I'm not used to write about my personal life here, at least not when it isn't art/craft-related that is. However there have been some major changes in my life which will result in having less time to spend making beads or do other crafty things.

At the end of november 2009 I learned I was going to loose my part-time job as a secretary, thanks to the financial depression and therefore would be out of a job on March 1st. And so I made some difficult decisions.

Because I felt it didn't work out for me I also decided to stop my own business being a designer of websites and a professional beadmaker and instead go find a job almost fulltime to provide for a steady income. I though this would take a long time since so many people in The Netherlands are on the lookout for new jobs. However in Januari I found this job-add for an office manager of the Touchdown Center in Haarlem (which is an unique office-supplier for independent professionals and small businesses), I was certain this was the perfect job for me and I therefore I applied.

To make a long story short... I got the job and started working there this monday for about 32 hours a week and as a result will have a lot less spare time to do all the crafty things I as I was used to do. This will be a huge adjustment but believe me it sure is worth the sacrifice.

I will continue making beads as a hobby and sell them online, but only to make my hobby less expensive and ofcourse I also will keep on crafting and blogging about it, but less frequent as I was planning on doing. My only hope is I will be able to keep this blog alive enough and therefore worthwhile a visit on a regular basis from all of you ;)

Het is niet mijn gewoonte om hier al te veel te babbelen over persoonlijke zaken anders dan over wat mij bezig houdt op creatief gebied. Nu dan toch een kleine uitzondering op mijn eigen regelen dat vanwege het feit dat ik door een paar belangrijke wijzigingen in mijn zakelijke leven minder tijd zal gaan krijgen om creatief bezig te zijn.

Natuurlijk blijf ik nog steeds kralen maken en via het internet verkopen, al was het alleen maar om deze dure hobbie te blijven bekostigen. Ik hoop alleen ook dat het me zal lukken om ook deze weblog een beetje levend te houden, zodat het nog leuk blijft om hem ook in de toekomst te blijven bezoeken.

May your days be filled with happiness, good health and a lot of creativity!

Again we had snow and my daughter made this darling little snowman. This time in our backyard so we can enjoy it for more that just an hour of two.

The both of us also baked a lot of traditional dutch pastry for New Year's Eve called "oliebollen" and "appelflappen".

Dat dit jaar maar gevuld mag zijn met veel gezondheid, geluk en creativiteit!

Mijn dochter heeft dit schattige sneeuwpopje gemaakt. Dit keer in de achtertuin zodat we er iets langer dan twee uur van kunnen genieten. Samen hebben we gistermiddag ook een flinke hoeveelheid oliebollen en appelflappen gebakken, heerlijk!!

My son (on the left) and his friend made this little snowman this afternoon. It's height was about 2.5 meter and the bottompart had a diameter of at least 1.2 meter. My husband, a friend an me helped putting on the middle part.

However for some reason a group of kids appearantly found it a lot of fun to distroy it and take the hat this evening, so the only thing left is this picture and a blocked sideway...What fun...

Mijn zoon (links) heeft vanmiddag samen met een vriend dit sneeuwpopje gemaakt. Hij was zo'n 2.5 meter hoog en de onderste bal had zo'n 1.2 meter doorsnede.

Schijnbaar was het voor een groepje hangjongeren alleen enorm geestig om de sneeuwpop vanavond al meteen weer te vernielen en dus rest nu alleen deze foto en een geblokkeerde stoep. Wat een lol...

And yet again I've neglected this blog terrible, all for good reasons but still... so for those of you who have been visiting to find there's nothing but old news, my apologize for the lack of updates. I will do my best to start writing on a regular basis again to make your visits worth!

Opnieuw heb ik deze weblog weer ontzettend verwaarloosd, er zijn genoeg redenen voor maar toch... voor diegene die hier regelmatig komen kijken en steeds op nieuw het al bekende bericht te zien kregen geen gezellig boel en bij deze dus mijn excuses voor het gebrek aan nieuws. Ik zal mijn best doen om de boel weer op te pakken en regelmatig weer berichten te plaatsen, zodat het op z'n minst weer interessant wordt om hier regelmatig langs te komen.

