Living room update!

Hi guys, it's been a while since we had no internet for about 2,5 months. I promised to keep you updated on the progress of our new house.
You remember the mess it was?
Here is a little picture update for you:

After we removed all the wallpaper we had to prime the walls for the plaster. That's the yellow stuff you see, kinda like when you're applying make-up. First get the base right before you proceed :P

Look at the difference! It's a nice clean wall now!

Random cute picture of Diablo :)

Applying some color...

Our lovely neighbor helped out with the paintwork and he also offered to place the floor! I was so flabbergasted that I forgot to take pictures of the end result when there was no furniture yet.

So are you ready for the transformation?.....

BEFORE

                     

AFTER

How about that, huh? :D

Work in progress.

So here is another update about the house :)
I will guide you through it with pictures.

removed the lathed wall around the fireplace

bye bye wallpaper!

I decorated some shelves with self adhesive sticker paper

The master bedroom, Wesley removed all the wallpaper. It looks like a dirty pile on the floor.

Master bedroom

Meanwhile, I am re-painting the doors

Living room, almost stripped down

Removed the lathed walls in the kitchen :)

looks a lot better in my opinion

Fresh wallpaper and curtains! These beds are just there until we finished the entire room so we can get my bed from my parents' house.

Build in closet and the other door leads to the bathroom 

I will make more pictures as we proceed to make this house our happy home :)

Thank you for reading/looking!

Keys!

After rain comes sunshine, so they say. Even though I am still sad in my heart I have some good news to share.
Wesley and I got the keys to our new house! So we started by removing the wallpaper in the living room. Now here's a nice piece of history for you... Back in the days when they decided to re-do their living room they just slapped the new wallpaper right on top of the old one. That leaves us now with 7 layers of wallpaper to remove!! It is a pain in the you know what to get that all off! I will keep you updated about the progress with pictures. Here are some of day 1:

As you can tell, lots of wallpaper!

more wallpaper

this side still has to be done

Wesley and the wallpaper

vintage design

work it

Wesley's brother also came to help us

The kitchen, we removed two cabinets who were placed in a dangerous spot. As in bump your head all the time.

The kitchen, very old!

I am sad :(

Hello everyone, I haven't updated in a while.
I am sad, very sad. My grandpa passed away last week.
He had a stroke on the 27th of October and could not be saved anymore. My heart is hurting with the knowledge I will never see him again. He passed away in the hospital on the 30th of October about 21:15. We had a beautiful service for him before he was taken away to be cremated. I miss him so much already :(
Dear grandpa, I will always love you and you will stay forever with me in my heart.

Recent purchases

As promised here is the update about my recent purchases.

Comic related:

How awesome is this? Wonder Woman barbie!! They sell for a ridiculous amount of money on eBay  I got this one from a Dutch site called Marktplaats, which is translated as marketplace. I got a good deal on it, because the box is damaged. I paid €12,50 for it.

Seperate issues and two collected volumes. The two books I got a comic book store in Haarlem called Silvester strips. They mostly sell Dutch comics but they have an American section as well back in the store. The Trinity comics I got from eBay, and the mixed lot in the third picture I got from a book market in Purmerend.

Batman dress/top! I am actually too tall to wear it as a dress, but I wore it the other day with a pair of leggings and it was fine. It is the lazy oaf knock off, but a fraction of the price of a real one. Yet again, from eBay.

Make-up/fragrance:

Last week I went to see my parents, and they had planned a nice day trip to Germany! We went to Kleve to do some shopping and browsing. I had my mind set on two things: the Art Deco Dita von Teese collection and her perfume. The perfume is not yet released here in Holland, and I was dying to find out how it smells. Douglas was all sold out, but they did have the Art Deco collection. I picked up two things, a powder compact and a lipstick.

I am very content about the formula of this brand. The lipstick is long lasting, and the powder gives a nice matte finish to the skin. I first applied lip pencil as a base before I filled in my lips with the lipstick. It helps to make your lipstick stay put and makes sure it doesn't smudge outside your lip line. Then I went to another perfume store and they still had two bottles of Dita perfume left!

It isn't like any other celebrity perfume, it smells like a high end brand. Not your average girlie flower scent. I love it, it is really for grown ups. Plus the bottle looks very elegant as well.

That's it for now, it is almost diner time so I have to get pots and pans out!

Have a nice evening!

Ehrm..

Something went wrong with my pictures :(
I am working on it as we speak.

What is going on?

Hello everyone, I am sorry I haven't updated my blog for ages.
A lot of things have happened, and unfortunately not all of those things are good.
I don't want to focus on all the bad stuff but one thing that is still bothering me is my knee. I've had the operation in March, had to go to the physiotherapist and all of the sudden I was sent home with the message that they couldn't help me anymore. I had to 'recover' on my own strength. I was relieved but also a bit suspicious about it. After a while my knee started to hurt really bad, like every day. It was the same sort of pain I had when I just had the operation. I made a call to the hospital to get a check-up. The surgeon told me that I am very unstable   and I have to go and see a new physiotherapist. He also told me that things don't improve I have to get a second operation. So here I am still hanging in there with no improvement since March. Now I have to go to the new therapist 2 times per week and the treatment is quite intense. But it is all for a good cause!

A nice thing that has happened is that my grandma and grandpa had their 60th wedding anniversary! We had a nice day planned for them, with cake and dinner at a fancy restaurant. Even the mayor came to pay a visit, she gave them flowers and a pen drawing of a scene from their town. I am still waiting for pictures, but I have one for you right now.

My outfit of that day:
Top and skirt are from Pinup Couture and I bought those via topvintage
Excuse the clutter in the picture.

Other nice things that have happened are actually shopping related, haha! I haven't told you this yet but I am a comic collector. Especially Wonder Woman and Batman related stuff. I think that I am going to do a separate post about my recent purchases, as some sort of 'collective haul'. 

That's it for the update for now. I will be posting more often since I do want to review stuff and passing on my findings to others.

Night night everyone!