I’ve been thinking for a while about painting the laundry room and the stairwell leading up to the top floor. It’s all a light yellow right now, and while I like the color, it could use with a fresh coat of paint. Today I started painting. For now, I’m doing a simple white base coat, [...]
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I need to remember to finish doing the laundry before it gets dark. I forgot today and had to climb up the Stairs-of-Death (TM) this afternoon in the dark. Our laundry room is on the top floor, up these very steep and narrow stairs. There’s no light to illuminate them, unless I turn on the [...]
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As I mentioned before, I was busy a couple of weeks ago, preparing the guest room by giving it a fresh coat of paint. As you can see from the before picture, the walls/ceiling were a light yellow, with the door, beams and built-in bench all a light shade of purple. A cheerful room, but [...]
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Posted in cultural, decorating, neighborhood, tagged Christmas, decorating, house, language, lessons, neighbors, photos, shopping, shops on October 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Straight and Round
Originally uploaded by indigo_jones
I’ve been meaning to blog bits and pieces of the past week or so, but keep getting distracted. None of this is particularly exciting, rather just little observations and amusements.
The thing of most interest for us has been the fact that we FINALLY bought a light for the living room. [...]
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Posted in decorating, neighborhood, shopping, tagged canister, coffee, decor, decorating, international, Pete & Pien, photos, shopping on October 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today we stopped by Pete & Pien so I could check out their silver boxes. They didn’t have the style I wanted in the size I wanted, but they did have these cute tea canisters. I’ve been wanting something pretty to keep the coffee ground in, and this is doing the job nicely! We were [...]
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I woke up this morning and thought it must be 4 or 5 a.m., because it was still so dark. My bedside clock is useless in the dark, so I had no idea. After lying awake for a while, I eventually gave up and got up. Luna was determined that I should get up anyway.
When [...]
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Posted in decorating, food, neighborhood, weather, tagged art, decorating, food, guests, photos, shops, weather on August 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve been busy this week working on a few finishing touches for some of the rooms. I finally got up the nerve to start work on the canvases I bought a few weeks ago. The end result is seen above. I’m quite happy with it, actually, and it felt good to be painting again. Maybe [...]
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The bedroom is starting to come together. The painting is finally complete, other than a few touchups. I had originally gone for a sage-ish green, but the one I got was a bit too grey and just wasn’t working. While at the immigration office in Amsterdam, I saw a lovely shade of funky green that [...]
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Found in a Dutch News newsletter I receive:
The police were in 21 shooting
incidents last year, compared
with 14 in 2006, according to
the state police force’s annual
report …
Despite the increase, those are mind-bogglingly small numbers when you think about it in US terms.
The weather is beautiful today — maybe around 70F with almost no humidity and the [...]
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Posted in decorating, neighborhood, pets, resources, tagged decorating, expat, internet, language, links, photos, Pippo, walks on June 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Pippo and I took a walk today down Nobelstraat, past Janskerkhof, and then back home via Voorstraat. Despite the constant pulling on his part, he was actually quite the good boy and put up with me stopping constantly to take photos. He even let me have a bit of fun with him. I didn’t mean [...]
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