Tiki

I am a weekendblogger. It is amazing to see how some off you post a blog everyday. I wished I've had the time. During the week I have to get up at 5 in the morning, walk the little doggie's and go to work. We carpool.... But this means I have to stay longer for an hour and I am glad when I am back home at 6 in the evening. I have a few hours left for making (or getting) diner and do some stuff around the house. When it is fryday I am so glad! Mostly I try to do the house-cleaning in the evening when I get back from work so I have the weekend to do other things. It didn't work out this week. So we stayed at home and did all the things we still had to do. Best thing I've worked on is the fifties tikibar. We bought it not long after we moved into the house. It needed some real TLC. It had been standing outside for a while and the top was almost gone. I already started sanding it a few months ago. Today I finished the sanding and put some paint on it. You still see that it suffered from rain, but it looks better now. This week I will fill up the top with some new wood and than figure out what to do with it. Paint it or so..... The dark fabric on the chairs (or how you name them) is now brown and I have some gorgeous leopard-print for that. I hope to finish it soon, it is getting cold outside....... :s

On the last photo the paint is drying. I cann't wait to put it inside.
And please Mary-Lou, you won the price, please send me a message. See the other post. :)
xxxx Have a wonderfull week!

Big, bigger, biggest..... :D

It was a very very busy week. But a great week. I've worked long days. That was not so great.
On saturday we finnaly had the pleasure to meet the Canadian wife of one of hubby's friends. She was gorgeous! Best thing was that has a doggie that looks a lot like our Lola, and also is named Lola. :) It was so nice to see them together.
Before that we went to a bootsale in Belgium. They told us there were 450 sellers but when we got there it was about 800. I've been to big bootsale's but this was really Tha Bomb!

Please don't paye attention to the way I look. We had to get up early and already spent a few hours and miles at the bootsale.

My feet are killing me....

How sweet are these... <3 Came home with me for 3 euro. A bit to big.....

Found a lot of vintage dresses and one woman was selling "new" sixties and seventies vintage boots. She got them from a store that was bankrupt. Shoes that old and never walked one.... I bought 8 pair for 28 euro. I was soooo happy. But my most beautyfull thing was the coat. It is problebly from the sixties and also new condition. It smelled like old lady's perfume and mothballs but in such a good condition. It was 18 euro and not much for such a great coat. Normaly I don't spent more then 10 euro for a piece of clothing but this was a  bit exception. 

And now taaataaataaaaataaaaaaaa, the big winner! Hubby picked one of the names. So when you are not on it, blame him. 

So please Mary Lou, will you send me your adress in a mail? Please to devil-made-in-heaven@hotmail.com
I also will include a pair of vintage gloves. They are so cute, but I already have to much....

Thanks for stopping by. Tomorrow I will pop by everybody. :D
xxx

My little family

I still haven't introduce you to my family.
We don't have any children but we have a few furry kiddy's.
Two kittycat's who both where found on the street by me and my ex.
They were still kittens when they came into my little family. I just don't understand people who put such sweety's on the street..... Sierra, who loves to spent most of her time in bed. :) (analoog photo)

 

Dodge who sometime's thinks she is a dog... Loved the doggy-ride. 

 Our two little doggie's. 

Flos (the fluffy one) who I got from some customers in the cafe I used to work.

And petit Lola who I found running against the motorway. Stopped the car and went after her. I had to run hard to get to her... Later one some motorway-traffic controller stopped behind me and helped me. I called the police and the dogshelter. Some loser left a nest of puppy's behind in the woods close to the motorway. 2 of those doggie's were already in the shelter an a week later they found nr. 4. Alive and barking, thank god. Because of the fact that there were a lot of doggie's in the shelter and Lola already stole my heart, I kept her.

Because they go with us on every holiday, we bought them a doggy-ride. It is very handy! 

Lazy sunday-afternoon...

Taking Lola home with me, was the best thing I ever could do. Flos and Lola are inseparable from day 1.

And now our big one..... We adopted my dads shepherd dog. Duko. He is now 2 years old and still in puberty.... He is a great dog, only watering flowers is a bit of a problem when he is around... :) And he loses a lot of fur......

