Busy with my Photo Album
Wow, I just took photos of all my photo album page and realised, that I have progressed quite a far bit. I think I am a bit more than a quarter through my photos. It may not sound a lot, but a quarter amounts to 125 photos! I have started to get more inventive and...
I made it!
Finally after a couple of weeks of painting, sanding and more painting and more sanding I completed my new shelf and its now in its final place next to my sofa chair. I wanted something to keep all the paperwork, books and bits and pieces that I have lying around and...
Happy “belated” Easter
That wasn't very successful! I had actually written this post last week on Easter Monday, but didn't get around to do the German translation and just simply forgot about it until today! So, here my "belated" post. Happy belated Easter everyone! Hope you have found...
What was I thinking?
Or better why wasn't I thinking? Clearly, I was not thinking when I did my grocery shopping last weekend. I was so in the fruit mood that I purchased a rock melon, a huge water melon, a bag of plums and a bag of grapes. While I do eat quite a far bit of fruit for...
Update on my busy life
Woohooo I am back! After 5 or was it 6 weeks, I am finally back! I had a very busy time with having a friend from Germany visiting. Because I didn't take any time off work, I tried to spend a lot of evenings and weekends with Petra. I only had some evenings I went for...
Summer inspired cards
What could be better then just following the season, especially in summer? I have got a whole stack of paper, rub ons, stamps and embellishments and all of these reminds me of summer. Sometimes its even just the colors I am using that represents summer for me. But...
The Black & White Series
Well, I am calling it a series, but there are only four cards. I am sort of pulling out something I like to use and it seems to become a habit to create a couple of cards in the same color scheme. Since I have been quite busy over last last weeks and didn't get much...
The Donkeys are loose …
Finally, after quite a long wait, the donkeys are loose! On Friday, 7th February 2014 was the official opening of El Mexicano! Since I have been involved a bit with programming the webpage and also creating policies and procedures, work flows and a bit of IT set up...
Baby Cards
I needed a baby card for a boy and I didn't have anything left that worked, so I started making baby cards and while I was at it, I made a whole bunch of them. Well, I have to say I made a bargain buy sometimes last year which included a pack of 13 double sided...
Music Themed Cards
I found this fantastic Stamp set with matching Die set just before Christmas and I couldn't resist buying it. Its all about music instruments and there are lots of them. Of course I was sitting down and started using them straight away. I had purchased a magazine from...
Beach finds
When I was at the beach yesterday morning quite early, I think around 7am I had to walk up and down the beach and inspect all the shells that were washed up on the beach. Sometimes there are hardly any like today, but yesterday there were quite a lot. I didn't have to...
Cards in Brown and Black
We are now going back in time to December 2013, as I have a number of cards I haven't shown yet. I had this new paper pad for quite a while and after I had finished with all the Christmas cards, I pulled it out and started using it. With the brown and black color...
Birthday Cards
I have been busy creating birthday cards. Funny enough they are all for the same person! John ordered again a special card for his wife Verna for her 70th birthday and since we are all invited to celebrate with Verna, my friends Albrecht and Ross also ordered a card...
New Years Resolutions 2014
Well, its that time of the year again, where you may set yourself some goals you want to reach. A lot of people say, new years resolutions are a "first week January to do list", but it doesn't have to be like that. Of course it depends a bit on the type of goal you...
Christmas review
Somehow I lost track with the days and missed my weekly blog last week. But hey, I am only one day late and I actually worked yesterday for a couple of hours, so that's a pretty good excuse I reckon. So, the celebrations started off on Christmas eve at my dear friend...
Christmas Bon Bon
I am back into Christmas craft and in the middle of creating Christmas Bon Bons! Its a good way of using up some more paper and left over bits and pieces. Below some pictures from start to the finished product of one bon bon. I still have to decorate 15 bon bons, but...
What to do with all the Christmas Cards?
Are you also thinking every year, that its a shame to throw away all the nice Christmas cards you received? And then you store them somewhere in a box just to never look at them again! That's exactly what happened to me in the last years, but I finally found a great...
Back to making normal cards
Yesterday I started again making some non Christmas cards and it was good fun. I had my friends Vada and Linda over for craft. This time we started already at 9.30am and went out for lunch as well as Linda had to go to a painting class meeting. We dropped her off...
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