With Christmas in about a month it's time for swapping again. Every year I participate in Amy's Christmas ornament swap. Over the last couple of years I've received a lot of amazing ornaments due to the fact lot of very talented lady's are participating in this swap. If you concider to participate I have to disappoint you becaus sign-ups are already closed, but at least you can enjoy to look at some of the ornaments right here. This year I designed a star in Illustrator and printed it on Shrinkfilm, cut it out and gave it some large holes and put it in my oven for shrinking. I finished the ornament stringing it on a cord with one of my red and white lampwork beads and I must say I'm really happy with the way it looks.

I also have signed up for some other swaps, so if you are one of my swap-partners you probably will find one of these in your package also ;0)

Aangezien Kerstmis al weer op de loer ligt, is het ook weer "swap"-tijd (wat dus eigenlijk een soort ruilen is). Ieder jaar doe ik mee aan de Kerst-ornament-swap van Amy's en heb de afgelopen jaren al een aantal fantastisch mooie handgemaakte versierselen mogen ontvangen als gevolg van het feit dat er een aantal zeer getalenteerde dames aan mee doen. Mocht je geïnteresseerd zijn om mee te doen, dan moet ik je helaas teleurstellen want inschrijvingen zijn gesloten. Wel kun je genieten van wat er zoal aan moois gemaakt wordt door hier eens kijken. Ik heb in Illustrator een ster ontworpen en deze geprint op speciaal krimpfolie (de meesten zullen zich het vast wel herinneren van vroeger). Vervolgens heb ik ze uitgeknipt, voorzien van een groot gat en daarna in de oven laten krimpen. De ster is samen met een sierrondje en één van mijn rood/witte kralen op een koortje geregen en eigenlijk ben ik behoorlijk tevreden met het resultaat :0)

Overigens heb ik me ook nog voor een aantal anders swaps opgegeven. Ben je dus één van mijn swap-partners, dan heb je kans dat je één van deze ornamenten in je pakje zult tegenkomen :o).

This is what I've been up to today...picking apples and grapes. Our apple tree simply was loaded and so was the grape bush. We made a lot of family, friends and neighbors happy and for the rest of this week I'm sure we will be highly creative consuming the rest ;0)

Dit is waar ik me vandaag mee bezig gehouden heb... appels en druiven plukken. Zowel de appelboom als de druivenstruik waren afgeladen. We hebben dus een flink aantal familieleden, vrienden en buren blij kunnen maken met een zakje fruit en de rest van de week zijn we hoogstwaarschijnljk supercreatief bezig met het bedenken van diverse gerechten om dat wat overgebleven is te consumeren.

As you can see I have a new blogdesign. I'm also designing a new portfolio-site for my lampwork which will be in the same style, but that isn't finished yet.

I wanted the blog to have 3 columns so I could divide the blog subnavigation from the viewers and so on. But I'm still not sure if there should be some kind of border between the blog-entries and the other two columns... we'll see.

But for now, the sun is shining, it's weekend and hubby is on holiday also, so we're off to town to do some shopping and visit one of the terraces :)

Zoals je ziet een fris nieuw jasje voor mijn blog in dezelfde stijl die ik ook ga gebruiken voor de portfoliosite die ik aan het ontwerpen ben voor mijn glaswerk.

Voor nu ga ik de computer uitzetten. De zon schijnt, mijn Lief heeft ook vakantie dus we gaan richting stad om te shoppen en een terrasje te pakken :)

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter with lots of eggs and nice family dinners. We sort of skipped the Easter this year. Both my husband and my oldest had to work and I myself spend most of the day in bed due to the fact my youngest took home some nasty flu germs from his schooltrip to London. Personally I would preferred to receive something dull like for instance a mug with the Tower of London or something, but no that I didn't receive ;)

Ik hoop dat jullie een gezellige pasen hebben gehad met lekkere eieren en gezellige paasbrunches. Wij hebben het dit jaar enigszins aan ons voorbij laten gaan. Zowel mijn echtgenoot als mijn oudste moesten werken en ikzelf heb het grootste gedeelte van de dag in mijn bed doorgebracht vanwege het feit dat mijn jongste als souveniertje van zijn schoolreis naar Londen wat fijne "engelse" griepbacillen heeft meegebracht. Persoonlijk had ik toch bij voorkeur een mok met de Tower of London als souveniertje maar ja...die kreeg ik niet ;)

Today when I arrived at work, I also work outside the house for 18 hours a week in a small engineering office nearby, much to my surprise I found this huge beautiful bouquet of flowers cluthering up my desk. As you might have guessed already I work as a secretary and what a good one I am because I totally forgot today is secretaryday. Although maybe that's not really why I did forget, maybe the real reason is that although I appreciate this lovely gesture from my boss, it still feels rather odd that I receive a bouquet of flowers every year and there isn't a special day like such for my only [male] colleque.

