Tag Archives: Christmas

After finally finishing my mother in law's Haruni shawl while I was in Canada I was ready to get started on my next project.

I was looking over my tree tonight, dreading the thought of taking all my Christmas decorations down and putting them away, when I noticed this ornament.  My husband and I bought it the first year we were married, in 2000, which was our 2nd year together and first year as husband and wife. I still feel way too young to …

Yay, I can finally blog about one of my Christmas gift projects!  Remember the Mystery Project? My mother in law phoned us today to let us know that her package had arrived in France (whew! I was getting worried!) and she had opened it already. Tsk tsk, naughty!  That means I can blog about it now! I made her a …

Today was laundry day and part of laundry day is wearing things you probably wouldn’t wear otherwise, so that all the stuff you do want to wear can be washed. At least that’s how it works in my house… or maybe it’s because I always put the laundry off for too long.  It could be that. Whatever… tonight while I …

Oh come on! You knew it was coming!  You should know me well enough by now. After a rather expensive Christmas last year and a rough year financially, I’ve decided that this I am going to make this Christmas as much of a homemade Christmas as possible, which means busting my ass doing crafts and trying to figure out what …

Our other expat friends gathered together at our house for dinner on Christmas Day The hardest part about life as an expat is missing your family and friends, I don’t think there is an expat out there who can argue that… and in the age of Twitter, Facebook, and instant messengers, it’s impossible to isolate yourself in your own little …

The view from my balcony last night as my neighbours brought in the New Year with a bang! Every year on New Years Eve I am on my balcony in hopes of getting some good firework photos.  Back in 2007 I was bummed because it was raining on NYE so not as many people were out.  Also it made for …

I just saw the funniest video.  It’s a parody of the X-Men films using a mixture of movies like Wolvrine, Max Payne, Batman Begins, The Hulk and Blade and then put together with bits from different Tim Allen films. Generally I’m not a fan of spoofy movies that make fun of other shit.  Scary Movie, Naked Gun, and all the …

Merry Christmas from Pixel and Bailey!  We have one year to try to teach Pixel to sit still before next year’s Christmas photos!  Wish us luck, we’ll need it!

I would not want to be this guy! Seriously… Christmas trees aren’t THAT expensive here that you have to steal one.  Perhaps he feels the same as I do, that the Dutch Christmas trees are not worth buying.  They are Charlie Brown Christmas Trees! They don’t even deserve to be called trees, they are Christmas Shrubs!  With their big fat …

Before Friday I had no idea that there was a Christmas Market at Kasteel Keukenhof, but thankfully DutchBitch not only told me about it but gave us her mother’s free pass to the grounds!  So not only did we get in for free, but I finally got to meet her after years of reading each other’s blogs and chatting on …