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

Great news!

Well first of all I am soooooo happy! I made an album, it's very pretty, but I can't show it here! Why not? As it is being published!!! I am even getting a something nice for it! Wow this must be my lucky day!

Another thing was that we got a letter that we were charged too much for a bill and got over € 100,00 back! And we got a letter from our electricity company that we would get money back as well as we payed more than we used! So all this is great as for the upcoming wedding ofcourse!

Then a friend of mine showed up unexpectely and we scrapped together and had great fun and I finished 2 lo's! So now I am all caught up with my workshop again!

So my question? What's next today! I am looking forward to it!This "positive thinking" stuff really works great! I got all that I asked for today!

Here are my lo's:

Finding you lo's

hi
Here again 2 lo's for the "finding you" workshop, just 1 more to go and I am all caught up! I think I will do this tonight.
Today I went shopping at Pipoos (local craftstore) and bought some lovely 7 gypsies and K&Company paper so I can go on again for a short while!!! I also ordered some new paper at an online store but it will not be send untill December 1st so I have to be patient again! In the meanwhile I can finally finish our wedding invitations!!!

Cards and lo's

hi there!

I finished 2 lo's for the finding you workshop! Still 3 behind! But I am working on it!

I also made 3 more cards! 1 for christmas, 1 for someone who is having a hard time and one just in stock!

Our new "monster"

Meet Spikey! He's an agame, and so terribly cute!!! I really wanted a reptile for ages but my parents didn't want to have animals, my ex hated them and now after 22 years I finally got my first reptile! He's a baby still but he will be around 30 cm (his body) and in total from head to tale, around 60 cm! Love it! I just don't like what he eats! crickets and moths (worms) and all that kind of stuff and preferably alive! But hé I will get used to it eventually!

*Love Elsie* paperbag mini-album

I finally finished this cute but bright and cheerful *love elsie* paperbag mini-album.
I made this for a (non-scrapping) friend who lives in Texas. She could use some cheer up right now so I hope she likes it and it will arrive safe and sound! To see all pics click here .

I also finished another lo for the finding you workshop! Just 4 more to go and I am up to date!

2 new lo's

as promised!!!
The first one is a lo I made for the workshop "finding you" from corinne delis! I am still way behind!
The second one is a scraplift from a lo I saw on the *Love Elsie* flickr group. I loved working on both of them!
And you know what? I am running out of paper!!! I am working on a paperbag minibook with the last bit of elsiepaper, then there's a minibook in process with jack and abby and after that I only had about 6 sheets left!!! And they all don't match! So I need new paper!!!! Anyone got tips to cute paper and internetshops?




Weddingupdate:
Last night we visited our weddinglocation and talked about the food, our wishes, plans and all, we are so excited about this!!!
After that we went to visit Majootje and I asked her to be my "best man/woman" and she said yes!!!
This morning I had a conversation with our photographer and he can totally meet our wishes so that's arranged too!!! I am soooooo happy again!

Found my

MOJO again! yeaahhaaaa! I scrapped these cards below, today I finished 2 lo's and started a paperbag mini-album for a friend who can use a lot of support right now.

I haven't photographed the lo's yet but I will tomorrow I promise!

Weddingupdate: Last thursday Igor and I went over the the juweler's and chose these 2 perfect rings! They are so so so (did i mention "so") applicable to our situation, but I can't really explain it without pics so just a little more patience! We're still thinking about the inscription but I am sure we will find the appropriate words soon!

Post # 150!!

Wow 150 messages already! And this one is all about fall! I made a minibook a while ago about why I love the fall so much, I send it in to a magazine but haven't heard from them so I decided to place it eventually! So here it is, well at least some of it! Here you can find all pictures! I am really happy with how it turned out! So take a look!!!
xxx

some christmas

HI!
Oh this year I am so into Christmas! In October I bought Christmas-scrapstuff already and started working on a christmasjournal and the christmaschallenge! Now I finished some christmascards that I found on a blog Ellen gave me a link to! It's from Cambria Turnbow and love the things she makes so I just had to lift some of the ideas and did! Here are my interpretations! The first one is a try-out with my new Cricut Cartridge.



Then I also made a little "X-mas"book by the idea of S@ndra which was a lot of work! But I love how it turned out! I made it with the scrapfever scrapkit of October.

Wedding-update:
I chose my dress, now I just have to order it and wait 5 weeks! Thursday we will go shopping for rings and crafts for making the invites. Monday we have an appointment at the party/weddinglocation to talk about the food an all! Loving it!!
xxx

We are getting married!!!

Isn't that great!? Ok it wasn't all that romantic because we kind of "have to" get married. No I am not pregnant but Igor will be co-owner of a big store starting februari first so legally stuff needed to be arranged so we decided to get married on prenoptual-agreement. The big day will be:

Friday Februari 15 th 2008

order from the us came in!

This time my paypal account wouldn't coop so it took a little longer but finally a few days ago my order came in! Here some pics!