New Header!!!!

Wow, I don't know for how long I wnated to do this: Change the header - or better make something that is worth the name "header". But somehow it never worked out, there was some strange frame around it, ...
So today I just grabbed the camera and did some shots of my scraptable and went for it!!! Maybe I will change it a little bit but for now I'm okay with it!!

Did a little minibook with my Bind-it-all some days ago. I had some pictures from a commercial that was shown in the tv and in magazines that I really liked. I downloaded them from the internet and decided to put them in a minialbum. Didn't do anything to the pages itself, just put the pics in. Just something real quick to have the pics together, get more practice with the B-i-a and a little colour on the cover!!!

Sick little boy

Yes, Felix has some fever and he's on antibiotics and fever reducer since thursday night. Poor little guy is all fuzzy and whiny when the fever breaks through and then once the meds work he seems to be quiet okay, playing along. Hopefully it will be gone soon, cause with my growing tummy it's not really funny carrying him around as often as he requires right now.

So agai just a short post with no pics, maybe I get something done tonight!!!

I just love

Thursday mornings!! (and monday mornings too) These mornings Stefan doesn't have to be at work until around 10 - unless there is some kind of harvesting or something else going on. That means we can sleep in a little.
Today he went to get Felix when Felix woke up and all 3 of us had a nice little "talk" and cuddled and Felix gave lots of kisses, ... All this was followed by a nice breakfast. Just a great way to start off the day!!!
Simply enjoying these family times because real often Stefan gets to be home late and Felix is already in bed most of the time.

New Girlfriend

The fleamarket yesterday just was so huge!! There had been about 5000 visitors according to the newspaper today!!
I got a little sunburn but lots of little goodies found their way to our home too!!!

Especially one new friend sitting on my scrapdesk right now who I discovered saturday and just couldn't resist buying!!! She now keeps me company and maybe keeps my mojo flowing!!

fleamarket weekend

This weekend is totally my style:

today I went to one fleamarket and tomorrow is the next one. There aren't too many around here and on top of that these are not the antique stuff kind of markets. There are only kids (and their parents) selling only kids stuff like toys and/or clothes.
I just love buying childrens books and found some today we don't already own, plus a small lawnmower with noise for Felix and some sand toys.

Let's see what tomorrow brings!!!

woohoo

You won't believe it!! I finally - after I don't know how many weeks - finished a LO. I just loved these pictures and had them resized and put together as a mosaic with the flick'r tool. They were sitting here and I just wanted to make a LO but on the other hand I didn't want to mess it up. The "patterned paper" was actually sitting not far away from the pics waiting to be used or better say re-used as well: it is part of a Starbucks paperbag!! I just love their bags and tissues!
So today seemed to be the day to put everything together:
some thickers, some cardboard, a date stamp (office supply) and a stamp from DANI (details) which has some hidden journaling.

Neverending story and surprise finds

The last 2 days I worked on the project that seems to be a real neverending story for me. Work in progress for I guess the rest of my life. You know I'm a collector of all kinds of stuff and only through moving out at my parents' and the fact that Felix was born and needed some space too I started to sort things out more often. I read a lot about living simple and things like that on different blogs and/or books/articles. And I really feel good when I do sort things out and get rid of some stuff, give it to friends or family or just through it away. The only thing is that it seems so timeconsuming because I get distracted so easily flipping through the old magazines or things like that. But this time I tried to make some extra space in the bedroom and I succeded!! One bag of old clothes to donate and a few items for my mom and ....some extra space!!!
Felix was all over the place of course and this is what happened today when he found my goggles!!!





Today we also went grocery shopping in the afternoon and when I hit the newspaperstands I thought: well lets take a look - MAYBE they might have that new german scrap mag. But I wasn't really optimistic about that. BUT - they did have it!!! So that's where I'm going now: reading a bit more and putting the album for Felix together. No, not a scrap album, just a ablum with all the pictures and there are some lines for the date and some little notes. I didn't want to stress about making this a "real" scrapbook album - because I know I might not finish it and with the next baby on it's way who would deserve one as well, nono better not even start making one. I stick with the single LO - don't even seem to get these done lately LOL

bad blogger ...

but I have - once again - the intention of getting better at this!!!

Maybe one short post every other day is better than not posting at all???

