Day 14+15 of Christmas

Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
Yep we do, we usually unwrap gifts on Christmas Eve as we buy each other fun stuff and a lot as well and we don't want our family to feel awkward about it that we only buy them 1 gift each. So on 25th and 26th we give them their presents before the Christmas meal

Is there a special ornament or Christmas decoration that you wouldn't feel like Christmas without?
Oh definately our Christmastree and lights! Oh and candles, well just any Christmasdeco I think! I love them! I won't get them down before January 15th and the lights around our windows probably even later! It's so cozy and fun!

Tomorrow I will post a sneak of my weddingdress! Some of you asked for it and I will grant you your wish ;-) It's so pretty!!! I know some people will be surprised! Love it!
No pics today sorry! Just lazy and not feeling all that well today!
xoxo

Day 13 of Christmas

When did you learn the truth about the "magic" of Christmas?
As a child we always celebrated a Dutch holiday similar to Santa Claus. So we didn't have Santa bringing us presents. We do have a " magic" feeling at Christmas as it is so bright and lovely down the streets with Christmaslights all around the place! I love decorating a lot, but Igor doesn't (yet ;-)). This year we bought some real Christmasornaments. Last year it was a trial as we have cats and didn't know how they would behave around the ornaments and all, but they left it!!! So this year I bought some cute stuff!

Weddingupdate:
Igors shoppingplans with Adam have been pushed back 1 week. And... my weddingdress will be delivered today! So excited! Hopefully it will be soooo pretty!! I also bought the shoes today! Lovely colored! Ssstttt won't tell anymore now
xoxo

Day 12 of christmas

What is your favorite christmassong?
I don't have 1 favorite, there are mutiple songs I just love around christmastime and love to listen to them! (as I am now! Mud is playing "lonely this christmas")
Yesterday I finished 4 christmascards and love them! Here are the pics (not all that great quality), I almost don't want to send them out now! Inspired by Magnolia Creations btw. Love love love it! Have great day!!
xoxo

Day 11 of christmas

What's your favorite holiday goodie to make and share?

Christmascards! I just finished a Magnolia one and I love it, it's my first magnoliacards by the way.

Then there are christmasornaments I love to make, this year I made some of chipboard snowflakes.

Hmm home made presents ofcourse are cute. I made some of my christmasgifts this year but can't share them yet as I don't know who will visit this blog of my family!

Today I finally did some deco shopping!! Here's what my tree looks like now. It's pretty ok but not all that yet, maybe next year!

Now I am off scrapping just 3 more christmascards and I am done and tomorrow I will mail them!
xoxo

Day 10 of Christmas

Candy Canes, traditional or flavored? Or Chocolate Covered Cherries?


I love both byt chocolate covered cherries will get me nausiated in a few :-(

I have to go with Candy Canes! And I love both, traditional ánd flavored! I really love candy hehehe

Last saturday my package from twopeas came in! Within a week! I loved what I found in that huge box! It's even prettier in real life than on my screen! Here are some pics:

Some lovely Fancy Pants

Fancy Pants overlay My Valentine, already for our wedding album
Me and my big ideas
A heartshaped box for our wedding memories

Jenni Bowlin Studios and K&Company very lovely glittered paper!
Creative Imaginations
Cosmo Cricket ofcourse can't be left out! Great shiny loving Hambly prints! Musthave!

Day 9 of Christmas

Do you have a nativity displayed through the holidays?

No actually we don't have that. We are not raised with the believe, the church or the story behind all holidays that come from the Bible.

I know it's about Jezus being born and I know the story and it's beautiful, for me as a Christmasstory.

We celebrate Christmas to be thankfull, to have a great time with family all together. For me over the past few years discovered it's also a time to review the year, what happened and set goals for the new year. A thoughtfull period but in another way.

Ofcourse lots of food is involved and we all have part in that, why? I really don't know! This

year we decided to do things differently. We wil throw a big Christmasparty on 26th of December. (in Holland we've got 2 days of christmas, or actually 3 as christmaseve is 24th).

We will invite people to come over for this big lunch! How fun wil that be. I think I will be stuffed already before we will start eating though as I will be in the kitchen days before the party! But I am really looking forward to it!

Day 8 of Christmas

What's on the top of your tree?

Well nothing yet! I hope this monday that will change! Now there are just 3 raindeer mini stuffed animals haning in there! So I hope to find a wonderful pretty thing!

I did some christmas shopping today and got pretty much all gifts in now! Just 1 more gift. Then there are a few people not certain if they will make it so if they do, I need to do more shopping!
And then there's food; I already know what we will make and even bought some stuff that can be kept in the freezer or have a long expiredate. That saves me a lot of stressfull shopping near christmas when stores are crowded! Love it! I even went out to buy the wines already, bought a lovely white and red one. A gift and Bacardi for Igor and now I am at home, everything wrapped, put away and ready! Now I will go and do an hour of Pilates and maybe some yoga after that as well. We'll see! Have a great saturday everyone!!
love
angela

Day 7 of Christmas

What's your favorite holiday tradition?
Well I love everything around Christmas! First of all unpacking all the deco and ornaments. We used to have these very old silver with glitter houses. They were from my mothers grandmother. We loved unpacking those!

Then there were Christmassocks that were in our closets waiting for Christmas all year and around that time we could finally wear them again!
Oh ofcourse making Christmas centerpieces at school with candles and all! And Christmasdinner at school as well.

Let's see what else? Oh this year (or actually last year) I decided that we are going to buy a few christmasornaments each year, just what we like best so we have a whole different set of ornaments, not all in 1 color or design! Now our tree is still a bit bold as last year we first had a christmastree. We have cat's you see and I thought they would love to hit all the balls out! But they don't! So I hope this monday we will go and visit the Christmasshow at the local garden centre and buy some pretties!

