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New pages...

I've been really busy working on my Christmas journal, and I made a lot of new pages since I've posted day 9 - 11...

So here's page 12:
(I was a little impatient, and took the pictures this evening... so the quality isn't great, but I think you get the idea...)



And a close up, so you can see part of the (rather private) journaling...? Old Christmas ornaments from your childhood makes you sometimes realize how much has changed....


And page 13... it's a very simple one, but I really like it... I love real trees, and every year it's a great joy for me to put all the ornaments in there... do we have enough, or can I buy some more? I like to colour coordinate everything...

But I fear that comes slowly to an end... We have a traditions that Stach can buy one ornament for the tree every year... this year he bought a white glittery plastic Christmas tree... on the colour front a very good choice...

Anyway... here's the page...




Page 15 is all about the family members we visit (almost) every year at Christmas... it's some sort of tradition to have dinner at my parents house or with my mother in law....


Yes, I know... you've missed page 14...
Sorry, you've got to be patient... it's not finished yet...
Page 21 is done, and 24, and I've posted 25 already... and page 27 is also finished! I'm a little bit behind schedule, so I choose every time which prompt I like to do... and that's very much fun!!!

What to do with a little boy...

when you have a few days to spend?

Well, you go here:

Nice guy, don't you think? Especially if you keep in mind that this one was a life size pre historic 'action figure' that was really moving and growling at you... Very cool...

The 'Kunsthal' in Rotterdam has a this great Dino exhibition, where you could not only see a dozen moving Dinosaurs, but you could also search for Dino skeletons...

and make rubbing of 'ancient' fossils...

After all this excitement I was glad to see the mailman peeking through our front window, waving with a nice box...

full of new scrapbook stuff...
(Sorry Sjoera, but what's a girl to do to keep her supplies in order and Pien doesn't have them...?)

I love good mail days, don't you?

And I really needed this delivery, because I'm running out of Heidi Swapp letters... they're the perfect size for my Christmas journal (that's 8 by 8 inches), so guess what I'm doing this evening...

Hope you have a merry, bright and peaceful...

d


Wow, the second day of Christmas afready... time goes so fast...
Hope you all had a wonderful day yesterday, with lots of love and presents...

I'm off now to my mother in law... we had a very nice diner there yesterday, and Stach spent the night at her place, so we're going to pick him up... but I wanted to show you my Christmas journal page I made yesterday...

Almost Christmas...

Finally, the holidays have come... I'm two weeks off work!

It has been a few very busy weeks, and my Christmas journal isn't filling with nice festive pages as fast as it should... but hey, our tree is up for a week now, and I've sent al my Christmas cards on time...

The tree is not very big, but a real one!!! We always have a real tree, I love the smell! It's a 'Nordman', so the needles don't come off... Stach and I had fun decorating it!

I made a lot of cards with Stach last week, but we still needed a few more... so I made these cards with the lovely Basic Grey paper... and a fabulous stamp from Cat's life Press...

Really had fun making these...

But there was also the Christmas journal... I'm way behind, but these next few days there's time to do some serious catching up...

Here's page 9:

And a close up:

And page 10: The photo I've used is from an add of one of my favorite stores, 'Life Style'...

And page 11:

I'll try to post some more pages very soon... hopefully tomorrow!

Did you have fun today?

Well... I had...

Bought myself a new friend...


Yeah, I know... I'm supposed to be a grown up now... a responsable person that takes care of a child, works for her money and pays her taxes... NOT someone who buys a stuffed animal just for fun...

But... look at him... (his name is Aron, according to the little card that was stuck on his neck, so it's a 'him'), I just couldn't resist... so I bought this little guy just for me... and it was fun!!

And now he's sitting on my desk and he keeps me company while I work on my pages... (just have to rescue him from time to time out of the hands of my 3 year old son...)

Anyway, back to the real topic of this post; my Christmas journal! Pages 7 and 8 are done, so here they are...

This page was all about our preparations for Christmas... Well, I guess Santa isn't visiting us, because his good old friend Sinterklaas has just been here... but that doesn't mean I don't have some shopping (and other things) to do...

And here's a close up:

Day 8 shows the signs of Christmas in our neighbourhood...

And, here's a close up to:

Working on page 9 right now... Yep, I'm a little slow, but who does care??? As long as we're having fun, right?

O, and before I forget... about that felt border on page 6: I don't want to disappoint you all, but it's not made by me... I bought it at Xenos... (see my last post, it's not my idea...) (so if any of you girls are Dutch, check this store out, it's really fun stuff...)