Once upon a long ago.....

The holiday's are comming!

2011-12-14T20:48:00.000+01:00

Okay, I will be the first one to admit it : I'm a sucker for the season!

And so are my hubbie and boys.... We've been decorating whilst singing loudly to christmas tunes

I've already started my search for recipe's to the perfect christmas dinner and I am almost ashamed to admit that the presents are all but a few already under the tree.....

I love love love ornaments and I think our tree still is not full enough, here some pics of favorites in our tree some old, some new, some I made and some given to me with love and craftiness ( you know who you are *wink*)

all we need now is snow.....

it's good to be back

anita

the never ending story

2011-02-23T07:30:00.001+01:00

He picked up the book and examined it from all sides. It was bound in copper-colored silk that shimmered when he moved it about. Leafing through the pages, he saw the book was printed in two colors. There seemed to be no pictures, but there were large, beautiful capital letters at the beginning of the chapters. Examining the binding more closely, he discovered two snakes on it, one light and one dark. They were biting each other's tail, so forming an oval. And inside the oval, in strangely intricate letters, he saw the title:

The Neverending Story

This , right here, is where I fell in love with fantasy books. I was about 11 years old ( 1981-ish) and was just about done reading enid blyton books. Bastian balthasar bux stole my heart, he was like me! insignificant, a geek, quiet and chubby with LOADS of imagination and he ultimately saved a whole fairytale world using that imagination.... my hero!

Since then I moved on reading piles of books in all shapes and sizes but this book has place in my heart, a rather special place.

When my youngest son was born in 2000 there was only one real suitable name for him: Bastian....my old heroic friend.

Thanks for stopping by,

DuTchess

books

2011-02-12T20:38:00.001+01:00

Even at a very young age my daddy ( god rest his soul ) told me; " little girl, you will loose your sanity reading at the pace, and as much as you read..." Now There wasn't much sanity to loose anyway so I never worried a bout it and have been devouring books for as long as I can remember, written books, audio books, digital books I don't care as long as they suck me in. I ventured out in the wonderful world of books for the last 35 years and have read from shakespeare to stephenie meyer and anything inbetween.
And although i like a huge variety of genres I am specificly drawn to horror, fantasy, thrillers, suspense and the supernatural.

some time ago I came across a book by an author yet unknown to me: Joe Hill. The book was called the heart shaped box and I read it in one day, I was pleasantly surprised that it was such a good book! ( I picked it up at the supermarket of all places, for just 4.99).

It wasn't untill last week that I found out that Joe hill is in fact the son of mr stephen king-I have about 70 books of the man on my shelves- himself...go figure! Apparently the writing skills run in the family :-)

I read mostly in english but the dutch title of the heart shaped box is " zwart hart" if you are interested.

the story;
Judas Coyne is an aging rock singer with an unusual hobby. He collects macabre items related to death. He even has a snuff film. So one day when his business manager tells him somebody is selling a ghost in an online auction he just can't resist. Little does he know he is getting exactly what he paid for. Once the suit containing the ghost arrives in a heart shaped box the wild action begins as Coyne and his girlfriend, MaryBeth (who he calls Georgia), are in a fight for their lives. It turns out the ghost, Craddock, has a grudge against Judas Coyne and he's come back to seek revenge.

I thought it was a good book and have purchased his newest novel " horns" which I am about to read....must be weird waking up one day with two devlish horns on your head...mwuhahahahaha.......

DuTchess

knitting for India

2011-02-11T07:30:00.000+01:00

yeah yeah,I know, didn't blog for a while....blah blah....and so on :-)

but let's get to more interesting news shall we?
I work at a daycare for people with psychiatric problems and or pasts and we try to do good for either the community or other good causes. In october my eye was caught by an organisation called "save the children"
and they were calling out. Newborns and babies die at a vast rate in india due to hypothermia and so they asked for help: knitting little baby hats to keep the small children warm, especially at night.

so we introduced this to "our group"and they where very enthousiatic about it. Out came the knitting gear and I am proud to say that a group of 10 woman /patients at the daycare knitted 273 hats in two months!!
If out of all those hats only one child's life is saved it will have been worth the while.

So now that the hats are on their way to save the children we are looking for the next good cause we can tribute to, any ideas? they are more than welcome!

DuTchess