Start of the season: sowing sweet peppers

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It’s February and my seed list is showing me the first things that are ready to be sown. The days are finally lengthening noticeably and that’s a good thing, but for sowing you don’t need warmth, but light! Although this mildly soft winter we are having in the Netherlands probably will help to sow some things a teeny tiny bit… Read more »

My January 2020 reads

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January was a good reading month! Both as in quality of the books, my Goodreads challenge and the #StartOnYourShelfathon. I also finally got me a library subscription again. Yay! According to Goodreads, I need to read 1,5 book a week to get to my goal of reading 70 books this year. And as I wrote above, it was a good… Read more »

Getting back to crafting: postcards

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In my early teens I was an avid postcard crafter. There was a mass hype where you saved and collected all kinds of tea envelopes to use for folding techniques to make awesome postcards with. I was really really good at it and even years after the mass craze ended I still had boxes full of the collected tea envelopes… Read more »

Where to get your books when you are living in the Netherlands

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After reading the non-USA bookbloggers blog post at the Quiet Pond I thought it would be interesting to share with you how a non-USA reader gets her books. As you can see from my TLD I am Dutch and living in the Netherlands. I read in both Dutch as English. While we have libraries in every city and every couple… Read more »

Zucchini bread muffins

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I just love my muffin tin! And because a lot of my recipes come from the oven, I tend to pour any batter available into the tin instead of the regular baking tins. Food just tastes better when the tiny muffin shapes makes you happy as you eat. For January I am baking my zucchini bread in muffin shapes. It’s… Read more »

My December reads

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December wasn’t a really good month for reading. I didn’t read less books, but they were less enjoyable somehow. I don’t know if it was me or the books or a mix of them, but I had a really hard time getting into them. Nevertheless I finished 2019 reading 68 books! That is 14 more than my goal of 55!… Read more »