Trots

Made this LO about how proud I am of the changes Camiel have gone trough this last schoolyear, according to his teacher. Regarding his behavior, expressing himself and his concentration, it is still his weakest piont. But he totally ready for group 3 now. Time to start learning how to read and write and his looking forward to it. He already tries to read words by himself. Love to exprience this proces.

I love the paper circles that in were included in the SC Lawn Party kit, this time I used it for journaling spot and that chickenwire paper (exclusive SC) has such a yummie color.  I punched the holes for the sewing  circles wit the sew easy (fun tool).
Picture was taking during our last holidady in France.

Still a few weeks left and then out holiday starts, so looking forward to it!! We are going to Mallorca, first time flying wit the 2 boys. The last time we went by plane Tristan wasn't born yet, but already in the tummie ;)
I hope the wil love it, I already showed some pictures on the internet to Tristan of the pirateship slides in the swimming pool and his telling everybody all about it now. :)

Have a good weekend. I hope to start scrapping my may Project 12 pictures soon, time flies we are already half way june.

Hugs,
Astrid

Dutch Dare sketch #40

This is the new sketch challenge of today, made by Monique.

I have to say I love every single LO the DT members made, so quickly take a look!

This is mine:
30 april, pictures of Tristan of last konginnedag (queensday) on the kermis (fair) in the carrousel, eating cottoncandy. He had such a great time :)

 Come and join us with this wonderful sketch! 

Hugs,
Astrid

Last change to win my RAK!

There are still a few days left to win a great RAK!

including exclusive Studio Calico stamps/vintage flowers/journal cards and more.


You can win this if you join sketch challenge #39 of the Dutch Dares.
Deze kan je winnen als je meedoet met de volgende schets challenge van de Dutch Dares

 

You can see the details in this post

So if you were planning on scrapping this weekend, come and join us!! :)
Deadline is next tuesday.

Hugs,

Astrid

dutch dare fotochallenge

The dutch dare this week is a photochallenge.

I combined it with the one little word challenge of Scrapotheek:  You.
I decided to use the pictures of last mothersday (not the best, I was just awake and the lightconditions weren't optimal). I just bought a heartpunched and I made good use of it :)
I wrote and handcutted the title and use 3D tape to attach it. (inspired by Revlie).

Take a look what the other girls and our guestdesigners (yes we had 2) made. Join us and have a change to win a super RAK.

I made another LO with pictures of easter egghunting in France.
Pasen in Frankrijk (Eastern in France)

ETA: I got a few comments on my blogheader lately (OK you were right, no snow anymore :) )so I finally  changed it. Are you proud of me?  :)

Hugs,

Astrid

creative weekend

Last weekend I was really on a roll (creatively that is :) ), made a few LO's and I really like them. If I my say so myself :) I can show you 2 now, I also made one for the Dutch Dares, but will have to wait a week.

 Treehugger
Funny pics of Tristan in France with the old peartree in the garden, he was holding it, like hugging. ;)
I love the effect of the pumice stone distress ink (love that color) on the cosmo cricket cardstock with woodgrain reliëf. Again I used ironwire for the flowerstems (I always love ironwire, I should use it more) and I love that used the really old big orange polka dot brad (isn't it great when you actually use your old stuf) for the inside of the sun.

Opa helpen (helping grandpa)
The last SC kit Lawn Party had so much fun stuf, I love the exclusive SC doiley paper (cut out a few doileys). I also love the backside (green chickenwire). I only have 1 piece so there I had a problem, but I have cut it strategic so I have left to use the barbwire side. I also love the paper towel circles, I have misted the with orange mister huey (SC).
I just love this pics, my dad was working in the garden and the boys (especially Tristan), wanted to help him with the wheelbarrow and I love that he let them.

 

 

Only 1 day left to work and then it's weekend. Well that is not totally true, because I have to be stand by whole weekend for my job (I'm a programmer and we are doing a sofware upgrade). So I take my labtop home, only in case of problems they need me, hopefully I don't have to do much, , but I have a bad feeling.

Further more we had a bad week last week.

Our wasmachine died and left us with a lot of water on the ground a some smoke, apparently something burned, but it stop luckely. I'm so glad  took a look at the machine before I went to bed. But now (of course) we already have a new one (because who could live without a wasmachine).

Etienne was at a weekend getaway with his colleagues because the boss celebrated his 65th birthday. He was in Friesland (north of Holland), they did a kind of real Frisian sports. (skutsje sealen, fierljeppen en also kaatsen). Well to keep the story short, he got a ball on his eye with kaatsen and couldn't see much anymore. He needed to go to the eyehospital, he got examined and different medications. His eye is going to be allright but all the time he can't see and details, so no reading and he can't look in the light (because his pupil stays really wide due to the medicine). After 1,5 week he can now reduce the medicine and within a week his sight have to be better. Really badluck, but I'm glad it's not permanent.

Camiel finally could swim for his diploma A last wednesday after having to do the trail version a second time. He woke up that day with almost 40 degrees Celsius fever, so that was not going to happen that day... My parents waited to go back to France do they could see him swimn. Just that day, what bad luck for him, he has to take more lessons the next weeks and has another attempt on june 22. 

But then again worse thing could happen. We will laugh about it in the future.

Hugs,

Astrid

dutch dare sketch #39

This week I posted the new sketch challenge of the dutch dares.  This was the versatile sketch by Petra:

When I saw the enlargement I thought about an older picture of Camiel which was made at a profesional photographer and was lying in the closet for a those year, I didn't know what to do with it. So I decided to crop it a bit and used it for this LO.

 Take a look what the other girls made with this great sketch and you still can win the RAK of the month may.

I also made a LO with the fabulous Studio Calico kit Lawn Party.

C & T {heart} to play.
Pictures of our holiday in France. I loved the flowerfields and was happy the boys wanted to cooperate for a little photoshoot. I made the stems of the flowers out of ironwire which I curled.

Hugs,
Astrid

Project 12 april

Time to show my april spread for project 12.

Lots of nice weather already this month an we went on vacation to France, so I had lots of pictures to choose from.
 
I used again the sketch of Becky Fleck.

 left

 right

 journaling, again on a very large tag

Tomorrow it's time for the new dutch dare sketch, don't forget to take a look. I wil also draw the winner of the april RAK :)

Hugs,

Astrid