The life of a Dutch Scrapper

Last post of the year.

This year has gone by before I noticed it. Lots of things happened, some good, some sad. Tonight I will be celebrating the end of this year and welcoming the new year with all it's good and hopefully not too many sad things. I have lots of plans for this upcoming year and I feel like I am at a changing point in my life and that is good.

As promised here are the recipe's for the carrot cake and the soesjes tower.

Carrot cake(Dutch version) you can look HERE for some great ones in English!
Ingredienten:

4 eieren losgeklopt

250 gr. basterd suiker

185 ml zonnebloem olie

300 gr cakemeel of bloem

1 theelepel zout

2 theelepels bakpoeder

1 theelepel bicarbonaat(Kun je dit niet vinden, het kan ook zonder, netzo lekker!)

2 theelepels gemalen kaneel

400 gr. wortelen geschild en geraspt

55 gr. gepelde walnoten

Glazuur:

180 gr. zachte boter

250 gr poedersuiker

180 gr. roomkaas

3 druppeltjes vanille extract

Doen:

oven voorverwarmen op 180 graden. Bakvorm 24 cm insmeren met boter. Klop de eieren met suiker to romige massa en roer er dan olie door. Zeef bloem met bakpoeder en bicarbonaat en de kaneel. Voeg dit bij eimengsel en roer erdoorheen. Voeg wortelen en walnoten toe, snel mengen met electrische mixer. Spatel het beslag in bakvorm, bak ongeveer 1 uur. De taart moet fors zijn gerezen, laat iets afkoelen dan omkeren op bord. Terwijl taart in oven staat maak je het glazuur. Vermeng de boter met poedersuiker, eerst met houten lepel vervolgens met garde tot de massa stijf is, roer er dan snel de roomkaas en vanille extract door. Als de taart is afgekoeld, verdeel je het glazuur over de bovenkant. Het hoeft niet glad, piekjes staan leuk. KLAAR!!!

Soesjes tower.

I have no idea if you have these soesjes outside the Netherlands or not, but these came frozen(yes I am so lazy!) from the Liddle(store). When they are unfrozen you spray some whip cream on a plate and put a few of them on it. On them you spray some more whip cream and this way you build layers, really easy. When your done, you have the tower. Take some liquid chocolate and use how much you like on top of everything. more whip cream and some hazelnuts already sliced into small pieces. Done! So fast and so good!

This lo I made for the first Scrap-Art-Zine.

Happy New year to all of you and thank you all for all your wonderful emails and comments on my blog, means a lot to me!

Corinnexxx

This is one

of my favorite lo's. It tells a story about my father and my DH and two little birds. I think if you click on it it will be bigger so you can read it all.

This story didn't ended that well. There was a little mirror glued on the top that when you lifted it you could see the inside of the birdhouse. We think that the sun made the glue soft or something like that because it fell on the eggs. The were not broken, but we never saw the birds again. DH was heartbroken by this, we all loved looking at them. We already have seen them again just a few weeks ago and they even went into the birdhouse. hopefully they will return to have some baby birds in there.

This lo has been published by Creating Keepsake in their Annual ideabook from this year.

Corinnexxx

Happy B-day...

to my friend Florence who turned 34 today!
It was meant to be a surprise that a few of her friends were coming over, but her son spoiled the fun in the morning by saying very softly: A few of your "Knutselvriendinnen(craft friends) are coming to you today, LOL!!! A well it was fun anyway. I took some pics of the delicious carrot cake that her DH made. I will share this recipe and the dessert one soon!
I also made her a lo:

corinnexxx

Somehow relaxing

were the last two days. We were spoiled with presents, had wonderful food and were in good company. I cooked for two days and even that went great! Made a carrot cake for desert and that is just my favorite cake ever thanks to Flo for giving me the recipe.

here are a few pics from the last few days:

My Guys!

So love this picture that I made of my grandmother.

DH

The look of pure joy!

Jadenn got another monster hat and a monster hand-puppet.

Dessert! MMMMMMMMHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Well that is a short recap. Hopefully I will be able to scrap some new stuff in the upcoming days.

Corinnexxx

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

To everyone!
We just had our Christmas breakfast with fresh orange juice and Crossaints and warm bread, mmmmhhhhh!

Christmas started for me last night. I haven't been to Church in 20 years and a few weeks back I realized I wanted to go on Christmas eve. Even though I haven't been to Church in all these years I stil believed in God and Jezus and I still did my prayers, but I lost the connection, at least that is how it felt for me. So although DH called me a hypocrite by going on Christmas eve(He doesn't believe a thing), I knew I needed to do this for me and only me. I went with one of my best friends and her parents to a wonderful church in Heiloo. It was totally packed and we were lucky to have a seat. It was wonderful and I did felt the connection with god again and I made a promise to myself that I need to work on it instead of running away from it. I experienced aonther wonderful thing there that got me all teary eyed, but I will keep that one to myself, but all I can say that I am thankful, so thankful.

