The new scrapbookmagazine Creatief met Foto's is out so I can show you the stuff I did for the last one. I was on the cover,which was a pleasant surprise :) well this lo was inside as well together with these: they actually used another picture of lucy for the magazine,but this was the original and I like this one.
will show you my wooden albums that I also did for that issue soon :)
Ok here are just a few pics from our vacation: And yes DH wanted to go blond before we left :)
Hmmm I see I didn't resize the rest yet, sorry, more will follow soon :)
Well let's start with today: I went to Heesch to talk about upcoming articles and pick out the products that I am going to use in my upcoming workshop there on the 12th of September, which will be a cool wooden album. Hurry if you are interested in joining because it is almost full.
On Monday I went out with one of my best friends, Regina to see Mamma Mia, the movie. We LOVED it! I had seen the musical which was sooooo good a few years ago with my mother and the movie was so well done and just as funny. And the songs brought back so many memories. Afterwards we went to sit on a terrace since it was still so warm. We had such a good time talking all evening that I totally forgot about time. I came home late and I forgot to call DH(normally I ALWAYS call that it is going to be later or that I am on my way home) and he was not too happy. I could see it came out of him worring and he admitted that the next day :)
Yesterday another good friend that we both have know for years now came over to have diner with us and it was so good to see and talk to her again.
On Friday I will meet and have diner with another old friend of mine who I also love deerly, I am so looking forward to that as well.
The reason why I am seeing more of my friends is that by talking to my therapist I became aware that I hardly had any social life. In my mind I was always too busy to meet or whatever. So that is why I maybe saw my best friends once or twice a year, truly sad if you think about it. I did talked to them on the phone(3/4 times a year hehe). Luckily I have know them for years now and everytime we meet it is like the old days again, so all is good. So this is what I promised myself. To spend more time with my friends, to get a deeper connection, to show them that I am there for them and that I care about them.
What else did I do? I finished an article, will be starting on a few more this week and next week. I played with the new Cricut Create. Another thing that I would normally never ever do. After I found out I had ADHD I also realized why I never used any scrapbooking machinery. I just couldn't focus on the text in the manual, s therefor I just said I am not a machine person :), but it is actually kind of fun to work with and the kids love it.
Remember this song? I sooooooo loved it when I was young and I was so into rab/hiphop back than. I heard it on the radio today and I was dancing in my car while driving hehe.
Want to get published? well here is your chance. I am looking for 4 lo's for the upcoming issue of ScrapMagazine for my sketch column. It is for the October/november issue so please no summer pics. No theme. I do want you to know a few things that I am looking for. * Good and sharp photo's!!!! please not too dark or too grainy. * something out of the box, which can be in design, material, technique, topic or title, surprise me! * a little bit of journaling(or more :) that is readable!! computerfont or handwriting but it has to be readable in print.
This is the sketch, you can flip it or do whatever you want with it :)
Email me your sketch max size 500kb to [email protected]. I have to check the deadline.
Changes are coming. Back in June I made a drastic decision. I decided to quit all my manufacturer DT's. American Crafts was ending anyhow in September for me and something just hit me back than. I was always looking for time to do a few projects(scrapbook and personal wise) and for years now I couldn't find any time to even get started. I was waiting till time came to me. But suddenly it was so clear to me that I was the one that had to create more time for the things that are important to me, so I did. It was a hard thing to do but it feels right. I now will be concentrating myself on my magazine work and start doing the things I always wanted to do. Don;t get me wrong, I absolutly LOVED working with these manufacturers and they were terrific to work with, I consider myself very lucky to have gotten the change to work with them, but today is a new day.
Here is one mini album that I made with maya road products. I LOVE using Ranger Alcohol ink on Maya Roads Sheer products(see card in 2 posts below): I punched three holes in the bottom of the inside pages and connected them with clear ribbon from Maya Road. This way you can slide something inside of the two pages that are now connected. More inside pages I will be uploading this afternoon in my SIStv gallery.
I booked a last minute small holiday today. We will be going to a bungalowparc for 5 days in the last week of the summer holiday. It is in the Netherlands and we are taking my DH best friend Nico with us. I will be bringing some scrapgoodies with me so I bet I will have a great time as well when the boys go swimming hehe!
I scrapbooked again! I cleaned my room a bit and played with the Girly Girl Collection from SISTV, lots of pink but I loved it! Here are the results:
and a card: and a close up:
I have been checking out some new stuff from CHA online and I fell in love with a few things: Sassafras Heather Bailey Cosmo Cricket Hambly American Crafts(of course they never fail to amaze me) Making Memories ( I have in front of me the new Falala line a Christmas line to make an article with, love it!) Pink Paisley I saw a few more things that I really liked on lifetimemoments but the site is down so i can't link it up. Hopefully soon.
ugh just typed a long post and now have to do it all over again because it is all gone, stupid computer!
OK here we go...
I feel bleh! All kind of emotions are going through me after we got back from Italy. On monday I was on the phone all morning gettings things done for Anthony. Got all the right papers, send them in and now we have to wait to see if they all can give us an answer before he goes to school.
Yesterday I finally got my diagnose(well have to get an offical one in probably 3 months from now due to the waitinglist by a phychiater) and it is as I expected ADHD. Having ADHD is effecting me more than I thought it did and I found that out while being on holiday and it frightens me and it shook me up. I am still not sure about medication, but I guess I have a couple of months to think about that one.
