Life and Scrapping

WITL 2011- Tuesday

These are the highlights from Tuesday, July 26th:

Between 8:30 and midnight (ehm... actually way past midnight, sssssh :) ) the following took place:

- Made coffee for me and hot chocolate for Stach for breakfast...

- Got dressed quickly and ran to the store to get some eggs for a yummy American pancake breakfast... with Maple Syrup!! (My absolute favorite, but sometimes hard to find around here for a acceptable price, so we got some in France when we were there last week! Yay!)

- We loaded all the vacation pictures that Stach took with his own camera onto the computer so we can shown them to oma Annette when she arrives (luckily oma called that she was going to be late, so we had enough time to get that all ready for her!

- When oma Annette arrived Stach showed her proudly all his holiday adventures

- After a cup of coffee the two of them depart for a little sleep over party

- Gerard gets lunch (Turkish pizza), we relax a little and then decide it's better to start out DIY chore we set ourselves: painting the stairs to my studio...

- Going to Gamma (local DIY store) to buy the necessities...

- We need another cup of coffee before we ave the courage to start with this painting job...

- Gerard get's to work and gives me time to work at my notes for today (... thanks dear!)

- We head out for a lovely Sushi meal into town, and then... see the last Harry Potter movie!

- When we drive home (by bike) we're accompanied by a lot of Harry Potter movie watchers too, and we overhear that a lot of them are a bit disappointed by the lack of subtlety in the movie.. just as we are!

- We have another glass of whine (mine are the Spanish version: mixed with a far amount of Spa Lemon... yes, i still try to be cautious due to my heart condition!) and then off to bed!

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We're still in vacation mode, so are week is different than 'normal'... but still fun to capture what is going on...

I didn't made any photo's from the lovely evening we had... i guess i found it a bit awkward to take pictures in a full restaurant... and it's just too hard to take pictures in the movie theatre when you're watching the movie... but i kept the movie tickets and reservation, and a keepsake from the restaurant, and plan to add these into my album... so that part of the evening is captured too!

How is your vacation so far? Are you capturing memento's too?

Week in the life 2011

At the last moment i decided to join in the fun of this years Week in the Life project!  For you who don't know what i'm talking about, please go here for the full explanation on Ali's blog. She started with this project for the first time in 2006, and it's grown into a world wide project ever since!

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These are the highlights of my first captured day this year:   monday July 25th 2011

09:30 After sleeping in, i got breakfast in bed...

10:00 When i'm ready to take a shower (after another cup of coffee and getting my medicine ready for this week), i find Stach fast asleep in our bed again...

11:00 Loading all our photo's taken on our summer vacation to Paris and Val Joly (north of France, very near to the Belgian border) on my computer...

12:30 after lunch (home-made tuna salad on toast and a 'saucijze broodje'  for Stach) the three of us play a game of Monopoly cards... we've played it several times these past few weeks, and every time we're in need for a re-match...

14:00 With Stach's friend Matthijs to the museum: Nemo in Amsterdam (Stach is diving away on the back seat every time i try to take a picture...)

16:00 getting some ice-cream for the boys (ice coffee for me) and enjoying the view from the top of the building...

17:00 back home; the boys play a game on the Wii, Gerard's is making reservations for the last movie of Harry Potter and reading the newspaper (on the iPad) and i go grocery shopping... when i try to take some pictures when i'm back, Jonas is jumping in front of the camera... our little friend missed us so much when we were away on vacation, s0 he grabs every opportunity to be near to us when he can...

18:00 Gerard is cooking dinner and i get to play on the iPad a bit...

18.45 Stach doesn't like the stir friend spinach with pine nuts (?) but he managed to eat a few big bites, even when it's gotten cold...

20:00 Stach is going to bed, and Gerard reads the next chapter of  'de grijze jager' to him... the story is very exiting now... still 2 chapters to go, then the book is done...

22:00 i'm working in my studio, while watching my new favorite movie Julie and Julia again...writing my notes for this day... checking the Big Picture classroom for this class and buy the templates i'm going to use...

00:30 going to bed way to late!!!

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To keep the whole project within acceptable boundaries, i have decided to work with a simple two page design every day in an A-4 format (similar to the US 8,5 x 11 size). I limited myself by using a few basic digital templates (designed by Ali especially for this project; you can find these at designer digitals) for my daily pictures and journaling...

     

One page will have the main picture in a large format, with the journaling in a long journaling block... the opposite page will house the rest af the pictures of that day, with the possibility of extra notes... right now i'm not sure if i will keep this project completely digital, or that i'll have my pictures developed separately and attach them to the templates (with typed journaling) that i'll print at home... i think it depends to the amount of time that i'll have next week...

I'm even thinking of making this project into a retro spective (lovely idea by Marsha) with last years WITL project that is all captured in photo's and words, but never made it into an actual album... ah, we'll see...

Summer vacation... making a scrapbook on the road!

  

Don't you love it to capture all the details of your summer vacation?

I do... taking loads of pictures, making notes, keeping brochures etc. Maybe it's because i'm not a very good traveller... i always need time to adjust to new environments and places, need time to feel at home somewhere else, and catching the things i love of that place -in pictures, words and keepsakes- helps me in this adapting process! Like my brain needs some encouragement to see -when browsing through the pictures and stuff of nice things collected that day-  that it is indeed a nice place where i am...

Anyway, one of the things that's always a big challenge for me when i come home is combining all those memories into scrapped pages or even an dedicated album...

So when i stumbled across Ali's Scrapbook on the road class i immediately got exited... although i already made a similar album a few years ago, i bought the class a week prior to our vacation, jumped into my stash for some matching paint, papers and embellishments, made the fabulous clear page with fabric pattern paper and even bought a matching stamp set (the one to the left was already in my stamp collection) in my LSS...

I cut a cute camera shape with my Silhouette and attached it to the front of my album before painting it yellow...

The printed clear sheet (shapes by Karla Dudley) was a little bit too small, so i'm changing that one, but it looked cute so far...

It was fun to bind all the collected items in it when we were on the road (we went to Paris, because Stach wanted to see the Eiffel tower, and the to the north of France the second week) and i got a good change to play with my instax camera...

Yesterday evening we went through all our vacation pictures taken with our regular camera's and uploaded a bunch of them to the developer... hope they'll turn out all right, and that i can finish my album next week!