beautiful Slovenia

We continued our trip in Slovenia to the park: Triglavski Narodni. We wanted to see the Tolminska Korita which is a cleft. Here the same story again, after a while walking a little cabin where you have to pay.... but that's something we knew by now already. The environment there made me think a lot on "gorge du Verdon" in France, where I spent my vacation some years ago. We walked around the park in about 2 hours. There's also a little cave you can visit. But you would have to do it on your own without guidance, and that's not really my thing...
After the park we did a trip around the mountains of course we stopped 1st at a fall that was on our way... When we reached the mountains and got higher we even had snow... The views were beautiful. We ended the day by visiting the Bled Castle. There Eliana got a little present from her mum and dad. A paper with the castle on and her name, printed like in the old days.

After visiting the castle we drove to Ljubljana the capital to spend the night. It took us a while to find one for a good price, but we managed to find what we wanted and could end the day in a pretty nice hotel.

Slap Boca on our way to the mountains

Slovenia

The next day in Slovenia we visited Korita Mostnice. The part I was not so pleased with in Slovenia was that when you started walking, after half a kilometer you would find a cabin with a guy that asked money to get into the park. I don't mind paying for something, but at least they can let you know ahead. The fact that you 1st walk half of a kilometer and then find out didn't sound that nice to me. Luckily we never were without money. The money was to take care of the trails... stupid...cause the trails were just untouched, so why would they have to invest money in it. I'd rather have they said it were taxes... but anyways, that was a little frustration, but typicly for Slovenia, cause it was not the 1st park we had to pay, after half a kilometer. In Korita Mostnice we saw a deep cleft. The bridge over that cleft is known as the devilsbridge. The cleft is filled with green water, it was very nice to see. There was water all around. Rocks and water were perfect for pictures, as you know I like those kind of environments very much. After the cleft we walked up to a waterfall: slap Mostnica. (Slap means waterfall in the Slovenian language.) But 1st we needed to do a diaperchange for Eliana, so, perfect time to have a little stop at a local cabin that was a little restaurant. We hiked some more and finaly saw the nice waterfall. We had to walk the same way back, so, that meant going by the restaurant again. This time we ordened some hot chocolate and delicious pancakes, boy they were good! After our stop there we could take another road to the car, what which we did. We contiued our way to another "slap", yeah, I love "slaps". Again same storry, paying for parking and then a bit furhter to see the fall. Slap Savica was one we could reach with several stairs. It was not a long way to go, the previous one was about 5km, but this one we reached in about 20 minutes. The fall was bigger but you could not get that close to it. It even took some time to get some good shots, because the fall was situated behind a fence, so it was like... waiting in a row to get a good picture.












































Notice the fish in the green water.

home sweet home

Saturday I got home from almost 3 weeks vacation. Originally we would visit Slovenia, Croatia and Italy, but it turned out a little different. We visited: Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, Slovakia, Czech republik, Poland and Germany.

We started our trip in Slovenia, which is a nice green country. First of all we tried to find a location to sleep. We went to Bled, but things were more expensive then we expected. We wouldn't be over our limit we set we wanted to spend a night but we want some quality for our money as well, so Bled didn't seem to be such a good option. We drove some cities further away and found a place in Ribcev Laz. A 2 star pension, the best thing we found so far. The 1st hike could begin. We walked to the Bohinjsko Jezero, as the lady of the pension said it was a lake we could do with the strawler for little Eliana. The lake was nice, and I could take some nice shots. It appeared though that it was not so "strawlerfriendly". At the end of the trip Huguette and me carried the strawler as Rien held Eliana in her babybjörn. It suddenly became a pretty tirying hike. We were glad that we found a bus at a certain place that drove us back to a closer point, since we had walked already several kilometers. Time to eat, cause the "hungrybug" had bitten us. We ordened a meal, and we didn't even get all the right things what we ordened, but we didn't wanne make a big deal out of it since that would have meant waiting again. So I ate Riens wrong menu wich was veal with Gorgonzola, it didn't taste quite good, but the menu I had ordened (which was the same as Rien and that Rien ate since he absolutly despises Gorgonzola) seemed to be a little disaster as well. Well we didn't mind too much... it was cheap. Meanwhile it had gotten dark. We still had to go for about 1 kilometer. Luckily that Huguette always finds the roads to where we need to be. (My mapreading is a disaster.... well, that's proves I'm a real women :p) We arrived safe and well, and it was bedtime, yeah,... indeed way to early for me, but when you have a little baby that sleeps in the same room, there are no much options.

