Day # 316-322: 1 week, 7 days, 7 photos!

Ok exactly one week ago I blogged my last photos… My weekend and week have been pretty busy and just didn’t had the time… To be honest I don’t really have time now either, since I’ve got lots to do… editing photos from the wedding shoot of Nov. 6th, make suprise gifts (like big creative things where we hide the gifts in for our saitn nocilas celenbration, we both have to make one for…. ssst, sorry not telling you yet… family members read this too! LOL). Then… make personal relation cards for a friend, update my photography website and more. This afternoon I’ve got a phto shoot with one of my colleagues… she gace birth to a little boy on Saturday and so look forward to that. So no photo for today yet…

Now let’s get this thing going… Thursday: I took this photo of guy’s lens kit. He got this the same week I got my glasses. He usually wears glasses, but with kick-boxing he needs these. But… he never really wore them yet!!!! He tried them in twice, I think..but he finds it really hard to get them in and gives up pretty quickly. So I’m not sure he’s ever going to wear them and on top of that… I like him better with glasses! :)

Friday after work we had a soccer game.. when that was over we went to one of the girls’ house and had tons of fun… played on the WII, painted one of the girls’ hair and san karaoke!!! It was a blast… here are two of the girls singing their lungs out! :)

Saturday I went to this fun creative fair (crea-doe) and bought waaaaaay to much new goodies, for paper scrapping, painting and some pretty decorations… I brought my dad’s camera, but totally forgot to take a photo! At night I went out to diner with the girls from softball… I took a few photos and to be honest this isn;t the best one, but almost everyone is on there…

On Sunday we had a girls day with my friends, like we had a couple of weeks ago… the food was good, as always! Here’s a shot of our little high tea thing. chocolate fondue, fruits, bonbons, mini-cakes and more…

So as you can see I had a fun-filled weekend, but sunday night I was truly exhausted!! And on Monday of course I had to work…

After work I went to the lady who made me those cute crochet hats…she finsihed the baby-bags and a crochet wrap and went to pick them up… They are so cute and I love the colors. I pciked out the fabrics myself, the day we went shopping for them. I really like how they turned out and can’t wait to try them out. I did tried one of them out on one of the kids from daycare and it looked adorable… but today I hopefully get to try the boy one out on Tigho..my colleagues little newborn.

On Tuesday night we had a relaxing night together… while he was playing online poker I worked on my weekly planner. Can’t show you yet, but I can show you the fun goodies I bought at the creative fair last weekend…alphabets, flowers, paper things, ribbons, brads, shiny gems and lots more…

Yesterday I finished my little project I started at work… I made this boat with sinterklaas (saint nicolas). Eevery year we celebrate sinterklaas at daycare, since it’s kind of a children’s celebration. The kids always love it… next week all the kids get to bring a shoe and in the week of dec. 4th we will fill them with candy & a little gift. (well ‘sinterklaas’ does that…LOL) Some of the kids helped me with coloring the ‘zwarte pieten’ and the little packages… I love how the boat turned out :) what do you think?

Well I’m going to have breakfast and get going with my to-d0-list, cause it’s huge!! LOL Will see you all soonish! –hugs-

Day # 310-315: wedding & more…

So let’s start right away…

Friday I had my third wedding shoot for this lovely couple. She is a sister of one of the moms from daycare. The couple looked beautiful…she in her pretty brown wedding dress and he in a matching creme-isch suit. It wa a great day and luckily the weather was pretty ok. I mean the sun was hiding most of the day, but we didn’t had any rain! First we went to their house and the day-guests came over…after that we went to this castle for the wedding. We had a little shoot first and ruing the day we took some more pretty shots. Right now the newly weds are on a honeymoon to Marrakech and I’m kind of jealous! LOL. Anyways here I two photos I really love. They haven’t seen them yet, but I did send them a little previw, but not sure wether they seen them, since they are on honeymoon. But I want to show you these anyway…here we go:

They had these cute pink heart shaped umbrella wich we took some photos with…and I adore this close-up..aren’t they a pretty, happy-in-love looking couple? :)

On Saturday I didn’t do anything exciting… stayed home most of the day and had diner at my BIL and his family. While staring out the window I noticed this X on the tree right outside our window… X marks the spot, right?? Well it does. Since they’re renovating the appartment buildings here and the scenery around it. The city people decided to take down some trees. This tree makred with an X is going down one day too. On one hand I don’t really care, since we’re planning to move asap and well sometimes when it’s really windy it scares me… the branches sometimes hit the window and I’m kind of scared of this whole tree coming down and smashing into our appartment! On the other hand, when the tree is filled with leaves… it stops the sun from coming in in the morning, wich saves a lot of warmth…espceially during summer. There’s this one lady who lives around here who filed a complaint againts all these trees going to be cut down. But I’m sure the people from the city will listen. We’ll see!

