{"id":2869,"date":"2009-04-27T19:18:54","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T18:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/?p=2869"},"modified":"2025-09-19T13:00:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T11:00:51","slug":"some-blah-blah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/some-blah-blah\/","title":{"rendered":"A little blah blah&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thought of writing a short post to update you all &#8217;cause I&#8217;m afraid it won&#8217;t be until Friday before I find the time to write a post again.<\/p>\n<p>So just a few things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tomorrow my friend Lena will come visit me and it will be two days<br \/>\nof fun, giggling, crafting, eating, drinking and definitely NO blogging.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Thursday it&#8217;s &#8220;Queens Day&#8221; over in the Netherlands (Yep, I live in a monarchy) The whole country will turn into one big orange &#8220;thing&#8221; and I&#8217;m planning a post about\u00a0that to\u00a0tell\u00a0you foreigners what a\u00a0bizarre country I&#8217;m in (and maybe show you some photo&#8217;s too, to illustrate the madness &#8211; so stay tuned!)<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>I applied for the Design Team over at Lotus paperie&#8230; Eeeeeeck!<br \/>\nKeep your fingers crossed, &#8217;cause I feel ready to join a DT now but<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know if they feel the same and<br \/>\nI. SO. WANT. TO. BE. PART. OF. IT.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;Alice in Wonderland Journal Circle\u00a0Swap&#8221; is finally getting somewhere&#8230;\u00a0<br \/>\nThere are already\u00a06 participants (you\u00a0can still join the fun!\u00a0Come to the SIStv forum <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrapinstyletv.com\/forums\/23_31359_0.html#msg634331\">overhere<\/a>\u00a0, sign in will be due May 15th)\u00a0It probably will be\u00a0a 6&#215;6 journal; everybody makes a left and a right page, and we all end\u00a0up with a &#8220;Alice Journal&#8221;&#8230;. Exiting huh!<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>My niece is doing a little bit better (under the circumstances).<br \/>\nThe surgery on her elbow on Friday went OK and\u00a0from\u00a0yesterday on<br \/>\nshe breaths on her own (at least, that&#8217;s what the latest mail told us.)<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Nout (my son) has school holidays this week, he&#8217;s with his dad now but he&#8217;ll come to join us on Wednesday. I asked him to come over early so\u00a0he can take a photo shoot of\u00a0me and my friend Lena. Nout is a real good photographer (at 16!) He\u00a0works with a tele lens most of the time and I can do with some fresh pics of me and Lena! (it&#8217;s been a long time!) He uploaded some of his pics <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noutweb.com\/old-blog\/photography\/\">here<\/a> and you really should take a look at that, or at his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noutweb.com\/old-blog\/\">weblog<\/a>! (He likes to get comments too you know, and if you&#8217;re a mum\u00a0you know how much it means to a\u00a0teenager to get a compliment now and then!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll leave you with a photo\u00a0Nout took from me and my beloved last week.<br \/>\n(Don&#8217;t forget to love each other!!!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2870\" title=\"mm\" src=\"https:\/\/maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/\">back to homepage<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thought of writing a short post to update you all &#8217;cause I&#8217;m afraid it won&#8217;t be until Friday before I find the time to write a post again. So just a few things: Tomorrow my friend Lena will come visit me and it will be two days of fun, giggling, crafting, eating, drinking and definitely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[174,252,237,241,177,735,251],"class_list":{"0":"post-2869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-alice-in-wonderland","8":"tag-design-team","9":"tag-lena","10":"tag-lisa","11":"tag-nout","12":"tag-photos","13":"tag-visit","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}