Toen ik vanochtend arriveerde op mijn werk, ik werk ook nog 18 uur per week op een klein ingenieursbureau in de buurt, kon ik mijn bureau bijna niet meer zien vanwege een enorme bos bloemen. En ja je begrijpt het al...ik werk als secretaresse en wat voor één want dat het vandaag "onze speciale dag" is was ik totaal vergeten. Misschien ook niet zo verwonderlijk want eigenlijk voel ik me ieder jaar weer opgelaten dat ik verwend wordt met zo'n prachtige bos bloemen terwijl deze er voor mijn enige (mannelijke) collega niet is...

Today a package arrived from Arizona with 5 of the most beautiful little handmade birds. I love them all really, but I have to admit there's one that definately is my favorite and I secretly feel Regina aka Mamma-bird put it in my package with the exact same idea. Although maybe that just what I would like to believe, because go look at here blog and see what a pile of birds she had to sort out...I'm impressed. She really did a hell of a job.

Anyway especially because I feel it so fits me, I will tell you which one it is even if you may already have guessed it... It's the beautiful copper phoenix with his flaming wings.
Ofcourse all the other birds will get there special places in my studio, but this little phoenix will have his own special place behind my torch so I can look at it all the time and be inspired!
And just so you know it...it's made by Wendy and she also sells them in her Etsy-shop so go check it out!

Vandaag vond ik weer eens een fijne verrassing op de mat toen ik uit mijn werk thuiskwam. Een pakje helemaal uit Arizona met jawel 5 prachtige handgemaakte vogels. Allemaal even mooi en toch heb ik één absolute favoriet en die zo goed bij mij past dat ik bijna verwacht dat Regina (of zoals je haar ook bijna kan noemen Mamma-bird) hem om die reden in mijn pakje heeft gestopt. Alhoewel gezien de hoeveelheid vogels die zij te verwerken kreeg is dat misschien ook gewoon een kwestie van puur geluk. Klik maar op onderstaande link... kijk en huiver ;)

Oh en hij is gemaakt door Wendy en mocht je interesse hebben.... ze verkoopt ze in haar Etsy-shop.

Links:
Creative Kismet
Wendelicious.etsy.com

Everyone in my family knows I'm a terrible housekeeper, I hate spending my precious time cleaning house. So if you spot me in the act, don't hesitate to take pictures because no one will believe you otherwise ;)

One of the reasons why I dislike it, is because one way or another I seem to not be able to do so without hurting myself. Mostly minor cuts and bruises, nothing serious but yesterday my day started at the emergency room because our wonderful big new shiny stove, appearantly has this sharp as a knive blade at the back. I'll spare you the rest of the nasty details, but my knuckle hurts and I will end up adding an extra scar to my already large collection... another cleaning action killed in the cradle ;0)

Het is algemeen bekend in mijn familiekring dat ik een broertje dood heb aan het huishouden. Echt ik vind het een verspilling van mijn kostbare vrije tijd. Mocht je me dus betrappen op een schoonmaakaktie zou ik maar een foto nemen om geloofwaardig over te komen.

This week it's possible to win one of the bird-ornaments I made for the Bird of a change swap. Just leave a message on this blog-entry and I will put in all your names in a hat and let one of my familymembers pick out one to be the lucky winner this weeks Friday the 23th of januari. I will announce the winner somewhere on Friday .

Please understand I have to approve the comments (thanks to all the dirty spammers :( ) so your messages will not appear directly on my blog, but you can be sure I will notice each and everyone of them!! Also make sure to fill in your e-mail adres as well so I can contact you for your mailadres.

And if your interested in winning some more birds, you go and check out Regina's weblog, because she will post the blogs of all participators giving away birds.

Vanaf vandaag is het mogelijk om één van de vogelornamenten te winnen die ik voor de Bird of a change swap gemaakt heb. Dit kan door onderaan dit bericht op Reacties te klikken en een berichtje achter te laten.

En wil je nog kans maken op andere vogel-ornamenten, ga dan even kijken op de Regina's weblog, want daar staat een lijst met alle deelnemers die ook vogel-ornamenten weggegeven.