Oh yeah, sorry fot all these images : rounded corners, reflection…but after I updated the windows software, live writer has seen these fun new features for photos and just want to try them out! :)

Let’s continue…

On Sunyday my guy and I went to the movies. We saw Micheal Jackson’s ‘This is it’. It was great, but had a bit of different expectations from it. But I’m glad we went to see it. It’s only in the theatre form a couple of weeks…

Monday while I work two of the kids from the after-school-daycare came over to drop of something I ordered. Every year kids from the two highest classes of primary school go door-to-door to ask if people want to buy ‘ kinderpostzegels’ (children postage stamps) . A part of the income of all the stamps sold goes to a different project every year. But mainly ‘for children by children. Mainly for education in third world country’s. It’s a great cause and my mom always used to buy some (she probably still does). I think this is the 4th year I bought them and today I got them. Every year the stamps are drawn by a different artist and thyey’re always different and unique.

On Tuesday I work a few hours in the afternoon and when I got home…there was a package from Colinda… the lady who already made me this cute baby boy chrochet hat. This time the package included two hats… one for girls (same as the boy one) and one simple green one wich is supposed to go with this baby cocoon she also made. Haven’t received the cocoons yet, but I did saw them on photo. She wanted me to check if these were the right sizes again :) Aren’t they cute?

Yesterday (wednesday) when I got at work I saw this…

Two weeks ago we got these walking sticks… sadly all of the ones we had died. It was kind of sad and had no clue how this had happened. I went to this forum and asked what I did wrong… It probably had been the leaves I gave them…they were to hard for them to eat. So after I got some more info I went back to the pet shop and asked if they still had any left. Well they DID and I got the last bunch…8 of them. These looked a lot bigger & stronger then the ones we had before!   They started eating right away… except when I first got to work and looked at them I only found 6… seemed that 2 were hiding behind a leave… uhm making out!!! So that means tomorrow or on Monday I’m going to find tiny eggs at the bottom of their house :) Isn’t that fun? I know the kids are going to love it! :)

I haven’t took a photo for today yet, but will do later on. Haven’t got a whole lot planned this afternoon, but we’ll see! This weekend is going to busy though…

Tomorrow after work I’ve got a soccer game and after that we’re going over to one of the girls’ house and play some games. I decided to spend the night with my brother and his GF, since I need to get up prety early for the saturday. I’m going to this creative fair with my aunt and two of her friends. But since I don’t want to drive home at night and head back there early in the morning I’m going to spend the night there… Although I’ll miss my guy not laying next to me, but I’ll be fine! LOL Then after the fair I’m going home to put on my party clothes cause I got this diner with the girls from softball.

Sunday I think I’m going to deliver the wedding album I made for the wedding I had in June… but not sure since I haven’t talked to them yet. I had send the album back since it had a mistake and it took like two weeks to get it back. Last night it finally got here and want to wrap this up asap… although not sure if it will be sunday. cause in the afternoon I’ve got this day with the girls again (like a we had two months ago) and promissed to make tiny cupcakes for that too… so we’ll see! I’m outta here for now and with all these plans I have no clue when I’ll be back to post here.. so we’ll see!

Have a great thursday! –x-

Day # 305-309: fair, glasses, fabrics & memories

So yesterday my weekend already started!! I only worked two days this week, Mon- & Wednesday... I took tomorrow off since I'm having my third wedding shoot and so can't wait. The couple that's going to marry tomorrow, is so sweet! She is a sister of one of the mom's from daycare and the 2 little ones who both go to my group at daycare are the brideskids...I know it's going to be fun, I only hope the weather will be good and dry! It looks like it's going to be dry during the day, so yeaaah! But just to make sure I'll do a little sun dance before I leave in the morning...haha

Sunday Day #305 I went to this photography fair close by. It was fun!! Only a little smaller then last year. I bought a Falcon eyes background support with 50% off!! Then there were lots of fun happenings you could take photos of like; street dancer, people who jumped trampolines, body painted ladies, fashion shows and lots more... I have tons of photos, but haven't really had the time to have a closer look, so I'll just leave it with this...

