2 summer hotties

Just wanted to share these with you, they were made last weekend @ Colin's Birthday bash:
















I think we need to photoshop M's pic to get the seatcushion out of there !

Oh and according to Elwira I rock, thanks Babe !






I think these chicks rock too :

Liek cause she's my oldest and bestest friends, beautiful inside and out

Corinne cause she's a fab scrapbooker, a great new friend and she's soooo photogenic I hate her for it LOL.

Francine cause she is the best storyteller and Mom I know ( that last thing totally makes me want to be her !), thanks for inviting us into your life !

Florence cause she's sweet, rocks at taking pic's and is the fastest scrapbooker I know !

Oh and for those who are wondering where in the @#!&^ their RAK is, I'm still purging LOL. a few days ago I decided the bookcases/cupboards I bought for the scrapstudio are not working for me so I sold them and have already found some new (secondhand) Ivar ones and we're putting them up (after a real good cleanup, they're airing outside now) tommorow. Hopefully that will work better and I can finally get the mess sorted in there ...... Maybe I'll even show some pic's ...

holiday update

So a lot of people asked how our holiday was so here's an little story of the slingerland family going to turkey....

It was our most relaxing holiday in a long time (like say our first summer holiday abroad in about 3 years ...), we never knew the climate would be so nice (even though it was 50 degrees celsius in the sun), that all inclusive would be so our thing (enough (healthy) food to choose from every day for the whole family), that a 5 star hotel would be so nice to stay in ( 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and even a tiny kitchenette and special beach towels).

Our flight went really well, the boys were so excited even though it was a late flight (Michael was a bit disappointed on the way to Turkey when he found out we didn't bring his game computer along) they had plenty of sticker albums and magic books to keep them occupied.

Every day I tried to visit the beach but the boys couldn't be bothered, they only wanted to go to the pool and preferably the large "wave" pool with the big waterslide ! They only really got bored of the kiddie pool/holiday the last 4 days. Colin wanted to go to his old home, with the fridge that the food comes out of .....LOL.

I booked a visit to the wellness centre for a scrub and 2 massages (fab !) and the first 4 days I went to the gym every day for a run and some weightlifting (arms only) and the second week I went every other day. I felt so fit at the end of the holiday, I was so proud LOL. Hoping to keep it up now ;).

Michael had an ear infection after 3 days into the holiday (a few of sleepless nights) and Colin the last 3 days (again a few ...) and where Michael could do with some eardrops (2 kinds actually) Colin needed the full works so we were brought to a private clinic and he had to have an drip (with what our dutch doctor thinks prednison ...) for a day and his infection cleared up superfast so we were able to make our flight the next day.

My abslolute favorite pics of the whole holiday are :

Happy Birthday Liek !

Love you sweetie, have a bottle of your favorite something ready for you !

5 August 1972

Your date of conception was on or about 13 November 1971 which was a Saturday.

You were born on a Saturdayunder the astrological sign Leo.Your

Life path number is 5.Life Path Compatibility:You are most compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 1, 5 & 7.You should get along well with those with the Life Path numbers 3 & 9.You may or may not get along well with those with the Life Path number 8.You are least compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 2, 4, 6, 11 & 22.The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2441534.5.

The golden number for 1972 is 16.

The epact number for 1972 is 14.

The year 1972 was a leap year.

Your birthday falls into the Chinese year beginning 2/15/1972 and ending 2/2/1973.

You were born in the Chinese year of the Rat.

Your Native American Zodiac sign is Salmon; your plant is Raspberry.

You were born in the Egyptian month of Paopy, the second month of the season of Poret (Emergence - Fertile soil).

Your date of birth on the Hebrew calendar is 25 Av 5732.

Or if you were born after sundown then the date is 26 Av 5732.

The Mayan Calendar long count date of your birthday is 12.17.19.0.10 which is12 baktun 17 katun 19 tun 0 uinal 10 kin

The Hijra (Islamic Calendar) date of your birth is Saturday, 24 Jumadiyu'th-Thani 1392 (1392-6-24).

The date of Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 2 April 1972.

The date of Orthodox Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 9 April 1972.

The date of Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent) on your birth year was Wednesday 16 February 1972.

The date of Whitsun (Pentecost Sunday) in the year of your birth was Sunday 21 May 1972.

The date of Whisuntide in the year of your birth was Sunday 28 May 1972.

The date of Rosh Hashanah in the year of your birth was Saturday, 9 September 1972.

The date of Passover in the year of your birth was Thursday, 30 March 1972.

The date of Mardi Gras on your birth year was Tuesday 15 February 1972.