I got 1 recipe finished for the swap now, I will try and get the other one finished today. I used my cricut and the "christmas cheer" cartridge and thought it would be easy, well guess again! But it looks lovely though! Have a great day all!
xoxo

Day 6 of Christmas

Day 6: When do you put up your decorations?
Here in Holland we've got this holiday called "Sinterklaar" which is like Santa, but after this man has left (6 december) most of the people put up their decorations as am I! I started yesterday to be honest! I love this time of year so I just couldn't wait anymore! I know I said I would be back with pics of our tree but it's ugly and empty so I really hope Igor and I will visit the gardencentre this afternoon which has a huge christmasdeco show! Oh I already hear my wallet scream!


What else? Well I have tons of ideas for scrapping but non of them seem to get out of my hands so I will leave my computer alone today, and do some scrapping! I already finished half of my "thank you" gifts for the wedding. Now I am short of ribbon so I will have to go to the market again next tuesday. Yay again 1 step closer!!!

Day 5 of Christmas

Day 5: Do you hang mistletoe?
Nope sorry no mistletoe but I do have lots of other deco though! I am already putting them up. In Holland we are "allowed" to put them up now, after "Sinterklaas" has left so I am off decorating my home!!! Really love the lights and cosy feeling it brings! Today I will also try and finish recipe's. Christmasrecipe's to be exact for a swap I entered on Scrapfever. Well bye for now, back later with pics of our tree!!!
xxx

25 days of christmas

I just read on a blog about 25 days of christmas and as I am really in a christmasmood at the moment, I really wanted to jump on that wagon too! But it's already the 4th day of christmas so I have some catching up to do!!! Here we go!!!!

Day 1: Colored lights or white lights on your house or not at all?

Well I love those white little bright lights, and that's the only one we have, but sometimes colored ones are soooo sweet too!


Day 2:Hot chocolate or Egg Nog?
Definately Hot Chocolate as I have never had Egg Nog! And as far as I know it contains alcohol and I don't take that very well hehe


Day 3: What's your favorite holiday dish?
a tough one! I love turkey with and orange sauce, lots of different veggies, and ofcourse a lovely big dessert!


Day 4:Does Santa wrap the presents or just sit them under the tree?
Well I really have painfull fingers after all that wrapping so I think he only sits them under the tree ;-).

Confessions

Almost every week I do something I shouldn't actually do, like eating a lot of candy/chocolate, buy something I don't need, spoil myself with scrapstuff, so I decided to make little artjournal cards in this cute little case. I will make 1 every week with a confession! I think this will be great fun!




I also got this A4 tin which I decided to make an album in. I will scrap 1 day per month, so I will have an overview at the end of the year of what special things happened! Or just my most pretty pics! We'll see!



Now I am working on our "thank you" gifts for the wedding, what did I get myself into now again! What a lot of work to make all these little sacks/bags/boxes! But they are really pretty! I bought paper and ribbon today for that and I finished 5 boxes in total, 8 are cut and the rest is still only printed. But I love it anyway! (when it's done!)
xxx

Mondayblogging

It's monday again, I feel that weeks fly by, but I don't mind though! Our wedding will be very soon then! We made some changes in our day and it will still be great, even greater and I am so looking forward!
I also scrapped a little. I tried to make samples for our "thank-you" gifts and decided what I am going to make!
Then there was this last week of the workshop and I made this lo, plain and simple as the picture and title says enough. Journaling is written along the edges.
And then some more wonderful news! I am getting published again!
This time in a Dutch magazine and today I send of 5 (!!!) lo's to be photographed! I am so happy!! Can't stop smiling! More info soon!!!

sunday afternoon

and a typical one it is! the weather is crancky!!! So I am up here in my scraproom, thinking of my next project to make! my cat Daisy is not agreeing on that one as she really wants cuddles NOW!!!!
We had visitors this afternoon and got some "sinterklaas" presents, most of them just yummy stuff!!! And in half an hour I will be making dinner. Just a normal day. I hope to be scrapping this evening after dinner!
This is a spread I made a while ago but never placed here, so here it is!!!

update

hi girls
Well thursday was a sad day, don't wanna tell too much about it just that I cried like a baby (that happens every now and then I guess). I decided I could be sad that day and should be back on my feet again the next day. And I did. The only thing left to say about this is: you will be missed.

So yesterdaymorning I got up, took a shower, took my meds just in case, put on some nice clothes and make up and went out. It was hard but I did it anyway, still trying to concer fear. I managed well I must say! I bought some clothes, shoes, and visited a befriended pharmasist and we tried out samples, perfumes etc, that did me good! I got a lot of samples and took them home and tried them ofcourse!
I was still on the shoe-hunt for my weddingshoes but couldn't find them but there was 1 shop left here in this small village so when Igor got home, and my sushi was ready, we went to that shop! Also not the right shoes so hopefully I will be able to go to Amersfoort next week and find them! I also bought some christmasgifts and ofcourse wrappingpaper!

Igor will be 30 soon and I thought this couldn't be "just" another birthday so I am trying to arrange different things, everybody is helping out and I love it! He will be so surprised (he's not reading my blog only if I ask him). I talked a lot on the phone yesterday to family and friends and that also strengthened me!

And today! I don't have to do anything but vacuumclean! So I watched a dvd (woke up at 6 am) and took care of the pets! Love to do that so they are spoiled rotten again! Now I am hungry again so I will dig in to my "stash" of sushi!!!
Have a great weekend!
xxx