Getting back to crafting: postcards

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In my early teens I was an avid postcard crafter. There was a mass hype where you saved and collected all kinds of tea envelopes to use for folding techniques to make awesome postcards with. I was really really good at it and even years after the mass craze ended I still had boxes full of the collected tea envelopes… Read more »

Where to get your books when you are living in the Netherlands

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After reading the non-USA bookbloggers blog post at the Quiet Pond I thought it would be interesting to share with you how a non-USA reader gets her books. As you can see from my TLD I am Dutch and living in the Netherlands. I read in both Dutch as English. While we have libraries in every city and every couple… Read more »

Zucchini bread muffins

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I just love my muffin tin! And because a lot of my recipes come from the oven, I tend to pour any batter available into the tin instead of the regular baking tins. Food just tastes better when the tiny muffin shapes makes you happy as you eat. For January I am baking my zucchini bread in muffin shapes. It’s… Read more »

My December reads

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December wasn’t a really good month for reading. I didn’t read less books, but they were less enjoyable somehow. I don’t know if it was me or the books or a mix of them, but I had a really hard time getting into them. Nevertheless I finished 2019 reading 68 books! That is 14 more than my goal of 55!… Read more »

My reading goals and first readathon for 2020

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For 2018 I have set my first reading goal: to read 42 books. I ended up reading 52. Awesome! So for 2019 I set another goal, slightly higher at 55. I ended up reading 68! Even more awesome. For 2020 I am setting my reading goal at 70 books, but I will also be adding another challenge. And from that… Read more »

DIY Toad stool ornaments

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I haven’t been much of a crafter the last ten years, but after our holiday to Sweden this summer I am so totally into toadstools! I just had to have them in my Christmas tree this year. After being bummed out that the ones I really liked were already sold out at the stores, I decided to make them myself… Read more »