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Back to my healthy self and I have been very creative, made lots of LO's.

We are enjoying the nice weather here, so nice and only 2 weeks school for Camiel and then summerholiday starts. We are going to celebrate our holiday in France, in august, I'm so looking forward to that. First we are going to my parents house and then a week in a camping in the south of France, right next to the sea.

I decides to join a new challenge site Let's get shabby , the first challenge was to use a this picture as inspiration

I was inspired by the colors and the women in the pictures.

This is what I made: Diva

That's me in the bath on a holiday back in 1993, wow so long ago. Haha I look like a diva there ;)

And some other LO I made:

For the OLW challenge: GOOD

Life is good.

Tristan playing in the garden with litlle stones and love how he enjoys the little things.

It's the small things that matter most, Camiel eating a 'suikerspin' (don't know the english word)

I made this background by spraying different colors mist on the HS invisible cardstock, love the effect and I used BG papers.

Walk this way.

Yes the boy is walking on his own, so cute.

Slide.

Another one of Tristan playing, on the slide in our garden this time. I used the july scrap-club sketch for this one, I used the june studio Calico kit, love the colors of the kit.

Practise.

Picture of Camiel practising to ride his bike without traing wheels. He still can't do it, so we are still running with him and killing our backs ;)

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Samen spelen (playing together).

Another one with the june SC kit, love that cherry paper.

Camiel and Tristan playing together, love to see that. Not a very common thing to happen due to their age difference and different interest.

Well that's it for today. Time for bed.

Hugs, Astrid

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ill + nice news

Today I'm ill at home, a bad cold and headace....
So I have some time in bed with the laptop. This morning I got a mail from Petra that a layout of me is pick to be in the spotlight on the scrap-club blog. It is a band new feature there. SO nice of them to pick me. It is a LO from already a few months ago, I don't think I posted it here on my blog, so here it is:

And the details:

This is a great technique:
I printed the picture (in black and white and not so intense) on the patterned paper background (paper by Daisy D's), I love the effect. I lifted this idea of Janet Hopkins .

This pictures are from Camiel his first visit to the cinema, we saw the movie Bolt. He loved it. I tried to make some pictures of us before it started, I needed to use the flash and he blink his eyes everytime so funny. Still decided to use the pictures.

There more LO's I didn't post on my blog. Here they are:

That will do for today. For details of the LO's you can look into my gallery on SIStv

Next time I post some more. Maybe it is better to keep up to date....

Hugs Astrid

Dutch dare

Hi how are you? another month went by...

But some fun news Mandy of Memorylane Scrapbooking asked me as guest designer for Dutch Dare #56. The dare is: Gebruik een quote die heel toepasselijk is voor jou of een van de mensen om je heen! / Be inspired by a quote!

So come and join us with the challenge, you can win a RAK. See details on the MLS blog.
The picture of my LO is a bit dark, I will try to make a better one tonight and post it later.

I used this qoute: Boys are meant for kisses and hugs, for watching rainbows and catching bugs, for sharing all your favorite things, for books to read and songs to sing.
Very suitable for Camiel. The pictures I used are from 2 years ago on the beach.

See you!

Astrid

2 months ago...

Hmmm, 2 months ago was my last post. Time flies and I don't know why, just didn't feel like blogging. But I will give it another try. Today we celebrated queensday here in Holland, we had such a lovely day, nice weather, we when to Delft and we loved it. we went to the flea market and bought some toys together with Camiel. We also when to the fair, Camiel loved it and wanted to do every ride. Here some pictures.











But when we got home we saw the horrible news that somebody attempted to attack the royal family with a car. 5 people died and there are also seriously injured people. Unbelievable, I just got chills when I saw the footage on TV, horrible.

This are my lastest Lo's of this week.

This LO I made for the OLW challenge of this week: Journey. I still managed to do all the challenges this year, I really love them, they get me to do other LO's, about special subjects.

Here I journaled about the journey of a lifetime, about becoming parents and raising our sons.