I feel fat....read I am fat. Gained it all back, all that I had lost and I feel terrible. I hardly took any pictures of myself with my whole figure on it during this trip and the ones that were made I deleted right away. I feel ashamed of my body of my lack of self-control and the fact that I have no discipline. I hate looking in the mirror these days, I can see it in my face that I am not happy. Stupid emotional eating stuff.
Ok enough of the poor me........there is also a very happy creative me(what would I do without her), because I can finally tell you after telling me her dream almost a year ago(if not longer) that my sweet and lovely friend Céline has started her own magazine(scrapbooking and mixed-media) in France. The first issue will come out on the first of August. I am so darn proud of her and Damian for following their dream. She asked me back than if i would wanted to be a part of her DT and of course I said YES! I so can't wait to see the first issue but I know her and it must be really, really good!
I made so many things the last few months and I feel so sad that I can;t show you much of it all yet. Well her eis something that I can show you: these two spreads were for an article I did for MCH(a dutch hobby magazine). I used Cosmo Cricket for this....love the new lines also BTW, if you haven't seen them check them out, they rock! And one about a day to the zoo
I also got the new book Fabulous Friendships from Kitty Foster and Wendy Mckeehan, truly such a wonderful ideabook! I have one lo in there as well :) you can order one yourself HERE.
Well gotta go, hopefully i can get some scrapping/editing done soon!
OMG it just hit me. Last year when I was at the final meeting for the board that didn't wanted to give Anthony permission to get into the special school we wanted him in, I said to them: what if in a couple of months his REC4 isn't approved for because he is doing to well? we will be sitting here again than. Those exact words I said back than and who knew I might be telling the truth here. All I wanted last year was getting Anthony in this special school where they had a special Autism class with 5 children in it. We didn't wanted him to get into the other school he has been to for the last few months, simple because we didn;t think he would really fit there. We thought he would be better off in the Autism class. Somehow I convinced myself that he needed to get into the new school now in the place we live that is also the same kind of school he was in now. I just realize that if they do not approve him getting his REC4 form, this probably means that he needs to get into special school again and the change that he can get into the school we wanted him to go to in the first place is a lot bigger than. Everything happens for a reason and I just need to trust that it will work out all right. I just now want to make sure that he can go to school in between and not get to be in the place again that he needs to stay home for months. that I could not approve of and I won't. Please pray with me that things will go smoothly this time around.
I was still enjoying this gorgeous view from my little window high in the sky So I didn't know what roller-coaster of emotion came over me when I got home. After checking in my email(which will take me days to go through!) I opened all the mail and we got a letter that took my breath away, literally. Before we left on our vacations we had send in a request to have Anthony his REC4 papers renewed(this is a paper he needs to stay in the type of school he is right now) and we and school send in all kinds of papers to prove he needs to be in this kind of school. Now I got a letter which dates from 2 weeks ago(2 days after we left to Italy) that they need a full phyciatric report on his diagnose from 4 years ago. I felt panic coming up right away and kept feeling restless all evening and finally had a HUGE panic attack. All the feelings from last year, the frustration, the anger, the hurt and tears all came back to me. I am so afraid that this will go wrong again. What if he doesn't get this paper, what will happen next than? His original paper end in August which will mean he can't go to his new school because they need this paper. He can't go to a normal special school because they refuse to give him that paper and he certainly can't go to a normal school. So what does this leave him, again at home? Pure panic came over me, please not the same road again as last year, please no. So tomorrow I am hanging on the phone again cause I only have 2 weeks to send it all in and let's just pray that everyone that I need to speak is not on vacation. Seriously this feels like "Nightmare on Delis street part 2".
OK............Italy :) We had a wonderful vacation. warm weather, goodfood, lots of gelato, beautiful scenery and a lot of swimming. The kids had a great time hanging at the pool and swimming in the lake. Well Jadenn didn't got in the lake until the last day because they told him there were fish in it and water snakes, which is true and the last one did make Mommy also not go into the lake. Anthony was the brave one, but one day he was swimming a bit further with his nephew on a small board and I was sleeping on the beach when I woke up from them screaming their lungs out. They both were completely panicking in the water, Anthony almost forgetting how to swim......they saw a water snake next to them, sticking his head out of the water.....iek! He never did go that far into the water again and who can blame him :)
I went to Venice with DH and my Niece and her DH. OMG that is such a beautiful place to visit!!!! I just loved it even though we didn't see halve of it. I bought a beautiful one of a kind handmade mask that I am just in love with. We didn't get into a gondel/boat, too expensive and we liked to walk through all the small streets.
We went out to diner almost every night(I did cook myself twice) and the kids went to bed late, but who cares, it is vacation, they even slept in a bit which is rare for my kids.
Anthony was great! the first few days were terrible with both kids they needed to adjust for sure, but than it went smoothly. Anthony played with other children, approached them himself even though he couldn't speak German or Italian. He cried when we left, he didn't wanted to go back to Holland knowing that he didn;t had much friends here to play with, my heart cried for him.
There was lots of family there including my parents and sister(but they all stayed on the camping next to ours) and friends as well(who were standing very close to us :). It was fun and relaxing.
I made over 1600 photo's(when will I have time to edit them all!!??) and I will try to give you a view later this week :)