Sunday while I was at this fair, the people called where I bought my glasses and told me it was ready!! I was a little nervous about the fact wether I still liked it... but I'm good! Monday I started wearing it to work and soccer and also showed it to my parents and everyone liked it!! Here's me and my first ever glasses!!

On Tuesday I went to see this lady who made me this cute baby hat for my photography.. we went to this fabric store to pick out some new things for the next projects. It was so much easier to see what it looked like and felt...They had so much choice from kind of fabrics to tons of colors...single colors and with several colors... check it out:

here are a couple of colors I really liked and took a photo, so if I want another project and need colors, I can tell this lady wich ones I want.. the greenish/grey colored fabrics on the left are the ones we bought for a cute baby bag... the green under it is for a matching simple hat... 

Yesterday when we got home from having diner at my parents' there was this little package in the mail... On August 24th I've read this story on one of my fav. digiscrap forums about this woman who passed away from breast cancer. She was diagnosed and a few weeks after they found out she was pregnant... Little Chloe born a few weeks premature, but did great and still is... Sadly Sara died a few after giving birth to little Chloe.

When I saw that thread I headed to their blog  ' the sullivans'. The whole story made my cry and I decided to donate a little amount of money to the 'Sara Sullivan memorial fund'. I've been follwing Brady and the little Chloe ever since trough the blog and I must say that he is one strong & proud daddy!

Anyways a few weeks ago I've read the story about the fact they made these memory bands in memory of Sara. The post said that all contributors to the memorial fund would get a couple, but I never thought about the fact I was one of those contributors. The package I received contained two of these red memory bands with the text: ' Soli Deo Gloria' - Sara Sullivan

Today was (well still is) a rainy Thursday and kind of stayed inside all day...the only thing I went outside for, was to get some food for diner. Ohter then that I sat behind my pc; scrapping, listened to music, played some online poker (my guy draw me over the line, with his new addiction!!!), blogging and browsing the net... Oh yeah I did do the laundry, yeah for me!! Anyways on these like this I love to light some yummy smelling canldes and just relax! I bought a few new ones last week... the cotton one is burning in the bedroom and I've put this 'sea grass' one right here on my desk! :)

Mmmmmm.......

I think that's about if for now... got some fun things ahead. The wedding tomorrow and this saturday it's international digital scrapbooking day and I think all I'll be doing all day is shop online (if my PP money gets here in time) and scrap! See you all soon -x-

Day #300-304: Fun things

Wow peeps another day in for the records...only 65 more days to go, well 61 after this post! :)

So let's kick this off with Tuesday DAY# 300!! This is the 300th page from our Quran and I can tell you, I'm not even close to reading page 300. I'm so not a reader, unless it's a magazine, but books and such are just not my thing!

Wednesday I worked and two of the kids (sisters) brought these cute characters. They (prod. mom & dad) made these after a fun trip in the forrest... collected these and made these fun things. They were so proud to show us these :) aren't they cute? Now try to spot the rabbit..hehe

On Thursday it was my weekly day off and went shopping for a bit at the garden centre. With the new balcony I wanted some new plants...when I got to the register I saw this bracelet. October is breast cancer awareness month... And with buying this bracelet you support the pink ribbon foundation. I already donated some money this month, but just had to buy this... I support pink ribbon! This bracelet is pink/soft pink and grey with all these cute charms...

Thursday I got this cute little crochet hat in the mail... I wanted some of these cute hats as photo propts and placed this ad at this site were you can sell things...kind of like e-bay, but a little different. The next morning I already 16 people who were willing to help me out. I picked chowy handmade since they have a lot of different things and it looked great. This lady is so nice and wants to know excatly what I'm looking for, what colors, what sizes...she's great!! So this was the first hat she made for me (I payed for it off course) and I soooo love it. Today (Friday) at work I tried it on one of our little ones and it looks truly adorable!! So what do you think...this is for a boy and also want one for a girl and a couple of other things. After I'm done with this blog post I'm going to send her some info about wich fabrics and all I want for a kind of baby cocoon... I'm so happy I found someone who can make these and it's not expensive at all!

