Floors and Doors

Our new house begins to look like a real home. During the weekend we had a lot of help from Rob his uncle and my parents. Now we have doors and floors. The doors are with leaded light, very old fashioned, but I really love them. Thursday and friday will be the big days, then we start moving to our new home. Click on PHOTOS to have look around in our new home.

Polar Bears

I found some time between painting and cleaning to do some quilting. So I made a little polar-bears-quilt from the fabrics and patron I bought in Seattle. Yesterday evening at our quiltbee at Evy I finished it. So now it's ready to hang somewhere in our new house (I'm thinking about the toiletroom).

DIY - Painting is started

Friday the building workers finished their job, so time to start painting. This weekend we finished, with help from our friends Dieuwke and Tale the kitchen, living room and diningroom. So still two weeks to go before they start with the floors. Just three weeks and we're living in our new home.

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"Patchwork" cans (blikken)

Look what I found at the supermarkt/grocery. Aren't these cans lovely. I bought them for my new house. For everybody who's living in the Netherlands you can get them at AH (Albert Heijn) for about 2,99 and 3,99 euro.

DIY, Do It Yourself

Well it's only 1,5 week that I'm back from Seattle, but no time to do some quilting and patchwork with my "american" fabrics. Last monday we got the keys of our new appartment. So now (especially Rob) s very busy to do some DIY. Lucky we have a lot of help from Rob his uncle and some building workers, because the 20th october it has to be finished. At the moment it's big mess, but they keep assuring me that everything will be oke.

The Hague day 13, coming home

PHOTOS, after a 10 hours flight I'm back in the Netherlands, very tired but happy, Rob and Paco were waiting on the Airport for me. I went with 1 suitcase, and came back with 2 suitcases.


So no more: coloured houses with verandas and decks, big refrigators, yellow schoolbuses, groceries where they put you groceries in a bag for you, coffeeshops with your name signed on the cup, breakfast with crumpets, very big cans with peanutbutter, baseballgames, leaving your mail you want to send at your mailbox, rows of newspaperboxes, take home the leftovers, HOV-lanes, 4-litre milk cans, quiltshops with shoppingcharts (winkelwagentje), yellow cabs, buying quiltmagazines at a drugstore and eggs and bacon for breakfast. But lots of bicycles, wooden shoes and windmills.

Seattle day 11 and 12, Flying home

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Saturday was a quiet day, I came with 1 suitcase and leave with 2. I did some quilting, finished a few projects and had a rather lazy day, after all the impressions of the last 10 days.

This afternoon (sunday) at 12.50 I'm flying back to the Netherlands, and I will arrive at monday morning 7.40 at Schiphol. I have had such a wonderful time here in Seattle. Marne and Elaine are such a lovely couple, you can't imagine. They're so nice. I really had a very good time at their home. I felt very welcome. I will really miss them. Of course I did a lot shopping, visiting people and sightseeing but I also did very interesting things tourist normally don't do, Teen Feed and Stone Soup Quilters. That makes the time in Seattle also very special. Thank you so much for a beautyfull time in Seattle. I hope to see you next year in the Netherlands in The Hague. We're busy making plans for 2009 and 2010. Seattle here I come again.

Seattle day 10, Fish and chips

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In these 10 days that I'm in Seattle, we did a lot of "real" american things. But I didn't have Fish and Chips. So Marne and Elaine decided that we would have dinner at "Ivers Salmon House". Well I can tell you, it's a lovely place to have our fish and chips. We were sitting out on the deck, and looked over the water for the sunset. It was the end of a perfect day. Tomorrow (saturday) is my last day, time to pick up my things and sort everything out, sunday I'm flying back to the Netherlands.

Seattle day 10, Salmons Dock

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Seattle is very interesting city, there are so much different things to do. After the Space Needle we went to a beautyfull park, there you can visit the "Fish Ladder", it's especially build for the salmon, so that they can climb up. The docks are on the barrier of salt and fresh (zoet) water. So when the salmon go from saltwater to the fresh water, they swim around for some while, so that their bodies can get used to the fresh water.

Seattle day 10, Space Needle

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One of the buildings that's very recognizable in Seattle is the Space Needle. You can go all the way up and have beautyfull views of Seattle. The weather was perfect for a visit. So we took the elevator up. It brings you in 41 seconds 520 feet (185 meter) high to the observation deck. The Space Needle was build in 1961/1962 for the World Fair.