Intwine

Went to the Rumshop sessions from Intwine yesterday. Wow I just love that guys voice ! The show was great and I definately recommend you listen to the accoustic cd if you don't like the rougher music !

I especially liked these lyrics :

Somewhere near these dirty roads
Lies a path that leads me there
Where it goes, hell if I know
Lets just go no time to spare

Feel free
To do whatever you please
Feel free
To do whatever

This is the place where I feel free
(I feel free to make a choice )
This is where I filter out
(what disturbs my inner voice)
When your options become clear
Don’t hold back
Fear is what you need to use
Be yourself in what you choose

Feel free
To do whatever you please
Feel free
To do whatever you please!!!!

Hey, alright
Lòs e pa mi!

...........
Losing your mind
‘Cause ........ is a hard thing to find
...........
The only thing that you couldn’t leave behind
Who do you really-eally wanna impress?
You’re so concerned, so concerned 'bout the rest
I never let nobody tell me what to do
..............

Feel free
To do whatever you please
Feel free
To do whatever…

(photo courtesy of the fansite)

Fancypants Heaven

CLEAR STAMPS, CHIPBPOARD and CREATIVE CARDS are here in my living room EVERYWHERE .... :D oh and even more american crafts thickers ....

make over good idea or not ?

I promised last week to tell you a little secret and I hadn't gotten around to sharing yet. So here goes.

Two of my friends (and 2 of their friends) had autitioned for a new dutch programme with Dyan Beekman for a makeover and they had a blast.

I was so surprised when I was called up 2 weeks ago by the producers to help out (sort of shocked too as I thought they were pulling my leg) and find out the days they worked, give personal info etc. I agreed to help out but mind you I couldn't tell anyone and the husbands didn't even know yet..... They would surprise the ladies the next week (last tuesday) and I had to make a date with one of the girls as she was a SAHM and otherwise it would be hard to make sure she was indeed at home. So there I was when they came in and filmed .....but I'm sure that fromt the about 3 hours they filmed you won't see me LOL.

The presentation of the make over was last week on wednesday and they had asked if they could ask me some things and I agreed hoping they would forget about little old me, even though I hid behind one of the husbands they didn't forget :S and although the ladies were very beautifuly made over it just wasn't them. I could find one thing for each of them that I liked but the make over was not what I expected at all, I won't get into too much details.

Haven't spoken to them all yet, but I am curious (will see them next week at a birthday party) to see how they liked it and if they changed back.... I won't share all the stories but I know from one that she was pretty unhappy .....
*** edited; show will be aired on April 15th on I believe NET5.

I go for the NOT ......

ps. Colin is doing very well, no more sore bump !

too many things in one day

You know how looking back on a day you think, this was just too much goings on for one day ? Well that's what I had yesterday.

I went to 2 wholesalers to pick up the last ribbons, gel medium and some fab new pens & crayons for Corinne's workshops (we have only a few seats left for the workshops so if you haven't registered yet you still can !)

After that off to see Corinne to make preperations for the workshop, I brought Colin along and he and Jadenn had a blast playing inside and outside !

Then back to Hoofddorp to pick up Michael who was playing with a friend, but I arrived too early (DH was so sweet to change the time on my mobile but forgot to tell me so I kept adding an hour all day due to summertime changes, can't be upset as it was so sweet of him to do this for me). Since I had an hour left I stayed for some tea and the boys played until .....

Colin fell of the swing and was hurt .... The boys said he fell on his back so the father of the house carried him in and gave him to me and that's when I discovered an enormous bump on his head. So ice pack and some TLC was in order, but after a while even candy could not cheer him up and he fell asleep .... Now appearantly this is normal due to the adrenaline levels but he had a hard time when I tried waking him up so we headed for the emergency post at the hospital and he fell asleep again in the car .... In the waiting area he was still very drowzy for about 30 minutes and then they did the first assesment and he "woke up". We had to wait again and he was so lively we were wondering what we were doing there but it's beter to have a bump like that looked at.
Eventually he had some tests and then the pediatrician looked him over and said he was too lively to keep in the hospital but because of the size of the bump (2 cm diameter) we had to wake him up about every hour during the night. I was thankfull they hadn't seen him 30 min. earlier or they would have kept him there.

