30!!! whaaaa tomorow is my birthday, I am exited and scared at the same time. I mean 30...my life is almost over, and I haven't started yet! I know it's not true, but still it feels this way. here we are, in a small appartment with no room for any kids, not married, I don't have a career... When do I start life? But on the other hand we choose to wait with children till we are ready for it, till we have the space and money for it. I know I know, we are still need to get married (the plan was November LAST year lol) but we want to do it right (with a big party, so we need to save for that one) and look at us! able to go to a foreign country for 2 months!! we couldn't do that if we already had kids! and spoil our nephew and nieces rotten. Do fun things with family and friends, suprise them and help them out where necessary. I love my life, I enjoy every minute of it, also because you don't know what the future will bring... All I know so far is that Saturday is our kick ass party (allot of people are not able to come, but this party will still rock!) and tomorow is my B-day. I have to work, so today I have to get everything ready! Rianne is coming tomorow to Lelystad, so we need cake tomorow to celebrate our birthday! shall I try to make the red velvet one??..
ow!! And Martin bought my Birthdaypreseng yesterday, ofcourse I can unwrap it tomorow, but today I can already look at it, and even that is making me happy!!!

yay!!! see ya soon!!!
XOXO
Martine
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Remember the digital painting I was making.... Well I finished it while we where in the states:) In the Oval there is place for a saying or a name. I made this one for the Cardcompany, but they decided that it wouldnt fit there style, Ofcourse not fun to hear and I was a bit bumped, but I do still like it, And I learned allot making it (and it is not perfect at all, but I like it this way (the background could be better, but who know's what I will do with that in the future)

XOXO
Martine

I know I know.. "Sinterklaas" is not even arrived yet.. but I wanted to show you a card I designed for Chickadee prints

XOXO
Martine

There we are, back from our trip! Back in the cold fall weather! But you know what? we dont mind.. we even missed it a little. The change of seasons, the smell of fall in the air.. But we also met a whole new experience of fall. Pumkins! It didnt matter on what kind of way we eat it, it was all good! I liked the Pumkine Spice late's from Starbucks, and Martin his favorite where the Pumkin Muffin's. One of our new friends even brought us a jar of Pumkin Pie Spices!.
We do need to adjust again (lets just forget the fact that I am typing this at 4.30 in the morning), to the food (My stumach needed 3 weeks to adjust to the food there, just hoping it wont take so long to adjust back!) to the weather, the time differants etc. I am amazed how quickly your body adjust to a new situation!.
For us coming back, feels like new year, so we have some plans about we are going to live our lives! First of all we are going to buy a new kitchen. Ours is just simply too small and the lack of enough storage space, a decent size fridge and no freezer makes it harder for us to eat healty (even more chalenging for us, because we practicly live above the grocerie store) So that will be one of the bigger (financial) goales (I hope to have the new kitchen around March!) Next to that, we are going to eat more healty. Before our trip, there where weeks without cooking, everything was take-out or microwave meals. Although the take-out didnt include allot of fries and snacks and we took the more "healty" microwave meals, very healty is it not. So no more everyday trips to the grocerie store, I am going to get food for at least a week and hopefully longer (except for the fresh foods then). No more snacks and candy (at regular day's) and hopefully we also loose some weight (O yes.. we gain a bit overthere LOL)
Also I need to take more care of the house. Luckely the house is clean at this moment (if you dont look at some dishes and laundry) so that is a mater of keeping it clean instead of digging to all the stuf :) And we need to make our house more our house (does that make sence?).. So I will dig in to some home decoration!
then another "resolution" is to make art/be creative at least every day, can be a big thing where I work on for more then one day, or a small thing that is finished in 10 minutes. I noticed in the 2 months that I really missed it, and that I get stuck if I dont do something for a longer time, my drawings get worse.. etc. I think that my hands need more practice so they can memorize it :)
ok.. I better get to bed (not that I am tired or something) in the hope to get some sleep (luckely I dont have to start yet at the Daycare!!) Thank you for coming down this way and listen to all my ramblings. What colors do you guys think I need to add to my house?? I need a color for my bedroom, hallway (wich is very high with a staircase, and at this point very white) and for the kitchen (the old one is white, and very sterile.. But I cant go to crazy, because we are planning on selling the house within 2 years). Will be back soon with some pictures (tried it 4 times with this post, it is simply not working) and inspiration for a lot of creative things!
Big Hugs!