Project 365: November 2012

Yup, it is that time of the month again where I all show you what I have been up to ;) This will be the first month of my 2nd year of 365.

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01) Vegetable bag
02) Lunch from the Turkish bakery
03) Dinner: Apple-radish salad with halloumi cheese
04) Weekend baking: Lemonies
05) Ramsay on the couch
06) Dinner: Pasta dish
07) Apple pie cookbook
08) Dinner: Eggplant and potato stew
09) The altar in autumn colors
10) Library loot!
11) Dinner: Mac & cheese with broccoli
12) Weekend baking: Vegan Lychee cupcakes
13) Snack review: Apollo
14) The new Abunai! posters arrived!
15) New nail polish
16) Fall decorations
17) Cats everywhere!
18) Mark wearing my panda earmuffs
19) Dinner: Ginger squash peanut soup
20) My foodie penpal package arrived!
21) Dinner: Chili sin carne in pitta
22) Vegetable bag
23) Fatcat is keeping me company
24) Weekend baking: Apple pie
25) My moms pets are having happy hour
26) My moms dog Quincy
27) School day: theme was color
28) Package with stamps from Moosmade
29) Zoe is stealing my sandwich!
30) Dinner: Broccoli fritatta

Well that was it for the month! What have you been up to?

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Project 365: October 2012

I finally did it! I managed to take a picture each day for 1 year! I attempted it twice before and both times I failed because it was too much hassle. But my iPhone in combination with the 365 app changed that. I am so glad I was able to do it! Will I stop with it now? No I will just continue to do this. It is in my system now and it has become my picture dairy really :)

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01) Lunch: Date muffins
02) WIP at school
03) Snail mail in a bottle
04) Dinner: Tomato-bell pepper soup
05) Trying Vitalu Crackers
06) Dinner: Homemade sushi
07) Visiting the carnival
08) Chibi
09) Ramsay eating parsley on the couch
10) Snack review
11) All the lost and found!
12) Stripe
13) Readathon
14) Lunch: Sweet potato hummus on crackers
15) Homework a la Jackson Pollock
16) Owl snail mail
17) Dinner: Cheesy pasta
18) Foodie pen pal package arrived
19) Dinner: Nacho oven dish
20) Dinner: Savoury Stuffed Pittas
21) PinItDoIt: Freezing tomato paste
22) All the cats!
23) Dinner: Fennel Risotto
24) Dinner: Mashpot
25) Lunch: bento
26) Vegetable bag
27) Chibi
28) Snack review
29) Bento: Ghost onigiri
30) School day
31) Dinner: Curried Leek and Apple soup

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Project 365: September 2012

I have been doing this still and I actually have every picture I took on my phone. I just haven't been posting them here. But during the Bloggiesta weekend, I played catch up and there was also a mini challenge that was about making it personal. I was planning to post the photos again and I thought this qualified ;) I am planning to backlog the previous 365 posts in the month they belong. But first I am posting September.

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1) The b-day pressie I got from my mom. It is a trolley that I can carry all my school supplies in
2) Rikku
3) Rikku being lazy
4) A huge art book for school!
5) Writing a snack review
6) Zoey
7) Library Loot
8) Dinner: Chili sin Carne
9) Stripe
10) Lunch: Feta and zucchini muffins
11) A day at school
12) Mid afternoon snack
13) Homework
14) Cats
15) Package from Sakura with scented candles
16) Fun sunday where I couldn't stop laughing
17) Visitors at our vacation home
18) Parrots <3 p="p">19) Besammael as a donkey in the zoo
20) Visiting the petting zoo
21) Lovely smelling paw soap from Lush
22) Rikku
23) Writing a snack review
24) Candlelight <3 p="p">25) Dinner: Potato curry with spinach
26) VIP evening at the Body Shop
27) Pretty flowers <3 p="p">28) Start of Bloggiesta - all the scheduled posts!
29) Cookbooks for the Cookbook Challenge
30) Lunch: Vegetable omelette

Well this was my month with a holiday and school starting again. And as always, lots of reading, cooking and cats ;)

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Project 365: August 2012

My overview for August :)

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1) Dinner: Pasta di lemone
2) Vegetable bag
3) Dinner: Bean and tomato dish
4) Chibi
5) Last Abunai board meeting
6) Chibi
7) Rikku drinking tea
8) New haircut
9) Vegetable bag
10) Dinner: pasta & avocado
11) Abunai work weekend
12) Edwin at Abunai work weekend
13) Stripe
14) Dinner: stuffed pattison
15) Rikku
16) Stripe
17) Enjoying the sun at the balcony
18) Zoey
19) Ben & Jerry's <3 p="p">20) Dinner: Vegan Paella
21) Bento
22) Sleeping cats
23) Preparing for Abunai
24) No entry!
25) Taking pictures of the photographer and cake!
26) Last day at Abunai
27) Having fun while cleaning up
28) Stripe
29) Empty!
30) Roses <3 p="p">31) Cheesecake <3 p="p">

