Happy Birthday!!

Happy 15th sweetie!!
Hope you have a great day! And...... if we win later today, we're gonna have a big party!!

Two Graduates!

Wednesdaynight my youngest daughter graduated from Elementary School......

Isn't she just gorgeous? Even got two awards!! Honourroll for an average of more than 80% and a math award... I'm so proud right now!!

And Thursdaynight my oldest daughter graduated from High School.....

And yes, she's gorgeous too! I'm very proud of her, making it to getting her diploma in 3 years, in a new country, with a new language, it wasn't easy! But, she did it!!

Graduations and....oops, some creativity!!

We've got a busy week ahead here! Two graduations... oh boy my girls are getting older and older, when did that happen??

This girl, Anouk, graduates from Elementary school tomorrow.... with gown and all the picture was taken about 2 months ago, but they don't have to wear them during the ceremonies. Just another nice dress and some high heels... accessories, make-up, and she's done! Hope my camera's working, so I can show you pictures of the event later this week!

And this one, Marloes, graduates from highschool Thursday! And they have to wear the gown and cap stuff, oh my gosh, that's going to be so awesome! I'm so proud of them both! 3 Years in Canada, doing great, speaking English like they never learned anything else, having lots of friends......

I think I better take lots of tissues with me the two coming nights!

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And yes.... I made some stuff!!! At one of the Yahoo groups I'm a member of, there's a different technique every month and this month it's seredipity!

I've made this ATC

And this birthday card for my great-aunt with that technique, and I think they turned out nice!


Another birthday card, made it yesterday..... don't look mom, be patient!!!


With this ATC I had so much fun, clear embossing, sponging with ink, stamping.... and that great bee-woman.... love it if I may say so myself:-)


A couple of weeks ago I showed you a 4x4 canvas I'd made, and it was time to give her a little sister, so I made this one! And now they're hanging together in my scraproom, looks great!

Thanks for stopping by again and have a great day!

Wallhanger, lift LO and new sketch at wijDUS!

Showtime again!! I've been doing stuff the last couple of days and so happy with it! First of all I made a Wallhanger. At the Dutchfreestylegroup we had a COL last week, but I didn't have time, so I finished it this week!

A little detail of heat embossed grungeboard letters!



The wallhanger itself, my youngest with her new glasses!


And another detail of the blingbling I added with the Hotfix tool!

The next layout is a lift from my friend Mireille. I know, hers is much more beautiful, but.. she used paint, I didn't, so......that's why ha, ha!

This is Mireille's layout, about her son's wonderful pouting lip!


And this is blingbling detail of mine!!!

And this is what I've made of it! My oldest daughter playing golf..... And when the layout was finished I realized I had the pictures in the wrong order.... and she's no star at all cause she misses..... Ha, ha, so much for a detailed scrapper.... never thought of it! But, I still like it a lot!


More bling, I just love that Hotfix!!!!

Oh, and if you have a spare moment between now and the end of the month.... stop by at wijDUS, cause today it's Sketch time again and we all did a sketch of the hand of our own Peggy!


This is what I made of it.... my 2 silly girls.... So stop by, see what we all did, print out the sketch and start working! There's a great prize this month too..... you never know, you might even win this time!!

And finally an award I got from Rini, she nominated everybody that visits her blog, and I think that's an excellent idea!

So, please put it on your blog, you all are such an inspiration and it's a joy to visit each of you!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Card * Say it.... * Paper'08

Next Friday the 11th, my youngest is having her 13th birthday, so, we had to have a card, and if you are creative, and scrap, and every now and then make a card.... you make it yourself:-)

The inspiration for this card came from the book Scrapcards, which I got from my sis Jeanet, and she actually made the card I lifted, with totally different papers, but I like it a lot! Lets hope Anouk does too!

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Say it in Scrap, a new challenge, scrap something new, something you haven't seen before, an emotion you've never scrapped about before........

Well....... I haven't scrapped about emotions.... and have pictures about that subject, but sometimes it is just hard to scrap those...... But now I did. From a year ago when my mom came over for a visit...boy....those emotions kept coming and they still do when I look at pictures from that time........

(papers used BG Boxer, Blush and Perhaps and sticker letters, Prima Flowers, buttons, lace, Gel-a-Tin clock stamps and black Zig writer)

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Paper'08 a new operation up and running! ART...... ha, that's a good thing...... Just journaled about what art means to me! As always without pictures, which is getting real hard sometimes!!

A bit blurry, but if you wanna read my journaling, click on the picture!!

Working outside!

This weekend we've been busy outside, it was the first nice weekend, temperatures were not too high, so very nice to do something. Well, Henk did all the work, I went with him to buy plants and decorative stones to brighten up the outside space a bit!

