The life of a Dutch Scrapper

busy, busy,

Yes I have been very busy yesterday. First of all it was Koninginnedag/Queensday in our country. This means the stores are closed and many people can sell there stuff on the street. It is always very busy with LOTS of people so we always leave very early in the morning to avoid the huge crowds. I was looking for ribbon and buttons but only was very lucky in the button department! got all these for about 2 dollars!!!

we had lunch and we went to see Robin, the son of my nephew who died not so long ago. He turned 12 last week and I am happy to report that my aunt and uncle, his grandparents still can see him.

Also got an early call that my friends delivered their baby!(the pregnant couple form the photoshoot). It is a baby girl!!! Cheyenne is her name. Nobody expected it to be a girl, we all thought it was for sure going to be a boy, so it was a big surprise to all. She looks so beautiful and so wise with her big eyes wide open en looking around. She is not even 24 hours on these pictures, lovely isn;t she?

and more good news. DH said I should go look for what camera I want! well have any tips I know I want/need a Canon, but which one?

have a great day and pray for me that I get some scrapping done!

corinnexxx

Oh yeah almost forget to tell you that I am booked for one of Elsies workshops! thanks to all the people who emailed me about it and Nancy thank you for your help even if it didn;t turn out the way you thought, lol!(you know what I mean!)

tagged

I was tagged by my sweet friend wendy :

5 things...

In my fridge:

1. Cola light, I can't do with out it!
2. Cheese, Dutch, French,Greek, Italian you name it we deliver!
3. MY fruit in a bottle, drink it each day , I am too lazy to actually eat an apple or banana!
4. Mayonaise, My addiction, can;t do with out it and it is so not good for my diet!
5. yoghurt my breakfast, it is a light version, lol.

In my closet:

1. Clothes, clothes and more clothes!
2. Kids clothes waiting for the summer to come out of there.
3. Bags, belts, scarfs
4. a lot of clothes hangers with no clothes on them, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmhhh?
5. my dh work clothes. so yes basicly clothes in my closet, like it should be I think.

In my purse:

1. My agenda, can;t life with out it!
2. Make-up, not that I put it on my face a lot, usually I forget to do it till I look into a mirror and quikly put some on. iek!
3. Creditcards, banque cards, a lot of cards!
4. Receipts
5. Pens

In my car:

1. Cd's, Josh Stone at the moment and Tasha's worls, what a great voices!
2. My TomTom, takes me everywere!
3. Candywraps from the kids, forget to take them out every time.
4. A Double DVD-player to get the kids with us when we need to drive for a while.
5. a roadmap, that I don;t need no more because of my TomTom.

well thats it people, nothing more nothing less, If you want to do this tag go ahead, enjoy yourself!

I have been creative but it was for someone else so can;t show it, sorry!

but I will not leave you with out a look at a new lo that I made with the RP stuff that I got. I made this one at Anita's house when we had our DT crop form Scrap-club. I like how it turned out. for the journaling you have to look on 2 peas later today.

corinnexxx

new lay-outs!

soem new lo;s that I made for Scrap-club with there May kit!

My niece is coming over any minute now so this will be a quick entry, sorry! hope you have fun today!

Wanted to congratulate my scrapfriend Florence with her new son Christiaan!

corinnexxx

a dork! I am such a dork!

Tonight was the night we could all sign up for the Elsie workshop in September. I have been waiting for this for a while now and even wrote it down in my agenda. Can you believe that I totally forgot it! I missed it! and now it is all booked. man I can kick my own butt for this if I was a bit more flexible.

We had Suzanne over this evening (the home-trainer for Anthony) so I blame her! Well the good news is that is is going great with our little man. He has improved so much in just 4 weeks time that she doesn;t have to come anymore. It was the quickest one she had done ever! we are fast learners! I really can see that we all are changing and reacting differently towards each other and it feels so good, as things finally come together for us. So , so what if I missed the workshop I have a good family, that counts for something doesn't it. Sorry have to get my spirit up..............it is not working, darn.

well maybe this one works: I have made it through round 8 in the Scrapbook survivor contest, YEAH!! so happy about that one, I love a good challenge. Can;t wait to see the next one.

I am going to scrap my pittifulness away. If any of you Dutchies can;t go to her workshop think of me please!

corinnexxx

Tygo and a dare

here is the promised effer dare from this week! going freestyle all the way!

will be posting this later on 2 peas so you can read the journaling. You can see it here .

This handsome little boy is Tygo. Tygo was born 10 weeks to early and nearly made it to stay alive. Since than he made up for it and has grown into a strong big boy who turned one last fryday. His parents ask me if I wanted to make a few pictures of him and of course I wanted to do this. This kid has amazing blue eyes, but the pics are in black and white because they really wanted that. Tell me what you think of them!? the last one isn;t really sharp but they loved it.

corinnexxx

A scrap get together

Yesterday 4 of the Scrap-club DT members and the owner were getting together to crop for the whole day! So had to get up early since I had to drive 2 hours to get to Anita's house. Luckily for me I had to pick up Monique at the train station so I had good companion along the way.