Links:
Regina's weblog

Again my mailman brougth me some lovely presents. Arina, a dutch lady living in Canada is participating in one my lampworking forums. She asked the forum-members to show their Christmas decorations and she rewarded some with lovely prices. Since I wrote about my Christmas tree being decorated with al kinds of handcrafted ornaments received trough several international swaps, she send me this lovely decoration and added a calender with Canadian wildlife pictures as well.

The necklace on the right is from Sol one of my customers. In october she bought one of my beadsets on E-bay but unfortunately it got lost in the mail and she never received it. Although ofcourse I wasn't to blame, I decided to make her a new set and this time send it out by registered mail and luckely this time it arrived savely. Sol makes beautiful jewelry and as a thank you she send me one of her lovely necklaces. So now we're both very happy ;)

Hope your year will be filled with health, happiness and creativity!

Thanks for visiting MariekUniek in 2008. I've been enjoying your visits and comments and I'm looking forward to a new blogging year!

En dat dit nieuwe jaar maar veel gezondheid, geluk en vooral creativiteit mag brengen.

Bedankt voor al de bezoekjes aan mijn weblog in 2008. Ik heb in ieder geval genoten van de reacties die achter gelaten zijn en hoop dat er veel zullen volgen. Ik heb in ieder geval weer enorm zin in een nieuw Blogjaar!

Inside my studio it's almost the same temperature as outside and as you can see in the picture above ice is on the windows so it's pretty cold. I do have an old electric heater but it's almost impossible to get it warm enough to make beads without cracking them. That's why last week I decided to have a temporary stop and enjoy my little vacation.

The last couple of days I spent having long "pyama-mornings", lacy afternoons with a bit of crafting here and there. I also started reading a book and did some browsing the internet, visiting and reading blogs I haven't had time to visit in a long time.

My evenings are even more lacy watching movies on tv, browsing a bit more and simply enjoy familylife.

This all started me to think about the way I've been living my life the last couple of years. The way I have been pushing myself to start new things even before I've finished what I'm working on. In the end this definately results in less joy. So my big plan for the next year is to stop pushing and start enjoying.

Have a nice Eve and be carefull with the fireworks!

Look what arrived on my doorstep this morning:

A box send by Amy wrapped in a wonderful green paper and inside I found some small packages

It was so much fun to see what's inside those packages... yet again I received some beautiful, lovely and most of all creative and wellmade ornaments. It's such a wonderful group that's participating in Amy's swaps!

I received a totally adorable glittering fairy made by Calamity Kim. I'm pretty sure I will keep this one hanging on my closet after the christmas decorations are gone!

Thanks to Amy and Kim I now know this little fellow is made by Margie.

This beautiful knitted and supersoft ornament is made by Bertha from Karmakitties.com and seeing this made me feel like knitting again :)
Oh and if you're interested she also provides a link to the free pattern she used as a base for these.

This beautiful delicate blue christmas tree was made by Kristin of Kleas. She used the template provided by The small object

And last but certainly not least the totally adorable little sugarplum fairy from Amy herself which came in a beautiful handmade package and as a bonus I received some of her beautiful handmade tags, a christmas card and some craftpapers.

I want to say thanks to each of these wonderful crafters for the beautiful ornaments I received.

This is what the cover looks like and do you see that funny Rooster.... that's my mister Rooster and that's the Softie I designed for this book.

The official date for publishing is September 29th and more info can be found here

The book really is as wonderful as the first one with a lot of lovely patterns, here's another preview of one of "my pages" as well.

At the moment we have summerholiday.

However we do not spent our free time going to the beach or camping in the South of France... No we are working very hard to re-decorate our livingroom and kitchen and when that's finished we need to make space in our backyard to put in an extra shed so I will finally have my own studio.

So in there will not be any blog-entries about beads and such for at least two weeks because I don't have time for playing around ;0)

I am participating in the diary 2009 project, which is a project where artists from around the world design pages to form a diary for next year. Participation is for free, so you don't get paid or a free copy, but I think it's fun and also lovely publicity for my etsy-shop so that's why I joined.

This is the page I designed for the diary...

About eight weeks ago I ordered a special kiln which I not only can use for annealing my glassbeads but also for fusing and small ceramic-projects and some other things I'm planning. Thursday Albert and I went to pick it up and so now I'm able to properly anneal my beads in order to sell them. Haven't had time to figure it out yet but I will soon!