So now you have met my little furry family. :) 
Hope you enjoyed it. 
Saturday I will pull a winner for the broche out of the box. 
Take care! xx

 

Clairy Browne

Since the first time that I've seen and heard this lady in a Heineken commercial I fell in love with her and her voice. She reminds me a little bit of Amy Winehouse. The big hair, the make-up..... But thank god for her curves. :)
And I just wanted to share her with you... Enjoy! x

Sorry that I was away so long...... and a little give-away for my dears.

Hello my dears....
Sorry that I was away for so long. My dad's death was harder for me then I ever could emagine. I felt (and still feel) very sad and wasn't in the mood for blogging. Now I start to accept it more and more. First I thought to quit blogging, but now I am in the mood again!
Last months we worked hard on the house to make our own place.

We also had a bit time for carbootsale's and flea-markets. One off my best finds ever are 3 pair vintage seventies shoes in good condition and my size! <3

And now the long time promissed give away for my dear readers who didn't leave me.......
A camee broche. It is new but has this great vintage look. (I have one for myself)
When you would love to have this beauty, just leave a little message and in about two weeks I will pick a "winner".

It is not that red..... :s (love my new phone with new apps. :D )
Thanks sweety's and have a lovely week!
Will pop at your blog soon!

The house... A little piece off the outside.

Finally the weather is getting better, and we can go clean up the outside of the house. The inside also needs a lot of work, but now the garden needs some tlc before the spring comes.
We already pulled down some trees and bushes that where to big or to old. The pond is a big mess, a piece off a tree is lying in it. I've already cleaned out the pavilion. There was a lot of junk in it. Now still a bit of it is on the grass. It will be tiki-style when it is finished. (Think it is going to take a long time.... ) We are planning to plant some more fruit-trees on the field behind the barn. The outside sheds for the cars need a new roof. So I don't think I will get bored overhere. We also got a new family-member. More off him later.
Tomorrow I get some clothing-racks for all my vintage stuff. My old wardrobe doesn't fit in our new room upstairs. The room is big enought but because of the slanting ceiling.... :( Happy fact is that the racks can handle more dresses. :D So this week I will be able to unpack my clothes. Yeah.
When the boxes are unpacked I hope to find all my stuff again, and I will do the promissed give-away for my beloved readers who stayed with me all this time.
Now a few photo's of the outside.

The last one is the biggest mess. I hope it will turn into a little paradise soon. :D
xxxx

My dad, My hero. 1948-2012

This should be a wonderfull time. We moved to our new place, got internet now after waiting 5 weeks. The snow is gone and spring is slowly showing up.... (At least I hope so) Ow and we got married....
But it is not wonderfull. My dad died monday 6-2-2012 of a heart attack. Only 63 years old.
Two years ago he got a very bad kind of Non Hodgkins. He got a lot of chemo and the cancer stopped. Last summer it came back. Again he got chemo and a stem cel transplantation. It was very heavy for his body, and he was only half the man he used to be. With the transplantation they killed the non hodgkin but because the also kill a lot of good things also, he got leukaemia. His body and we also think my dad himself had give up on getting better now. I am very sad and also angry that he died at such a young age, but I am also a little bit glad that he doesn't has to suffer anymore.
My dad was a special person. You could always laugh with him and he never jugded somebody before knowing the person. When you needed help, my dad was always there. Not only for my mom, my sister and my, but for everybody who needed help. He never complained. Even if he was so sick he never complained but always told us to laugh a bit more. Live was short...
He was so happy that we bought this house and lived just a couple of minutes away. He still had big planns and dreams, but now they will never come true anymore.
We could make a few of his wishes come true. He always joked that when he died, his last trip had to be with his pick-up. My brother in law and me did this. We picked him up for his last ride.  My little cousins and nieces painted his coffin. I know it sounds a bit weird, but for them it was a way of saying goodbey. The church was really full with people who came to say goodbey for the last time. It was beautifull to see how beloved my dad was. The funeral was beautifull, just like my dad was. We played songs of Elvis and Johnny Cash, there where a lot of soap-bubbles, and the sun was shining. We burried him in the woods on a special cemetery under a big tree. Some people where shocked the way we did it, but the people who really knew my dad, they also knew this was the way he would have wanted it. :)
Dear daddy, I miss you.

A photo of my dad in better days with his beloved pick-up and the last photo of us together on our weddingday, 27-1-2012.

Next post will be a bit more happy, just the way dad has wanted it. Keep on laughing girl!