My sister still is in the hospital. Just got of the phone with her and the contractions are still there. They are now going to discuss if it is wise to already give the baby a shot for his lungs to ripe. We only can wait now and pray(thank you for all your prayers!). Here is one of my favorit shot of them from my pregnancy shoot with them:
Meanwhile I went to get a new haircut this morning. It was soooooooooooooooo much needed. Normally I always go to this hairdresser, but the day before we went to Italy, this last summer, I wanted to get my hair cut and there was no spot open with them, so i went to another hairdresser instead.............wrong choice! Seriously the haircut was terrible and for the past few months I have been wearing bandana's and hats to cover it up. But no longer!: In my face or.... out my face :) I love it, love the color and the back is short.
Here is a mini-album that was a class i did in Italy this year:
Just got a call from my mom that my sister is in the hospital with contractions every 5 minutes. She is almost 34 weeks pregnant now so it is still too soon for the baby to come. They are now monotoring her for two hours to see if it progresses. Please pray that my little nephew stays a little while longer in her tummy, thank you!
***Want to give a HUGE THANK YOU towards Nicole and Mary for getting me the UB Funkeys toys for my kids, I know they will LOVE it!***
What a week it has been. I have been entertaining my kids non-stop, or so it feels, the past week and I am done, my head feels very heavy and I really am in desperate need of some me-time....which is now impossible since I still have so many things to do at home, for my DH bussiness,groscery's, etc, bleh!!! Hopefully next week things get back to normal again.
Here are a LOT of pictures from the past week, to start with the Circus: this last one I find it to be one of the best because of the colors of the light. this came straight out of my camera.
Next stop was Lego Hell...uhm I mean World ;) Anthony building with Lego. Danielle with Colin. D do not call me next year if you are planning to go. I still can't believe you liked it and even may go back next year.
Yesterday we went to a pumkinpick and it was really a lot of fun. I actually never did it before so for me this was a new experience as well.
Talk soon!
Corinnexxx
Oh almost forgot!: Check this out, Jessica Spraque(www.jessicaspraque.com) is giving away a totally free workshop. I love her work so I already signed up.
Ok so I did mention before we are having a new thing at our home, called UB Funkeys, well I am hoping one of my USA blogreaders can help me out with the following. At K-MART they are selling unique only made fo K-MART funkeys and we do not have any K-MART's in the Netherlands. So I was wondering if someone is willing to get me these if they are still available:
and this one:
Please email me first if you have seen them at your local K-MART before you buy them for me(I just need 1 of each :) I can pay you by paypal. THANK YOU!!!
These will make wonderful gifts for Sinterklaas(Dutch Santa Claus) for my kids.
When I said: "yes, sure that sounds like fun" to my friend Danielle when she asked me to go to Lego World with our kids. We(my mom, me and the kids) left at 7.30 than after 15 minutes we had to drive back since I forgot the tickets(thank god I remembered that when we were still close at home). There was a lot of traffic on the route and instead of driving 1.40 minutes over it, we drove 3,5 hours over the same distance with a child who was having diarrhea and we had to stop at every gas station....sigh and I thought that was bad already. We got there at 11 and when we were in 10 minutes max I immediately wanted to turn around and go home again. It was soooooo crowded with people that
A. you couldn't see a thing. There was lots to see but it was too crowded with not only children but a lot of adults as well. Jadenn is small and he got a lot of pushes and bags against his head, poor thing. B. It was bloody hot, so I was sweating like an ox, bleh! C.There were building contests, but hardly any room to stand and most of the bricks were gone already(still the kids build some pretty cool things :), they loved that). D. Prizes were very high compared to what they are in stores and on-line E. did I already mentioned there were way too man people? F. Daniele and I hardly saw each other :( ( sorry Daan, hopefully thursday will be better.)
There was also a Jetix party going on with a lot of famous singers for the kids. I actually liked that, but we only could see 3 songs before we had to drive back. We drove back in 1.40 minutes so no traffic jam, yeah. My head is still throbbing from all of it. I need to crash on the couch, like now. I never ever go there again. That there are people actually liking to go there every year is something I could never understand, like I said NEVER again!
Kids had a great day though although we hardly did anything, they liked it and that is what counts, right?
Yesterday we went to the circus......yes we have a busy week planned....yeah ... I always love the circus. It was a nice circus, not great, but nice acts. Made lots of pics today and yesterday but I am too tired to edit any of them so you have to wait till tomorrow, sorry.
