Friday is my day: Sumikoshop

Ok enough of Netherlands, it's time to fly to Italy and meet Evelyn from sumikoshop.etsy.com who has passion to eastern style and Japan especially and you can see it in her cute jewellery shop. Happy Friday to you all!

Oxidized Sterling Silver - Red earrings

by: Sumikoshop

7.30 -8,30:

I wake up .... I have breakfast with Andrea and my son Brian, Coffee milk and biscuits or tarts with jam, homemade ...

Andrea before going to work, go to post office to send my packages, and I stay home with my son ...
I do not work until he goes to nursery, to September 2010.

9,30-11,30

I turn on my computer, I look at the email, if there were sales, and chat a bit with my team ...

write a little in the blog, and prints the address for shipment of packages ...

I do the house cleaning, washing machine, and my son enjoys very much cleaning the furniture with me ....

11,30-12,30

now is the best moment because, the postman delivers my mail, and I love to open packages .... Today I also received a gift, that I won a giveaway a month ago



oh no, now it's snowing .... it is very nice to see but now I have to stay at home and I can not take photos of my new items ....

The morning passed so quickly that I did not realize that it's time to cook lunch Today spaghetti with tomatoes and onions ...

13,30- 15,00

then turn on the TV for my son, he always wants to watch cartoons, and then when he is asleep I begin my productive day ...

15,00 – 16,00

if I do not have to go out, I use my entire afternoon to do all my things:
iron and create new accessories …..

17,30-18,30

behold, my son is already awake ... and I have to limit what I was doing ..
He sits next to me and looks at me, but then begins to tap everywhere, and I have to stop being in my studio ....

19,00-20,30
it's time to make dinner …
stay at home time flies
this evening Andrea wants to cook ...

Friday is my day: Vilt à la Kim

Hello again friday and friday peeps :)
Guess what; we will still stay in Netherlands, why leave once we got here, right? Today we will meet Kim from viltalakim.etsy.com
who makes your world nicer and warmer with felt. That's true for sure!
Enjoy your Friday!

wetfelted bottle so now a recycled flowervase order your bottle

by: viltalakim

My day is Friday

Monday 25-01-2010

Written by Kim Nijsten. Vilt à la Kim.

I think it was 07.00 ‘O clock when my husband tried to wake me up and took this picture. 15 minutes later I finally raised myself out of my warm, cozy bed and so my day begun….. with washing and dressing up my girls and myself first before heading downstairs, where my husband is already making breakfast for the kids and their lunchboxes for school.

08.10 H Time to get the coats on and cycle the kids to school. Meg was sick today so I cycled with Janna. Their school is about 5 minutes far away and starts at 8.30 so we are well on time.

8.40 I am home again. Hubby is waiting for me curious to know if it went fine. As Janna doesn’t like to go to school…..

Now time for own breakfast. Yoghurt, muesli with bread and grapesjuice today. I love sitting here and watching the birds come and go in my garden.

09.00h now is a good time to check if I sold anything last night: No luck for me today no sales, off to the europeanstreetteamthread to wish everyone a good morning and organizing my mail.

9.20 h. I need to be at my school where I teach at 10.00h , normally My lesson starts at 8.30 and I’ll should have left the house at 7.30 then, but as I now need to go to my work on therapeutic basis, I can arrive a little later and not for a whole day but for only 2 hours. I kind a look up to going again as it gives me a nervous feeling and heartbeats in my throat… But I am no softie so here I go driving on the high way. The picture is halfway my20 minute drive through a misty landscape today.

09.40h I am lucky I found a nice parking spot in front of my school. Do you see where my classroom is?

09.45h I wanted to take a pic of my class room as well so I went straight to room 109 . My collogues where in the classroom with older students and I took a quick shot. While students were making display materials. It is a very big room and behind “my back” are even a tap and some more tables. I teach children aged 12-16 how to make flower arrangements, did you know?

09.55 h I made sure I was at “my office” before 10 o’clock as the students are having a break then and it is always very crowded in the hall ways . We have to share our computers so you drop where a pc is free, I always try to sit here as it is light and with a view outside….

11.45 time to leave , PFFF I made it, hihihihi

So happy to see Maastricht on the signs again. As that’s very close where I live.

12.15 I am at home and make myself a sandwich for lunch.. and after that I am so tired I fell asleep on the couch till 14.30h. Nearly time to pick up Janna from school. Today I had a appointment and needed to collect some things for it. You see on the picture. For 8 years I arranged as a volunteer a “collecte” for the “Reumafonds” A collecte is something very typical Dutch, I heard: People are walking from door to door with a bus (the green thing on the picture) and ask if people want to give some money for new cures for Rheumatic diseases. We collected last year 3,7 million Euro’s. It is always happening in the first week of March but As I organized it for our town, all by myself I didn’t feel good about it this year. I am going to visit 2 ladies who are willing to take that part over from me.

