Merry Xmas Merry Xmas everyone!

Birthday office Yes it is that day of the year again. I always find it a weird day, the day where your age increases with 1. It makes you realise that it is another year gone and also wonder if you spent that year wisely. I am not sure I spent it wisely but I [...]

There are so many apps available for the iPad that it is hard to figure out where to start. I started out looking at some drawing apps, to figure out which one I like best. Here are the apps I use for drawing: Sketchbook Express (free – I use this one most of the time) [...]

I was lucky enough to be able to spot yesterday’s moon eclipse through some holes in the cloud deck. I managed to take some photos. Did you see the eclipse too? Moon Eclipse, 15th of June 2011 Moon Eclipse, 15th of June 2011 Moon Eclipse, 15th of June 2011 Moon Eclipse, 15th of June 2011

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Young ones Happy Easter everyone!

Hot Air Balloon

Flower fields

Taken with picplz in IJsselstein, The Netherlands. With my lovely London city light.

Already long before I had my own place to live and long before I moved into my own appartment I knew that one day I would like to paint my front door pink. I got hugely inspired when I saw this photo, I just had to wait until I had my own place (and no [...]

It is slowly starting to look like a real home. New York I painted the below half of my entrance walls grey, it makes it look a bit more sophisticated (and will go well with pink, which is the colour I will paint my front door!). And I put up some small frames with photos [...]

Sleeping in a new home is always a bit special. Especially when your bed collapses in the middle of the night when you are sleeping. Which made me think of two things: How can it be that it didn’t collapse the first night I slept in it? I am not the DIY master Jedi I [...]

Bedroom with Pirates of the Carribean blue wall Mini garden There is progress. All the paint work is done, wowee! Except the stripes in my living room, but that’s not a lot of work and will be done next week. I have assembled 4 closets. There are two more Billy’s to assemble, that should be [...]

Empty new house I can’t look more depressing than it does now can it? It will only get better from now on. At least it is stripped if any sign of previous inhabitants now, ready to be built up again. The old laminate floor has now been completely removed too. And I have the plastic [...]

Making a place your home needs a lot of: Endless trips to the DIY shops Hole filling Red (no really!) Carpet removal Laminate floor removal New floor installation (this will be done for me thank goodness) Wall painting Wall papering Patience Decisions on what colours to put on the walls (any ideas?) Loads of Radio [...]

Happy New Year! 2010 was the year where I left the UK to return to the Netherlands (I haven’t regret it a single second, I am happy to be home again) bought my own place (It needs a little bit of painting and I need to install a laminate floor in two rooms, but apart [...]

Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas everyone! May you all have some lovely days spent with the people you want to spent them with. (We still have snow here in the Netherlands, so it will indeed be a white Christmas for me.)

The office garden has turned into a winter wonderland. I hope the trains will keep running so I can get home.

We are experiencing a real winter at the moment with snow and frost during the day time. The birds are having hard time so they are regular visitors in the garden. Winter – December 2010 Winter – December 2010 How’s the snow situation where you are? (Oh an hi – I hope you are all [...]