Friday is my day: Huismus

Hey, today we will have fun day with Simone from huismus.etsy.com She will show how one of her days goes and take us to a flight to Madrid. Beside her flight attendant work she creates very pretty jewelry and crochets baby booties and her favorite colors are pink, turquoise and purple. I envy a little all the countries she is able to see and the breakfast making/cooking man she has... ;)

Please visit her etsy shop!

Earrings - Turquoise Copper - OOAK
by Huismus

Good friday everyone, my name is Simone and I live with Glen and our two kids -Skye and Levi- in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.


This sweetie is always the first thing I see when I wake up (just as blurry as in the picture, haha) Skye's an early bird and wakes us every day between 6:30 and 7:00. She crawls into bed with us and our day starts with talking, reading books and snoozing a bit for the first half hour. Levi has had really bad sleeping habits for the first 2 years of his life, well.. no habits at all actually ;-) but has turned into a lazy little boy over the last couple of months. We'll have to wake him and let him be for a bit so he can really wake up. I'll take a shower first, Glen gets the kids dressed, takes them downstairs and makes us breakfast.

When I come down my 3 sandwiches are made, with vitamine pills and coffee. Yay! This start makes the rest of my day so much easier.. I can't find words to say how much I appreciate this. Glen rocks :-)I'll have breakfast with the kids and then check Etsy - are there any sales? Convo's to reply? New treasuries? When I have time I check in on the teamthread and click on the recently listed items. I love that fullscreen mode and have to admit I'm getting a bit addicted :-) Oh, and I open Twitter, Blogger and Mail.


Today I have to work. I usually work on intercontinental flights but I'll be going on a 3 day European trip. First to Madrid this afternoon, Milan tomorrow and an Amsterdam-Paris-Amsterdam the next.While the kids are drawing and coloring I pop upstairs a few times to finish packing. After being a flight attendant for the past 10 years I can pack my suitcase in less than 10 minutes, ha!I cheat a bit as a lot of stuff stays in there like flipflops, toiletbag and some clothes I never seem to need..And of course I always take some yarn.


Around 9:30 the kids have a drink and biscuits in the garden. I'll have a second coffee, we play a bit, read books, and at 11:30 Levi's ready for bed again.I've also done some laundry, vacuumcleaning, dishwashing and taken the garbage out. There won't be any Huismus-time today unfortunately, I only have to ship a pair of booties.



Then Skye and I have some fruit and when she watches Diego (she loooves him!) I make some pictures.I hardly ever take my favorite macrolens off and the garden is full of beauty at the moment.Together with some neighbors we take care of a straycat we call 'Tuttebel' and she joins me.. she's the sweetest.We've made her a place to sleep in our garden and she comes in every morning and evening to have her food & drink. I seem to be good at that :-) We used to have cats but had to find them another place to live because of Skye's allergy. Like this we can take care of a cat without having one in the house. She wouldn't be happier indoors anyway, she loves it outside! When it's cold in winter we make her warmwater bottles, she's a real stray princess :)

Ok, lunchtime! A not so ordinairy one today, but you know what they say about airline food eh?So I switch lunch for dinner and take some sandwiches with me for later.I'll have it with Skye at my fav place in the back of our garden. Sun's out, we'll have a talk before I go. Good stuff!

2:00 -Glen's home! Yay! As soon as he comes in he goes straight to the kitchen and asks what we've had and what we want next. Always. No joke! I never ever cook..I'm good so he makes the kids and himself some rolls. Today he's early because I have to work, usually he's home at 6.Levi's up from his nap and very happy to see his dad home already.

At 3 pm it's time to go. I've put my funny suit on and drive to the airport. It takes about an hour and I make a complete fool out of myself by singing along -as loud as I can- with my favorite music.I don't wear my jacket in the car -and I think my boss should also be happy I don't, so that people won't recognize me as a blue bird :-)As I get there I park the car. Take the bus to the airport. Report for the flight. Put my suitcase on the cart. Get my daily allowance. Check my mailbox and get ready for the briefing in one of our new 'cubes' as we call them.It's a fun crew today and off we go. Byebye Amsterdam!

After getting everybody their food and drinks there's time for a short cockpit visit. Since 9-11 no passengers are allowed to get in so they really like us coming over for a chat and coffee.Check the meters; making a left tuuuuuurn!

In Madrid another crew takes over and we're taken to our hotel in town. I always text my mom as soon as we've landed. I know -I'm 41- but it makes her really happy! :-)I plan to sleep in a bit and do some shopping tomorrow before the flights MAD-AMS-MXP.

View from a room. I've seen many over the years and learned a couple of things;When the smoke alarm goes off; go downstairs! I never did and that's really-really stupid.Remove your bedspread, they're never washed, there must be an army of bedbugs in it.When something -ok, besides your phone- falls on the floor in between your bed and bedtable; leave it there. Everybody does.And when you put something in the rooms safe, put one of your shoes in there as well :-)

First thing I do when I'm in my room; check Mail.Glen always writes a full report of how things went at home. So fun. Keeps me connected when I'm at work, so I know what the kids are talking about when I'm back and he's at work again.And yes; after that I check Etsy again.. I'm as addicted as everybody else :-) Only then it's time for a shower and a good night sleep, bye!

Thanks and happy weekend!! xo