gettin' better

First I want to thank you all for the good wishes to get better.

While wearing the braces for 10 days now...I think (knock on wood) it's helping !!!
I am pleased, although it's like wearing wintergloves with 30 degrees celsius (pffftt), it's still better then surgery. I hope to get some more news next week, about the plan my doctor has when he sees the results of the tests...so I'll wait and see.

I am sooooooo happy with our airco these days ... and wonder how you are doing with the (sticky)heat lately???

I'll be back soon,
take care !!!

It's been a long time ...

Since I wrote my blog... I am sorry ! I have been taking some time of to rest my hands which are suffering from CTS (carpaal tunnel syndrom). My hands are still not recovered but now I wear braces to afix my wrists and it really helps. I don't want to get an other problem (wrists that are stiff) so I am still working out how/when to wear them (doctors told me to wear them 24 hrs) to get the total profit out of it.

Besides this (health) problem I am OK ! Did a lot of fun things during the last couple of months. Went to the Apenheul to see my 'family' (that was long before Bokito in Rotterdam teached us to be careful with making contact...), watched great sandsculptures in Scheveningen, went to the Libelle-week with my niece Marjolein, had a great day at Dolls&Decorations doing a 'make and take' with POSCA pens (luv'them!) and ofcourse I gave workshops at Hobby Van Eijk and Creatief met Foto's. So have been busy...

May 20st, my nice Berthe gave birth to a beautiful little girl and together with DH Barry they called her Daphne. Within 24 hrs I was there to take some (haha 250 !!) pictures, one of them was put on the birthnotes (you can imagine how proud I was about that !!).

The picture I love most, is where Daphne lays on her mommies arm and hand:

You know who inspired me to take this pic???

I'll be back soon to show some of my new work and to share more news (because there is !!)

Take care, please!

Photography is all I think of these days !

With the weather so beautiful everything looks so pretty in nature. The blossom in my magnoliatree has never been so pretty and longlasting as this year. We never planted the geraniums (Austrian hanging type) as early as we did this year.

We too, are a little bit out of the normal timescedule ... eating dinner in the garden for already 2 weeks, meat on the bbq every night, no 'time' to clean the house (the weather is too nice to be inside)...


Yesterday was Queensday with a wonderful orange sun (oranjezonnetje). We had (fun)company and DH had to make music with the band, twice. I enjoyed the sun in our garden, the hole day.

For a week I am busy looking through 350 pics I took from Grandma Visser (Zeist) and her 7 grandchildren. Besides that I have to sort out some (150 !!) pictures I took during the Crop-till-you-drop weekend and sent them to all the girls.
So ... I am busy with pictures ... it does not go very smooth because my hands are still sore (specially when I am working a lot...)but hopefully I get it all done by tonight or tomorrow morning.

Well, this is all for now .. gonna give my hands some rest .... (arghhhh)

Take care !

My hands are sore ...

Since 2 weeks I have terrible sore hands, was not capable of typing so that's why I didn't post! Thru bloodtests we know it's NOT reuma and (as you will understand) that's a relieve!!! What the soreness causes nowbody knows ... it's only guessing till I have an appointment with the neurologist (May). In the mean time I am trying to give my hands some rest ...

Luckely I have my camera which is a lightweight (!!!) and the weather is so beautifull in this time of year. I do a lot of practicing for my photocourse which I am enjoying more every day!

This week we had to choose a picture out of a magazine or paper. I saw this one in Zoom.nl and it intrigated me. I took the challenge of remaking it. I had to do it with a blanc skin man, I didn't have a black beauty for hands.....
DH is taking place as a model...He was soooo sweet to let me get him in the right position, tossing and turning his head, hands and fingers, giving directions to turn his eyes (No, not your head!!! haha).

I am pleased by the result and wondering what my teacher will say tomorrow..... What do you think?

Well, I am off to give my hand some rest (typing is not a good excercise).

Take care!

Happy EASTER everybody !!!

Easter stands for our door and I love this time of year. When I was a child I also got a new dress and new shoes for Easter. First time I could wear them was on sundaymorning when we walked to the church, I was so proud of being 'all new' and then in church we listened to the minister who told us about the new start we all could make because Jesus died to take our sins away.
New beginnings that's what Easter means for me.
Also nature is 'beginning' around now with lots of fragile flowers in the trees. I love the magnolia and almond blossomtree in our back yard:

Instead of buying new clothes and shoes for Easter (I kept that tradition for all my life) I treated myself with a new lens for my Canon EOS 400D. Yesterday I bought a 50mm 1.8 lens and boy, I am happy with this one. I immediately started playing around with it and it gives me so much joy to work with!!!

I decorated the house with a (porcelain) chicken and eggs and 50 tulips! The tulips have seen all corners of the room because I 'had to' make pictures with my new lens and wanted light doing it's job to my pictures......... :

And this one is to all of you wishing you

Enjoy the coming days and take care!

On my way to : Finding ME !

Okay .... I am on my way : here is the first spread I made to Corinne's workshop "Finding You".

This wasn't very hard to do because a few years ago I had to do something simular to this and that came out GOOD. The hardest part was choosing paper ;). I didn't use any embellishments because I wanted it to be ME (all done by myself). Ofcourse I bought the paper and pens the rest is handwriting and doodling. I 'had to' (hihi) use my CriCut tho, for the capitals !

Thanks to Birgit who took this beautiful picture in november last year.....

Take care!

Spring !

This time of year: I LOVE IT ! The warm sun, the beautiful (little) flowers on trees and the bulbs that try to give me asap a range of colors .....

Last week we went to the bulbfields in Lisse and Hillegom and the first field that occured we stopped the car, opened the doors and ........... WHAT A SMELL !!!

Gorgeous hyacints and their fragance came to our eyes and noses .....

For my photography course I have to make pictures every week with an other technique ... it's great to get to know all the buttons on my camera and what they do for me .... Shuttertimes, diafragma etc. have less secrets for me now, but still a few (!!) to get discovered.

My DH went with me and was so patient with me ... he took his Sudoku book and enjoyed himself with it while I was 'playing' with my Canon EOS 400D.

This is my Scrapbookbear which I bought in the US, he didn't know anything about bulbs ..... so we took him :-)

Isn't he CUTE ?

I was at Blokker last week and they have great (felt) flowers ...... I HAD TO buy them :-) and made a quick layout with it for my photography buddy Doritha :

Well, I think this is all for know.

This afternoon I am going to take pics for an article and then working on a deadline!

Take care y''all !!