the last day of the year....

.....almost one years already passed....it was a difficult year for my family and me...but we also had good times to remember!!! And at 2009 I started with my blog, played along with scrap-challenges and made new (blog)friends......wish you all a wonderful, healthy and creative 2010!!!

...Today it's also the last day of Marit's Scrapping the Top 2000....and I have made my last lo for this great challenge..........
...song #124 Cat Stevens - Morning has broken.........

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Thanks Marit for this fantastic scrap and musical week!!!

music, music, music......

.....I have listen almost the whole day at the Top 2000....when I eaten my breakfast, while I was cleaning the house (and then ofcourse very LOUD!), when I had my lunch, while I did some scrapping, while I made diner,................
.......and here are my lo's I made for the Top 2000-scrap-challenge-week of Marit .............
...song #820 Trijntje Oosterhuis - De zee ( the sea )
"come with me.... and love the sea"

....song #713 Queen - Bicycle race .........

...song #680 Mama's & papa's - Monday, monday.......

....what did I hated this song when I was a child.... why?... well every monday morning at 7am this song woke me up, because of the radio alarm clock of my parents...."monday,monday"... mondaymorning, goodbye weekend and the beginning of a new long schoolweek :(:(:(

...and this lo I made today.....

....song #445 Blof - Alles is liefde (everything is love)

This song is from the Dutch movie 'Alles is Liefde'... a movie like 'Love actually'. Two years ago I went together with my mother to 'Alles is liefde' and I still had the tickets :):):).so this was the right time to use them...

....Tomorrow I have to work, so no Top2000 for me from 9am till 4pm:(

this morning...

...I found this present in my mailbox.....

...a xmas present from my sweet friend Yvonne ( Yyam ) of Singapore....

Thanks Yvonne, you're the sweetest:):) Happy mail... I love it!!!!!

I made another page about a song of the Top 2000... this time #1052 Randy Crawford - one day I'll fly away.....

...I also wanted to make a page about the Dutch song "de weg" from Guus Meeuwis... I love that song, but sometimes I can't hear it... because most of the time it makes me cry:(:( so I tried to scrap about this song, but nothing came out of my hands....

Tonight I hope to get my scrap mood back, because there are some songs I really want to scrap about!

top 2000.....

Christmas time for this year is over again....I had some busy day's, but it were also nice day's:) And now we are home again...snow is gone and it's raining outside:(...but we can say that we had a white Christmas this year! How was yours???

Here are my first three lo's for the TOP 2000-scrap-week... info about it you can find here ...
... if you have time, play along...it's som much FUN!!!!

song #1954 Isn't she lovely - Stevie Wonder

...a picture of my cutie Guusje:)




song #1930 Water mensen - 3j's ...

... it's a Dutch song about water'people'.... my boyfriend Richard is a real water-lover and crazy about wildwater-kayak



song #1707 Samen zijn -Willeke Alberti....

...also a Dutch song...when I hear this song I always have to sing along...and very loud!!! hope the neighbors don't mind, because I can't sing:):)


Have a wonderful day/evening ...tfl!!!

have a wonderful christmas!!!

Still 19 hours to go.....and then the Top 2000 begins!!!! Yessss!!!! And this year Marit makes it more FUN to listen to this Top 2000... with the best songs ever, because.........

"In the “Top 2000 week” (December 25 - 31) I will make/publish onelayout every day, refering to a song from the Top 2000 that will bebroad casted on the radio that day! It can be a 12×12, an art journal page,an ATC or whatever I feel like making.
Everybody is invited to play along with me!
The list with songs, times and dates will be published in the papers andon the Internet on December 22nd. (I will put up the link on my blog)
Just e-mail me a photo of your work (in your mail, please name song title anddate/number in the top 2000 list) and I will publish it on my blog on the daythat song is playing, with your name and a link to your blog (if you like)
This is not only for Dutchies! If you want to play along, you’re very welcome!The songs can be heard from December 25th ’til 31st, in the Netherlands onradio 2 and (for internationals) on the Internet.
I’m looking forward to this “event” and hope you will play along!" for more info... MaritScrapworld ................

........ I already made some lo's and I'll show you them when the Top 2000 begins.... or later, because I have to work both Christmas day's and in the evenings we visit our parents...so no time to blog and scrap for me the first day's.....

Wish you all a wonderful Christmas and when you can find time.... play along with Marit's-Top- 2000-scrap-week:):)

let it snow!!!!!!

Yessssssssss.... since last night it's snowing!!!!! And I love it!!!!!

The cats didn't like it that much................

Guusje tried it for some minutes, but Mees stayed inside the house:)

They're real good-weather-cats..... and if it's cold they sit/sleep all day near the heater

Last night I did some scrapping and cardmaking...............

...for the challenge of CardPatterns (sketch 45) I made this card...

"for you...made by me"......

I 'm finished with making xmas cards and they're on their way to family and friends...so now it's time again for making some b-day cards.....

And the second card I made for MojoMonday ....and it's the first time I play along their challenge.....

...and the last card I made with the GetSketchy sketch#18............

...happy B-day...............

....I also made a layout....it's for the last :(:(:(:( challenge of Scrapping out Loud........I really will miss the challenges of the super challenge-blog of Denise and Jessica !!!!!

The last challenge is: "Use the colors of the rainbow"..... I have made a layout with a picture of my niece Lotte (some years ago) wearing her rainbow-boots......

