'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:)