Inspiring and moving

Look for yourself! Especially the last videos are really moving...

Summerbreak!

Almost 6 weeks of not having to go to work! Although as a teacher I do also work in my holidays, but it's so nice not hearing the stupid alarmclock every morning :)
I still sleep like 10-11 hours a night, just need to catch up I guess..

I promised I'd show something I made in the last couple of months, so here it is!









My exboyfriend had a dress-up party at an officersmess in London, so he had to dress himself up as a superstar. He had a pink ruffled shirt, big yellow glasses, a big fake afro and this jeans. I pimped them to match the rest!







And on special request:

Oops..

Been away for a long time.. My work really got lots of my attention, and *shame on me*, I neglected my blog..
Soon I will post some pics of what I've made & done in the past months, but for now I'll leave you with a great summersong :




(Hope this works! If not, go and check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmetbTknAUk !!)

A crafty gift :)

Okay, a bit late and it IS a short post,but wanted to show what I made for my grandmothers 90th birthday. All the grandchildren had to make something (A4size)for my grandma, they will make a book out of all the things.. This is what I made:

I embroidered (hope that is the right word ;)) the flowers and bird on thick paper. The scalloped 'label' was made on the computer, and printed on stickerpaper. After sticking it onto the thick paper I embroidered the edges as well.

A lot going on here, so not much time or energy to blog. Tomorrow I will try to post something..

Shoppingtherapy

Hmm, had some serious shoppingtherapy the last couple of days. Here are some pics of what I bought :

Some new red-with-white-dots teacups, the bowls and the stuff on top op the cupboard I got from my mom and aunt.

A watering can, ofcourse the pink one (although I kinda fell in love with the fresh blue one as well).

I also just bought a great coloringbook for grownups! I'm not gonna color it, but going to put them in a frame.. My favorite is a girl on a swing, but don't have it as a pic yet. I will post a pic when I've got it framed.

I also crafted a bit (although it was that much work ;)). A friend gave birth to a little girl, Lara. My boyfriend lived with her in a house when he was a student, and with some other housemates they wanted to give Lara something that referred to where they knew mommy and daddy from :) So this is what I came up with :

I also made another, just for fun :

Number 5!

I almost forgot that I was tagged by Wendy from http://www.liefmonster.blogspot.com/ to show the fourth picture in my fourth file. Because that is a picture of me with some of my students (and I don't want to put them on the internet), I chose the 5th of the 5th.

This are my grandparents when they got married. Although my grandmother doesn't look very excited, they were happily married for a lot of years ;) My grandfather unfortunately died 2 years ago.. My grandmother is still alive, and turns 90 (!!) in march. We're gonna celebrate and have a nice dinner with my family!

You can leave your hat on..

I just ordered this great hat for a friends birthday.

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housekeeping.. SIGH

Well the title of this post says it all, I'm not really the best in housekeeping. I guess it has something to do with my lack of discipline (probably why I also still don't fit in a size small ;))

And to be honest, when I come home from work and doing groceries I barely have the energy to cook, let alone doing anything else involving cleaning, washing, ironing and folding. To make things a bit more visible for myself (ehhmm, yes I am a to do list-lover) I made this list with all the things to do in my house. The days of the weeks are there, so my goal is to do 1 or 2 things every day during the week, and the rest in the weekend. With my Leitz Easy Laminator I laminated it with a magnetic back, so now it is on my fridge. And it worked for me today, almost every dot is black! If you would like this list as well, please let me know and I will email it to you. My list is in dutch, but if anyone wants one in english, please email me with a list of chores.


Ps. if you don't have a cat or never iron, I will make you your own list, just email me what needs to be on it ;)