John Travolta

If you think that John Travolta is amazing, like I do, you will be even more amazed...



....when you see him as a baby....

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww........................

Friday Findings: Bees

Le Petit Monstre- Queen Bee

Ronny Vardy-Baby Bee

Morninglori-Betty the Buzzy Queen 2

Elsita -Bee miniature paper sculpture

MissBeahaven-welcome home

Fing-Bee mini art doll

Ferragamo Studio-bee boy

Constant Dreamer-puff and bees print

Annejulie-Dreaming of bees

Alice in Paris- no Birds but Bees

Shopping in Izmir

Yesterday we went to Izmir, a big city with a population of 6 million, a 4 hour drive. More important about Izmir is, you have great BIG supply shops he he...

To give you an idea how the 'road' and Izmir is, here are some pictures...

I find these rocks incredible, never have seen anything like this elsewhere, only one small part in Turkey has such kind of rocky mountains...

Beautiful views are constintantly around us, unfortunatly you can't stop everywhere because of the high mountain road.

And Izmir...the huge chaos, the mixture of old, historic and new in such a different way....

A Hamam (Turkish Bath) for men in an old building...

Here you can see the special Hamam towels drying...

A very photogenic shoepolisher...

A beautiful Bazaar...

By the time we got to the supply shops, I was a little to busy with choosing goodies, to take more pictures.

All by all it is always wonderful but exhausting, we hit the road at 7 a.m. and were finally home near midnight.

April Fools' Day

Still a good joke - 51 years on

On April 1, 1957 the British news show Panorama broadcast a three-minute segment about a bumper spaghetti harvest in southern Switzerland. The success of the crop was attributed both to an unusually mild winter and to the “virtual disappearance of the spaghetti weevil.” The audience heard Richard Dimbleby, the show’s highly respected anchor, discussing the details of the spaghetti crop as they watched video footage of a Swiss family pulling pasta off spaghetti trees and placing it into baskets. The segment concluded with the assurance that, “For those who love this dish, there’s nothing like real, home-grown spaghetti.”



The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest hoax generated an enormous response. Hundreds of people phoned the BBC wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti tree. To this query the BBC diplomatically replied, “Place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best.”
To this day the Panorama broadcast remains one of the most famous and popular April Fool’s Day hoaxes of all time. It is also believed to be the first time the medium of television was used to stage an April Fool’s Day hoax.



Source: Museum of Hoaxes

Mysterious beads

'We found these extraordinary beads in Amsterdam’s flea market, and I can’t, by de life of me, determine what they are made from. They are not glass and not plastic, they look very much like bamboo coral, but again, they feel different, some how. They sure are gorgeous, thought.'
This is part of the description of our necklace 'Mysterious beads'.



Funny thing is, when it ended up on the frontpage yesterday we got several convo's about what they might be...
*the mysterious beads are seeds , in this case Paxiubao seeds dyed red, they came from the amazon.
*They look a lot like chestnut beads :o) but whatever they are they are very pretty!!
*I wondered if these mystererious beads were 'tagua' beads, or 'vegetable ivory'? The thing about tagua (if that's what they are) is that they can be dyed really nicely, varved, and have a nice shiny surface like your beads here...
.... still a mystery....


So, what do you think they are? We would love to hear more interesting suggestions....

Centipede

De moeder van de duizend poot
Is vreeslijk ontevreden,
Want haar zoontje is zo juist,
In de sloot gegleden.

En…als je even rekent…
Weet je wat dat betekent…
Op zijn hoofd een groote buil…

En duizend sokjes vuil!


(adamsonglass)

Are you wondering what this is all about? This morning Estella was shortening a pair of pants of mine and one of the legs she had to do twice, because it didn’t go well. Afterwards she was muttering something about pants with three legs, what immediately made me think of a very sweet children’s verse about a centipede (a thousandfeet in Dutch). I have tried to translate the little verse for you:

The centipede’s mum
Is very, very upset,
Because her little boy
Has fallen in the creek.

And if you do your maths…
You know what it will mean…
A great lump on his head…

And hundred socks to clean!


(birdybear)

Friday Findings: Trees

From now on, we will have some beautiful picks from Etsy every friday, it's not difficult to find great things there :) This friday's subject is trees. Not only are they gorgeous in nature, but also in Art.

The Bonsai by AnnaRubyKing
Sahara Print by jellybeans

Antique Tree Landscape by galeriedeilluminata

Innocents Lost II by BellatrixArt
Tree of Life by corid

Fantasy tree with owl by carambatack

Ehno print by melissamoss
One subject, but all in such a (beautiful) different way...

Spring; the season of flowers!

Spring has arrived! The garden of our workplace was full with Calla lilies untill I cut them off, to save them from being eaten by snails. I find them one of the most beautiful flowers on earth, simple but strong.

Most flowers have layers of petals or at least have 5, but the Calla lily has only one petal which makes it such an unique flower.

A luxury for the eyes and the nose!