I have been tagged!

Krisje tagged me, so I will play the game. The only thing I am going to give up on, is passing on the tag to 7 people because I don't know that many people that would like to play this game and the ones I do know have already been tagged before. But if you read this and you have not been tagged before... your tagged!

Ok... here it goes... the rules:
1. Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself (on your blog, we all want to know them).
3. Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.
4. Let each person know that they've been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

And now the hard part.... 7 things about myself.....

1. I'm absolutely not good in mathematics, but I do memorise numbers pretty well. I remember easily birthdays of collegues, their kids, etc... I still remember most of the birthdays from the ones that were in my classroom at the age of 7. If my collegues need to know a phonenumber from another department at my job, they ask me instead of looking for the number.

2. I would have loved to play the guitar, but I had to quit the lessons due to the fact I can't move my left arm like other people do in order to play the guitar. I never figuered this out untill the age of 24. No one would notice, cause I can do all things like other people except for playing the guitar.

3. I am a Christian and I'm born into the SDA-church. I got baptised in 1999. I have been pretty active in my church. I have given sabbathschoollessons to the kids for several years, and also have been active in pathfinders. Now I'm taking a sabbathsyear, and I'm less busy.

4. I love traveling and have seen several countries so far. I was in: USA, Canada, Tenerife, La Gomera, Switserland, Spain, Portugal, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, France, Austria, Kroatia, Czeh Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia, Montenegro, Serbia, Italy, Switserland, Germany, Poland, Andorra and the UK... guess that's my list. Some countries I visited more then once. I especially love the nature parks in the USA. I have been in the States already 7 times.

5. I'm still working at my 1st job, and I will be working there for almost 10 years now.

6. I'm not that crazy about animals. I never have been raised with pets, and I don't know too well how to handle pets.

7. I always have been creative since I was a kid. I loved crafts. When I was a kid I was active in pathfinders, did music-education, played the piano, went to the drawingschool, did wordexpression.... I'm thankfull that I could follow al these things.

Mission fullfilled,... I looked already for some victims to tag, but ... they all seemed to be tagged already....

God bless
Veerle/Plufke

RAK (Random act of kindness) - Pay it forward

Wednesday I got a RAK from Vicky in the mail. I had left a comment on her blog and 3 people that did so received a little gift. The only thing you needed to do is promise you would do the same.

So here it goes:

I will send a gift (something handmade or something bought) to 3 random people who leave a comment on my blog!! The only thing you have to do in return is "pay it forward" by making the same promise on your blog.

Looking forward to some comments ;)

















That is what I got from Vicky

God bless
Veerle

sick...

This week I became sick due to a viral infecion on my bronchial tubes. The doctor gave me two days off, but I defenatly could use some more. Today it was pretty hard for me to work.

But while I was sick I got a nice surprise in the mail. I got 4 ATC's from Japan, 2 were even from known cities: Tokyo and Hiroshima. I also got a neat one from the USA.

God bless

Plufke

Stampinback-day

Today Stampinback organised a wonderful event in Tilburg (the Netherlands). For 2,50€ you received a bag with a stamp and several sheets to craft on. Also 7 workshops were included in that price. I learned a lot and had the time of my life! I also met some people from the yahoogroups I am a member of. Els and her husband already had picked me up ( I never had seen her before) but I also could see Anja and Cindy, and a few others for the 1st time. It was great to meet everyone. For once I didn't mind to get up early, it sure was worth it!

Anja and me

Els, Me, Cindy, Monique and a friend of Monique














The stuff I bought.

God bless

Veerle

New ATC

Just wanted to share an ATC I made for a swap today.

I got a giftcard from my sister for my birthday and I bought tagmaker with it. On this ATC I tried it out for the 1st time. I like the result, you might as well.












God bless
Veerle

Flat tire

Yesterday... what a day! I was supposed to go in the evening to the exposition "anders gewoon" as I told earlier. But a flat tire made me miss this event. When I went to my job and had to take a turn at a certain point I already felt something was not ok, but I did forget about it and parked my car in the underground parking at my job. I did some shopping after my work, but when I had to leave again, I noticed something was really wrong, and I thought it would be a flat tire. I wanted to be out of this underground parking first though. So, I had to take a left, but since Kortrijk is a city plenty with roadworks for the moment, I couldn't take my left due to a car that came my way. I thought, well, I can make a loop, since the road where to take the loop was fixed again. When I was on that road, I realised I was in a one direction street... oh no... my thoughts were... just take another road quickly, this one appeared to be a one way street as well... since cars came my way, I had to drive in reverse, man... that didn't feel good (and all this happened with a flat tire). Anyways, I did make it safe to the parkingplace where I wanted to park. Next thing was to call for help. When I called the insurance they said I was not insured for these kind of things (although I'm pretty sure I am, dad will figure this one out). So, there was only one more cheap option: help from daddy. He came and fixed the tire. It appeared that I even didn't have a jack in my car, but dad helped me out with his one. (today we found the well hidden jack in the car anyways... ). But all this made that I couldn't go to the exposition as planned.

God bless
Plufke

this made me laugh.

Unfortunatly this is one I can't translate. So, if you don't understand Dutch, this post won't mean much to you, but if you do... continue reading.... I bought a little vacuumcleaner for my keyboard today. The thing didn't cost much, but it wasn't worth much either, I used it once and it's already broken... oh well.... I had fun with the translation... guess you will too;)

You will have to click on the picture to be able to read it.

God bless
Veerle

"Anders gewoon"

In the psychiatric institution next to our nursinghome, they did a project: "anders gewoon" where people from outside the instituon could participate. You had to express the psychical sick human. As many people from all ages, different backgrounds could participate. I did participate, since I love crafts and this is the result. Wednesday, I will go and take a look to all the other works that will be shown.


















