tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35167816453856734092024-02-08T02:08:41.428+01:00Mich - full of life !Michhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01436749360268397148noreply@blogger.comBlogger397125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516781645385673409.post-68450538948658266572013-01-16T21:54:00.002+01:002013-01-16T21:54:19.997+01:00Kwaaaaaakk <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<em><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Tonight I'm sleeping in Nürnberg, Germany, and look who was waiting for me over there !! Boy, did we have fun, isn't he cute? ;-)</span></em>Michhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01436749360268397148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516781645385673409.post-66462358743830521802013-01-04T16:17:00.002+01:002013-01-04T16:17:31.963+01:00Gocart<div>
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<em><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia;">Last week I was on a little shopping tour in Holland, and suddenly in a window was "the biggest puzzle in the world" ... And what is biggest !!! The puzzle contains 32.256 pieces, and when made it is 5,44 meters by 1,92 meters !!!! You can wonder where you are going to spread out a piece like that. It's the size of 2 garage ports !!! The picture that they used, was originally made by Keith Haring. The whole puzzle weighs 17 kg and when delivered it comes with a little wagon to transport it ;-) </span></em><br />
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<em><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Here under is a scrapbooking page that I made a while ago where you see me in my go-cart, which I drove a lot when I was little ... Good old times !!</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Hi guys, anybody still there, reading me ??? </span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Well, it has been way too silent over here, but much has happended and a lot of work has come my way the last couple of months. But I'll tell you about that later, everything at its time. </span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">For now I can only say that I really try to make some more "me-time", and so this means try to make some more time for scrapbooking and updating this blog again. I really feel for it again !!</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Yesterday morning I got a text message from my ex-boyfriend from long ago, who is a pilot, asking if I was by accident in Göteborg that night, as he was landing there. The coincidence was that I was in Brussels on my way to Göteborg, so he was actually flying the flight I was on. </span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I hadn't heared him in a couple of years, and then by accident he texts me and he is flying my flight. How big these chances can be? I believe in providence, and this is what I call really providence !! </span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Then we called and when I said that I was on his flight, he thought I was joking and didn't even believe me ;-)) </span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Afterwards we went out for a drink together and it was nice to catch up after 5 years or so, we last met. </span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">11 years already I fly several times per months between Brussels and Göteborg, and it was only the first time that he was "my" pilot. Last time we were flying together, about 16 years ago, was not in a big Airbus, but in a little Cessna, just the 2 of us, so a little bit less people than this time ;-))</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I still have some older scrapbookpages to show to you ... This one is from about a year ago, with little Mich playing in the garden of my grandmother. I have kept the page very simple as I really like the distinct colours to speak for itself. </span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Enjoy your evening, everybody !!!</span></em></div>
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Michhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01436749360268397148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516781645385673409.post-52391352920875648872012-02-20T19:29:00.000+01:002012-02-20T20:09:07.119+01:00Op wandel<em><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#666600;">Hello all from my hotel room in Stuttgart !! I have had a long traveling day today, due to stricking personel at the airport of Frankfurt which made that my connecting flight was cancelled and I had to take the train to my final destination instead, after a couple of hours of waiting first !!</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">But a good meeting (some hours later than expected ;-)) made up for all that. So now I'm at my hotel room, and instead of working away many mails tonight, I have given myself a free night, and I will have some fun with my laptop instead ! Every now and then you have to spoil myself. </span></em><br /><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">Tomorrow I will fly to Sweden, but not passing by Frankfurt, so normally I should not have problems to come home !</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">Here under a layout with some pictures from when I was about age 10, on a walk with my mum and dad. Funny to see the clothes we were wearing at that time and the haircuts we had ;-))</span></em><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z6o_XECyF4Q/TC3b1qraSUI/AAAAAAAABQM/hjW1BkGoASQ/s1600/Op+wandel.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5489285235870419266" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 399px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z6o_XECyF4Q/TC3b1qraSUI/AAAAAAAABQM/hjW1BkGoASQ/s400/Op+wandel.