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Ever Felt Like You Were Being Watched?
The above photo shows you what I see when I look out my living room window. We live across from a seniors complex and I’ve posted a few times about how I feel a
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Life in a Goldfish Bowl
One of the things on my growing list of things I don’t like about our flat is that we are overlooked by the big building across from us. I love having such beautifully large
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How Friday the 13th Kicked My Ass
This has been the weekend from hell, seriously. I’m pretty sure that when I opened the door to our flat on Friday night that I walked through some sort of gateway that took me
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Saturday Photo Hunt – Fresh
This week’s photo hunt theme is Fresh, which luckily fell in line with what I wanted to write about today. Fresh food! My very own future home-grown fresh off the balcony veggies! OMG! This
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Rainbow Over Lombardijen
This afternoon I was sitting in my living room watching TV and thinking about how crappy the weather was outside when I happened to look out our front window . That was when I
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Kitchen Idiot
Remember a while back when we renovated our Kitchen? One of my favorite things was my new oven. It’s an Atag and we payed a somewhat ridiculous amount extra so that we could have
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Off With Their Shoes!!
There are a few cultural differences that become glaringly obvious when you move to a new country. For me, one of of them has been the issue of taking off shoes when you enter
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Bedroom Reno Part 6 – Completed: Before and After
Well the bedroom is almost done and other than a few finishing touches (like door handles!), we are finished, whew! Here are some before and after shots to compare
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Bedroom Reno Part 5 – In Our Bedroom Again!
Well we are back in our bedroom again! It’s all sort of make-shift at the moment but that’s how it goes when you are renovating. I took this photo last night before crawling into
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Bedroom Reno Part 4 – Blood, Sweat and Curtains
When I say that our blood, sweat and tears have gone into our new bedroom, I’m not jokin’. At the moment I have a finger and a heel bandaged due to renovation related accidents.
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Bedroom Reno Part 3 – We Have a Floor!
I finally finished painting the bedroom the other day. God what a task. As I mentioned in my previous post about it the texture of the wall made painting it an absolute hell. It’s
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Bedroom Reno Part 2 – Plans and Painting Progress
The bedroom was completely cleared out and washed down. Xander was a HUGE help with this part as he doesn’t really do painting. On Sunday my friend Penny came over to help give me
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