My work is called: reaching hands

God bless
Veerle

little book I made with enveloppes

I love stamping very much lately. And I made a little present for someone. Don't be afraid to leave a comment how you like it.

God bless

Veerle

Almost going home....

to be expected soon.

Berlin

to be expected soon

Beautiful treasures in Germany

to be expected soon

Bye bye Poland, let's go to Germany crossing Czech Republic for the last time

to be expected soon

Castle in Czech republic and Poland

to be expected soon

beautiful Prague

to be expected soon

Bratislava and Prague

to be expected soon

My birhtday in Vienna

to be expected soon

Vienna

I had contacted Lydia to meet her in Vienna. Lydia I had met eralier this year in Switserland, and I knew she lived in Vienna, so this was a nice opportunity to meet her again. We would only meet in the afternoon. So in the morning we (Rien, Huguette, Eliana and me) walked through the maincenter of Vienna. It was nice to see the buildings. Vienna really left an impression. It's a very clean capital, and I wouldn't be able to compare it with any capital I saw before. Vienna is really unique. After lunch I met Lydia, and she was my personal guide through her city. that was very unique. I couldn't have a better guide, then one that lives in the city!

Back in Slovenia

We still wanted to see some things in Slovenia that didn't work out when we were there a couple of days ago. So we decided to go back and see some more things, it was on our road anyways. We visited the castle of Predjama. This castle is build against a rock. It's pretty special, because when you go inside you see sometimes that the rooms are not like a square due to pieces of rock. It was nice to see the castle. Afterwards we went to a military museum... Something Rien wanted... but it was a little dissapointment. Well, we enjoyed a good meal afterwards and that made up for it. During the meal we decided we wouldn't go to Venice anymore but move upwards to the North... We drove to Vienna this evening. The hardest part there was finding a sleeping place for a good deal. They were all super-expensive. We looked for hours and finaly we found something, .... we were tired of looking. We ended up in a 2 star hotel, and it wasn't worth more stars. The next day we went back to an Etappe hotel... basic, but you know at least what you get.










































God bless

Plufke

the coastline and Split

When we drove to Split, we went along the coastline, so it was nice to enjoy a little stop. Eliana meanwhile did her 1st steps in the sea.... and nope, not like most Belgian kids she didn't make those in the Northsea.













Split was a city worth seeing what concerns me, Rien and Huguette seemded to have a different opinion about that. I like to see old cities, and the atmosphere was very nice. Split is known due to the palace of Dioclesianus. Dioclesianus was a Roman emperor that lived there around the years 300.

And we did end our trip to Split with some delicious stuff... 1st we got some icecream, but the best was a big piece of pizza.... yummmmmmy.


God bless

Veerle

KRKA

This national park is also a "fallpark" so of course I did enjoy it. We had to get there by boat. The falls there were very beautiful as well. Here and there you found people that sold local specialities. After the boattrip we went looking to a little island and another fall in the environment, but those two were a little dissapointment to us... pictures and the real thing sometimes differ pretty much. Nevertheless we had a great day.































God bless

Veerle

Kroatia: the plitvice lakes

The first visit we did in Kroatia were the Plitvice lakes. I even need to admit that this is the nicest place that I saw so far on earth. For a fall-lover like me, this place was just like paradise. I have never seen so many falls close to one another, and this place just took my breath away.



















































































Plenty of fish!
































Look at the green water
















A nice little Robin bird on our way...






































































































This one was taken when we came back in the evening.


God bless
Plufke

Ljubiljana: capital of Slovenia

Our last day (for the moment, cause we would come back in this trip to Slovenia) before leaving we did spend in the capital. We woke up in the city hotel of Ljubiljana, which is a pretty nice hotel, and we had a breakfast that was delicious, we really could eat plenty of things. You woulnd't leave the table there with an empty stomach. The hotel was very modern. We received a badge and only had to let it scan in the elevator and we were brought to the right floor without us having to push buttons. After breakfast they even did roomservice, which was unnessary because we only did pay for one night. We even gave a tip to the maid, but afterwards there's another storry attached to that... (I'll tell you later).

Ljubiljana is a nice city. A bit weird in some aspects. For example at a cerain point in the city you have 3 bridges next to one another. That really did look funny to me.

We went up to the Ljubljanski grad (grad means castle in the local language). There Rien and me went up in a tower. He had to speak some encouraging words since my fear of hights seemed to kick in at a certain point. After visiting the tower we also saw a presentation with the history of the city.

After some touring in the city we left for Croatia. It still took us a while driving. Besides they were not friendly at all at the boarder. Rien and Huguette's BMW was inspected pretty well, it looked like they never had seen a similar car before, because several needed to see the engine, of course we don't know what they all talked about, not a single word of croatian we understood. They also did annoying about Eliana's babypassport, which did not seem to be the right one. I just didn't like the way we were treating, it sure did look like abuse of power. Anyways, the most important part was that they let us go into the country. Cause it still took us a while to drive. We arived at a nice pension for a real good price. The advantage there was also that we had 2 rooms. That was nice since we could talk some more while Eliana would be sleeping.

And then the thing I still needed to tell you about the good service we got in the cityhotel in ljubiljana. Rien couldn't find his pyjamas. And after talking about it, ... we came to the conclusion that the maid must have put his jamas under his pillow this morning. I know cause I found mine there, but neither Rien and Huguette had been looking there. Rien his jamas were gonne. The maid not only received a tip, she had gotten some jamas as well.... lol.

We ended the day by looking to a movie: facing the giants.