As of 8/5/2007 4:31:47 AM EDT

You are 35 years old.

You are 420 months old.

You are 1,827 weeks old.

You are 12,783 days old.You are 306,796 hours old.You are 18,407,791 minutes old.You are 1,104,467,507 seconds old.

Celebrities who share your birthday:
Kajol (1975)
Adam Yauch (1964)
Patrick Ewing (1962)
Maureen McCormick (1956)
Loni Anderson (1946)
Neil Armstrong (1930)
John Huston (1906)

Top songs of 1972
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by Roberta Flack
Alone Again (Naturally) by Gilbert O'Sullivan
American Pie by Don McLean
Without You by Nilsson
I Can See Clearly Now by Johnny Nash
A Horse with No Name by America
Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me by Mac Davis
Me and Mrs. Jones by BillyPaul
The Candy Man by Sammy Davis, Jr.
Lean On Me by Bill Withers

Your age is the equivalent of a dog that is 5.00313111545988 years old. (You're still chasing cats!)
There are 366 days till your next birthdayon which your cake will have 36 candles.Those 36 candles produce 36 BTUs,or 9,072 calories of heat (that's only 9.0720 food Calories!) .You can boil 4.11 US ounces of water with that many candles.

Your birthstone is Peridot -->The Mystical properties of Peridot
Peridot is used to help dreams become a reality.Some lists consider these stones to be your birthstone. (Birthstone lists come from Jewelers, Tibet, Ayurvedic Indian medicine, and other sources) ardonyx, Diamond, Jade.

Yur birth tree is oplar, the Uncertainty
Looks very decorative, no self-confident behaviour, only courageous if necessary, needs goodwill and pleasant surroundings, very choosy, often lonely, great animosity, artistic nature, good organiser, tends to philosophy, reliable in any situation, takes partnership serious.

There are 142 days till Christmas 2007! Tere are 155 days till Orthodox Christmas! he moon's phase on the day you wereborn was waning crescent.

My baby

Turned 4 today ! Wow he's so big suddenly,

no longer going to the creche and all ready

for school after the summer holiday.

We're invited lot's of friends for a fun lu'au tommorow in Lilo & Stitch style complete with lei's, grass skirts, a pool, lot's of fruit ice cream and a BBQ (unfortunately a LOT of people are on holiday but I'm sure it will be a blast anyway!).

A fun new dutch dare

This is such a fun subject, Our hairdo's, we can all laugh about ourselves it must be said ! I love making this but more because of the subject then the lo, the top was made in no time but the rest took me forever ..... Oh well, check out the whole version and what the rest made, they are too funny !

We're Baaaaaack !

And here is a quick post to sum up our holiday in Turkey, (I will post more about it later this week) : Relaxing, 20 min daily runs, great food, great climate, pooltime, ear infections, friendly people, great jeans, great choice of hotel, sleep deprivation, ear drops, games, books, hamman scrub & massage and a hospital .....

Oh and here's a quick lo I made for the Dutch Dare that was posted during our little holiday, totally loved working with these photo's from a fun park ! Check out what the rest of the girls did with our challenge : "A bow long bent at last waxes weak" ("De boog kan niet altijd gespannen zijn").

Offline for 12 days of fun in the sun !

You Should Wear A Black Bikini

You're too sophisticated to be a typical beach bunny...But you may need a bikini to wear to a swanky pool party!

I have a black bikini LOL !

Your Toes Should Be Dark Red

Sexy and a little dangerous, you give off a totally vampy vibe. Your flirting style: Straight forward and seductive Your ideal guy: Powerful and a little intimidating Stay away from: Mama's boys

Hmmmm vampy ???
Not sure if Bubbah belongs into that ideal guy categorie.
Totally agree on the mama's boys, that was my 1st boyfriend.

You Are Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

You are kind, popular, and generous.You tend to be successful at anything you try.A social butterfly, you are great at entertaining a crowd. You are most compatible with strawberry ice cream.

What Flavor Ice Cream Are You?

Definately agree with choc chip, I loooove chocolate ....

I try to be that stuff not sure about the successful part though .... haha

Cards

Made a few cards for some special people and I've noticed where I like to experiment while scrapbooking I play it safe making cards LOL.

Check this out

Me and my Camera

Not only have I gotten Michael crazy about scrapbooking (we are making a holiday mini album today) but he has totally rediscovered how fun photography is, we casually mentioned we shouldn't forget to bring his camera on vacation and he hasn't left it alone since..... I asked if he wanted to share his photo's on a blog like mommy and daddy and yep, he chose his own titel and template. He will be so happy when he reads all his comments (I emailed friends and family to give them a heads up on the blog LOL).

growing up and goodbyes

I've been a bit busy uploading all the new stuff in the shop (Cherry Arte Morocco, Basic Grey Infuse and some more stuff I had lying around but hadn't gotten around to uploading.), still purging the scrapsupplies (you can't give out RAKS if you don't know what you have and what you don't want anymore, so I'm getting closer to sending those out !).

