I knit a bunch of socks with this yarn that changes colour by itself. Nice! It was hard to get some matching pairs out of it though, I managed two proper pairs and two sorta similar socks XD

All my days I spend waiting for summer. It takes too long.










I went here for my job, some kind of evening. In an organic cafe, with free dinner. Nice!

I'm a bit sad because we're changing our home. We hope to sell it in the future and live a bit bigger, so we're making everything proper and all adult-like. I'm quite sad because I don't like change, and I don't like white walls. I like my dollshouse and don't want to live anywhere else. I'm sharing my fave pictures of my home from when it was still proper, just to ease my soul :)

Even though I think it's somewhat despicable how nowadays so many bloggers are "bought" by the industry, and half of the blogs are just giveaways and product reviews, instead of cool girls making things themselves, I do envy bloggers a bit. I mean, free stuff yeah? Everyone likes free stuff! I get a lot of books for my history blog but my other blog is about not buying stuff, so I had little chance.

But this week, I was gifted free stuff! Organic, no-paraben, nothing-artificial shampoos and creams. Haaa I feel validated as a blogger now! Sad, I know.

I gave T a car for christmas (Volvo Amazon) and today we moved it illegally. It's not allowed on the streets because it isn't insured (or roadsafe, really) so we chose a tuesday morn because that's when police are at ease (we think!) It was NERVE WRACKING! The car kept breaking down because the fuel pipes were clogged, and then it ran out of fuel and I had to hurry of and get fuel so that we could continue our 5 mile trip... In the end we made it and were rewarded with soup, yeah! And no police-bill, also pretty important.

I cannot access my Flickr :(




I got one of the last quinces, made quince syrup. I don't know if I like the taste :(





Braid update! I plan to donate my hair but sometimes I think I'll keep it allllll! :D

A bunch of pics from my phone, from when it snowed and T and me went on a holiday and met many animals. I like it best to be driven in a car and look out over the land.

It was never my ambition to be paid for my photography. I just saw the great amounts of amateur photographers who are average-to-kinda-good and who own photoshop, trying to make it in the professional world. I didn't want to spoil my fun and independence by trying to make money with it. Strangely, right now I'm paid to photograph (well right now I'm in fact paid to blog to you all XD)

My favourite collegue, the one in charge of IT, website and social media was fired recently. And the collegue who did my job before I was hired (taking calls, sending emails, arranging deliverystuff) turned out to really miss her old job. Hence, I am now in charge of all product photography, all cool photography for our social media and cooking up things for our recipe site. It felt ODD odd odd. I have a camera (Canon urgh) and a light box and a photoshop without my favourite plugins.

It's very strange to make smoothies during worktime and take pictures of them, arranged cutely in nice glasses with some fruit. I just thought I'd let you know.

Here's some of my pics.

I used up some scrap material making stripey wristies, but I didn't have enough and the second one is only half-striped. It looks stupid. I'll make some more next year I guess.

This was just as the snow was gone, only a little bit remaining on the ground. We went to see things, a house, old cars, lights and green clouds. It was too cold to stay long.

Recently T and me went to Antwerp, which is really the nicest most picturesque city. I had so many pictures I'm splitting them into two parts.

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I like my car, but I also really like biking to work. I like tricking out my bike with things I'll need, I like trucks that look like christmas trees and blink all sets of their lights at me to signal I can cross first, I like having some fresh air before being stuck in an office all day. Most of all, I like all the sunrises and sundowns.















Our office is (weirdly) inside an industrial cooler and it's always cold. This is my current workoutfit :(

The veg gardens are not much now, any more. There's little to do and little to harvest, some seeds at most. I took some sunflower seeds and split a rhubarb, because you can't ever have too much rhubarb.











I made this cute babyblanket, which is just a way of saying I had too little squares, and the blanket turned out tiny.




I made an apron from old bedsheets

For the website I'm writing recipes for, I made some halloween things.






Vegan halloween cookies, they were very good. I spread them with chocolate ganache and made double cookies and they were delish. Some I spread with a pumpkin jam we received and it was, well, it did not taste good! Ugh, such a good concept but it was really ewww.










Witches brew and bat crisps!