After all this I hadn't done my shopping so we did it anyway and got home fairly late, actually same time as dh who had the evening shift at work so we were able to eat together, needless to say the boys didn't go to bed @ their usual time.

Got lot's of orders ready for shipment done (with the 1st and new for the dt product challenge kit for april) and went to bed early as it was going to be a rough night which I survived but I'm a bit of a zombie today.

So as I said some days there is just too much going on in one day .....

3.1

Kilometers that is .... That's what I'm up to until now, and although I was a bit off and didn't run last week it went pretty well yesterday. Coming sunday I will be running the Nike Ladies Run which I haven't in 6 years and I'm happy to say i will make it as those last 2 km will be run on willpower & adrenaline !

Had so much fun this weekend, some shopping with the boys, lot's of scrapping on an altered project which I will show later, learned to crochet (and hope I will remember how to make those cute flowers when I try it all by myself) and a fun get together with our portugal gang ! How was your weekend ?

Daring Wednesday

Yes ladies and gents (are there any here ?),

It was time for another Dutch Dare and it wasn't an easy one this time phew...
I managed to finish around 0.00 and I'm actually quite happy, might add some more doodling to mine but didn't have time.

The challenge was "proud to be ..." and to use 3 techniques (I managed to sew, emboss and doodle) and 3 different brands of paper (I used Cosmo Cricket Dutch Girl, Basic Grey Scarlet's Letter and Bazzill Kraft and Honeydew one of my favorite colors btw) in the project. I actually used 6 papers as the 5" inch bloomer is also made of paper and aren't those lovely chipboard flowers just a lot of paper pressed together ;).

Here's my sneakpeak :



Check out the rest here ! Hope we've inspired you and you'll play along !

one week

One week has gone by and I did get a lot from my list done, unfortunately not everything. I even added a thing, like switching to the new blogger, did you see ?

MLS news :

Have to start my Dutch Dare project for wednesday, I finally have an idea so I can get cracking tonight.

I have uploaded so many great products into the shop and have loads more to go. Next week I will continue as the boxes are not empty yet ;)

With all these new products I will have to add a lot more products to the sales section cause it just won't fit .... In the next few weeks I will also be going through my own supplies/tools and start clearing out and putting some things for sale and making some RAKS and so on, you wouldn't believe (well those that have been here do) what I've acummulated over the last few years.
1st thing for sale :
My cricut (I ordered the QK Silhouette to play with) and it's going cheap ladies ! I have only used one mat so not used so much yet (I will supply a new one), 2 cartridges (xmas and doodle alfa) and a toolkit to be purchased for wholesale incl. btw (items can each be sold seperately). So if you are interested email me !
I also still have a Sizzix machine from a cancelled order for only 70 euro's so if anyone is interested ?

What I can share, and oh and I'm delighted to say.... Jo-Anne will be joining the MLS team as of April 1st ! So be on the lookout for her on the MLS site and the dutch dares blog.


About me:

Running is going ok, I've been going about 2x a week, not too bad it's a good start !


Plan to get some spring feeling going this week, got all the felt decoration Xenos had to offer to I can really go all out ;)


Some other things happened last week (which I can't share yet) which made my life even more busier but is soooo funny, will share more next week about this.


I will leave you with this cute card Daphne sent me and yesterday she brought me a whole boxfull of this lovely tea (and let me tell you the teabags are so cute I hated opening it .....) from Mr. Jones. Thanks Daphne, you know what makes me happy ;)

Behind

on posting on my blog
on my tax admin
on putting all the cool things that have arrived in the shop (like huge supercool flowers, huge MDF letters, memo clipboards, superduper chipboard happy flowers, cool things from 7 gypsies and the list goes on).
on showing a cute card I received from Daphne
on reading everyone's blog
on sending off the Dutch Dare Rak to Marguerita (will do this tommorow)
on sending Anita some cool stuff
on cleaning up the living room (which is looking like a warehouse far too long)
on preparing my workshops and putting them online
on making the next Dutch Dare
on my Emily's deck of me challenge
on posting the cool new projects of the team for March
on so much more .....

