Weekend visiting the heat land - Weekend op de hei

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It´s been a lovely relax weekend. It started off Friday with something that´s becoming an annual happening to me. Book shopping at a big whole-sale kind of bookmarket. I haven't found time to dig into any of the 6 books I bought (I paid just 25 Euro in total!). Saturday is my check those loose ends day. A round in the supermarket,cleaning the rabbits home and dreaming away at the sight of our growing little chick. 

Today was a great day for a sunday walk. So, me and a friend went to Planken Wambuis a nature park in Gelderland as we wanted to catch the blooming heat land. We were in luck and caught the last bit of blooming for this year. Or at least that's what it looked like to me. I don't know that much about heat land. But it sure looks pretty. We even saw a herd of sheep. We didn't follow any particular route. Just stroling around enjoying the view.

The walk reminded me of how much I love the change of seasons.

Enjoy the pictures below and see you wednesday!

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Heerlijk relax weekend. Dat begon vrijdag met iets dat een jaarlijkse traditie begint te worden. Boeken shoppen bij het boekenfestijn, een soort groothandel verkoop aan particulieren. Ik heb nog geen tijd gemaakt om in één van de 6 boeken te duiken die ik gekocht heb (voor slechts 25 euro in totaal!). Zaterdag is mijn losse-eindjes-dag. Rondje supermarkt, konijnenhokken schoonmaken en even wegdromen bij ons opgroeiende kuiken.

Vandaag was een mooie wandeldag. Dus ben ik met een vriend naar Planken wambuis geweest in Gelderland. We hoopten nog even wat bloeiende hei te zien en we hadden geluk. Zoals het er in mijn ogen uitzag hebben we het laatste beetje bloei van dit jaar meegekregen bij onze wandeling. En zelfs nog een kudde schapen gespot. Wat een plaatje van een landschap om doorheen te lopen. Ook als je geen route volgt en gewoon wat rondzwerft. En één van de redenen dat ik hou van seizoenswisselingen.

Geniet van de foto's en tot woensdag!

Hello bright colours!

I think we're getting close on missing out on Winter this year... Missing out on skating on the real deal (frozen lakes and ponds). But other than that, I like having Spring in the air.

In between working office hours and planning for my world trip and blogging about it on my other bog, there's also crochet. I'm working on one more crochet scarf commission (probably the last one for this year). By now I'm switching to cute animals. Like the ones below. The cute elephant is on his/her way to a new owner.
I hope to share the elephant pattern maybe later this week.

Like adding more colour in my crochet works, it's great to find spots of colour outside too. I went for a short stroll and had to share few of them with you today. Just in case you're longing for some warmer weather. Purple seems to be the colour trend for this Spring, according to mother nature.

Active and organized

Thanks to a day off today, it's been a beautiful long weekend. Using all that time to crochet, cook and picnic, writing and starting a big Pinterest clean up.

It was a great Summer day today! And I made good use of it. Going out for a long walk/bicycle ride with a friend of mine.
We walked along the Kromme Rijn between Odijk and Bunnik (although could have moved on further). Sat down to have a small but tasty picnic and went back cycling via Slot Zeist.

Besides all walking and cycling and enyoing the Summer, I've started a big declutter on a whole bunch of things trying to get organized (a little more).
At a recent phone photo clean-up I discovered that I close to 300 food pictures. Taken in a period of a year or so. Most of them involve one of the following elements: family, friends and or the making and baking proces. This Creamy Caprese Pasta by How sweet it is, is one of the recipes I tried and photographed. The first time I tried this, I served it for me and three friends in cute seperate oven pans. As a side dish, I made the beautiful sweet and fresh Pear Feta Walnut Salad by Angie McGowan via babble.com.

But yesterday I made a big pan for my family. Everyone loved it!

The only thing missing? A propper Italian dessert, like my home made tiramusu... Giving you that next time.

Then the other big(ger) project I put my hands on this weekend, the Pinterest Clean-up. Before my big blog-break I wrote about what I learned from being on Pinterest. There's been quite a built up of pins since then: over 2400 pins and 43 not so organized boards. Including descriptions that were not mine and not so charming (like google images, ouch!) or (even worse) dead links. Time for a clean up.
That means I'm going through my boards one by one, pin for pin. Yes, that is time consuming. And that's why I'm not anywhere near halfway through. I've done three boards by now. And I'm happy with the results:

• working links (or at least a note that there is no link).
• Proper credit (going back to the most original post I could find, instead of a home page or collection page (like tumblr or we heart it).
• boards I love (I only kept the pretty stuff)
• no doubles
• no (accidently) wrong board pins
• a bunch of new boards (splitting up the bigger ones).

I have no Idea when I'll be finished, but I'll give you a sign. Wouldn't it be great to do this all together? I mean, propper credit that's what all those lovely bloggers, writers, photographers, artistst out there deserve, right? So, I'd say spread the word! 

To keep myself in shape (for all the food I love to eat and away from my beloved laptop), I started running again. It's been six months since my last run, thanks to the bruised foot. So, it was a very, very modest run (1,5 - 2 - 4 - 2 - 1,5 - 0,5 mins with 1 minute walks before and in between). But it felt great after wanting and waiting to get my first after such a long time! Rewarding myself with an iced tea of my favorite flavor.