Oct 29 2010

Childhood
(Freewheelin’ Friday #45)

Are you curious to see if I used my new stamps this week?
Well yessss – I did!!!

But first this:

DUTCH READERS (Nederlandse lezers)
there’s an announcement at the end of this post!

And this:

Kumi – I don’t know if you read my blog but if you do
you might want to stop reading! What I am about to show
when you click on “continue reading” is coming your way dear!

… to all you other, curious ones – go ahead!

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Oct 19 2010

All ready to go…!

Good morning!!!
October is well on it’s way and this Friday the online workshop
Mixed Emotions will start!
Michelle got back from her annual honeymoon vacation yesterday,
we will chat today to fine-tune the last things and then we are all ready
and set to go… YEAY!!!

Wanna join the fun?
There’s still time to register!

And what did I do last week (besides working on the lessons)…

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Oct 12 2010

Did we scare you?

I’m glad you all liked our special “sneak peek trailer” for the upcoming
workshop! However, I did notice that some questions arose about the
“Mixed Emotions” workshop.

Yep, this workshop is about exploring emotions, but

IT IS NOT THERAPY!

After all, an art journal workshops should be fun, and ours will be!
We don’t expect you to poor out your heart and soul on the pages,
we don’t expect
you to share your deepest feelings with us.
If you want to do that, that’s OK ofcourse, but we are prepared to
the fact that you want to keep your deepest feelings and emotions
to yourself.

There’s no need to be scared that you will be forced to open up.
Each lesson comes with questions and quotes that will help you
to explore the highlighted emotion in all directions. You can go
as private – or not – as you wish. The techniques that come with
each lesson will be fun to use in every way.

OK.
Now that’s cleared up I hope!
If there are any questions left, shoot me en email and I’ll be
happy to answer them!

On to some creativeness then…

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Oct 5 2010

Spoiled rotten!

Thank you for all your birthday wishes dear friends and readers!
I had a relaxed, easy going day with my two men last Saturday,
and I was spoiled rotten! Look what my sweetie bought me!

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Aaaah – a video camera!!!! (or is it called “cad cam?”)

Whenever I wanted to make a video-tutorial for my online workshops,
I had to borrow the camera from my neighbour.
It became quite annoying, for her as well as for me, but now I have my own!
I don’t know how to use it yet – my beloved knows ’cause we spend
the weekend making movies for the upcoming workshop – so I was
in front of the camera showing techniques…

And my dear son is a genius in picking presents – he bought me this!

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He never asked what I wanted
for my birthday – he just
dived into the bookstore and
from all the books that are
for sale there, he picks THIS
from the shelves!!!!

HOW COOL!

And how WELL he
knows his mom!!!!

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And yes, don’t worry,
there is some creativeness
in this blogpost too!
I finally have something
to show you.

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Sep 10 2010

Symbolic rings
(Freewheelin’ Friday #38)

The weeks fly by when you’re busy… it’s Friday already!
Hey you guys!

I was very busy over the last 2 weeks with writing articles for CmF
and in between I am also working on lessons (and “extras”) for the new
online art journal workshop with Michelle… it’s hard NOT to tell
what we’ve been up to because we have soooo much fun!
I can tell you this much: it’s going to be ONE HECK OF A WORKSHOP!!!

If the participants have only half the fun Michelle and I have
while working on it, it will be a blast!
For more info and registration for “Mixed Emotions” look here.

With my guest blogpost at Yvonne’s blog last Tuesday (BTW you still have
two weeks to participate in my little challenge – click the link for the info)
I haven’t had the opportunity to show you my weekly art journal from
the week before. And I even managed to get another layout done last weekend!

Here they come…

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Aug 6 2010

A skinny but full post!
(Freewheelin’ Friday #33)

Friday already – time flies and the days are already shortening again…
This morning there even was a hint of Autumn in the air – oh how I love
those Months when the leaves turn yellow and spiders weave their webs.
Months in which everything turns back to normal. People go to work.
Children go to school. Days when in the morning you have to put on a jacket
but in the afternoon you can do without – nice temperatures and a low sun.
September, October… (*teehee* my birthday month!)

Why was I thinking of that?
Well – in September the online workshop “Let it Loose” will start!
With the vacation ending and children going back to school, momma’s will
have time to “let it loose” – so I thought.
I went through the lessons again this week and got enthusiastic all over,
so today I will show you sneaks of what to expect in that workshop.

But first, as promised, “skinny skinnies!”

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Jul 23 2010

Soak up the Sun
(Freewheelin’ Friday #31)

The bright days kept on being bright last week!
But with the sun shining through our blinds I noticed something…

… how dirty my windows and blinds were!

You can’t see it on this photo but believe me – two smokers in the house
leave you with a thick layer of nicotine on the windows and blinds…

… and since the bicycle racers in the Tour de France had their day off –
no telecasting on Wednesday – I spend that day cleaning the windows
and the blinds.

Why do I post this, you ask?
Well, for starters – I’m not the “housekeeping kind of woman”.
And second: It took me all day and left me with muscle pain in my arms so yes,
I want the world to know I CLEANED THE BLINDS!! YEAY!

My beloved got infected by this cleaning virus and he decided to go polish
our dining room table on Wednesday evening… I gotta say: he asked first
’cause – as you know – that’s the place where I create.
I had no deadlines waiting and the table really needed a polish so I said
go ahead but ooohhh, it always takes over a day (polish – oil – wait for the
wood to absorb the oil –  rub – oil  – you get the picture) before we can sit
at the table again so I found myself at a loose end yesterday…
I just didn’t know what to do with myself! I have no problem with having
diner on the couch in front of the TV but did you notice that the BEST
scrapping ideas come when you’re not able to scrap??!!!

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But of course I wouldn’t leave you on a Friday without showing a layout…

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