So for now I will just go ahead and tell the "secret" I mentioned sometime before: there will be one more thinggiving me lots of input srcapwise, but on the other hand sure will keep me away from being creative at the same time:
we are going to have another baby at the end of october!! I'm in my 17th week now and so far everything is pretty much okay.
We are really happy and excited about this new addition to our little family.

so off to some emails and then some stamping!!

a day on my own

that was what happened Saturday! I dropped Felix off at my parents at 7:30 in the morning and went to a nearby town for a fleamarket. That fleamarket is 2 times a year and there are only kids or their parents selling mostly childrens stuff such as toys, clothes and books. I love to go there and find treasures. This time I wasn't as succesful as the times before but still I got some nice pants and shirts, a truck to play outside and some nice children's books.

Afterwards I took off to Koblenz. There was a sweet little art show going on in the "Sporthalle Oberwerth" and since I had no chance to go to the "Creativa" I "had" to go there. There were only like 30 booths and some really weren't my kind of stuff so I was a little bitdissappointed, but O got some plain cards and envelopes and I sewed a nice rose from the Tilda books on a 1600€ sewing machine!! ( That sure was a difference to my 150€ Tchibo machine!!!)

Did some shopping in Koblenz too and on my way home I stopped at my sisters in Cochem. I really enjoyed just being by myself for one day - and I think that Felix loved staying at my parents as well!!

Here we go again

...I don't know how exactly it has happenend that there is no new post for such a long time. But for me this semms to happen ones in a while!!

There had been some things going on around here that kept me from updating this blog. I trie dto keep up reading all those blogs in my bloglines feeder (which are by the way not just a few - but 95 feeds!!!) but there seems to be no time for own posts or scrap time at all!! I just wanted to be on the couch in front of the TV or reading a book!!

But now to the things that happened in the last weeks:

We remodeled our kitchen. Or better to say the half of it that hadn't been done yet. I had the same thought Christiane had: we needed a green wall too!! And I'm totaly in love with all the drawers that close silently and by itself (the last few inches) . And Felix just loves his new cardboard house in which our new fridge was delivered!!!


As always it took some time to get everything in place - there are still some things in the kitchen that need new homes!! Or the tools need to be put away. That's so typical for us to not finish a project the whole way but to leavesome bits for days and weeks, .....

Felix got a digger from DUPLO for Easter and was totally happy with it - and for sure he still is. Spotted it right away too!!!

He and his cousins had some major fun "working" and feeding the cows. Felix now has his full outdoor equipment so no matter what the weather is like he is ready to go!!!



Alright I guess these were most of the things that happened. There is one more but I can't tell for another week or so - sorry!!

Gotta get the pictures in here and off we go!!

Just one more short of Felix learning to eat his joghurt by himself - you sure can tell how much fun he is having!!!!

some LO's ...

just finished the Karneval one and there are 2 more I made during the last week.






Sorry about not posting that often!!!

Artistic Edge

is a online class by Adrienne Looman I'm taking and it just started today. It's about giving your pictures an "artistic edge" with the help of Photoshop Elements (in my case).
I own PSE 3.0 and basically all I do is to store my pics with the help of this program, turn them into black and white ones or once in awhile use a brush. I hope to get to know this program and its possibilities a bit more through this class. Sometimes you see these cool photos with striking colours and I always wanted to know how that works. But I don't like to read through manuals and I don't like to sit here and play around with the program without having a clue (don't have the time to do so either!!!).
Well I just picked some pictures out of the blue and tried what Adrienne explained in the first lesson. Here are the results ( first of each set is the before photo and the second the photo after I did some "magic"):

memories of summer

don't know how but somehow my goals for 2008 - at least scrapwise - seems to work out!! Here is another LO I just finished. DH is not home this evening so this involved some walking around, getting new supplies, bringing the used ones away, cleaning the dishes while paint is drying, having some phone calls, .... but that was just fine, cause I was on my own and nobody got disturbed while watching tv.
I'm bad at these things: sometimes I have a movie on, the computer is running, I'm trying to do too many things at a time!!
But anyways: here is my summer 2007 LO and I'm hoping for a great summer this year ( which means for me not too hot but still great to be outside, a little bit of wind touching the skin, ...)
supplies: PP Danyeela , overlay Hambly , flowers Prima , stamps, cardstock, pen, ribbon

the GOOD stuff

is my latest LO. It talks about all the feelings that I experienced since being a mother - well I guess not about all of them - just the good ones. But I wanted to document them so I will never forget this first years with Felix.



PP Danyeela / stamp KOTM / rest unknown

my first birthday

I don't remember that day or the pictures we took but this particular one used on this LO is really my favourite pic of that time. I really love almost every single one of these old pics and even got a whole lot of the old negatives scanned so I can print them whenever I want. (they don't do that format of negatives in the drugstores here anymore!! but from a CD it works!)