We received lots of apples and I bought *real* weck jars so I made lots of applesauce in them.


From the remaining apples we made apple cider.



For Halloween night, I'm planning a cool soup with floating eyeballs... I have no costume whatsoever and no time to make one, it sucks :( For you Dutchies, my recipes can be seen at plantaardigmaandag.nl

I'm behind on blogging! I did a great many things recently. The more hours I work, the more productive I'm at home, weirdly. I worry for my camera because some days it doesn't focus at all. I'm very careless with it and undoubtedly it was dropped many times, so I hope it's just the lens :( Buying a new camera would suck pretty bad because I love this one so.

First of all: I made ketchup. It was friggin delicious! Google for a ketchup recipe and make it and you will thank me.




Then I made my own deodorant, after a Crunchy Betty recipe. This stuff is amazing! I do a lot of physical work and bike to work 30 kilometres and never smell even a tiny bit! Try it, it will rock you world.


Then I made lemons in salt preserves



T received lots of beans and we strung them up to dry, like a very weird garland.



After my cool studio that was cold and far too large, it's nice and comfortable just sitting on the floor and sewing. No pressure, no long sessions. I made some things just for fun.



Curtains, and pillowcases, mostly.


I made cough syrup by boiling sugar with water and steeping thyme in it. It worked very well and tasted really good! Cheap solution.


T is brewing beer


While I work on some Halloween recipes


I want to thank you all for sharing your favourite blogs with me a bit ago! It really inspired me to do things. It was nice to discover that I'm not alone in my little-house sentiments, but that there's an antire movement that's called "urban homesteading." Very cool!

I'm selling these two hats on my Etsy! Check em out here.

As the last person on the internet, I have "discovered" Pinterest. I do not like it much but I do like these halloween photos! Halloween, it's very near! It's time to start preparing. (Can you embed pictures hosted on pinterest? Or will noone see them?)

Don't forget to comment here, I'm giving away an Angelic pretty bag and skirt for free! Non-lj-friends are welcome to comment as well :)

I'm not generally a very vain person these days. I have no problem going without makeup, wearing old boy's jeans, or not looking good in whatever way. But I like being vain about my hair, and taking pictures of it :) Here it is, just washed so a bit stringy. My hair is still growing at super-speed (obviously powered by SOY MILK I guess?)

This year I was so busy and so preoccupied, I hardly gardened at all. I bought some plants and many died. Even so, we had so much harvest! I guess being lazy one year can be forgiven :)

We had so many carrots, we ate a lot and I grated some and froze them, to use in vegan carrot muffins.

Then we ate lots and lots of zucchini until we had enough, and I pickled the rest.


We ate beans, and dried some to sow next year.


This carrot came from the tiny garden in front of our house.

A gooseberry pie, finally! Just like in Snowwhite :)

We had a blackberry bush this year and a blueberry bush and I loved it so much! These berries are very expensive on the market, so jus going out and picking some is the nicest thing. They had only a little yield this year but will be better next year I think.

I'm giving away this bag and skirt, both Angelic Pretty! I do ask for you to pay shipping though.
Comment with which item you'd like. If there are more people interested, I'll pick someone at random. I don't like first come first serve because I don't want to encourage being on the internet all day! :)
People who are not on my friendslist are free to comment as well!


This bag is pretty faded, the back is noticable darker than the front. Still cute though, and pretty sturdy. Shipping would hopefully be 3-6 euros (if I just wrap it in a plastic bag) but there's a small change it's a bit more expensive, if the wrapping is too heavy.



This skirt has a separate overskirt, and a pin-on bow. It's extremely tiny, really typical AP sizing. Be prepared to hold your breath! It's a fun skirt with a sort of glitter in it.
Shipping would be between 8 euro (within europe) to 11 euro (outside).


Also these trousers, a heavy wool type trouser dating from the 50s, the label saying they were made in eastern Germany. They are a size small but not ridiculously tiny. I have very sensitive skin and the wool is a little scratchy to me, so. They're well nice though and maybe someone wants them. Shipping probably 8-11 euros as well.

I unfriended a whole bunch of accounts that I did not recognize at all, which means they're either dead or not posting. If this is you and you want to be my friend, let me know (and update more!)

