Funny little something....

At Willeke's and Simone's I saw something funny. Instead of showing of their results I took the time and liberty to make my own creation. This is the result...

The concept of this fun is:

a type your answer to each of the questions below in Flickr Search.

b Using only the first page, pick an image.

c Copy and paste wach of the URLs for the images into fd's mosaic maker.

The questions:

1. What is your first name? Bianca.

2. What is your favorite food? Italian.

3. What highschool did you go to? Calvijn.

4. What is your favorite colour? I find it difficult to choose one, so I picked rainbow.

5. Who is your celebrity crush? Johnny Depp.

6. Favorite drink? Coffee.

7. Dream vacation? Indonesia.

8. Favorite dessert? Vanilla ice cream.

9. What do you want to be when you grow up? Superwoman..... LOL.

10. What do you love most in life? My kids.

11. One word to describe you: kind.

12. Your flickr name: Instead I used my common webname... nanny ogg (in dutch, ootje-nack)

I think you ought to give it a try as well. It's really funny and I would love to see your results!

Between kids and teeth...

We are having a busy period. In about 4 weeks the kids get their holidays from school. In week 22 we had the "avondvierdaagse", which is a typical dutch thing.Schoolkids in the age of 6 to 12 get to walk a distance for 4 evenings in a row. It's not only for schoolkids though, sportsclubs or families and individuals can also sign in. Everybody gets to walk a distance of 5, 10 or 15 kilometers. My youngest two signed in for 5 kilometers and my oldest son walked 10 kilometers per evening! The kids can't walk on their own, they have to be supervised. I signed up for that task and wednesdayevening I walked the 5 kilometers with my youngest and some of his class-mates. It's a very busy period, cause you have to eat early (in order to be in time). We ate around half past four....
They all got their medal the last evening, so I'm very proud of my bunch!

Then last monday Jan and Teun went on schoolcamp. Jan went to "camping Ronostrand" and Teun went to "camping het Amerveld".

Monday two fathers and I had to help putting up the tents. This was quit an experience since I'm not used to doing that.... (the last tent I put up was 10 years ago!) but we got the job done ;). Tuesday both my boys came back home and they had had a great time!

Then there's the teething part of this blog.... anyone with fear of dentists should probably stop reading right now! Since we live here I had to undergo several dental "projects". I had 3 root treatments and am preparing for a crown (fake molar). Today I had another fitting for the crown. It had been off by half a mm (!) before, this was the third fit and now it's ok. My gums are a bit sore now....

Tomorrow I have to go to the dental lab to pick a colour for the fake tooth, I think purple would be nice LOL. Our car broke down so I have to go by bike. My estimate is that it will take me about 45 minutes to get there.... pfffffff.

I'm off to do some grocerieshopping, bye!

I'll be back

Well, that should have been the title to my latest entry. It's almost a year ago and much has happened since then.

First of all I want to take some time to explain why I've been offline for so long. After we moved to our new home we got into trouble with our internetprovider. They couldn't get their problems solved and left me on my own. After a long struggle of 8 months (yes, you did read that correct, 8 months! Let me remind you of the year we live in.... 2008!!!) we finally got them to terminate our contract.
The first two weeks were the hardest for this selfdiagnosed internetjunk ;). After that I became used to all the spare time and decided to use it to my benefit, and ofcourse my family's.
I did a lot of stitching... and I mean a lot of stitching. Before I could hardly get things finished and in the last period I stitched up quite some works, some new and some things that were on my started-but-never-finished pile. These are a few examples of what I'm talking about....








It's hard to believe but in my internetless period I even joined a new stitching group. It's called the crazy exchange . It's a nice group with the intention of sending members small, cute gifts.If you do receive a gift you commit yourself to sending a return gift within a month. The first gift I got was from Carol-ann. She made me a beautiful christmas ornament. I made her a needle-roll in return:




On the Sanmanboard I joined in a mailartexchange. I got this beautiful envelop from littlemissnaughty

I made this envelop for Angie

Well I guess this is enough for now. I'll soon be back with another update.

Here we go....

Allright, here we go.... I guess it's time to be blogging in English from now on. As you might know, or not, I'm stuck in a very busy period right now.
We're busy trying to decorate our new home. Then my brother got married last Thursday. Since I'm in a bit of a state I'll start by showing you the wedding ring pillow which is partially my work. I got help from a very kind lady, Sabine, who did the embroidery by machine for me. I did sent her the fabric. I included a sase in the package with the fabric and when the finished stitching got in our mailbox I didn't recognize my own handwriting.... pfjew, time to see a doctor.
Here is the pillow

The bride and groom were happy to see it and my eldest son handed the pillow to the couple during the ceremony.
We had a nice day, the weather was good, the food was fine and my brother and his wife said 'yes' at the appropriate moment!

As I mentioned earlier we're busy decorating our new home. We're trying to make the house a home and I can tell you that it takes a huge amount of wall-paper trying to accomplish that ;).
Over the past weeks I got our bedroom, the bedroom of my youngest and the room of my middle son done. This week a pro comes by to do the down-stairs section. It would take me way too long if I tried to do it myself.
The driveway will be paved this Saturday so things are looking good. We expect to be moving by the 23rd of july! Now for all curious little readers... some pictures!

Me in kitchen... Our bathroom...


There are people already claiming the tub!

My sons got to pick a nice color for their bedroom walls. My youngest choose red, the middle one choose green and the eldest choose purple. On this picture you can see a bit of result.

The other walls are plain white so don't worry, his mental health will not be endangered ;).
Hopefully I won't forget the photo camera this week, cause there will be enough new things to show you.

op de valreep

Op de valreep van dit weekend nog een belangrijk advies, LOL.