6 Dec 2014 | stories-from-my-life
This year was rather quiet and uneventful Ð I guess it doesnÕt have to be always like a roller coaster. Christmas 2013 and the change into the new year 2014 was celebrated with good friends. Christmas was even celebrated twice on Christmas eve and Christmas day....
29 Sep 2014 | craft-projects, stories-from-my-life
I love public holidays! Not only do I get a day off, but I am now also paid for it! Yuhhuu! Since I didn’t have any plans this long weekend I enjoyed a lot of time on my craft table, just doing cards 😉 I know I am a bit crazy, but hey I am enjoying life! And I...
17 Sep 2014 | craft-projects, stories-from-my-life
Gee, I can’t believe it’s almost a month since my last post! Well, a big change and socializing have taken it’s toll on writing blog posts. So, the big change is, that I have gone back into full-time employment. I have made the decision to get more...
22 Jun 2014 | craft-projects, stories-from-my-life
Finally I am finished with my photo album! Yuhuuu, I am so happy that I made it. It took me almost two months, but it was worth doing it. But now I am so ready to do cards again. Today I packed away all the unused cards and pocket pages etc. I still have a fare bit of...
8 Jun 2014 | craft-projects, stories-from-my-life
Three weeks after I said “half way there” I have progressed a lot and I think I have hit the last quarter of photos of the Kimberley trip. It seems to be dragging on forever, but when I just took the photos I noted, that I had done a lot of pages in the...
29 Apr 2014 | craft-projects, stories-from-my-life
Finally after a couple of weeks of painting, sanding and more painting and more sanding I completed my new shelf and its now in its final place next to my sofa chair. I wanted something to keep all the paperwork, books and bits and pieces that I have lying around and...
27 Apr 2014 | craft-projects, stories-from-my-life
That wasn’t very successful! I had actually written this post last week on Easter Monday, but didn’t get around to do the German translation and just simply forgot about it until today! So, here my “belated” post. Happy belated Easter everyone!...
13 Apr 2014 | craft-projects, stories-from-my-life
Or better why wasn’t I thinking? Clearly, I was not thinking when I did my grocery shopping last weekend. I was so in the fruit mood that I purchased a rock melon, a huge water melon, a bag of plums and a bag of grapes. While I do eat quite a far bit of fruit...
6 Apr 2014 | craft-projects, stories-from-my-life
Woohooo I am back! After 5 or was it 6 weeks, I am finally back! I had a very busy time with having a friend from Germany visiting. Because I didn’t take any time off work, I tried to spend a lot of evenings and weekends with Petra. I only had some evenings I...
16 Feb 2014 | craft-projects, stories-from-my-life
Finally, after quite a long wait, the donkeys are loose! On Friday, 7th February 2014 was the official opening of El Mexicano! Since I have been involved a bit with programming the webpage and also creating policies and procedures, work flows and a bit of IT set up...
26 Jan 2014 | stories-from-my-life
When I was at the beach yesterday morning quite early, I think around 7am I had to walk up and down the beach and inspect all the shells that were washed up on the beach. Sometimes there are hardly any like today, but yesterday there were quite a lot. I didn’t...
5 Jan 2014 | stories-from-my-life
Well, its that time of the year again, where you may set yourself some goals you want to reach. A lot of people say, new years resolutions are a “first week January to do list”, but it doesn’t have to be like that. Of course it depends a bit on the...