I was behing on putting the cool mdf ornaments in the shop but I managed to take care of that this weekend.
I was behind on things I had to share with the MLS team.
I was behind on anouncing Corinne Delis's workhops but they are now listed on the MLS site, mailed & posted to all kinds of places.

Let's hope I catch up in the coming week .....

Dutch Dare's are up

And we've been very patriotic LOL. Go check them out, and play along !

BTW I've been trying to run again ... the weather and flu/colds etc. have been keeping me from going regularly but I'm hoping to get into the swing of things, now if only it was dry this afternoon I could go again !

Wacky Workshop Weekend

I had sooo much fun @ the Wacky Workshop Weekend hosted by de Creatie. I took almost all of Celine Navarro's workshops (and boy do I wish I had taken them all) she's very inspirational and creates with such ease ! I have a bunch more unfinished but cool projects, cropped with a wonderfull bunch of women (even got 3 of my DOM cards done, 2 lo's and my DD is almost done too .. wow), met people I only know the names of and not the faces or recognized the faces but not the names and met some cool new scrappers (Astrid you should really always wear your sunglasses LOL, Linda Loe & Patricia Hamelink maybe we should wear nametags ;) and Martijntje you really need to get a blog, it really is simple I promise (if I can do it anyone can !). Met up with Nicole, Daphne, Liek and Moniqe, Elwira, Bonnette, Flo, Birgit, Corinne (so great to have some time to chat & scrap together) and I missed the ones who couldn't make it (Anita, Rev, Jo see you soon I hope !). Oh and Mandy and I had a wonderfull adventure @ our Bed & Breakfast address. Let's just say the people were really nice, the place just looked & smelled funky, lot's of okld and dead things around the house, and the only thing good were the friendly owners, the price, the breakfast and the clean bedlinnen ......Mandy thanks for sharing this adventure with me, it was fun !

Happy Birthday to

my dear friend Wendy !!

Sweetie a birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun.
Enjoy the trip!









(sorry for the blurry pics, I shouldn't try to take them @ 0.00 ......)
Now I was totally confused as to when I should congratulate Wendy as she was born on February 29th .... damn those leapyears confusing me LOL. So I thought I'd do it on March 1st since febr 28 was too early but Wendy had a good theory, her b'day is always on the last day of februari, hmmm sounds good to me.

Sweetie when shall we eat some cake ? Then I can give you this card and all the scrapgoodies that have been waiting here to be used ;) and I want take your picture as I discovered I don't have any of you .... :(

THIS

This is what this holiday has been about up until now :




How is your week going ?

Art is Art

No matter how old you are and what you are making as long as you are creating it's art .....

A dreary day but we are having fun here, creating, playing with iron on beads (Which we have bunches of as I buy them wholesale ;) and we have plenty of inspiration booklets and figures). Michael has discovered the inspiration books and is totally into it again !

Colin is dabbling here and there mostly likes to just play with the beads rather than putting them on a figure ....

Oh and this is a sample of Michael's art from school :

Aren't I cute ....

Liek made a real cutie icon so I decided to make myself too ....

So whatcha think ? Make yourself into an icon too here.

Dutch Dares are posted

Like the sneak peak then you gotta check the rest out, they are sooooo different and so rockin' I am proud of us all !

I really love mine and can't wait till DH can drill a hole in the wall so we can hang it with the others.....

Project & sneak peak Dutch Dare

Forgot to share this cute card I made for Charlotte (I made her a little something that I showed before but it didn't make me smile, and this does ....) that should be in her hands pretty soon .....

And a little sneak peak for my Dutch Dare which you may not believe but is finished already (and it's only 16.30 ..... wow). You know where to go tommorow if you'd like to see more ....

BTW we are changing the stakes as we have noticed we are not giving away enough RAKS to the people playing along. We will be giving away raks with 15 participants and we are definately almost hitting the 15 this dare, so send them in to dutchdares@memorylanescrapbooking.net if you haven't done this yet !

Fun, fun, fun

wow what a weekend let me tell you !

