Fier - Proud

Today is the last day of my 3 weeks holiday, and it's raining cats and dogs. But I don't mind ... it has been a rather hectic holiday with a travel to Rome followed by a travel to London, and also lots of day trips in between. So it's nice today, to have a relaxing day at home to just wander around and do the stuff I like to do.

And since it's raining so much outside, it's just the perfect excuse to make pancakes this afternoon, don't you think? ;-))

Tomorrow, I will start working again, and it starts again with 4 days of traveling. Tomorrow afternoon, I will leave for Sweden but I will not go home. Instead I will spend my time with about 12 frenchmen that I will show around in 4 of our factories, all in the south of Sweden.

Then on Thursday afternoon, I will travel to Sevilla. Not such a pleasant travel, because connections from Gothenburg are not that good, so it will take me 3 airplanes, before I will arrive. Pfffff !!!

Friday morning then meeting in Sevilla, and then back to Brussels for another weekend over there.

In the meantime, I have for you a scrapbooking page which I made last year but didn't show yet. It's pictures of my pride father, having his first own hairdressers saloon at the age of 22. Next year he will retire, still as a hair dresser and still at the same place where he started 42 years ago !!

Back in town

Long time no see !! It has been very busy for me !! I have worked really hard, almost day and night, during August and September. And so I deserved some holidays, I found !!

So the last 2 weeks, I have enjoyed some free time, but even there, it has been quit busy. I have been 5 days in Rome with a friend, and then last week 3 days in London for my mother's 65 years birthday.

Today I'm allowing myself a lazy day, and I took some time to do some scrapbooking. Oh, what a long time ago since I scrapbooked last time !!!

I'm busy making a "scrapbooking cookery book" so today I made a new page with the recipy for "eierpannenkoeken", in English you could discribe it as egg pancakes, a quicker version of a normal pancake, you could say.

I'm working at my mother's place with a not so good scanning program so unfortunately the picture doesn't give a too good image of what I have been scrapbooking, but I hope it gives you at least an idea.

I hope you can also enjoy some free time and have some fun with your projects !!

4th birthday

And so, the weekend is almost over again !! Time flies !!

Yesterday, we had a lovely day, although when I got up around 8 o'clock, I was surprised to see that the thermometer only showed 2 degrees Celsius !!! Incredible in August. But then during the morning, the sun came 'round and in the afternoon we had a very nice 25 degrees. I had a friend over for dinner and we could eat outside until 10 o'clock in the evening.

Today was a more sad day with kind of grey weather, so I have done a lot of preparing for a trip I will make in September to London.

Here under I want to show you a layout with a picture from the day I became 4 years ols. Boy oh boy, that was a long time ago ;-))

Zandbak

Hello guys, doing fine over there?

It has been busy again over here. Last weekend I was 3 days in the "Ardennen", the nature part of Belgium with 25 people to enjoy lots of different activities. We had a real good time.

And then back to Sweden where I worked at the office the whole time, no travelling for the moment, so nothing exciting or special to tell you.

But instead I have another layout for you which I made earlier and where you can see me as a little toddler in the sandbox at my grandmother's. I have spend hours and hours over there, playing and creating the most fantastic fantasies in my head. What a lovely carefree time.

Still today I find the combination of the red and the blue a bit strange and hard, but I wanted to go after the colours on the pictures. And I gave myself a hard time by making a crochet frame around it. I'm not good at all at crochet so it took me a while and some sour fingers ;-))

My sweet home

As you know, my mother is also the creative type (so now you know where I got it from ;-)) and she is sometimes contributing with something that I then afterwards can use for my scrapbooking.

She likes to stitch those smaller cross stitchings where I'm more a fan of the larger work like the HEAD patterns, that I'm making. But these smaller pieces come in handy on a scrapbooking page, so this one with a lovely little house she made last year, and I will use it at the right occassion when I'm scrapbooking one or another picture about my house.

St. John's Wort

In my free time, I'm not only creative but I'm also a bit of a witch ...

So yesterday, I went for a long walk with my parents, and we collected flowers of the St. John's Wort. I then put all flowers in a jar, put some olive oil over them, and now they can stand in the window for about 3 weeks, enjoying the sunbeams. Afterwards I then sieve everything and then the oil, that has become totally red in the meantime, is perfect when having burning marks, which I sometimes managed to get when cooking ...

A little bit of that oil on the wound and you don't feel the burning mark anymore and it also heals much nicer. So when you are having these flowers also just growing for free in your roadsides, why not pick them and do something nice with them? Sometimes herbs and flowers are so much better for us than all those medicinal products ...