It was a wonderful day and I scrapped 2 lo's that I probably will post later on. I am very happy with them. One is the new effer dare. I have always loved the dares but due to lack of time I just couldn't do them anymore. But since I am FREE I will start doing them again. I went freestyle yesterday and love how it turned out.

Ofcourse we took some grazy pictures in the playground! and I am waiting anita to get them so I can work with them!

well it is a lovely day with lots of sunshine so I think we will go to the beach.

have fun today!

corinnexxx

PS: thanks everyone for your helpfull comments yesterday!

forgot to mention

the fact that Anthony's home-trainer/sort of a nanny specialized in childeren with a disorder, told me that she wants him to be tested again. She thinks he might have ADHD also next to the PDD-NOS. SHe might be right, poor kid. She asked me how I felt about the idea of giving him medication for his concentration and I have to say I am always very against any medication. But I talked to her and to his teachers and they told me thay have childeren that use medication that do so well by it, so much more better than before that I am starting to doubt. Who am I to not give my child what might be helping him to maybe become more stable, more in focus so his self-esteem might be growing because of it. I am still confussed, because I know of the sight effects of medications. But the question that keeps returning in my mind is: what if....., what if it will really help Anthony?

We will first wait on the outcome of the test and than we have to make a decision. Bleh why has life has to be so difficult!?

on the other note, this morning DH was talking to Anthony about the fact that he was so darn proud of him that he has changed so much lately. He asked Anthony if he thought that this had to do with Suzanne(home-trainer), but he sayed no, it is because of mommy.................aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh just melted my heart. My desicion of being o SAHM is already such an impact on our lifes for the better.

corinnexxx

Scrapbook survivor I....

did it again! Finished my lo finally! A HUGE thank you to my friend Anita for helping bring back my MOJO! I already had a completly different lo in mind and just had this feeling of it not being good enough over me all the time, but I just couldn't come up with a better idea, completly blocked!

So yesterday on MSN I was talking to Anita about the journaling for the lo I send to her. (She is a English teacher and me being quite good at English do make lots of mistakes, lol, so she is always checking my text before it goes on a lo!). I asked her what do you think of it? She said well do you want nice or honest? LOL....Honest ALWAYS! she said she liked it but that I could do better than that. So we brainstormed on MSN and today I made the lo and this is the end result:

Hope you like it as much as I do. It is about my first day being a SAHM and how I felt yesterday. I will ad a link to the 2 peas gallery later so you can check out the journaling. here it is

The assignment was to use 50 of the same products. I used chipboard since I so love chipboard. Heidi Swapp i love you for putting the glue on the back for me, big timesaver!

So cross your fingers for me and check out Cheryl's blog tonight or tomorrow to see the lo's that the other contestants made.

corinnexxx

I am free!

at last! lol. Well yesterday I was littarly doing nothing at work, cleaning up my stuff and taking pictures of course. Tonight is my official goodbye party with my team since we had a teamparty anyway. we are going to a soap diner. You get a role and have to act the whole night, lol and even have to dress up for the role. luckily for me I won't have to dress up to much.

So didn;t get the BH sketch call and I must say I was dissapointed this time, lolol. No realy I so loved my lo. will share it later or maybe sent it to a dutch magazine to look at.Will be busy with my scrapbook survivor lo today. Have the text already and the idea in my mind but still not sure if it will be creative enough. oooh I made my first digi lo with my own brushed. I made the background paper the red one myself with a brush I also made myself and the little monkey is a brush too! I learned how to make them by Jessica's blog go check her blog out she is one of the new HOFers and she is just amazing with PHS! here it is, it is quite simple so don't flame me, lol!

have to go to start my day!

corinnexxx

I just love

to take photo's! I took almost 200 today!!! I must be nuts! and I figured out I truly need a better camera. So have to save, something I am not that good at!

here are a few favourits from today:

Anthony in the woods, because that is were we went to allmost all day.

I took a picture of myself. DH said when he saw this, who is she? lol....phs can do a lot!

Jadenn playing with a stick....no I made the heart! thought it would be funny.

I just love this picture of us and think is such a shame anthony didn;t wanted to join us, would have made such a nice family portret. also made a black and white conversion tell me what is better?

I will be posting this today instead of tomorrow since I have to work early. MY LAST DAY OF WORK!!!!!!! Yahoooooooooo I am so excited to leave can you tell!?

have to get in front of the TV to watch temptation island, do you know that? Very stupid but oh so funny to watch!

corinnexxx