Here's a little peak of my working area:

Now the only thing I really need is a studio in the backyard because my living starts to look like one more and more...

I haven't blogged in a while and so here's a little update...

My webshop is almost finished. I'm in the testing-phase and still taking pictures and writing descriptions for the thinks I'm going to sell there but I hope to announce the opening in a about a week. I know it would have been good business to have it opened say before the December-month but there's only so much a person can do in a day and you can always go check my Etsy-shop if you would like to purchase one of my softies.

This week was dominated by Sinterklaas.
Tuesday we had our own Sinterklaas-festivities with Suprise-packages, special poems and most of all a lot of fun and wednesday like every year on december 5th, I played Zwarte Piet at my kids old primary school. They made up a story about Sinterklaas sending me away on training camp, where I happened to have broken my leg. This because of the fact walking is still difficult and sometimes even painful for me and so I absolutely cannot play Zwarte Piet the way I used to, at least not yet. This year Marjolein also joined us for the very first time, which was very special for me and also a lot of fun!

In the afternoon Marjolein and me also visited some other small kids and after that I was totally shagged out!

This year I also joined several glass-forums and on one of them someone organized a Sinterklaas-swap I attended. This beautiful "Tigerbead" necklace was my swap present and I'm totally impressed by their size and beauty. Thanks Secret Santa!

I haven't been much of a swapper. I had one very bad experience about two years ago were I send my parth but never received anything in return and another one in about the same period were the receiver wasn't happy with what they received at all and did a great job in letting me know in a terrible way. These turned me into as you might say a bit swapping-shy person. I always doubt if I can live up to the expectations, am afraid my package will not arrive in time or get lost in the mail.

But seeing some of the swaps going on at for instance Flickr made me realice I need to be brave because I love the idea of swapping with some other craftster/illustrators/artist and I must say the last year I did a few swaps wich turned out great. Not only did I received some wonderful stuff, for what I've heard the receivers where happy too!

This bracelet is a result of a swap with Antonella from Italy. She makes the most beautiful alternative jewelry and I'm so happy with this one she made especially for me!

Here you see some of the examples of some of my more recent cracked beads. I tryed out some new techniques like shaping with my marver and using some of the twisties I have been making. Unfortutely a lot of them cracked. Maybe some of the beads could have been cracked due to stress in the glass because of familymembers walking in and out the door causing drafts. I know the glass I'm using is compatible so that could not be the cause. Well whatever the reason I was searching some of the forums I visit to find tools that could help me prevent it.

What you see here is a tool I made for slowly cooling off my lampwork. The example I found on the forum was made with an aluminium bucket for the exterior but since I work in my livingroom I decided to make it look a bit nicer and used a ceramic flowerpot. Inside is a lamp with a ceramic socket. The intention is to light the lamp when you start lampworking so the vermiculite will be nicely warm and the hot bead will not be cooling down too quickly.

The best way ofcourse is to place the bead in a hot kiln but I don't have one yet...

I know I always say I don't talk family on my weblog because it's all about my creative endeavers, but I was browsing through the few holidaypictures I made and I think this one is fun to look at.

Dinner in a restaurant in the south of France, we couldn't translate a big parth of the menu and also the explanation of the friendly waiter wasn't very helpfull because we didn't understand a lot fro what he was talking about. So for most of us it was a bit of a surprise what would be served, the food was wonderfull and we enjoyed it all except for my daughters boyfriend. He's what we call a difficult eater....doesn't like salad with dressings and fancy sauces and raw steak and ofcourse that's exactly what he's got. And with our minor knowledge of the France lanquage we couldn't ask to fry the food some more to make it more acceptable to him, ah well better luck next time ;0)

And just so you know... that's me in the middle with the white shirt. On the left are my daughter Marjolein and her boyfriend Marc. Sitting next to me is Peter who's a friend of us and the uncle of Marc, my son Sander and husband Albert.

I've been sick all week with a stomicflue and therefore couldn't sit behind my hothead. I don't have a kiln and would hate to ruïn a bead just because I need to run to the you now what...

Anyway I wanted to change providers for a while and I ordered webspace and registered mariekuniek.com some weeks back. This provider not only is a lot cheaper but also already has proven to have a better helpdesk. The only barrier not to move my other domain was the fact my weblog program was still running there, but not anymore.

