Weekendje weg!

For the last 6 years Mieke, Stefanie, Anita & I go away for a weekend in September. We scrap, watch dvd's, eat out, shop, read, stay up late, have long walks in the woods and talk, talk, talk! And this year we extended our weekend a bit and decided to start on Thursday!! We had so much fun!! Here are some photos:


I really love this season; look how beautiful nature is right now:


And of course Mieke couldn't resist photographing these horses....

And yes, I did create a few layouts too this weekend, here's one I did for a challenge on WijDUS:

Used my September Nook kit, don't you just love these Pink Paislee goodies???

Nieuwe layout voor WijDUS

Vandaag even tijd over om te heerlijk te scrappen. Patrick was de hele week in Engeland dus dat betekende dat ik de eettafel voor mezelf had! (zie je wel, elk nadeel heeft zijn voordeel....). Ik wilde al heel lang deze foto's van Patricks 46e verjaardag scrappen en de juli schets van WijDUS was hier perfect voor.

Today I had some spare time to scrap!! Patrick works in England during the week and that means the dining room table is mine! I scrapped some photos of Patrick's 46th birthday which I had lying around for 2 years now. When I saw the July sketch from WijDUS I knew that was exactly what I was looking for. Here's my take on the sketch:

and the details:
Ik heb de kit van de My Scrapbook Nook tevoorschijn gehaald, daar had ik nog niks mee gedaan en die is toch weer zooooo leuk! Had ik die al eens laten zien?? Ik weet het echt niet meer.... nou ja, dan laat ik die gewoon ook nog even zien. Papier is van Lily bee (ben ik helemaal weg van, de kleuren zijn leuk en op sommige vellen staan van die schattige vogeltjes...)

I used the May kit from My Scrapbook Nook which held papers from Lily bee (GORGEOUS!! don't know if I have shown this photo before, but here it is again).

En omdat ik deze ook nog niet had laten zien, hier een foto van de juli kit van My Scrapbook Nook: BG Lemonade!! Geweldig he?

Here's a photo of the July kit of My Scrapbook Nook, filled with BG Lemonade.

Layout and presents

WijDus is among my favorite challenge blogs for a couple of months now, but for some reason I've never been able to play along, until now! Their challenge for July is to create a layout with the subject "outside" and this is what I made:


Title: summertime is terrace time (zomer, tijd voor een terrasje)
Journaling reads: When we're on holiday we never make lunch or dinner ourselves, but we always eat out on these little terraces; delicious!! (Als we op vakantie zijn koken we nooit zelf, maar vind je ons altijd op een terrasje: 's middags én 's avonds (en tussendoor); heerlijk!! Lanzarote, 2006)

I challenged myself to use this one sheet of Prima paper. I bought it because I found it so very beautiful in itself...without any other papers or embellishements or whatever and that made it so difficult for me to use. In the end I decided not to use any other papers, but to machine stitch around the photo(mat) and on the photo and just use a lot of Prima embellishments (bling, flowers, stem, owl), a piece of ribbon, a stamp of a clock, a Maya Road journaling card, some Thickers and adhesive pearls, some dymo tape and two staples.... And I'm quite glad how it turned out, hope you think so too!

Today was the last day before the summer holidays (it's raining cats and dogs!!) and I still had to finish the "presents" for Mats' and Timothy's teachers. As they will be back in the same class next schoolyear - with the same teacher - it's just a way of saying "thank you and have nice holiday" and not a "farewell" as was the case with Manons teachers....

Kept it simple, nothing fancy.