Well… it’s really not to rub it in (again), or to secretly gloat, but we really had a nice New Year. I’ve already wished everyone a Happy New Year via Facebook and Whatsapp, but to be clear: I wish everyone a very good and healthy 2021! We are comfortable in our bubble here We all […]
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At the end of this Christmas weekend, at the beginning of Christmas Day, we already have a wish for you for the following festivities. See you all next year!
Almost Christmas, almost the end of the year How many people have not said so far: it was a strange year. I sincerely hope it wasn’t really bad for you – if you’ve built your own business or lost your job, it’s not a weird year, it’s a disaster year. I hope it all went
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The humidity level seems like close to 150% All mirrors are steamed up and start to drip spontaneously; the labels slide off the beer bottles; a forgotten open book in the entrance slurps the moisture out of the air, causing the pages to curl. Oh, irony: it’s a cookbook, opened to a desert recipe called
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For a while now I have been a member of a Facebook group called: Entrepreneurs Together. And now I’m suddenly in an online Christmas market! That is a big step, you would say, from Facebook group to online Christmas market How it was a year ago … From the beginning I thought it was a
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In the series “Portuguese Nature” – which appears very irregularly – we talk about what is weeds and what is not. A difficult question, I think, because I don’t find plants worth weeding when they have nice flowers. A lot of weeds have them. Nice flowers And even large flowers. Such as the Zantedeschia, which
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I’m sitting at the computer all day at the moment. That may be nothing special to many of you, but it is for me. I’m not a sitter. I’m more a walker, a creator. But well, I have to. Our webshop (we’re working on the english version!) must be completed, and the Etsy shop must
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Not that I’m superstitious … but still it’s wise not to walk under ladders (because maybe someone will drop his paint right on your head, or you hook behind one of the legs so that the pot of paint with painter and all fall on your head); you better have a black cat nearby (because
This is actually old news. It’s about the day of Halloween – as you know it, we call it “All Soul’s Day” here. Sorry for that, dear readers, because this happened on October 31 – The Day of all souls. All Souls on the 31st of October – Halloween – already a week ago Who
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I can’t help it, when I’m cleaning a closet, and I see traces of fly droppings at the bottom, I think: “Oh gosh, that was one with a fear of heights.” There were seven brothers and sisters at the bottom to urge her: “Come on, you can do it! No! Don’t look down, it’ll work,
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