The life of a Dutch Scrapper

Scraptastic October 2012!!!

Have I told you already that I will be teaching my self-portrait workshop at Scraptastic in Belgium on October 7th? No? Well I am doing my self-portrait workshop at Scraptastic in Belgium on October 7th!!! It is going to be so much fun to teach this workshop again. Next to learn you how to make good self-portraits I am also going to teach you some editing skills and give-away a mini-photoshoot during each class!!!

Next to me there are going to be so many AWESOME teachers from all around the world, the best of the best if you ask me. How about: Donna Downey, Birgit Koopsen, Lori Bucaria, Iris Babao Uy, Sharon Laakkonen, Teresa Collins, Anna Dabrowska, Ingvild Bolme and Tanya Watts!! If you haven't signed up yet you need to hurry, HURRY!! :). I always LOVED organizing my own scrapbooking weekends or attending ones as it was for me never about the workshops(although they were an awesome bonus for me), but it was time to connect with friends and time for my self doing creative stuff, always loved that about scrapbooking weekends. I can't wait to see some of my friends again, it has been too long!

There will also be lots of stands were you can shop the latest products, hell I think I might be buying some new stuff, I miss being creative!!!


Hope to see you there!!!!!

Corinnexxx 

ADHD again....

First of all thank you all so much for your sweet comments and emails, it really touched my heart!
This post is about a revelation I had a few weeks ago. I started reading on my i-Pad as I read really, really fast and have no more shelves to place all my books on. So after finishing another E-book I searched under the topic ADHD and stumbled on this book from Melissa Orlov:

It is also available in Dutch HERE.

She also has a website with lots of information and a forum which is called www.adhdmarriage.com

This book opened my eyes in a lot of ways. Not only about the relationship between me and my husband and the effect that ADHD has on our marriage, but also that me trying to change myself in order to create balance(remember I have been trying this for years now!) is totally the wrong way to go. It always ends up in failure.....no kidding!

She tells about a lot of things like she is writing about my life and I bet this goes for a lot of people who are married with a ADHD spouse and or have kids with ADHD. I truly recommend you to read this book if you are in the same position as I am it could change your married life. Not many may know this but a whole lot of marriages where ADHD is a part of everyday life are ending up in divorce. Communications problems, nagging, blaming, feeling like a failure, misunderstood, etc, etc is what can become between two spouses. I never talk about my marriage here to respect my DH but I can tell you that our marriage has been effected greatly by ADHD. I can see this now after reading this book. It makes me love my DH even more for sticking around for so long and not only dealing with my ADHD but also the ADHD/PDD-NOS of the kids(Jadenn just ADHD).

So in order to get some balance I am trying to take my meds every single day and I am going to see a ADHD coach that can teach me the skills that I need to cope with my ADHD.

If you are going to read the book let me know what you think about it!

Corinnexxx