Loved that i made this picture of all our legs at the watersite during a walk in the parc, 1 of the first sunny days of this spring. Used the Jack&Jill Studio Calico kit. Again a wonderful kit, love the colors and the invisble chipboards (Heidi Swapp) are so much fun. Finally used my vintage buttons from France.

Thanks for visiting, love it whe you leave a comment so I know I'm not talking to myself ;)

Next time I'll try to show so older LO and the projects I made during of the scrap-a-licious weekend.

Hugs, Astrid

Brugge

2 weeks ago at the Valentine's weekend we (Etienne and me) went to Brugge. It was a present from me to him. We really enjoyed it is such a nice city (in Belgium), with a historical centre, beautiful buildings. I booked as an hotel in the middle of the centre, ideal. It was really relaxing, no kids (they stayed at my parents). That can be a nice change for a time, we did some siteseeing, shopping, eating out, relaxing. The city is really photogenic, this are some results.

at night:

I also used a picture of the 2 of us for the previous OLW challenge (FUN). Mostly used the Sudio Calico kit, also some walnut veneer (also SC) which I covered the chipboard tree with.




Now I want to do the new challenge, the word is SEE. Can't come up with something yet. Don't really did much scrapping lately, not much time and when I have in the evening I'm just too tired...

Camiel a week vacation from school, today he and me went that see a movie: Bolt. It was his first time going to the movies, he loved it. And Bolt was fun for me too.

Tristan was a bit ill the last week, no fun vomitting and so on. He can walking around the table really good now. He is exploring everything in the house :) Lots of time I have to think back to when Camiel was this ago, so many simular things like grapping the remote controls every time, taking everything from the drawers or cupboards, everytime you open the dishwasher he need to crawl to it to pick something from it. :) This is a fun age, he is learning so many new things.

Here is a recent picture of the 2 together, always when I'm making pictures, Camiel want o hold Tristan, which he not always preferes

Tomorrow we are visiting friends: Katja and Ramon and their 3 kids Kimani, Minou and Melvi, they live in Velserbroek , really looking forward to that.

Have a good weekend!

Hugs Astrid

1 year old!!

Already 1 year (+ 1 week) ago this sweetheart came into our life. I looks like a second child moves the time even quicker...

Tristan just born 30 jan. '08:
Eating his birthday cake 1 year later 31 jan.'09:

This was the inivitation for the party:

We took a picture every month with a stuffed pinguin, to follow his growth, here you can see a collage:

We also did this with Camiel and I'm glad we did it again, although sometimes we were a few days (or a week...) too late.


Last night I finished a LO for the last OLW challenge,

Again this challenge inspired me to use pictures of myself (may '07) Used clear extras of Heidi Swapp and some fun goodies of Papier Valise: little flowers, ticket, clock face, rhinestones. Stamp: Studio Calico, cipboard swirl: Fancy Pants.

Here you se the dimension of the flowers, love them!

Have a nice weekend,

Hugs Astrid

OLW: embrace

Here is my LO for the last OLW challenge: embrace. It inspired me to make a LO about myself this is the result:

A happy memory

Last month I made a Lo for a sketch in the magazine SCRAP! I sent it to the magazine so it could possibly be publised, the first I try for me. But now I read that the magazine has stopped, bummer ;) So I can show you the LO now I guess. Another LO about myself, here I was 7 months pregnant. I used a lot of glitter I wrote a qoute on the pink circle paper:

In the end all that matters isn't the things you did, what it's effects are today.
Not the knowledge you have learned, but how you applied it.
Not the word that were said, but how they made you feel.
And most of all not the moments of occurence, but how it's now just a part of our memory...
Everyday we make memories...
Let's paint lives with happy ones.

Next friday it's Tristan's first birthday, talking about time flying... We celebrate it on saturday not to big, I already ordered the cake we a picture on it with Tristan climbing the stairs. Tomorrow I'm making the treats for daycare, nothing too fancy and complicated.

Hugs,

Astrid