Cards and award

Although I had a big shortage of time....I 'had' to scrap....lucky me. My dear friend Astrid had her birthday last week (I hope the card has already arrived, otherwhise she sees it here first...) and I wanted to thank my mum for a wonderful week in Holland:

I haven't had time yet, to get my bloggin' up to date, so I just found out about the award that Maartje gave me, thank you Maartje!
The award involves telling 7 thing about yourself that your readers don't know yet.....uuuuuuh, I haven't got a clue what you know or don't know about me. Some blogfriends have been following me for a long time now and some of you are new blogfriends. So I'll just tell things that pop into my mind and I do appologize if they are 'old news'!

1. I have been living in the south of Spain for almost 4 years now, but was born in Amsterdam, the greatest city in the world! (but Malaga takes a good 2nd place...)

2. After doing a secretarial/management job for years (I actually studied for that) I started my own creative company in 2000. First I had a webshop in baby accesories en decorations. I was sewing 'till looooong after midnight because in daytime I had 2 little girls to look after. Since I started teaching jewelry making workshops in 2003 I never touched my sewing machine again....

3. I'm the eldest of 4, I have a brother and 2 sisters...none of them are creative! I inherrited that (a bit) from my mum, but mainly from her mum, my super sweet 91 year old granny.

4. Although I love many crafts, I always have periods in which 1 takes up most of my time. I went from embossed card making to sewing, to jewelry making to scrapbooking and now it's mainly crochet....but cross stitching is peeking around the corner and sometimes even my dusty sewing machine seems to call me again!

5. I can be totally obsessed with a project I'm working on: can't stop 'till way past my bedtime, dream about it, pop's right back in my head when I awake...and that process sometimes starts while I'm still working on another project!

6. I get really cranky when a day passes in which I could not do anything crafty. I'm always bursting with ideas, so I guess that when I can't realize any of them the pressure just gets too high.

7. I try to be very loyal to my blogfriends and feel really guilty if I haven't responded to their blogposts for a while. But a very busy life and poor internet sometimes just make it impossible. I seem to be the one that has the biggest problem accepting that fact though........you are all so sweet and patient!

Thanks for all the lovely comments and for following me! I have already reached 106 followers, so that calls for a give away don't you think? I will come up with one soon, promise!

Hasta luego!

See you soon!

I won't be around much in blogland this coming week. I'm going to hug my family in Holland. When you live far away from them, that's really what you need, every now and again. My sweet Granny is turning 91 this coming week, and as long as I'm blessed still having her around, I want to visit her on her birthday. She really is the best and sweetest granny in the world. I made her a tissue box cover in Granny style:

I also made some gifts for other loved ones and of course I'm taking some fresh picked oranges from our trees, they are so sweet at the moment, mmmmm!

Hasta luego!

'Photoshoot'

Lately I've been sooo inspired by the way some people photograph their projects! I've been wanting to change my way in that for a long time. So yesterday, when the sun came out, I took all sorts of things outside. Here's what I came up with:

Unfortunately by the time I had everything where I wanted it so be, the sun hid behind thick clouds...

But it came back again when I had made a compilation of some of my more romantic projects:

Hasta luego!

What's on my hook?

Yesterday I told you I was making a Japanese flowerscarf...and with every flower I love it more...

It is going to be a decorative scarf (not one that is supposed to keep me warm that is), so I think just some 6 flowers to go and it will be finished! The greatest thing about making this scarf, I think, is that you attach the flowers as you go, so when the last flower will be crocheted to the second last....it's done, no loose treads to tuck away, just drape it around my neck...

This afternoon I also made cupcakes with my youngest daughter:
We only made the yummy eatible ones now, the crocheted ones I made a while ago, we've just put them in to fill up the holes. Some of the cupcakes just never made it from the oven to the stand....

Hasta luego!

Flower brooch

I bought myself a new jeansjacket and wanted to 'sweeten' it a bit. So I came up with this flower brooch in the sweetest colours I could find in my cotton stash (which is huge also....):

And when I finished it and was totally in love with the colourcombination, I decided to make a matching japanese flower scarf.....halfway now, so you have to wait a bit more for the result...it's turning out soooo cute, love it already!

Hasta luego!

Grafic 45 folder

A very common habit among scrappers is...they're collectors! So when I was going through my stash for this project I came across this fabulous Grafic 45 paper that I'd been saving for 'something special' because I found it so awsome....silly me, it has been in a box for years now! So I decided that this was the time to do something with it, it became the cover of a 7 gypsies folder (which was nothing more really than 2 pieces of greyboard, a ribbon and a piece of black gaffer tape....so I added a bit myself):

Although I don't scrap very often anymore, I found out that I still love doing it, so I will try to pick it up more often....my stash is big enough......

Hasta luego!

Give away over at 2 Scrapping Ladies From the North

Would you like a chance to win this great Tilda give away?

Hop over to the 2scrappingladiesfromthenorth blog, leave a comment and post their candy on your blog....isn't it gorgeous?!

Will be back soon with a scrapping project, but it's way too late now to make decent pictures.

Hasta luego!