I have no tasks
or obligations
to fulfill today
I can do
whatever
like play
in my atelier
all day
yay!

Last week, Julia (our lovely woyww-hostess) posted an idea she had to celebrate WOYWW’s eleventh anniversary on Wednesday May 20th, number 572. We usually swap ATCs to celebrate but as she says: “there’s a lot of pressure on every service at the moment (…) and our usual ATC swap would just add to the burden that the Post Office is experiencing. (…) So we won’t do that. I think we should really make something of this locked down Anniversary and take the opportunity to do something lovely for our enjoyment. So how about this: drag out a UFO (any craft, any age) or a kit, or ‘thing’ that you’ve promised to do ‘at some point’ and actually do it. Take the challenge and show us on WOYWW 572.”

I usually am quite disciplined, and finish the projects that I start, so I thought I had to miss out on this celebration challenge but something I saw on the internet made me realize I had in fact a long-forgotten UFO (UnFinished Object) laying on the shelf…

I once saw a little accordion booklet on the blog of my fellow desker Zsuzsa (Inky Dinky Doodle) she made from old craft-sheets (I think) and corrugated packaging board… it must have been over a year ago (is that right Zsuzsa?) I started making such a booklet but I didn’t come far… so this is the UFO I will work on this week and hopefully show the results next week.

WOYWW #571

Due to being a guest designer at “Dutch Dares” – a Dutch scrapbooking challenge group – I create more layouts than I have in a long time and I spend quite some time going throught old photos lately. When Sharon posted the new challenge at Challenge YOUrself I had just found the perfect photo, so I decided to give it a go:

The theme for this month’s challenge is all about MOM! You can include a photo of a grandmother, mom, daughter, child, etc. . . . interpret the theme any way you like. Just make sure that you include a photo with YOU in the frame!

Being MUM

My mum, me and my son.

(detail)

And guess what? That little lad on the layout has grown big, and he (and his girl) send me this for Mother’s day last weekend…

And that’s it for today lovelies, I’m going to take out my inks/paints/papers and see if I can come up with an idea (theme?) to finish that accordion booklet. Have a lovely day y’all, stay safe!

My headaches were gone by Friday afternoon, and never came back.
That was just in time, because I spend the weekend in sunny Zeeland with
my parents and ‘my men’. I had some appointments there and had to handle
‘something’ 😉 (more details soon!) and it went way better than expected…

Besides ‘work’, we
also found time to
enjoy the lovely
weather, the  sea,
the scenery and
each other! I sipped
white wine in the
afternoon sun with
my mom. I walked
across the dunes
and had coffee in a
beach pavilion with
my dad. I payed my
best friend Lena a
visit. All in all it was
a relaxing and
beautiful weekend!

Here’s a photo I took while standing on the dike with my son.
MAN… is he getting big and EECK… am I getting old and fat!
(I have to get rid of that double chin!)

Since last Sunday was Mother’s day, I surprised my mom with this collage.

‘Only a mother can embrace you by mail’

The head is mine (the photo was taken for a project in 2008 – here’s
the old post) It fitted perfectly on the body of a ‘reading lady’ (image
from a magazine) Bright scraps of papers turned into circles and a border.

The Chronicles of Marit 2011 – week 18

Here’s week 18 in my art journal

This page is a bit about my headache and much about Zeeland and the sea.
My mom gave me such a lovely photobook about oceans all over the world!
It’s a so called ‘coffee table book’, and it’s packed with awesome photos,
almost too beautiful to use – so I decided to tear out a photo right away.
That way the first, scary ‘act of vandalism” is done and from now on I feel free
to tear out all the photos! (There are over 700!)

Today is Tuesday.
Totally ‘LADADI’ Tuesday!
Why?

• I received an email this morning with a lovely message/request.
  I can’t share it yet, it has to stay secret for now, but it made me
  dance with joy!

• I received an email a while back from Artella Land
  They asked permission to reprint one of my blogposts in an issue
  of The Art Journal Journey e-zine. (I think it was the April issue,
  but I haven’t seen it nor heard from the lady from Artella Land)

• 30 participants have already signed up for Summer Camp!
  (My online summer camp has a big ‘camping place’ and you are
  welcome anytime! So click the link and join the club!)

• What began as a fantasy, now seriously seems to work out!

I wish you all a ‘ladadi’ Tuesday too!
Keep on singing and enjoy life!