Daily Something: Las Chicas

Just finished my Daily Something of yesterday! I tried to take a photo of me and my chicken Kuifje. It was really difficult to take a picture of her without her moving her head. I finally managed to take this cute photo of the two of us: las chicas! Journaling is on the backside.

This afternoon I gave a workshop scrapbooking to Janke and her daughter Jiska. They made a cover for a notebook. It was their first time ever so I had to explain a lot and had to give them a helping hand here and there. I forgot to take photos of them and their notebooks because I was too busy.

Chicken Kuifje

I just want to share some photos of my chicken with the name Kuifje. After her 'sister' died almost 2 weeks ago she's all alone! Every morning I open the door of the henhouse so that she can walk in the garden. I also did that quite often when all the chicken were alive but now I do it every day. She follows me to the house and stays there most of the time. When the sun is shining and I sit outside, she also comes to sit with me. I think she must feel lonely now with all the other chicken gone.

Doesn't she look cute?! We called her Kuifje (in French it's Tintin) because she had the largest comb that dripped (?) a bit to one side.

Haven't made a daily something today. I wasn't feeling that great today. Maybe tomorrow?!

Daily something 3

Forgot to post my daily something yesterday.

Neighbours were out for the whole day so I had to take their dog out for a walk.

It's a photo with just letters stamped on white paper and the date written with a DVD pen. Note: In the Netherlands we first put the day and then the month.

Have to go now!

Birthday card for my mother

Today I made this birthday card for my mother's 80th birthday tomorrow!

We'll be celebrating it with a buffet at a restaurant in Exloo. Just my parents, my brother, his wife and 2 kids and Zander and me.

Daily something 2

Made a very simple daily something today. Wasn't in the mood. Feeling a bit tired because I went to sleep a bit late last night.

I did go to the nearest scrapbookstore this afternoon and bought some nice pp from K&Company. And this morning I scanned a lot of old photos that belong to my parents. Well actually it weren't that many because both my parents and their parents weren't interested in taking photos. Such a shame!! I just have a few photos from my early youth.

I on the other hand started to take photos when I was 13 after I had won a camera with a contest. Still have it somewhere in a box at the attic, but it's not working anymore.

Daily something!

Started with a new project today called daily something. Read about it in Ali Edwards' newsletter and I think it's a cool idea to tell about the daily stuff and be creative in the same time. I chose to make my daily somethings very small, the size of a photo (4x6) and put them in a map for photos.

Ali has made a special Flickr group where you can upload your daily something layouts. Go here!

Garden treasures

Just finished this layout: Garden treasures. It's for this weeks challenge from HMITM

The ribbons are perhaps a bit out of tune, but you had to use them and I couldn't find some more suitable ones in my stash. Well, it looks nice on the photo I think.

Made the transparant letters myself, using thickers from American Crafts.

This weeks challenge is to use: 7 pp, 9 buttons, 8 fasteners (brads, staples etc.), 4 photos, 5 ribbons and using only 1 color. I know, we can debate about the last one when you look at my layout, but I think it will do. The color is somewhere between yellow and orange ;) ... so I kinda used them both. LOL

Supplies: pp (Ali Edwards (3), BG (2), SR (2), buttons (market), brads (OTC), ribbons (market, Action), black sticker letters (market), acrylic letters (selfmade), font: Felix Titling.

Favorite trail.

So these are the photos I took yesterday when I was walking with Resta. It really is my favorite trail to walk nearby my house. I'm so lucky to live right beside this trail. When I leave my house and turn to the right it is all green that I see. In the beginning there are some houses on both sides, most of them hidden by trees, but after 600 meters or so there are only trees and secluded meadows with almost no animals. This time there were only some sheep. Other times I have only seen some pony's (small horses).

It takes about 20 to 30 minutes to walk this trail when you're not shooting photos.

I hope you enjoyed this "photowalk" with me!

Hot Summer day!

Today felt really warm! We had a lot of sunshine all day long. Even now at 10 p.m. it feels warm outside. I spend most of the day in my backyard where there is a lot of shade. I took some photos of items in my garden.

I also went for a long walk with Resta, the dog of our neighbours who went to the annual bookmarket in Deventer. I took my camera with me and took a lot of photos of the trail I'm walking a couple of times a week with a friend. I'll show you these photos some other time.

Because of the heat I didn't do much today. I did try to keep focused on being positive and in the present all the time. It went great! I even tried to meditate. Just for a short period op time because I'm still learning.

Yesterday Zander went to the swimmingpool with his friend Manuel. Normally he doesn't like to go to the swimmingpool in our village because there are always a lot of people, but yesterday he wanted to try it again and finally he stayed there for a couple of hours! I invited Manuel to stay with us for the BBQ and later on they asked me if he could stay for the night. Manuel left this afternoon at one o'clock because he wanted to go to the swimmingpool again and Zander didn't want to. Such a shame. It is so good for Zander to be outside, but he doesn't like it much. He prefers the computer. But I hope he will go back to the swimmingpool some other day soon.

We're back!

Zander and I returned home from our one week camping yesterday afternoon. It was nice being somewhere else than at home. The weather was not really terrible, but we have had a lot of rain.

On friday we went to Assen to buy Zander his long wanted Pokemon Diamond game for his Nintendo DS lite. I bought 2 books: The secret and the last Harry Potter: HP and the deathly hallows. I started to read the last book the next day and finished it on Monday. Loved it!

Zander wants to try to read it in English too. He started last night and just told me that he already has finished the first chapter. Kids these days learn so fast a language like English because of all the games they are playing on the internet (Zander likes to play Runescape) and on their Nintendos.

I also have to tell you (Zander just gave me this instruction) that he completed the Pokemon game in just 4 days. He played for about 37 hours to complete it. He almost didn't do anything else since he got the game. Elianne, the youngest daughter of Janke, his homeschool teacher, also likes to play Pokemon and they were doing it together. Elianne has autism too, but she is totally different in her way of reacting to things. I suppose she learned a lot from her 4 older siblings.

The third chicken died today. She was already sick for about a week when we left. A neighbour took care of my chickens and gave her her medication every day, but when I saw her yesterday I knew right away that she was very sick and suffering. So this morning when Jan came (he does my garden) I asked him if he could kill her. He did it just before he left and layed her outside the chicken-run. I went back inside to finish my talk to Hendri and after a while went outside to bury the chicken. To my surprise she was still alive and back on her feet. So I called Jan and told him what was going on. He came back to finish the job and stayed untill he was sure she was really gone. I had already started to dig a grave and we buried her.

Now there is only one chicken left. The poor thing, all alone!

Today the sun is shining brightly and warm. I want to go outside and feel the warmth on my skin. So off I go now, leaving you with some of the photos I took last week. Mostly from the camping ground were we stayed. They aren't super because it was a grey day when I took them. We were standing right next to the yellow spot you see at the bottom off the plan. On the smallest field with only room for 10 tents/caravans.