In the front yard we have a Maple tree, and as we are completely re-decorating outside, (it's all soil now, we're going to seed new grass!) we thought it would be nice to make a circle around the tree. So we bought some scalloped curved stones and..... this is the result!

Mom, look, we've changed the stones next to the garage too, don't you like these a lot better? We do!

We got some perannials too, like this Korean Dwarf Lilac, which grows till about 1,5 metres!

More plants for on the deck, we filled up the pots we had outside, bought a new hanging basket too, and put one at the front of the house which looks very nice!

Marloes is doing co-op at the moment and has to make a project about her work. What's better than a scrapbook if you've got a mom with lots of supplies! So we decided to work on it on the deck, really nice, and we even got sunburned....... not so nice!

And, of course, with the two girls outside,I had to have some new photos of them together! This is one of them, I made more, but...... you have to wait to see those, I ordered them and am planning to make a layout with those photos. Got it all in my head, has to be put on paper now..... oops........

More cards, flowers and I MADE A LAYOUT!

Still I receive cards, the most beautiful pieces of art you can think of, I love it, and want to thank Rieni and Monique for their cards I received last Friday!!
(by clicking you can see the image better if you want to!)

I also had a very big surprise Friday, a flowershop delivered this gorgeous bouquet of Sunflowers for me!! And I was completely surprised when I read the card that was with it..... I got these flowers from Michelle, to cheer me up a bit! Girl, you're the sweetest and yes, they did cheer me up, a lot!!!! Thanks so so very much!

Finally I tried to do some scrappin' and I managed!

I just had to do this layout of my youngest daughter Anouk, who was talking to me about getting adjusted here in Canada, and how normal speaking English at school was becoming, almost as normal as speaking Dutch! I know she doesn't like this photo of her at all, but I love it, that's just the way she can look, when she's reading! Has nothing to do with the layout, but.. I just love the photo!

Used paper is Three bugs in a rug, Prima Flowers, lace, Zig pen, Maya Road journaling sheers and We R Memory Keepers chipboard letters.

Here's a close up of the journaling, hope you can read it, it says a lot about how my girl is adjusting here and I think she's doing great!

Finally some more scrappin'

Yes, I finally got some scrappin' done for this week! Yesterday I managed to do this one in just an hour, love it when things work out just the way I want them to!!

Photo was taken last Monday, the day the kids had a snowday and Anouk and I went for a walk. Love this photo!

The papers used are by Carolees Creations, an old Winterline, but hey, I like old lines!!

And today I did another one, lifted a layout of myself, and it's done by a sketch of Pagemaps!

Anouk, tobogganing down the hill in our back yard, she had so much fun! Papers are Basic Grey Blitzen and Dasher.

There is a shadow on the photo of the layout, that's a part of me he, he!! So no, the cardstock isn't half yellow!!

Just in case I don't have any more blogging to do this weekend, I want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas!!

Surprise!

Last night, Henk and the girls had to go "somewhere" and I had to stay home.... OK, fine, don't mind, I'll read my mail and surf some blogs.....

After about 15 min. they come home again, call me, and I had to sit on the couch, eyes closed and DO NOT PEEK MOM!.....

Something was put on my lap.... small, not heavy... what on earth could that be? "Ok mom, open your eyes now!!" And who is on my lap????? MICHAEL BUBLE AND HIS LATEST CD!! Well, he, he, not really Michael of course, but his cute face was staring at me:-)

Don't you think I just have the sweetest girls? It was Marloes' idea, she wanted to buy it for me, Henk said that she should save it for Christmas, but no, she wanted to give it right away, "cause mom can use a surprise dad!"... Oh girly..... you had me there, tears running down..... (I'm such an emotional person) but I wasn't the only one here... that happens when you have two girls!!

Love them lots and now..... I'm listening to Michael, and it's great!

Category Stories

Category Stories is a pretty new challenge blog. I discovered them a couple of weeks ago, but was too late to finish the challenge before the deadline. Now I found out, they have challenges on the 1st and 15th of every month, and I'm finished!! I really like these and think I'm going to stop by more often, in 2 weeks they're 6th challenge will be up!

I had the perfect photo, the perfect papers and here it is........

Well, admit it.......isn't it a perfect photo, of a FABULOUS haircut? I think it is! I've used Basic Grey Infuse for this, thanks Jen!! Prima Flowers, Doodlebug eyelets, BG Perhaps stickers, MM rubons and a shippingtag with ribbon by American Crafts.

TFL and have a great weekend!

A new daughter?

I've got a new daughter!!! After having long hair for a very long time, today, Anouk decided to cut it all!


And she loves it!! Actually, so do I, it suits her so good, but... she looks much older all of a sudden! Ok, have to admit, my little girl isn't little anymore..... I know, she's 12, but.... she's still my youngest! I made a collage, cause I had to make several photo's as you can understand!