I'm thinking what I can say that the alliance gals haven't said yet about our little surprise for anita but nope. It was fun to surprise a friend, it was great to chat, share and giggle together. I even finished some cj pages for the dt and finally got stuck into altering my bag ! It was special as it always is .....

The dt lunch on sunday was not all about scrapping this time, but a lot about getting kits & orders sorted out, getting ourselves organised, catching up, meeting Mirjam in person and just a teeny tiny bit of technique with ranger inks. I had fun girls, thanks mandy for letting us invade your house with my stuff and the team !

(i stole all the pics from other blogs as I didn't make any photo's, hope nobody minds ....)

Unfortunately due to dishonest builders (hey it's all about planning right, and the ones I know cannot plan to save their lives ......), Ed could not finish what he had in mind (my room ...) so he got stuck into the hallway and this is coming along nicely I must say. He is working so hard, I think I need to pamper him this week !

Michael's swimming career

Yep got his second ribbon yesterday, he was so happy. He started in March last year and is doing really well ! He says he wants to get all the swimming certificates there are, well honey lets concentrate on the first one this summer.....

Christina is so right

I could feel it from the start, Couldn't stand to be apart.
Something 'bout you caught my eye, Something moved me deep inside!
I don't know what you did boy but you had it
And i've been hooked ever since.
I told my mother, my brother, my sister and my friends I told the others, my lovers, both past and present tense.
That everytime I see you everything starts making sense.
Do your thang honey!
Ain't no other man, can stand up next to you
Ain't no other man on the planet does what you do (what you do). You're the kinda guy, a girl finds in a blue moon.
You got soul, you got class. You got style, you bad ass - oh yeah!
Ain't no other man its true - alright - Ain't no other man but you.
Never thought I'd be alright. No, no, no! Till you came and changed my life.
Yeah, yeah, yeah! What was cloudy now is clear!
Yeah, yeah! You're the light that I needed.
You got what I want boy, and I want it! So keep on givin' it up!
Tell your mother, your brother, your sister, and your friends.
And the others, your lovers, better not be present tense.
Cause I want everyone to know that you are mine and no one else's!



happy valentines day baby !

Ed heeft me gered

translation = Ed saved me

After 3 days and numerous tricks tried in the book, he tried something out of the book and .... it worked. Hard disk worked long enough so he could copy my documents (with admin), my favorites and my mailing lists..... Yes he definately is da man !

Phew so happy and relaxed today !

If you have no idea what I'm talking about you can read post below it will explain everything.

crashed and burned

My hard disk in this case, so many a tear has been shed this weekend ....

I was due for a backup but just hadn't gotten around to it (and yes I should know better with all our it experience....), so my last back up has been a month or two ago. Not too bad I guess if you rationalize this but I'm not too good at that .... but the problem is I hadn't backed up my mailinglist for the newsletter of Memory Lane Scrapbooking. We do have some addresses from a mailing in September and some unfiltered lists on a usb stick but this will cost us a lot of time and lots of customers.

So if you want to help me out we would be very grateful, spread the word that people need to resend their email address to nieuwsbrief@memorylanescrapbooking.net
so we can start all over again .......

Perfect the way you create ?

Why are we so hard on ourselves when scrapbooking should be all about fun ? That's what I've been thinking about the last couple of days.

You see my belief is that everybody has their own scrapbooking style, there is no right or wrong it's all a matter of taste, style and experience. I have a friend who has this need to be the best and is upset because not everybody gets her style and I told her sweetie you are perfect just the way you create but it left me with an uneasy feeling.

So this got me thinking, especially since I tried a different thing with my lo and I was not happy at all with the way it turned out. But why wasn't I happy with it, because I hadn't created a masterpiece ? Because I wasn't praised for it ? Because I didn't even that much constructive critisism on it ? No it just wasn't giving me that smiling feeling the next day when I looked at it, and you see that's why I scrapbook.

I do not scrapbook to get published, I do not scrapbook because I want others to say I rock or am the best thing since choc chip cookies. I scrapbook because I think it's a great hobby, a way for me to relax, sometimes it's therapy, to have a creative outlet and document our photo's in a totally different way, not just by noting a date or a few words but by journaling or using that title with that certain photo that will say more than a thousand words.....and that's what makes me happy ! And that's what it should be about unless scrapbooking is your job in which case I still think it should be making you happy otherwise you have the wrong job LOL.

