Daisy in lala Land

Making bunnies again!

No 8 and No 9 are ready!!!
Originally uploaded by Dees!

YIPPIEEEEEEE!!!!Daughter passed her exams!!!

 

We are all sooooo happy Babette!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!and sooo very very Proud!

Babette is going to have a year of fun,work,travelling and contemplation what studies she is going to do next,she is still 17 (turning 18 in september and going for her drivers license:) so she has all the time in the world to find out what she wants to do next!

Wowiee what a great future to have infront of you!GO-GO-GO Babette!

Quiet Books

I came across some great patterns on etsy,patterns to make quiet books.

I first purchased the one with the robots  from Shelley Wallace and today finished making my first quiet book!I am sure the boys I am a nanny to will love to play with it when they come over to my house!

  

I also bought several patterns from Copycrafts they have the cutest patterns too!

  

I started on the shoes right away

Still need some practice,not too happy with my seams on this one but it is just for practice,I will do better when I make the real deal!But isn't this toooo cute????

I am not sure why it got me started but I am happy that I am feeling like making something after a long period of reading and not being so crafty:-)

Have a great week!!

Awesome Artist: Darla Jackson!

One day I was looking for something on etsy and there was this amazing fawn staring at me from the front page of etsy's home site!.

I know they only choose people with "special"skills and craftmanship so I immediately started looking for her Website and her  Etsy shop and have been hooked eversince....Darla also has a wonderful Blog I have been reading it every day (yes she is a very  dissaplined blogger,and even posted when she was sick!AND the woman has a great sense of humor!

All this combined you will find an amazing artist with amazing life like sculptures that will steal your heart!She is working on a new exhibition right now called "A miniature ocean" which will include the cutest little baby bunnies you have ever seen!!!
Here are a couple of photo's taken from her lovely blog(thank you Darla for lending them to me!)

  

 

Have a great weekend!!!!

The great escape.....

  Although I am a great admirer of Eckhart Tolle and  Krishnamurti the masters who  teach us to stay in "the present" to stay focused on not wandering of in the past or the future,I find my mind wandering of the entire day when I am reading.For instance when I am reading Byron I sort of bleep myself in the past en really can feel myself walking in this and instantly see  hubby in this and we are sailing off in

and wonder what I would have been like in those days.Would I have been rich/poor/educated/not educated/outspoken/etc etc....

I know it absolutely doesn"t amount to anything, doing this,but I find it very inspiring and like to sent myself on these mind journeys....but how am I to integrate this into my "spiritual" challenge of staying in the Now??

I am just pondering out loud here...and enjoying my books,and allow myself this escapism because I like to believe  that I am aware when  I am "escaping" the present and sort of laught at myself "doing-it-again"!

I am curious.....do you escape the present? and if you do what is your most favorite way to do so?

Happy weekend to you all!

Pride Prejudice and zombies

  

Has anyone read this already?I can't wait!Although I must say,I am a huge Jane Austen fan and sort of shivered when I saw this bookcover for the first time,I am so curious what it  will be like.It is decribed in general as "an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. "Well who can say no to that!

But I am sure I will love the original one most of all....who can top Jane Austen?Stay tuned...I will let you know when I have finished reading it!

22 years......

Today is our wedding anniversary.Hubby and I have been married for 22 years.....it seems only yesterday I said yes to the most wonderful man in the universe.A couple of years ago,Pim bought me this giant poppy in pink for our wedding day.Today she showed us her wonderful flowers as if she said: Here for you a special wedding day gift.Enjoy!

 

''So,we"ll go no more a roving"

  

Lord Byron (1788-1824)

  Well....nothing like an extravagant poet to get you writing again!

I watched the movie Byron with  Jonny Lee Miller as Lord Byron (absolutely stunning performance!) and sort of got caught up in the extravagant life style of Lord Byron!My goodness the man certainly had a lot going in his way too short life!(he died at age 36)

I already knew some of his poetry from my days in school,and really loved the one "she walks in beauty" but never  continued to read about his life and legend.Well....that has certainly changed!                                                                          

I already have ordered several books about him and his work and this morning I went to the library early and there was a wonderful lady who was really interested and started to search along with me all through the library to find out more!We both realised that not much of his work has been translated into dutch,but fortunately his Childe Harold"s pilgrimage just has!  

So there I was with a whole stack of way too heavy books on my bike feeling like I had just found an enormous treasure!My husband was really grinning out loud when he saw me get in all flushed!

I am now looking at all the places that have anything to do with him and find myself pondering how to visit them as soon as possible!

Of course there is Newstead abbey the house where he lived but also Chillon castle in Switserland where he started writing The prisoner of Chillon   

 

 Apparantly,Byron carved his name there in stone in the dungeon

I am so excited I can not stop looking for other places to go and visit some day and in my head I am already walking there and gently touching the name with my finger...(how many people have done that before me I wonder...)

Byron travelled a lot,so there are many more places to visit if I am going to walk a little mile in his shoes.Italy,Greece,....

Thank you Lord Byron for getting me all inspired again!

Can't seem to get into blogging again......

You probably noticed already,I haven't been around the internet a lot recently.I just can not seem to get into blogging/writing mood.But incase you are wondering if everything is ok, we are all doing fine!hugs to all of you!