boys on film... fabeltjeskrant

You might nog understand the word Fabeltjeskrant but it is a children's programme (or used to be) when I was young.... and it has a revival now so the dolls are for sale and my boys are enjoying the songs:

Hi! We're back from our break... in fact we have been back since last Friday but I was still in the mood to be away from the computer... Today I worked again and put the pics on the computer. Here are some!

We stayed in one of the northern provinces of Holland, I always love being there, it feels more relaxed than in the busy western part (where we live). They boys had a great time, also because the grandparents were on the campsite, near our chalet. We had bicycles for 2 days and visited the Boomkroonpad. It is an artificial path on the same height as the top of the trees.... very exciting for kids! On the park there was lots to do for the kids, Koos Konijn was the mascotte and did a dance every morning at 10.00 am and after that it was arts & crafts time. In the evening Koos was there again for the minidisco. The morning we had to leave we hear sobbing from the room next to ours, Mauro was sobbing because he didn't want to leave... poor kid!

I also did these layouts from our vacation:

Did you notice the kit I used??? I already got some parts of the kit because I am on Royanna's CT and let me tell you, it's SO WORTH IT... so download it in September from Divine Digital!!

Here's the sneak peak:

You can read more about this Daily Download here

I have 2 weeks off this week, tomorrow and Friday... I was hoping to get a haircut but my hairstylist seems to be quite popular because there's no time for me.... I just called too late, oh well... perhaps another time and it leave me with more time organizing ACDsee or doing layouts.... and perhaps cleaning the house...lol!

Let me know what you think about this kit and the layouts!!

Karen

Bye bye!!

Hi all!

Yes yes yes!! Petra is off to Mallorca and tomorrow we're off to the north of Holland, Drenthe to be exact.... Ok so not exactly the sunny spot you'd love to be at on a vacation but we already had Greece in June so we're not complaining... hopefully the weather will be OK here.... So we're out of town for a week... then it's just another week until school starts again!

So about two weeks ago we went to the Zoo. I have plenty of animal pics but thought I'd scrap my boys first... The Polar bear b/c I scrapped Mauro 2 years ago with a pic on the same Polar bear... and the horses b/c they were more popular than the REAL animals (at least with Mauro).

This one is for Sherry Ferguson, I am on her CT....

Credits can be found at DST

This one is for Royanna Fritschmann (on her CT too)....

Credits at DST

Did I tell you we will be going to Prague for our 10 year anniversary in December? I booked this great hotel near the Old Town Square.... it's called the Three Drums... at least I hope it's great (could still cancel it, lol)....

Bye have a great week!

Karen

Wow... this looks like something I would like to have! It's called CyberClean and for about $5 it cleans your keypad over and over! I saw it in a magazine and looked it up on the internet... It looks like something we had as a toy when we were little kids. It was called Slimy!

Not much news for now as the kids are at home... One is watching Pokémon (he's 5) and the other one is bugging me... he wants to play a game on the laptop :)

Hae a great day!

Karen

Hello everyone!!

I was just giving someone tourist advice because she is going to NY next weekend... I sooooo would love to give her a shopping list...lol! GAP Kids... some nice sneakers.... coffee from Starbucks...hmmm I really need to find an excuse to go...lol! See one of the musicals 'for real' (Dutch translations suck.... how can I listen to Dutch lyrics when I usually hear the songs on the radio or cd in English... it's just NOT it!).

Just finished this layout for Sherry Ferguson. She's a great designer at OAKS and now that DST is down most of the time you have time to check her out :)

She just released this funky paperpack I am in love with, just click on the picture to grab it:

I mad this layout with these papers and the stars are also Sherry's (hurry, now on sale for only 1 buck!!)

Then I got this today:

The picture is clickable to get it... So how did I get this? A while ago I bought all of Micheline's PSP Scripts, she offered such a good deal that I really could not refuse. So I PM-ed her and asked her if she would sell me the scripts and she did. Today she PM-ed me a coupon to get her latest script also, isn't that sweet?? I mean, she didn't have to do that and she did!

I can't wait to use the script, it says there's a description included... I'll show you when I get something done.

OK Thursday tomorrow. Andy is going to visit his parents who are back from their trip to Germany, they always go to the same campsite on the Rhine near Koblenz.... Perhaps Lorelei is more famous. Grandma offered the youngest to stay over with them for 1 or 2 nights but it seems as the oldest is going ('so I don't have to go to the daycare, mom... )... We'll see who comes back with dad tomorrow... you'll never know! Luckily they fit the same size of clothes, well almost so they can decide until the very last moment...

Going for a nice cuppa now and then off to bed... Have a good day/night!!

Karen

PS... I am a real WANNABE for Micheline's guest CT:

New layout, lifts with a twist.... new blog layout

My blog has been a mess the past weeks... Last night I tried to redo it with the help of Petra's blogger code and it's 99% better.... Just my CT's are still at the bottom but I will try to fix that later....

