{"id":2919,"date":"2009-05-02T19:48:44","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T18:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/?p=2919"},"modified":"2025-09-19T13:00:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T11:00:51","slug":"hihihihi-hahahahaaaaasharing-the-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/hihihihi-hahahahaaaaasharing-the-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"hihihihi… hahahahaaaaa
(sharing the fun!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

First: let me ask you this:
\nare you a perfectionist?
\nDo you always over think your lay out\u00a0at least a dozen times
\nbefore you start working on it?
\nDo you always “colour between the lines”?
\nYou\u00a0wouldn’t dare to\u00a0“just do something” – ’cause you’re afraid\u00a0
\nit might turn out wrong?\u00a0<\/p>\n

You said\u00a0YES to all the above…?
\nThen let’s shake hands – you’re just like me!<\/p>\n

But I found the perfect remedy.
\nA cheap therapy to loosen up – to shake perfectionism from your shoulders,
\nto just play and have fun…
\n(Thanks to Liesbeth<\/a>,\u00a0who mentioned this book on her blog,
\npublished some hilarious photo’s\u00a0and sure had a lot of fun with it too!)<\/p>\n

I bought me and my friend Lena this book!<\/p>\n

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\nIt was designed and written for perfectionists like us and it contains instructions that are hard to follow if you’re like that, but\u00a0Lena & I managed to\u00a0put ourselves over it and, once we got a hang of it, we had the time of our life.<\/p>\n

We almost peed our pants last Wednesday!!!
\nKeep reading and share the fun!<\/p>\n

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One of the first instructions the book\u00a0gave\u00a0us was:\u00a0“Crack the spine”….
\nOUCH!!!
\nThat was difficult… but we did it.
\nAnd then we burned a page.
\nAnd we spilled tea\/coffee over it.<\/p>\n

After that, we came acros the following instruction:
\n“Tie a string to the journal. Go for a walk, drag it.”
\n\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nSo, overconfident as we were by that time, we went for a walk (Nout took the photo’s – in between laughing!)<\/p>\n

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\nAfter playing for a while, we had no problem doing this either:<\/p>\n

“Tie a string to the spine of this book. Swing wildly.
\nLet it hit the walls.”<\/p>\n

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\u00a0
\nGiggle, giggle…..
\nLena bought us
\nlarge lollipops
\nto obey to
\nthis instruction:<\/p>\n

“Tongue painting.<\/p>\n

1. Eat some colorful candy…\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n2. Lick this page.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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If you’re a perfectionist yourself…. buy this book!
\nInvite a friend and go for it. I assure you enormous fun!<\/p>\n

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Did you read the former post about Queens day in the Netherlands? Well, it’s custom that on that day everyone sells stuff on the street.\u00a0Each city changes in\u00a0a big flee market and for me – scrap booker – it’s the opportunity to go strolling the markets and find me some yummy stuff!<\/p>\n

I looked for vintage (childrens) books this time, and I found some real nice ones! Also a stamp (some sort of frame)<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\nTuesday, I got
\nthis in the mail.
\nIt’s the gift Helen<\/a> made\/bought for me!!! I’m totally in love with the lace,
\nI adore the little “bag” she made
\nand the Easter decorations are over-the-top sweet…<\/p>\n

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I’m not\u00a0a “sweet coloured girl” but\u00a0when Helen dares me to use it on a scrap
\nI don’t let that go by on me easily… so Helen, I’ll use it! Promise!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nIt must have taken her a lot of time
\nto make this… look at all the embroidery! Thanks Helen!<\/p>\n

Today, I spend the afternoon creating. I\u00a0hadn’t done much last week, and really needed some “me-time”. Although lots of challenges were going on over at SIStv (celebrating “National Scrapbook Day”) I decided to work on my Leonard Cohen Art Journal book…
\nand so I celebrated on my own!<\/p>\n

(This post contains already enough pictures, I’ll show you the Art Journal page another time)<\/p>\n

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But the day isn’t over yet. It’s still early in the evening over here and because\u00a0SIStv goes on American time there’s hours and hours left to play along! I might spend the rest of the evening over there, hanging out with the SISters, chatting,\u00a0playing games and have some\u00a0fun…<\/p>\n

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First: let me ask you this: are you a perfectionist? Do you always over think your lay out\u00a0at least a dozen times before you start working on it? Do you always “colour between the lines”? You\u00a0wouldn’t dare to\u00a0“just do something” – ’cause you’re afraid\u00a0 it might turn out wrong?\u00a0 You said\u00a0YES to all the above…? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,132],"tags":[257,253,255,256,254],"class_list":["post-2919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","category-photos","tag-childrens-books","tag-fun","tag-laughing","tag-perfectionist","tag-wreck-this-journal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}