Saturday day # 304, today I cleaned out the meter cupboard... Last week they replaced the old one with a newer, better one. But the closet was filled with plastic bags, shopping bags and this little plastic bag filled with things from when I was little... I used to have this cute pink/blueish plastic tableware and along with it I had these little tins, which were filled with sugar, flour and things like that and played I was a cook...and had my own lil tea house or something like that. I found these when cleaning out the closet. I threw away some of the things that were in the bag, but I'm so not sure about these... They are really old and I think they're so cute. But they're a bit dirty..one of them has sticked sugar all over the inside, hehe! I just don't know what to do with these...but I think I'm going to hold on to them a bit longer! LOL

So I haven't got a photo for today yet, but I'm sure I'll heva enough when I get back this afternoon. My plan it to go to this photography fair, although not really sure sure I want to go by myself... I asked a couple of friends to come along, but they're all busy and had plans. I know I was a little late asking them...so we'll see. But thinking about it right now, I'm going  for sure!!!

Will be back somewhere this next week. Enjoy your sunday! -hugs-

Day #294-299: tomorrow marks Day #300!!

Wow peeps, only 66 days left till the end of this project... I still haven't decided wether I'm going to continue this next year. But we'll see at the end of the year! :)

So lets' start with Wednesday, day #294...me and some of the kids at daycare made this huge necklace with colored beads. They loved and Sanne here had to show it off :)

On Thursday I went shopping for scrapbook things and while at the shopping centre I decided to take an eye-test. I've been having headaches when sitting at the pc for a while and just had to check... This is one of the machines that I had to sit at.. I hated that thing, with the puff of air blowing in my eye! Yuck... 

I'll tell you how that went in a bit...

So on Friday we didn't had a lot of kids and so we went to the building-playground for a bit in the afternoon. Ruben here (my colleagues' son) was playing with this water pump... He needed all his stenght to make it work and look at that tongue sticking out of his mouth while trying to get water out of it...LOL

Saturday, today my guy went back to the shopping mall, to pick out a pair of glasses... FOR ME!!!! I'm so not sure about this wearing glasses. But I don't need to wear them all the time... Only when driving, sitting at the PC or when I'm watching tv. It was so hard to pick one, but the lady there said, I have a face wich goes with lots of glasses... So here's the one I picked out. The color isn't really clear on this photo, since I forgot to use my flash. It's kind of bronze colored and I think it's simple, but nice! :)

Sunday I didn't do a whole lot... I worked on my new hybrid (=digital & paper scrapbooking combined)    project and here are some of the goodies..with a highlight on my awsome, handy, but little expensive crop-a-dile. I've only punched holes with it so far, but already love it!!!!!

Today I worked and had a little shoot with a couple of kids. here's Mike, I had a shoot with him and his family a while ago. He's such a cute boy, but man those big boys can make so much noise and they really know how to make us tired and drive us a bit crazy sometimes! Our Monday group has a lot of 3+ kids, so they can be so loud and busy all together...pffhew!

So that's it... going to make my guy start on diner, cause I got a soccer game tonight at 22.10!! Serious, who planned this, it sucks and it's way too late! I'll be home around 24 at the latest, hopefully!!!!!  And then I have to work tomorrow... This is going to be a busy, long and exhausting week for sure! Will see you all soon! And enjoy your week! -x-

Day # 288 - : FUN pics...

So let's continue where I left of the last time... On Thursday I worked an extra day at daycare, on another group instead of my own. On Tuesday & Thursday my sweet colleague Lista, always bring her girl to work...but since I don't always work those days, I don't see her a lot. So when I do I have to take a photo!! When we were outside, she was sitting in the stroller and had so much fun. Either she was laughing with us, or AT us!! LOL, but she has this cute contagious laugh...isn't she adorable??!! Little Anouk...

On Friday, during my break I went to the animal store and got us some... walking sticks (branches, or how ever you call them! LOL) We used to have fish at our group at daycare, but latetly I was done with those..since I'm the one who cleans the tank and all... So a couple of the kids got to pick between turtles and these... abviously they choose these, although I'm sure they had no clue what I was talking about...hehe. Anyways they love them so far and since we have a couple of brave little boys, they had to hold them for a minute...

On Saturday my dad went flying in a small motorized hover plane.  My mom, aunt & i went along... and you'll probably know why I went along, right??? photos!! Sadly we were too late to saw him getting up, since my aunt & I missed and exit on the highway. But we were there when he landed. It was a big watery cold, but so much fun! He loved and had this big smile on his face when they landed... It was so fun.. I just don't hope he will see a new hobby in this, since he quit racing!! 

