Hey all,

What I just read is incredible. I just can't believe it! Here in the Netherlands a bunch of people has established an organisation in favour of pedifoly. You think I'm kidding, right? Well, unfortunately enough, I'm not! They want the legal age for children to have sex to go down, they want Children's porn to be legal and more really sick stuff like that. I just can't believe it. Are they utterly mad? Has their wiring gone wrong in their heads? Here in the Netherlands we really disapprove of these things and they want to make it something that can be talked about. If there's something that will never become legal, it's all of the above, or at least I hope so. It's just not right! I just hope they'll never get any kind of influence anywhere.

Talk to you later!

Babbled by Ilse at 10:04 PM
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Hey all,

Hannie and I decided to stop with Shanshu Events all together. It's something that's becoming more a burden than anything else and we simply don't have the time anymore to give the foundation the attention it needs. It's too bad, but we see no other choice. We'll have to let everyone know about this of course, but first we have to figure out what we have to do to actually stop the foundation. We'll post more news on our mailinglist and on the website as soon as we know exactly what to post.

Talk to you later.

Babbled by Ilse at 8:32 AM
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Hey all,

Well, how long can it take to finish up all the tile work? A day, a few days, a week, more? And how long can it take to make the finishing touch on the tiles? An hour, two, more? No, really, make a guess!

I'll tell you. It took us a week and a half to finish all the tile work (actually cutting them and placing them on the walls and the floor). The finishing touch costed us several hours. We were finished with that Sunday morning at 5.30 AM. And yes, we have worked straight on from saturday evening. Now how's that for dedication?

I can garantee you it's a heel of a jb to do. Luckily this is a rewarding job to do, because you can see all the work we've done for it. It's a whole other story with the heater in the floor. You can't see it, but it took us quite some work. But in the end we don't have to have cold feet in our bathroom and that's a big plus!

Now that the tile work is completely done we can continue with other things.......

Talk to you later.

Babbled by Ilse at 8:23 AM
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Hey all,

Well, we haven't finished our bathroom yet. We're not having our days at the moment. Today, well actually it's yesterday at the time I'm writing this, we discovered our tile saw was really "up". We had to by a new blade. Other things were necessary too. And when I came back from my morning walk, James had a nice point: The pipes for the heater we're placed wrong, so now they're too close together and neither one of them can be fit on the heater. Thats a problem we'll have to solve too!

At last, at the time I'm writing this, we're done with putting on all the tiles. What's left now is the finishing touch for the tiles. That's what we're doing now. Mind you it's 0:52 h (AM) here in the Netherlands, so we're both kinda exhausted, but we have no other choice now then to go on. We hope to be finshed with this around 2 AM. we'll just wait and see if that's really going to happen........

Once this is all finished we can finally place our shower tomorrow. We SO want to take a shower in our own house after three weeks of taking showers at my parents house. It's very nice of them of course, that we can take showers there. We highly appreciate it, but after three weeks...... We just want to do it at home. (now get your mind of the gutter, that was NOT what I was thinking about!)

James said to me this afternoon we were not goign to another rebuilding in the house at all. Okay, so we have a house from the seventies with styling from that period (mind you, it's 1970, not a future kind of thing!). The kitchen is old and really needs to be replaced. The electric wiring is way to old. I can't have diswasher and the frying pan have turned on together, cause all will stop (and that's when the refrigerator and freezer are connected elsewhere!), so work needs be done on that...... The wallpaper needs to go too......... there's so much left to do. So, in short, was I disappointed when he said that? NOT AT ALL! After three weeks of rebuilding the bathroom, I'm completely exhausted and I have the same feeling as he does: NEVER AGAIN!
But then again.... Okay, after diner we decided if we'd do it again, we'd hire someone to do it for us, instead of us doing it all.

Anyway, it's 1 AM sharp and I can do a little bit of finishing up. Maybe we'll be able to get to our beds by 2 AM.......

Talk to you later!

Babbled by Ilse at 12:49 AM
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Hey all,

We had a little financial break and we decided to rebuild our bathroom. In a house that's more then 25 years old and with a style from 25 years ago, we thought it was time to redo it. Especially since we had a few leaks and we wanted those solved too. So, with months of planning (and shopping) done, we decided to start almost three weeks ago. We had hoped we would have enough time to do it all (it's our holiday) and that we would be done by the time we had to get back to work again.

At first we had to, very logically, tear everything down. We were "given" a few surprises right then which we had to fix. It set us back about a day. Tearing it all down and cleaning up everything so that we could start building again, took us a little week. And then we could start building. First we had to fix the pipes so that could have our bath, the shower and the toilet exactly where we wanted it to be. After we had done that, we could plaster the walls, since everything had come down when we ripped of the tiles.