Please share with me what you think.... As I am curious if you are as hard on yourself when you create as my friend or are you totally not critical of your work ?

Remember it is a HOBBY, it should be FUN there are plenty of other things to worry about !

A sneeze lo

Someone close recently said she had the feeling she sneezed on a lo with some material ..... Obviously she wasn't happy with her endresult and although it wasn't her usual it was a nice lo. Well I know her feeling, my dutch dare is up and is feels like I sneezed (since I have a cold I could seriously pass it off like this .......) and I am not happy, maybe there's too much or maybe not enough of one thing but I'm just not happy. Maybe I'll change it a bit, maybe not, but I will be putting this in my whatwasIthinking album .......

BUT the other ladies have done FAB jobs with their Dutch Dares, go check them out and PLEASE SHOW us what you made as we have found out there are subgroups that are playing the Dutch dares and only showing each other. We as a group are a bit sad as I stumbeled across one of them and it looked so great ! And everyone loves winning a great RAK ?!

PROOF

need I say more ..... LOL !

Celeb

Some of you had noticed already but we have a bit of a celeb @ home (and I'm not talking about DH ;) LOL)

In this issue of a dutch scrapmag CmF, you might have spotted this LO of Colin. So strange to see his photo scrapped by someone else, but fun too as it's totally different from the lo that I once made (at the beginning of my scrapcareer ;) hihi) with the same photo.

Version Jolanda Schellekens :


My version (for which I still want to make a right page ...):


I will leave you with a funny moment yesterday in the car (background info; We had just fitted (one shoe) and bought a pair of nike's for colin) ; Colin : did we buy the shoe from the store ? Parents : yes dear ! Colin : did we bring the shoe from the store ? Parents : Yes dear. Colin : did we bring the other shoe too ? Parents : Yes dear we bought 2 shoes ! hihi

Birthday Recap

Last weekend was a busy one, but lot's of fun !

On saturday we had the kiddie party for Michael, totally in Indian & Cowboy style. We had a "campfire", a totem (with balloons with numbers for all the pressies for him to burst open), we made dreamcatchers, danced the hokey pokey, decorated cupcakes, had 2 foodeating contests and tosti's (grilled cheese/ham sandwiches) and hotdogs and ehm well that was it I think. Can you spot me dressed up as pocahontas ? unfortunatelly we forgot to take a picture of the whole outfit, but hey I might dress up again sometime ....



On Sunday we didn't have too much as the house was already prepped for a party so we made his treats for his classmates & teachers. We made "klaasbrokken" yeah you know the lovely chocolate caloriebombs from the master of sweet goodies Francine and cupcakes with a failproof recipe from the multitalented Anita (and they loved it all !) and waited for the guests to arrive. Michael is at that age where you have to remain calm & cool when receiving the best presents from your list, but I could tell from his face & reaction he was so happy with his cards & gifts. He went to bed a little later, got to watch something he usually can't because Colin is too small and was in heaven !



On monday, I had a very nervous little guy on my hands who did not want to go to school because of a tummy ache .....Eventually after some tears and a few hugs he was up for it ! We took a basket (and some tupperware) of goodies to school and then Michael asked if I could come back for the main event, now I didn't know we were allowed to do this but appearantly we are (wish I'd known that last year :( !) But I went back and took a few pic's, he was overjoyed and my heart was all warm and well you get the picture I think ...... After school we had some more guests that couldn't make it sunday, more pressies, his favo meal (french fries) and again to bed later than usual but again a satisfied & happy little boy.

Happy Birthday Nicole

Happy Birthday to the sweet & talented Nicole, hope you have a fab day !





Used some RdG, I love this brand but don't seem to use it a lot. Small projects do work well with it, and I really like the new lines too. Also used my cute new scalloped scissors, and gypsy stamp from Autumn Leaves, just had to try those...

My beautiful boy

He was a sweetie when he was born ...



