Dutch designer and artist. I love my sweetheart Wouter and our son Seth. Interests: photography, art, design, games, music, beauty, cooking and travel. I have lipedema.
For my design work, please visit Miss Design. For my handmade items, go to Retro Hugs. And for my game reviews and downloads, go to SNW. Looking for my brainchild Junior? He's at Juniorwood!
Dead Ringers
Minecraft
Granny Smith apple
Water
I'm still working on the new website. Most of the posts (including artworks, blog posts and 365 posts from 2009, 2010 and 2011) are missing. These posts will return eventually. Thanks for your patience! 
3 SNuF plushies and Junior at the Brabants Asparagus Fest #brabantsaspergespektakel.
Plushies!!! Two SNuF plushies with Junior at the Brabants Asparagus Fest #brabantsaspergespektakel
Collection of morning pictures. First one shows Junior. He enjoyed the sleepover in Baarlo. Baarlo? Yes, that's where my in-laws live. And since we moved half of the important stuff to the new home, everything is divided so we can't sleep and shower in our apartment.
Second photo shows the tea I drank this morning. Yes, I enjoyed it. I even posted a picture on Facebook haha. And people liked it too!
Third picture is my morning face, with my new glasses of course, sitting in the van next to Wouter.
And that leaves picture number four to be Wouter, sitting next to me, in that same van. Love how he squeezes out his tongue when he's trying to focus on something. 
If there is something I hate, it's being sick and not being able to do anything. Sleeping, watching TV and drawing seem to be the only things I'm able to do right now.
At least Junior is keeping me company. 
Don't you just love December? I do. It's a happy month. A month with several festivities, presents, gathering with family, food. Yes. Well I will keep today's post short, because I am very busy at work at the moment. But this month I'll spend more time on blogging, besides the regular 365 posts, I'll also try to draw a little from time to time. I'm so busy I tend to neglect my hobbies.
So far I know Junior, Mogway, Paul and Renssies are going to participate in the December blogging of 2011. If you'd like to join, let us know through our December Bloggers Facebook page or send a reply on Twitter @decemberblogger!
I have a lot to talk about this month. I promise tomorrow will have some quality blogging! For now, please go to our Twitter and Facebook profiles to admire the December 2011 look! 
Breakfast today was different. For the first time, the girl helping us (every day another one btw) told us we could just sit wherever we want. Breakfast tasted nice. I did enjoy it.
Today we planned to go watch the changing of the guards. But we were also eager to send some mail to The Netherlands and the UK. And some of the mail required large envelopes, something the local postal office did not seem to sell. Luckily a Pound Stretcher store was nearby. There, I also bought three pairs or fluffy socks (yay!); zebra print, pink leopard and plain pink. So awesome. And a lot cheaper than the ones I can get in The Netherlands. Once all the mail was ready, we realized it was too late to get to Buckingham Palace. So we just decided to skip it today. Maybe Thursday then.
We traveled from Edgware to Baker Street, via King's Cross St. Pancras. We took the Metropolitan line. And it was here that I first heard the 'Mind the Gap' message out loud since we arrived here last week.
At Baker Street, we went straight to 221b Baker Street. We also found out it's not an actual address (anymore). Obviously we noticed the Sherlock Holmes museum. ChEeTaH wanted to see the souvenir shop. I on the other hand got annoyed because we don't have any money any more to spend on souvenirs. And then he wants to take me to a souvenir shop? Hell no.
We had loads of time to spend, but nowhere to go. ChEeTaH spotted a Starbucks. So far, every attempt to go to Starbucks has failed. Simply because it's either closed or just too busy. I'm not going in there, spending a lot of money on a drink that I have to take with me again and not having any place to sit. I don't like strolling down the street with a drink in my hand. After yesterday, my legs were still hurting badly, so I had the need to sit.
So no Starbucks then.
We also spotted Costa Coffee. But this one, was next to the Starbucks and was just as busy, maybe even worse!
So no Costa Coffee either. Pfffrt.
And then we came across the EAT. (The Real Food Company). There was enough room to sit, inside and out. They had free wifi. And the drinks were pretty cheap as well! So we got two cokes. We had a bit of an early lunch inside, 2 Ham & Jarlsberg baguettes (unfortunately English cheese isn't the same quality as Dutch cheese), a chocolate muffin and a strawberry cupcake!
When we were done, we slowly walked towards Madame Tussauds. We already had tickets for this. Despite the pain in my legs and feet, I had a great time. Junior went on many pictures with many celebrities. Pay attention to Junior's website because he will soon be updating with lots of cool pictures. Imagine Beyoncé or Barack Obama posing with Junior! People were laughing about Junior. Everyone seemed to like it. 
