In top 5 contributors DS!

I have just found out that I'm in the top 5 of contributors to the Daily Something Flickr group. It's nice to be in 5th position. I just had to take a photo of this moment. I'm sure I will loose this position very quickly, because there are a lot of woman in this group who are as dedicated as me, to make a daily something every day.

The only disadvantage of this project is that I'm not making any large layouts anymore! So yesterday I made myself a promise to make a large layout today!

Chicken stories

I made two daily something layouts today about my chicken.

I think they are funny!

The first one from yesterday is about cleaning up the chicken poop from the terrace. I have to do that several times every day! Because she comes up to the house more often (well she practically stays on the terrace the whole day) there's a lot of chicken poop. It's one of the two inconveniences of having chicken. The second one is that they destroy your garden!

The second layout is about how funny it was to see my chicken sitting on the bench of our picnic table this morning, when I opened the curtains. It looked as if she was waiting for her breakfast. I was a bit surprised too, because normally I close the henhouse every evening, but I guess I forgot to do that yesterday.

Yesterday's daily something

Finished my daily something of yesterday.

I had two long and emotional phonecalls yesterday with another mother of a son with autism. She has her son home from school for the moment because there isn't a school available. Well actually there is a school available but because of some stupid regulations he couldn't be placed in this school. The only thing I could do was listen to her and let her throw out all of her frustrations about the situation.

I understand very well what she's going through because I have had the same kind of problems with my son with autism a couple of years ago. The only difference is that I wanted to homeschool my son. This is not allowed in the Netherlands! You feel very powerless as a parent if all kind of people that do not know your son in person, think that they know what is the best!

She, her son and her family were in my thoughts all day. I felt powerless in not being able to help her but than I remembered a visualization technique from The Secret that a friend told me about and I send this information to her in an e-mail.

And you know what .... this morning she phoned me again, telling me that she has had wonderful news this morning. It is almost certain that her son can go to the school of her choice. She told me that when she read my e-mail last night, she started to visualize her son being on this school right away. She calmed down and felt much better after she did that. And this morning she got this great news .... isn't that cool!

More daily something layouts

Just finished my last two daily something layouts.

The one with the chicken is very simple! It's a photo with journaling written on the photo with a DVD pen. I used the Cricut to cut out the oval and put some white paper behind the photo and stamped the date in the oval.

The other one is also a photo made with Easy-photo from Canon (it goes with the printer). I used the white space for the titel and date. Journaling is on the back side.

A little bit late ....

... but here are my daily something layouts of Sunday and Monday! Journaling is on the backside.

I felt a little bit patriotic when I was making the one of Sunday! I used the colors of the Dutch flag and the orange I used to embroider typical Dutch windmill is the color for the royal family: the house of Orange. The Dutch also use this color to dress in when they go to important sport events.

On Monday I did my very best to clean up my attic. I threw away a lot. It was really necessary to do this. I threw away a lot of clothes and old school books. I brought the clothes to a depot of the Salvation Army and the books went to a second hand store.

The other day I told you about my first camera that I won with a contest when I was 13 years old. Well I found the camera while I was cleaning up my attic and took some photos of it. I also cleaned it up a bit and now it is standing in my bedroom. Because it is old (almost 40 years) you have to use a film that isn't available anymore (at least I think so) so I can't take photos with it.

Harry Potter movie.

This afternoon Zander, his friend Manuel and I went to the latest Harry Potter movie in Groningen. We went to a very large cinema at Euroborg (a new soccer stadium) with also a cinema, casino and a large foodstore: Jumbo. There were only 5 people to watch the movie: we and a mother with a boy of the age of my son. I have never been to a cinema with that small amount of people. I think it was great and very relaxing.

I took a photo of the room where all the projectors for the movies are. It was fun to see behind the scene.

The film was great but not as exciting as we had expected.

After the cinema we went to McDonalds. Because it was very busy and noisy inside we took our food back to the car and ate it on the parkingplace. My son doesn't like crowded places. I think it's because of his autism. He always gets excited and is hard to handle when there is a lot of noise around him. That's why I was also so glad that there were so few people in the cinema.

And to tell you the truth ... I also don't like crowded and noisy places and have the tendency to avoid them.

Anyways it was a fun afternoon!

Only a few days to go and they have to return to school! They both said that they weren't looking forward to going back to school!

Daily something from Saturday

Last Saturday I went to the Scrapbookstore. I bought the September edition of CK, some papers and those XL ghost clocks from Heidi Swapp.

Saw some nice ideas in CK that I want to try. I also visited the website of CK and saw this video about an easy way to paint brads in a matching color for your layout. Why didn't I think about that?!

Another thing I did on Saturday was to clear out my shed, finally! I managed to throw away a lot of rubbish. I took my dad's car to bring it to the dumping site (ground?). There are only a few boxes left that I have to sort out but it already looks great and very organized.

I should have taken some photos from my shed before and after, but I was to ashamed about the before that I didn't. That's also why I made a daily something about my tour to the Scrapbookstore!

Typical Dutch.

Went to visit an aunt this afternoon with my parents. I saw her at my big birthday party in April and when my parents told me that they would visit her today in her new appartment I asked if it was okay I'd come along too. It was fun talking about stuff that is going on in the family.

When we went back home I took some photos of a windmill out of the window of the driving car. It was actually raining (for a change) so that's why the trees in the distance look grey.

And this evening I had to pick up Zander from the farm where he stayed over the weekend. On the way over there I saw this sky over a meadow with cows. I also took this photo when the car was driving. And no I'm not a reckless driver ... my dad was driving the car!

Misty

Another rainy day. I stayed in home most of the day. Misty, our cat, also stayed in the house.

So I made a daily something about her. She likes to sleep on my bed. I used photos I took of her when I had just bought my new camera. Doesn't she look cute?

Rainy day

We had yet another rainy day over here in the Netherlands. There was some sun too, but the weather was really unpredictable. I spend most of the day inside! I did have an appointment with my dentist because one of my back-teeth broke off the other day and I had to go to the library. After that I looked at the DA (Dutch shop) where they also sell magazines if there was a new scrapbookmagazine, and there was!

I went back home, just in time because it was raining again, and I read Scrapbook. There are some lovely layouts in it from Revlie. I also liked the layouts from Petra Coolen. There were a lot more really nice layouts and projects, like the beachhouse and the birthday hat. If you go to http://www.scrapbookmagazine.nl/ you will find the description of the beachhouse. It's in Dutch so if your English you have to use a translation program.

This evening I made another daily something with a photo of a reflection of me in a pool of water. I think this daily something project from Ali Edwards is really cool! For me it's better than to write in a diary every day, although I did that for years when I was younger. I think I must have about 10 to 12 diary's somewhere in a closet. But this is more fun!!

The photo I took was really boring to look at, so it was a challenge to make something creative with it. I think I succeeded very well. I just used the lines in the photo to work with.

You can click on the photo for a better look!