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div></div>Michhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01436749360268397148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516781645385673409.post-29108935889625370112012-02-13T17:30:00.003+01:002012-02-13T21:39:27.009+01:00Geraldine<div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#666600;">Hello all, I hope you are all doing fine !! Here all is well - again - I have to say, as I have been ill the whole last week. Not too bad, I have worked from home, but I was really tired in the evening anyway, and I did work in a slower way than usually. But now it's getting all better. I hope illness is far away from you all !!</span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">I have today a layout for you with a picture from my niece when she was about 4 years old. She was an adorable little girl with blond curly hair. Today she's 31 in the meantime ;-))</span></em><br /><br /></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">I wanted to make a playfull layout, in the colours of her dress. It's not totally my normal style but I kind of like it anyway.</span></em><br /><br /></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">Have a nice week ! And for those who celebrate it, have a nice Valentine's day tomorrow. And if you are not celebrating it, you get a big hug from me anyway !!</span></em></div><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z6o_XECyF4Q/TCwoX65u7fI/AAAAAAAABQE/yFeCR9VNcBE/s1600/Geraldine.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488806437271301618" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 393px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z6o_XECyF4Q/TCwoX65u7fI/AAAAAAAABQE/yFeCR9VNcBE/s400/Geraldine.JPG" border="0" /></a>Michhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01436749360268397148noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516781645385673409.post-19296039316606612262012-02-01T22:32:00.000+01:002012-02-01T22:39:19.005+01:00In dreams<em><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#666600;">Hi guys, are you doing well? </span></em><br /><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">Well, I'm in London for the moment. Normally I'm here about 2 days a month, but since I will soon start to work on a temporarily project in Germany, it will now take about 6 months before I will be here next time. </span></em><br /><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">So today and tomorrow after work, it's time to buy a big stock of stuff that I like ... elderberry tea from Marks & Spencer, cheese with ginger and with cranberry, cookies, a number of the Jamie Oliver magazine, etc etc etc ... </span></em><br /><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">And tomorrow night, when sleeping in the neighborhood of Covent Garden, I will treat myself to a night of shopping, knowing that I will spent some hours in those superbig bookshops that they are having in that neighborhood. I'm already looking forward to it ... </span></em><br /><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">Underneath I have a scrapbooking page with again a picture from my mum in her younger days. Her hair was really a piece of art !! </span></em><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Z6o_XECyF4Q/TCo8l7IBwRI/AAAAAAAABP8/7HO8xEZ8P5E/s1600/In+dreamsjpeg.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488265718128558354" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 397px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Z6o_XECyF4Q/TCo8l7IBwRI/AAAAAAAABP8/7HO8xEZ8P5E/s400/In+dreamsjpeg.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div></div>Michhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01436749360268397148noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516781645385673409.post-53517690315887810682012-01-23T16:05:00.000+01:002012-01-23T16:13:06.759+01:00The new barbershop in town<div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#666600;">And so time goes by ... Not too much new to tell for the moment, but I can say that finally today my kitchen is finished after the water problems I had in the kitchen now more than 2 months ago. So this evening I will start to reorganize in the kitchen and put all stuff back at it's place. Joehoe, I'm so happy !!!</span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">So I hope when this is done, that I will also have some time to make some space in my scrapbooking room and then I can start to do some more scrapbooking. It has been itching really hard to do so, but there are always a lot of other things I need to do first unfortunately. But now so, hopefully soon !!!</span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">In the meantime I have for you a scrapbooking page that I made a while ago, from my mother in the new hairdressers shop of my father, when they were both still very young.</span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">Enjoy a nice week !</span></em></div><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z6o_XECyF4Q/TChmFLrF1rI/AAAAAAAABP0/TVuMI9O_MNo/s1600/Barbertshop+JPEG.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487748385169856178" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 398px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z6o_XECyF4Q/TChmFLrF1rI/AAAAAAAABP0/TVuMI9O_MNo/s400/Barbertshop+JPEG.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div></div>Michhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01436749360268397148noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516781645385673409.post-73612737490982872572012-01-15T21:56:00.000+01:002012-01-15T22:19:28.463+01:00A day at the seaside<div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#666600;">How strange ... after almost 6 weeks, I have put foot on Swedish ground again ;-)) </span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">And I'm being spoiled. No foreign trips, so I have the real luxery of being 3 complete nights at home !! That doesn't happen too often. </span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">On Tuesday they come over to my house to do the last part of the reparation of my kitchen. At least, I hope it's the last part, and I really cross my fingers that I will be able to use my kitchen on Tuesday night. </span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">The layout here under I made a while ago, and you see my mother, father and a friend of them, when all of them were at the age of around 22 years young. Old pictures thus, but I do love them sooooooooo much ... </span></em></div><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Z6o_XECyF4Q/TChkKxKkBPI/AAAAAAAABPs/mV2htmCsYhQ/s1600/Dagje+aan+zee+JPEG.