At Madame Tussauds, we also watched Marvel Super Heroes in 4D. This was really cool! 
Again, we didn't buy any souvenirs. If I would have known how many cool souvenirs they sold at Madame Tussaud's, I would have saved more money. 
We traveled to Waterloo station pretty quickly. There we decided to wait a little, before entering the London Eye around sunset. But first we watched the London Eye experience in 4D. We were indeed in the London Eye during sunset. I made some great pictures! Again, people noticed us taking a few pictures of Junior. And people were laughing again. Some even took pictures of Junior! People really like Junior.
After the London Eye experience, I took a few more pictures at the pier, and then we continued to the Namco building, where we went to Costa Coffee. Unfortunately there was a corporate party so dinner was taking some time. We waited for over an hour, but I didn't mind that much. Just as long as I could sit down and relax, use free wifi and watch some TV. After drinking a coke and a hot chocolate, we got our pizza and chips dinner. There was something wrong with the communication between staff members. The girl serving us the plates of food, gave us ketchup and barbecue sauce. I don't like either of these. And yesterday we got sour cream with salt, pepper and vinegar. I absolutely loved that! She seemed annoyed that I asked for sour cream. When she came back again with drinks, I asked if I could have some pepper. This time she seemed even more annoyed. What's the problem? We had the same items yesterday. I didn't enjoy today's visit to Costa Coffee as much as yesterday. Service was so-so and it was freezing inside! Food tasted nice though. And we got to see the first half of the England-Montenegro game.
When we left, I took a few more pictures of the London Eye and of course the Big Ben. The lights made everything so pretty. After that we traveled back from Waterloo to Edgware.
In Edgware we texted the taxi service. 30 Minutes later there still wasn't a taxi. I got annoyed. It's cold outside, it's dark, there are people outside that make me feel uncomfortable. I texted again. 15 Minutes later, no taxi. We decided to grab a different taxi service. Expensive compared to the taxi service we normally use, but it was almost 11pm and we were tired and just wanted to go to the hotel. I did send a third text, because we're decent people and want to let them know we want to cancel the request. 45 minutes is too long.
Luckily the WHSmith store around the corner is open 24hrs a day. So ChEeTaH bought a couple of Buxton bottles, another Frijj milkshake (Thick & Smooth Chocolate Fudge Brownie) and a Lion candy bar.
So far, Junior has been blogging every single day in December. Today he found back his new car. And because of that, he made a very cool racing video.
You may not know what this is all about. I don't think I have really explained this yet on my own blogs so I will try to do this now.
Before December started, I was looking at my own blog and realized I only blogged a few times a month. And it's not as if I'm not doing anything else. It's not always a possibility to blog whenever you please. Then there's the issue that your topics may not be interesting to others. But you will always have this. Not everyone can enjoy your posts. With that in mind, I decided to (at least try and) post every day in December. So that's how the December Blogging project was started.
Paul noticed this, and thought it was so much fun, he'd join in as well and do the same on his blogs, in Dutch and English. Very soon, Junior followed, doing the same on Juniorwood in Dutch and English. Mollie Moonbeam decided the world really needs her environmental tips during this expensive and materialistic month. Who can blame her for that? Rens also started the December blogging in Dutch on Renssies. Corosben Mini'Mata shares us about his planet's festivities. And Mogway has also seen the light and decided to join us on her blogs in English and Dutch! Jimmy joined us today and is blogging in Dutch on his blog.
Who's next? You? Everyone is welcome to join. Just let us know on our Facebook page, or through Twitter (send us a reply @december_blog on Twitter).
I cannot guarantee I will post every day in December. But I will most certainly try.
Last month, on Valentines Day, we celebrated two birthdays, ChEeTaH's and mine. Our friends were invited. Some of them couldn't make it unfortunately. But those who were here had a great time as far as I know. We had lots of fun on the Wii dancing on the DDR Hottest Party game. And I spent a lot of time in the kitchen making snacks and dinner. I also released Junior's cool new website called Juniorwood. It's a fabulous and glamorous blog, featuring of course Junior. The website's theme is Hollywood, hence the name Juniorwood! I've had a lot of help from ChEeTaH on this one. We both liked working on it since Junior is our mascotte and cat son 
Cool features are the fact that the header changes during the day. It has 4 different views; Morning, Afternoon, Evening and Night. The website of course validates XHTML Strict 1.0, CSS 3.0 and CSS 2.1! Built on Drupal, made with love!
Junior really loves his new website and feedback will be greatly appreciated!
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