A lovely Easter weekend

Saturday morning we have cold fingers

as our walk in to town lingers

while I stop at almost each door

my fascination grows more and more.

All is grey and stone and brick...

except for these that give a colour kick...

 

Awesome retrolicious doorknobs!

 The market gives us colours, cheese and tea

and a chocolate Easter egg... for free!

 

 

 Then there was this store of antiques

full to the roof with uniques...

That is where I must have stained my dress
kneeling down to take these pictues in the mess.

 

 

  

Sunday the dress was all well and fixed
with a bunch of stain removers that my mom mixed.
Just in time to get to the core of Easter celebration...
enough chocolate eggs to feed a whole nation!

Oh! And isn't it funny...
right before Easter along came this bunny!

Fluffy, the neighbour's bunny,
is staying with us for a week.

 

 

 



More treasures!

Buttons from Liljan!
Thank you Liljan !

 

 

I can not begin to say,

how blessed I was today!

A friend just let me know:

''I have some buttons I want to show''.

She opened boxes full of treasure after treaure

going through them gave me so much pleasure!

I walked out with a bag full of little things that make me smile

and will keep me busy crafting for a while!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Treasure shopping

I would say

thriftshopping takes my breath away.

 

From ''Opnieuw en Co'' in Lier.

 

But that would not be fair

to all the treasures I find elsewhere...

 

From all around, from Lier Belgium,
to Richmond California.

Foreign country shopping gives me an extra thrill

although limiting to my suitcase's capacity takes a strong will.

 

Indian papier mache pot,
card from market in Amsterdam.

Nepali stars.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And then there are treasures from family and friends

things I am happy to take off their hands.

 

A groovy old school Easter deco-egg
from my awesome moeke.

 

So it will be more honest to state

that ''Treasure shopping'' and I regularly date.

 

Treasure from thrift shopping.

 

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Still on a roll

10 days ago,

I left India.

 

7 days ago,

I left Amsterdam.

 

Today

I am here.

 

And I AM here.

Let that be clear.

My body is and my mind

and so is my heart, most of the time.

 

And although today I am stationary

and I don't have a travel itinerary...

I still feel on a roll,

like I have no controll.

 

My emotions move from place to place

like they are lost in a maze.

I am growing and I go back,

not always on track.

 

Travelling comes in different forms,

I am still travelling.

How about that?

Not sleeping in dorms,

but just in my own bed.

 

 

Bike in Amsterdam

 

 

 

 



Out with a blast!

I am leaving India in a couple of hours

and it feels wrong...

Hasn't this trip just started?

How can it be over already?

Maybe I still can't grasp and understand 

all of the incredible things I saw.

And maybe I am just not ready to say goodbye

to all of the wonderful people that won a place in my heart...

THE Taj Mahal...
It was surreal,
seeing it with my own eyes.

On Ganges in Varanassi...
Goodbye Incredible India!

At Taj Mahal

How can you not
 fall in love with this country?

Bazars and temples

From Jaisalmer 

to Jodhpur

to Udaipur

to Pushkar...

Enjoying the busy bazars

the tremendous temples

and the fantastic forts!

Pushkar

In Fort Merangharh

Jain temple