More pages wedding-album.

It is very, extremely warm in the part of the Netherlands were I live....

So...to be honest.....Scrapping is my life, but.....hard to do with this weather.....

I am melting in my scrap-room.....

Still....try to keep up with the work! Here are some more pages of the wedding-album Karina and Klaas. Used a lot of stamps and swirls.

Paper Challenge '08: Operation 31> A PERSON.

Believe it or not, but.......This week's operation A PERSON had to be......It belongs to me, I mean...I do not understand it, but there is more between heaven and earth.....

Read my story! Some time ago I started mailing with A PORTLAND GRANNY (Joan), who happens to live in Gresham, Oregon. That's the town A PERSON also lives.....

He's bright, he's handsome, he's a photographer and an excellent artist (painter) and he was the LOVE OF MY LIFE a LONG TIME AGO! I had great times with him and he drove me around in his Suzuki Jeep all the time....Showed me the beauty of his country. We fell in love and yes....Patty (our friend) did warn my relatives.....WATCH HER: SHE WILL ALSO FALL FOR HIM AND HE"LL BREAK HER HEART!

Dear Pat....How wise you are, cause yes! After two wonderful summers A PERSON did not want to see me again. He did not speak to me in person, but I did get the message from my relatives....

He broke my heart, but sometimes I did ask my self what would have happened to this man?
So.....Joan came on my path and so I googled and found this man again. He's still a painter and an artist. His paintings are still very gorgeous.....There was also a picture of him and I looked at it for a long time......And......It's ok! I am over and done with him! I hope he is as happy as I am. Peter is everything to me and our sons are gift's......Funny that life can make turns like these!

DBH> A PERSON.........I CAN LET YOU GO..........I was in love with a dream.........
Young and careless........

Now I know better!

But I want to thank you for the wonderful times: you are in my heart and I feel friendship now!

Elise's Challenge paper 2008> PART 2!

My little album got so very full.....

No page would fit in anymore....

After 25 weeks I knew I had to make another one to continue the Paper Challenge!
But.....I had no papers left, so I had to surch for it!
I did find some, but no glitter on it!
I used glitterglue and the results are wonderful!

So....Happy as can be is me......

And here they are together: PART 1 and PART 2!

Operation 30: Where will you be 5 years from now?????

Where will I be 5 years from now?????
I have NO IDEA!

I hope our wonderful son Björn will still be alive and be in our daycare centre.

Hope Ingmar will be lucky too and our sweet little doggie will be around.....

Hope Peter and me will be a couple> still in love...

Hope that our friends are also happy and with us...

You know something??????
MONEY??? It is not the most important thing. O yes....I know we all do need money...Believe me! But.....What I need most is LOVE> hope you will all be there to give me this!

LOVE U ALL!

Enjoy every minute of this precious day!

Jen.

AWARD!

This is my award

AWARD!

Last thursday I went on a three day's trip with my friend Tineke. We drove from Delfzijl to Woerden to visit Karen Plantinga. She became mom for the first time four weeks ago....
Then we drove to Tineke's relatives in Barneveld and stayed over for the night.
The second day we drove to Heesch: the scrapbookstore and dollhouse museum. That was gorgeous! We loved the doll houses!
Then we drove from Heesch to IJmuiden and spend the night at Hetty and Peter's, who are Tinekes relatives also. We had a lot of fun!
Saturday my mom got 76 years old and we took her to Harderwijk: the Dolfinarium and today my mother-in-law had her Birthday coming up, so we spend some time there....

In and between all the partying I did read my comments and GUESS WHAT?????

A PORTLAND GRANNY AWARDED ME!!!!!

ME!!!!!!
LITTLE MISSY ME....................

ME????
THANK YOU DEAR , JOAN!
I feel so HONOURED!
I can not tell you how much that means to me!
THANKS/THANKS/THANKS/THANKS/THANKS/THANKS/THANKS/THANKS/THANKS!!!!!
I am sooooooo happy with it!
Tomorrow I will try to get it on my blog.....
It's too late and I have to catch up a lot of work.......

But I am very happy!
To all of you, were ever you are......Sleep well or have fun the rest of the day....
Jen.

Babybook.

Last night Tineke and I made a babybook for her sister-in-law and her brother-in-law.

They offer us a meal and a bed when we are going on our trip to Heesch.

We are going to the SCRAPBOOK-STORE there!
YUMMIE SHOPPING!!!!

So to thank the two we made this book about their first grandson Sander.

I used the cartridge NEW ARRIVAL!

Ai'n't it a lovely gift?
Bet they'll like it.

Enjoy life and hope Elise will put her new challenge today on time!

Jen.

Rusty Pickle wedding-album.

I am very fond of BASIC GREY, but....Cosmo Cricket, Prima and Rusty Pickles have nice papers, too.

Some time ago I bought a line R.P and this was for a wedding-album. I allready scrapped our weddingpics in an album, so I was thinking to my self.....: Let's scrap Klaas and Karina's wedding pics from july 2008.

These are young people.....The R.P papers will do great!
So I started and I want you to give a sneak peak, because it is not done, yet, but....

I think the pics are not too great and in real the pages are very nice.....

By the way: I treated my self on a cuttlebug and I must admit: the embossingparts are awesome! As you can see on some pages! Just gorgeous to work with. The swirls are done with the cricut. Cartridge essentials, I think.....Must be....

Have a wonderful sunday, Jen.

Dutch pie!

I think racing is fun, but too bad not my thing....

So...I took it nice and easy with my arm and bakes a bread and a DUTCH PIE, called vlaai.

It is a pie, that is famous in Holland. It comes from LIMBURG (the very south of the Netherlands). I live in the upper north.....But that doesn't mean we can not bake our own vlaai, so.....

Here is the result. Ingmar tasted it and he LOVES IT!!!!

Also a detail and my Dutch tablecloth with nice flowers.....I pick them just in the neighberhood......

There are plenty and nobody wants them.....

I want them, ha, ha.....

Kart racing!

My three musketeers took me to Groningen to a real kart track.

Ofcourse we did some kart races.

First Ingmar against mom.....

Ha, ha...OFCOURSE I LOST THE RACE!!!

Little mister was twice as fast as mommy........

He's a little Schumacher indeed......Bjorn was our PITTS-LOVER! His eyes almost rolled out! Boy, oh, boy....Funny clothes dad, Ingmar and mom put on! And a thing on their head??? But...He had FUN!

The picture next to Bjorn....YES! THAT"S MEEEEE!!!!! SLOWPOKE JEN, ha, ha, ha.....

But....I wasn't that bad after all, because I made a good time after all.......

It was fun to share the experience with my guy's......

For me it will be only this one time.....My arm can not handle this kind of driving......

TOO BAD........

Elise's Challenge 2008: operation 29> Quiet!

I am a real working girl! I work at least untill three o'clock in the morning....

Because I love the dark and the quiet moments!

But....

In the morning we value QUIETNESS MORE and MORE, ha, ha....

My partner in "Quiet"-times is the dog, who sneaks into bed when Peter is gone....

SMART DOG!

Bye, Jen.

Scrap-fun in Legoland.

A long time ago I made a felt book out of bright colors and I knew for sure: This is going to be my Gran Canarian Island BOOK! I love this Spanish island so much because of the wonderful flowers, plants and animals and the year round sunshine! It is alway's SUMMER there.....

I had beautiful pics waitint to be scrapped, so....I took it to Denmark and in the late evening I made my book complete!

Here it is: my colorful GC-BOOK.......

Enjoy the day, bye, Jen.