Friday, February 29, 2008

Think monday - think ATC... challenge

Here is my entry for another challenge from TMTA. I did make the ATC a while ago though, but thought it would be nice to post this entry.

ATC'tje gemaakt voor TMTA. Deze is al een poos geleden gemaakt, maar hij voldeed aan het thema dus heb ik hem maar gepost.


















God bless

Veerle

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Make a moo or two...

I'm really in a challenge mood lately, so I decided to join the make a moo or two challenge. Moo's are little cards with the size of approximatly 1,1 inch / 2,8 inch, so they are pretty little. This was the first one I tried out... You could participate with one or more,... I only had time to make one.

Ik heb de smaak van challenges te pakken... mijn eerste "mootje" gemaakt. Op de site van make a moo or two kon je deze week meedoen met een challenge over reizen. Je moest een moo maken. Een moo is een kaartje van 2,8 op 7cm, dus echt wel piepklein om mee te werken. Je kon deelnemen met 1 of meerdere bijdrages, wegens tijdsgebrek moest ik het bij eentje houden.









God bless

Veerle

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Alcohol ink

I hosted an ATC-swap where you had to work with alcohol inks. I had fun making them they turned out quite nice. Here a few examples...what do you think about them?

Alcoholinkten-swap gehost. Was leuk om ATC'tjes te maken en het resultaat mag er zijn... al zeg ik het zelf!





























God bless

Veerle

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Crazy amigo's - favorite colour

This week the challenge on the website of Crazy amigo's is about your favorite colour. My favorite one is limegreen.

Deze week gaat de challenge bij de Crazy amigo's over je lievelingskleur. Ik heb al sinds mijn kindertijd lime groen een mooie kleur gevonden.


















Tuesday, February 19, 2008

birthdaycards....




















New look

Today I went to the hairdresser to straighten my hair. How do you like it?
Vandaag bij de kapster langs geweest... haar laten ontkrullen, geslaagd?

















Monday, February 18, 2008

Crazy Amigo's challenge: "the fabulous 4"

I never participated yet with a challenge online for stamping. But today I will give it a try. On the site of crazy amigo's challenge, this week's theme was the fabulous 4 refering to the Beatles, but you also could make something with the number 4, which I did.
Ik heb nog nooit meegedaan met een stempelchallenge, maar het moet een keer de eerste keer zijn. Op de site van de crazy amigo's is er deze week een uitdaging. Of je maakt iets over de Beatles, of je maakt iets met het cijfer 4. Ik koos voor het laatste.

















God bless

Veerle

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Art journal and some humor

In the new "Scrap!" I read an article about making your own art journal.... it touched me right away, didn't think twice over it. I looked on youtube for some ideas, and I started working on my 1st page. I was inspired by valentine, because that's what everything is about right now.

















First page I made for in my art journal. I had fun messing around hahaha;)

I want to share some funny situations from what happened on my job as well.

We did some memory exercises with our elderies, and they needed to describe all things that had to do with our nursinghome. One eldery mentioned a gynaecologist.... I looked to him a little bit strange... and then he said, well you know... those people that give us exercises for arms and legs.... he ment the physiotherapists of course.

My collegue was working with another group, one question was, where can you find the statue of liberty... since no one answered right away, she tried to help: that man with prickles near the water...
Voor de Nederlandstaligen nog even vertalen, klinkt toch leuker in 't Vlaams ;) die laatste.
Mijn collega was geheugentraining aan 't geven en bij een van de oefeningen moesten onze bejaarden antwoorden op de vraag waar het vrijheidsbeeld zich bevond. Niemand gaf direct antwoord en toen hielp zij een beetje: die man met stekkers bij het water..... en voor degene die nog zouden twijfelen, het vrijheidsbeeld is dus wel een vrouw he!

De laaste zal ik er ook maar bijtypen want die kan ik ook niet zo direct in het Engels vertellen. Eén van onze liften op 't werk werkte niet: er plakte een blad op: "buiten gebruiken" ipv buiten gebruik. ;)

God bless
Veerle

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

birthdaycards I made




































This one I gave to Timothy.

