Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you had a wonderful holiday, I know we did! If you have been to my blog at this time on previous years, you have probably heard me moan about the state of affairs in the Netherlands on New Years Eve. Mainly the situation with the fireworks and my dogs. While the fireworks are great for …
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Ok, I am trying to blog from my tablet for the first time so bear with me and please forgive any typos! I am on holiday atm and left my laptop home, since I have a snazzy new Galaxy Tab Pro tablet! Early Friday morning my husband and I packed up and headed off for the south of France. We …
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A week after we returned from France it was already time for me to leave for a month in Canada! I went home on my own so that we could save my husband’s vacation days for things on this side of the pond and I could just go and chill with my parents. It was such a great month. There …
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Right, well I recently wrote about where the heck I have been, but of course I procrastinated in following up. So here we go, the first trip! In September 2012 my husband and I went to the south of France to visit his family for 2.5 weeks. As usual, I absolutely freaking loved it there and didn’t want to leave. …
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A while back I saw something a friend posted on Pinterest that I really liked, so I repinned so that I would remember to make it at some point. What a cool idea! Using an old suitcase to make a bed for one of your pets. When I saw it, I knew immediately what I was going to use. This …
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On the same day that my husband and I visited Salagou and Moureze with my mother-in-law, we also went to visit Le Jardin de Saint Adrien. It’s a beautiful privately owned garden that was created from the ruins of an old rock quarry. It is actually someone’s back yard! In the summer months they open it up as a public …
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Ugh, I’ve been dreading this one. I’m really not a big music person… there are a lot of songs I can sing along with but ask me who sings them or what they are called? Forget it… I’m not going to do a playlist for just one person, because I’ll never come up with the songs but I’ll just give …
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I wish that I had been smart enough to take advantage of growing up in a house with a man who spent his entire life playing the guitar. Music and playing the guitar are my father’s biggest passions in life. I grew up watching him playing in bands and teaching the boys in the neighbourhood to play the guitar. He …
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This one is pretty simple, I think both are fine if used responsibly. By drugs I mean weed, not heroin or cocaine or any of the stronger drugs. If I had to choose the lesser of the two evils it would definitely be weed. I think the marijuana issue is blown way out of proportion and that the leaders in …
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As you’ve seen from previous posts, part of my plan of attack for this past Christmas was to make as many homemade gifts as possible. When my friend Barbara asked if I wanted to paint ceramics with her and some other friends I was all over it, because it gave me another opportunity to make something for someone. I had …
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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.
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