Niet één, nee maar liefst 2 kits krijg je als deelnemer van de kerstkaarten crop a.s. dinsdag, 24 november.
Kom alvast een beetje in Kerststemming! Maak leuke kaarten om te versturen of labels voor aan cadeautjes of als eyecatcher in je boom. Er zijn nog slechts enkele plaatsen vrij dus geef je nu op!
Deze cropavond kost 20,- euro inclusief materialen, koffie, thee en iets lekkers! We beginnen om 20.00uur en eindigen om 22.30uur. E-mail voor opgave naar info@birgitkoopsen.nl of bel 0595 441153.
...in only 5 days I will be leaving to Grossostheim near Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to teach at the workshop weekend at the Papierwerkstatt. This is what we will be making, using a Maya Road chipboard album, book paper, glimmer mist, Heidi Swapp masks, a variety of yummy patterned papers and fun goodies. Falling for you! Inside pages will follow after the workshop!
To all of you who are coming... be ready to get your hands dirty :) Looking forward to meeting you!
As for family matters... I cheered a little to soon about the flu having left our house!
On Thursday Lennart's principal called from school asking if we could pick Lennart up because he wasn't feeling well. But in the afternoon he felt quite better and the next day he went back to school, just like a couple of days before. But on Saturday morning when he came downstairs it was obvious that he was really sick now. At the end of the day his temperature had gone up to 40*C (*F 104). He had a headache and was coughing like crazy. In the evening I called the doctor to ask if it was ok that his fever went up so high, but she said that was no problem and unless I (as his mom) got really worried about his condition he just has to recover by himself. If the fever stays for more then 3 days or if there is anything we don't trust we should call again. Today his condition is the same. He woke up with 39,5*C and he hasn't been out of bed all day. Poor guy! Hope he feels better soon! Guess I will have him home for the next few days though...
Erik, Anne and I still have no symptoms of flu at all. Please cross your fingers for us that it stays that way. Would hate to get sick this week!
Yesterday was Sint Maarten here in the Netherlands, or I should say the north of the Netherlands. Kids go from door to door with they're (mostly self made) Chinese lanterns and sing special Sint Maarten songs. For singing the song they get a treat. Moslty candy but sometimes money or little toys. It's kind of Haloween without the dressing up :)
Today we celebrated Marlijn's birthday party for her school friends. We were supposed to celebrate last week but then she was sick. So I had a house full of noisy girls this afternoon! :) It was fun!
And I promissed sneakies of the pink glimmer mist projects so here they are:
... for a long time I hope!! Although Marlijn and Lennart are still coughing the fever has gone and they feel quite well. They both went back to school today :)
I've been playing with glimmer mist these last couple of days. I'm working on an article for Mijn Creatieve Hobby but before I started the actual article I played around a little to find out the possibilities of this product, since I haven't been working with it a lot. I LOVE it! It's so fun to work with! You do get dirty hands though... or is that just messy me?? :)
Here are a few sneakies of part of the article. If you want to see the whole projects you'll have to wait until january when the magazine comes out:
OK, off to create some more. Feel like changing colors... red and pink :) Maybe I'll have some more sneakies tomorrow :)
There are 2 patients on my sofa now. Although Marlijn is doing much better then she was the last couple of days and her fever is gone, she's still coughing and not coming out of bed to play, so I kept her another day home from school.
Lennart has been up a couple of times last night feeling misarable. He's been sickly for days but just not really, ykwm? But now he is!
So this morning Marlijn and Lennart both took their beds to the sofa and now their watching tv together... my living room is now our sick-bay and I'm a nurse :)
Just hope Anne, Erik and I don't get it too!
... The Creative Buzz organised a special V.I.P. workshop for friends of The Buzz. We made a cute little envelope album with yo-yo flowers on the cover. It was a bussy day but a big succes!
We also handed out our workshop agenda including our new spring workshops until april 2010 (for as far as they are known, there might be more :)) I will post the agenda here in dutch. If you want an agenda or information in english please let me know (info@birgitkoopsen.nl):
I thought it was time for a fresh new look for my blog so here it is! :)
Marlijn was home sick today. She was not feeling well already yesterday. Coughing, a sore throat and a fever. So she spend the day on the sofa, watching tv, playing with her Nintendo, doing nothing. I feel so sorry for her because today she was supposed to have her birthday party for her school friends. But she wasn't even sad about that, which means that she was feeling really miserable! So I guess that will be another day on the sofa tomorrow.