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Project 365: July 2012

My overview for July

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1) Review a facial mask
2) Snack: Peanut butter truffles
3) Snack: Fresh cherries
4) Dinner: Noodles and fried eggplant
5) Flowers <3 p="p">6) Vegetable bag
7) Dinner: veggie burgers
8) Abunai filming day
9) Lunch: Cucumber spread on a sammy
10) Dinner: Pasta dish
11) Snack: vegan chocolate chip cookies
12) Vegetable bag
13) Friends acting silly
14) Abunai promo day in Belgium
15) Snack: Chili corn
16) Vegan lemon poppyseed muffins
17) Dinner: Tofu "meatloaf"
18) Vegetable bag
19) Package day
20) Desserts at American Buffet Corner
21) Dinner: Strawberry risotto
22) Rikku
23) Vegan potato salad
24) Lush newspaper
25) Vegan Sushi
26) Bento
27) Bento
28) M&M's
29) Day at the spa
30) My moms new dog Spikey
31) Sushi <3 p="p">

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Project 365: June 2012

The overview from my month in pictures of June. Silly app thought June has 31 days ;)

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1) Dinner: Couscous salad
2) Dinner: Nom Nom sushi!
3) First time I tried macarons!
4) Dinner: Indian spinach dish (saag)
5) 2 new parfumes
6) Making outfitposts
7) Dinner: Rice bowl
8) 2 new nailpolishes
9) Zoey
10) Sunday Breakfast
11) Mango body mist
12) Received a package
13) Homemade peanut butter
14) Dinner
15) Rikku
16) Edwin at Abunai deco meeting
17) Spiced vanilla body butter
18) Stripe
19) Writing a snack review
20) My last schoolday
21) Vegetable bag
22) Chibi
23) Joining the VeggieChallenge
24) Dinner: potato curry
25) Cake <3 p="p">26) Dinner: Pasta and fennel beans
27) Dinner: Quinoa salad with watermelon
28) Vegetable bag
29) Puff on radiance
30) Zeronic acting silly in the Efteling

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Project 365: May 2012

A bit late again, but here it is - a picture a day for the month May.

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1) Sleeping Stripe
2) Chocolate Chip Cupcakes!
3) Sleeping Chibi
4) Vegetable Bag
5) Lettuce wrap
6) Vegan Friendly Vegetable stew
7) Carrot Cake
8) Cheeky Stripe
9) Library Loot
10) Vegetable bag
11) Zoey drinking my water
12) Chibi
13) My moms dog with coat
14) Flower earrings
15) New clothes
16) Order from the beauty bakery
17) Packing my bag for weekend trip
18) The hotelroom has a bath!
19) Watching an event from our crew
20) Sleeping Rikku
21) Epic couch with cats
22) My BF getting surgery for his arm
23) Market haul
24) Package that I won
25) Wrap
26) Me on a hot summer day
27) Rainbow
28) My favorite products from May
29) The CD I bought at the Acda and the Munnik show
30) The haul from the Body Shop Party
31) Market haul

Lots of cats this month because I didn't made any other pictures that day ;) May was quite eventsful and intense. June is so far no different, therefore there are fewer updates on the blog. I am 7 book reviews behind. Does anyone know of a review-a-thon going on soon? I need one!

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Project 365: April 2012

I know this is extremely late. Normally I post this on the last day of the month. Anyway, here is April in pictures :)

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01) Mexican food for Bloggiesta
02) Boxed cat ;)
03) Pudding is good for your relationship!
04) Sketching at school
05) Library Loot
06) Easy wraps
07) A review package from Sakura Soap
08) Homemade Sushi
09) Hanging out with my friend Immi
10) Spring Nail polish
11) Vegetable bag
12) Quinoa burgers
13) Lazy cats
14) Cozy cat ;)
15) Putting a meme on the Dutch girly blog
16) Broccoli soup
17) Zucchini quiche
18) Bento for school
19) Reviewing China Glaze nailpolish
20) Vegetable bag
21) Readathon
22) Vegetable Pasta
23) Reviewing Sugar scrub from Sakura
24) Making a look with wet and wild make up
25) Nick acting silly with his pink poi
26) Pesto burgers
27) Lazy cat
28) Cat wants to play the game too!
29) My first frappuchino
30) Queensday, hanging out with Immi and Fhant in the local park

Q: Are you doing project 365?

