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Versatile Blogger Award

Posted on 3 April, 2012 by Lúthien

Tammy from Daisy Yellow surprised me by nominating me for the Versatile Blogger Award! I have to admit I was very surprised, since Tammy is one of my favourite bloggers. I loved her Index-card-a-day challenge and now she’s hosting the Creativity Queue Challenge.

The basic rules of the Versatile Blogger Award:

Thank the person who gave you this award.
Include a link to their blog.
Select 15 excellent blogs/bloggers that you’ve recently discovered or follow regularly.
Nominate those 15 bloggers for the Versatile Blogger Award; include a link to the Versatile Blogger site.
Share 7 things about yourself.

15 blogs I love

First of all I want you all to meet Rhomany. She’s a wonderful lady from the UK, and I can recommend you all to take one of her classes. She a great teacher with a great sense of humour.
Tammy from Daisy Yellow, maybe it’s ‘against the rules’, but she is really one of my favourite bloggers. Her colourful blogs never fail to make me happy.
Katie, from Color me Katie. She knows how to love live and life it with as much colour possible.
Alissa Burke, her classes are amazing. She’s an inspiring person who encourages you to go out and find your own inspiration and she shows you how to create with almost no supplies. (ps, she has this amazing free ecourse: finding your muse).
Natalie at Awkward and beautiful, because thanks to her I’ve started art journaling.
Art Equals Happy, because I love to see how Kim develops her gorgeous knitting and she’s now experimenting with natural dye’s
Eleni Zoe has some pretty good insights in dating and love. I love how honest she blogs.
Karen from Chookooloonks, because I find her truly inspiring.
Marloes, from The Last Days of Spring, an amazing blog all about stationary love. It makes my writer heart so happy!
Lori Vliegen, from Elvie Studio, talk about awesome journalling!
Debbie Ridpath Ohi, aka Inkygirl, because her comics on writers are just hilarious!
Hanna, from iHanna, love her use of colour.
Katja, from maedchenmitherz, with lots of DIY’s and cuteness. (Psst, in April she’s hosting a journal challenge).
The lovely Petra and Saar from Sprklng magazine a recently new online magazine, with lots of things that make you happy. (Keep up the good work ladies!)
And last but not least: Laura with her 365 days project. I love the idea and she show you really cute cards! (It’s in Dutch though)

7 things about me

Right now I’m working really hard to try and graduate.
I’m addicted to rooibos tea.
I rarely drink soda’s.
When I was little I used to hate pineapple, now it’s one of my favourite fruits.
My favourite animal is the elephant
Buying my Canon 450D is one of the best things I ever bought myself.
I’m a natural blond.

I hope you will pay all of these lovely blogs a visit! Thank you.

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Creativity Queue Challenge: Day No. 5

Posted on 2 April, 2012 by Lúthien

Tammy from Daisy Yellow is hosting a Creativity Queue Challenge and today, I’m one of the hostess of day five!
The goal? Do something you’ve been wanting or meaning to do. For me it was easy, finally do something with the Junk I have lying around. People who know me, know that I love ‘saving’ stuff from the trash. Like the stuff on the photo below. I thought I was a waste to throw away, so I’ve been meaning to do something with it for over a year (!) now. And since I had no idea what, it ended up in a drawer.

I mean… what to do with this? It looks great on a photo. It’s interesting to look at, the different shapes, shiny metal. But it was still nothing.

So after some brainstorming, I decided I was going to turn it in yet an other wind-chime. Only this time I would make it a little easier on myself. I got some old silverware at the thriftstore. Some with hole in them.

I used some nylon thread, provided by my sister, used the wooden wheel as the divider and there I had a wind-chime.

I love the different shapes on this one. And the sound is just amazing.

It still needs something in the middle, so I need to find something for that. And I didn’t find a way to used the teapot top, but I have to admit, I quiet love how this one turned out!

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Some colour inspiration

Posted on 1 April, 2012 by Lúthien

Some snaps from my balcony.

Rosemary.

Sage.

Mint.

Red daisies.

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Exes, books, live and love

Posted on 29 March, 2012 by Lúthien

When I started writing this post a few months ago, the headline said ‘The boy knows me’. Because when my boyfriend, excuse me, ex-boyfriend came back from his trip back home, he brought me this really old books in his own language. I was over the moon. Nothing makes me happier than old, dusty smelling books that almost fall apart. Well that and seeing my (ex)boyfriend again of course.
This post was supposed to announce him to the world, that he was here, that he was with me and that he actually nailed the perfect gift. That was, right up until he broke my heart. Which he did sadly.
So now all that is left are a few old books that I can’t even read, a few languages books for a language I have no reason to learn any more and a notebook-set that’s going to end up in the bottom of a drawer, because I can’t stand to look at them right now. And a little polaroid photo of us together by a Christmas tree, where he sort of looks like Bambi in front of headlights. Those are the only few things that I can actually point to and say, ‘see, he was here. He made me happy for, that one month.’ And he did, he made me so happy. But now he’s gone and the things are in the bottom of a drawer, so I don’t have to see it all the time.

The truth is, we had something. Something that could have been so good. But we killed it. It makes me wonder if there was something there to begin with. Maybe it was just both of us hoping to find what we were hoping to find. I can blame him for killing it, I can blame myself for being the one who broke it. But it doesn’t really matter. We both did things that led us to where we are right now: apart from each other and I don’t think I will ever speak to him again. And it hurts. It’s confusing and it hurts. So I was the one who said it was best to end it. End the confusion, the expectations and in return get some space back into my head. So I could think, breath again. Yes, it still hurts, but my head isn’t filled with cotton any more and I can focus again.
In the end I think that is the most important. You can wait around for someone all you want, but in the end it’s you who has to decide if that’s what you want. If that’s what you really want. And although I was so glad he found me, although I didn’t want to say goodbye to him, this was not the kind of boyfriend I wanted to have. So I choose not to do this. I choose to be on my own.