17.30 Dinnertime, This evening we are eating Indonesian food: chicory soup with corn , meat and roasted unions, cucumber and rice. I love eating Indonesian as my father came from there. After dinner a quick on-line check again, to see what I missed. Today I didn’t have much time as the kids wanted to make some “ fat balls” with grains for the birds before I took them in.

20.30h Kids are finally in bed and my sister came by to get a start at some new carnival costumed I am going to sew for her as she don’t know how to sew. A bit later my mother drops in too. She has more experience then me in sewing and we are trying to get as much parts out of the fabric as possible.

23.00h my sister and mother are gone and I take a last view on the internet. Which results in closing my pc on 0.13h. It was a long day…… without felting, sigh….. But tomorrow will be a new day!!

Friday is my day: Martice

Netherlands is so lovely and tiny country so let's use our opportunity and hop to Leiden and meet Marta from martice.etsy.com
She knits fun laptop sleeves, baby booties and scarves. Please visit her colorful shop!

Knitted laptop sleeve and Macbook sleeve 13 inch (also Pro) Under the Sea blue
by: martice

The grey day

The day starts at 12.00h in the evening doesn't it? Well I was rolling balls of yarn at that hour, very meditative I must say! At 02.15 I went to sleep (which is very late for me), so my day started very early today! I decided to try to change my biological clock and to try to sleep shorter. I woke up at 7.30 and send my bf a text message saying "good morning". Normally we would wake up together but today he's at a nerdy conference with fellow physicists. So I stood up alone.. well not totally alone... this week is very different... Litto the hairy bearded collie woke up in the same room. I'm watching Litto this week, because my mother is on holiday. This means for me that my day looks different.

First thing I do in the morning is run to my MacBook to see if something has happened while I was sleeping :) I found out that my nomination category at the Poppies opened. :) So I started my campaign ;)
7.45 Then I had a quick shower with the best soap in the world ( www.etsy.com/shop/ultimateorganicsoap ).

8.15 Now it's time to walk the dog (dog is already waiting). The morning walk is always very difficult, a big conflict of interest: walk the dog for a long time or compensate the time that I slept too long and walk not that long. But generally the first one wins, because it's best to have the dog a bit tired before I leave to work.
9.00 Normally I would go to work by bike or car, but car is broken and I feel ill, so I have been going by bus for the last week. This is not the best way though. I have to wait for a very long time.
And then I arrive at work, too late. I work in one room with one colleague. I was used to working alone, but now I love sharing a room. I generally bother her with all my stories the whole time :) and listen to her as well :). Today I brought her some Japanese tea with apple. :) Yum. She always gives me home made jam :) I get my first cup of coffeee and probably second one. Eat candy out of the jar (too much).
14.00 After working a few hours I go home, not too late, because dog is waiting. In between two busses I did some groceries and when I came home I walked the dog. The weather was nice for the first time in a few days and even dry, which gave me the opportunity to make some pictures of my sleeves outside in our small little outside place. :) Dog helped me out, by blocking the sun ;)
15.00 A quick lunch... and a good coffeeee
15.30 I had to go out again. A colleague is leaving us tomorrow and I have to buy him a trolley as a gift. So I went out and doggie watched me walk away. How can you leave him alone?? Well have to!
15.45 On my way first to the animal store to get him some more things to chew on. So I got him two toys, one bone and a bag of cookies. Now on my way to the trolley, which I found! Choosing was difficult, because they had like 50 different ones. I also found some nice letters with the first letter of my (new) surname and my bf surname! And only for 1 euro p.p. Want it! Buy it! Where to hang it? I don't know.. we'll see!

17.00 Back home again :) The canals are nice in this light :) And yes.. walk the doggie again! pfff.. soon it will be over! :)

17.15 I opened my mail and found my new etsy order that arrived :) yes yes yes :) My Black Felted Barette arrived and it's so cute! Ok now enjoying As The World Turns :) I just love watching the serie and doing whatever (generally playing with my mac) :) very relaxing :) Doggie also wants the play though ;) Play and eat his bone!
17.30 BF send me message, he will be home in 30 minutes :) So I will prepare dinner :) But first some more ATWT

18.00 BF comes home and we talk about the day that passed. He fixes the internet that was off for a whole day. Ooh! I sold a sleeve! :)

18.45 Dinner is served! (very easy almost ready dinner)

An the evening begins.. If we don't have any plans it means that we put on the TV and start working on our Macs. Two whiteys on a white couch. I also knit and bf works on his extended family tree :) Sometimes we are like 65-year olds. But who cares, these evenings are relaxed if you have a busy life. :)
We're both tired, so we want to go sleep early, but yes yes! Doggie comes around the corner again, but now it's bf turn :)

And now we sleep!

Imagine now different my day is, when I'm not babysitting the dog.

Things I didn't do and normally do/should do: write my thesis