The life of a Dutch Scrapper

Looking back

Pffff sitting here, feeling overwhelmed again, nothing will come out of my fingers, things I planned for this 2 week off vacation didn't work out the way I had in my mind. My ADHD-self simply can't function if my normal rythm is changed. I hate feeling like this, makes me wonder if medication might be something I want to try next year.

This past year has been good on the businessfront for me(see weblogpost about that HERE)
on a personal level though I haven't accompliced all the things I had in mind. Still fat, still haven't figured out why I do things that I do and don't do things that I really want to do, what is holding me back to become truly happy.

Cancer took my sweet Aunt away and has another off my aunts going through Chemo as we speak.

Anthony who was hit by a car, the 13 weeks of him being in a cast while it was summer vacation. The feeling I still feel of thinking of myself walking slowly towards the accident, while thinking "shouldn't I be running?" I simply was afraid that he was dead.

I have a feeling that this year has flown by and I hardly took a moment to breath, to enjoy love to the fullest.....I do not like that.

Sure good things happened which made me happy and I always tend to look at those. Maybe I have done that for far to long now and I need to stop analyzine things and start feeling things again.

So my word for 2011 will be : FEEL

Next week I am making appointments with different people that hopefully can help me start to feel again....because right now I feel kinda dead inside.

Sorry for such a down post, had to get this off my chest I guess.

Made my goal list for 2011. I make it and then do not look at it for almost another year. I typed down what was in my heart desires and I believe by doing that you can somehow accomplice it.

And to quote the girl that puts a smile on my face every day through her blog, Ruth Akers:

"I hope 2011 has a leash ready, because I’m going to make her my bitch. Or at least take her for a walk and follow her with a plastic bag".

Let’s do this!!

Corinnexxx

I just posted

A blogpost on my self-portrait workshop in montpellier HERE :)
More posts here and on my photographyblog this week, stay tuned.

Corinnexxx

My wish for you

 

Corinnexxx

 

Ok so this is a little late

But I simple didn't had any time before to edit some of my own photo's. As you might know it was my birthday last November 9th. I celebrate it with my some of my sweet friends. I loved Danielle her Pink Party so I decided i was going to give it a try myself...not anything pink, but the baking part I mean.

Of course I wasn't done in time, simple because you can only do some things(most things) on the last moment, but when I was done I felt so proud for doing it and making it taste good as well :)
Here is an impression of my party: 
 
 
Cupcakes with banana, pine-apple and nuts
 
The water is still running in my mouth thinking about this taste(soooooooo good!). Brownie, cheesecake with a strawberry topping.
 
Vanilla with a little bit of lemon cupcakes with a chocolate caramel cream on top.
 
Negerzoenen(no word for in english)cupcakes with a negerzoen as topping and some nutella
 
The week prior I tasted one of Danielle's first try-out cake pops and I thought I died and gone to heaven. So she was sweet and made me some for my party as well.
 
Macaroons....really expensive ones that I bought on-line, not knowing that the V&D also sells them 10 times cheaper. BUT I have to say the expensive ones tasted much better. I just LOVE macaroons!
 
More candy :)
 
Bread sticks with garlic and herbs cream with Parma ham
 
Little pieces of warm bread with red pesto, tomato, mozzarella and lettuce
 
I made brochette's with goat cheese, red onions and lettuce.
 
Also brochette's but this time with Jamie Olivers Brochette topping and some Italian Cheese and lettuce.
 
Drinks besides the 3 different thea's I bought and some healthy snacks :)
 
My sweet friend Birgit send me this handmade banner that I adore!

And here are my friends that were able to come:
 
Liesbeth
 
Regina
 
Leila
 
Danielle
 
Mariska
 
Diana
 
Monique

Since we were not with a big crowd of people I , of course, made waaaay too many cupcakes and such. So I drove to two friends houses, who couldn't come, in the evening to surprise them with a latenight snack and past out the rest to the moms in the hallway of Jadenn's school...everyone loved them :)

It was a lot of work but I really liked doing it...not sure if I will do anything like this again any time soon, but who knows next year :)

Corinnexxx

PS: Next on my list is editing my pics of my workshop in Montpelier..which was in October!!!

PS2: check out my photography weblog for the chance to win a free photo shoot and some other cool prizes(also for my international readers!)

Wie heeft er nog een mooie scraptafel nodig?

Ik ben alles aan het re-organiseren thuis en wil mijn grote scraptafel wegdoen daar hij teveel ruimte in neemt. Het is een heerlijke tafel waaraan je bv ook makkelijk tot 10 personen aan workshops kan geven(op zijn grootste formaat)

Formaat L:220cm(met tussenstuk te vergroten naar 266cm) en B: 100 cm.
Ziet er nog helemaal prima uit(heb de verf en inkt eraf gekregen :))
Na de kerst af te halen in Alkmaar.

Doe een goed bod(origineel 219,00 Euro bij Ikea) . Mail me als je interesse hebt via [email protected]
 
corinnexxx

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Check this out!

Corinnexxx

PS: I will make some time to blog again here, I miss it. I have two weeks off, still need to edit but also plan to have some me time and that also means blogging here.