I am almost ready for Christmas
Yesterday I thought well, its going to be the 1st Advent today and I therefore I pulled out all my Christmas decoration stuff and decided to create an Advents wreath. Armed with pruning-shears I went out into the driveway and cut off branches from an olive tree. Well,...
Review of my Year 2013
In the times of internet I thought I could write a much nicer online review of my year with pictures this year and also I won't have the problem with space. So I could write unlimited - but don't worry I won't! 😉 I have split my review in areas, so you could skip...
Getting ready for Christmas
Same as last week, I didn't really get to do much craft, but was writing a lot of my Australian cards. My German mail is all posted and will hopefully arrive early December. I had planned to write a lot more cards yesterday, but I had an unplanned 2 hour Skype call...
Christmas Mail
I am quite proud of myself: I have written all my overseas Christmas mail already! I just have to post it tomorrow! As you can imagine I didn't have much time to create cards. Actually my morning routine was exchanged to writing cards instead of making them. The next...
Can you tell?
I think I am not in the mood for typing today! I had a packed weekend and somehow I don't feel like typing. So I will keep it short and sweet. Yesterday I had two of my friends for craft over and I made my 100th Christmas card! Of course that didn't stop me, I just...
Beach saison opening
Its finally nice and warm or better hot with temperatures around 30 degree. Last week we even had a day with 37! What's really nice is that the nights a still quite cool allowing me to have a good sleep. Just in time I was packing away my winter cloths and pulling out...
Still going strong …
By now I have created over 75 Christmas cards! That is definitely a record for me. I haven't done that many in any other year! And I am still going to create more. Another record is a magical low figure I haven't seen on my scale for over three years! Despite the...
One down
After a week of no sweets and lots of salad, fruits and vegetables I have lost one kilo! YEAH! I had a couple of evenings lying in bed and getting hungry, but I managed to ignore it and fall a sleep anyway. Otherwise I have continued with creating Christmas cards, but...
Back to no sweets again
After having finished my last piece of birthday chocolate yesterday, I am back to not eating sweets at home. Of course I am already craving a piece of chocolate, but I guess I will be fine in a couple of days. In the meantime I keep eating fruits against the cravings....
Too much food
This week I was going from one dinner to the next and in between some lunches! Crazy! It started with a casual dinner at my friends place on Monday night, then going out for dinner with friends on Wednesday for my birthday, going for our regular meal on Thursday after...
Christmas Card Madness
Wow, within one week I created a staggering 19 Christmas cards! I think I mostly surprised myself with this figure. Another two weeks like that and I would be done already. Sounds good in theory, but I doubt I will be able to repeat this record any time soon. I wasn't...
Family Scrapbooking
This week I tried myself on a "real" scrapbooking page, not one that will be hidden in my art journal. I was wanting to try a technique whereby you create a raised pattern on your page. Without any plan I just started off selecting a page and a stencil and filled the...
Cards galore
After doing a couple of scrapbooking layouts and the beyond the page project, I started creating some cards again last Sunday. I had my lovely friends Vada and Linda over and together we crafted through the afternoon. At the beginning I struggled a bit - as usually...
Scrapbooking and Beyond the Page
I have been busy crafting last week and because I didn't do my house work on Saturday, as originally planned, I was running out of time and didn't even write my weekly blog. I have been doing some more scrapbooking in my art journal. I am now moving on to my brothers...
More Scrapbooking
This week I have done some more scrapbooking in my art journal. Yesterday I found a big stack of old photos from my family and picked out some nice ones I want to scrap. I am trying to keep the layouts quite flat, so the art journal can still be closed. For the two...
I finally know what was holding me back
During all these times doing greeting cards, I always thought scrapbooking pictures isn't for me! And I just realised how wrong I was! Of course I had tried it and I even did a workshop with one of my favorite artists, but that was about it until last week. It all...
A weekend full of volleyball
Last weekend was a full on volleyball weekend. I got sort of last minute asked, if I want to join a team to play in the Collie Country tournament since they had some drop outs. The theme was Disney and I had just one week to get organized. I ended up being a witch. We...
Holiday – Bavarian specialities
After three years I was finally back in Germany to visit my family and friends. It was great to be back and being able to properly hug my mum, sister, brother, nephews, sister in law, brother in law and my friends. With me also the summer had arrived in Germany -...
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