Weekend now.... This morning we went to IKEA for the $1 breakfast and the intention of buying a small desk for Mauro. We now know what we want but haven't got it yet... we were too much in doubt about the right size. Perhaps we'll get it tomorrow as they are also open on Sunday this week. We have also looked for large closets to divide the attic. It means more space and we don't have to build a wall. It is also more flexible, if we want a large room later on we can remove the closets.... It's a bit more expensive but I think it's the better choice! After breakfast the boys went to the ballpit and we did our round in IKEA.... that works great.

Tonight I did the Lift with a Twist, here's my layout:

Credits can be found here

No more news for today.... the kids will sleep over at their grandparents tomorrow night because I have some things to do for myself... can't tell you what... some people might be reading along, lol! The weather is going to be great so enjoy it!!

Karen

Prague, Paris, Prize and a bit of a cold...

Yes,

I am having a bit of a cold... nothing serious, it just feels a bit numb inside of my head... I think I'll just turn in early... oh well... I have some European capitals to share with you....

Prague!

Yes, yes, yes!! In December dh and I will celebrate our 10 year anniversary!! We try to get a weekend-with-no-kids once a year, usually financed as a birthdaypresent for both of us (we're 8 days apart so we usually celebrate it together) from my parents.

So where to go?? Last year it was Paris (more of that later in this post). We also did New York, Glasgow, Barcelona, London, Vienna...and we each have been to Rome. On our wishlist (or rather, mine :)).... Madrid, Budapest, Prague, Stockholm....

In Europe we're now dealing with Low-budget flight companies... a good thing for us. Companies like Ryanair and Easyjet make it easy to go to the rest of Europe, sometimes you only pay taxes! But you have to be flexible, the hours the flights are, are most times not very convenient hours for a short trip... you want to make the most of your days right??

Today I found my dreamflight and booked it!!! We're going to Prague with SkyEurope! Now I have to find the best deal for a hotel so if you have any suggestions, please let me know!!

It's not until December, but I like that time of the year... just before Christmas is a good time because we both love shopping!

Paris

So last year it was Paris. I am Royanna Fritschmann's CT and got this Tour d'Eiffel kit (it's for sale at My Digital Muse) from her and made this layout:

Credits can be found here

Grunge didn't fit with these photos so I made it a bit different... I like how it turned out.

Prize!!!

A couple of weeks ago Petra had her first blogversary, do you all remember?? I won a WW prize!! I totally forgot about the prize until she asked me if WW already contacted me. Oops! No I hadn't heard from them. Yesterday I got mail from Gina from Weeds and Wildflowers and I was BLOWN AWAY!! Because they'd been too busy to send out the mail to me I now get a GiftCertificate of .... $20.... WOW!! I didn't expect this and think WW rocks so I am really really happy with this!

You see... I already got to the point that I am browsing their shoppe and thinking of what to get... These are my favorites!

Have a great day!!

Karen

DST is one... so I dedicate this post to scrapbooking!

Happy birthday DST!

Ooh yes!! Today is DST's first birthday... I discovered it this morning and I am going to take a look again after I finished my blogpost... So let's dedicate this to digital scrapbooking and show you some layouts.

A new thing

But first I show you something handy....

Try this link: http://karenkool.favorietje.nl/

I know some of us have had their own favs page for a long time but I didn't think I needed it... Now I am messing around with my favorites because I have so many... so I decided to put all my scrapbook favorites in one page with one link... What do you think... would you use this? Of course more links have to be added (want to be on my site... let me know), but it's a start! I hope it will turn out as useful as I hope it will be!

On to my layouts

Lets start with the last one, I did this one for Nancy Comelabs challenge, read about it on her blog:
It turned out like this... what do you think?? All pictures were taken last Saturday when we went to Belgium for a weekend break. We promised the boys to go to Plopsaland. It is a themepark with TV characters and the boys love to go there. It's a 2,5 hour drive (which is quite a distance for us Dutchies), so we usually go there once a year. This year we bought an annual pass so we can go more often. This weekend we were there 2 days, overnight we stayed at the Novotel. The downsite of this trip... ?? Our 3,5 year old thought he could discover the park on his own and we lost him not once but TWICE!!

I always thought my boys wouldn't run of, until now they always stayed with us. Luckily I had put my phonenumer on his arm with a pen and was called within 5 mins. that someone had found him and he was with 'Lost Parents" (your read it right... LOST parents, lol... it's all about the kids right?)....

Next are some layouts with pics from Greece:

A portrait I made of the little runaway boy:

And two portraits of my boys made by a photographer at the daycare center:

And Mauro's 5th birthday (one at home and one at school)

And the last one, my boy took pictures with his FP camera:

All credits can be found here in my gallery at DST

All for now... I have a day off tomorrow and my boy needs a haircut first and then we're probably off to the Zoo, I have free tickets! So I will probably come back with lots of pictures... again!!

Have a nice day....

Karen