Gasoline and Easter Eggs....

Sometimes I wish my live was a little bit more easy going. The days are way to short for me. And the weekends.... With one blink of my eye's it's monday again. Last weekend we had 3 days off from work. And I was so glad to get back to work, so I could relax a little bit. :)
Saturday we had the big car-swap. It was exciting, but now we have 5 "new" Americans. It was a 2 hour drive back home...Pfffff  One was sold already one day later to my daddy. And I am driving now a '72 Chrysler with 440BB as daily till it is sold, and then the Pontiac will come out of the garage again. Yeah.

Sunday, EasterSunday. My parents came over. We live about 120Km's from each other and I miss them. First we went to the carbootsale at the Geffens Plas, but it was way to hot. I bought a few old photo-camera's. So glad we got home again. My dad had a test-drive in a great looking old Dodge Pick-up and he bought it. After that we had a lovely lunch with some home-made coockie's, muffins and sand-wiches. (I love to cook) Great view at the apple blossom and a beautifull sunny day.... and I was glad to see my mom and dad again.
Monday's we had to bring the Pick-up to my dad and had a great bbq with my sister and her kids. :) So again a long drive....
I didn't get enough sleep this weekend and I hope to catch it up later......
Next blog I will show you a few sewwing magazine's from 1947. Found them on a flea-market....

Whole lotta Rosie

My head is a bit fluffy from all the work and the new programm wich we are going to use on the new machine's. I love my job. It is not a job that a lot of girls choose to do. I am a CNC-miller....
In the old days when the men went to join the army in WWII, women had to take over their jobs in the factory's. Many thanks to these great women, who build planes and machine's and showed the world that you don't have to be a man to do this. But I am not jealous of them. The work was hard and tough. The machine's big and heavy..... It was a dirty job...

Nowadays the job is much easier. Instead of the heavy convential machine's there are now very nice computerizes machine's. The job is so much better then it was 70 years ago. Most of the time you are sitting behind the computer and making programms for the machine's. The machine is now a robot and you have to tell him what to do.

Just like the Rosie's I've worked for a big company that made parts of airplane- and aerospace-company's. It feels so great to hold a part of a Joint Strike Fighter in your hands. It was a great time. Now I am working at a nice little company just around the corner, and we are busy with a big new project. It is very exciting and I have to learn a lot of new things.

I used to do a lot for women in technic jobs. I was a role model for schools and did a lot of interviews and photoshoots for different kind of magazines. Now I don't have the time for this anymore and I miss it a little bit. Here is an old photo of my (please don't watch my hair or my broken nose or so.) from 2 years ago. Last week it was in the FNV magazine.  :(

For now.... I am going to enjoy my weekend! Finally.... :)

XX



The place where I live...

The place where I live...

I always lived in small villages. Thank god that the big city was just a moment away. My last house in Limburg was a big old farmhouse in the middle of the village-center at a river. It was quiet, and everything was within walking distance. Then I moved.... 120km up the river. Our house is standing to the same river as my old house. It is very petit and in the middle of nowhere. When you don't have a car, you must have a very good condition. In the winter-time it is very lonely here. Now that the summer is on her way, it is beautifull to live here. Still we are now looking for another house. A bit bigger and more near a village....

Here is a small impression of our house, garden, fruitgarden and river...

Photo's are made with old, vintage camera's and bad film. (one of my collections and addictions)                                      

And I am very sorry for my late blogging. But I am very very busy lately.

It is a busy time at my work (wich I love very much), with our cars who are coming out of the garage again.

And in the weekends we spend a lot of great time with our sweet friends.

Today is our meeting season starting.... so a few weekends are going to be spend on kustom show's and American meetings. :) I love the Kustom Kulture.

xx