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Here I would love to share with you our travels and adventures as international mushroom consultants. MEMOIRS about husband Pieter Vedder, who was a SCIENTIFIC PIONEER in Mushroom Cultivation Education. His practical handbook is in 9 languages and is called the MUSHROOM BIBLE: https://mariettesbacktobasics.blogspot.com/2020/08/modern-mushroom-growing-2020-harvesting.html

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

{2 Awards from Bloggers I Admire + Update}

Are you also behind on things? Not yet fully adapted to the fact that it is now officially autumn and only 12 weeks away from Christmas?!
A heartily welcome to my newest followers, hope you will make yourself here at home. 
On September 23, I just managed to spot this funny number of 299,999... Just could grab its tail as of course time is racing on with everything. 
But this is NOT what I wanted to write about. Instead, I got 2 awards from special blogger friends that I admire. On September 29, I did receive a cat award from dear Tammy from T's Daily Treasures (click). She is a girl of my heart as she writes so pure about her daily but meaningful treasures of life. Tammy does for sure not fall into the category of The Pretenders. Her blog followers have been growing steadily and she always has something of interest to share with her loyal readers. A pleasure visiting with her. 

Another award I received on October 02, from a very talented blogger friend in Spain. Her name is Véronica from Nikavintage (click). Obviously she also first did receive this award herself and did pass it on to 15 others with this criteria: Give the award to fifteen blogs you think are worthy for their creativity and originality in writing, among other values.


For sure both ladies fall into this categorie of creativity and original content writing. No photos used from elsewhere on the Internet but just genuine moments of their own lives and life style. Please do give them a visit as they deserve it. Those two awards I will not pass on but those of you that write in the personal, creative and original style know that I mean to honor you as well.

The Future of Pro Blogging
For full article, click on above link!

There are two more special bloggers I admire and I will write about them next. Of course our Rose Suite will be revealed to you soon! Stay posted and I wish you a lovely autumn season, if you live in the northern hemisphere. And for the southern hemisphere a lovely spring time.

What is your thought about pretenders and those that constantly use material from the Internet, or worse from other bloggers; scraped content. For me it often feels like wasting my precious time. I'd rather connect with real people that live with real problems and struggles in this difficult time of recession. A joy it is for me to see so many talented women (hey, where are the men...?) out there who show us ways of re-purposing vintage things and creating romantic pieces for their homes. A few of them are selling it to others, while some just use it as an economical way of decorating their home. Also the cooking and baking at times is very refreshing to read and above all, to learn from.
See you soon!

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

{The Construction of Our Rose Suite - Part II}

Yesterday I did show you the beginning of The Construction of Our Rose Suite and now I like to show you Part II. We started in March of 2003 with the rough work. The digging out of those 60 metric tons of dirt got finished by the 4th of July, 2004. From then on till the end of April, 2004 husband Pieter worked hard to finish the rest. He himself did all the plumbing, moving the old sewage pipes and hiding them either inside the concrete floor and through his work shop. All the electric wiring and duct work for the air-conditioning he also did by himself. Only with the erection of the galvanized steel walls he did get some help. The tiles also were put in by a professional. We went in February of 2004 to The Netherlands for my parents' 55th wedding anniversary. Our Damixa faucets from Denmark, we did bring back in our suitcases. Like the rest of our home, they are all Danish. Pieter's middle brother and his partner were not going to come over for the special birthday Pieter was having on April 29th. So there was no rush we thought for finishing our Rose Suite in a hurry. It was my task to find the furniture for the rooms. We found the bed in the neighboring city and all other furniture and smaller things I found mainly on eBay. You will get to see them soon...
This is how the construction looked by February 2004. Entrance door not yet painted...
Enjoy the 2:06 minute video below.

Photo from July 19, 2008 with entrance door.
After all this, you will get to see the finished inside!
Thanks for watching.
Have any of you build your own home or part of it?
Would love to hear about that.

Related link:
{The Construction of Our Rose Suite - Part I} | previous post by me
Related links:
{Our Rose Suite Work Shop & Mariette's Back to Basics Shipping Center} | post by me
{Our Rose Suite Pantry & TRINITY EcoStorage™ NSF 6-Tier Wire Shelving Racks} | post by me
{Our Rose Suite's Little Room} | post by me
{Our Rose Suit Hallway} | post by me
{Welcome to Our Rose Suite - Entrance} | post by me
{Our Rose Suite Kitchenette} | post by me

Monday, October 1, 2012

{The Construction of Our Rose Suite - Part I}

Living in another continent, creates of course an opening for family members and friends to visit you. For more than 50 times we have had guests in our home. Several of them staying for 2-6 weeks at a time. For that purpose we started with 'The Construction of Our Rose Suite - Part I. This in order that both, our guests and we ourselves, would have complete privacy. A second home so to speak with a private entrance. Our best friend's Dad had dug out his basement in the Chattanooga, Tennessee area where he encountered rocks. My husband Pieter said: 'Why don't we also do this?' We don't have rocks so that will be a lot easier... Thus the idea became reality in March of 2003, when we had the door opening cut out of the concrete blocks.

Next to the chimney is the new entrance door to our Rose Suite!
You will get to see the entire Rose Suite after the two initial Construction Videos.
Otherwise you will not understand how this all came about...
Yes, a grueling task of Digging Out 60 Metric Tons of Dirt!
So glad my dear husband Pieter was able to pull this off.
Scary, knowing that five years later he had his quadruple bypass open heart surgery and a stent in his neck.
We feel blessed for many things!

Enjoy this 2.31 minute video.

Related links:
{Our Rose Suite Work Shop & Mariette's Back to Basics Shipping Center} | post by me
{Our Rose Suite Pantry & TRINITY EcoStorage™ NSF 6-Tier Wire Shelving Racks} | post by me
{Our Rose Suite's Little Room} | post by me
{Our Rose Suit Hallway} | post by me
{Welcome to Our Rose Suite - Entrance} | post by me
{Our Rose Suite Kitchenette} | post by me

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