Sequins

Journalling:

We bought you a new dress for Christmas: Pink with fringes and sequins.

You couldn’t be happier! 

And you loved seeing the reflections it made. 

Like a disco-ball you were twisting and turning to make the lights dance!

For this page I used another sweet kit by Danyale. 

Named Country Romance

I just love her kits. 

She manages to make so many, yet she stays original.

Really, that girl works wonders!

Country Romance by Etc. by Danyale

Game Night

Danyale has a STUNNING new kit out; Game Night. 

I love it SO much! I've been making 3 LO's so far, and I'm not done yet! :)

I just know I'll be using this kit over and over and over again!

(image is linked to the store)

Game Night by Etc. by Danyale @ The Digichick

 

journaling (translated)
Guess what I draw?
At this moment a favorite game of the kids! We made our own rules, so we can play with three players too. A fun game, you use your fantasy, and try to think how the other thinks and draws. It makes for some surprising drawings!

 Journaling:
We love visiting our good friends Kerri and Florian. During the day, it is fun with the kids. And when they are in bed, it’s our turn! We can relax, and chat, and play a game of: Rummikub

 Inside the game cupboard

Just a listing of what we have nearby to play at the moment.

Thanks for looking!

Lasagne

My girl Lisa (9) has been wanting to learn how to cook.
So, I let her make Lasagne. Of course, guiding her every step of the way. And documenting it with LOTS of photo's
I turned it into a recipe card for her, so next time I will have an eye out, but she'll be able to do most of it herself. :)

Kit used: Recipe Box by Etc. by Danyale

Numbers: Almost Neutral alpha's by Etc. by Danyale (retired)

Recipe Box by Etc. by Danyale @ The Digichick

German Division

Danyale (Etc. by Danyale) has yet another new kit out! 

Military Day by Day

And a journal set to make it easier to Tell Your Story.

 Well, I think it's THE perfect kit if you have a loved one in the military!

Which... I don't. 

;)

And STILL it's an awesome kit to scrap with. 

I just had to put my thinking cap on, but soon realized I DID have a LO I really wanted to make, and this kit was just perfect for it!

It turned into a 2-pager, as I had too much stuff to put on just one page.

 Journaling reads:

I grew up with the given fact that East and West Germany were split. A border between them, and people and families split up. I learned a bit about it at school. It was terrible for the people. Later I heard the news of the wall coming down, and saw some of it on TV. But all these things, although I thought they impressed me, did not really, deeply do that. The feeling was more that You were taught to be impressed, to have respect. It was not something that came from the inside.

Last year, while visiting our friends, we also made a trip to a memorial site, with part of the border still there.
Just a half hour drive, and I wanted to see it for myself
There, I got more of the feeling of what it must have meant for the people living there,
and I got impressed. From the inside. From just imagining and understanding the tiniest bit of what they must have felt, and what it must have been like.

One of the things that got to me was the story behind the
Birch Cross.
Erected to the memory of two men who attempted to escape at this place at Christmas 1975. They had almost reached their goal when one of them detonated the splinter mine, which had been installed on the last border-fence. He was so seriously injured that for a long time everyone was certain that he had not survived. His companion was arrested.
This all happened before the very eyes of the Americans, but they were not allowed to intervene...
Today the birch cross represents all those who had become victims of the German division.

The border between East and West Germany
To be honest, when I first saw this I thought, is this it? This wire-like fence? I expected a wall, like in Berlin. Then I got to think, and it hit me that people could SEE, the other side, but never were able to reach... See the land, the houses of your friends and family... And it should feel like you could just touch it... But you couldn’t. How hard must that have been?

It’s good they have photo’s of how it was back then. As the green fields surrounding the border now, don’t give you the same feeling as the border with members of the East German border troops on the photo from the mid 1980’s. 

 

I used: (all kits made by Etc. by Danyale)

Military Day by Day ,  Military Day by Day Journal set ,

Barb wire, used to make a frame: Hunting Camp Kit

Font: Pea Picky Panda and Typewriter

Blog update

Hi, I updated my blog for the first time since I started it.

So yeah, a LITTLE bit out of date!

I now used a background image, and hope everyone can still see it properly.

Ooh, nearly forgot! 

The beautiful kit I used is made by Kim Broedelet:

Another Ordinary Day

I also used Another Ordinary Day Alpha, 

and Another Ordinary Day Attatchers.

Thanks for stopping by!

Filled Baguette

 My 9-year old wants to learn to cook! So here's something she made. 

The recipe is easy enough, and still a lot of fun.

I can still remember, I made it too when I was a kid. ;)

 

(All kits used are made by Etc. by Danyale
- credits below)

Journaling: (translated)

Lisa wants to learn how to cook.
A fun, tasty and easy recipe to start with is this filled baguette.
The fact that mum used to make it when she was a girl, made it even more fun.

 

Recipe: (translated)

Ingredients:
1 baguette (or 2 pre-baked)
350 grams minced meat
200 grams grated cheese (or more
for topping)
1 small onion
1 small tin of tomato puree
1 egg
1 clove of garlic or powder (to taste)
1 pinch of salt
pepper
3 theespoons sweet pepper powder
2 tablespoons soy sauce

Directions:
* preheat oven at  200°C
* slice baguette in the length, and scoop out the inside (don’t slice the pre-baked)
* Mix the minced meat with the cheese, chopped onion, tomato puree, egg, garlic, salt, pepper, sweet pepper powder and soy sauce
* Fill the bread with it.
* put some cheese on top if you like
* Put the baguette ± 20 minutes in the pre-heated oven.

All kits I used are made by Etc. by Danyale
 
(From top to bottom, left to right:)
Main kit used: Recipebox
Leaf, brown paper: Americana celebration
Tape, wordart, heart, key: my heART
journaling paper: my heART Journal set
Stitched border: hope chest
tack: timeless

font: Pea Celestial Creation

Happy New Year!

I wish everyone a Happy, Healthy, Lovingly New year.

No, no new year's resolutions from me. Maybe more blogging, but no promises. ;)

Phew, I've been neglecting this blog.

Not too strange, as I've been slacking in designing -and not planning to change, as I wanted to scrap more- and then I've been slacking at scrapping too. And when I did scrap, I forgot to blog. 

Until now.

Danyale has made this lovely new kit, and I've actually scrapped with it. 

Here are two LO's from me, they both happen to feature my youngest one. 

Journaling: 

You chose to take a 2-hour quiet time in the afternoon, 
so you could stay up all evening to celebrate the new year 
and watch the fireworks. At 2 a.m. you were really worn out 
and couldn’t help falling asleep on my lap. 
My little big 5,5 year old Tommie

Journaling: 

Tommie (5) wants to learn to play chess,
As he does know how each piece moves, he and our neighbor
(Lovingly called Grandpa Ton) enjoyed a game together!

 And here's the kit I used: 

my heART  kit and my heArt Journal Set by Etc. by Danyale. 

Available at The Digi Chick 

(images are linked if you want to take a closer look)

my heART  kit

 And

my heArt Journal Set

 As Danyale's kits are so easy to mix,

I used an Alpha from another kit, Autumn Nights.

(for 2012 2am)

Autumn Nights

Thanks for visiting!