A To-Do List for Fall

Hello everyone! Since fall is nearly there, I thought I might make a to-do list. Real fun, because I looove making lists. I am just not very good at actually doing the things on that list. I either forget all about it, or just lose the list and don't think about it anymore.

But I will not lose or forget about the list now. I'll try to do at least five things listed. :)

So, here we go!

1.) Take a walk in the rain. Autumn is famous for its rain, so a good time to try that. I know it's cold and wet, but I'll use an umbrella and rain boots to keep dry. And warm. Because, when else do we have the opportunity to use that big umbrella and those shiny boots that get dusty in the cellar?

2.) Try different kinds of coffee. Right now I love to drink 1/3 part coffee, and 2/3 part milk, but I would love to try cappuccino! Or just plain coffee with no milk. Or anything else that exists.


3.) Read a few classics this fall. I brought 'The Last of the Mohicans' from the library last week, and I think I'm going to start with that one. :) Also I want to try Moby Dick, and The Grapes of Wrath, and Sense and Sensebility. (I started it two times, but never finished it. I should, right?)

4.) Take photographs that define autumn, like spiderwebs covered with dew or raindropps, colored leaves, sunsets, flying geese and cups of tea.

5.) Start watching Pride and Prejudice 1995 with my two sisters. I have allready seen the 2005 version and I love it, but I think I should watch the other version to. And besides that I should, I really want to watch it. :D
The picture is very beautiful by the way.

 6.) Practice the piano more often. I am working on a little (easy) piece from Beethoven. We don't have a lot of sheet music at our house, sadly, but maybe I should give the dust gathering Beethoven and Mozart sheet music a shot.

7.) Finish my brown fall/winter skirt. Can't wait to wear it on a cold day! If I finish it ...

8.) Start writing short stories. Like, really short stories, and written by hand, in a notebook, like on the picture.

9.) Keep my tiny orchid without flowers, alive. I allready gave up hope, but when I just yet looked at it, I saw a new stem is sprouting. Maybe there is still hope for me when it concerns plants and stuff like that. Because I can't seem to keep flowers/plants alive. Here in the Netherlands we call a person who is really good with plants and flowers a person with green fingers. I don't know how people say that in English, and I couldn't find it on Translater, so ... I obviously don't have green fingers. :)

10.) Make sure I bring a little notebook with pen everywhere, so I can write down ideas or sentences right away when they come up in my head. I hardly ever do that, and when I happen to have this amazing sentence popping up, or hearing someone say something I never want to forget, my notebook is never there. Or my pen. So, forming that habit is certainly one thing that I should do!

11.) Get my hair cut in layers. The last time I went to a hairdresser, this happened:

Well, okay, it was the first time I ever went to a hairdresser, but I think it will happen a lot more than just once, because I am not so straightforward to say exactly what I want.

12.) Find out wich style is ''exactly me''. I have, for a very long time, not cared so much about clothes and all that. Untill I was around thirteen. But only now I am finally finding my own style a little.

13.) Watching old movies. I really want to watch a movie where Audrey Hepburn acts in, but I can't find them anywhere!

14.) Wear socks and sweaters. The lovely thing about cold weather is that you can finally wear warm stuff, and enjoy soup (hot soup in summer is not enjoyable), and drink warm tea and read on bed covered in a nice blanket.

15.) Have lots of time together with my family; taking walks, or watching a movie, or going away for the day, or just enjoy freshly baked muffins. :D That's the best thing ever, being together as family.


Well, that was about it. Fifteen things to do is not quite much, but fall will be over far to soon. By the end of November I'll ckeck this list again and see what things I can cross through!

~Rebecca~

What I have been doing

Hello, everybody who reads my blog! I've been away for awhile, so I couldn't blog for the past week and more, but I am back again.

Weird Fact: Last week was the first time in my life I took a bus. Not a cool bus like the one on the picture, alas, but still. But I never drove in one before. Just because we have a car at home and never had to use a bus.
So it was kind of scary, doing it the very first time and all, but I enjoyed it very much. It was exciting and NEW. New things are always fun to do. An adventure, it is, for me, doing new stuff.
I can recall that I went on a bus once when I was very little, but that doesn't count. I only remember we had to stand, there where no seats left for us.
So, now I know how to take a bus and all!

Also, we had a lovely Indian Summer this week; when it's hot and the sun shines and its like Spain or Portugal in midsummer. We hardly ever have an Indian Summer in September.

Indian Summer ... I love how that sounds.

Now the weather has turned to normal. Cloudy and colder. I really look forward to fall, when I can finally start making that brown fall/winter skirt I want to make for such a long time. I allready stitched a few seams, but there was always something else to do.


We also watched Inside Out again. I don't really like animated movies, but this is one of the few I don't mind watching. I especially love Joy and Sadness.

The story is real interesting. I won't tell it all, in case you haven't watched this movie yet, but eventually Joy finds out how important Sadness actually is. In the start she tried to keep her away from everything, believing Sadness would make their girl, Riley, unhappy. (they represent the emotions in the brain) There's a good story behind Inside Out.

Joy looks fluffy though, if you take a closer look at her. I noticed that the second time we watched the movie. And I also noticed that Joy and Sadness both have blue hair. Maybe that wants to say that they are kind of the same. That they sometimes need to work together, instead of apart.

And then I read a lot, of course. I tried to read Vilette, written by Charlotte Brönte, but I couldn't. I just could not get on with it.

 And today I found this on Pinterest.

