A gift * Freestyle (and I mean FREESTYLE)

Finally, after being sick since last week Thursday, I'm back on track! Don't know what was wrong with me, just headaches, burning eyes, a voice that kept on being weird and not even a sore throat, and very very tired....... Not nice, because it meant that I could not go to the party we had last Saturday from Henk's work, so no nice dinner for me at the Manderin in Hamilton, and no fun at the Casino in Niagara Falls..... poor me........ Ah well, it was nice if Henk would have come home with $ 100.000,-- but..... well, you know what they say..... lucky in love.........blahblahblah........

Yesterday I started to feel a little better and than the mailman came.... and look what he put in my mailbox!!!!!

Oh my gosh, these gorgeous stamps from the Creatie in the Netherlands, I am so totally in love with these!! And I didn't order them, no way, my dear and sweet friend Jenny bought them for me, sent them all the way over the Ocean, and ....... it's a gift!!!! Jen, I love you, thanks so much!! Got some layouts in mind on which I can use a couple of these stamps, hope to show them soon!

She also sent me my first Christmas card of this year, thanks sweetie, it is so nice!!!!

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And just a couple of minutes ago I finished this layout, I had the idea in mind for a few days, but didn't feel good enough to do some scrappin'.

The last couple of layouts I showed were Vintage, but..... this is Freestyle, and I mean FREESTYLE and I love it!!! Had so much fun!

I used my cupcake stamp by Maya Road, built it up out of different papers........



Finally used some tickets I had laying around since before Summer.......

Got my new Sassafras papers I bought 2 weeks ago, and started cutting, tearing, writing, stamping and painting (used crackle medium on the crowns), used some lace, even the lovely border they have on the new paperlines now..... and I like it!

I used a Autumn Leaves border stamp, a little hard to read, but it says "Remember happy moments". Oh, and the girls.... are my two daughters!! Come to think of it, I guess I have to make another one, cause they wouldn't like it if only one of them had it in her album!

Thanks for stopping by, I love to read comments, and enjoy the day!

Australia and a gift!

Where do you want to go? What do you want to see? Tell us all about your travel dreams! The new challenge is up at Category Stories!

This is my dream..... kangaroos....... koala's...... an much, much more!

Yes, I would love to go to Australia one day.... it's a long way from here, but..... you never know!

Here's the journaling, better to read!

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And look at this!!! Isn't this wonderful, delicious and so very very sweet? Jenny sent me this! I couldn't find that very yummie {Note}Worthy stuff here anywhere, but she could in Holland and she such a dear.... she sent it to me! With some very lovely stickers and..... liquorish, my favorite treat from Holland, boy, did we miss those!! They are so good Jen, thanks a bunch sweetie!!

Paper Adventure '08 caught up!, goodies and a card!

Finally, this week I felt up to catching up on the Paper'08 operations! I missed 4, that's a lot, cause most of the times mine is done on the day Elise puts it on her blog!

#17 Something New (click on the image to read the journaling)

#18 5 Senses

# 19 Details

# 20 Three Words (you had to tell something about yourself in 3 words!)

So, I'm all done now, and ready for the next operation!

As you can see on Operation #17 I used a very cute stamp of a bike and a little fence, you see them here, my friend Linda sent them to me and they arrived just in time, cause I was desperately waiting to use them! She also sent some other goodies with it, and one of the shaker sticker is used on operation #20!!

Then this gorgeous button card and one of these Gingerbread men arrived Monday, all the way from Poland to Canada, and I got them from Michelle, a good friend from a challenge last year by Emily Falconbridge! I've emailed you already Michelle, but thanks so very much for those wonderful pieces of art!

Last but not least I want to thank you all for visiting my blog, and hardly getting any visits from me! I'm a bad blogger these days, but typing all this took me almost half an hour cause I have to stand up and walk around all the time..... I am doing better, but still not there. Tuesday I went to see the doctor and she told me that even six months after the fall, I can have trouble with it and it might still hurt if I sit for a long time! Well, that's absolutely something to look forward to don't you think? Especially when we leave for Holland, which is an 8 hour flight...... Ah well, I have to take it day by day, and take it easy, but I'm so very glad I'm able to scrap a bit. Eventhough it can take me days to finish a page, it gives me something to do besides zapping on the TV!

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the day!

New Banner!

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Ok, a couple of you thought the background was kind of bright, so I've changed into light blue.... looks better already I think! Thanks for thinking with me!!

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My friend of one of the Yahoogroups I'm a member of, Mireille A. made me a new banner and I TOTALLY LOVE IT!!!!! Why I'm not able to do this, no clue, but the way she does it...... hey, I don't mind at all!! Mireille, you rock, thanks so much girl!! As you maybe notice I've changed the colours of my blog a bit, think this goes together pretty good! Only I in doubt with the background colour, maybe light-blue is better... don't know, who can tell me?