Timothy got 2 years old...

There was a birthdayparty planned for little Timothy, I even took free from my job, but his mama was sick, and he didn't feel super well either... so he ended up with mama, sister and brother at our place. We did eat pancakes and he did receive presents. Jonas and Elina were happy to craft and play with auntie...oh well.... later that week... guess who got sick? Yeps auntie Veerle indeed ;)


















God bless
Veerle

tagged!

I've been tagged by Katz and Vannessa. I will answer this one in Dutch but I will translate it of course….
Ik ben getagged door Katz en Vanessa.

1. Je moet de regels posten voordat je je antwoorden geeft.
1. You have to post the rules before you give your answers.

2. Je moet een ding over jezelf opnoemen met iedere letter van je middelste naam. (Als je geen middelste naam hebt, gebruik je je meisjesnaam).
2. You have to write something about yourself with every letter of your Middle name (or your maiden name if you don't have a middle name!)

3. Nadat je getagged bent, moet je je blog updaten met je middelste naam en je antwoorden.
3. After you've been tagged you have to update your blog with the name and your answers.

4. Op het eind van je post, moet je net zoveel personen "taggen" als er letters zitten in je middelste naam. (Laat wel even een berichtje achter op hun blog dat je ze getagged hebt en dat ze de regels op je blog kunnen lezen....). Ik ga niet zitten zoeken wie er al dan niet al getagged is, als je nog niet getagged bent, dan ben je dit nu bij deze ;)
4. At the end of your post , you have to tag as many people as there are letters in your name! (get them to know the message by leaving a comment on their blog!) I won't look around though, so if you read this and are not tagged yet, now you are ;).


Ja en nu.... het grote werk kan beginnen.... en zeggen dat ik 3 middelste namen heb, ik ga het dus maar bij mijn eerste middelste naam houden: Jacqueline, met die naam op zich ben ik al een eindje zoet.
And now.... I have 3 middle names, what about that? Guess I'll take my 1st middle name which is: Jacqueline.

J = de J staat voor Jezus, mijn grote voorbeeld in mijn leven. Ik ben geboren in een christelijk gezin en zou mijn leven niet kunnen voorstellen zonder mijn geloof.
J stands for Jesus, my big example in life. I’m born into a christian family and I couldn’t imagine my life without my faith in God.

A = Amerika, ik ben er al 7x geweest en ik hou van de natuur alginds, je kunt er echt mooie plaatsjes ontdekken.
A stands for America, I’ve been there already 7 times, love the nature there, you really can see nice places over there.

C = hmm… leek me eerst een moeilijke letter maar hoe meer ik erover denk hoe meer ik dingen vind met een C die ik kan beschrijven…. dus hier gaan we…
de C voor creatief. Ik ben mijn hele leven al creatief geweest. Ik heb vooral een passie voor alles wat iet of wat met papier te doen heeft… scrappen, ATC’s maken, stempelen, etc…
Eigenlijk kan ik de C ook gebruiken voor “chic-o-sticks”, een Amerikaans lekkernijtje die ik af en toe opgestuurd kreeg van mensen in Amerika en eentje dat ik ter plekke ook altijd proef… (jammer genoeg hebben ze ze wel niet overal)… maar in chic-o-sticks zit er cocos (voor de gelegenheid schrijf ik dat nu ook maar eens met een c ;) ) en ik ben gek op producten waar er cocos in verwerkt zit… kocht overlaatst zelfs een deo met cocosgeur.
C … looked a difficult letter at 1st but looks like I can come up with several things I like that starts with a c. First of all the C for creative. I have been creative since I was a child. I love to work with paper somehow… love scrapbooking, making ATC’s, stamping, etc…
Another one I could use the C for is the chic-o-sticks, the candy I only can buy in the states, and then there you have to look for it at times, I do love chic-o-sticks very much and I have been sended some while I was home (thx Trudy and Matt). I guess I love them because they have coconut in them… and yeps coconut starts with a c as well. I love coconut in candy… I even bought me a deodorant with coconutsmell.

