little takeaway

his meals are all ready to grab again for the week to come. liquid additions will of course be provided for on the spot if i'm around, no matter what time of day - or, preferably in his case, night. (and that freezer needs to be defrosted...)

june

look, here comes the sun.

finished~19

~ dr. van der hoog oxygen face mask ~ unfortunately, i didn't really like this face mask. it's a powder that smells very much of pure clay and that you have to mix with water. it then gets very dry and hard on your face, and i didn't notice any improvement after using it (my skin didn't feel worse either though).
~ etos x-tra black volume mascara ~ still not really managing to stick to the new-mascara-once-every-three-months rule. 
~ kneipp orange and lime-tree blossom shower gel ~ usually, i really like kneipp shower gels. but this one did not do very much for me. i guess i'm not a big fan of orange.
 ~ dr. van der hoog chocolate face mask ~ now this face mask was a lot better than the first one. it smells divine and it actually looked and felt like it did something for my skin.
~ weleda skin cream ~ i'm getting more and more enthusiastic about this simple but lovely cream.
~ l'oréal color appeal eye shadow golden beige ~ i have quite a stash of eye shadows, but this is really the only colour that i wear often. it still lasted me ages though.

sleeping arrangements

things have not changed very much since the beginning. this is still how it works. a bedroom for the three of us, where little imp takes his afternoon naps in his own bed and where he also starts every night in his own bed. as the evening progresses, he wakes up for a drink, after which he spends the rest of the night in our bed. hence the little side rail. the more i find out about raising children, the more i also learn about the way it is done in various societies. which gives me the confidence to keep doing things the way it feels best, in spite of the ways that happen to hold sway in the part of the world where i live.

and more sewing

since i was already spending much time doing things with trousers (and then some more time), i decided to try making something for myself as well. these ones had quite an old-fashioned flare and i handn't worn them for years. so i made them into summer trousers by cutting off half the trouser legs and i added a piece of pink ribbon on the pocket to make it a bit more fun. now i'll just have to wait for the sunshiny days and see if i will actually wear them again.

more crawling

and on and on i sew...

the summer book

i started reading this book in sweden, where i found it in our family's library and it somehow caught my attention. it is such a gentle and thoughtful little book, i love it. 

gathering is peculiar, because you see nothing but what you're looking for. if you're picking raspberries, you see only what's red, and if you're looking for bones you see only the white.

tove jansson ~ the summer book (sommerboken)

less empty

remember the empty corner? it got a new destination. we found this beautiful little second-hand bench online. boyfriend drove almost an hour to pick it up. he didn't mind at all: it was a good way to listen to music with the volume up very high. the man who sold the bench said that his son did not need it anymore since he now measured two metres. i like the thought of a once little boy who has now grown so tall sitting on that bench years ago. and our little boy sitting (or rather climbing) on it now.

crawling

little imp likes to take things easy. while all around him, babies are turning into toddlers and are walking like pros, he still sees fit to do everything on all fours. it gets him where he wants to go so why change things? and now that the weather is getting better, he wants to play in the garden all day. on all fours. which means: holes in every single pair of trousers. so this has become my new passtime: patching up the knees with bits of old fabric.

overnight oats

so this is an example of a so-called lifehack. what a terrible word but what a brilliant idea. (a lifehack, supposedly, is something that makes life a little easier.) overnight oats: in the evening, you put milk (rice milk in our case), oats, banana and some other nice things - shredded coconut, pumpkin seeds, flax seed - in a bowl in the fridge. and in the morning, all you have to do is add some fruit. it definitely makes life a bit easier for me: no more stress over cooking porridge in the morning. and, even better, little imp likes the simple version of milk, oats and banana as well.