I love SNOW!!

Finally the winter is here. This is my most favorite season and I think Duncan is in love too. We had so much fun these last two days and three for Duncan.

After a heavy day last Thursday, he stayed home with my parents on Friday. So no school for him and lots of snow in the afternoon. The day could not have been better for him. Look at the pictures my mom and dad made:

In bed with grandpa and Apie!

Just relaxing with his DS.

Cleaning up snow in the backyard!

It is hard work, hahaha!!

With his friend Lucas from next door!

Yesterday we were home and after we had breakfast and put on some warm clothes we went to the ice with are sleigh. So much fun but not enough for Lex. He wanted to sleigh down hill and knew where he wanted to go. So many great photos were made, check out:

On our way to the ice.

On the ice, whoohoo!!

Dad goes way faster then Mom!!

Just the three of us.

Duncan.

Lex.

My 2 boys.

I just love this one!!

Going down!!

Those blue eyes!!

First time on the skates.

It was suuch a fun day and so cold outside and warm inside. And after a hot shower Duncan slept real good, hahahaha. Dreaming of a new day in the snow and on the ice.

So today after we went for coffee at my parents house, Lex went home to watch a soccer game and my mom, Duncan and me went to the ice again. He was so happy to see some of his friends and they had so much fun with there sleighs!! So just more snow/ice pictures:

I can do it, hahahaha.

To fast for my mom!!!

OOOOOOPPPSSS.

This is so funny!!

Going down again!

I can also do it like this!!

Look at that face, I love my boy!!

Told you yesterday I would be back soon. So I hope I can be back soon again. Me and Janet have a surprise for you all so hope to be back with that real soon!! Janet I think you have to kick my ass on this one, hahaha.



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!!

My projects for 2012

My sweet friend Janet has offered to send my order from Amazon to my house and now we are gonna work on our projects together next year, with the Ocean between us. That is gonna be so much fun.

What are we gonna do:
Project Life and we both have the turquoise version (paper and digi version). I am gonna do this one with Duncan and Lex, a Project that we are gonna love I am sure of that.
One Litte Word and we are both taking that class
Photo-A-Day and we are both doing this class too.

We are still figuring out the details between the two of us and thinking about doing one more project, so we will see!! I am so happy we are gonna do this both.

I will be back soon with more news, more digi-pages, more pictures. For now, one of my little boy being excited on Christmas-Day.

and for those who are wondering: that is not a real earring, LOL!

PxLCafe BlogHop

You are not gonna believe it, but we as CT-members of PxLCafe have designed our own "CollabKit" just for you. We called the kit "Frosty Wonderland" and you can complete it by visting all our blogs.

Here is where you can find us all:
PxLCafe Blog > this is your starting point in case you got lost
next up:
Amy
Janet
Kimberly
Lisa
Miranda > you are here at the moment
and last but not least:
Tracy she made some wonderful layout to inspire you all!!!

Now here is my piece of the collab and I hope you will enjoy it and who knows maybe I will be back soon with a new freebie.

DOWNLOAD HERE!

So to finish my post:

From all of us on Pxlcafe's CT team...

Image courtesy of Tracy Martin Scrapbook Designs



I have been busy...

... and life took over. It is not that there is nothing to tell just no time to tell it, LOL. I just wanted to let you all now that I am still here and I wanted to show you some of my last layouts. So sit back and relax!!

Want a chance to win...

... a silhouette design from Le Papier Studio, check out Vana's blog. She is doing a give-a-way in honour of her birthday. I so love here designs and can't wait to recieve her bracelet in the mail. Lex is giving me this one:

for my birthday, let's hope it will be here on time.

Here is Vana's blogpost, and you can check it out here and leave her a comment for a chance to win!!!

A Birthday and a Special Giveaway

It’s my birthday, friends!
When it comes to my birthday, I like a low key celebration. Simple gestures such as a sweet card in the mail or a phone call from an old friend really make my day. Today I turned 34 and can’t help but look back and be thankful of all the blessings I have been given. I wonder what life will be 20 years from now…don’t you ever wonder?
To celebrate my birthday, I am holding a special giveaway on my good ol blog. Come on and enter!
One (1) lucky winner will receive: 1 personalized cell phone case (you chose the design)
One (1) lucky winner will receive: 1 Custom Silhouette Ornament (customize with our silhouette/s of course)
One (1) lucky winner will receive : 1 set of Personalized placemat + plate (makes the perfect gift set for your child and right in time for the holidays. yay!)

iDSD - international Digital Scrapbooking Days

That's this weekend, that means lots of free and gorgeous downloads all around the web. And lots of sales in all the cool shops. Have not been doing much shopping, it is too early for shopping. And I do not have time to play with all the nice stuff that is around.

I don't know how some people manage it to make so many layouts this time of year. I cannot seem to find the time to just sit down and relax and scrap, but who knows, soon, LOL.

Don't have much to share but wanted to see if there are some people who would want to play with my templates, so in honour of iDSD I have a freebie for you all.

You can click the image for download or click here.

Hope you have fun with the template, can't wait to see what you make with it. Here are some of my layouts I made with it:

Hope to be back soon with a new freebie for you all. Have a great weekend and fun iDSD!!