Last Sunday and the whole weekend before that we helped Cora and Rene in their new home. Matthijs is helping Rene build a lounge windowsill. It's not finished yet so next Sunday we'll be over there again to hopefully finish the windowsill and do some more random things. Up till now I have already: painted a ceiling, painted walls, smeared icky stuff over a wall to make it flat, sanded window frames, pick plastic sticker from glass and made a mess with primer...

It all makes me want to get a new house too! However, it did feel good to leave all the mess behind and come home in a clean house. I'd done some cleaning last Saturday, which was really needed. And next to vacuum cleaning, cleaning the toilet and bathroom and finally getting the tea stains out of the kitchen sink, I also repotted some plants, washed the living room curtains + pillow cases + couch coverings and lengthened the shower curtain with 18 cm of fabric. Especially that last action was very satisfying because now we can take a shower without the whole bathroom getting drenched. Next up: microwave, fridge, oven and freezer...

The two boar skins are in. Very large and very heavy! No good for making clothes but perhaps we can sleep on them. They're larger than sheepskins. The doeskin is in as well. It's very soft and pretty, but a bit small. Next to that I've raided a local second hand clothes store for suede jackets and a skirt. I've already taken them apart to use the suede for my under dress. I'm still stuck on 1 leather shoe and 2 wool socks (= same pattern as the shoe, but smaller and stretchy).

Up until September my weekends are already planned again. Sigh. Upcoming: EE stock clearing on Saturday, helping Cora and Rene on Sunday, weekend after that Summoning, then my birthday and going to Castlefest, LARP games in Amsterdam/Utrecht, Dead Fox Junction. OK, the last weekend of August is still free. First weekend of September has a new Taboe meet (and 'boeldag' in Ermelo... )

Matthijs and I would like to celebrate our birthdays together for friends, but we'll have to plan around the LARP calendar if we want to have anybody show up... somewhere in September/October.