12 november 2014

Monokini Monkey Move

Hello you,
We changed our site from blogspot to wordpress . You can still find all our older posts and shenanigans here !
But from now on all the new content and bananas will be posted here. Hope to see you there!
Monokini Monkeys – Rosalie & Lotte

10 november 2014

A little introduction (by Rosalie)

A little introduction:
over the last few weeks, I have been explaining what exactly it is I am doing to a lot of people. Simply saying, " oh, I am doing a help exchange." for some reason does not seem to cut it. 
Helpx is a website, specially for people who either want to travel and work, or need a helping hand somewhere. this can be anything, there are people offering a stay on a farm, in a hostel, a bed and breakfast, or even just help around the house. You don't get paid, but there is no need to spend any money either, apart from your travel. you get food and housing in return for the help you offer. 

It is a wonderful experience to learn new skills and meet new people, all over the world. It is comparable to WWOOF, which is more widely known, World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms. Most of the people I meet are doing that. The basic principle is the same, only they just offer organic farms, I bet you would not have guessed that from the name. There is another small difference, for both of the websites you pay a small fee in order to to be able to make a profile and get in touch with people. For helpx you pay 20 euros, and you get a membership for 2 years, and you can contact people all over the world. WWOOF ask a little less money, but you only have a membership of one year, and only for one country. 

A while back I began looking at places in England and Ireland, I was open for anything, and I found a little farm just north of Wales, called Babbinswood farm. with a picture of a picturesque English country house in the snow, and the promise of a bunch of other people staying I knew I had found my place to start my journey. Babbinswood farm is an organic vegetable farm which has been getting helpers in for two years now, it is rapidly growing and it is, if I say so myself, one of the most beautiful places I have ever been to. 





That about sums it up, I am spending my days working outside, learning about vegetables and such. there will probably be more about my farm life to come, but for now I will keep it at this. I should stay here until December, and afterwards a whole new adventure awaits in Sweden. but more on that subject later. My plans tend to change from day to day, so what i tell you today could just as well not be true any more tomorrow, but that just makes it all the more exciting.

the websites:
Helpx.net


7 november 2014

Monokini Monkey's back alright!

Hello all you little monkeys! 

We are back! After posting our last post about the monkey jewelry the business just exploded we became millionaires and are now living it up on a tropical island! Not really but lets just us assume that’s what happened and that’s why it took us 2 (!) years to post againJ

Lets not dwell over the past (nothing that interesting happened) and let us continue were we left of.  Some of you true dedicated readers know this blog is held by 2 girls Rosalie and myself (Lotte). Until 2 months ago we lived our lives happily in Antwerp  living together (as roommates before you start thinking, sorry its not that kind of blog ) .
However on 4 September Rosalie left to the UK to do some stuff ; I don’t know some hippie things , leaving me behind! Rude! 


But some water in a channel cant stop us and we decided to start posting again after noticing our blog is still getting visits! Probably by accident, but hey we'll take it.

The "plan" is Rosalie writing "country" things and Lotte writing "city" things. Probably we just end up posting pictures of cats.

Rosalie is going to publish her first country story very soon! 

Tell em' Pointer Sisters!






2 december 2012

Magic Monkey Jewellery

Hello little monkey followers!!

It has been a while but we can now proudly present our Hand made Jewellery. We just started so there will be more info and pics soon but feel free to like us on facebook :)

https://www.facebook.com/MAGIC.MONKEY.JEWELLERY




29 juli 2012

Fun with censor bars

Hihihi creative censor bar gifs. There are way more on this link, worth checking :)

http://www.buzzfeed.com/provincialelitist/16-delightfully-naughty-censor-art-gifs-to-brighte