A busy weekend

It's not always having fun on weekends, driving the kids to their hobbies, going out for groceries and the biggest part is of course cleaning the house. I got a small system: I always do 1 thing very good, for example the bedrooms or the livingroom, kitchen or etc. And between things to do, doing laudry!
Sometimes a person wonders how to do this in a single day so he can still have some fun.  But I managed.

On sunday I had to do some baking.  My daughter Eleni has her birthday in summervacation and she still wanted to give her classmates a treat.  But in the first week of the schoolweek this is nearly impossible to do and now everything slowed down, she remembered me that she wanted to give brownies.

On this site I always find very good recipies with a nice twist : http://www.mybakingaddiction.com/

And finally I had some time left over on sunday evening, when everything got quiet, to make another page for my mini-scrapbook.

Up to the next! See you  next time!

Kaat

schoolpictures

School started again for my kids and already the schoolphotographer payed them a visit.  Looking through my pictures I found some old ones of my kids together on schoolphoto's.

On my last post I already said I wanted to make a mini-scrapalbum with enveloppes and this was the perfect occasion. Is there any better way to keep such memories?! I hope I can do this for a long time.

Now, this project will take some time, I'm gonna post as the come along.
This is the outside of the album and the 1st picture. Got to remember wich year that was!

I did make another card (finally got some inspiration). Perfect for a baby girl.

See you later with more news, bye! Kaat

A vacation scrap

Hey everybody,

I've been working on a scrapLO of our vacation in France.  It's always so difficult to choose from all the pictures you made.  You got 2 options: you make 1 entire album of your vacation or you make a double LO with the pictures that you like.

Enjoying the scenery, ice-cream, playing with dad in the swimming pool or inventing a new sport.

Anything is possible on vacation!








Next challenge for me: making a miniscrapalbum from enveloppes.  No kidding, you can make mini-albums from the oddest things. First things first, one from enveloppes, we'll see how that goes.

Goodnight everybody!

Making cards

A new baby is born! Our neighbours at work have a son and little brother, Noah.  We had no idea and when the new mommy dropped of some candy to celebrate, I just had to make a card.

And also, I'll need to have some inspiration for more because a lot of people are pregnant. Amongst them: my niece, my cousins wife and 2 collegues.

See you later!

scrapping blues

Yep, it starting itching again.  A little while ago I got a link to a dutch portal site for scrapbooking.  I can't remember the person who shared it, but I'm very gratefull that she did. This is the link: http://be-scrappy.jouwpagina.nl/

I figured that the recent 10th birthday of my daughter Eleni was good day to start with. And this is the result:

almost end of the week

Yes, I know, I've started to write in English.  Since I've got a new teamleader at work, who's american by the way, I talk, write and sometimes even think in English.   And when it's really bad, I even talk to myself in English.  So how obsessed can you get?Though I do feel it's a good exercise.

I'm glad it's almost weekend.  I'm so tired this week, I could sleep all day long.  My husband thinks I've trouble sleeping worring over my mom who's in the hospital.  And although I know everything is pretty much ok, I can't seem to keep my head.  But tomorrow I'm gonna quit working early and go visit.

But I'm already thinking what I'm supposed to do over the weekend.  I guess the usual: clean the house, do some advance cooking so I don't have a lot of work during the week, go out for groceries and thinking which cupcakes to make.  I'm thinking mangocupcakes with white chocolate.

I'll post some pictures later.

Koekjes

Een tijdje geleden had ik via facebook iets interessants gezien, nl de Koekjesfee.  Zij had foto's gepubliceerd van koekjes, cupcakes en taarten die zij gedecoreerd had.  Gewoonweg prachtig waren die.  Nu moest ik zelf in de boekhandel zijn en zag ik een boek van haar.  

Natuurlijk kon ik het niet laten om dat boek te kopen en gisteren dacht ik, laat ik beginnen met het simpelste en eerst eens de koekjes leren maken.  Mijn kinderen wouden die natuurlijk graag versieren.  Nu ben ik nog niet zover dat ik de koekjesfee al kan volgen met decoreren.  Dus had ik wat glazuur gekocht in de winkel met wat van die schrijfstiftjes en decoratiemateriaal.  

Gisteren dus de koekjes gebakken en ik moet zeggen, haar receptje is heel goed te volgen.  Vanmorgen vroegen de kinderen al heel enthousiast, mogen wij de koekjes versieren?   Mama aan de slag!

En dit is het resultaat geworden: