Back to normal...

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Vacation is over, Duncan is back to school, Lex is back to work and me, well I am still home and finding myself a new ritme, LOL. Had some layouts done last week and enjoyed spending time with Duncan and my mom and dad.

Went to the movies (Wreck it Ralph), went to visit some family, went to breakfast and visited a new born baby. Lots of fun things. Layouts will follow soon I am sure of that. But for now some other layouts. If you want to know which kit I used just send me a message and I will get back to you with information asap. (sorry for this, Blogger is working against me at the moment and searching and linking is taking up a lot, and I mean a lot of time)

Christmas Dinner at school. He had so much fun.

A "Sinterklaas" party at his soccer club. They all got a ball at the end.

With his best friend and our neighbours son Lucas.

His first Christmas :)

Not a month old and his first fireworks, LOL.

Our sweet little angel.

When Duncan was little I loved taking photos of his feet. Look at those tiny shoes.

My perfect boy.

With his furry friend Boris.

Just FABULOUS!

Loved this picture then and still love it now!

My STYLISH boy!

As you can see I am working on some old photos. I want to finish Duncan's first book this year, that is my goal. He loves to see his own pictures and needs them in books. There is more to come in the next few days, so keep coming back. And remember if you want to know something about the kits I used just ask.

Hope all these new layouts...

...mean that my MOJO is back. I really need scrapping to keep me sane. And somewhere along the way I lost track. Enjoyed scrapping last week when Duncan was at school. Between activities for school and well just everyday stuff I managed to make some layouts and I am so happy with that. It has been way to long, but I have been talking about that in my last post.

Here is my first layout I made:

Layout about Duncan's 6th birthday with 6 things about him at this age (his friends, his favorite teacher, nicest thing to do at school, favorite movie, most beautiful book and the thing he loves to eat most, LOL).

The kit I used for this layout is from Jen Martakis:

March Pea Soup - Baby Boy Papers

March Pea Soup - Baby Boy Tags

March Pea Soup - Baby Boy Solids

March Pea Soup - Baby Boy Elements

 

This is Duncan schoolpicture, also made the page that goes with it, his classpicture, but will not post that because of all the other kids and I don't think the parents will appreciate it.

For this layout I also used a kit from Jen Martakis:

September Pea Soup - Elementary Flairs

September Pea Soup - Elementary Patterns 1

September Pea Soup - Elementary Patterns 2

this also has the matching:

September Pea Soup - Elementary Notes

September Pea Soup - Elementary Washi Tape

Duncan celebrated his last birthday at daycare last year when he turned 5. We did not know then that it would be his last one. He enjoyed it so much and he was so happy with Miranda, Carola and Albertina who where there almost every day.

Also used a Jen Martakis kit here:

Happy Elements

Happy Labels

Happy Patterns

Happy Embossed Edges 2

Happy Cardstock

this also has the matching:

Happy Cards

Happy Embossed Edges 1

A layout from last winter. There was snow and ice and lots of fun every day. This is Duncan playing with a friend in the snow. Down hill and ending on the ice. My dad is the one pushing them. The QR codes are little movies from them on that day having fun.

For this layout I used a kit from Tracy Martin:

Eskimo Kisses - The Bundle

You can also buy it all seperate:

Eskimo Kisses - Papers

Eskimo Kisses - Alpha

Eskimo Kisses - Paints

Eskimo Kisses - The Kit

It was a cold day and we were getting ready to go to school. Duncan was in a real hurry. He wanted to go to the snow and ice and to some sliding before going to school. So there I was in the early mornings on the ice. He had so much fun all by himself on the ice. I had to shoot some photos of him and scrap them, LOL.

For this layout I used a kit from Tracy Martin:

Eskimo Kisses - The Bundle

You can also buy it all seperate:

Eskimo Kisses - Papers

Eskimo Kisses - Alpha

Eskimo Kisses - Paints

Eskimo Kisses - The Kit

This is a picture from January 1st 2012. It is around 01.00 and we were at our neighbours house. This year we will be there again to celebrate New Years Eve. Lets hope we can make a picture like this again.

