The life of a Dutch Scrapper

Yes, I create

I create this lo for my challenge on the EntreArtistes Blog
 

And spreaking of EntreArtistes the new magazine is out and it is totally renewed, love it!
 

I also started a facebook account......I know I am so late with doing this. I am under my own name so if you want to ad me send me an invite so I can ad you :)

What else....my scrapbookroom is a mess and needs to be cleaned up...when doesn't it?!

Ok of to create because that was what I was doing this week right :)

Corinnexxx

iiiiiiih!

:)

corinnexxx

Butterflies inside of me, because

my website went live today, go check it out.

www.delisphotography.nl

Let me know what you think. I still want to change some of the songs, so if you have any input please share :)

I build it from scratch and that is something I never did before so it took me blood and a lot of sweat, but I am so proud that I did it :)

Corinnexxx

proud mamma

OMG!! I just finished my website and I am soooooooooo darn proud of myself right now :) hopefully it can go live soon, it can take up to 48 hours they said(hopefully sooner!)
The only thing I still need are good photography songs to go with the different galleries, so if you have any idea's? I already ordered 3 cd's that I could only get in the USA(what is that about, grrr!) so have to wait till I get those, but I need a few other ones as well.
Ok gotta go, a friend will come to visit me any minute now, bye!

Corinnexxx

soooooooooooooooooo,

what have I been up to the past week?
Well besides being busy with everyday life I have been building my photography website from scratch, which is a lot of work but I so love how it is turning out. I want to have it finished by the end of the weekend and hopefully it will go live next week, iek!!!

Last Saturday I went to diner with 4 of my friends, the rest were sick or couldn't come due to other obligations. Still it was so much fun and the food was great!

been worried about my friend Jo-Anne who needs all your thoughts and prayers now and especially tomorrow when she gets some results back, love you Jo!

so I haven't been creative this week but I plan to be creative all week next week, finish some projects to share and some new projects that I can't share yet.

Been editing the photo's I took of 7 day old Nina, take a look here for a sneak peek, more to follow!

so this is my rambling for this week, promise to post at least a picture or a project next time around :)

Corinnexxx

Shower of love

Yesterday was my birthday. It started out good with presents from my kids that they picked out themselves which made it that more special because they really put effort in it to find something that was so me, loved it!

I didn't wanted to really celebrate it and had nothing planned for that day, just wanted it to be calm and nothing special. So when someone asked me that morning if I felt it was my birthday I said no. Little did I know my day was just getting started and boy was I wrong.
All day long I got text messages, calls, comments here and on my dutch Hyves site, which made me really happy. Than while walking the dog with my neighbor she mentioned she made me a homemade apple pie.
 
Later that day another friend of mine called to say she wanted to come by to drop off a small cake that she made.....which was nothing small! A HUGE cake with 4 layers of different cream, soooooooo good!
 
Another friend called me to ask if she could drop of a little something, loved it monique!
Than DH came home to surprise me with a bouquet of 35 roses
 
And a sweet card.
In the evening my parents came by and a few other people surprised me with a visit as well. So if someone would have asked me again that evening if it felt like I was celebrating my birthday my answer would be YES! Again than you all for making me feel special yesterday.

Corinnexxx
  
 
 

 

 

Give-away winner!!

First of all thank you ALL for voting this much! Kayla got over the 3000 votes due to you all. Unfortunately it wasn't enough to make it into the top 20 :(
I am 100% sure she will do something with her funny writing one day.
So second is the name of the winner from my give-away and after using the number generator this is the one who won:

 

gestemd en zal het morgen weer doen :)

Posted by: Alette | October 25, 2009 at 06:46 PM

Congratulations Alette, email me your address at [email protected] and I will get the package to you as soon as possible!!!

corinnexxx

Has it been a year already?

