The life of a Dutch Scrapper

Today is the last day

that you can donate for Ali's cause on SixDegrees and guess what!!! INTERNATIONALS CAN DONATE NOW TOO!!! If you have paypal and if you haven't but you have a credit-card it is so easy to set an account up, please do.

So, no more excuses that you can't pay the 10 dollars(or more of course) since you do not know anyone from the USA, you, yes YOU can make a change yourself TODAY!

***edited*** Yesterday I read this comment on Ali's blog and it meant so much too me:

Whoa - so many responses! I've been reading you blog for a few weeks now, and I thought it was great, about your badge. BUT, I didn't donate. Why? you may ask? I thought, I don't have autistic children. Autism has not touched my life.

And then.

And then, I read this, on a friends website:

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First, they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Communist.

Then, they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I am not Jewish.

Then, they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I am a Protestant.

Then, they came for me, and there was no one left to speak up for me.
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That made my jaw drop. I immediately thought of you, your family, and how hard you are working for the things you believe in. I'm off to donate to your totally awesome badge, so I can help be a voice for Simon, for so many other children, that someday they may be a voice for others.

The end is tonight, for us Dutchies around 6 on Sunday morning, so do not hesitate too long.

A big THANK YOU from me and my family for everyone who participates for this cause.

Corinnexxx

Feeling better,

a little bit. Still snotty but I can deal with that!

Ok I have had you waiting long enough so I will show you some of the things that I made a while back and one new lo for cherryArte, but let me first start with the sneak peek of the album I will be teaching on April 7th in Hoofddorp for Memorylane Scrapbooking , there are just a few spots left so if you want to play along hurry up and make sure you have a spot!

Sneak peeks of the morning workshop will follow soon, but that one is cool as well hehe.

Ok here is the cherryArte lo with my own line of paper:

and these are a couple lo's that I made a while ago:
 








READ THIS ONE! click on it to enlarge it!

Corinnexxx   

One out of 150

children get it. What? Autism. My son Anthony is one of them. So is Ali's son Simon. Ali is raising money for Autism Speaks through this organization called SixDegrees. For only 10 Dollar you can make a HUGE difference, yes you heard me right, just 10 dollars(even less in euro's!).As foreigners we can't donate but we can get someone we know in the USA donate for us and pay them through paypal or such. You see it doesn't matter how much or how many times you donate, since one will only count but you see there is such a great thing attached to this. If Ali wins this race and is the number one badge on March 31, she will get 10.000 dollars on top of the money she already raised. A lot of children like Anthony and Simon can be helped this way in such a good way. You can donate by clicking on Ali's badge on her blog.

So if you do donate I thank you from the bottom of my heart, because think about it, your child could also be one out of 150. And if your child is not, consider yourself very lucky.

Thank you!

Corinnexxx

Sick!

****IMPORTANT FOR FINDING YOU MEMBERS: I emailed you all an invite to the yahoo group that your in so check your emails or your junkmail or else email me when it didn't work or you haven't received it yet! Also save the following email address since this will be the one you will be receiving all your weekly emails my email [email protected] under: For the Dutch group: Finding YOU NLD and for the English group it will be Finding YOU ENG. I will send out an test email to see if it works. Mail me when you have not got it!***

Feeling sicker and sicker every day now, bleh! In the morning I wake up feeling not so good but not that bad either. In the evening it's a whole different ballgame, i than really feel sick, can't even eat(which really says I am sick!)

So hardly new stuff to show you, will show you a new lo on Friday that I made for cherryArte.

Corinnexxx

Fun Weekend!

***FOR THE PEOPLE FOLLOWING MY WORKSHOP SCROLL DOWN TO READ PREVIOUS POST!***

Such a fun weekend with the kids. We went bowling yesterday which was so much fun and I will post a few pics when I have edited them. These are a few other pictures taken during the weekend:

Hmmmm well this one was from last weekend!


Naomi, BIL daughter, who also took the next three pictures.

Lots to do the next 2 weeks, making stuff for mags, workshops and DT's, all fun but sometimes it feels like no play, so I hope I can start my mixed media project that I have in my head soon!