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Project 365: March 2012

It is time for the monthly round up again from my project 365 :) Lot's of food again, how surprising ;)

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1) Vegetable bag
2) New nail polish
3) A new brand of tea
4) Dinner: Crisis Soup
5) Dinner: Tarly Dish
6) Lunch: Bell Pepper Cake
7) Lunch: Bento
8) Cat is going to kill meeee!
9) Vegetable bag
10) Cat picture
11) Snack: Pocky
12) Dinner: Vegan Chili
13) Homemade peanut butter
14) Dinner: Thai Carrot burgers
15) Dinner: Broccoli mashpot
16) Vegetable bag
17) Outfit of the day
18) Breakfast
19) Dinner: Egg Curry with roti
20) Dinner: Take out sushi
21) New shoes!
22) Vegetable bag
23) Nailart
24) Dinner: Salad with apple and radishes
25) Dinner: Broccoli mashpot (again, oops)
26) New haircut!
27) New glitter topper
28) Group order from the Body Shop
29) Lunch: Bento
30) Bloggiesta
31) Won: Beauty package!

Q: What have you been up to last month?

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Project 365: February 2012

Another month is past so it is time for my monthly 365 update. Still going strong :) Oh and yes, my 365 app thinks February has 31 days. I wonder how it is going to respond tomorrow ;)

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1) Strawberry Smoothie
2) Zoey is making a face ;)
3) Vegetable bag
4) Snow
5) New nail polish
6) Shopping loot
7) Candy
8) Snacks for review
9) Dinner: Bean burgers
10) Vegetable bag
11) A surprise package!
12) Edwin building up the Abunai stand at Tsunacon 2012
13) Cleaned out my nightstand
14) Dinner: Black Salsify-avocado salad
15) Choco bananas match my nails ;)
16) A beauty package I won
17) My first Lush Shampoo bar
18) Dinner: Bean burgers (different recipe)
19) Cat picture
20) Dinner: Pizza
21) Breakfast: home made bread with cheese and cucumber
22) Lunch: Bento with sweet potato curry, red lentil falafel and tomatoes
23) Dinner: Sweet cabbage stir fry with noodles
24) Dinner: Sweet potato mash with green cabbage
25) Breakfast: Home made bread with cheese, cucumber and tomatoes
26) DIY: Braided headband
27) Dinner: More bean burgers with tahin-yoghurt sauce
28) Baking: Arretjescake
29) Owl painting

I spend a lot of time indoors and I have been sick quite a few days this month. This resulted in easy meals and lots of indoor pictures from my new beauty stuff. I hope that with spring arriving, my pictures might get more interesting. However, I mostly forget to take pictures when I am outdoors ;)

How was your month?

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Project 365: January 2012

So I am 3 months in and still going strong. I never have been able to be this consistent with the challenge, so I am happy :)

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01) Saying goodbye to the angry owl that hung on the toilet for over a year, because I got a new calendar now.
02) My new addiction: Nail Polish!
03) New Years Leftover bento
04) Dinner: Baked potatoes, broccoli and fish fingers, all from the oven because our stove broke.
05) Testing my new eye shadow
06) Vegetable bag
07) Trying a new color of nail polish
08) Dinner: Pumpkin-Cranberry Risotto (recipe on my other blog: She Likes Bento)
09) For the stash: Cranberry Muffins (recipe on my other blog: She Likes Bento)
10) My first homemade bread from the machine
11) School day, working with clay
12) The kitty also likes the homemade bread ;)
13) Vegetable bag
14) Pretty colors in the sky
15) Dinner: BBQ Tempeh sandwich (recipe on my other blog: She Likes Bento)
16) Lunch: Homemade bread with cheese and egg. 
17) Dinner: Broccoli Soup (recipe on my other blog: She Likes Bento)
18) Veggies from the market
19) Kitty!~
20) Me before going outside, it was cold!
21) Dinner: Takeout Sushi
22) More kitty~
23) My Round Robin booklet came home!
24) Bento
25) School day - one more lesson in clay
26) Boring picture of my clean table
27) Visiting a farm
28) Having fun at the gopher dinner ;)
29) Lunch - Homemade bread with cheese, tomato and cucumber
30) Dinner: Oven dish with nachos, avocado, bell pepper, corn and sour cream (recipe to come)
31) Dinner: Gnocchi with mushroom-cream cheese sauce (recipe to come)

How was your month?

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Project 365: December 2011

My 2nd month of project 365 completed! There are slightly less food pictures towards the end of the year simply because I only made very easy dishes when the busy holidays approached.