He was amazing again. Last night I went to see Derek Ogilvie again, now with my mom, sister and BIL. Like I said before not only Derek is an amazingly good medium he also has a wonderful pure/sweet and funny personality. We didn't get a reading and honestly I didn't go there to get a reading, I just love to see him work with the spirits who are coming through. I have been questioned why I am going to a medium as I also believe in God. I understand that some people think of mediums as people who work with the devil(believe me, my BIL and SIL are one of them because of their faith), I never have understood this because it is one of the most beautifullest things I have ever seen or have done. For the people who didn't know this yet, I am a medium myself as well and although I am not doing anything with it actively( I first want to get my life into balance) right now I do have people who come onto my path that I can help and for a lot of people it is a turning point in their grief proces. So I am a woman of God and a medium and I believe things can work together very well. (If you have any questions about this just email me)
Here is a clip of the finale of the show where you can see, that besides being a wonderful medium, he is also a very good singer(stop the music on my blog before you listen to this)
And afterwards he is taking a lot of time to sing books, make pictures etc which can take hours and hours. He will not leave untill every one has left.
I had my camera with me and when he saw my camera he said it was the best camera he had seen so far and than he asked to the girl who took the pics to keep shooting and the 'inner corinne' came out of him too, lol, seriously he started posing like this! Will soon make a lo with these shots:
Here is a lo I made with some new hambly and American Crafts. It is about my last journey weekend. Next week will be a busy one, the kids are at home so me and my mom have planned many things to do with them, lego world, circus, pumkin picking, swimming.
is the name of the dutch movie I went to last night with two friends of mine. It is a Dutch movie and so far it was the best Dutch movie that I ever have seen. It was AMAZING! If you are in Holland go see it I would say and if they are playing it in in other countries as well in special movie theathers go see it, you will so love it!
My sweet friend Jo-Anne received such great news that I want to give her a HUGE congratulation from here!!!
What else is new...oh I got a toot for the February CK, totally unexpected since I submitted this lo such a long time ago and I hardly ever submit these days :)
I want to scrap some more today :) Hope to share stuff soon!
is the amazing new kit from SIStv and I got to play with it , yeah! I also happen to do a challenge on their tutorial and challenge blog which was so much fun as well! Go check it out and participate I would love to see what you do with it. You can link your lo here. Have fun with it! This is what I made: and this is another lo and card made with the kit: Of to play with the kids. We have a new addictions called UB funkeys..........seriously I love it and we here in Holland have just started with the first edition and I already noticed that in America they have more editions, yeah!
I just loved the sunlight in these last two photo's.
Derek Ogilvie was of the hook again! me and my party(marcia, angela and leila) didn't get a reading, instead I ended up giving a young girl a reading :), same happened last time I went. Hopefully my BIL will get a message next week, he really hopes to hear something.
I made almost 500 photo's of my sister yesterday. Tomorrow she is 31 weeks pregnant and it was time to capture this amazing period in her life. So I drove 2 hours up there to do 4 hours of photography and I am just checking things at home and maybe out of the 500 shots I took 10 are not usable, 10!!! They were both so photogenic! Here are just 4 of the 500: LOL!
Important message!!! On the 16th of November(Sunday) I am teaching for free at a benefit Scrapping for cancerwhere all the money that is raised is for cancer research. I will be doing a workshop called 'Ode aan de vrouwen'(Ode to all woman) with lots of new American Crafts, who were so generous to sponsor his all. I know that the Scrap-a-ganza is in the seem weekend but I hope when you haven't made any plans yet you come buy to take one of the workshops, make and takes and do some shopping, knowing you are contributing to a good cause. When I have my products in I will post a sneak peek! If you want to sign up email p.boekhout@theheartofscrap.nl or check the link in my 'agenda' section on the left side. Cancer is something that has affected my loved ones and for me this is important to support, hope you feel the same way :)
MORE OLW challenge blog is looking for two new designers and for a moment or two I was very much tempted to go for it since I LOVE those challenges so much. BUT I had to listen to my head instead of my heart and I decided not to go for it, although I made the lo :) with the word More.
Tonight I am going to see Derek Ogilvie again, a famous Medium. Such a funny and kind man. Tonight I am going with 3 friends and next week i am going again with my mom and my sister and BL. If you are interested to see him as well visit his websitebecause he is doing a tour through holland soon and might be coming close to you.
