Geeky girl doin' stuff .

Gardening, the hard way ;)

Posted by Annelies | Filed under Garden

So this weekend we are working in the garden! Adding more soil to level it, making sure there is space to put said soil :D

Removing our gravel for the time being

Tyrgen being very helpful

The new soil being delivered

Before we started hauling the soil, this was the look:

And this is how it looked after putting in the soil and getting some borders set:

Some shots of our present flora :)

Read more | Comments (0) | April 11, 2016

Plastering the wall (part2): breaking down stuff

Posted by Annelies | Filed under Renovations

This is the part were we could be of assistance: getting the paper off the wall, and removing the glue that makes the replastering not stick :(

Not a fun job, a very dirty job even, but hey, it has to be done!

Piece of wall still in original state

Wallpaper gone

Glue and white plaster removed…

Read more | Comments (0) | April 7, 2016

Facts 2016 Spring Edition

Posted by Annelies | Filed under Hobby, Thûrin

We attend Facts (October-edition) every year with Elanor, and we love going. This time, a new Spring edition was launched. Elanor was not attending, so we decided to go on our own! Just one day, and only with the baby :) The other boys were having fun at their grandparents!

Several queue options, not needed at that moment ;)

Immediately, it was visible that they took into account several remarks from previous editions: more space between rows so you weren’t crowded, a lot more food options (and good ones!)

What was very interesting is that there floorplan was coloured, and that was repeated in the venue itself! Direct paths toward specific areas, had walkways in that colour leading towards them!

floorplan

on site

All in all, I liked it, but I also felt a bit lost. That typical ‘FACTS-feel’ wasn’t there. Maybe it was because of the first time Spring Edition, maybe it was the lack of sales booths (some people didn’t show after the recent events in Belgium), maybe it was because the fanvillage was very small (Elanor wasn’t the only group who wasn’t there), maybe it was the good weather, maybe the cancellation of quite a few actors, or maybe a bit of everything!

All in all, we will need to wait and see for the next edition in October and the next Spring edition!

Some pictures to get an idea

Star wars

Harry Potter

Cool jackets

Something I wish I had to decorate our wall…

Thûrin having fun with a ‘sword’

Read more | Comments (2) | April 4, 2016

Tree donated by the commune for Thûrins birth

Posted by Annelies | Filed under Garden, Kids

On Saturday we were invited for a small reception, and to pick up our tree for the birth of Thûrin (we had chosen one in advance last year when our boy was born)

yummy cake

groepsfoto van de vorig jaar geboren kindjes die een boom kwamen halen

It was a lot of fun, and we picked up our apple tree, and I immediately planted it!

Yay for our little one!

Complaints from both other boys: they want a tree now too… Luckily, I still have to go and buy and extra pear tree and an apple tree… -> small garden full of fruit trees? Yes, it seems so :D

Read more | Comments (0) | March 17, 2016

Plastering the wall of the hallway (part 1)

Posted by Annelies | Filed under Renovations

There wasn’t supposed to be more than a part 1… But hey, renovating means surprises it seems ;)

Before:

wall upstairs, very badly damaged

wall downstairs, bad quality but looked good… (looking good doesn’t mean quality…)

After:

wall upstairs -> smooooooooth!

wall downstairs, partially done

Wall downstairs, completely finished

You can see part of a side wall that still needs to be done, and the rest of the hallway too… -> a bit of work ahead there :D But what else would we do with our time? ;)

Read more | Comments (0) | March 15, 2016

Finishing the walls of the attics

Posted by Annelies | Filed under Renovations

Finishing touch of the walls: all plastered up!

Our future bedroom:

The last window in the roof is also installed now. If anyone wants the name of my AWESOME ‘roof-guy’ -> give me a yell, and I will point you in the correct direction!

The kids future bedrooms:

All that is left for me is to take off the plaster from the far wall so we can keep the stone structure there and then paint it white. -> UPDATE: this is not going to happen, further inspection of the wall gave it status ‘ugly’ and not good enought to just paint… Gyproc to the rescue!

And after that we will paint the big beams nicely, since they are remaining visible.

And yes, after that we still have some stuff to do, but that will take some more time ;)

Read more | Comments (0) | March 14, 2016

Renovating the roof (part 3)

Posted by Annelies | Filed under Renovations

So, more roof stuff ;)

The new roof from the outside!

The new window in ‘our’ part of the attic

And then they started on the last bit, the walls! (the bad pictures is due to no more lights available and it was getting dark outside :D)

Childrens part of the attic:

Our part of the attic:

Read more | Comments (0) | March 5, 2016

Remodeling the kitchen some more!

Posted by Annelies | Filed under Renovations

We have starting painting around the new kitchen window, since we have some issues with the borders and last kitchen cabinet… and we added the front window too, since there is no more work needed around that one!

The door and upstairs window will have to wait, since we are still going to be working around those and we don’t want to redo the painting ;)

And the new screen door arrived for the window!

Read more | Comments (0) | February 29, 2016

The new stairs to the attic/soon to be childrens rooms

Posted by Annelies | Filed under Renovations

The new stairs were going to be installed, so we cleaned up the space where they will be:

The materials to build the stairs on the spot:

And this is the finished stairs, now we just have to do the walls around it, and the floor (eventually).

And it is protected with cardboard, since we still need to do other construction in the attic and don’t want it immediately broken again :D

Glad we have an easier access to the attic on this side again ;)

Read more | Comments (0) | February 28, 2016

Renovating the roof (part 2)

Posted by Annelies | Filed under Renovations

A little sooner then we expected after the initial discussions, our roof is being replaced already! The weather is good (no rain or stuff falling from the skies) so they started right after the insulation of the first part!

The tiles have been partially removed here already… They will also remove most of the beams and replace them with new ones. The old ones have been partially eaten by bugs, so it wasn’t safe to keep those!