High five for Friday, no 10!

My 10th Fridaypost!

I’m linking up with Lauren again, from the From my grey desk blog.

My high fives for this week:

1. DIY-ing my home office.

I suck at finishing projects. It’s a miracle I finish blogposts. My DIY projects are mostly never finished. For my Dutch readers, remember this? It has two coats of primer and a colour on it. But it’s not even near to what I want with it. And remember that cute apron I was sewing? Still has pins in it.

Anyway, I started decorating my home office and it’s going to be awesome. In like 2014.

The supplies. I admit, all from Ikea. I live three minutes from one.
Hello addiction.

Seeing Scott Alan live. Wow!

Yesterday was exciting.

Scott Alan was here, in Holland.

And I got to see him!

I know what you’re thinking. Who is Scott Alan?

Well, if you’re in a musicaltheatre world, you’ll know him. He writes incredible songs that tell great stories and has all kind of musicalstars singing it for him. Awesome.

Yesterday he gave a concert in Amsterdam with three amazing musicalsingers, Willemijn Verkaik, Renee van Wegberg and my dear friend Freek Bartels. Scott Alan announced the concert last Thursday on Twitter and the concert sold out in 24 minutes! Luckily, Freek had a ticket left and I got to see the concert.

And I really wouldn’t want to have missed it.

It was an evening full of beautiful written songs, sung by these amazing people. An evening of emotions, a gay audience and the great Scott Alan.

What I loved about it, was how personal he got.

He likes to talk, so he announced every song with a story. And even though he has a lot of humour and he’s a cheerful person, you can feel his pain and see his soul in his sad stories.

He wrote a song about coming out of the closet. And about being bullied. But, and there’s the humour, also a song about his dog. That last one turned out to be a great lovesong for weddings. Funny how it’s really about a dog, right?

Anyway. I consider myself a nice writer. I think I’m good at it. But I’m still so full of emotions, because of yesterdays concert. I can’t write today.

So I’ll stop talking.

Just listen to this. It’s one of my favourite songs of him, sung by Willemijn Verkaik:

High five for Friday, no 9

Yep, Friday is here again.

I don’t have lots of time to blog, but I try to keep up the Friday posts. High five!

My highlights of this week:

1. A couple of students dressed up and scared people in a park here in The Hague. So much fun!

The audience could ride through the park on little trains, so we had to try that too of course.

How stupid I'm the only one doing "yay". Thanks kids.

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!

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.