For this layout I used a kit from Bellisae, I bought it at digi-crea.fr but her shop is not there anymore. You can find here store at: myscrapartdigital.com . But this kit is not there :(

Each year there is a sepcial week about reading books with kids in Holland. At Duncan's school they do a special bookreading breakfast. I got to read to some of his friend in his class and eat with them. So special to share this together. I love doing things like this with my boy.

For this layout I used a kit from Tracy Martin. It is not in her store anymore, but who knows maybe she will bring it back one day. But check out her store, she has lots of gorgeous other things there.

You can find her store at onestorydown.com.

I don't like myself on a picture. But I think and hope my boy does :) These pictures are from Christmas Day last year. I so love the faces he makes.

For this layout I used a kit from Jen Martakis:

December Pea Soup - Retro Christmas Solids

December Pea Soup - Retro Christmas Patterns

December Pea Soup - Retro Christmas Elements

And my last layout for this time. We were in Disneyland Paris this December. No snow but really cold and Disney always makes sure you have some sort of snow, LOL. Duncan loved these characters and really wanted to get pictures of them. I love the shot of my boy in front of them :).

For this layout I used another Jen Martakis kit:

Wonderland Kit

Wonderland Cardstock

You can also buy it all seperate:

Wonderland Elements 

Wonderland Patterns

Wonderland Cardstock

Well that's it for now. Hope to do some designing tomorrow. Some fun new stuff to play with, hope to show you soon.

Life took over :(

I was so full of ideas for projects and stuff at the beginning of the year. You don't have to read that far back to see it all. I started Project Life together with my sweet friend Janet, we also started OLW and 52weeks at O'Scraps. It will not surprise you if I told you I did not finish one of them :( It all makes me very sad. My PL-album is laying on my diningroom table and I am certain I will finish this year one day. The first three months look great and we all love the book. As for my OLW, I will do my course again this year, with the same prompts just a different word. My word for this year was commitment and I was, well I had the intention untill my life took over.

As you all know I was a working mom, 4 days in the week I was away doing my out of home job. Because of the economic crisis all changed and I am now a stay at home mom. I love being home with my boy and he loves me being home (well don't know about that, but he loves bringing friends over, now he can, LOL) but this is not what I wanted. I loved my job and I love working with people and all of a sudden I am standing at school waiting for my sweet boy to come.

I am getting in the swing of being home. Finished my vacation book about our trip to Orlando (DisneyWorld). We have great times when Duncan's friends come over. And I am looking for a new job. Not 4 days but 3. Yeah I have learned that I love being home with my boy and being his mom, so I don't have to work 4 days. I can do with 3, LOL.

It is December now and I am ready for some changes now. I have picked up digital scrapping again, have made some decisions about my health and am certain I am gonna finish my projects. Here is my first page I did in a long time:

Made this one with Jen Martakis' wonderful digital kits: 5798_MerryBright kit and 5781_MerryBright Cardstock. You can find them in her store at TwoPeas, also check out her blog.

I want to make more pages, but first Christmas, LOL. We have relatives over for two days, that will be lots of food, fun and laughter. I hope to update here on a more regular basis with new layouts, new stories about me and my boys and maybe stuff that keeps my thinking or busy!

Hope to be back soon. Of to check on my boy and one of his friends :)

Where to start...

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Oh my, it seems like life has taken over since the last time I was here. I so promised myself when I started my blog over here at Blogger that I would really keep it up to date and so far it has not happened. So many things I would love to share with you all and so many freebies planned but not even finished. Well let's see where I can start with my story.

The year ended with a bang. We celebrated the last day of the year with our sweet neighbourfriends Richard and Eva and their little boy Lucas. We had a great time and enjoyed it very much. Had some fireworks early in the evening because of Duncan and Lucas, Duncan even had a "tank" to set on fire. Boy did he loved the fireworks and he stayed up with us till about 02.00.

