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Hi! You've landed on the Polkadot Chair blog!! My name is Melissa Mortenson, and I'm so glad that you are here!
I'm a Mom to 3 great kids, married to a wonderful guy, and feel lucky to be living in Kentucky!
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Tag Archives: Amsterdam
A few travel scrapbook pages
Last Spring I spent a wonderful few days in the Netherlands. I’m just now starting to go through the photos and get them properly scrapbooked.
Lifestyle Crafts has introduced a new product called Shape N Tape. It’s essentially washi tape by the sheet. They contacted me asking if they could send me some to play with, and review. I of course said YES!
Dining Room redo using Stencils
Four years ago when we moved into this house the dining room was red. In our house before that our dining room was red. After 8 years I was sick of the red.
The problem with repainting it was choosing a color. I could not bring myself to paint it beige, I thought about blue. But nothing really sat right with me. To be honest I really wanted wallpaper, but was worried that a potential buyer of our home down the road would be scared off by it.
Day Four: Amsterdam Museums
Thank you for indulging me as I share my thoughts about my recent trip to the Netherlands. It made a big impact on me in many ways, including creatively. Since I felt so inspired while I was there I thought it might be nice to share some of that inspiration with you also.
Day Three: The Flowers
Okay, now on to day 3 of our adventure in Amsterdam, if you’re new here you can see my other posts by clicking the label Amsterdam... you can also subscribe to this blog over here —–> to get the rest of the story…. after that I’ll go back to posting about crafty stuff :)
We had 3 big things on our agenda for this day:
1- Keukenhof
2- Van Gogh Museum
3- Eat at Rijsttafel
Day Two: To Delft and back
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| tiny car in Amsterdam |
Note to self:
Always, always, always set an alarm when your on vacation.
Day 2 started later than we would have liked. We remembered to open the drapes before we went to bed so the light would wake us up in the morning, however we forgot to also set the alarm. We ended up sleeping in until 9. Which for me is not a surprise but for my husband is. He’s the type to be out of bed at 6 every morning even if he doesn’t have to go anywhere (he also doesn’t get jet lag… not fair).
Day One: Amsterdam, The City
I loved Amsterdam.
I’ll admit before we left I was a bit worried. Every travel book I’d read and every travel show I’d watched in preparation all focused on Amsterdam’s “seedier” components. Being someone not interested in those components, I was concerned.
