Friday 26 October 2012

High five for Friday, no 8.


Yay, Friday is here!
How was your week?

Mine was themed Halloween! My hubs and I run a team of twenty actors in a themepark here in Holland and this fall break has been a full, exhausting week, but so much fun!
This is already a highlight of the week :-)

Here are the other highlights:

1. Franks birthday!
We had a lovely lunch, just the two of us, and then had a nice party for our family and friends.
Have I mentioned I love him? Well, I do. LOVE him.


2. Katie’s gluten free apple pie.
Lovely Katie (the girl from the art jars) made Frank delicious little apple pies for his birthday. Frank has recently discovered that gluten free food is better for his health. But we’re not really into baking gluten free. Cooking is not that difficult (though we’re not that strict since he's not allergic), but baking is something different! Here are Katie's pies:

Cute and delicious!
(I’m such a bad photographer. I pimped this photo using Instagram. I promise I’ll get better.)

3. The Little Mermaid.
This is my ultimate favorite Disney movie EVER! I watched it a thousand times when I was a little girl.
Tuesday we went to the musical. It was lovely to see the mermaids flying, to hear the fantastic music and to see the great costumes. But I didn’t like the things that were different than the movie.
For example, in the movie I loved Flounder, who’s always around and so darn cute! But his part was quite little in the musical. And he was anything but cute...
But, I did enjoy this musical! 

Funny thing, we ran into two of our students that evening. This is me with student Daan!


4. Dinner with friends.
I love having dinner with friends. So we do it often. With lots of friends. Sometimes we cook, sometimes they cook, sometimes we go out. This time our friends cooked us a delicious meal!  
Dessert was really funny. Our cooking friend saw these little cakes at the bakery and they had such funny names, he had to take them with him.
“Recession cakes.” Cute little cakes for a nice price. So everybody can afford it. Recession cakes. I can see the humour of it!

What it is exactly? Two hazelnut merengues with a cream of
coffee inside and on top whipped cream with a little snow of cinnamon.
Yum, yum, yum.

5. My brand new DKNY watch.
I am so in loooove with my new watch! I’ve never bought a watch before, because I always take them off when I’m teaching, rehearsing or performing. But I find it annoying to pull out my Iphone to check the time when I’m teaching of in a meeting, so I bought a watch.
A beautiful watch.
I was searching for a small elegant one, it had to look like a bracelet and I wanted some bling. Check, check and check!
Cute, right?
 I first wanted the silver one, 'cause I liked the bling on it. But this dark coloured one was so much better on my brown skin.


Anyway, I'm linking up with Lauren as usual.
Have a great Friday and a happy weekend!


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Saturday 20 October 2012

High five for Friday, no 7


It’s been a while. Things have been crazy around here and I skipped TWO High fives for Friday…
But though it's in the middle of the night here in Holland (and therefore Saturday), here I am, giving you my five highlights of the past week! 

1. Our one year anniversary!
I wrote about our beautiful wedding here, and wrote about a surprise lunch and our visit to Dutch wineyards here. (Is it wineyard of vineyard?)

Frank in the wineyard

2. Our nephew Nino.
Nino and his parents were here a couple of weeks ago and we played the whole afternoon with him. I got to babysit him this morning.
He’s so cute, the pics speak for themselves.


Tuesday 16 October 2012

Don't give up!


So I read this blog from a guy. That’s actually weird, ‘cause I usually read blogs from crafty, DIY-ing, organizing girls.
But I came across this fascinating blog, internetmiljonair (it means internetmillionaire).

It’s a blog from a guy who tells how he got his “bizz” (as he calls it) up and running. And now he’s helping others to get the best out of their business by writing inspiring blogs and linking to great websites and other good stuff. I really like that he shares his secrets and tries to inspire people. He gives a lot of good advices.

I’ve been in a rollercoaster the last three weeks. From being overjoyed to being very down. The down part sucked. And by that, I mean really really really sucked. I had to do and tell a lot of bad stuff, I got to suck up even more bad stuff and people were hurt. Everybody got hurt. So no, not the best thing that happened.
But, the show must go on right? Right. I had no idea how. This rollercoaster was dragging me into all this pain and I didn’t know how to get through.

But then, this internetmillionaire guy emailed. Not personally to me, it was a newsletter. But so inspiring.

Sunday 14 October 2012

Our one year wedding anniversary, part two.


I promised a part two about our fantastic anniversary weekend.
So here it is!

The anniversary was on Sunday September 30th. A day before, our friends surprised us with a lovely lunch with even more friends and our parents. How cute!

Surprise!! #HowcouldInotseethatcoming... 
One of our friends is also our photographer for our school, events and other stuff (like the wedding). So I can show some nice pics instead of foggy Instagrams!

Thanks Erick!

Saturday 13 October 2012

Our one year wedding anniversary, part one


The last weeks were crazy, so I didn’t post… Shame on me... I even skipped two (!!) High fives for Friday :-(
But after a begging FB post from my biggest fan (read: my best friend), I’m now catching up and will throw some new posts on my blog tonight! But let’s start with this one.

Frank and I got married a year ago, on Sept 30th.
Before I tell you how our lovely anniversary weekend has been, I have to brag about our wedding.  Because it was a wonderful wedding, full of love, happiness, music, laughter and more of that.
So this is part one of my weddingblogposts :-)