On Sunday I had this fun 3-camp softball tournament against two of our men teams from softball.. My intention was to take tons of photos, but I kind of forgot! LOL... After diner we went to the casino and came back with almost the same amount of money we left with (except for 20 euros!) And I didn't wanted to brign my camera there, so after diner I decided to take this photo... My favorite brand of peanut butter. Really when I lived with my parents, mom spoiled me with always having 'calve', so till this day and all the days to come, I only put this brand on my bread and sometimes I sprinkle a little brown sugar on it... got that from dad! hihi. here it is, the one and only...

Last week they finished our balcony with the new fencing and I totally forgot to show you...till now :) I like it.. it's silver painted on the long side and the small sides are with matt glass... way, way, way better then the old ugly green thing with the rotten wood beam... so this is a great improvement!

Today I started on a fun new hybrid project, although I can't just tell you yet... Cause it's going to be a christmas present for someone really special!! But I can tell you, it's going to be sooo pretty!..at least I hope it will turn out the way I've got it in my head! ha 

So I didn't took a photo yet, untill the doorbell rang!! Yeah, that one thing I've been waiting on all day...so I kind of gave up hope and thought it would be here tomorrow. That poor package deliverer worked his a** off and my package came after 19.00! But it's here and I'm so proud...it's THE WEDDING ALBUM for Mathieu & Marina, who I did the wedding photography for on June 27th. I finished the album at the end of August, but since their little girl arrived that week, it took a little longer then I hoped. But it's here and it turned out amazing... You can say I'm a little proud! :) Sadly I can't show you the pages, since I want them to see it first... so I'll just show you the first page, wich was their wedding invitation and the silver looking cover... here ya go...

So there they are... covered till today! Yoohoo :) Now I'm going to relax and browse the internet for a bit... before I'm going to watch CSI! :) Have a great day/night and will probably see you this weekend! -x-

Day # 284-287: not so interesting!

I'm writing this in between my fav. tv-shows ( cold case & without a trace) during the commercial breaks...we don't have as much breaks as in the states, but they last a bit longer. I don't have anything exciting to mention here and will just post my pics from Sunday through Thursday and will blog the others on Tuesday probably, but I can give you guys a lil' sneak peek of what's coming: Friday we got these phasmids (walking stick insects) at daycare and the kids love them so far... Today my father went hover flying, wich was so cool to see and he loved it... But will keep it fast & simple today, so will post those pics on Tuesday on my day off...

So first my pic from last Sunday... Since our balcony is being renovated, miss buddha stands in the kitchen right now. I got this buddha from my aunt for one of my birthdays (I think it was last year) and she stands on her balcony... when it gets dark the little built-in lamp starts to lights. She charges herself with sunlight :)

Did you know I love chocolate...well I know I'm on a diet but sometimes I got to have a little piece. My favorite is the dark chocolate but tonight I felt for some white 'drops of heaven" (like from a friends episode...LOL) Only two little blocks were good enough...it was just for the taste. My guy at the rest of this! :)

Tuesday I had my weekly day off and drank my favorite tea all morning... 'Lipton's Morocco tea'. We usually make our own moroccan tea, but didn't had any mint in the house... 

Wednesday after work I payed the bills and things like that. And decided to clean up some papers too. I always run them through the paper cutter before throwing everything away. At the end I collected a big box op ripped paper...

Well this was quick and only needed one commercial break... although cold case got back and I'm still sitting here. So I'm going to say good night and enjoy the rest of your weekend!! See ya Tuesday! -x-

Day # 275 - 283 : you probably won't believe me...

when I say, that this won't happen again!! I suck at blogging the past month or so and I feel a bit quilty... I've been putting it off like I did last time... phffff, what can I say?? LOL Let's just forget about this whole thing and start this upcoming huge blogpost...

Friday day #275, the day before my guy's big 30th birthday party. His b-day present...A friend's husband had to get some things from a sports shop and he told us he got a discount on everything there. And since my guy started kick-boxing a few weeks ago, he wanted gear. And so he got this set of leather gloves, leg-protectors & a teeth protecor. We got it for almost 50% off... and he loves it!!

Then Saturday was the BIG party!! It was so fun... I had got all these '30' decorations to put up, he was really suprised, made all these yummy snacks and also had this choclate fondue fountain. For an extra little gift, I made him this list : 'why it isn't so bad to turn 30...and why it is! He loved... I also gave him three flying laterns, each of them counted for ten years and he could make a wish...but... The weather sucked! It rained and the wind was to heavy, so we didn't let them up in the air. We still haven't yet, so when the weather is ok one of these days, we will!! The party was great...wanna see my birthday boy with his big 30 button?

