I love this new idea of blogging on Sundays... it reminds me of Amanda's saying "Sunday FUNday!" :)
It's been really great to read Sarah Ban Breathnach again. I love her ideas like the Gratitude Journal (found mine yesterday actually, it's a tiny light blue notebook with an elephant on the cover... last entry February 2010, so - perfect time to get started again :)), Personal Treasure Map, Daily Dialogue and the Illustrated Discovery Journal.
On February 12 she asks us to find a (smiling) photograph of yourself when you were about ten. Send this little girl your love and remember what you were like at the time - when you still trusted your instincts.
In some ways it doesn't seem that long ago for me... even though so much has happened since I was ten - including traveling and moving out & back in twice :) - I still live in the same house, with my parents, and I still have the same bedroom I used to have (except that it's a little bigger now). My room used to be a combination of bright red, blue and yellow. It was already filled with Star Wars stuff, ABBA CD's and (library) books. My best friends in elementary school were Nienke and Suzanne. Nienke & I have known each other since we were 2 and 3 years old, and we're still in touch today. We used to play by writing each other letters in a notebook that we passed around, signing our entries with nicknames (Carrie, Kelly & Nicky). We were outside a lot too, looking for berries and drawing 'nature' as we called the bushes in our backyard.
I started playing the piano when I was 8. I had been asking for a drumset from the age of 5, obviously because of my idol Karen Carpenter (Nienke was the one who got me into the Carpenters actually). Unfortunately, my parents thought it would be too noisy and saw the headphones of our digital piano as a more appealing option. I guess I was sort of okay with the piano, but I started loving it after a year or so - when my new teacher Erzsike gave me a Walter Carroll book (Forest Fantasies). Amazingly beautiful! I felt like a concert pianist.
I never really played with Play-Doh... did you? I've always loved coloring, drawing, painting and crafting though. I don't remember if my favorite color was blue back then already, but I feel like it might have been. My favorite subjects in school were probably History and English. I remember my history book quite well. It had words printed in blue - you had to memorize those for the tests. But above all I loved reading... authors like Roald Dahl. When I was 10 I actually experienced for the first time what it's like to truely fall in love with a book. I was drawn to the cover of Aischa (Federica de Cesco), I was wishing with all my heart that nobody would choose it before it was my turn... I felt like it belonged to me. And surely, it was still there when I was allowed to pick a book. Such an amazing reading experience! I still own a copy today and I have read it many, many times since then.
My favorite doll... well, my one and only doll is Lotje. She had been around for a while when I got her - she used to belong to my mom. I've had her my whole life and when I was little I carried her around by her hair, poor thing. She's actually still stitting in my room right now! :)
It's been really great to read Sarah Ban Breathnach again. I love her ideas like the Gratitude Journal (found mine yesterday actually, it's a tiny light blue notebook with an elephant on the cover... last entry February 2010, so - perfect time to get started again :)), Personal Treasure Map, Daily Dialogue and the Illustrated Discovery Journal.
On February 12 she asks us to find a (smiling) photograph of yourself when you were about ten. Send this little girl your love and remember what you were like at the time - when you still trusted your instincts.
In some ways it doesn't seem that long ago for me... even though so much has happened since I was ten - including traveling and moving out & back in twice :) - I still live in the same house, with my parents, and I still have the same bedroom I used to have (except that it's a little bigger now). My room used to be a combination of bright red, blue and yellow. It was already filled with Star Wars stuff, ABBA CD's and (library) books. My best friends in elementary school were Nienke and Suzanne. Nienke & I have known each other since we were 2 and 3 years old, and we're still in touch today. We used to play by writing each other letters in a notebook that we passed around, signing our entries with nicknames (Carrie, Kelly & Nicky). We were outside a lot too, looking for berries and drawing 'nature' as we called the bushes in our backyard.
I started playing the piano when I was 8. I had been asking for a drumset from the age of 5, obviously because of my idol Karen Carpenter (Nienke was the one who got me into the Carpenters actually). Unfortunately, my parents thought it would be too noisy and saw the headphones of our digital piano as a more appealing option. I guess I was sort of okay with the piano, but I started loving it after a year or so - when my new teacher Erzsike gave me a Walter Carroll book (Forest Fantasies). Amazingly beautiful! I felt like a concert pianist.
I never really played with Play-Doh... did you? I've always loved coloring, drawing, painting and crafting though. I don't remember if my favorite color was blue back then already, but I feel like it might have been. My favorite subjects in school were probably History and English. I remember my history book quite well. It had words printed in blue - you had to memorize those for the tests. But above all I loved reading... authors like Roald Dahl. When I was 10 I actually experienced for the first time what it's like to truely fall in love with a book. I was drawn to the cover of Aischa (Federica de Cesco), I was wishing with all my heart that nobody would choose it before it was my turn... I felt like it belonged to me. And surely, it was still there when I was allowed to pick a book. Such an amazing reading experience! I still own a copy today and I have read it many, many times since then.
My favorite doll... well, my one and only doll is Lotje. She had been around for a while when I got her - she used to belong to my mom. I've had her my whole life and when I was little I carried her around by her hair, poor thing. She's actually still stitting in my room right now! :)
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