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487746282110059762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 398px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Z6o_XECyF4Q/TChkKxKkBPI/AAAAAAAABPs/mV2htmCsYhQ/s400/Dagje+aan+zee+JPEG.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div></div>Michhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01436749360268397148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516781645385673409.post-66872117988950389522012-01-03T11:30:00.002+01:002012-01-03T11:53:34.546+01:00Storm here in Belgium<div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;">Goodmorning from a stormy Belgium !!! You really need to hang on thight or the wind will blow you away ;-))</span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;">Today it's the day that the discount bargains started in town, so this morning I did some shopping. Ready in an hour as I looked already what I needed last week, so this morning I just needed to go to the shop and get it. I don't like big crowds, so that's my way to avoid it !!</span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;">This afternoon, I will go to a shop where they are having the most fantastic needlecrafts work. Also over there they are having bargains because they are going to move their store. I hope I can find some cute stuff over there. And I'm happy that they will move their shop as we always have to make it a special trip now, whilst they are now moving to the "big" town where I live.</span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;">Last summer the sister-in-law from my best friend was getting married, and therefor my best friend asked me if I could make a card. Normally I don't like making things for other people as I have already enough cards and scrapbooking to make for myself, but of course, my best friend I wanted to do a favour. Since I have known here already 22 years, it was easy to make something that I knew would please here.</span></em></div><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6qm-p7yIOIvtF67ndww0MtnCkoViSHbSpGbzB-HnAcvDryBCVoJxvHiyxolm4M6dvZo1-0QVujLjmt5zmU9uotGZhYMOX4O3XTUq9C83mmoY_Lk6BMtDNZmAgqFntOEJbZYIWR8ESVx3U/s1600/100620+-+Trouwkaartje+schoonzus+Valle+1.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 399px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484878791703033874" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6qm-p7yIOIvtF67ndww0MtnCkoViSHbSpGbzB-HnAcvDryBCVoJxvHiyxolm4M6dvZo1-0QVujLjmt5zmU9uotGZhYMOX4O3XTUq9C83mmoY_Lk6BMtDNZmAgqFntOEJbZYIWR8ESVx3U/s400/100620+-+Trouwkaartje+schoonzus+Valle+1.JPG" /></a>Michhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01436749360268397148noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516781645385673409.post-3526407276479799012011-12-29T12:32:00.013+01:002011-12-29T14:09:03.910+01:00Happy birthday to myself and celebrating my best friend's new home<div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;">Today is my birthday and tonight I will go to my best friend who will cook for me, my parents and my friend. </span></em><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;">But we are at that moment not only celebrating my birthday but will also be celebrating the fact that my best friend is living in a new house. Somewhat more than a year ago, she bought the house and did lots of changes on it, so by now it is representable (but not finished as that always is the case with renovations ;-)) My parents and friend have not seen the house yet in its new state, so I guess that they are pretty curious.</span></em><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;">I made her this little card here under, a "welcome-in-your-new-home-card", that she will later on be able to use as a bookmark. Oh, and yes, good news, I finally changed the scanning program on my mother's computer, so now I can show you good pictures again ... </span></em><br /><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 178px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5691512373368881234" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJQ-qqoAr5M7tqaM4pisPip7d9zInKAdXzC0rDyBTZTeJOUCGjsISAMBqnb8EXzXvVmrSxUezYsP6DwG8_QRCxLmB56e4yzpPxfDAQYV9WBknrQi67XQc1cnpCcxwaGMhUJDidfuAYR7n1/s400/scannen0001.jpg" /></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;">And of course here moving into a new house also asked for some presents. I made her this "painting" to hang on little cards and other notes. To be honoust, I was so happy with the result that I almost want to keep it for myself !!! </span></em></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="justify"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lZGbk58duBs/TvxQQYKVhZI/AAAAAAAABZI/n4QojW1SMOI/s1600/DSC_0504.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5691512271383397778" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lZGbk58duBs/TvxQQYKVhZI/AAAAAAAABZI/n4QojW1SMOI/s400/DSC_0504.JPG" /></a><br /><em><span style="color:#666600;">Here under you also see a close-up of the "painting". She has a country style in her new home so I think that this will fit well in her house. </span></em><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoUgYWenFdtsXul-yQtrSCTiHyA0qPnvh8jWfkZxYM3bZJiCdW1g6J8o0Gsb1BigI2o2-qaAPqL9wdZR7Q67XJEp2fthd3tQm6uCCWL5NSiBeW3vnyG-vc3hAxe9Cjcie1g9pNHagNlA96/s1600/DSC_0505.