On the subject of scrapsupplies, how do you store your different chipboards ? Would love a tip on that !

Last Friday was the last day of school for all of us. The summer holiday has officially begun, although the weather makes it feel more like an autumn holiday ;)

Michael had awesome scores on his cito toets (a competence test they do every year in elementary school) and his report card was so good, there was no doubt he was going to group 3. So goodbye to kindergarden for Michael, hello grade 1 !He's growing up fast and is fighting for his position in this household as a bigger & older boy. We are trying to give him this, he gets to stay up later (actually this is usually only 15 min. longer as he needs a lot of sleep but he thinks it's way cool he get's to hang out with us in his pj's when Colin goes to bed) and we raised his bed up to the highest level (he's so into levels and points ....) and moved some furniture around so his room seems bigger now, just like him... Oh and he's totally rediscovered his camera and cannot stop taking pic's, I must say he's better at keeping it still so less blurry pic's !

Colin had his last day @ the creche today and is all ready for his holiday before he goes to kindergarden/grade 1. He's already been twice and said he wants to go to school forever, hehe that will change ;) His teacher said he had a blast, no problems and loved the part where they all sit in a circle and chat, hmmm now how come that didn't surprise us.
It was quite emotional for me this morning bringing him for the last time and I was quite stressed yesterday sorting everything out; pressies for the wonderful creche minders and the kiddies. He wanted to give the all creche minders some cakes so I bought chocolate and strawberries (which somehow he WANTED to have too as he loves telling everyone Bubbah is allergic to them) guess which one was finished off first LOL. For the kiddies we had ice cream, whipped cream and lot's of yummy stuff to decorate with. The prezzies were little wooden figures that bend (you know the kind where you push in the bottom part and they go all bendy ?) and his current fave cookies langnekken (chocolate covered sticks) in a paperbag with a fun photo and message from Colin. He had a blast and I have some great pic's to prove it, still need to be downloaded though.

Dutch Dare # 17 & new stuff

Ok some more shameless selfpromotion here, so click away if you're not curious.....

Check out our Dutch Dare # 17, was a bit of a delay with this one but well worth your wait !

Here's my sneak peak, bit clean and simple this time, if you want to see more check out the DD blog !




















I also wanted to share some supercool new products, I think we are one the first to have it in the shop in the netherlands so be sure to check it out !
Basic Grey Infuse collection and .... Autumn Leaves the french twist die cut additions !!! They are awesome really believe me can't wait to play with them !

Him & Me

I love him

He loves me

and we always will ...

It's our anniversary today 18 years (that's half my life) ago I met him in Benidorm, Spain and 5 years ago we tied the knot in Velzen, The Netherlands. We're not doing anything special today due to some circumstances beyond our control but we have a date night scheduled for tommorow !

Latin Village 2007

Had so much fun yesterday ! I was invited by my friend Martine (thanks sweetie !) to go to Latin Village for a day of fun, good music, dancing (from 15.00 till 23.00!) beautiful people and great dj's (Laidback Luke rocked the last slot @ the main stage !). We had great weather and our wellingtons (we had some cuties on) made sure the earlier rain didn't get our feet wet & muddy (typing this I'm thinking why in gods name didn't we take a pic of our feet sjeeesh....). Martine, Charmaine, Julz & Chantal thanks I had a blast !

Wonderful Imaginations

Isn't it great that kids have such great imaginations ? And boy do these parents have tooo LOL.

Theme of a summerparty @ Colin's creche was fairytales and we had the hardest time thinking up a "costume" for this. He changed his mind a few times big bad wolfe, one of the 7 goats, Little Poucet (which we were hoping since it was the easiest to realize ) but decided for the latter the night before (yeah). But... next morning guess what happened, yep he changed his mind again. He was going to be one of the 7 goats .... So how do you make a goat with about 1 hrs notice you might ask ? With imagination and some special make-up .... check this out !

Oh and then in the afternoon, we had another rush job as Michael thought it would be nice to dress up too. So when he said big bad wolfe, I suggested the puss in boots and he went for it (thank god because it was an easy one to realise), so again a little imagination and special make-up ... check this out !

GM rocks {even over 40 ! }

It's a good thing Mandy is on vacation or she'd think it's about another singer that has the initials GM (LOL) but I'm talking about George Michael of course.