Q = de Q van Quotes, ik hou van toffe spreuken e.d. heb verschillende boeken met leuke quotes in.
Quotes, I'm crazy about them. Love to read nice quotes, I have several books plenty with those.

U = de u van uren…. Het lijkt alsof ik er altijd te kort heb op een dag. Ik wil altijd zoveel doen dat ik nauwelijks op tijd in mijn bed geraak… Ik plan om te gaan slapen om 11.30, maar meestal is het toch later…
U stands for “uren” which is translated as hours… It looks like I always have to less hours in a day… I always want to do so much things, especially in the evenings, that I almost never get into my bed at 11.30, the time I plan to go asleep.

E = De E van ergotherapeute. Ja, ik werk al iet meer dan 10 jaar als ergo in een woon- en zorgcentrum.
E stands for “ergotherapeute” which is translated as occupational therapist in English. I work as an O.T. in a nursinghome for over 10 years now.

L = De L van limonade. Ik drink nogal graag limonade… vooral de kleurloze… mijn favorieten zijn: 7up, sprite and Sierra Mist (die laatste is enkel verkrijgbaar in USA).
L stands for “lemonade”, wich you guys call: sodas overseas. I like them pretty much. My favorite brands are: 7-up, sprite and Sierra Mist.

I = Impulsieve koopster. Ik koop nogal impulsief, vooral dan als het om knutseldingetjes gaat.
I stands for impulsive buyer. I’m one at times, especially what concerns craftgoodies.

N = nostalgie. Ik hou ervan om gezellig met ma en pa te kletsen over dingen van vroeger. Ik kan me ook nog heel goed dingen herinneren van toen ik nog heel klein was, tot de gekste details zoals de kleur van een koekendoos bij een nonkel van mijn ma die ik amper 1 keer zag, etc….
N stands for nostalgia. I love to talk with my parents about things that happened in the past. I have a lot of memories from when I was pretty little. I know the craziest details a times… like the colour of a box of cookies the uncle of my mum had, I only saw the man once…

E = Ik zou bijna zeggen de e van Eindelijk… bijna gedaan… lol….. Nee, de laatste E ga ik gebruiken voor emoties. Ik ben nogal iemand die vrij emotioneel is. Als ik een treffend boek lees of een pakkende film bekijk dan durf ik grif toegeven dat ik af en toe een traan laat.
E stands for Emotions. I’m a pretty emotional person. So it happens at times that I cry when I read a book or see a movie.
Finaly... done done.....


God bless
Veerle

Sunday, February 03, 2008

happy birthday to you....

Here is little Eliana on her birthday. It was a nice party, with yummy pie, lots of presents and of course all family and friends.

















Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Eliana...almost one year!

Can you believe it? Tomorrow she will be getting one year! I took free in the afternoon so that I will be able to join her birthdayparty. Tonight I made her a special card. I also bought some gifts for her. The picture you see is taken last saturday, and yeps, her dady is intoducing her into lego: she's playing with her 1st duplo's!


























God bless


Veerle

Embossingswap

Normaly I don't join swaps for cards, but this time I did. The 1st three ones you see, are ones that I have made, the rest is what I got back from others.




















































































Showing Brugge to Zorica

Sunday I went to Brugge with Zorica. I showed her around in the city, and yeps.... I even went up all the way in to the bellery (you have to know that I have a fear for hights). We had a nice time. Our final destination was the choc bar. It's a kinda tearoom where you have all specialities with chocolate. I need to show where Belgium stands for ;) I had a yummy hot chocolate with cinnaman, Zorica tasted one with mint. David, Zorica's boyfriend will come to Belgium this week and I probably will meet her soon again, and some time later, her brother Peter will visit as well.


















God bless

Veerle

Sunday, January 20, 2008

books books books...

I love to read stories that happened for real.

This is the 1st one I read this year. Want to know what it is all about? Just click on the book.

