And he's still a sweetie, but as of today also a big boy as he turns 6 years old who got spoiled over the weekend at both his parties (will give a recap tommorow of the festivities !)

Happy birthday Michael !

Valentine & party preparations

So I've been working on a workshop for valentine, and it's almost finished. Whatcha think ?



The AL items are going sooooo fast, will be reordering some items on monday. Any requests ?

And now I'm off to several wholesalers to spend some money, have my Pocahontas costume ready for tommorow, just want some of those furry boots to finish off the outfit. I will show some photo's tommorow, you have been warned !

Dutch Dare is posted

And again everybody has amazed me with their idea's ! Unfortunately I couldn't make mine on time, so bummed but I have an idea and I will still be making it but that'll probably be next week.

I am (and DH) sooooo busy filling the store with the lovely new collection Black, Red & Cream from Autumn Leaves, loooooots of Bag-o-Buttons and supercute stamps. Can't wait to try it all ........

So go check the dutch dares and play along and you could win a fun RAK !

Deck of me card 2 {Music}

Card 2; what is powerfull to me = Music

I don't mind sharing the journaling which is; Music is very powerful to me. It is a huge part of my life, even though I cannot make it myself and cannot sing to save my life. It's universal and is used to help people in all kinds of ways. I have all types to help me to find comfort, lyrics to make me feel strong, melodies to dance to and sounds to help me relax. I surround myself with music every day, because that's what is powerful in my my life. I did correct the little spelling mistake on the card, but didn't have time to take a new pic ...

Oh and did I tell you I took my mother to the Sound of Music singalong show ? It was so funny bcause she didn't know where we were going (I love to surprise her) and she thought "who are all these weirdly dressed up people" (picture a whole bunch of Von Trapp Families, heidi-types, nuns and so on) but when we got settled in our chairs she saw what it was about and was excited. I must tell you a bit about me, my mother and the Sound of Music. Whenever it was shown in any movie theater relatively close to where we were she dragged me to it (all of my childhood so that includes I don't know how many reruns), I used to put on my own puppetshow to lonely goatherd and my bedtime song was Edelweiss; catch my drift ? We thorougly enjoyed ourselves and sang along, shouted and clapped with all the other fans, even Martijn Krabbe ..... And I bought the special edition dvd, ok I admit she got me hooked but I was too young to say no ....

only one more week

It started way before Sinterklaas, the countdown that is .... How many more nights till my b'day ???? And well it's getting close now as it's only 10 more days to go ......

We've planned an Indian/Cowboy party (yeah finally I get to give my first themed b'day party !) and even mommy and daddy will get dressed up for this ! So tommorow it's off to get some accesories and a new birthday streamer (yes I know not very cowboy/indian but this is for the grown up party ....) I have had my eye on ! This is his invite that DH put together, he rocks at this !


He made a big wishlist and still I'm not sure everythings on there as he had quite the expensive taste putting this together so we need to sit down this weekend and look for some small things he marked in the toy catalogue.

Rising Star

Just a little quick post to let you know how much my DH and I are enjoying your enthusiasm over his latest blog http://life-of-a-scrapper-husband.blogspot.com/. He has so many hits on his blog that he is a rising star in the scrapbooking top 50 and getting lurkers even from the philipinnes ..... Wouldn't it be great if we could get him hits from all over the world ? And I'm sure he would love to hear from your husbands so please all lurkers leave him a message and spread the word all over the world, let's see how high we can get him in the top 50 !

I love little online tests like these !

Cannot get enough of them as they make me laugh.

Your results:
You are Green Lantern

Green Lantern 75% Spider-Man 70% Superman 60% Hulk 60% The Flash 60% Catwoman 55% Supergirl 52% Wonder Woman 52% Robin 40% Iron Man 40% Batman 20%

Hot-headed. You have strong will power and a good imagination.

Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test

Deck of me

Via the wonderfull Nat, I was made aware of this great challenge Emily Falconbridge started on her weblog.
An art journal made of a deck of cards, each week she will post a question and you scrap your answer on a card, at the end the year you will have a whole deck and that's your art journal. I just had to participate even though the first week had started already and since they are just tiny projects each week I knew I could.

