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Antwerp, Belgium
Welcome to the new, and improved version of Heaven in Belgium. I am Jientje. "Jientje", like the boys name Gene, followed by "chu"? "Gene-chu", that's how you pronounce my name. Yes!!!!That's it!! So now you know huh? I am an addicted blogger. I was born and raised and am still living in Belgium. Yeah, the "this-is- Tuesday-so-this-must-be-Brussels" kind of Belgium .. There, you see? Maybe you couldn't find it on the map, but at least I'm trying to change that a little by sharing lots of pictures. I really love to cook and create new things, like this blog for instance. I am a mother,a grandmothe and a wife too! They say I'm a traveler, and a photographer. Well that's just what they say, I love to make pictures, but I am far from professional ... If my English is not perfect, that would be because it's my second language. I do hope you'll forgive me any possible misspellings or strange vocabulary ... Now, as a result of all of the above, I get way too little sleep and my days are always much too short!

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Monday, May 11, 2026

Jientje is back in Town

Some of you might remember me, I'm Jientje. To others, I may be a new face in this blogging world. Nice to meet YOU 😊 

To all readers, old friends, and friends to be, welcome to my blog. 

Through this blog, I would like to share some fragments of my life, pictures, stories, or little anecdotes. 

This blog was pretty popular way back when. It gave me great joy to meet a lot of friends from all over the world. 

But then my life got too busy to be able to post new interesting content, so I slowly disappeared from the blogosphere, not without great regret, though.

Anyway, today, I discovered a way to blog from my smartphone, which makes a lot of difference to me. 

It feels good to be back, and I hope you'll enjoy it.  


I live in my birth city, Bruges now, one of the most beautiful medieval cities in the whole world 😂) ... in Belgium, I mean.

Life is good. I'm retired, lots of time to enjoy life at the fullest. 

I still love to cook, to embroider, sew, my balcony garden, all things creative. 

 


This is one of my latest creations, a collage in 3D in a thrifted memento frame. 

I added a piece of my experimental lace and used it as a skirt on a wedding dress from an old fashion magazine.

As you might have gathered, I also  like thrifting hunts and finding some lucky treasures for my home. 

There's more to come, I have so much to tell you and share on this blog.

Leave me a comment to tell me what part of the world you are from? I would love to meet you, albeit virtually ... 

 

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