That night, I was sick again...and it sucked!!! Sunday morning I felt sooo bad and awful and was so dissapointed. I was supposed to have this big family tournement at softball, but just couldn't even stand on my feet. Guess I should've listened to my body more, before I started to go back to work on Friday... anyway, I layed on the couch all freakin' day and just couldn't really eat. In one day I lost 1.4 kilo's from throwing up and all... but the next day it was back though! LOL

So instead of some fun photo, I took this one... Lately with fall coming up, I'm really into these patterned clothing...my fav. clothing colors at the moment are purple, grey & blue... here's one of my new blouses with a cute pattern...

Since I still felt awful and still threw up that night, I decided to stay home on Monday...again! I kept shaking in the morning and just had to sleep it off! 

Anyway Monday was my guy's official 30th birthday, so I wanted to make him a nice diner... But since we didn't really went grocery shopping, other then for his party, I had to get out and get some meat. I wanted to take his photo, but he didn't want too... He said: you already have one of me from saturday. Well ok, then I'll take a photo of the cards he got for his b-day :) There were more, but I loved these since they said: 30!! haha

On Tuesday I had to babysit our little 2nd cousin Quinn. My cousin Sylvia started working and getting an intern education the hospital close by. She loves it, the only problem is that she doesn't has a daycare spot (she will in January though), so she asked the family if we could all now and then babysit for a day. So this Tuesday was my day. At first I wanted to call it off, since I was sick, but the poor little Quinn didn't felt that good either. He was so sweet! In the morning we watched some tv since some guys came to install a new boiler for wamr water. Later in the morning we  colored, ate cookies & went for a walk to the playground... Can I tell you that there aren't any fun playgrounds here?? It sucks! Near my work there are at least 15 in the small area and here...nothing!! So instead we went looking at the workers who were making the streets wich were also very intersting! LOL  Got some grocery's and the highlight of this day must have been watching the tram (train) coming by, cause that was all he talked about after we got home... He loved it!!

After we both had a nap for an hour (we slept in the big bed :)) we had a snack and went for another walk in the parc, looking for leaves and little flowers for mommy!  After we got back I tried to have a little shoot with him, but little mister didn't want to. Although I did took one photo I love...

And here are a few other photos I love from our day together...

On Wednesday I had no clue for my photo for the day...so after I took off my new, pretty, bling-bling necklace, I had it! here it is:

Since fall started I gets dark soooo early.. on one hand I like it, cause I love to relax in front of the tv covered with a soft blankie, but on the other hand I just don't. Thursday around 18.30 it started to get dark...a little early but this probably happened b/c there was some rain coming up. And just before that, the sky looked like this... On the left it was still clear when the sun went under, but on the right you can see that the clouds were piling up

Friday night I went to the couple I shot the wedding pics for in June. I already finished their wedding album, but since the baby was born it got a bit late. I already finished it before the end of August, so I was happy I finally got to show them. They loved it, so now all I have to do is get it printed! :) When I drove back home and turned to enter the highway, I started pooring like crazy!!! Really, it was a scary and so hard!!! I tried to take a photo when driving, but I think you could say...this is the worst picture I took... EVER!! haha. But I didn't have time to change settings, since I needed both eyes to watch the road :)

Then on Saturday it was national open house day and I've looked forward to this for weeks. Lots of houses wich are for sale had open house and you could just go there and view the house. We picked out a few houses we liked, took the tom-tom and off we went...Uhm not... Since their were working on several roads (in the weekend for G's sake!!) there were traffic jams all over our little town. eevery exit to the next city was blocked with rows of cars wanting to get out of IJsselstein. We tried every road (4) we could think of, but none of them had a quick way out!! I sucked! So we stayed in IJsselstein and looked at houses there...well houses, only one!! haha

When we drove to the last possible escape, I saw this street name I regonized from when I did the big search and then we saw the house, wich was on sale! We drove on to the exit, but had to turn around cause that road was closed... So when we drove back, we both said...hey, let's just look at this one first! And I guess it was some sort of sign, or they just wanted us to check out this house... and so we did!!! We loved and got a great tour around the house. It was perfect and everything was beautiful. The house was done... had a pretty kitchen, enough rooms, a lovely bathroom, a backyard and a roof terrace!! We both fell in love... after we checked the book for the price!!! Now I knew why this house wasn't on my final list!! Like I said we're both in love...but don't want to cross our maximal price mark...casue then the monthly costs would be too high...sigh!