And I had just the thing to inspire me ! I got those great new 7 gypsies stamps in and I HAD to use one of them.
Here is my card for week one and I will make the 2nd card later this week.

Card 1; What are you proud of

Happy Birthday

to DAPHNE ...

Hope you had a happy day today !

Book Tag

I was book tagged by Nicole, and since I don't have any "grown-up" books in the living room I chose the book next on my nightstand. Now I've not been reading a lot for the longest time, I only seem to be "into it" when I'm abroad on a holiday ... a shame really because I loved to read, not too heavy literature for me though.

1. Grab the book closest to you.
2. Open to page 123, go down to the fourth sentence.
3. Post the text of the following 3 sentences on your blog.
4. Name of the author and book.
5. Tag three people of your own.

1. Got it ...
2. His hand trembled. He trembeled. mostly as he rested. Mostly when he tries his hardest to relax.And sometimes, after we have made love, which he can do in a lovely unnoticably athletic way, his whole rightside trembles and his arm flaps wildly in the air, as if we've just given it it's freedom back.
4. Amy Bloom, A blind man can see how much I love you ( I actually have a dutch version this time)
5. Elwira, Monique B, Nat

BTW for those of you that didn't guess yet, the blog I suspected my husband to have started is indeed his blog. Hope you're havin fun at my expense LOL. He's getting quite a following .....

WOWSAH

The new dares are up and al I can say is wow, I even got mine finished @ 22.15 last night, not bad deadlinewise (oh and I didn't pick my fave mag, cause I really wanted to scrap that photo !).

So check them out, they are so inspirational ! I love doing them because they force me to finish at least 1 project every 2 weeks and as you all know I am a SS (slow scrapper)...... I already have favorites, which do you like best ?

So busy this week, got lots of new hambly in the shop (paper & overlays), ALL the Ranger dabbers in stock and lot's of sale items to upload, gotta make space for the new lovely things I ordered from Autumn Leaves (and the new Cherry Arte by CD of course ;-) ...)

This is so funny

And could be the place for your husband if he needs to share his difficult Iamlivingwithanaddictedscrapper experiences...!

Life of a scrapper's husband

I secretely suspect my dh of starting this blog, but I'm not sure yet .....

Happy Birthday to ...

Charlotte, this hot young scrapbook chick is celebrating her birthday today !

Enjoy your day girl and I made a little something for you, apologies for the blurry pictures ....

christmas vacation ?!

This is my second week of christmas vacation and I have a feeling it just started .....I had so many things I wanted to do; get my house more organized, scrap a lot, go to the zoo, get my admin organized, work out ehm well you get the idea ...

And what have I done so far =>

• the house is a bit more organized ( ok well I got a lot of washing done and the rooms of my M&M are done) but the attic is nowhere near to being done ....
  
• we played a lot of games, I went to an indoor playground with Wendy and the boys and tommorow we're going to the theatre with them but the weather is a bit unpredictable so the zoo was cancelled.
  
• Had a crop with some friends (Flo, Monique, Daphne & Liek) and I only scrapped for about an hour, so of course I didn't finish the project .... On the other hand the boys finished an altered mini book for their grandparents and they loved it.
  
• Admin is sort of organized, it's all tucked away in plastic folders but needs to be computerized (dreading this project), and I did a lot of updating in the shop (sale) & workshops.
  
• what I did do is RUN and let me tell you it went well, the new shoes are fab (although I must admit I need some more gear and on the top of my list is my own ipod LOL as I keep having to steal my DH's, and an extra pair of everything really .... Have to wait till my next paycheck though.
  

and that's it, not much :-( and you know what, the vacation is over after the weekend.....Oh well the next school vacation is in 6 weeks LOL

So what have you been up to ?

Goodbye 2006 Hello 2007

2006 was the start of my blog on which I could share a year of changes, choices, happy times, stress, old friends, scrapbooking, difficult times, new friends, my family & so much more.

Thanks for sharing all this with me, leaving a comment or just lurking !

To all of you I wish you more happiness, good health & that all your wishes come true (or at least a step closer) for 2007.

And to those that we have had to say goodbye to, I truly hope you have found peace, you will be remembered in our hearts…..