At last we could start putting up the new tiles about a week ago. Mind you we're all doing it ourselves. James is very handy, so that's a good thing. And I'm doing my best to help him where ever I can, but it's not easy.
Still, it's costing us more time then we had anticipated for. Right now we still have the bottom layer of the tiles on the walls left to do, but before we can start with those, we have to finish the floor, for which we placed the first tiles today. It's going! (Ahum!!!!). Right now we're at a speed of about one to two tiles per hour. Don't worry, these tiles are big (45 x 45 cm). On the other hand, our bathroom isn't that big and with thespeed it's all going right now, we won't be finished by the end of this weekend and then we have to get back to work again.

I really hope we can finish up all the tile work today, so that we can go on with other things tomorrow, but so far....... I just really want our bathroom finished by the time we have to get back to work! Oh well, we'll just see...... I
I'll just some other tiny things now and talk to you later!

Babbled by Ilse at 3:20 PM
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Hey all,

You've stumbled upon my little corner of the digital universe. Thanks for visting. I always highly appreciate me. Since you've clicked on the link to get to know about me, I guess I'll tell you a little something.

• Name?:
  Ilse (that's with an "i" in the beginning!)
  
• Location?:
  Netherlands (in the South)
  
• Age?:
  Do you really want to know?.... this varies
  
• Occupation?:
  Traffic Engineer, Director/Shopowner, "Author", and all other things I'd like to become
  
• Interests?:
  Scrapbooking, Photography, Reading, writing stories, Harry Potter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, Lost, CSI (all versions) and a lot more!
  
• Why Scrapbooking?:
  For me it is slowly becoming a way to live. Scrapbooking is not only a good way to keep your photos in an excellent condition, but it is also, and that is soooo much more important, a way to preserve your memories. It's not just the picture itself that counts, but also what's on it, who's on it, why you took that picture, how you felt about the subject, and so many more things. By scrapping your photos you will still know in about ten years why this was all so important. And although these digital journals are getting widely spread, I think scrapping is very important too. You can show your albums to family and friends, you can give it as a present to soemone, you can keep it for your children, so that they will have a wonderful memory when they're old enough to appreciate it,..... The possibilities are endless. You don't have to be creative to begin with it. It's all up to you how complicated or easy you make all the pages. Just remeber the 5 "W's" and the "H" and don't forget to include your feelings and thoughts. It may take some time before you scrapped all your photos, but it is certainly worthwhile. To me it is anyway and that's why I'll keep on scrapping. No matter what.
  
• Any other sites before this one?:
  I have had many other sites. I started out using Yahoo with the instant builder, years before now. I gradually did more and more myself, until I learned programming sites on my own. I have had sites about fandoms for a very long time, including a fanfiction archive. Due to the fact that I had to maintain it almost entirely on my own, I decided to quit the fandom sites and the fanfiction archive. It's just not doable. Maybe I'll start a fanfiction archive here later on, but this archive will host only my own stories and not those of others. There are many very good archives out there for them!
  
• Fandoms?:
  Well, I have been a fan of a variety of television series, resulting in being the head of a fanclub for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel here in the Netherlands. I just like those series. You can see the story and characters develope and it was something I could imagine. I have a lot more series I like and books to.
  
• "Author"?:
  Well, I always wanted to write stories and I've started my own original story which will probably never turn into a book, but you never know. Maybe I'll just get very good inspiration and I'll start writing like J. K. Rowling or J. R. Tolkien or one of those other great authors. I'm not excluding anything.
  
• Any other dreams?:
  Well, I'd like to be a multi-millionaire. Wouldn't it be great to have so much money that you can buy just anything you'd like? And also be able to help good causes? I'd like it very much. I also dream of having a Scrapbook shop in "Brick & Morter". If that's ever gonna happen.... I don't know. I can dream, can't I?
  

Babbled by Ilse at 4:27 PM
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Hey all,

I attended Scrap-a-Ganza this weekend. It's the second time I've attended this event.
I have had a lot of fun. I had 10 workshops. Most of them included techniques I had never used up until now. I selected the workshops specifically on that. It's a bit too much to describe everything in English, so I'll just keep it at the fact that I have had a great time and I'll go again next year! For those of you who can read dutch, please read that version. It's a very long journal of my scrapbookweekend! Maybe I'll translate it into English later on.....

Have fun and see you later!

Babbled by Ilse at 10:12 AM in Category: Scrap-a-Ganza
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