And when I came outside this morning I saw this baby parakeet sitting on the floor of the birdcage which is not good because he's not supposed to be out of his nest already. He's not able to fly back in again and it's way to cold for him to be outside. Even worse was that his mom was lying on the floor next to him... dead... So I took the little one in and now Lennart is trying to feed it by hand. I really hope it will work but I'm afraid that he's not going to make it... We keep our fingers crossed.
And a new upcoming Buzz workshop to announce: come and play with a lot of gorgeous Tattered Angels goodies and glimmer mist and create a very special 12 days of Christmas mini album:
And last but not least a little reminder:
Lots of you have signed up for the 'Memory Keeper' workshop on November 14th. Just to wet your appetitive a little further here is another sneak peak of what we are going to be making! A beautiful little fabric album, using a transfer technique, that sits inside a miniature birdcage!
If you haven't already signed up to attend this workshop and want to come, you need to hurry we only have 2 places left! E-mail me for further details at info@birgitkoopsen.nl
Love,
Birgit
For the previous issue of CmF I did an article about scrapping with clothing tags. Almost every piece of clothes you buy these days has tags that are so beautiful that they are worth keeping and using in your scrapbook album. Maybe you remember this LO I made last year using some of my stash of tags that I had been collecting for years but never used. For this LO I used tags from Anne's favorite brands/stores at the time. It was the starting point for using more tags on my LO's/ mini albums:
This mini book was completely made out of tags. Most of them are from Vingino cloths. An Italian brand Marlijn and Anne (used to) wear a lot. I love these tags because they are big and mostly made out of fabric. Because some of the tags have the italian flag or the word italy printed on them I decided to use them for a mini about Italy. I used paint to hide the brand name and to mimic the front of the tag on the backside. In between some smaller cardboard and plastic tags. I even used little tags and parts of bigger tags for journaling (see details):
Fun huh?! I really love how this turned out! It's chunky with a lot of different textures and it looks bright and summery!
The next mini album is a real budget project! The book itself is a chipboard Nijntje (Miffy) book covered with paper. The design paper I used were all left overs from another project. The rest of the pages is covered with flower wrapping paper (that was actually used! If you look well you can see the folds in the paper!) I stamped on the paper with acrylic paint using yoghurt cups, corks and Sassafras stamps. The worn out back of the book was covered with a piece of fabric.
On every page I used at least one tag as an eye catcher. To embellish the pages I used scraps of paper, book paper, comic book pictures and cake cups. The little tiger tag on the front came with a pair of jeans. Journaling was printed on plain cardstock and cut in strips. It's this easy to make a fun mini album that costs hardly anything!! :)
So, never let a low budget keep you from scrapbooking!!
I went to Belgium on Saturday to teach a workshop at Hobbyfarm, which was fun! Evelien, the owner, was not there because she has just given birth to her baby daughter Olivia last Thursday! Congratulations to Evelien and the rest of the family! But even though Evelien wasn't there we had a nice day and Charlot took loads of pictures to show Evelien how it all went...
And when I came home, late at night, my DD Anne gave me a present. You could say a belated "mothers day gift", LOL. It was a little box with a silver heart in it. The heart was in 2 half's. One half had Anne in-scripted the other half said mama. So the half with Anne on it is hanging on my necklace now and Anne is keeping the other half. How sweet is that? I know we had our ups and downs the last few years and our relationship has been not so much as perfect. But now my 15 year old daughter gives me a present like this! ... and it makes it worth everything!! It's not even the present itself that makes me so happy, it's what she's saying without saying it... ykwim?!
Marlijn was spending the night at grandma and grandpa and when she came home on sunday she brought me presents too. Handmade presents. Fall presents. She'd been with my parents to my sisters farm and searched in the garden for stuff to use. My sister also gave her some birds she still had lying around Marlijn made me these awesome gifts (with a little help of my mom):
Now how cute is that?! These are the moments I want to scrapbook and remember forever!!
Gosh... can't believe she's this big already!! Time flies!
Next to Marlijn on the bed is her little cousin Guusje who broke her leg in 2 places last sunday. Poor little thing! She has to have her leg in this plaster bandage for 3 weeks and then she gets a new one where she's allowed to walk on...
Marlijn's soooo happy with her Nintendo :)
Oh... and maybe you noticed... her new front teeth finally started growing. She's been toothless since may... guess she will look different and really big in no time now... like she's really 7...
