My life as a mum

One of the things that I don't like about being (a) (reasonably new) single (mum) is that you have to do everything yourself and/or on your own. I guess that is why a lot of things still have not been done in my house. That and the lack of a savings account. But seriously, I don't even have my curtains hanging the way they should. And I guess I would have had that done, if there was a man living here in the house or if someone would have showed me how. I counted on my mum -who used to be a single mum at some time too and who to me seemed to be able to do just anything and who was here in the Netherlands on a holiday a few months ago- to teach me how to be an independent single mum and direct me in how to hang up my blinds but unfortunately it didn't happen. My blinds are still in the same plastic packaging as they have been for a couple of months now. They are now waiting for me to make an appointment with a 'handy man' who then also will do some painting in my hou...

Well, as you know we are currently visiting my mum in Suriname and she is so kind to let us stay in her house. Our lease for the house we rented in Ireland finished so we moved out before we came here. I can't wait though to find another house to call home and to take up the challenge to really turn it into a home. I saw this book on Amazon the other day that I really would love to have. I read the sample of it and was already so blessed by it. She also talks about how she has rented a lot of houses but it never stopped her from turning  it into a home. I can't wait to get it and read it. It is called The Nesting Place and you can find it at Amazon.  Hopefully I can do a review on it another time. I always wanted to share my kitchen with you so I decided to finally do it. In the kitchen the landlord had two paintings of poppy flowers and this inspired me to decorate my kitchen. I went crazy buying red stuff or red/white stuff and enjoyed decorating my kitchen. I al...

Today I am thrilled to be introducing my blogging friend Meg from The Patchwork Paisley. Meg is very creative and talented and great in doing DIY projects.  She has an amazing blog where she shares her life as a mother of two and her wonderful DIY projects.  I’m very excited to have her guest posting here with me today. I was so excited when my new blogging girlfriend, Chan here asked me to do a guest post on her lovely site. I have to admit, this is my first guest blogging experience. So I'm just going to do what I do, and hopefully you'll like it enough to swing by The Patchwork Paisley , where I blog about my life as a mom of 2, a full time middle school art teacher, and an insatiably creative DIYer. Speaking of DIY, I'd love to share with you one of my favorite recent projects today: There have been a whole lot of these floating around Pinterest and the blogosphere lately, and though I will say that I made mine before actually noticing how popular th...

I love to go to youtube for inspiration for my home whether it is to watch clips about cleaning, organizing or decorating my home. One of the youtube movies I came across is one about organising anf decorating your home office desk. I really love this clip and want to share it with you today. I love the ideas that she shares and this clip was a great inspiration when I was working on my home office desk. Some things were a confirmation of ideas that I already worked out myself, which was really great to find out. I hope that you'll  enjoy watching it too. Which idea do you like the most ? I personally love point 3 & 4 about putting things around you that inspire you and things that you love. I already had done that with my office desk and it was great to see that back in this clip. I haven't got a fancy office desk but will share it soon. Love,

As you might be aware, I really love to decorate my home and I’m very interested in home decoration in general. So for those who are interested in seeing home decoration posts, I have decided to try to do at least one home decoration post per week. This could be a room tour, or favourite finds that I’ve found online or in a shop, pins from pinterest or a guest post. If you saw my post A toddler bedroom tour , you know that I sometimes shop at Zulily for home décor items. I actually love them the most for those items. Like every day, I received an email from them today and when I looked up what was on offer I saw a few frames that I like. I really love pictures but there are actually not a lot that I am displaying at the moment. And I really want to bring some change in that. Below are some frames of The Frame Shop that I love. They are currently on offer on the Zulily UK website. I actually love this idea. You would need to have a big picture and then cut it in 6 pieces t...

I never really had baby rooms for my babies. So after we brought Nevaeh home, she had a little corner in my room. She had her crib, a changing unit and closet in my bedroom with her clothes in it and a nappy stacker on the door. But I always planned on getting her, her own bedroom one day. I saw video’s on youtube of baby rooms in the bird theme and fell in love with that theme. I loved the Pottery Barn theme and wanted to give her a room with birds and owls, a little bit like in that theme. So I started shopping last year and thinking of ideas for her room. I never really got to making that room though. Apart from hanging up a frame or two, it always stayed a plan. This Summer Yovannah got her own Hello Kitty room for her birthday and afterwards we also did the other bedrooms. Nevaeh and Yovannah are really close and they both love Peppa Pig a lot. And Nevaeh now loves Peppa pig a bit more than Yovannah does. So when we asked her what kind of room she wanted she said a Peppa ...

Like I mentioned before in a post, I’m not the most organized person but I would love to be organized. I always loved the idea of having a nice home. But somehow I didn’t seem to manage to have it for long. I was too busy and too tired to keep it up or often I felt down and/or stressed and then that stopped me from being able to do much. But God promised in His word that He will give us the wishes of our heart. Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4 NIV I'm feeling better in general -thanks to God- and this Summer I took some time to de-clutter the house. There is still much more to do, but we had a great start. I was able to make some changes here and there and to decorate the house a bit in the way I liked. I couldn’t afford expensive things but I picked up things here and there and got a lot from the carboot sale as well. It's almost hard to believe the treasures that you can find there for only a little bit of mone...