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5691512166385974690" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoUgYWenFdtsXul-yQtrSCTiHyA0qPnvh8jWfkZxYM3bZJiCdW1g6J8o0Gsb1BigI2o2-qaAPqL9wdZR7Q67XJEp2fthd3tQm6uCCWL5NSiBeW3vnyG-vc3hAxe9Cjcie1g9pNHagNlA96/s400/DSC_0505.JPG" /></a><br /><em><span style="color:#666600;">The second present I made for her, was this doorstop, also in the same style ... </span></em><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="justify"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-B7dv-nYjduM/TvxQEmRZGwI/AAAAAAAABYw/7DHcUJ6_DaE/s1600/DSC_0506.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5691512069012658946" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-B7dv-nYjduM/TvxQEmRZGwI/AAAAAAAABYw/7DHcUJ6_DaE/s400/DSC_0506.JPG" /></a><br /><em><span style="color:#666600;">And also a close-up of this one ... </span></em><br /><br /><br /><div align="justify"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yY98Y-FeE3o/TvxP_BmBjgI/AAAAAAAABYk/sWbF2HbB_ZU/s1600/DSC_0507.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5691511973267738114" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yY98Y-FeE3o/TvxP_BmBjgI/AAAAAAAABYk/sWbF2HbB_ZU/s400/DSC_0507.JPG" /></a><em><span style="color:#666600;">I hope that most of you also still are having some days off, so enjoy some nice holidays !!</span></em></div></div></div></div>Michhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01436749360268397148noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516781645385673409.post-72791138836834416422011-12-28T20:15:00.005+01:002011-12-28T20:19:46.350+01:00Moelleux<em><span style="color:#666600;">Tonight I amused myself with some quick scrapbooking. I made another page in my cookery book, this time of one of my favorite desserts, being moelleux or a soft chocolate pudding !!! Mmmm, I adore it !!! Just a pity I don't have one right now ;-((</span></em><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ITGf9OgEx0w/Tvtq4m7pNcI/AAAAAAAABYM/d4PyfalWvfM/s1600/Warme%2Bchocoladepuddinkjes.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 256px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5691260074868684226" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ITGf9OgEx0w/Tvtq4m7pNcI/AAAAAAAABYM/d4PyfalWvfM/s400/Warme%2Bchocoladepuddinkjes.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div></div>Michhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01436749360268397148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516781645385673409.post-62561178614864798202011-12-25T16:14:00.004+01:002011-12-25T16:23:59.430+01:00Ready next year ???<div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;">A long time again since I dropped in to write something !!! I'm now having holidays, and still as much to do as when I'm working !!! Where is that time going by !!!</span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;">A couple of times per week however, I try to spend some hours cross stitching in the evening, as this really relaxes me a lot. About 2 years ago, I started to work on this X-mas work and yesterday, I finished a big part. </span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;">I have now started the smaller part underneath the work and then still have to do a bigger part on top, before it will be ready. I'm always an optimist, so I hope to have it ready by next X-mas ;-))</span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;">And then I have 2 more of those X-mas cross stitching sceneries left !!!! Wish me luck !!</span></em></div><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bVAL7FwNgcM/Tvc-hjrKkbI/AAAAAAAABYA/l7e8-hFtMVQ/s1600/foto.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 299px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5690085400438804914" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bVAL7FwNgcM/Tvc-hjrKkbI/AAAAAAAABYA/l7e8-hFtMVQ/s400/foto.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cKr8G0utnq8/Tvc-P9Ork-I/AAAAAAAABX0/9lbWwIS10_Y/s1600/foto.JPG"></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div>Michhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01436749360268397148noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516781645385673409.post-33150936563764863062011-12-07T16:22:00.002+01:002011-12-07T16:33:07.725+01:00Mother's retirement and fathers day<div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#666600;">So, right now at this moment, it was the last working day of my mother. Such a very strange feeling !! But she went into the city now with some colleagues, or should I say ex-colleagues to go and eat something and celebrate. </span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">Friday afternoon, there will be a celebration at her work also, with all people from her division at work, and I'm also invited, although I will also be there as the photographer. I'm happy that I can hide behind my camera, because I think it will be difficult for me to keep my eyes "water-free" when they will start to speech ... </span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">Friday evening, my mum and dad and I will then go and eat something together, and then we will hand over her card and present. </span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">And on Saturday I have planned a surprise diner for some people at home without my mum knowing about it. </span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">So you see, a lot of celebrating this weekend for us !!! Perhaps I post some pictures later on also ... </span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">In the meantime, hereunder the fatherdays card that I made some months ago in June, when we celibrated fathersday. It cannot always be the mothers we are celebrating of course ;-))</span></em></div><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z6o_XECyF4Q/TA05SfsuqdI/AAAAAAAABNU/Cx5LEGgydaQ/s1600/100613+-+Vaderkesdag.