We are off to go to my parents house were we will be unpacking zillions of presents(where do I put it all!!!!) and tonight I will be making diner for my parents and my grandmother too.

Again Merry Christmas to all of you and I hope it will be merry and bright for each and everyone of you!

Corinnexxx

Getting some air,

that is what I need. My nose is running and I can't breath well, oh and the icing on the cake is a wonderful dry cough, yeah just what I wished for......NOT!

Ah well...I did finish my Christmas songs album, at least the Dutch songs, think I will ad a few English ones too.SO you have seen the front, here the rest of it:

I am missing a G(Flo do you have one for me next time I see you? it's a AC one.)



And the last one is my favorite one and also my favorite Dutch Christmas song(when I was in kindergarten I had a solo in the x-mas play with this song):

The pages are made with mostly American Crafts stickers, Hambly rub-ons, paint dabbers from Ranger and my white and black pen and a few other things.

Corinnexxx

almost done!

With my Christmas shopping that is! Did almost all the grocery's this morning and I am just tired right now. Have been creative yesterday, finished a few assignments, just have to make two lo's and a mini-album by next week and than I am DONE!!!

Already got my X-mas gift from DH. Something I wanted really bad for a while now and that is a good macro lens for my camera. Dh saved so he could give it to me for X-mas.Hereby I declare my DH as the best Hubby in the world! It's a 105mm F2.8 and I just LOVE it! I tried the 50mm but this works better for me. Here are a few pictures that I took with it.

I just adore this picture of my mom. She hates to be in front of the camera.

Love this moment between the two of them.

Anthony

Jadenn(***edited: You were right Danielle Jadenn was looking strange with his cheek, so i changed it for this photo)

corinnexxx

OMG! Christmas is almost here!

And I still have lots to do!

I finally had time to make some pictures from around our house, here are a few so you get the idea:

This is a x-mas tree cookie that i made with also a lot of star cookies for Anthony's Christmas diner at school last night. He came home really sad since no one ate any of the cookies we made. For him it is the same as rejecting him. They just had so much food there for just 8 kids and this with a few other things was desert and the kids were simply stuffed and couldn't eat more. I do think that his teacher should have be more considered. Now they are going to eat the lefts over today.

These lovely ornaments I got for my b-day from my friend Birgit. I so wish I had a whole tree filled with these lovely colors but we decided to stick with the ones we already had....maybe next year!

This is our back window looking into our garden, the x-mas tree thingy Anthony made at school.

It says Christmas in Dutch and is at my kitchen window.

This is a x-mas angel I once got from a friend, I just adore this and I see I need to put a new light in it,lol.
And finally this is our tree in all it's glory:

And this is the front of my Christmas songs album. Want to finish a few more pages before I show the inside.

is is actually really big, it's 44cm x 16cm! thats17,5 inch x 6,3 inch! I used cherryArte chipboard here, White paint and over that the Paint dabbers from Ranger and the gorgeous stamps from Fontwerks

Ok need to get onto some assignments!

corinnexxx

Snotty.....

That is what we all are in our house at this moment. Luckily for me Jadenn only woke up 2 times during the night and went to sleep fast after I cuddled him. Now my troth is very sore and I still have a little headache. So nice to get sick around Christmas time....NOT!

Scrapsalad was cool. I think you need to see it for yourself to understand their concept, but I even ended up buying a non scrapbook item. Well it will be used for displaying my pages but hé!

I can't show it yet since it was meant to be as a present under the x-mas tree, so after x-mas I will!

I am working on such a cool album. I am a catholic and I sang in the church choir when I was little. I just love the Dutch x-mas songs but unfortunately I can't remember all of the words. So I googled the songs and I am now making a book with all these songs in it and I use it when I sing for my children at night. I hope to show you some of the pages this afternoon. I hope to finish it before x-mas.

Gotta get busy over here!

corinnexxx

Christmas shopping

What works better to a headache than aspirins? well doing a bit of Christmas shopping for myself at a scrap-store of course!!! I am meeting up with my friend Danielle today to go and see a new store called Scrapsalad in Hoofddorp.

Had a terrible night. Jadenn is sick and has a serious coughing thing going on. He woke up at 3 and I had to sit with him to 4....big yawn!

Well have to run!
Danielle here I come!

Corinnexxx