Garden Bench

Husband did do such a great job today and yesterday! He cleaned the tiles that we will give a way this week as we have decided to retile the garden. Tomorrow he will remove them together with the flower boxes as they will also go. They flower boxes are used as a litter box by the neighborhood cats….GROSE!

Meaning…

Maybe more garden posts this week……

And…

I am in LOVE with our bench we transformed in a huge garden pot….

So….

Instead our DIY bench pot:

And then we ran out of lavender….so we have to buy some more. For now we are protecting the earth with two garden gnomes and a pot from the cats .......

¨Our garden bench pot¨

7 + 7 Summer Lovelies

When the sun shines I have more smiles to share. The winter makes me blue; the short, cold days, snow and hale. I even made up a whole ¨I hate snow song¨ due to the many months it snowed last winter and as entertaining whilst we didn’t have a cd player in the car. I do wish the bath will be installed before the upcoming winter so I can take a hot bath after a cold winter’s day.
What am I babbling about? It is summer. Yeah! The sun is shining, summer has started and the light makes me happy.

These things I love about summer too:
1. The beach. Blue water, white sands, parasols, the salty air, bathing suits, sunglasses, sandcastles.

2. Watermelon. Not only the lovely complementary colors but also the sweet watery taste. Hmmm.

3. BBQ’s. Friends, lovely food, eating outside.

4. Popsicles. Hmmm. Yummy!

5. A sprinkler waterfall. My husband made this for me in the summer of 2008.

6. Pedicures, manicures and colored nails. Your feet and hands need to look pretty in the summer.

7. Outdoor naps. Being Laaaazy!

8. Reading loads of books. Need I say more? I LOVE reading. And I want these books!!

9. Riding a bike...

10. Homemade ice tea and lemonade.

11. Late night walks and evenings in the garden with candles.

12. Swimming. I love water.

13. Summer Rain....walking through it and splashing in puddles.

14. Boat rides. So romantic....sigh

What do you love about the summer?

Keys

Alana loves parcels as much as I do.

Today I got the lovely keys I bought. I love old keys.

When I was about 9 I found an old huge key and I was very proud of it. Because of my find I wanted to become an archeologist. That summer I went around the neighborhood in search of old archeological finds. Collecting old pieces of plates and even bones I found. I saved it all in a shoebox. I can also remember it only lasted for a summer and I don’t know what happened to my key.
 

But the love for keys never ended. They remind me of secret gardens, diaries, old cabinets, keys to the heart and everything mysterious.

Husband was watching soccer so I made a key necklace instead.

2 years anniversary

                                     

It has been two years ago but it feels like more. I don’t mean that in a negative way…what I mean is that the moment we met it felt like we already knew each other. It was wonderfully familiar from the start. In the two years we’ve been together we have shared a lot too. After three months we were engaged, after 1 year and 3 months married and today we are celebrating our two year anniversary in our newly bought house. And to celebrate this we went out for dinner. In the same restaurant we had dinner last year celebrating we had the banns published and the restaurant is in the same town we got married in. It’s a lovely town, beautifully located at the beach. Today we had a lovely start of SUMMER with warm temperatures so we had a nice stroll along the beach after dinner.

In honor of it being Cooking Things Tuesday a picture of our appetizers made with husband’s phone.

Prawn piri piri husband enjoyed and melon with Serrano ham I loved.

As main course husband had a tuna steak and I had a Rib Eye steak and afterwards we were planning to eat a chocolate desert but we both had round, full and satisfied tummies. Yummy!!! It was a very delightful evening with the man I love! Thank you munchkin!

Button

Most of you lovely bloggers out there have a lovely button to go with their blogs. Sadly I don’t draw and I am not so clever yet in figuring out how some people make their blog and buttons look so professional. Now I tried to make some buttons for my blog but I am not sure if I made something nice yet. So that is where you come in. Could you tell me your favorite(s) or let me know if they stink so I will take up some drawing lessons!

In my attempt of making a button I revamped my own pictures.

Thoughts?

A lazzzzzzy day

Sorry for not posting on Friday and Saturday….

Friday was a busy day at work. I had painful feet from all the running around. But the pain just got worse after 40 min of running at the fitness club. I think I did not do anything interesting that evening. I was just looking forward to the weekend…….

And we have been so utterly lazy this weekend. I don’t think I left the sofa and Husband  the orange chair. (Despaired Alana had to look for another place to sleep) But we are allowed to hang about a bit. Every evening we have had something and normally our weekends are packed to. So this weekend was our first weekend in ages without any appointments and we took advantage of this. Lovely!

That does mean I haven’t got anything interesting to say today.

The four readers of my blog will excuse me from not posting everyday anymore.

But what to write today???
Blank!

This is how lazy I am today!

So…..LAZY pictures it is!

Conclusion: I wish I was a cat....or squirrel....hmmm. Enjoying my blanket!
 
 

 

It's HOT

Most of the mothers at work are rich and beautiful. Those ladies that walk on high heels even though it’s snowing and icy or wear long earrings and expensive sunglasses while their little ones play with them as though they did not cost anything. Those mothers that even though it’s hot and I am sweating like a pig look beautiful. Really if they could sweat they would sweat pearls.

Ramblings # 2

I am sitting on the sofa with Charlotte and Husband. They are watching telly and I am on my beloved laptop.

I forgot to tell you that the mystery parcel turned out to be not so mysterious.....it was a box with more aprons. I forgot that I bought them to. Now I have loads of aprons and I am not sure what to do with them yet. Oops.

Yesterday we stacked our mantel piece with books. Doesn’t it look great!?

Today we started on our week of walking the treadmill. I feared I would have to run but we were allowed to walk fast to. I really enjoyed my time at the fitness club today. A funny note; the man that treated us bad last week was very sweeeeeeeeeeeeet today. We complained last week after a very different treatment on Wednesday and Friday. We told them that we did not like the way we were treated on Monday. Apparently he learned something because today he was scared to leave our side. It was funny and good he showed some good will and effort not to lose his job, hihi.

World Championship Soccer: Netherlands – Denmark. We won with 2-0 today. But…I did not watch. I shopped while everyone else watched the game. Nobody was in town so I had the shops all to myself and bought some lovely things. I REALLY LOVE SOCCER!!!

We are still on the sofa.

I love pasta. Charlotte and husband to.

I am sleepy now. Goodnight!

Whimsical gardens

Yesterday Danny’s cousin birthday took place in a beautiful garden.

Our own garden is been taken over by weeds.
We heard the neighbor working on the front garden today and we kind of wished she would do our front and back garden to. Because I have severe hay fever and Danny just doesn’t enjoy garden work. So we have to start thinking of a low maintenance garden. Probably with lots of pots with herbs that don’t bother me. And if possible we need to think of a way to minimalize the weeds growing in between the paving. We also plan on making a plank bridge in the water as a 2 by 6 addition to the garden.

But for now, whimsical garden pictures (weheartit) that we would love to create if I wouldn’t suffer from puffy eyes, itchy throat, nose, ears and palate, sneezing, runny nose, tiredness from the medication every spring, summer and autumn and my husband would have green fingers. But also secret gardens, fairy gardens and ¨the huge gardens and the big house to go with it¨ gardens.