Last year's bread

Because I'm stuck at home with my toe, I'm ending the year with a delicious recipe for bread
pudding

Ingredients: 300gr of last year's bread, 1/2l milk, 1dl cream, 60gr butter, 100gr white sugar,
1 package of vanilla sugar, 3 eggs, a handfull raisins, 1oogr dryed but moisted abircots, 125gr
marzipan, 1/2 lemon, 1 small spoon cinamon and some pecannuts

boil the milk with the white sugar and poor it over the pieces of bread, stur the egg yoke with
the cream and vanillasugar and add to the bowl with bread

make a mixture of the cinnamon, raisins, abricots, marzipan, butter and lemon peel

add all to the bowl and poor in a pastry mould fixed with butter

bake in a preheated oven for 45 - 60 minutes on 180°C

serve warm with some pecannuts

fancy footwork

Remember that 'little toe-incident' that happened a week ago, well that little toe just kept on
hurting. I know myself: I'm not thé most though person, so didn't feel like going to the
doctor for no reason. But under compulsion from my mom and husband, I finally went and this
fancy footwork is the result. I've broken my poor little toe twice. So this will be my hot shoe for
the next couple of weeks...

on the hair-part: what a response! I'm still very indecisive; my mom made a plea to keep my
natural color, especially because colorshampoos always affect your hair - and moms are always
right (see above!). But there is still an option of using a henna-shampoo, this is a natural product
that you can wash away - to be continued...

red or black?

jep, it is that time again: I'm in the mood for a hairchange - it definitely needs a cut cause my
updo's are becoming too difficult because of the length but nothing to drastic, just a small cut to
get the right length and health back. But I'm also thinking of coloring it - which is kinda drastic
for me since I never colored itbefore. I will start with a shampoo, nothing too permanent yet!

Red

or black

what do you think?

"mad men" cocktail hour

This time of year is filled with cocktail- and dinner-parties with friends. The perfect time to
go "mad men -style" in a tight fitted dress, preppy shoes and perfect styled hair.
Outside dress warm but elegant with a big coat and a nice scarf wrapped around you.
And remember: never drink and drive - cheers!

Ps: I have to be honest and tell you that these pics were taken some days ago cause during one
of those cocktailparties at a friends house, I was dancing a little bit to excited on christmas' songs
and stumped my little toe to the sofastand: resulted one terribly blue little toe - so the shoes I'm
wearing now aren't so fancy as the ones above ...

white christmas

To all my readers:

May the good times and treasures of the present become the golden memories of tomorrow.

Wish you lots of love, joy and happiness

winter finally won...

winter is just too hard so decided I needed some real proper footwear. I'm tired of slipping

away and messing up my pretty shoes. I bought these chunky boots with a good ribbed

sole and so warm fur inside. Not thé most pretty shoe but as I said winter won this one!

(Now just hoping it can arrive from Britain, since all traffic in Europe is mixed up...)

wishing on a star

I've been taking that me-time I needed so bad and retrieved myself a bit. I haven't seen my
loved-ones from more then a week now, and I miss them all so much.
I'm glad I've found my peace of mind again and I'm really looking forward to spending Christmas
with the whole family! I'm totally ready, all presents are bought!
Wishing on a star for a warm white Christmas...

Betty Boop

To continue in the cartoon-theme: a good old betty boop movie

Suekie Mouse

Suekie Mouse - a nickname some of my friends give me: with my red polkadotdress and my

hairbow - I wonder how they got that name ...

cancan

These beauties originally belonged to a good friend of mine, and I had my heart set on them for
ages (actually just pure jealousy!). Oh so lucky me, my friend decided to have a sale with old
shoes and clothes; and guess what - these babies were for sale!!! Thé perfect red butterfly
shoes, they are extremly high, so honestly don't think I will wear them that much, but just
the thought of owning them is just perfect!

These shoes together with my weekly trips to Paris inspired me for this moulin-rouge drawing,
a quick sketch cause I'm working on my christmascard!

Yann Tiersen

Me time

Thank you all for the very sweet wishes, it really means a lot to me!

I don't feel like getting into things too much, but I just need some me-time. Time off - not from

work but time off in my head.

kisses

life isn't always easy

longing for summer

The ever returning post in these dark days, me longing for summer.

Some music to dream of those long warm days and sultry nights:

² chet baker - summertime ²

shop-extravaganza

some details of my shop-extravaganza on saturday:

2 months of no shopping resulted in one big overload- I managed to get some warmer clothes

which I desperatly needed with these temperatures but as yo can see on the shoe-part: went for

flat winter apropriate shoes and well euhm, top picture says it all...

artist of the day

Horst P Horst

29

On this cold and snowy 4 december I'm turning 29! Unlike most people, I actually don't mind
getting older, cause you always gain in wisdom and knowledge - but who knows, in a couple of
years I might feel different. I'm planning on a nice shoppingday with the big sis, cake with family
and then a small party with friends!

To complete the geneva-story from previous post - it turned out to be quite an adventure: that
night all flights got canceled, waiting at the airportdesk I met 3 people, when we heard that the
airport would stay closed the next day and no hotels were left in geneva, we took the train to
Bern. Arriving there at 2 (in the night), we check in a hotel, getting up in the morning and
starting a roadtrip to Belgium with a rental car - considering all circumstances a fun way to meet
people. We allready are keeping in touch by mail and decided to do a reunion each 30th of
November.

receiving birthdaywishes from my little sweetheart