Today, I have a very good reason to smile… along with someone else…
Congratulations on your 70st birthday mom!!!!!!
Yep, you read it well. My mom is turning 70 years young today!
Go send her some love on her website!
(for non Dutchies: Click the button ‘Johanna’ in the top menu – find
‘Gastenboek’ (guestbook) in the menu – fill in the captcha numbers
to get in the guestbook and leave a message!)
Ofcourse I made her something.
Or better: two things, but I only show you the card.
She (and you) will have to wait some more for her present.
(Mam, als de post nog niet geweest is, wil je misschien nog even wachten
en niet meteen doorklikken?)
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I made her a “Zetti birthday card”
“To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful
than to be forty years old.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes –
I hope you have a marvelous day mom! See you real soon!
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And as it becomes routine on Tuesdays: here’s last week’s art journal page.
Week 49
It’s a bit of a simple page, since the week was too hectic and busy filled
with work… but somehow I love it’s simplicity!
This was week 49, wow! Can you believe there are only 3 weeks to go
before the New Year starts? I will have to find/make me another journal
to keep my weekly pages going, but I already have a plan…
and it makes me smile!
I have three weeks of vacation as of today! YEAY!
The writing job is done until January, and I can fill in the days as I like.
So I subscribed to the online bookbinding workshop Just three journals
(teacher: LK Ludwig) and I am planning on binding myself a new journal
to use next year! I will have to decide on the paper, make a cover and
bind the book but I can’t think of anything more fun then bind (and fill)
art journals! It will be well spend free days!!
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(And ofcourse there is the big, musical top 2000 blog party in week 52!
You didn’t forget, did you?)
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After all the writing work was done yesterday, I rewarded myself and
got my white Christmas branches from the attic!
I’m not much of a Christmas decorator – I usually find all the decorations
‘over the top’ and although I love to see it all on pictures and blogs, I don’t
want it in my home! No Santa’s, no tree, no singing angels or reindeer’s –
just my little, white branches with the tiny lights! It adds a subtle
Christmas feeling to our living room, and I love it!
It’s hard to take a good photo that show off the lights in the dark,
but you get the picture.
And yes, that’s my art journal laying next to the vase.
See how thick it’s grown in a year?!
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So now I’m going to spend the afternoon being creative…
I can choose to do so many things… maybe start looking for paper
to bind an art journal? Make a layout? Create some ATC’s?
I don’t know yet, but first I am going to call my mom!
You all have a happy week!
Je t’embrasse!