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my new word is

R E S P L E N D E N T

in my dictionary it is translated as :

schitterend 

glansrijk

and those are beautiful words in dutch .

and I love beautiful words.

I wonder why I have never seen this word ?

My dream is to 

have beautiful books next to my bed

with poems in english

so I can learn

so much more from the language

than I do now.

when I translate 

SCHITTEREND to english

my book says : SHINING

when I translate

GLANSRIJK to english

my book says :RADIANCE

Well now you know 

it is not so easy at all to choose 

the right words

for what I realy wish to write / say.

In a  blog writing is one thing

but when there is friendship

and there is MAIL ( BY POST )

I mean writing letters ......

well that is a whole other challenge .

How I love it when mister postman

brings me letters or postcards 

from far far away

with beautiful stamps 

and handwritings 

my heart always 

JUMPS OF JOY

when I find such surprises .

and always and always

I learn

I learn from the words 

by the person behind the words 

and

I get to know

the person behind the choosen words

I just love that 

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SCRUMPTIOUS

coming from and living in THE NETHERLANDS 

english is not my own language

but I do love it very much .

When I started blogging

I choose english because I wanted to learn

and practice and meet people around the world.

Lately I found a list on pinterest with 

WORDS TO USE MORE OFTEN

so that will be my mission ......

I am still on my way back

from A LOT 

but I am getting there .

for long I supposed I was to be my old self again.

But NO NO I was supposed to become 

my old self transformed to a whole new level .

It felt like 

moving to a whole new country

and I did not speak the language

and did not know the habbits

and I knew no-one overthere.

It felt like surviving , hanging-on

not knowing what to do , who to trust .

I never imagened the future , my future 

DID YOU ?

I am making lots and lots of 

felt-heart-garlands to be busy 

and because it gives me GREAT JOY 

to look at them 

working on the colours of my heart 

wishing you lots of SCRUMPTIOUSNESS

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Birthday surprises

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Surprise surprise 
You know how I love mail ....
In the week before my birthday 
I received a lot of mail.
I wanted to wait till my birthday
to open it all 
so I put the mail on a place 
where I could see it 
and looked forward to the birthday.
And than 
on november 2 
I opened the first one 
from my sister 
beautiful card and a sheet of stamps .
Special stamps because there was 
a photo from me on the stamps
my very personal stamps.
My sister knows how I love te send mail .
And than I opened the SECOND ONE and
I could not believe my eyes 
also a sheet of stamps included.
I still believed it was 
accidentally.
And than I opened THE THIRD ONE
and again a sheet of stamps 
And all the other ones TOO.

My daugther was behind this plan .
It was a very big surprise .
I am very happy with all this JOY and love 
And my new year 
started very very happy 

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