I just love how my twin cousins and me are on this pic together with my grandparents. It is not a perfect picture but I just love it so much!!!



Close Up: Did make some chipboard accents painted with acrylic paint and isedstickers on them. Covered then the whole thing with GlossyAccents by Ranger




PP Danyeela / flowers Bazzill / letters Thickers / scrap, paint and pens

First LO of 2008

A couple of nights ago I tried something new scrapwise: I started to pull out pics that I want to scrap and put them into folders together with a piece of paper where I put some notes either about the journaling or the LO or the kind of paper I want to use.
Just something I want to try and see if that helps me to get more LO's done. So far it seems to work. Because of these folders I kept thinking about some of the LO's-to-be and just went for one of them tonight! Voila, here's my christmas LO 2006!!!

I used some patterned paper I had sitting around for I guess about 2 years plus a pretty new stamp for the journaling lines and some glitter ( also sitting here for quite a long time!! Never had a real use for it but here it seemed to be just perfect!!).

Want to try to use some of the "old" stuff this year too. Sometimes I have a hard time using things because they are just so pretty and I'm afraid of using them ( if that makes sense?!?).

New Years resolutions

I don't know if I should really make some resolutions because I seem to break them so often. But I tend to make themnot only on New Years but also while lying in bed and not being able to sleep. All these thoughts I come up with about how to cook healthier, how to include workout into my daily routine, how to organize the household better etc up to changes concerning decorations or storage stuff in our house. The results are more or less long lists that too often don't include crossed-off-items!
But nontheless I want to:
scrap more
work out
read
finally get this household routine that allows me to get extra time for the above mentioned
be a better blogger (means blog more often)

Hope you are all having a nice New Years Eve and all the best for 2008!!!!

sick at christmas

is something you don't want to have. But when it happens - no one asks!!!

Felix started his second time of stomach flu the week before christmas. This time he also included having a fever!! So I spent almost 2 whole days on the couch or in bed with the little sick guy on top of me. that was the only thing that worked!! so he felt better the weekend before xmas and I went on a class reunion on the 23rd. The next day I felt not really well. I didn't drink because I had to drive so I thought it was because of all the people smoking there ( I had a headache). But after we took Felix to bed on christmas eve and handed each other our gifts I started visiting the bathroom on a more or less regular basis. Don't want to give you all the details but the night was horrible!!
So after this episode was over Felix started coughing and having a runny nose 2 days ago!! I just hope that the next year will start off better!!!

When Felix was sick with the stomach flu I received a long awaited mail: Claudine Hellmuths second book and Alis "Life artist". And because of him wanting to be with me all the time I wasn't able to touch it for 2 days. Just saw it sitting there on my dining table, ..... That was really hard!!

Home alone ...

.. meant time to scrap!! DH went to some sort of agricultural lecture last night so after Felix went to bed I was able to finally scrap again. I don't know when the last time was!! After all this crafting for the christmas market I wasn't able to do something just for me, just for the fun of creating something. So I pulled out these great german papers by Danyeela and started to play. Nothing really fancy, just simple stuff!!!

Feeling a little bit dissapointed

but still okay. The christmasmarket didn't turn out the way I wished it would have!! Saturday went actually great, but on Sunday the weather wasn't really good so I guess that was why people chose to stay yt home instead of coming and buying all my little goodies. I couldn't believe that I didn't sell one single heart!! I think they are so cute and to b ehonest already figured how much money it would be selling all of them!! Well the good thing is that I won't have to sew any new ones for our Felix-safe christmas tree and can just go with the ones I already made!!!

But I still made some good money and I started already to look out for some nice things to get!!

I leave you with some shots from the weekend and I can start getting into the chrsitmas mood now that the market is over!!

some handmade little journals with patterned paper scraps.


That's me arranging some greeting cards.


Still doing the same!!


These are my cute painted wooden boxes (which used to carry oranges in their first live!!)


Two little collages with embellies and PP


My favourite item - and most sold one : Lichtertüten (light bag?!?)

Last but not least: my sewn hearts that nobody liked!!! I really can't believe it!! But wait until christmas when I post a pic of our hearty xmas tree!!! You all wished you'd have bought some!! But then it's too late!!!

I forgot one thing: One of the ladies who organuzed the event came by sunday evening and asked about the day and how it went and stuff like that. After I told her that I wasn't satisfied she offered me to put one of my boxes filled with cards in her little store. She sells decorative items and make holiday wreaths and I think her store is open on 2 or 3 afternoons in the week. Her store is known by lots of people already and I think this might be a nice opportunity for me to sell some things. We will see!!