You know what's worse... I even dreamed about us living in that house last night!!!! I love it... I just checked the house online and saw it is for sale for over 6 months. So maybe, just a tiny little maybe, they will lower the price so we can afford it...just maybe! Cause sadly we didn't won the lottery last night! :(  I'll get in touch with our advisor and see what he thinks. If,  if... he gives us an okay to put up and offer, I will be so happy! If not....

I'll just keep on dreaming!!!!

Have a great sunday peeps... -xxxxxx-

Day # 266 - : have been putting it off...and now it's Oct. 1st!

The past couple of weeks have been crazily busy and just didn't had time to update my blog here. Last weekend I've been home for like 2 hours a day and when I got home late at night, I was too tired...like I also was on Monday & Tuesday. I worked both days, but there was something that made me feel yucky...everything hurted, had a bad headache and was sooo tired. So yesterday I decided to stay home from work after sitting on the toilet half of the night. A little stomach bug or aoemthing has hit me! In the morning I was so shaky and felt like a sack of nothing! It sucked! I layed on the couch all day long and didn't even scrapped... The only thing I did in the afternoon was putting up some of my fall decorations... Been wanting to do that for over a week, but like with everything else, I didn't have time. Today I feel a bit better and don't have a fever anymore, only my head hurts like ****, so I'm glad today is my weekly day off. Tomorrow I'm going back to work and right now... I'm going to get this ball rolling after a long week of not posting my P365 photos! Here we go...

Wednesday 23rd, day #266... I ordered something online for my guys birthday, bu I can't tell you what yet. Cause I know he sometimes reads this too and don't want to spoilt the suprise... Hun if you're reading this... haha, yeah I got a little surpirse for ya :) With that package I also got this cute little ducky to put on a key. The other ducky keychain I got from one of the kids from daycare, for day of the teacher! :)

Day # 267, for weeks I wanted to stop on my way home from work by these cornfields..but never did. Wednesday I noticed that some fields were already gone and reaped..but forgot my camera that day and so I went back the next day!

Friday after work I stopped by the pumpkin stand. This lady sells pumpkins & calabashes every year and I always buy some for my fall decorations. I love all the colors and that each pumpkin or calabash had it's own pattern, colors & shapes. I bought 12... 10 small ones (5 for Angela) and 2 bigger ones. She had her stand ready for over a month, but I felt it wasn't time to set up my fall decorations yet. Anymore here is her beautiful stand... 

On Saturday I had a busy day... First I went to watch our little cousin Robin's baseball game, then I went grocery shopping for Sunday's high tea and later that afternoon I went to my colleagues Bahia...we went to the market, Abdel and I had diner there, drank some moroccan tea, took photos of her newly printed GC for her website & decorated the cabins in her manicure/pedicure salon. It was a fun but busy day...here's Robin And a photo of the GC for Bahia's website...

Then on Sunday we had this hight tea with some old girlfriends from 'de Bilt'...the city I grew up in and where my parents still live. It was so fun and we had a blast chatting up and everything. First we had a sweet hight tea with: brownies, chocolate fondue with fruits, petit fours, cake and bonbons..Mmmm. Later after we had a walk and little shoot in the parc we had an afternoon tea... We had three kinds of sandwiches, filled pastry's, salad and cold veggies. It was so good!!! We decided to do this more often and planned another day in November... here we are having a little shoot in the parc, we had a blast!

Oh yeah, you know what I for got to do...  take photos of the table with all that yummy stuff and our pretty table decorations! How stupid?! Anyway on to Monday...

On Monday after work, we had this 'tupperware' party at my colleague Mieke's place. My mom and aunt also came over and bought some nice storage containers. The mean reason I wanted to go is because of this baking thing and I was lucky... It was on sale!! I bought two other things. When my order gets here, I'll show you what I bought, but for now just a photo of the catalogue, the invitation, my order sheet & this little gift. We all got to pick out a little gift and I choose this thing to take out hot egges from the pan :)

I love candles, especially these scented ones... I love it when my house smells yummy. I recently look at yankee candles and they look great, but the price tag is a bit too much for me. This particulair candle was a gift from one of the kids from daycare for my b-day and I love it. I'm going to check wether they have more flavours, but I'm sure they do! :) 

Yesterday I decorated the house, well the living room anyway. I've out up some of my cute fall decorations and I love how turned out :)  here's my photo for the day and two other ones I like :)  

Now for today's photo... A few minutes ago my friend Angela left. She came over for a bit to cheer me up, so sweet! She brought a box of chocolates she got at work. We had a silly mood and had cut them all in two pieces, with the idea to have a bite out of all of them! LOL Well we did tasted almost every single one, there were about 15 or so. Some were pretty good, but some weren't that yummy...so after a tiny bit of tasting we threw them out! LOL And this was the ultimate test for my stomach bug and well..kept it all inside..hehe Anyway here they are...

