Real quick ...

I wanted to close the curtains yesterday ... see what happened : ..............today prompt at HSMS...........

Break
To seperate into pieces. Show us 'break' in your space today

Does: 'break' in my space yesterday, count???

It was such a cute pot ..... rip...

My course yesterday was nothing more then I already knew but the teacher said that he is going to learn us things in the coming weeks...... I will keep faith....... :-)

That's it for today..... going to'guestparent' this afternoon (and tonight babysitting) so I leave you with:
Take Care!!!

Need to ...

catch up with HSMS . It has been a few days that I didn't have time to write and when I had I missed the spirit (know that feeling?). Today I pushed myself to : GO, DO IT !!!


Curious
Eager to know or learn.

Find 'curious' in your space today

This is Eline, curious what's that
'red thing' doing there... and ....what
can I do with it.....?

Tweezers
An instrument for picking up small objects. Find tweezers in your space today

You know this one belongs in my beautycase ...

SPS
It's here again...i know youve all been itching to do it ;)

Yeah, yeah itching... before I had the right spot to make a self portrait, this little fellow made his web.....just infront of my face :-)

Hang
To suspend, be suspended or dangle.Show us 'hang' in your space today

I bought this multiple card holder some

time ago and customized it with MDF-letters

which say: Life is Great!

Quirky
Something characterised by the peculiar or unexpected.
Find something 'quirky' today in your space

This is the most 'quirkiest' I could find in my space ...

(what the hack is quirky, Kirsty??)

That was a h*** of a job catching up. Glad I've done it.

Now it's time to catch up with all the other girls who probably made fabulous shots...

Tonight I am going to attend my first Photoshop course ... eager to see what they are going to teach me. I want to play around with Photoshop for ages but couldn't figure it out myself (who can ???). So, tonight Doritha and I are going to start unwrapping the mysteries of photoshop.....

Tomorrow I will be guestparenting Femke again, who now is OK with me picking her up at school and taking care of her. When I left last week she said: 'Tot volgende week !' Which means: see you next week!

This week no workshops, so I can scrapbook for myself (and ofcourse do some prep for coming ws).

As always I'll leave you with:

Take Care!!!

Finally ...

I can show you want I do like most ... thanks to HSMS!!


Kiss
AKA: Pucker up, swap spit, snog, tonsil tickling (tee hee). A show of affection by means of mouth to mouth contact. Go on, give us a kiss!



I confess: I cheat this one ... It was taken on our 25th anniversary (3 years ago) just before we arrived at our country and western (dance-)evening. We had a great weekend in the east of Holland with 40 of our dearest family and friends.

Have to go real quick now so ... I'll leave you with:
Take care and KISS!!

early bird (just today...)

Yes, I am early this morning, I don't know why but I am haha! I liked my day yesterday, did a lot of scrapping and played with Gesso..... even managed to make my own banner for "Jump into the unknown" (thought you had to have brains for that but ..... this was so easy.....!!)


This LO is all about my wrinkles..... The journaling is in dutch, the translation is:








Yes, yes ... my face in showing my wrinkles .....Every wrinkle made me wizer although the kid in me still speaks up!!!
Luckely I have NEVER suffered any serious illness, and I have never spend a night in the hospital.
MY LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL.

Then I played with Gesso, new (and old) stamps, dabbers (sóóó love them) and a couple of cute pictures of Femke:




Todays prompt at HSMS is:


Print
To produce in large quantities by mechanical process. Find 'print' in your space today.

Well....that was an easy one ..... I walked down the stairs and there it was : PRINT in my space!

Yes, we are lucky the paper arrives IN the house... we don't have to get out and get it on our frontlawn (that is only 3 meters long :-).

Talk to yu'all tomorrow !
Take Care!!!

Catchin'up ...

We had a blast fridaynight with the Blue Man Group! My DH 'managed' to get us tickets on the 5th row. That was the last row that was supplied with (plastic) raincoats... I was happy that we were NOT on row 6 (haha) ... The first half an hour I sat down with my mouth open ... so amazed by the performance! I cannot tell what we saw because it was soooooo much ... the only thing I can say: "if you have the opportunity to see one of their shows, GO ... it is somuch FUN".

Saturday I went to Dolls & Decorations my favourite scrapbookstore! Had a nice talk with (the owner) Petra, helped some customers out with choosing "scrapstuff" and went home with some 'goodies'. When I came home I sat down and played with my new paper(s) will show tomorrow!

Sunday I had to work ... teaching 20 ladies how to use stamps in their scrapbookalbum. A lot of talking & teaching, everybody went home inspired by this class, so I went home happy!
DH made dinner which was great (we're on a diet and we ate fries, steak and salads....yummie).

So ..... that brings me to today : Have to catch up with HSMS.

Selfportrait saturday brings you this shot:




Still holding the camera myself ... have to go practice to make pics with using the tripod :-)

Well ..... sunday...... hmmmmm
SOS : 3
Show Off Sunday !!!Show us the best of your shots :)

I don't know if this is the best picture ever ... but I am sóóó proud of this XXL-Hibiscus ('winterhardy') in my garden, that I really what to show-off with it:


You might ask what this toothpick is doing there ... it is to show-off how BIG this flower is. The ruler is in cm ...... No,no: no inches haha!!

