Friday, November 16, 2007

DH got a ..... YES!

Finally he's got it ...... his diploma ! Two weeks ago he didn't pass the exame and today he passed it with an A. I am so happy for him, you can imagine :-). He was very nervous the first time and the second time wasn't less ...... So, this morning I was running around my house, being busy doing nothing.... but now the tension is of my back and I am going to pack for the anual Alliance weekend away!

Six lovely girls in a bungalow in the woods with food (!), drinks (!), snacks (!!). new pj's :-), gala-outfits(!), photocamera's and lots, I mean LOTS of scrapbooksupplies (!!!!!). Last year we all brought our supplies (read: our intiar scrapbookrooms) so this year we are going to take less boxes (as we said .........). I am wondering what LESS means to all of us .......

Monday I'll be back and I'll tell you all about it then.
Soooooooo excited, soooooooooo looking forward to this it's like I am going on a schooltrip .....

Daniƫlle, Corinne, Anita, Birgit and Kirsty here I come!!

Take care!!!

Monday, November 12, 2007

Port of Holland (Hoek van Holland)


Yesterday we went to the Port of Holland to see if the Nortsea was still 'angry' at the beach..... :


as you can see it was furious!
The weather was cold and very windy (as you can expect) we could lean into the wind... A great afternoon spent in natur's glory!


Last week I guestparented Femke again. I picked her up at school and her respons on my new hairdo (color is darker) was: "Why do you have THIS hair???" On which I asked if she likes it, she reponded: "I find it stupid (stom)" ..... Well as long as she is honest, I think I have to accept :-)


She is getting used to the thursday's Tante Bonnette is joining her and finds it fun 'doing things together'. We had a great time baking 'pepernoten' :


Femke making dough .................... Doesn't it look yummie ???


Later (when the pepernoten were ready) Femke decided to give some pepernoten away to the neighbours (everyone 2 .... ), save some for the 'juffies' at school (teachers) for tomorrow, save some for mommy and daddy but have to give 2 away to Eline's 'juffies' (at kindergarden). So when we picked up Eline, Femke ran into the room screeming "I backed pepernoten myself" !!!

Eline gave us her most beautiful smile when we walked in and she was happy to go home with us. Lately she is very into posing for the camera so that left me with these:




Isn't she beautiful?
Next weekend I am going to scrap at the Alliance anual scrap-weekend-away (friday till monday)with 5 scrapgirls, all away from home and being ourselves (not being a wife, mom, sitter, cook, or whatever 'normal' life is expecting from us) ..... so looking forward to it ! ! !
Okay I am off to prep some kits and organize what I 'HAVE TO' bring ........
Take CARE!!!

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Today ...

I promissed yesterday to blog but suddenly I was feeling sick ... my hole bodysystem was running ... so I spend most of the day in the bathroom and in bed. This morning I felt better so here I am ...

I have been working for 3 days during the KreaDoe in Utrecht last week, at the booth of Dolls & Decorations. It is always fun to work at such a large show and with the people in the booth.
I treated myself with the QuicKutz Silhouette ... just installed it and now I have to figure out where to place it (near the computer ofcourse but there are a few other machines attached and the cords are not long enough...).

I have been in a episode of CreaTieV on SBS6 tv and a lot of people respond to that on email and during the KreaDoe. Great to hear that people liked me on tv (but were they objective ???) and even some girls saw that I lost weight :-). Eleven kilo's are gone, another 4 to 5 to go...
It's fun to go shopping at see that I lost two sizes ........ !

I want to pick up HSMS again and I have to be very creative for the workshops I give at Hobby van Eijk in Vianen. So I leave you with:

Take Care!!

Monday, November 5, 2007

sorry sorry sorry....

I have been soooooo busy and (again) blogging was gone on my priority list .......
But......
From today .... I promiss I will be back on blogging my daily life! I'll go and get my act together and will blog tonight to let you know what has happened over the last couple of weeks......

Talk soon and:
Take CARE!