumblr content to a WordPress blog, you may consider to use this neat plug-in: Feedwordpress. Worked like a charm! The Crisp theme from WooThemes is also quite cool – it includes a whole framework to handle your blog just like tumblr… But if you choose the importing way, be advised that you’ll have to do quite a few updates… at least, if you’re picky like me.

Oh yeah and on a side-note, if you can read french (or if you’re fond on Google Translation), I’ve had two articles published on two very cool blogs:

• Il n’y a que mon ordinateur qui ne change pas (Presse-Citron)
• 5 questions @ Corinne (Vues de Chine)

(They have some neat stuff at WooThemes, and if you decide to purchase something by following this link, I’ll even get a little share for it ;).

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It’s been such a long time I don’t post here… Time to fix it I guess. So what has been happening to me during this loooong time? Tons of stuff.

First thing, I became a digital nomad (or technomad) step in may last year. Yep, I sold my stuff, got rid of my apartment contract and started being a traveller… forever. I now work remotely with the help of my fierce MacBook Pro. I’ve been writing a lot about it on my french blog, Vie Nomade. In case you’re really interested and cannot grasp Molière’s language, a Google Translate session should do ;)

I’m still a webdesigner and I’ve kept delivering websites during all this time… but I actually became more of a project manager. I also built a custom CMS with my colleague web developper and friend Céline – we’re still sorting out how to package and sell it, but we already made quite a few happy clients with, yay!

I also became travel writer! Apart from my blog mentioned above, I now publish articles on ebooker’s swiss blog (still in french, sorry). It’s quite fresh, but I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time.

I worked on my photography skills throughout my travels, and I’m enjoying it more and more. I’ve also had a first photographer contract while I was back in Switzerland, but I still do it mostly for fun.

I got rid of my 3D skillset altogether. No more characters, no more illustrations. Although I’ve got plenty of fun with these for a few years, I grew bored of it and anyway… I can’t do everything! So it will be more time and energy I can put in my other projects.

So… I’m currently in Chiang Mai, Thailand. It’s an amazing and inspiring city!

Hugs and sunrays!

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