Last Monday I decorated the xmas tree....and here a picture of our (little) tree on top of the chest....

...and this is why I put my tree there............

...Guusje loves xmas trees too:)

... and a picture of the xmas-branch....every other season I decorate it.....

....and what do you think of my selfmade-snowmen???? I made them some years ago, but I think they're still cute:)

Well I'm off now....going outside for a walk in the snow:):):):) tfl!!!!

starssssss............

"I'm wishing on a star".........

........I made this canvas for the challenge of Scrapping out Loud ..... this time you have to put a ribbon weave on your layout. I have used again this picture of my sister and me (like the wall-hanger for my mom)

ribbon weave.....

The last day's I also made some cards for xmas and these two are for card challenges....

Cardpatterns sketch #44....

...wish upon a star

CPS cards #145 ......

...wish upon a star

Have a nice (rainy)day.......(I wish for snow and ice, but today it's raining,raining and raining:(

Thanks for looking!

'Sinterklaas' and some xmas scrapping...

The little Christmastree house......
....a layout I made for the challenge of Scrapping out loud....

het kerstboom huisje = the Christmastree house...

Journaling in English:
"Every year I buy something new to decorate the xmas tree and ofcourse there isn't place enough anymore for all the tree decorations... but for this old xmas house there's always place. Since my childhood I love this little house and I always gave it the best place in the tree... and I fantasized that I was very small so that I could live in that little house :):):)
Some years ago my mom gave it to me and since then the old xmas house also gets every year the best place in our tree"



And this xmas card I made with sketch #10 of Just us girls.......

I have used the xmas papers of CosmoCricket 'Jolly by Golly'... I just love those papers!!! the little star I made of Fimo clay, I did some handstitching and used a snowflake of felt

Friday and Saturday evening we celebrated the Dutch feast 'Sinterklaas'...Friday with Richard his family and yesterday with my family at my sisters place.... it where wonderful evenings with happy, happy 'children'....because they got alot of presents:).........

Yesterday evening I gave this xmas wallhanger to my mom...

title in Dutch: 'kerst (b)engeltjes'.... how do I explane it in English???... xmas rascals/angels (bengeltjes=rascals and engeltjes=angels)... I have used a picture of my sister and me with xmas at 1977..... we were sitting in front of the xmas tree in the same nightgowns and slippers ...I think it's such a cute and funny picture of us:)

Vrijdag en zaterdag avond hebben we Sinterklaas gevierd... vrijdag bij Richard zijn familie en gisteravond bij mijn zus thuis.. het waren erg gezellige avonden met erg blije 'kinderen':)........

Gisteravond heb ik mijn moeder deze kerst 'wallhanger' gegeven....

Ik heb een foto van mijn zus en ik gebruikt die gemaakt is met kerst 1977... we zitten samen voor de kerstboom met dezelfde nachtponnen en pantoffels aan... ik vind het nog steeds zo'n schattige en grappige foto.... de sneeuwster heb ik vorige week bij de Wibra gekocht, daar heb ik nog meer leuke kerstboom decoraties gekocht.... super leuk en het kost haast niks!

....some pictures of yesterday evening at my sisters place.........

....all the presents...niece Lotte...

niece Nathalie....

...everyone is excited...what will they receive from Sinterklaas?????

Leo (brother in law), Esther (my sister), my mom and niece Lotte

Lotte is so happy with her first present....

...and I'm happy too with my 'dia-scanner' (I finally can use it:)...

my nephew Jurre with a cool 'football'-duvet....

...my dad with something to eat, he loves marzipan.....

nephew Patrick and my dad....

Lotte and 'my' Richard....

Now Sinterklaas is on his way back to Spain and today I heard the first xmas song on the radio... so I think next weekend I start with decorating the tree....this year I put the tree on top of the cabinet again.... you know we have cats...and cats love xmas trees and everything that moves and sparkles:):)

Sinterklaas is weer terug naar Spanje en vandaag hoorde ik op de radio de eerste kerst-song... dus ik krijg al weer zin om de kerstspullen te voorschijn te halen, nog maar even een weekje wachten...en dan ga ik de kerstboom weer optuigen... ook dit jaar weer komt 'ie' boven op de kast te liggen... je weet wij hebben katten... en katten houden van kerstkomen en van alles wat beweegt en glinstert:):).... dus ik leg de boom weer veilig op de kast:)

family fun!..?????

Last night I made this lo, it's for the challenge of Scrapping out Loud (scrap a family pic).... the whole evening I hung out on the couch watching tv....but when it was almost midnight I moved upstairs and not to my bed, but to my scraproom... so it was very late (or early in the morning;) when I jumped into my bed.... and ofcourse I can feel that now... to late out bed, headache and just don't want to do anything... one problem...I have to go to my work over one hour:(... and tomorrow too.... but I had fun with making this page:):)

family fun! ???...... look at the faces of my mom and me:):) we didn't had fun at that moment, hahaha.........

A little update about my mom... last Saturday she came home from the hospital and she was very happy about that ofcourse... she feels much better, exept tuesday and wednesday she didn't feel good because of the chemo. Yesterday she got the second chemo and now she is having 2 weeks rest (no chemo)...I'm so happy that she feels better and that she's having the strength to go for another serie of chemotherapy!!!

Thanks for looking and have a nice weekend!!!