Slurp

Although the last year, I have not been scrapbooking anymore in such a high speed as before, due to lack of time, but I still made some stuff of course which I can show you. So let's start with "Slurp" ... with a picture from me when I was a bit under 2 years old.

As you might remember, I'm scrapbooking "my whole life" and starting from baby until now, and as you understand, I still have lots to do !!! But it's also a pleasure to see all these old pictures, and to be able to write "my story", so I'm really enjoying it. I hope you do to when I show them to you.

Raspberry muffins with white chocolate

They always say that being a food photographer is a difficult job, and by the look on my photo I'm sure you will agree with me ;-))

On top of that, my picture is standing on its head and I don't have a clue to get it right. I send it from my Iphone to my mail, where is came upside down. I turned it, saved it and then put into this blog text where it turned upside down again, and in this blog program I don't have a clue how I need to put it in the right direction again !! If you have any ideas or experience with that, please let me know.

Anyway, the reason why I wanted to share this was, because I have just eaten the most wonderful muffins ever ...

Yesterday, my mother found this recipe in a small advertising paper somewhere in a lost corner, and she decided to surprise me and make them for me. And boy, oh boy, they were splendid !! So therefor I would like to share the recipe with you and please, try them at home, you will not be disappointed ...

This recipe make 12 to 15 muffins.

Put the oven on at 225 degrees Celcius.

Melt 100 gr of butter and let it cool down again.

Wisk 2 eggs with 1 and 1/2 dl of sugar, and a teapoon of vanilla sugar. Put in the butter and 2 dl of milk.

Mix 4 dl of flour with 2 teaspoons of baking powder and then put this into the batter.

Take out a muffin tray, put some butter or oil in them, and then put in the batter. Take 225 gr of rasperries and 100 gr of roughly cut white chocolate, and carefully push that into the batter.

Let it bake between 10 and 15 minutes until golden brown. Then, make a cup of peppermint tea, lean back and enjoy the best muffins ever. What a joy on your tongue if you taste this !! I bet you want to start a second muffin right after the first one ;-))

Restart of my blog

Do you see all those little men being angry ??? They're not so happy with me because I have not been around the last year !!!


Perhaps I should give them their way, and start to work on my blog again, what do you think?


The last couple of weeks, I felt like I wanted to "speak to the world" again, and tell you some of my stories again ...


This morning I had a look at my blog again, and actually it felt nice to have a place where I gather all my hobby stuff that I have made, or see pictures of places that I have visited.

The last year, I have been very busy with work and I'm traveling all over Europe several days a week, and that's what made that my blog went at the side, lack of time. Also the scrapbooking and other handwork has been progressing at a lower pase, but still I have quit enough stuff that I could show you.

To save a bit on time, I think I will only write in english as from now. If anybody has a problem with that, just give a yell and we'll see what we can do about it.

I think I will make it official for now ... let's re-open my blog ...


Tatadadaaaaaaaa ... I hereby officially declear that this blog has opened again ...

I hope you will take the time again to visit me and leave me a little word ... !!

A stroll in the park en 10.000 bezoekjes ¤¤¤¤ A stroll in the park and 10.000 visits

Deze avond merkte ik dat ik net 10.000 bezoekers heb gehad op mijn blog. Aan iedereen die nu en dan eens langskomt, en een fijne boodschap achterlaat, een dikke dankuwel ... Het is altijd leuk te zien dat mensen reageren op je berichtjes.

Hier in Zweden was het afgelopen weekend niet echt mooi weer, en ik heb er dan ook een gezellig cocooning weekend van gemaakt, echt heel fijn. Tegen de avond klaarde het wel iedere keer mooi uit, dus ik heb mijn nordic walking sticks van onder het stof gehaald, en iedere avond een fikse wandeling gemaakt. En 't is voor herhaling vatbaar, we gaan er weer regelmatig aan beginnen !!

De layout die ik maakte, zijn trouwfoto's van mijn ma en pa, net 40 jaar geleden ...

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This evening, I noticed that I just had 10.000 visitors on my blog. To all the people who come and visit every now and then, and leave a message, a very big thank you ... It's always so nice to see that people react on the things you write.

Here in Sweden, the weather was not too great this weekend, so I turned my weekend into a real cocooning weekend, which was really great. But every evening, the weather turned out better, so I took out my Nordic Walking sticks from under a big pile of dust, and made a long walk during those 2 nights. And I really enjoyed it, I will be picking them up much more now again ...

The layout I made are pictures of my mom and dad's wedding, exactly 40 years ago ...