Monday I am turning 35, officially old as my DH, who is 3 years younger than me, would say. The past year has flown by, at least that is how it feels to me. I have worked on myself and just now I can say it feels as if it will pay off. For the first time in my life I feel that I can make things happen and that the many idea's that I have inside my head will not stop at the door. Because that always has been the case. I have had so many idea's and so many plans and was so enthusiastic about so many things all the time(part of my ADHD). I jumped on them like a shark, spend a lot of time and money and than for some reason got stuck in my own thoughts again and was never able to fully work my idea's out the way I worked them out inside my head. I truly feel sorry for my husband who has to deal with each new thing over and over again. he now is at the point that he is not believing me anymore when I tell him my new ideas. And you know what, I do not blame him. I have to show him that this time things will be different, simple because I am different, different inside.

I still have lots of things I need to work on, but I have forgiven myself my past mistakes and hope the ones around me are willing to do the same when they see the new me, when they see that I am serious this time. I have lots of things I need to work on, things that have always been there the past few years, one of them is my weight. A constant factor. I was skinny for maybe a year in my whole relationship with my DH. he loves me just the same, never tells me I need to lose weight. I used food as an escape. I didn't allow myself to feel sad, lonely or the worst of all, angry. I didn't know how to deal with these emotions and I felt like there was no room for them anyway. so I ate whenever I was feeling an emotion, happy or sad or just out of boredom. The more I ate the more weight I gained the more I feel disconnected from the real me, but that was the whole purpose of me eating right?, for not having to deal with the real me, that has emotions. I was sabotaging myself this whole time. And now I have to accept that this is me, right now, at this point in my life. And I do accept it, but want to change it because I now see and understand why I became this way. I know this will be a long road, but it a road I am almost ready to take. Almost I say since I need to work out a plan first, because without a plan my ADHD head will not make it :)

I bought myself a new outfit for my birthday since I didn't know what else to ask:
 
The legging is the same purple as in the shirt. all colorful and so different than I used to dress.(do not look at the horrible shoes and the reason why my head is cut of is because I am still vain and trust me when I say, I looked just as my shoes ;)

Tonight DH is off to jui juitsu(or whatever you call it) and I have planned to work on a new canvas tonight as well as watching some tv.

Last night I was with my sweet friend danielle scrapbooking, just for the fun of it and it felt good.

Talk to you soon, mwah!

Corinnexxx
  

Feeling renewed

***Please keep votingfor Kayla Aimee till november 6th, thank you!!!!****

finished my deadline and am so happy with the result :). If I look back at the lo's I did the last year I can't seem to find myself in them, maybe in a few. If I look back 2 years ago, I still love those lo's, the style I used was so me. Somewhere along the way I got lost. I lost my own style, the thing that makes me happy about a finished lo or project. I know some people have seen it as well and maybe even sooner than I had. Monique made a comment after my post about finding my creativity again in Montpelier that she somehow expects to see a whole new style from me.....and I think she is right :)

I got a BIG assignment and I will let my creativity completely go where it wants and needs to go and I am so happy that I can do this, whit out pressure. I am also working hard on getting my own photography website done, yes I am building it myself :), who would have thought that! It takes some time but it feels good to do this as well. I feel as if there is a whole new path that I just set a foot on is unraveling itselves to me and it fills me with excitement and joy this time and I will not run away from it anymore. Like a second chance, but this time I am listening and this time I believe in myself that I can actually make things happen. For years I have hold myself back with lies I created myself(example:I couldn't be a professional photographer and an artist) and now I see it was just a lie I told myself to cover up my fear. I now see that anything is possible as long as you are letting go of your fear and let it happen, except things as they come, think big.

Yes I still find it hard sometimes to control my ADHD, since I still can't do a lot of things in a day, my mind is always wondering off. But it is also the thing that gives me so many ideas, the big energy that goes with that. It is a blessing and a burden but it is a part of me that I have excepted as well.

sorry for pouring out my thoughts, I hope it makes any sense hehe.

Be back soon with stuff to show you :)

corinnexxx