As of today my blog will be maintained from mariekuniek.com with a newer version of my blogprogram, for wich the people of the helpdesk were more than willing to install the missing drivers necessary. Something my other provider never wanted to do and not a moment to soon also!

The latest bad action of my other provider is that somehow a domain I registered for future use for the past three years and paid for to be registered till next year also, mysteriously was unregistered without my knowing and without any warning. Trouble is someone else already registered it and so now it's lost totally because they already started using it!

So that's definately the last drop, I'm gone there for sure and as soon as everything here is in order my other domain will be transfered too.

Another decision I made is that I want to drop the name Wolenzo for my weblog. I used it for many years now but it doesn't cover what I'm mostly talking about anymore. In the past when I first started blogging, wich by the way is way back longer than the current blogs archive shows, it was supposed to become a blog about woolstuff and a bit about my other crafts.

But now my interests have changed and developed in some totally different directions and I decided to simply name it weblog.mariekuniek.com and let go of wolenzo. The domain will be linked to this place, it's paid for untill next year althought since it's also is registered through my old provider you never know...

I hope both me and you enjoy it here!

P.s. (june 24th) I'm still working on the change, this afternoon I had to rearange my imagefolder and need to manually correct imagelinks in about more than 150 message you will see missing image signs until I've some time to correct them.

Normally I don't talk much about my family on my weblog. Primarly because I strongly believe that my personal life should stay personal as much as possible and secondly since this blog simply is my way to share my creative endeavers with people who are interested.

Today I make a big exception mainly because of proud Momma stuff ;0)

This is Marjolein. She's the oldest of my two kids and yesterday we heard she graduated from the HAVO (school of higher secondary education). Although she thinks she wants to do something related to art like being an art teacher or interieurdesigner she didn't know for sure yet and therefore will stay on the same school for two more years to do VWO (pre-university education).

So congratulations to you my sweet Marjolein ♥

And not only once but twice. Luckely for me twice the same tagging so if you don't mind I combine them because normally I don't give in to the tagging business because they remind me to much of chainletters. Those I certainly dislike some might even say hate. Especially the ones telling you bad things are going to happen if you don't do your share or in case of the more friendly typed letters at least you will miss out of the good things that should happen...

Anyway because a sweet blue sheep and Suana tagged me I will give in for a change.

The rules Start with 7 random facts/habits about yourself People who are tagged have to write their 7 things on their blog Then choose another 7 people to get tagged and list their names Don't forget to leave them a comment to tell them they have been tagged and to read your blog

So here are my 7 facts:
1. Secretly I'm lacy, I like to spent my saturday in my pj's and sometimes don't even bother to shower at all (please don't tell anyone ;0) )
2. I love to read novels and prefer to finish my book in one day or two if that's necessary and I also prefer to read in bed...
3. I work as a secretary four mornings a week to earn my share of our living.
4. I'm terrible at math.
5. Since my mid-twenties after discovering my first grey hairs, I dye my hair because I don't like to have grey hair (well secretly I always want to look younger than I am...)
6. I'm not a real snacker but almost every week I like to buy myself a croquette.
7. I envy people who have a tidy, organised and well furnitured house but somehow my house always ends up being a total mess (luckely you aren't able to see my desk right now! I guess having my own atelier/workshop could be a great start but to be totally honest, I seriously doubt that would make any difference.

And these are the people I've tagged:
Desirée
Sonia
Amy
Barb
Sara
Sarah
Theresa

Dit is wat afgelopen week uit mijn voet gehaald is, je begrijpt dat ik nu een stuk lichter ben ;0) Helaas zal het volgens de chirurg hoogstwaarschijnlijk nog wel minstens een halfjaar duren voordat ik weer zo zal lopen als voor mijn ongeluk. Afijn geduld is zulk één schone zaak , zucht!

This was still in my foot last week. As you can image I'm a bit lighter now ;0). Sadly according to my doctor it will probably take about 6 months before I will be able to walk a bit like before my accident, sigh!

Gisteren heeft de trauma-arts zijn best gedaan om van het in 5 stukken gebroken voetwortelbeentje weer een acceptabel geheel te brouwen, hij was tevreden over het resultaat.
Onder geen beding mag ik er op staan, dus aan mij nu de zware taak om me de komende 8 weken aan de regels te houden zodat één en ander goed kan helen. Voor een type als ik een super lastige opgave. Als alles voorspoedig verloopt, zal de staalplaat en de schroeven waarmee één en ander nu aan elkaar zit over een aantal weken weer verwijderd worden.

