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Thirteen Things I LOVE about Nanowrimo


1…. Nanowrimo gets the creative juices flowing.

2. During Nanowrimo you discover that you actually can stay focussed on one thing!

3. Everyone who knows you're doing Nanowrimo will think you're crazy, but actually they're jealous.

4. Nanowrimo only asks for 50,000 words a month! Most books are 80,000 or 100,000! Some even more!

5. You're not alone! So many people are doing Nanowrimo too!

6. The forums! Nanowrimo has general forums, and regional forums, so you can get in touch with people writing in your own country, or even your city!

7. The deadline. Because of the one month deadline, Nanowrimo helps you to write. You know it has to be finished by November 30th.

8. You will write crap, and it's ok! You can't expect to write 1667 words a day and have them all turn out perrrrfect. Nanowrimo even expects you to write crap. And it's fiiine! You can edit it on (Inter-)National Novel Editing Month, March.

9. You can sign up for weekly pep talks. Well, emails. Nanowrimo's staff sends you a 'you can do it' email every week to keep you going.

10. There's even a Nanowrimo shop! You can buy a T shirt, mug, poster or even a book to help you write.

11. Kids can Nanowrimo too! There is a special Young Writers Program for kids and students.

12. During Nanowrimo you write like crazy for one month, which means you can either get that story out you've been wanting to write down, or get a huge start on that book you've been dreaming of writing 'one day'.

13. When you've done it all, when you wrote down word number 50,000 just before midnight on November 30th, you can let Nanowrimo 'validate your wordcount', meaning you upload your novel so Nanowrimo's computers can check to see if you did write the 50,000 words they want you to write. And if you did, you get this cool banner saying You Are A Winner! And then you can sleep, finally...............

Sooooooooooooo.. I now dare everyone reading this to sign up for Nanowrimo, even if you think you can't, or don't have the talent or the time, you'll see you'll be able to do it. Or, as they say at Nanowrimo, you rock for even trying!

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Visiting

Today I visited Marloes. She lives in such a lovely town. Such colourful flowers and lots of trees with all kinds of fruit. She then invited me to her home, which is a lot bigger than mine. She's got the most amazing furniture, a whole room in a mushroom-theme and a kitchen with microwave and she's even got a washing machine.

I also met her husband, who turns out to be rrrrrrrrrich. He just dropped some money on the floor for me to pick up! Marloes gave me a shovel so I could plant the fruit she allowed me to take. Let's just hope I will soon have peach-, cherry- and peartrees too.

I can just imagine how addictive Animal Crossing can be!

Now, if any of you dear readers play too, please feel free to leave me a message, who knows, maybe we can visit too!


Thirteen Things I just want to share.

1. It's getting colder now. Eventhough last night it was still warm enough to walk around in a jumper (ok, so it was a thick knitted one with turtleneck, but still), it's a lot colder than last week, when we were still walking around in t-shirts.

2. Which is why I got a new coat at H&M yesterday! It's black and lovely and warm (and yes, I should post a picture of it, or me in it, soon...)

3. Sales are up! Yayyy!

4. I've only just got Animal Crossing (Me!! A game!! Whatever next....) but I can see how it can become very, very addictive very, very quickly!

5. When you've been in an accident that's not your fault, be prepaired to sit through hours and hours of boring on hold-music.

6. Skype is the BEST invention in the world! I've so missed talking to my dear friend...

7. It's funny when 3-year olds say 'Gimme some money, mummy needs new shoes!', not so funny when a 9-year old says 'Women eh?'

8. Money can't buy you love, but apparently it can buy you a child, even two.

9. Laura decided to stop blogging. Poo!

10. I had no idea I was supposed to blog two days ago, but then, I'm not British.

11. Lidl sells Dutch goodies! Yayyyy!! Now I can enjoy hot chocolate and speculaasjes any time I want!

12. Nanowrimo is coming up soon!! Time to get started on a new story!

13. So yeah, I should be writing


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Pebbles

I've been keeping myself busy doing more and more pebbles, today I made Gary the green fish and Yasmine the yellow fish. A couple of days ago I made this turtle and a golden owll, who just got back from clubbing. And in case you need an extra dose of good luck I've got this lucky pebble in my store.

In case you're looking for some last minute Halloween decoration, I've got some glow-in-the-dark pebbles with cats, spiders and a couple of ladybirds...

Daytrip to London

We went on a daytrip to London. To be honest we should be ashamed we had not done that before, London is only 30 minutes by train.

First of all we went to see Big Ben. There was an awful lot of police around, but we never saw anything. And lots of tourists of course, and for the day, we were one of them!

Then we went to the National History Museum, where we've seen fossils, the most beautiful minerals and chrystals, and experienced an earth quake. And then we went next door, to the Science where we saw trains, planes and automobiles and lots of last century discoveries. We shipped on the 3D film though.

After a Subway lunch in Tower Hill park we crossed the road to visit The Tower of London (in the picture you can see Tower Bridge, too). To be honest I did not know all that much about the Tower's history, so I was glad to go on a guided tour. Tye really wanted to seel Traitor's Gate the gate everyone who's ever been imprisoned in the Tower had to go through. The guide joked that it used to be called Watergate, and how Americans can never name anything for themselves, thankfully the Americans who joined us had some sense of humour. We saw the Bloody Tower, we saw the place where people were hanged, or beheaded, or quartered, in some cases all three... We saw the ravens that can't fly off or it will be the end of the monarchy. Thankfully they're clipped so they won't get that far (Yes, I'm being sarcastic). The doors in that picture are houses that are still lived in. The Beefeaters and their families still live there! I can't imagine living there, knowing what happened there.
We saw the Crown Jewels (the guide said not to take any pictures "... or we'll never sell the postcards") which to be honest made us a bit sick, visited the towers, saw knights armour, paintings, cells.. All in all it was all a bit creepy.
After that we went back to Liverpool Street station and had dinner at a pub there.

It was a very busy, very fun day. I know I haven't even seen half of London, but as it's not that far, I'm sure we'll go there again.

News

A few months ago I wrote some things on this blog I shouldn't have. In part because I wrote it while being emotional , in part because it was too early to tell. I deleted the posts.

Unfortunately, someone Googled my name and found it right before I deleted the posts, only to tell my parents about it a month later.

Now Tyronne and I will never have the memory of telling my parents, sisters and other familymembers in person that we're engaged........

Shop!

The other day I finally decided to set up a shop at etsy.com, a place where people can sell handmade things. Tye helped me pick out the name, made me a very cool banner and then it was up to me to take pictures of my pebbles and put them online.....

Timeless, the name of my shop, apparently caught someone's eye because within 5 hours of posting it, my elephant was sold! It is now on its way to the US!

Last night I posted some of my Halloween-pebbles and some other ones, and I can only hope they too will sell! Fingers crossed!

(Oh, and, you're more than welcome to buy, of course! ;) And to spread the word...)