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1) Dinner: Sweet Chili Rice with celery and mushrooms.
2) Vegetable bag
3) Sweet Potato Onigiri
4) Belsammael acting silly
5) Dinner: Carrot Lasagna
6) Bento: Chimichurri rice and muffins
7) Cat in the laundry basket
8) Dinner: Creamy leek and spinach pasta
9) Vegetable bag
10) Bento: Falafel, shii take puffs and muffin
11) Dinner: Gnocchi in courgette sauce
12) Dinner: Baked potatoes, bean burgers and coleslaw
13) Bento: Rice and sajoer beans, bean burger, muffin and apple
14) Dinner: Mini broccoli leek quiches
15) Homework assignment
16) Vegetable bag
17) Dinner: Sushi in a restaurant for Fhants b-day
18) Decorated x-mas tree
19) Homework assignment
20) Bento: Gnocchi in courgette sauce, white bean pate, cucumber and muffin
21) Dinner: Mushroom ragout and Turkish bread
22) Started to read the Night Circus (and still not finished, oops)
23) Random cat picture
24) Chocolate for x-mas
25) X-mas kitty
26) Dinner: The leftovers from family x-mas dinner
27) Silly picture of me with an owl hat
28) Loot from shopping day with friends to spend x-mas money
29) View from the balcony
30) Sleeping kitties
31) Dinner: "Gourmetten" with friends

If you are interested in certain recipes, go take a look at the recipe index on my other blog: She Likes Bento. If I liked something enough to make it again, it is probably on there :)

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Project 365: November 2011

Or I should say: my month in food because most pictures that I took are from food. Anyway, I attempted project 365 before, where you take 1 picture every day. But it was too much hassle, getting my camera out and such, decided what to photograph and when I finally went somewhere, I forgot to bring my camera ;) Now there is an project 365 app on the iPhone and I tired again on my 3Gs because I had it with me all the time. It went better, but the 3G couldn't do any night pictures or indoor pictures so that didn't work either. Well now I have a iPhone 4 which makes better pictures (not that great but it is acceptable to me, I tried again in November and guess what?! I managed to take a picture EVERY day in the past month. Soooo even if it is mostly of food, which is the highlight of my mostly indoor days, here are my project pictures for November 2011.

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1) Dinner: Rice with mixed beans
2) Dinner: Homemade vegetarian sushi
3) Breakfast in bed with cat-table
4) Vegetable bag
5) Cookies!
6) DnD Sunday (Dungeons and Dragons with friends)
7) Workshop painting at by Kris
8) Lap-Warmer while watching TV
9) Dinner: Pasta with Quick Tomato Sauce
10) Dinner: Roti with potatoes and beans
11) Vegetable bag
12) Gooood morning to you too!
13) Bomb and tentacle in my shoe from Sinterklaas
14) Dinner: Mushroom Stroganoff
15) Dinner: Quick Lo Mein
16) Lunch: "Beschuitjes" with cheese, tomatoes and rocket lettuce
17) Lunch: Pizza Muffins
18) Vegetable bag
19) Lunch: Kohlrabi Soup
20) Cat demands attention
21) Dinner: Stuffed Pumpkin
22) My bento for school
23) Sick day with cheeky kitty
24) Snack: Cucumber with nori and soy sauce
25) Vegetable bag
26) Dinner: Samosas with cucumber-yoghurt dip
27) Celebrating Sinterklaas with friends - these are the snacks
28) Dinner: Pesto Pasta and Fennel Beans
29) Dinner: Baked potatoes and rutabaga in peanut sauce
30) Dinner: Sunchoke Soup and bread

So how was your month? After seeing this, I wonder if I shouldn't have posted this on my other blog: She Likes Bento. But I used to post my project 365 pictures here before. Speaking of my other blog, if you are curious about some of the above dishes, you will be able to find a recipe for most of them there. Here is a link to the list of recipes on She Likes Bento :)

Don't forget to visit Weekend Cooking if you are interested in anything food related. The posts from all the participants are a great source for new inspiration!

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Project 365 - Thursday - Sunday

Oops I forgot to make a picture on wednesday XD So here is thursday till sunday ^^;



I have discovered a new online game! It is called Molehill Empire and it is about farming. I thought it would be boring at first but it is strangely addicting XD I think it is because it is a game you can play inbetween other things ;)



I made another batch of muffins! Chocolate this time. They turned out really good! I took them with me to the Elf Fantasy fair I attended with Abunai last weekend.