New Years Day was a quite one for us, as I was not feeling that well. We enjoyed it staying home in our PJ's and doing the things we love to do most!! Lots of things did happen with the start of the new year and being in February already. I won't bother you all with it, hahaha.

What I will tell you is that I love doing my Project Life and am totally up-to-date with that one. Even though the way I planned it to do is not working for us because of all the hectic in our lives right now. But are up-to-date and loving it so far. Here you got a sneak peak.

My OLW is not going that well, but I have my sweet friend "tante" Janet who supports me in this one and I know I will get up-to-date with that one soon too. We help each other to stay focused on our words. And both love to work together and mail (a lot).

Then there is Photo-A-Day, I sometimes forget a day or so, but I don't worrie about that. I love to take photos of my little boy and already have some very special photos in my PL, so yep focus is on that one too. You can see most of my pictures in my PL.

POTD from February 26th. 

Some other scrapnews to share with you all. Last December I got a mail of Kelly from Simply Kelly Designs and she asked me if I would be interested in joining her CT. Oh and you have to know I love her designs and template ever since I designed for her when she was one of the sponsors of ReadySetCreate. But being on Jen Martakis team, Janet's Little Feet Digital Designs team, FortheLuvofArt team, PxLCafe team and RSC team I thought it would be a bit to much. I was already in the process of maybe quiting RSC and this one helped me a little more to do so. So after telling RSC I had to stop I told Kelly I would love to be on her team. Already designed some pages for her and myself ofcourse and I have to say they worked out so well!! Check it out yourself.

With Kelly's Little Stacker kit.

With Kelly's In the Pool kit and In Love Template.

Last two with Kelly's Little Stacker kit and her Project 365 template set 3. The little boy and his balloon I got from my sweet friend Janet!!

Jen Martakis is still going great and her designs are still as gorgeous and beautiful as always, check out some of my new pages.

This one is made with Jen's new kit Lovely.

I made this one with Jen's piece of the January Pea Soup.

She has papers and embelishments.

My favorite Janet kit is one from PxLCafe and I think you should really check out her store here. PirateTheme is favorite in our house at this point. Check out this:

Made this with the MBPP kit. The little pirate is not in the kit!

Have not done very much for FortheLuvofArt and don't really now how that one is doing now, have to check with Chris about that one. And she is that one is still on. Feeling a bit quilty myself for not doing a very good job at this one. But just checked out the site and a lot of digital designs are gone?? Don't know what is happening there.

PxLCafe is still going strong. I love their kits and well I love making layouts for them, so that said here are some samples for you.


I think you are kinde up to date now. Will try to keep my blog Up-to-Date from now on, but won't make any promisses!! What I can promise is that I will be back very soon with some lovely PL freebies for those who want them and are joining me in this fabulous project.

Made with A Day at the Park.

Made with Music to my Ears kit.

Made with Midnight Kiss and Fabric Flowers.

Then ending with a pic of one of my sweeties. Duncan had exams at school this week (for those wondering, yes they get exames here at the age of 5, LOL) and when I saw that when I entered the classroom I had to take his picture!! Love this one and it is one of my favorite photos from this moment!!

More soon, I promise. Now we are gonna enjoy the winter wheater in Holland. Ice, snow, cold, I love it!!

CT-call for Jen Martakis Design

Guess what? It's time for a new creative team call. Yep, that means Jen Martakis is looking for designers to work with her kits! Do you think that you may be interested? Click on the image and read the details. She would love to hear from YOU!

If you click the image, the link will bring you to Jen's site. You should really try out for this one!

Jen Martakis has a sale...

... and I think you should really check it out. You can find all her amazing kits and other digital stuff at 2Peas, click the image for a transfer.

Sales starts October 18 and ends October 24.

Here are some of my layouts with Jen's kits, all images are linked to the main product in Jen's store:

 



I hope you check out her store. I am sure you won't be dissappointed. Now I am of to check my mail, LOL. But I wanted to tell you this as soon as I came home.