Isn't that amazing? These little kids giving their definition of love, and they are so true. Some of them are funny, but most of them are beautiful.
Things like this makes me blink, get a little teary, and want to write it all down and put it somewhere in my room where I can see it and think: little kids actually know it best.

It's time to get away from my laptop and start doing stuff that needs to be done! So I'll say goodbye, for now.

~Rebecca~

Another Tag!

Rachel from A Girl's Place tagged me with The Celibrities Tag.

If you are reading this, thank you, Rachel!


Rules:
Paste the 'Famous People Tag' button on your own blog
Answer the questions
Tagging is optional

The Questions:

1. Who's your favourite actress (Okay, pick at least three, because there are so many of them)

 My favourite actress? There are so many! Julie Andrews (because she playes in The Sound of Music, and in The Princess Diaries) Keeley Hawes (because she playes in good movies I have seen, like Wives and Daughters) and Jessica Brown Findlay (because she is Sybil).


2. Which red carpet dress is the best one you ever saw?

 Ehm ... I never look at red carpet dresses, but now I will search Pinterest to find one.

 This is the one I found where I thought: why, this one doesn't look that bad. It's lady Rose. (I hope I'm not wrong here)


3. If there is going to be a new Pride and Prejudice, which actor and actress you choose for Elizabeth and Darcy?

I wouldn't know. This is a very hard question.


4. Do you know Lily James real full name without looking it up on Internet?

No, I don't. Is it something with Ninette in it? ...after looking it up... 'Lily Chloe Ninette Thomson'. 

5. Who's your favourite actor? (Pick at least three, because there are so many actors)

Actors, favourite actors? Well, I like Matthew Macfayden (beacuse of Little Dorrit!) and Allan Leech (because he's Tom Branson in Downton Abbey. Of course.) And Dan Stevens (as Matthew Crawley).

6. Which red carpet dress is the worst you ever saw?

 This one. Sorry, Michelle Dockery.

7. Who's your favourite Royal family?

I guess the Royal family of England.


8. Are there actors/actressess you don't like? If yes, why?

No. I do not like some as the persons they play in movies, but towards the people they are in real life I don't know what they are like, so I can't not like anyone.


9. Do you have a favourite child actor/actress?

George, who is a twin in real life

10. What's the prettiest celibrities name you ever heard?

Keri Russel. Maybe because I like The Magic of Ordinary Days so much. If you haven't watched that movie, you should try!

11. What's your favourite movie quote?

This one is difficult. Let 's choose one from a movie I've recently watched. ''You are marching into the unknown, armed with ... nothing. Have a sandwich.'' It 's from You've Got Mail.

12. If you where an actress, and you where casted to play one of the ladies of DA, who would you want to play?

 Hard one ... I think I would choose Lady Rose, because she is a real interesting person in the series. She goes through a whole lot of different things, and she is just so kind. And I like her wardrobe the best. :)

13. Do you often talk about actors/actressess with your family?

Almost never. I do talk about movies a lot. Sometimes I talk about actresses and actors with my sisters.

14. Which actor/actress would you want to meet? (Right, just pick two, to make it funner)

Meet? O, I wouldn't feel very comfertable to actually meet any of the actors or actressesses I know, but I would like to ask them a few questions. I would like to meet Edith and ask her all about her role in Downton Abbey, and I would also like to ask Mr Carson which series he liked better, Downton Abbey or Cranford. I know it might be weird, but I'd like to know.


Well, this was a lovely tag. I will be making actual posts soon, too. Thank you Rachel!



~Rebecca~

An (almost) first post and moviequotes

Hello, everybody! What should one write on its very (almost) first blogpost?
Maybe just about a lot of different things. And include a lot of photos, ofcourse!

Here, the summer is getting ready to fade. Gone are the glorious days of sunshine, heat, deepblue skies, open doors and windows, and several thunderstorms.

Lovely picture that just says 'Summer'.

Ofcourse the days of ice cream are not yet over. It doesn't have to be summer to eat ice cream, right?
But in one way I like it when it gets a little cooler. I even look forward to october, when all the leaves turn yellow, gold, red and brown. October is my favourite month of the fall. It 's like Anne of Green Gables said: ''I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.''
I agree.

I wish I had my handwriting like this.

I'm also thinking about writing short stories. Any length, even though I like the ones that are long best. I have tried two times before, and I actually liked it. It doesn't take as much time as writing a whole novella or even trying an actual book, but it is still difficult, because you have to put a lot of things in just only a few pages.
Or journaling. I have a journal (I like the word journal better than diary) but I don't put much work into it. I should though. Having a journal can be a great source of inspiration for stories.

a picture from Pinterest

And then the stack of books I am planning to read this weekend ... I look forward to it. The stack isn't this high though, say half of it. I have only read a few of the books in the picture before: Pride and Prejudice, To Kill a Mockingbird and Nicholas Nickleby.
I have a whole list of books I want to read one day. Sometimes the library doesn't have them, so I just have to wait till I find one in a bookstore ...

Talking about lists of books I really want to read, I have a list for the movies I want to see too! For instance Poldark. I don't know if I'll like it, but I really want to watch it!

 I found this picture on Pinterest (again :D). It 's beautiful. And Minnie from Lark Rise to Candleford is in the series! I don't know who the woman in blue is, but I'm curious to know (I love her dress ...).

I would like to add a few quotes to end this post with. Movie quotes are amazing, and I am still waiting to use some of them as an answer or a reaction in real life. :)

There is lace at stake!

This was indeed a bit of a messy post, with me hopping from one topic to another, but  ...''Say nothing and I'll be your best friend forever.''


~Rebecca~