Here are the dishes from the sushi workshop XD We had a shortage on warm water and doing the dishes was therefore a real challenge. Somehow I thought this was a funny sight ;)



I had to do some promotion to lure people in our tent. So when these people here catched quite a crowd, I took the oppertunity to hand out flyers to everyone who took a free lollypop XD This is also the first photo that is actually taken from me and not by me. I am very camera shy and I mostly dont approve of the pictures that are taken from me XD

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Project 365 - Friday till Tuesday

I am still taking pictures ^^ I had a busy weekend and will have a busy week in general as we are preparing Abunai to go to the Elf Fantasy Fair, a big fair in the Netherlands. I thought it is the biggest fantasy fair in Europe, but not completly sure. Anyway on to the project pics!



Zoe on the balcony ^^ All 4 cats were on the balcony actually but this one turned out best ^^



On a walk with my dog we collected from my moms place for the weekend, I saw a bumblebee ^^ I am pretty pleased with this picture!



And here he is: almost 13 years old and having a great time near the water in a forest we went on sunday ^^



A blossoming tree on my way home from drawing course. Too pretty to let that chance slip!



A blooming scrub in someones garden. Made on one of my almost daily walks. I love the spring season!

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Project 365 - Sunday till Wednesday

More project pictures from me :)

On easter sunday I didnt crave eggs but sushi ;) So with some improvised ingredients I did make a badge! It holds sundried tomatoes, mackrel and cream cheese.



On Easter monday I went to an amusementpark with mom, het boyfriend and my boyfriend ;) Who is the nutcase on the rollercoaster?



I received more spring themed mail yesterday ^^ I love getting mail!



And todays picture is a blossoming tree on my way to the social worker.

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Project 365 - Wednesday till Saturday

Another project update ^^



My Rabbit Binky is playing hide and seek behind the couch ;) I love the fact that I finally have a semi decent picture of her. I tried many times before but rabbits are such annoying creatures to photograph. Other then that I really like the both of my rabbits.



An almost full moon ^^ It was much nicer for real though. I am satisfied with my cam, but this was the closest I could get.



Cupcakes!!! This is the first time I made them from scratch and they taste so good!! ^^ I am a bit proud of how the picture turned out as well ^^



And this is what I got in my mail today! A very nice collection of cards and letters from someone from the mail community I am recently active in. The theme was Spring and I have the spring card and the Imagine picture are on my inspirational cardboard ^^

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Project 365 - Sunday till Tuesday

3 more project pictures ^^



I got new small pansy's from Marks parents. They hang on the balcony now and I like them very much ^^



A picture taking on my drawing course. We had to draw a trashcan frist and put all our things in it that we wanted to lose. After that we had to take one feeling out the pile and with that feeling in mind draw a fantasy dragon. I was very frustrated because I still am so tired all the time. So my dragon became very angry. Then you had to switch pictures with your neighbour and add something to the dragon you would think your nieghbour could use. Since I didnt want to gave my dragon away, I took a picture first. So this is the before picture. Of course I gave it away afterwards and I was happy I did so. I also got another paper in the end to draw the rest of the body.



Yesterday I was finally able to do some cooking again. I made Japanese potato salad. It was a recipe I wanted to try for some time but I wasnt able to get Japanese mayonaise. Last sunday I got lucky though ;) And for dinner I made Italian oriented baked rice. It is a recipe I made up myself, and it was quite tasty. On the picture you see the leftovers in a bento, a Japanese lunchbox. It had been a while since I made a bento but today Mark is lucky ;)

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Project 365 - Friday & Saturday

Another pictures taken on a walk in the neighbourhood. These grow every year in front of the apartment I live in.



This is one of my moms cats in the garden. I actually made a whole series from her pets and it was very hard to deceide which one I would use as my project picture.

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Project 365: Monday - Thursday

All spring themed pictures this time :) It had been such a lovely week. Today it is 20 degrees out there and now I want ice cream. It feels like it went from winter to summer in only a few days time.



This is a tree that is standing in front of the building I take my drawing class. I went there for the first time after my sick period. I am still not better and going there was actually really tireing. But I am glad I went because I had fun. And I love drawing!



On tuesday I decorated this easter branch. But since I dont actually celibrate easter I like to call it a spring branch. I am very happy how this picture turned out!



I made these for people from a "real mail" community I am part of. I am going to make some more for myself to decorate the place. But I am still tired easily so I have to be very careful where my spoons go. Still I love doing creative things! So if I have spare spoons, I mostly use them for that. That is why I am not blogging or visit fora as much as I used to do.



More grape hyacinths. They are all over the balcony now ^^ I planted more spring flowers in the fall but it seems that only the grape hyacints have survived the winter. And 2 crocus flowers ;)

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