Ietwat lastiger is het feit dat mijn heup eigenlijk belast zou moeten worden om goed te herstellen, wat dus weer niet kan omdat het hetzelfde been betreft. Hoe dat nu verder moet is iets wat de fysiotherapeuten moeten gaan bedenken, maar ja dat wordt natuurlijk pas na nieuwjaar.

Mijn advies: Voorkom breuken zeker zo rond de feestdagen...reuze onhandig ;0)

Fijne feestdagen en ik hoop dat jullie jaar iets beter eindigt dan het mijne. Afgelopen dagen heb ik in het ziekenhuis gelegen vanwege een val van mijn fiets. Resultaat: een gebroken heup en een voet met een gecompliceerde breuk.

De heup is inmiddels voorzien van een pen, de voet is in afwachting van operatie komende donderdag in het gips gezet.

Ik ben in ieder geval thuis met Kerst :0)

English readers ...

Na lang wikken en wegen heb ik dan toch de drastische stap genomen om het meeste van mijn haar bij de kapper achter te laten. Tijd voor een frisse nieuwe look ...

Took me a long time but I finally decided to leave most of my hair at the hairdressers. It's time for a new look...

En dit is het dan geworden. Natuurlijk ook meteen een leuk kleurtje erin want ouder worden vind ik niet erg, maar die grijze haren camoufleer ik liever nog maar even :)

And here's the result...ofcourse I also colored my hair to get ride of the grey. I don't mind getting older...I just don't like the grey hair yet :)

P.s. I also decide to write a bit more in my own language but will try to give brief translation as well.

Saturday I had a booth on a oltimer and craftfair. I don't have photo's to show for it and to be honest I'm glad because to me it was a huge dissapointment.

They placed us in a space wich also was the canteen of the building it was held. Doors were open at both sides of the room so I was sitting in the draft all day and was very cold all day.

Outside the weather was georgious and lots and lots of people came to look at the beautiful old cars parked there but only a few came inside and I think about 90 percent of the people that actually came inside were only interested in buying a cup of coffee and going to the toilet. I'm pretty sure it could have been a great day if only they had placed us in a spot in between some old cars!

So next year they can't count on me because I take myself and my Art serious! And for those that actually did came to look at my stuff and decided to drop by my weblog...thank you so much for doing so!

I decided to start a shop on Etsy, so if you're interested in buying my work go and click on the shoplink in the menu on top or on one of the Etsy previews in the right column or click on the little preview-banner above.

Work from Paula Sanz Caballero, this really makes me speechless, WOW!

So much more to see here.

Am I a bad blogger? I probably are but that's mostly because I was away on holiday the last couple of weeks.
Before my vacation I was so busy and spent so much time behind my computer, that mostly I was just happy I could finally leave my screen late at night. I simply didn't feel like reading blogs and forgot to mention here I was going away for a well deserved holiday.

The day after I returned I got the flew and stayed in bed and so that's why after a month and a half I finally find the time to write my blog.

Although I brought my wool and drawing stuff with me I haven't done much crafting or drawing in France. Instead I spent most of my time swimming, reading, sunbathing, walking, shopping, talking with friends and enjoying the wonderfull meals cooked by my husband. Time flew bye, vacation is over and so now it's back to business ;(

Nothing to show from myself yet and therefore two links from artists I think are super:

Paintings by Jen Garrido, I simply love her style because of the way she's combining colors, textures and covering thinks with white paint.

Elina Saari... what can I say? To me she simply is a felting guru, I simply love her work especially the designs of her hats and if only it was possible for me to take a felting course from her.

In lack of other news I decided to show you another collage of the flowers blooming in my garden at the moment.

This for me is a therapeutic picture wich will help me to calm down again. Look at it, these beauty's are all from my backyard. Simply take a moment to enjoy them and leave to go read another blog. But if you happen to be interested in the why, then you might want to click on the link below to read the rest of my entry ... it's up to you.

Shael left a comment on my blog asking a question about what's the best way to save a vector image for the web in illustrator and so I send her back an email with the answer.

Gepubliceerd door Marieke op 24 juni 2006 11:51 am | Permalink | Reacties (4)