We wouldn't have done this with expensive chocolates though...LOL. see here's what we tossed out: Humm they don't look that good anymore, do they? haha

Well gotta go now, cause this post took up way too much time. Spend half an hour before A got here and well 20 minutes till now. I got to go make diner now...healthy diner that is! Cause I have to make up for the chocolates I eat today! But the weight loss is still going ok, I lost 2.4 so far! :) Yeah for me :)

See you soon and I promiss it won't be too long, cause posting this much...well it's just too much! :) -x-

Day #260 - 265: Only 100 days left!

Today is Day #265, that means there are only 100 more days left for project 265, 2009!! I can't believe the end is getting closer. I mean I can remember day #1 when I started this project...

Anyway let's get to the photos, cause there are a lot of them! Thursday I started making cookies for the sugarfest, for when the Ramadan is over... I made my famous peanut/chocolate cookies. I mean really, everyone loves these and always ask for them! Someone even say, they are like little drops of heaven... Uhm oh no, that is from an episode of 'friends', but it could be true! LOL

The filling is from peanuts, honey, cinnamon, biscuits and condensed sweet milk. Covered with milk chocolate on one side and white with 100% pure chocolate on the other...Mmmm

Friday's are my tv nights and I always try to kick my guy out of the house... Ok, most of the times he goes out to see his friends, so I made this night, my tv night. Usually I fault the laundry and watch Law & order, SVU... Tonight was the same, I only didn't fault the laundry, but started on the decoration for Anouk's 1st birthday cake for tomorrow... I colored the fondant and made little flowers, letters and such...This is what my table looked like:

Saturday, Today was Anouk's (my colleagues' girl) first birthday party and made her a little cake, all for herself. It looked so cute and Lista loved it... Not sure about Anouk though. She laughed when Lista had put the cake on the table, but she want smiling anymore after she tried it. First she had put her hands in it and started screaming that her fingers were dirty!! OMG, she hates getting them dirty & sticky! LOL When we gave her a spoon and had cute the cake open, she tried one bite... Yeah only one and almost spit it out again...It was so funny!! But luckily my colleague did like it and she ate the inside cake the day after... Here is a photo of the cake and a few of miss dont'-like-to-get-my-hands-dirty!  

Here is the birthday cake for the visitors... I also scrapped this cover for the cake and had it printed on there...

Then on Sunday it was SUGARFEST (eid ul-Fitr), that marks the end of the ramadan... We had breakfast/brunch over my m=inlaws and there were lots of sweets & cookies... It was fun. But in between breakfast and diner, we were kind of bored. So my SIL and our niece Imane went to this bazar kind of market... Here are Najima & Imane, right before Imane went into this big swing thing.

Then while waiting for diner, I took some photos of the nieces... they loved it and we had a lot of fun. here's one of the 4 of them. From left to right: Ilhem, Aya, Imane & Aya...the outer two are sisters...(Oh yeah notice we have two aya's...LOL, one of my BIL's forgot that his little niece also got that name when he regsitered her for birth! They are almost the same age also... hehe)

Then Monday morning when driving to work, the weather report wanred for a foggy morning. Well I can tell you, it was! The sun was still coming up and there was this thick layer of fog hanging over the meadow land...

Today, I was supposed to had this photo shoot in the afternoon. But one of my colleagues called in sick this morning and they couldn't find a replacer... So I've decided to go to work at 14.00. I'll have to cancell the shoot with the nieghbours, but I'm sure they don't mind...since the weather isn't that nice also and we can probably reschedule this to Thursday! So instead of a photo from the shoot, I took this one from a beautiful autumn bouquet. We got this from the opening of Abdel's new company building and just love the flowers and colors in this bouquet :)

Tonight I've also got first aid class at work, so I'll have diner there...wich means I don't have to cook tonight! I wish you all a wonderful day and will see you soon...     -xo-