Last week, I finished all the urgent pursuits and now I have more
TIME, TIME, TIME!
YAY!!!!
This week started in a very special way.
I will show you!
Sit down, have a coffee and let me lead you to a special evening…
..
Today, I want to take you on a trip…
A trip that starts on top of the dunes nearby my hometown.
When you walk on the path that leads over the dunes, you can look down at
the beach. And the sea. And the wooden wave breakers.
As a child, I played on this beach and the wave breakers are also very typical
for this part of the Netherlands (Zeeland)
The above image is a photo.
You saw that, didn’t you?
..
… in 10 days!!!!
Don’t be afraid, I won’t let you all down but I decided to quit facebook
on May 31! You probably know I’m on it for about a month now, because
my “A Year in the Life of an Art Journal” group moved from ning to facebook,
but the facebook-group doesn’t really add something new…
I post my AYITLOAAJ-pages already in a Flickr album and on my blog and
I noticed the facebook-group does not really add anything to that.
So why stay there?
Why stay on facebook anyway (something I was never planning to do
in the first place.)
And then I read THIS last week, and I saw a documentary about it
on television, and that was the straw that broke the camel’s back…
I’m OUT on QUIT FACEBOOK DAY
So if you are my “friend” on facebook I will “unfriend” you…
If you want to speak to me you’ll have to come to my blog or e-mail
and I’m sure if you call yourself my friend you will STAY my friend!
On to some creativeness now…
I buy a lot of my scrap supplies in the “Artist Store”.
It is not a scrapbook store – they don’t have Tim Holtz ink and 12 x 12 paper
(they do sell Copic markers though!) but since I’m more into art journaling
I come there often to get me plain paper, permanent markers and so on.
Do you know the smell of an artist store…??? Hmmmm!!!
Long time ago, that store provided me with a “savings card” and every time
I bought something, they wrote the amount on my card.
Feel it coming?
Yep! Last week,
my card was full!!!!
That meant that they
calculate 15 % of the
total amount on my
card, and I could
“free shop” for that!
YEAY!!!
I’ve been glancing
at this box with
oil pastels for
a while and now
I went for it!
I even had money left
to buy permanent
markers and
aquarelle paper!
Now THAT’S a fun way of shopping!!!
Can I take a deep sigh…?
A REALY DEEP SIGH….???
OK, done. I needed that!
You all know my new workshop “A Creative Art Journey” starts Friday, don’t
you? And of course I started working on it in time… but after I wrote a number
of lessons for it, it somehow didn’t feel right… don’t know why… I just didn’t
“like them” a lot. So I thought about it, talked about it with my beloved but
kept on going anyway… and suddenly last week I knew “what was wrong”
and I decided to go back to the beginning and change it… oooohhhh..
so little time left and right at that moment I decide to go back and start over.
(Warning: picture overload!!!!)
Good morning you all!
Today is queensday
in the Netherlands
and although the sun
isn’t shining, I will
spend the afternoon
outside trying to score
some useful goodies
on the giant flee market!
For you foreigners
who have no idea
what “queensday”
in the Netherlands
is all about, and for
you Dutchies who
want to have a good
laugh… you have to
have a look at this!!!!
(but you may want to watch when your children are out of the room!!!)
And the first photo in my post today shows the tree in our front yard
bursting with blossom.
..
…you wake up realizing the fantastic weekend you had is over.
It’s Monday and you feel a bit awkward, due to the time change.
Last weekend, you moved the clock one hour forward, and while in your head
it’s still early the alarmclock tells you the morning has long begun…
You stumble out of bed. Your eyes aren’t fully open yet…
You went to bed way too late – that stupid hour change.
You put on the coffee and look at a strange newspaper (???)
Ah, suddenly you remember… the newspaper changed
from broadsheet to tabloid.
After you had your coffee, you begin to live a bit…
enough to get ready for the day (which, by the way,
started hours before you opened your eyes.)
You put on the computer to see if there’s any news
and then….
then you see that your layout titled “One Day”
WON THE LATEST SCRAPPING THE MUSIC CHALLENGE!!!!!!
……
My eyes are open wide now.
I’m in the hall of fame!!!!
Yeeeehaaaa!!!
I’m fully awake now!!!!
Enough to “think and write” in English so let me tell you about my weekend…
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