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480099311489296850" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 394px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z6o_XECyF4Q/TA05SfsuqdI/AAAAAAAABNU/Cx5LEGgydaQ/s400/100613+-+Vaderkesdag.JPG" border="0" /></a>Michhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01436749360268397148noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516781645385673409.post-12805038324451628472011-12-05T21:14:00.008+01:002011-12-05T21:28:38.829+01:00Retirement card for my mum<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em><span style="color:#666600;"></span>My mum has to work 2 more days, this week, and then she will be retired !! So therefor of course, I needed to make a card for her. </span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;">Totally different colours from what I normally use and what I had in mind, but I thought the Duck picture fitted so well for a retirement card, that I based myself on those colours. And in the end, I'm quit happy from the result. </span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;">Inside I have made it simple, with just a tag with information for mum that she will receive money to buy a new television. And the money I will also put inside the card. I hope that she will be happy, both with the card, and the new television !!</span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;">Strange that my mum will retire now, time goes so fast !! </span></em></div><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_w7lvMSkpx0/Tt0nh7P26-I/AAAAAAAABXo/zRvM2zIc9kE/s1600/foto%255B1%255D.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5682741768604806114" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 299px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_w7lvMSkpx0/Tt0nh7P26-I/AAAAAAAABXo/zRvM2zIc9kE/s400/foto%255B1%255D.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwulW1aOO9G0UQ_a7f9Lv-TyUtTO9_nfcE97z3XgwKkBXZkLrJrNz42jOatAJoDt7I6kL8iHdu4gXXfPHE7QhSX-vJtcNp09-SYlht9fXEqA0ZFeVyquvc0bYiFDHzWsk2AkxB4ghEwhNN/s1600/foto%255B2%255D.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5682741566687047826" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 299px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwulW1aOO9G0UQ_a7f9Lv-TyUtTO9_nfcE97z3XgwKkBXZkLrJrNz42jOatAJoDt7I6kL8iHdu4gXXfPHE7QhSX-vJtcNp09-SYlht9fXEqA0ZFeVyquvc0bYiFDHzWsk2AkxB4ghEwhNN/s400/foto%255B2%255D.JPG" border="0" /></a>Michhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01436749360268397148noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516781645385673409.post-52654021527216783522011-11-27T16:56:00.001+01:002011-11-27T17:06:08.700+01:00My mum surprised me !!!<div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#666600;">It is now a year of 4-5 that I'm busy scrapbooking, and I know that my mum was always my biggest fan, when she watched me busy scrapbooking and looking very attentively when layouts were finished. I know she, just like me, likes all kind of handycrafts a lot. </span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">And about a year ago, she surprised me with the 2 layouts here under. Without telling me, she also started to do some scrapbooking. In the meantime she has made many already, but these were the 2 first once coming from her hand. </span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">She is now scrapbooking her old pictures, and I really like it, because on many of them, I see people that I don't know, or she has stories to tell that I have never heard before, and this way, I feel she is slowely making a real heritage for me. Thanks mum ;-))</span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z6o_XECyF4Q/TAvTfY_AF6I/AAAAAAAABNM/ANY67wljZe4/s1600/GetAttachment%5B2%5D.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479705907862443938" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 399px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z6o_XECyF4Q/TAvTfY_AF6I/AAAAAAAABNM/ANY67wljZe4/s400/GetAttachment%5B2%5D.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z6o_XECyF4Q/TAvTWKRi-bI/AAAAAAAABNE/l578Ck5j98U/s1600/GetAttachment%5B1%5D.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479705749294873010" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 392px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z6o_XECyF4Q/TAvTWKRi-bI/AAAAAAAABNE/l578Ck5j98U/s400/GetAttachment%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div>Michhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01436749360268397148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516781645385673409.post-21543698645775475632011-11-19T14:37:00.003+01:002011-11-19T14:41:55.510+01:00Peppers pie<div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;">I have hundreds of cookbooks, and I'm always hunting for new recipes in magazines or whereever I can lay my hand on them. </span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;">Of course, all those loose pieces of paper, I want to save somewhere, so that was the start of my scrapbooking cookbook. </span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;">Everytime I make a recipy that is worth eating again, I make a scrapbooking page of it, and so my scrapbooking cookbook gets thicker and thicker. </span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;">This is a peppers pie that I had been eating for lunch, and the recipy deserved to join in my cookbook ;-))</span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzkbVShtL392p3nsh_JNi3YPSSTnDb-wQvFC_lHqekjgM5VkanmWbcozzPe51qvxkE5NvhOhwCacGI0L7Dr6gOZwd1FrK_VrSmhTa5ZSIVvAvpG6DwxWg23gIRVFktWBk1zRn_sgYwdAhE/s1600/Provencaalse+quiche.jpeg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 370px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676700732624913234" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzkbVShtL392p3nsh_JNi3YPSSTnDb-wQvFC_lHqekjgM5VkanmWbcozzPe51qvxkE5NvhOhwCacGI0L7Dr6gOZwd1FrK_VrSmhTa5ZSIVvAvpG6DwxWg23gIRVFktWBk1zRn_sgYwdAhE/s400/Provencaalse+quiche.jpeg" /></a><br /><br /><div></div>Michhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01436749360268397148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516781645385673409.post-55343386544253963832011-11-14T15:57:00.004+01:002011-11-14T16:04:14.560+01:00Cookouts<div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#666600;">Everytime I'm in London and I have some time, I try to find some new vegetarian cookbooks, or preferably even vegan cookbooks, as they are very often difficult to find in Belgium.