[Thrifting]

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When I finally got the space to take home a Ikea Trollsta sideboard, it had disappeared from the collection. And what didn’t help either by processing this loss is that I am going through a yellow stage at the moment. I-had-to-have-it. I’ve been praying upon it since, browsing the internet, e-mailing people on Marktplaats (our Dutch E-Bay) and see it snatched away right under my nose about a dozen times.

Then the Summer came. A lot of people went on holiday. And a lot less people paid attention to the Marktplaats advertisements. I searched, e-mailed and finally..finally! I got it! For not even a third of it’s original price (even though I would have paid the original price, for remember, I am still a girl who’s vision is clouded by some silly colour obsession).

Apparantly I’m not the only one going through a yellow fase, but luckily some people got annoyed by all that yellow and wanted to get rid of it. Yay!

[Sewing]

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Little bear is one of the creatures I’ll be adding to the shop when it opens again. I’m very into cute pink cheeks at the moment, so it was no surprise that little bear turned out to be a bit of a blushy guy (or girl? I’m not sure yet!) too. The pattern needs some improvement here and there, but I already like him. I really have to think of a name for him, which is a delicate task, for I don’t want him to carry a silly name for the rest of his life (although a very mainstream name wouldn’t do justice to him either I guess). Nothing came up though (the rainy wetter makes me and my brain extremely slow at the moment). So..if a suitable name pops up in your head right at this moment and you like to share it with us, be our guest! Me and little bear would be eternal grateful if you could help us out!

Thrifting Sewing Photographing Dreaming

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I’m currently filling my days with my favourite activities. I sew, take pictures, thrift and dream. Listen to fab music (for example Soul Steppin’ with a selection of the most fab 80s soulmusic), meet up with friends and go out for dinner.

And count my blessings.

I shot this picture with our new camera. Have a lovely day my dears!

Can(n)onball

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Our new camera arrived this week and we’re both as happy as two little children can be. With every new discovered feature we (well, mostly me) go Oooooeee and Aaaaah (25MB for one RAW picture? Oeoeoeoeoe! Creative filters? Aaaaaah!)

Even though I grew up in an era of fast developing techniques, I’m still so very impressed by every technical improvement or invention the Nerds of this World come up with. That’s why I married a nerd (in the most positive matter of speaking), he keeps impressing me with his tales of tweeked phones, faster calculating computers and other mind-blowing technical devices and inventions.

This morning I shot a couple of pictures of my studio just for shits and giggles. Above a picture of my big studio cupboard (that’s still not big enough for my bad hoarding habits), below Molly occupying my studio chair again (I actually called this picture ‘Molly Doing What She Does’, because every other picture on my computer of her is already called ‘Molly Sleeping’ and I couldn’t notice any difference between them anymore).

An apple a day give-away

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Writing this post reminds me of something that happened at one of my first jobs (I was so young and blue, but back then I felt, so to speak, I possessed wisdom and no one could tell me otherwise). At that office we worked with those old-school little tape-recorders and my job was basically working (read: typing) out what the Suits in the office had recorded. One day, one of my collegues worked on this tape of one very cocky collegue and when she had finished the document she didn’t stop and rewind the tape, but without thinking, she kept the tape running. She could hear this collegue make a phonecall with another office, arguing and negotiating about a case and when he finally hung up, he said to himself (not knowing his recorder was still recording everything he said) “I am SUCH a winnerrrrrrrr!!”. How hilarious is that? Well, we thought it was. (And of course, we subtly let him know we knew…)

But anyways, today there’s a real winner to chose! This time my lovely cousin wasn’t available to help me draw one, so I used random.org this time. Sad thing is, now I don’t have a good excuse anymore to invite my sweet cousin to our home for some good-old winner drawing, I have to think of another solution to make her come over…or do I really sound like some freaky kidnapper now?

The winning number is:

The 17th comment in the commentslist comes from Anki of Zilverblauw
(which is, now I’m writing about it, a gorgeous blog)! 

Congratulations Anki and please send me your address, you can e-mail me at info[at]ohmarie.nl. Thanks so much everyone, for participating and for your kind comments! I like this concept very much, so there will be another give-away in the (near) future. Have a lovely day!