Messy garden

About two weeks ago we discovered that something in the bathroom had to be leaking. There was a big ugly spot visible on the ceiling downstairs.

My dad came to the rescue and tried to fix the toilet. But it wouldn’t stop leaking. Turned out that the toilet tank had a crack. In-wall toilet tanks are supposed to last for at least 20 years, but the previous owners probably wanted to save a few bucks and opted for a cheap one My dad had to break that part of the wall down and we ordered a new tank. Never thought I would go shopping for an in-wall tank, had no idea what it looked like until last week

Now the downside of the renovation work is that me and my hubby have to clean up the mess each day -for a good couple of hours- because we have to use the bathroom. I hope it will be finished by next week because I want my clean and uncluttered bathroom back!

We’re also working on the garden, you can see in the picture what it looked like a few weeks ago. The gravel will be replaced with bricks and my brother in law is helping out with the plants. If everything goes according to plan it should be finished in two weeks. I can’t wait to start decorating it ^_^

Thursday night (in the Netherlands) we turned on CNN to watch the news on Michael Jackson. In the morning we found out he had died. Although I wasn’t a huge fan, his music was there during my childhood and teenage years. It’s weird that he’s gone now. I feel so sorry for him, he never seemed to be at ease. I think his father is largely to blame for this, forcing him to perform at such an early age. My hubby and I had a discussion about it and thought it looked a lot like the way Elvis had died. This is the cartoon he made about it. Today I read the blog post that Lisa Marie Presley wrote and it explains a lot.

Twitter icon from Mirkku

Today I was looking for a nice bluebird to decorate my company Twitter with. Next week I’m giving a small training about Social media like Twitter. So I though it would be suited to have a more professional Twitter to show. But I still designed a cute theme, I just can’t help myself.

In my search for a pretty bird, I came across a Finish company called Design Mirkku. Not only does Mirjami offer Twitter Icons, there’s also a set of cute RSS Feed icons available. You can download those for free at Smashing magazine:

• Cute Tweeters Icons Set
• Feed Me Animals RSS Icons

Although the Mirku set is my favourite, I think these icons are also worth mentioning:

• Free Twitter Birds - from Luc Latulippe
• Twitter badges - from Pasquale D’Silva
• Twitter illustration and icon -  from Pasquale D’Silva
• Icons set - from Dryicons
• Twitter bird logo - from iPotion

One last thing that you might enjoy is Twitter Keys. It provides symbols to use in your Tweets.

Cute stamps and frames

I stumbled upon Puricute today, which is probably a bit late since it seems to exist for a while. But I do want to share the site with you.

The concept is pretty simple; you upload your picture and customize it. Just enhance it with a frame and use as much cute stamps as you like. Now hold your horses, it takes a while for the picture to be saved. The result can be posted to many applications like Facebook and Wordpress.

It looks pretty much like a Japanese photo sticker boot, where you can add images to your picture. And that’s exactly what this site does, it makes it possible to order stickers from your creation. One sheet is $ 2.99, excluding (fair) shipping costs. I can imagine the stickers would be nice for decoration or as a gift .

You can receive 2 sheets for free at the Cute and Dangerous event on Friday.