Where there's a Street With No Name

It’s not always easy for the Dolls to be living in different countries. We miss each other a lot. During the day I miss not working together (thank god for Skype), at night I miss not partying together and I miss the other Doll dearly at certain other occasions, like heart breaks and birthdays for example…

We hadn’t seen each other since March so we had all the more reason to meet up for my birthday and celebrate! We chose to meet sort of half way in Ghent, Belgium. We’d never been there before but we heard lots of good things about it. And rightfully so! We had a great time. We went on a boat tour through all the pretty canals and we ate proper fries with delicious Belgian mayonnaise (slightly more sour than Dutch mayo). We went to the excellent museum for contemporary art S.M.A.K. and to a crafty market (so nice to be on the other side of the stall for once!). We enjoyed Belgium beer in the sun and went clubbing till the wee hours. And of course we went for some (secondhand) shopping. Geeske extended her collection of weird objects with eyes and iffy 80s pop singles, while I bought some kitchenalia to add to my collection of food shaped objects (my latest obsession - also added to my collection that weekend: a hamburger phone, a birthday gift from my dear friends).

But what I loved most about Ghent were the street names. Like…

Little Shaking Fish Steet

Smut Street or Sludge Street.

And what about...

Zonder-Naamstraat - Street With No Name

Pensmarkt - Paunch or Gut Market

Kluizenaarstraat - Hermit Street

Pekelharing - Pickeled Herring

Heilige-Geeststraat - Holy Spirit Street

Gelukstraat - Lucky Street

Kapucijnenham - Capuchinham

Zwartezustersstraat - Black Sisters Street

But my absolute favourite was…

Little Street With No End

Which was of course a dead end street. Aah, gotta love the Belgians!

something to keep you busy

First of all HIP HIP HOORAY for Dutch Doll Geeske!!! It's her birthday, weehooo!! Congratulations my dear dollegue!

Sorry to alllllll of you readers for not posting in over a week. The Dolls have been reunited and we've got loads of very important stuff to do! Like working on a new demo and new summer dresses :-) And when we're not doing Dutch Dolls stuff I try to squeeze in as many dates with friends and family as possible.

But now I find myself with 45 minutes to spare on this Monday morning! This post should be about the great time we had at DISCO DOOF and at the CARNAVAL last weekend. But as I'm writing this on a friend's computer I haven't got any pics or videos here with me, so I'm afraid we'll write about that another time. But I've got something for you to keep you occupied in the meantime... My friend Rutger tipped me off on this and eversince I've spent way too much time on FAIL Blog. I promise you, it will not only crack you up, it will change the way you view the world. Failures everywhere!

And through FAIL Blog I stumbled upon another great blog: There, I Fixed It. It's filled with handiwork that makes Macgyver look like he's got two left hands.

Well got to run now. I'm on a TIGHT schedule! I'm guessing your day might turn out to be less productive than mine ;-) Enjoy!