Life and Scrapping

The new pink?

Hi there..

Have been a bit careful with being behind my laptop these last few days, cause my old RSI problems are bothering me again... blah...

But i'm still here, working a bit on my Easter album, standing at my ikea table... cause that's helps when my arms or shoulders hurt...

And i can share this, a new hand bag with matching shoes...

For you who now me... yes, i know... it's not pink, but it's looking good right?
I wasn't on the look out for purple stuff, but my eye suddenly fell on it... cause purple seems to be everywhere these days... and then it happened... my brain started to interfere and mentioned to me that it could be kind of cute having some purple accessories for Easter...

and so... after thinking about it for a week, i surrendered and bought the bag... and last weekend i found the matching shoes... and i like it... and a girl can be cute, even when she's 39, right?

On my desk ...

Ali asked today to share what's on our desk today...

I'm planning my Easter album right now as we speak, uploaded all my Easter weekend photo's and got a lot of yellow and B&W stuff out... i made a nice collection, ready to start the project...

And yes, the papers on top are from the House of 3, of the House warming Sunny papers, to be exact...

I even got myself the printable frame kit this evening to complete it all, only to discover (when i was ready to print) that i'm out of ink-jet transparencies... archhh... so that's on my to do list for tomorrow...

Anyway, i think all that lovely yellow will match my Easter pictures beautifully... there wasn't much sunshine when i took the annual egg-hunt photo's at grandma Annette, but the whole thing together will be bright anyway...

The Easter bunny always hides real hard-boiled and personally decorated eggs, and he did a very good job this year! See that Spider-man egg?? Wow... needless to say that that was Stach's favorite one...

Oh, and one funny thing to mention... there were 15 eggs hidden in grandma's back garden, 5 for each grandchild... (it's traditions that we celebrate together with my sister in laws family, and they have two kids...) within 15 minutes 14 eggs were found, and the last one was supposed to be for Stach...
But it was hidden very very well, and after a long search it still wasn't found... and all the grown-ups wanted to call it a day...
But Stach didn't... we tried to get him indoors, where a lovely brunch was served with hot buns from the oven... no chance... the egg had to be found first, and Stach searched and searched...
Hmmm, my little guy is just as stubborn as his mum, so there we were... the two of us out there and the rest of the family trying to get us at the table...
Then Stach's cousin Job decided that he had to help his buddy, and went out again to help the search of that last egg... (sweet guy, he was hungry and the buns smelled so good, but he felt bad for Stach that he only had 4 eggs instead of 5... i over heard him say "i won't let my best friend down..." isn't that the best??? He even offered Stach after a few minutes to taken one of his eggs, but no... Stach was very determent... the last was supposed to be his and it had to be found...)
Anyway... just as we were getting desperate and had seen every hiding place in that garden at least 4 times, grandma remembered where the last egg was hidden!!! In the ivy, next to the drainpipe... hurray hurray...
Stach was one happy trooper, and the search ended with 3 happy kids with 5 eggs each...
But at that time we were so hungry that i forgot to take a picture of Stach's basket with 5 eggs...

 

Creative?

As shown in my last post, i've been DIY-ing away these last few weeks... not much time left to be creative...

But i managed to make this little felt handkerchief bag... it was a gift for a very dear colleague at work who could use a bit of support...

I found the yellow  daffodils at Xenos, and they were so bright and happy that i had to buy them (just 0,99 for a baggie of approx. 20 pieces). They mach the yellow felt beautifully...

Unfortunately that was pretty much it on the creative site...

But i found these today...

Just right for a little Easter project... don't you think? Oh, the B&W papers are flocked!!! So nice...
I think it would be great wit this little printable paper pack from House of 3... i haven't tried any of their products, but i've wanted to from the moment they lounged their website...

We're going egg-hunting this Easter Sunday, so i'm planning to shoot a big bunch of pictures... and who knows... if 'the spirit's right' what will happen if i combine those with these beautiful papers...

Hope you'll have a great Easter weekend!!!

More DIY pictures...

Remember i told you that i have a lot of little Ikea drawers in my studio?

See? I wasn't kidding...
These little wonders of organizing are really great for storing all my ink-pads, brushes, embellishments, pens, tape, pliers, tags, etc.
But they were too colorful for my liking...
So i took all the little handles of...

and sanded all the drawers... (got some help there from my boys, thank goodness!!!) and then began the monster of all painting jobs...

And to complete the DIY fun in my home (yeah, like i didn't had enough of that going on already...), we got ourselves a new cupboard for the living room...

a whole evening of guaranteed joy with an endless amount of screws and piles of white shelves in various sizes...

The red cupboard had to make room for the new (and much bigger) white one... but i made that red one myself, and i could not part with it... so we moved it into my studio...
And... you guessed it... then i had to paint it white...

And Gerard and i made a new computer table for the studio last weekend... and it had to be painted too...

Well, almost everything in my studio is covered in a new and bright white, off-white or cream layer of paint... and it's down to the little details now... and with a bit of luck, it's done soon!!!
And then it's a really wonderful place to be...

Who is that???

Do you see that? Who is that??? That dark figure on the foreground?
No... could it?  Could it really be... her? After all that time?
I though she had moved, or something...
No... let's check again... are you sure?
Is she really back on the blog???

Yes folks... it's true, no need to clean your specs here... this is me, back on life and scrapping...
It has been a while...
Life got too busy this past few weeks... to busy at the office (got officially promoted to a new job)... to busy at home DIY-ing... to busy with everything else...

This is just a quick one, to say hello, and to thank you for staying with me...

I'll post more pics tonight, so... see you then?