Corinnexxx

Reminder

I have send out a payment reminder to a few of the people who signed up for my online class, please check your email or Junkmail. If you decide that you do not want to take the workshop at this point let me know so I can start emailing people on the waiting list, thank you!

Corinnexxx

Something to show you

***EDITED: good picture posted now!

finally, lol. I am working like crazy to get ahead of my schedule, and so far I finished two lo's, not that much huh?! This is one of it for American Crafts. It is with the new papers, big brads and foam flowers and of course some thickers! Stickers are from Making Memories. The other one is super freestyle and is fro Scrap Magazine so can't show it yet, sorry!


Corinnexxx

Feeling sick and my word for 2007

which was time management. I do not feel good, I do hope I do not get any flu since I so do not need that right now, simply do not have the time for it. I need to make a list, make priority's etc, making my time management working again. Lots of things are changing in me. It actually all started when I connected with my self again on Christmas eve and it hasn't stopped since. I am changing and I am living my workshop already which is amazing to see and to become more and more aware of everything. I so can't wait to get started April first!!

I haven;t been able to create anything new and I haven;t even found one minute to sit down and edit some of my pictures from Toulouse, which I so want to do.

Ok enough of the complaining, life is fun and i just need to make my time management work again!

Corinnexxx

Finding YOU Update

BOTH GROUPS ARE FULL!

If you want to be sure to have a place in the one that I am doing in September(same workshop) Let me know since I already started a waitinglist. These people will get an email to sign up as one of the first, again also in September Full is Full!

I had such a busy day, a birthday and I was busy with my mini-album that I will be teaching on the 7th of April for www.memorylanescrapbooking.nl , there are still a few places left so hurry up, hehe!

Ok need to go , hope i find some time this week to edit some pictures and post them here.
Oh yeah, huge congrats to all the HOF winners!

Corinnexxx

I'm back!

First a little message to my friends from France:

bonjour mes amis de France ! Je veux vous remercier pendant un week-end merveilleux ! ! J'espère être de retour bientôt ! Je t'aime tous !

(www.translate.google.com) works wonders hehe!

Ok where shall I begin?! Maybe with the beginning, duh!

I woke up at 5.30 on Friday, my plain left at 9.30. I was sick during the flight, since I just can't stand the take off and the landing of the plain, also my ear was really hurting and my hands were sleeping(can you see me grabbing my ear and waving my hands like crazy already!? hehe)

Mauri and Céline came to pick me up and we drove to her house, which was stunning!!!!  I never met her before and here she was offering me a place to stay during my weekend in Toulouse. She and her husband Chris were such amazingly sweet people and I am so thankful to have found a new friend, love you Mauri and thank you for everything!!
this is Mauri and her house:

In the afternoon we went to do some sight-seeing in Toulouse. I took 250 pictures so I think I do not have to tell you how I feel about this gorgeous place. If you are ever able to go there, please do, you won't be disappointed!(will show pictures later!)

On Saturday and Sunday we were giving workshops and there were 46 woman taken them during the weekend. I was blown away by the workshops Céline and Karine came up with, I felt like mine was just a simple thing compared to their wonderful stuff, lol! I got to do all of the workshops that they gave and have learned so much new and excited things! One or two of them I will be teaching on April 7th in the morning(more information: www.memorylanescrapbooking.nl , de beschrijving kan wat anders worden daar ik niet van te voren wist wat we gingen doen in Frankrijk, dus houd het in de gaten eind deze week komen er sneak peeks op!)

The woman were all amazing and I so loved to see how they scrapped and made my class and the others their own. They were all very welcoming and friendly and even though some couldn't speak English they all made me feel very welcome. On Saturday it was Céline's Birthday and in the evening the whole group went to eat together. She was surprised with a very cool creative gift and Karine and I got a gift as well, which I SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO LOVE!! This is what I got:
I can see you drooling already, I know I was!!! This is one of the coolest gifts I ever got!

I had to leave on Sunday afternoon and the flight went well till the end where we had some turbulence and I got feeling sick again.

I have today all for myself since the kids and Ray are still at Centerparcs where they have been having a wonderful time! I did miss them and they me but I am very thankful to be able to have experienced this!

Will post more later, have to unpack things! Will leave you with a picture that Céline made of me, which I really like:

corinnexxx