Dear reader,


Just a quick update from me. Currently, I’m extremely busy with school… my teachers are making me read 1000 pages in 2 weeks T_T, but I still wanted to tell write a blogpost about last week.


On Friday my best friend and I went to the International Dolls and Bears Fair, in order to come up with some ideas for the webshop that we are planning on opening. At the beginning of the fair there was a lane which was called “Fantasy Forum” where they had fantasy related dolls, creatures or even lamps and music boxes that were all handmade! I really loved that aisle… I sooo want to get myself one of those lamps when I move out of the house. And some of the dolls made out of clay were just amazing. Someone even made a Mystic and a Skeksis from The Dark Crystal! We might decide to sell some fantasy related handmade dolls and creatures in our webshop, since it is a giftshop and it would fit in nicely with our theme of ‘cuteness’. We also saw some amazing brand bears that we would really like to sell in our shop. So we definitely have a better view of what we want to sell thanks to the fair.
On Saturday my parents, fiance and I spent the entire day at my aunt’s and uncle’s place. It was the first time that my fiance met someone from my father’s side of the family. As expected my aunt and fiance got along really well. My uncle is a bit more of the quiet type (like my father), but judging from his behaviour I think he liked my fiance as well. During the day we went to a small town called Meedemblik. Because there were six of us and only five seats in the care I volunteered to take a seat in the trunk… I have to say, that was a really new experience for me haha. The faces of passersby were just priceless. Some people actually automatically started waving (it were the grownups and not the kids that waved) lol! Meedemblik is an old fisherman’s town which has a tiny haven in the middle of it, which makes it a fun place to walk through. In the evening we had a truly lovely dinner which was prepaired by my uncle. It was truly delicious! He made loin with chestnut mushrooms and a sauce (of which I have no idea what type of sauce it was) with Marjory potatoes, cauliflower, beans, carrots and poached pears on the side. As a desert my aunt had made tiramisu… I’m not a fan of it so I opted for Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream… However, upon taking one bite from my fiance’s tiramisu I really liked it! Probably because the mascarpone flavor was not so strong as it usually is. :D So next time I will definitely also be eating my aunt’s tiramisu.

So all in all I had a really fun two days! :D

Love,

Blacky

Dear reader,

As promised, another blog entry about the material that I need to read for my tutorial. The subject of this post is Geoffrey Rowell's book Hell and the Victorians and will deal with the different views on hell as well as eschatology in the Victorian era.

Dear reader,

As I wrote in one of my previous post, I am supposed to write critical analysis and/or summary's of the books that I read for my tutorial. Since I know that some people who follow this blog are interested in the Victorian Era, I thought it might be a good idea to share my summaries/ analyses with them. Hopefully, they can be of some use to someone out there.

The summary's are very short and therefore incomplete, but it might just provide people with enough information so they knew whether or not they should read the book.

My first summary is on Heaven, Hell and the Victorians by Michael Wheeler.

Dear reader,

Well because I'm currently sick in bed I finally get to write a post about my birthday!
As you know I only got back to Holland the day before my birthday so I decided to spend it in a nice quiet way. Mom and dad woke me up whilst singing 'Happy birthday', which has probably become a family tradition haha, and it was time for presents. They gave me two tickets, for me and my mom, to go to a concert of Josh Groban! :D I already knew that I was getting those tickets, but that did not make me less happy!