</span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">Last week I had some time to walk around in Windsor, where I also have my favorit little bookshop. Normally they don't have so many vegetarian books on the shelves but it looked like they made a real investment now, and I could find 2 complete shelves of those books their this time. </span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">And of course I could not leave the shop empty-handed. So this is what I bought this time : Cookouts, veggie style !! </span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L7om66fkA4Q/TsEsaDdZfiI/AAAAAAAABWU/936vSdRnTyg/s1600/27%255B1%255D.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5674865831580368418" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 340px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L7om66fkA4Q/TsEsaDdZfiI/AAAAAAAABWU/936vSdRnTyg/s400/27%255B1%255D.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">In the many years being vegetarian, I have of course already gathered many vegetarian BBQ recipes, but this book really attracted for the many not so known and a bit different recipes. </span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">I know, we are heading towards wintertime now, and probably the book will not be used so often the next coming months, but I'm sure he will come in handy when May is coming again ... </span></em></div>Michhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01436749360268397148noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516781645385673409.post-76261935177721812512011-11-11T07:49:00.004+01:002011-11-11T08:18:11.395+01:00Breakfast at Tiffany's ... euhhhh ... London<div align="justify"><em>I'm in London today, and I always find it a delight to eat a real English (vegetarian ;-)) breakfast. </em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em>Look what I had on my plate half an hour ago ... doesn't it look really good? </em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em>At least it will keep me going for a big part of the day ... Good that I don't eat this every </em><em>d</em><em>ay ;-))</em> </div><br /><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><br /></div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QKGPhrLkI9E/TrzFufXQfhI/AAAAAAAABV8/EYGmlVBUS6Q/s1600/1.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5673627033063685650" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QKGPhrLkI9E/TrzFufXQfhI/AAAAAAAABV8/EYGmlVBUS6Q/s400/1.JPG" border="0" /></a>Michhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01436749360268397148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516781645385673409.post-10252715488138109242011-11-10T20:37:00.000+01:002011-11-10T21:31:24.203+01:00Fotoshoot<div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#666600;">Good evening all, </span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">I hope you are all feeling well. Are you also still having so lovely weather for this period of time? I have been in Belgium, Germany and now in London, and everywhere it is springtime instead of temperatures under 0 degrees Celcius ;-))</span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">Having worked a lot this week, I'm now having a lazy evening, and I'm just watching some tv in my hotel, and play a little with my laptop ... Last working day tomorrow, and then off on a nice weekend ! </span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">Here under a layout with pictures from my mum when she was just a young girl ... Really 60's pictures, aren't they so nice? Enjoy it, and in the meantime, I also want to wish you a nice weekend !</span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Z6o_XECyF4Q/TAFC6rmbBaI/AAAAAAAABMc/D6Qel_iojOo/s1600/Fotoshoot.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476732197762958754" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 397px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Z6o_XECyF4Q/TAFC6rmbBaI/AAAAAAAABMc/D6Qel_iojOo/s400/Fotoshoot.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div></div>Michhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01436749360268397148noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516781645385673409.post-88679033364255169482011-10-31T09:44:00.000+01:002011-10-31T10:28:55.813+01:00Gent<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#666600;"><em>Long time no see again !! What can I say other than that time has been passing by very fast again. Busy working weeks always at work with lots of traveling, and never enough time to do some scrapbooking, unfortunately. </em></span><br /><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">But this week, I'm looking forward to the scrapbooking fair in Utrecht, Holland this week. I have especially taken a day of holidays on Friday, so my mum and I will go over there, and look at all the lovely paper and other stuff. I'm sure it will not only be looking in the end, but also a lot of nice stuff that we will buy ;-))</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">We will then sleep over there, and on Saturdaymorning, I will take my mother for a long walk in the area above Utrecht, at the river Vecht, which I really adore. I was there a couple of months ago for work, and noticed that the area and nature over there are just beautiful. I had to stay there a day longer, to enjoy it again !!</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">And on Saturday afternoon, I will show my mum a really big scrapbooking shop which is not so far from there either, as if we will not have seen enough scrapbooking supplies already the day before at the fair ;-)) </span></em><br /><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">So you understand that I'm really looking forward to the end of the week !!! </span></em><br /><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">For now, I wanted to show you a simple layout about Gent, my hometown with pictures taken a year before I was born. Just a simple layout, but I wanted to let the layout speak with colours ... </span></em><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z6o_XECyF4Q/S_1sWs0WhMI/AAAAAAAABMU/c9k5NJLMUpY/s1600/Gent.