The next one I read out in no time... I also found a link online that tells more over this book... and you can watch a testominy too of the author. (spoken in English, subtitles in Dutch, just click on the book).

Saturday, January 19, 2008

FOTO-BOOK

I made a "foto"-book... can you see the word foto into my scrapbook? I made it for someone of my church.

Enjoy!
Veerle





































Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Happy New Year

I want to wish everyone a very blessed 2008! I celebrated new years eve with my friends: Griet, Ben and Nadine. We went to a restaurant in Kortrijk and we really had a good time.

As usual with the new year people make newyearsresolutions. Well, not everyone makes them, but I did. Curious? Hmmmm... I would be curious to hear yours as well ;).

Let me share some... I want to work on my spiritual life, it also would be neat to loose a few kilo's. And I'll do my very best this year to be more organised. What concerns the creative side of me... I'll try to make one picture every day, and make a project with that. And now guys, come up with your resolutions... cause I want to hear them as well.



























May God be with you and guide you through 2008!

Plufke

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Merry x-mas, happy new year













Picture taken by me in Switserland, april 2007.
God bless
Veerle

Saturday, December 22, 2007

Zorica and me in Antwerp

One day I met a guy online, Peter. He told me that he has a sister that works as an au pair in Belgium. After chatting for some time with him, one day I got a letter from his sister. And it didn't happen long after that that we planned to meet. Sunday 16 december I went to Antwerp. It was supernice to meet Zorica, she's a funny and nice girl and we defenatly will meet again. I love her sense of humor so much... looks like it's in the family there, cause Peter does have it as well.

There was a lot to see in Antwerp. The shops were open, and that was nice too, I spend some money in a craft shop (as usual ;) ). We also enjoyed the little x-masmarket.













God bless

Veerle

busy days....

December is a busy month. I want to make all my own x-mascards, and it seems like I have to make more cards every year. Then my sundays were pretty busy as well.

On Sunday 9th december I met Isabelle and her friend, I hadn't seen her for like quite 2 years. It was nice to see her again. We went to Gent, the city where I studied for occupational therapist. After eating fondue in a good restaurant we went in a nice and cozy tea-room, it sure was a nice day!













God Bless
Veerle

Sunday, December 02, 2007

Eliana in the spotlight

Today I did a photoshoot from Eliana. I love to take pictures.... Well I can't show all pictures yet, because they 1st still have another purpose... but I'll show you the one Griet took. Eliana, parents and godparents.
(note: for those who would wonder: nope... not godparents like in the catholic way).













God bless

Plufke

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Some crafts I made lately...

A few of them... the ones I do like the best... I did make much much more cards... I want to get rid of my left-overs, and almost daily I'm making cards now.... The one with my picture will be glued in a book for myself.

God bless
Plufke









































happy birthday sis!

This little surprisebox was made by me for my sis. She sure did enjoy it!

Plufke















my picture in a scrapbookmagazine

A while ago I was in the mall just hanging around. As I love scrapbooking, I was looking through a magazine and to my big surprise I found a picture of myself. I didn't plan to buy magazines, but of course I couldn't resist in taking this one home.

Here you see the cover of the magazine. I'm published on page 33.

















God bless
Plufke

Sunday, November 11, 2007

scrap against cancer

Today I went to the event "scrappen tegen kanker". I had to get up as early as a normal workday. I went by train to Antwerp and there Tania picked me up. Then we went by car to Ekeren. It was nice to meet people from the yahoogroup: de scrappertjes and stampingdreams. Some of them you "know" for quite a long time but you never saw them yet in real.

You could follow several workshops, and we were spoiled with a goodiebag that was plenty with neat things.

Another nice thing about this whole event was that the money goes to research for cancer.

I sure did enjoy my day. And I can post already one thing I made....


















God bless
Plufke

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Happy birthday Evelyne!

I made a card for a friend of me. I made it a while ago, but I couldn't show it yet because it had to be a surprise for her. But now that she got the card I can show it. Tell me how you like it.














God bless
Veerle