Exciting things happened here this weekend! Our ceiling material arrived last Friday, so we finally could start installing them. It’s silly. You don’t need them. But they make such a difference visually!(If you follow me on Instagram, you’ve probably already seen these pictures, but I really wanted to put them here too).Remember the bedroom?This is…
Category: life lately
Three things I learned about lionfish and corals
Last Tuesday we went to the “Lion Fish Awareness Festival” at The Dive Shop. Not something we would choose to go to spontaneously maybe (we’re not divers), but some of our friends were part of the organizing committee and invited us to come.It was fun and I actually learned a lot, even though I wasn’t…
Progress report:: our bedroom
Our bedroom was one of the rooms that I really wanted to be finished before we moved in. We didn’t make that happen though. No ceilings, no air conditioner. We also need to hang something on those bare walls. But it is clean and white and peaceful.Especially compared to where we started… We use plastic…
Bon Siman!
I was going to post about goals and plans for this week and things accomplished last week. I had a lot to do (writing, editing, bookkeeping, cleaning) and I opened my laptop at seven o’clock in the morning to have an early start on a productive day.But then one of my girls called and we…
Three things I need to get back to sewing
I may have (ha!) mentioned it here and in some comments on your blogs, that I really, really want to get back to sewing. So much that I shipped my sewing machine all the way to Curaçao. It arrived safely and I did take it out of its bag once, to do some mending (I…
Planting roots
Remember this little palm tree we grew from a coconut?Well, it just kept growing and started to outgrow the container we had it in, so we decided it was time to actually plant it.And last weekend we did. I was so happy to plant our very first tree at the house. It felt really symbolic…
Bon siman!
(I was keeping an eye on the iguana to see how he would get off that cactus, but I missed it. I went into the house to get something and then he was gone.) In my quest to simplify my life and my blogging, I thought it would be better not to post on Mondays….
A hat that makes me happy
After weeks of not knitting one stitch, I suddenly got an itch to pick up my knitting last Monday. So I dug out the hat I started almost two months ago. I worked on it during the day and I had a nice window of uninterrupted knitting time at night when some mysterious orange lights…
Progress report :: the small bathroom
I thought it would be fun to update you on the few rooms in the house that are more or less done. I’m not going to call posts ‘reveals’ since that would imply a lot more than we actually did. We’re on a very tight budget and have a very long list of things we…
Hot lunches
Since I found out I have some foodallergies, I’ve been struggling with lunches. I used to love my simple sandwiches (just bread and some sliced meat), but I can’t eat bread anymore, since gluten is one of the things I have to avoid. Glutenfree bread is not an option though, since I also have to…