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475651859196052674" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 395px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z6o_XECyF4Q/S_1sWs0WhMI/AAAAAAAABMU/c9k5NJLMUpY/s400/Gent.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div></div>Michhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01436749360268397148noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516781645385673409.post-17095951700132057102011-10-17T20:33:00.000+02:002011-10-17T20:35:55.371+02:00Kasteel van Laarne *** Castle of Laarne<div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#666600;">Hi there !!! Don't you also like the autumn just like me? I'm spoiling myself with an early night in bed. I already went in at 8 o'clock, putting on a nice music, laptop switched on, and just doing all and nothing, really relaxed. I love it !!! This is really a thing to do right now, this cocooning, when it's getting cold outside, and it's so nice to curl up in a warm bed !!</span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">In the scrapbooking page from today, some pictures from a castle close to my hometown. The city of Laarne is know for its witches, so this period of time, they are preparing for a fun time, with Halloween coming along soon.</span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">These pictures have already been taken by my mother in 1969, but if you go there today, I'm sure that you can take exactly the same pictures as more than 40 years ago ;-))</span></em></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI9cKvrDJ7lQ4TtIi43W0Pr1R8Wi3fhNGRYeu-KDFTk92zjpNXrIoS7LHuzmcxBPJYtmpdTrQdMP-bzP-ESQL-uep7R501666igXR29zBFey-SvhN4nAzrQZGFudjMZ33RK1wbNXbGWLw_/s1600/Kasteel+van+Laarne.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475651443480090178" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 397px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI9cKvrDJ7lQ4TtIi43W0Pr1R8Wi3fhNGRYeu-KDFTk92zjpNXrIoS7LHuzmcxBPJYtmpdTrQdMP-bzP-ESQL-uep7R501666igXR29zBFey-SvhN4nAzrQZGFudjMZ33RK1wbNXbGWLw_/s400/Kasteel+van+Laarne.JPG" border="0" /></a>Michhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01436749360268397148noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516781645385673409.post-69660417934695025282011-10-12T20:42:00.000+02:002011-10-12T21:43:18.280+02:00Kapperswedstrijd - Hair dressers contest<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><em><span style="color:#666600;">Good evening everybody,</span></em></span></span></div><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><em><span style="color:#666600;"></span></em></span></span></div><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><em><span style="color:#666600;">I hope you are all doing well !! Tonight it has been more than four weeks since I was home in my house last time, so I'm enjoying a quit night. Really great !! </span></em></span></span></div><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><em><span style="color:#666600;"></span></em></span></span></div><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><em><span style="color:#666600;">I started working again after holidays on Monday, and have been in the company of a very nice bunch of French people, so I had a good time with them.</span></em></span></span></div><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><em><span style="color:#666600;"></span></em></span></span></div><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><em><span style="color:#666600;">I'm still entertaining them tomorrow morning and then I will be off to Sevilla, from 9 degrees over here in Sweden, to 34 degrees in Spain !! Quit a change ;-))</span></em></span></span></div><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><em><span style="color:#666600;"></span></em></span></span></div><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><em><span style="color:#666600;">Unfortunately connections are not so good, so it will take me 10 hours and 3 flights before I will be at my hotel tomorrow. Wish me luck !!</span></em></span></span></div><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><em><span style="color:#666600;"></span></em></span></span></div><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><em><span style="color:#666600;">Here under I wanted to show you a scrapbooking page that I made some time ago, where you can again see my father in a hair dressers contest. Enjoy it !</span></em></div></span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Z6o_XECyF4Q/S_GOV8IW-PI/AAAAAAAABME/FHDQIurGgSg/s1600/Kapperswedstrijd.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472311529801447666" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 395px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Z6o_XECyF4Q/S_GOV8IW-PI/AAAAAAAABME/FHDQIurGgSg/s400/Kapperswedstrijd.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div></div>Michhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01436749360268397148noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516781645385673409.post-36568046097998958282011-10-09T11:50:00.001+02:002011-10-09T12:25:54.425+02:00Fier - Proud<div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;">Today is the last day of my 3 weeks holiday, and it's raining cats and dogs. But I don't mind ... it has been a rather hectic holiday with a travel to Rome followed by a travel to London, and also lots of day trips in between. So it's nice today, to have a relaxing day at home to just wander around and do the stuff I like to do.