Totally unexpected I was able to purchase some last minute tickets thanks to an early birthday pressie from my parents (thanks sooo much you guys you rock !) and it was the most fun I'd had at a concert in a long time (thanks for coming with me Edith and Wendy & Jos for having the patience sms'ing and waving so we could find you there LOL) .

Don't get me wrong I loved all the concerts I've seen this year so far, but this was such a party probably bcause of all the great songs that bring back so many memories ;) He had a great stage with super light effects and designs (hmm the scrapbooker in me loved that !) and he had sort of a catwalk thing going on so when he came to the front of the stage he was about 7 mtrs away, the funny thing was it looks so close but when we made a pic it looked so far ....
Not too happy about his last cd though, bit too disco ? but his fab voice makes up for that. And btw I just love how he dances, yes I cannot help it I have a bit of a crush on a gay guy .....



Tommorow I'll share some scrapping I've been doing, mainly cards (my little brother turned 19 this week) for some special people and a little project for Michael's school (that I HAVE to do tonight as it's teachers day tommorow where they celebrate all the b'days in one day).

Oh and we moved the dutch dares up a week due to some other things going on but wanted to keep you busy in the meantime so check this out !

My Favorites part I

I'm a cream freak you all know .... I should probably scrap this soon ;)

But I'd love to share my favourites with you since Revlie was so happy with one that I gave to her as a mommy gift when we visited last (which was #2).

1. I've had this tube an eternity b'cause it does last a long time, except the tube is looking really nasty (EA should really work on that material :( ...) and you probably have heard of this wondercream (used by make up artists as lip gloss) it works like magic on everything: Elizabeth Ardens 8 Hour Cream

Description: This skincare classic helps to soothe, restore, soften and protect chapped, dry or mildly irritated skin. It aids in the temporary relief of chapped lips, smoothes rough spots on your knees, feet and elbows and softens tough, hard cuticles and hangnails. Dermatologist, clinically and allergy tested. For all skin types.



2. Second favorite, I use it on my hands and feet, nice cocoa smell before I go to sleep LOL... Palmers Cocoa Butter Formula Cream





Description: Palmer's Cocoa Butter Formula Cream with Vitamin E, Softens & Relieves Rough, Dry Skin. Helps smooth and blend unattractive marks and scars. Tones skin. It is an excellent all-over-the-body moisturiser and after tanning butter. Recommended for stretch marks, during and after pregnancy.

3. A new favorite, using it for my dry feet instead of palmers and is working even better !! I might have to bump this one up a spot except the price is keeping me from that haha maybe I'll make this a summer favorite as my feet are much dryer in the summer than in the winter..... : Boots Mediterranean Olive, Sage, Almond Wonderbalm







Description: Capture the essence of the Mediterranean using this blend of ORGANIC and wholesome ingredients to produce a simple, healthy beauty recipe for dry and rough areas of the skin. Softening Olive oil, Nourishing and soothing Almond oil, Fragrant and calming Sage oil.


4. And last but not least, something in my first aid kit (a tupperware box filled with all kinds of creams and band aids) and in my purse : Melagel from Melaleuca



Description : Moisturize bug bites and scrapes with the soothing power of MelaGel. The natural beeswax in MelaGel creates a breathable "bandage" that moisturizes skin where you need it most. Plus, when you put Melaleuca Oil on first, the staying power of MelaGel keeps the natural healing oil in contact with your skin. We also added wheat germ oil, an antioxidant with vitamin E that helps attract water to your skin and keep it hydrated. Finally, MelaGel’s cocoa butter lubricates your skin and works to keep skin moisturized with the added vitamins A and D3. A must for every first aid kit or medicine cabinet, MelaGel comes in a convenient tube and pocketsize disk.

5 ???. And the next on my list to purchase is this, I've wanted to try it ever since I saw it on Oprah (which was a while ago) and I couldn't find it in the Netherlands or someone who could buy it for me in the states. But I've found the supplier in the Netherlands and I will be ordering it this week so I'll let you know how I like it soon ! One Minute Manicure

Description: exfoliates, reconditions and moisturizes the skin with a premium blend of botanically-based oils and triple-milled Dead Sea Mineral Salts.

Now you don't have to be a cream freak but I'm sure you have your own little wondercream (I know oriflame has a good one too ...) or other favorites please share them so I can be addicted even more ;)

Rak Addresses

OK y'all I'm almost ready to start making those RAKS but I still don't have all your addresses ....
So if you still would like some of my old scrapstuff and your name is listed below because you nominated someone or wanted a RAK all for you very own so please Kerry Davis, Tineke email me so I know where to send it ! ?