vacation

Finaly.... it's vacation-time for me. This means that my blog won't be updated for 3 weeks. Tomorrow I leave for a trip with my friends: Rien, Huguette and little Eliana. We will try to visit: Slovenia, Croatia, and Italy if all goes well. We'll be back the 24th of september.

God bless
Veerle

scrap against cancer!

I want to spread some news for the scrappers that read my blog. On sunday 11 november there's the event: scrap against cancer. Spread the news ladies!

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Veerle

BBQ

Last saturdaynight, we had a barbeque at Rien and Huguette's house. It was nice to socialise. Ben and Nadine were there as well, they had brought their honeymoonpictures. All eyes were focused on the laptop....





























God bless

Veerle

Crafts...

Since I got me some stuff lately, I will post some creations... most of them were made with the new stuff I bought.

















ATC made with a cool stamp I bought in Den Bosch and my rainbow inkpad.


















Card made with my new rainbow inkpad. Background is made with alcoholinks.

Book made with envelopes, similar to the one I made in Den Bosch, had to try it out myself at home once more...

Birthdaycard for someone of my church. Similar to grunchystyle. I just love this style.

Birthdaycard, grungy style, made for a German chatfriend.


















This ATC was made for a swap with the theme: traveling. Used some stuff I bought in Heesch for it.

God bless

Plufke

Heesch

Last wednesday we did have a day off in Belgium. The nice part for me was that the Dutch people of the Netherlands didn't get off. (sorry guys.... lol). No I just enjoyed the fact that I could go to the biggest scrapbookshop in the Netherlands. I had heard so much over it, and now I finaly could see it myself. It was quite a while driving... a big 2 hours.

Riley, a good friend of mine joined me. We did meet in Den Bosch and had something to eat. After that we went to Heesch. There was more to see then the scrapbookstore alone. First we visited a museum. It was a miniature musuem of little dollhouses, pretty neat. You could also go to the shop where they sold those kind of things, but boy... these items were expensive. Next to it was a shop with all things for making your own juwelery, but since I'm not into that, it didn't take me much time to continue my way to the scrapbookstore. There I did spend some more time... I didn't really know where to begin 1st.... All the things I saw were scrapbookthings... really cool. Too bad, or maybe luckily (or I'd be broke) that this shop is so far away.

When I was done with shopping I met a girl of the yahoogroup "De Scrappertjes" on the parkingplace. You have to drive so far to meet someone... lol.... kinda funny.

Riley and I decided to continue our way to Breda. There we went eating in an Argentinian restaurant. I have never eaten in such a restaurant before. After souper I had to drive back, cause it still took me a while to get home.

Fun in "de scrapbookwinkel".

Riley and I

Krisje and I, find her blog at: http://georganiseerdechaos.web-log.nl/

God bless

Plufke

De knotsgekke kaartendagen

Friday I went to a fair. It's kinda hard to translate the name of the fair, but it kinda sounds like "the crazy carddays". I had an appointment with Katrien, a girl from one of the yahoogroups I'm a member of. I hardly knew her, so it was an extra adventure.
We met in Wommelgem, and from there we drove togheter to 's Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands. I was glad she drove, cause it took me already a bit more then an hour to get to Wommelgem.

It was nice to meet her, and when we were talking in the car, I found out that she's studying for occupational therapy, that was a nice surprise ... lol, what else did we have in common? lol.

The fair was big, and I loved it. Finaly a fair for just paperstuff. Mostly when you go to fairs here, you have all kind of hobbies they promote, like making jewelery, etc.... but I'm only into crafting with paper. I just loved it.