</span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;">And since it's raining so much outside, it's just the perfect excuse to make pancakes this afternoon, don't you think? ;-))</span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;">Tomorrow, I will start working again, and it starts again with 4 days of traveling. Tomorrow afternoon, I will leave for Sweden but I will not go home. Instead I will spend my time with about 12 frenchmen that I will show around in 4 of our factories, all in the south of Sweden. </span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;">Then on Thursday afternoon, I will travel to Sevilla. Not such a pleasant travel, because connections from Gothenburg are not that good, so it will take me 3 airplanes, before I will arrive. Pfffff !!! </span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;">Friday morning then meeting in Sevilla, and then back to Brussels for another weekend over there. </span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;">In the meantime, I have for you a scrapbooking page which I made last year but didn't show yet. It's pictures of my pride father, having his first own hairdressers saloon at the age of 22. Next year he will retire, still as a hair dresser and still at the same place where he started 42 years ago !!</span></em></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVCpT1EmYvLbIeMK-KaA7KzrGu__O8-H5sPODy33RgyuX7u4F-_jlvagKMPPFvvAF9Tk7aPg5KVGvy3iM4Dziwa5WCpQvDBaaWjf57vOTY4v5qY7TCsYZreldDQ960gnOegJxhPewZyBIU/s1600/Fier+1.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 398px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471757090921856002" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVCpT1EmYvLbIeMK-KaA7KzrGu__O8-H5sPODy33RgyuX7u4F-_jlvagKMPPFvvAF9Tk7aPg5KVGvy3iM4Dziwa5WCpQvDBaaWjf57vOTY4v5qY7TCsYZreldDQ960gnOegJxhPewZyBIU/s400/Fier+1.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzPN0dhse1cP0O5ekzs2qX0Vr6M2pgwc_-0U9PQ1zNeg2d4eizum3_B0NVWzvJQae4Pv0KJp-2GcErhRY4v1elom-CeSzUq_ulTDJruX8ryzC4UZtT2RhAZ70Ac3fcrmUz1nVTwxRyi8JF/s1600/Fier+2.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 396px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471756878812701010" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzPN0dhse1cP0O5ekzs2qX0Vr6M2pgwc_-0U9PQ1zNeg2d4eizum3_B0NVWzvJQae4Pv0KJp-2GcErhRY4v1elom-CeSzUq_ulTDJruX8ryzC4UZtT2RhAZ70Ac3fcrmUz1nVTwxRyi8JF/s400/Fier+2.JPG" /></a> <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z6o_XECyF4Q/S--VyWh5vrI/AAAAAAAABLs/CF5WUBEECzQ/s1600/Fier+3.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 380px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471756764552216242" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z6o_XECyF4Q/S--VyWh5vrI/AAAAAAAABLs/CF5WUBEECzQ/s400/Fier+3.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div></div>Michhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01436749360268397148noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516781645385673409.post-33780014763145956092011-10-03T11:23:00.003+02:002011-10-03T11:29:47.364+02:00Back in town<div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;">Long time no see !! It has been very busy for me !! I have worked really hard, almost day and night, during August and September. And so I deserved some holidays, I found !!</span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;">So the last 2 weeks, I have enjoyed some free time, but even there, it has been quit busy. I have been 5 days in Rome with a friend, and then last week 3 days in London for my mother's 65 years birthday. </span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;">Today I'm allowing myself a lazy day, and I took some time to do some scrapbooking. Oh, what a long time ago since I scrapbooked last time !!! </span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;">I'm busy making a "scrapbooking cookery book" so today I made a new page with the recipy for "eierpannenkoeken", in English you could discribe it as egg pancakes, a quicker version of a normal pancake, you could say.</span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;">I'm working at my mother's place with a not so good scanning program so unfortunately the picture doesn't give a too good image of what I have been scrapbooking, but I hope it gives you at least an idea.</span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;"></span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="color:#666600;">I hope you can also enjoy some free time and have some fun with your projects !!</span></em></div><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JjmPNWpaJOE/Tol_HXlXrzI/AAAAAAAABT8/65yJWlUnNzg/s1600/Kookboek%2B-%2BEierpannenkoeken.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 395px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5659194171334307634" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JjmPNWpaJOE/Tol_HXlXrzI/AAAAAAAABT8/65yJWlUnNzg/s400/Kookboek%2B-%2BEierpannenkoeken.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div></div>Michhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01436749360268397148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516781645385673409.post-37791203649330521662011-08-14T20:22:00.000+02:002011-08-14T20:48:30.099+02:004th birthday<div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#666600;">And so, the weekend is almost over again !! Time flies !!</span></em></div>
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<br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">Yesterday, we had a lovely day, although when I got up around 8 o'clock, I was surprised to see that the thermometer only showed 2 degrees Celsius !!! Incredible in August. But then during the morning, the sun came 'round and in the afternoon we had a very nice 25 degrees. I had a friend over for dinner and we could eat outside until 10 o'clock in the evening. </span></em></div>
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<br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">Today was a more sad day with kind of grey weather, so I have done a lot of preparing for a trip I will make in September to London. </span></em></div>
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<br /><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#666600;">Here under I want to show you a layout with a picture from the day I became 4 years ols. Boy oh boy, that was a long time ago ;-))</span></em></div>
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