This Saturday T. will be off the island for a day (for work). I’ll have to bring him to the airport early in the morning and pick him up in the evening. And then I have the whole day for myself.There are so many things I could do. Sleep all day for instance. I’ve been…
Category: life lately
Growing papaya
The area our house is (and a lot of other houses are) built on, used to be known as “Papaya Tuyn” (papaya garden) and is still officially called ‘Papaya bij Westpunt”. I can’t find a lot of information about it, but I don’t think they really grew papaya trees here. Still, I thought it was…
Crafty goals
Friends, I’ve been knitting up a storm this past week! I don’t know if it was the list I made last week that kept me motivated or that I suddenly and unrelated got my mojo back, but I’m really, really happy about it. I feel a lot more like myself this way. Last week’s list:…
A calm before the storm
Wow, I feel like the last time I did a Monday post was only yesterday…Last week was weird. A lot happened and a lot didn’t. My mom is home and more or less stable. The weeks ahead will be like a calm before the storm, I guess. She doesn’t want me to come over right…
When perfectionism gets in the way of creativity
A few months ago I started knitting potholders from cotton scraps. Great idea, isn’t it? Yeah, I thought so too. But after I finished the first two squares (the ones on the left in this picture), I found out I didn’t have enough scraps to continue the color choices I had made.I know. That’s what…
In my garden (Three on Thursday)
After some very dry months, we finally got some rain around here. It was about time. Today I’m sharing three things happening in my garden since then (apart from thornbushes and weeds growing like crazy). 1. We thought this tree was dead. It obviously wasn’t. 2. My aloë is turning green again. I honestly thought…
Progress report :: the kitchen
(this picture doesn’t have a ceiling yet, but we fixed that shortly after I took it. See the last picture in this post for that) Apart from the view, the kitchen was the big selling point in this house for me. We’d seen so many houses and most of them had hardly a kitchen at…
Tuesday To-Do
So now I’m back to to-do lists? Well, sort of. This one is supposed to be fun. I keep telling Chris that her crafty to-do lists are inspiring, but usually I stick with saying that and don’t actually act on it.Trying to change that now, even though my lists will be short and uninspiring….
Bon siman!
This weekend we removed the metal bars that were blocking our view from the porch. That makes such a difference! It felt symbolic, sort of, though I can’t really explain why. Last week was hard. On Wednesday I woke up from a call from my father. They stopped my mother’s surgery (they were going to…
To do lists or not to do lists (that's the question)
I was going to write a long post about how to make a to-do list. Not that I am very good at that, but usually trying to write about something, doing research and thinking about how I would implement it, helps to get a clear vision about something. But this Monday, having the topic of…