At studio Kuuks we were ablo to trade our ATC's. I also had brought mine to trade. I didn't trade all of mine, I need to admit that I'm kinda picky... I also trade some with Katrien.

It was really surprising to me when I looked in one of the albums that were laying on the table. There you could see all kind of ATC's but they were not for trading. The thing that was cool was that I found one back in those albums that I had made.

The shopping part was the hardest part. There's so much I wanted to buy, but I couldn't buy all what I wanted. Well, one day maybe, when I'll marry a rich man... (kidding).

After the shopping we made a little album with enveloppes, it was for a project. The books we made will be given to kids that are for a long time in the hospital. So they can add familypictures, etc.. in the little album, I thought this was a neat idea. The project is called: scrap a little sunshine (http://scrapalittlesunshine.blogspot.com/). I really liked this idea, since those kids will have a nice little book, and we meanwhile learned a new technique.

Well, guys, I will finish for today, my hands just want to do some more stamping;)













Katrien and me having our lunchbreak... (there were so many people at the place we had to lunch that we even didn't have a table to sit on)













Showing the books Katrien and I had made for the project: scrap a little sunshine. (picture taken by Katrien)


















The goodies I bought... mainly stamps... of course, ... I'm addicted I guess....


God bless


Veerle

ATC-fun

Did you see the slideshow in the previous item? This week I'm going to the Netherlands to a fair to trade some of my ATC's. Meanwhile I am scanning them all in. I thought it was a nice opportunity to show some of those to you guys.

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Plufke

Check out my Slide Show!

left-overs...

I sometimes print pictures out, but don't use them right away. I had some little ones of myself that were laying on my desk and I had an idea... why not making some ATC's with my picture on it? Here is the result 2 ATC's, they look a bit similar. Anyone wants to trade?

God bless

Veerle

Ben and Nadine visiting

I was surprised when Nadine called me last sunday. She and Ben were in our neighbourtown, and I invited them to come over. It was nice to hear their stories about China. They went there on their honneymoon.
















God bless

Plufke

happy birthday to Rien

Rien celebrated his 25th birthday on July 12. We went eating out with some friends. The environment was nice as the restaurant was located near a castle. The food tasted good as well.

God bless

Plufke

ATC's

I'm a member of several creative groups. One is an ATC group. We got a drawing, and we needed to make a creative ATC with the drawing. I did enter the right one for the contest. The winning ATC will be posted for one month on the homepage of the group and the maker recieves a nice little present. Worth to participate with the contest.










God bless

Plufke

picturefreak

As most of you know... I take a lot of pictures. There are not many weeks in a year where I leave my camera untouched. Lately I got me 2 new ones. My minolta Z1 got damaged in Switserland. It still can take pictures, but due to a fall the lid where the batteries fit, doesn't close good anymore with a reslut that I should tape it all the time... Since I take so many pictures, that would not be handy at all. So I wanted to buy me a good new one. I thought to do this in september when I would go to the USA. Meanwhile I bought me a little one at the Aldi-store. But what happened next. Our plans changed, we won't be going to the USA anymore this year. So, as a result I bought me a better one over here this month. Now I have a traveler DC-8600 (the aldi one) and a Canon Power Shot S3 15.

I appreciate the little one better than I thought I would. It's just easy, because now I almost always have it with me. And it takes super macro-pictures. So for in daily normal situations my little one is sufficient, for shoots and special occasions I have my bigger one.

Judge yourself what concerns the macro-pictures, don't you think they look great?

Plufke

Fondue

Last sunday Jeffrey, Rien, Huguette and me went eating fondue. It was quite a time ago that we went together to a restaurant. Huguette's mother took care of little Eliana. The fondue tasted very well... we had a nice evening, and laughed quite a bit!

New Lay-out

Hello guys,

I want to share a new lay-out I made. It's a scraplift from Elodie, also known as Iggydodie in the scrapbookworld. I got inspired by a few girls of the yahoogroup: "de scrappertjes" they went to an event, called: Eurocrop. I saw several lay-outs of them scraplifted from her. So I wanted to try it as well... It took me a lot of work, but I'm pretty satisfied with the result, what about you? What do you think of it?


















God bless

Plufke