Today the HSMS prompt is:

Cake
A soft, sweet food. Find 'cake' in your space today.....

... and that is FORBIDDEN in my house lately because of the dieting we're on! It is really going well since we don't buy all the good stuff (read: creams, chips, cheeses, etc.) anymore and just stick to the healthy foods! DH lost 11 kg and I lost almost (!!) 7 kg. But.......

I managed to find CAKE in my space today:

Going to be creative today ..... I will leave you with:
Take Care!

**edit** fiddled around with blogtemplate ...whatcha think better???worse??

Went on my bike to ...

make a picture for today's prompt at HSMS :

Talk
To converse or communicate. Show us 'talk' in your space today.

Since I was 'home alone' all day there was no talk in my space ... I had to go out to make a shot...:

I went to the market which is every friday afternoon and saw (and heared) a lot of people 'talk', A mom with her little son, a husband and wife, two friends meeting spontaniously, mothers and daughters etc. When they saw me with my camera ..... there was a box full of quotationmarks above their heads...(who wouldn't ?). So a thanks to Anita and Kirsty for getting me of my b** and on my bike and gave me the excersize I so needed :-)

Tonight is going to be a great night (I hope) because my DH bought us tickets for the Blue Man Group ... we're on row 5 ... I heared that is NOT the comfort zone .... have to wear rainjackets....it is going to be some experience .....

No need of doing my hair, wear special clothing so I am going as ME and enjoy a special night with my darling!

I'll tell you tomorrow how it was ........

Leaving you with:

Take care!

Today will be a special day...

because I am going to be 'guestparent' to my 4-year-old (grant)niece Femke. She is the daughter of my niece Marjolein and every thursday afternoon I am going to pickup Femke from school. I am very excited to be part of her life by spending weekly one afternoon with her. This afternoon she wants to go to the 'hertjes' (deer) to feet them some bread. Then around 5 we are going to pickup her sister Eline and play a little till mommy and daddy come home from work!

I'll let you know what my experience will be.......

Today's HSMS:

Feast
A large meal or a plentiful supply, show us 'feast' in your space today.

Well.... in our household that is going to be a problem because we're on a diet (hihi) but I managed to make this shot of our dinner for tonight (I had to prepare it in advance because my DH works the nightshift and wanted to take dinner with him)

I'll leave you with lots of thanks for visiting my blog (I love all the comments) ans as always:

Take care!

EDIT:

Just came home from my first 'experience' as a 'guestparent'..... Femke ate all of her lunch today (she didn't eat her sandwiches the days before) and got this for it:

I am proud she managed to eat it all!! The rest of the afternoon was all about "trying out Tante Bonnette". Want this, don't want it, do this, I don't want you to do this etc. etc. At the end (when mommy and daddy came home) she said she had a great day! I hope that involves the afternoon with me ...............

Being creative today ...

This is soooo much FUN ... I am being creative for myself today. I always make lay-outs, minibooks etc. for workshops and (almost) never make something for ME.

Today I picked up my dabbers, posca pens and funny pictures and let the creative juices flowing ........







HSMS was really a challenge, but I took this shot for today's prompt,
Hold To grasp, carry or support with your hands





I've been grasped ... by little niece Eline !

I am going to be creative again and leave you with:

Take care!

thinking of ...

Thinking of us while you are on vacation, sending us a postcard (from all over the world) suits todays prompt at HSMS:

Thoughtful; Absorbed in or involving thought .

Take care !

Did what I had to do....

This morning I got it : energy to clean out my scraproom ! So I did...

It was on my back for months now and I couldn't get to it. Every day it bugged me and now it is (almost) done, I am a happy kid (and so proud I did it... while I had to do it so long ago :-)...you know that feeling?). Have to clean the windows, vacume the room and tidy up a little bit more and then it's ready to be photographed and to welcome others (then me).

Today's HSMS prompt is: Fall, to move downwards rapidly.

I think I have to cheat this time because I have this picture from last january, it happened in my backgarden:

It is not the most perfect picture, but the experience we had ... was enormous (so was the tree :-). It was an huge pinetree which was grown way to high for a cityhome backgarden. The firefighters had to come to chop it into pieces, the neighbourhood was all exited (so were we...)

Well I'll leave you with (as always):

Take care!

Sunny ..... Sunday!

This is my contribution to HSMS 'Showing of Sunday'. I so like this picture it shows serenity, love, comfort, protection, bonding ...

What do YOU see in this picture of Madelons hand and the foot of her 20 hours old sister Daphne ?

Yesterday I had a nice day promoting my workshops in Vianen. Many people came by to see what we offer in fall and several workshops are booked, so we're back at work!!

I'll leave you with a few pics of my 'table' yesterday ...

Well .... it's still sunny outside and my DH put my sunbed in the garden so I am off. Will check in tonight again!

Take care!!

after a hard days work ...

Just a quick note to show you what I did for HSMS on Self Portrait Saturday ...

Not as beautiful as Anita's and Kirsty's but hé ..... you can count every wrinkle (which they don't have :-) ...

Have a great saturday evening and

Take care!!