Being on Livejournal for a million years, my friendslist has become this huge 10-page item with all kinds of people who left long ago, but still count me as a friend. It's hard to navigate and makes me a little angry every time.

Sometimes I think my journal became so boring, I wish to have an amazing journal and go on all kinds of adventures. You know those blogs you find sometimes, that are just enchanting? I feel it would not be worth it for me to go over to other blogging platforms because I have so little to offer, I'm just here because my friends are here.

Do you read any blogs that are just breathtakingly beautiful, that transport you to another world? I don't just mean a girl in a vintage frock baking a cake in a matching kitchen, I mean really jaw-dropping hair-raising wonderful?

I'll give you one that is one of my favourites: http://prettysmartgirlart.blogspot.nl/

Okay guys, I changed jobs AGAIN! I'm now working fulltime for an organic food company, so I had little time to post my last pictures. Anyway, it's weekend now and here's Danmark!


We were only in Danmark for 2 days, we stayed at a campingsite in Roskilde. I was a really beautiful camping with lots of nature, and Roskilde was very nice as well. But it was VERY hard to find any vegetarian food, there was only one restaurant offering something! Weird...
























There was a swan family and it was really the sweetest thing! They just swam around all day, did some fishing. At night one of the parents swam around alone and we though it had let its partner with the kids to enjoy some alone-time :)







This was our holiday! I hope to go to Berlin in December now or the Canaries, I cannot decide...

The second part of our travel brought us to Norway. We never meant to go to Norway, but when we found ourselves close to the border we just decided to go. Norway was an amazingly beautiful country, full of mountains, nicely coloured houses, strange skies, mist and fog. I liked it a lot.








People in Noway were extremely pleasant, very helpful and they all spoke perfect English. Also important: people in Norway were EXTREMELY goodlooking! Our campingsite host kind of looked like a cross between that Russian dude in Sex and the City and a lumberjack or very cool troll. It was the coolest man we ever saw.







Strangely, Norway reminded me of Japan in some ways. A sparse but balanced architecture, the use of colours. A careful picking out of nature in some parks. But it might have just been influenced by my reading Memoirs of a Geisha (I loved it!)












Foodwise, everything was super-expensive and most things didn't really taste too good.




Driving into Oslo is really wild: you make a very steep descent and all of a sudden this enormous city comes into sight! We are not used to mountains at all and were very impressed.

I'll be posting my holiday pictures in parts, since there are so many! Here is Sweden.

































Not Sweden but still cute:

I have no clue who took these pictures, I remember it being someone who shot for bands and had some kind of special love for the north and the way the sun behaves there. I just found them again and wanted to show you.








Ugh, to be able to shoot like this! I would sell my soul.

Here are some pictures from a tiny small holiday I took with my friend, we went bicycling in Limburg. Man, my last post is almost a month ago! I feel kinda bad, I've been sooo busy and neglecting everything :(


















Showing my teeth in a field full of sunflowers!



In a week I'm going to Sweden and Finland, I hope to bring back some good pictures :)

I went to sea with my mom, and we kind of joked about just getting on a boat and buying a toothbrush when we got there. It was a joke but I was kind of serious, it would be so lovely to just get on a boat.


Here's a mirror-picture which I took before going out. I never go out but I had a friend in relationship-crisis so we sat and she had beer and I had sparkling water. In the end she puked. I don't know why people enjoy going out.

I'm making sourdough again, I must say, sourdough bread is the BEST bread. There's really no comparison.





I'll be selling some handspun wool: I don't really know what to do with it!

T carves a heart in the bread when I'm not looking :)

First rhubarb of the year.

Last sunday, T and me were married for a year! We always joked that we tried to get to 3 months so this was quite something. To celebrate, we went to Limburg to walk abou the hills and drink lots of champagne.



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I mostly take pictures of food these days, for my recipes. I'm astounded how much a nature guide eats! When you spend 8 hours in the woods running around with kids, there's really no limit to how much you can eat. And on the other days I still work in the kitchen. Ah food, it's a good thing :)

On ym day off, I did what all longhairs like to do best: I took pictures of my hair! I wonder how long one would reasonably keep it and still be able to do sporty things? Waistlength at least I'd say but I'm not sure.