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Liene Vērzemnieks
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Amsterdam, US emigrant & Latvian. Forest therapy guide. Programmer. Someone's mom, somecat's person, someperson's person. I love getting around outside of a car. Nearly always klaar om different langues à parler: EN, FR, NL. She/her
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We’ve had a couple of these!! An Eric Carle (Dream Snow Pop-Up) one — charming! — and the Petit Collage one below (much sturdier; we had a 2.5 year old back then). “Pop up” seems to be a magic search key for a lot of them.
A 24-day advent calendar made out of paper. It looks like a cheerful, vaguely European (French? Dutch?), 5-story apartment building; every window is a numbered door. On the winding snowy path folded out at the bottom, there are 24 little two-piece paperboard figures standing: lots of anthropomorphic animals skating and riding bicycles and making snowballs, presents, Christmas trees, birds, a wagon of presents, peppermint candies, a candy cane as tall as the animals, a snowman. The animals look delighted to be people, and delighted to see you.
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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The extent to which Dutch sounds (to an English speaker) like someone is mocking English is regularly non-zero. My Dutch is not bad now, and this packaging still makes me cackle
Packaging for store-brand Albert Heijn vegan cheese in the Netherlands, which displays, in large letters, “speciaal voor over de pizza,” which nearly sounds English. It’s “ideaal voor pasta, ovenschotels en panini’s” (“ovenschotels” can sit this one out as virtually the only non-cognate), and there’s a photo of a slice of pizza noted as a “serveertip.”
March 29, 2025 at 7:53 AM