Pampered!

I really had no idea what to expect from Scrap-a-Ganza last weekend. I knew I had booked really too many workshops, but what I experienced that weeekend was way too cool!
Had the most wonderfull workshops I've ever dreamt of. Really made loads of cool stuff (have to finish loads too!!). Been to 16 workshops and finished about 4 already, including the make-n-takes (little projects you make within 15 minutes or less).
The atmosphere was so totally awesome, you just must experience it yourself.
Arrived Friday at about 13.30 at the hotel and my roommate Clara from Belgium (we had to speak English all weekend to eachother!! hehe) was already there.
Had some lunch and went to our room at about 15.00 when we could check in. 15.30 was my first workshop: Weather comes to mind from Karen Burniston. Made a really great mini-album about the seasons. Have to finish this.
Had some quick dinner before the 2 other workshops started at 19.00. It was soooooooo cool! Really enjoyed myself.
Saturday was my most exhausting day. Shopped a bit, my workshops started at 8.00!!! They were all too good to be true. Really made a good choice for the workshops, didn't regret a single one of them!
At 19.00 there was this workshop "About Me", given by Lisa Bearnson, the founder of the magazine http://www.creatingkeepsakes.com! It was so totally cool to meet her in real life. She's such a sweet person!! We could let our albums sign by her sister, who made this awesome albumcover for me with my name on it!! And Lisa signed my album as you can see on this photo:
What was so special about this event was the following: it's really international! People from Ireland, Germany, UK, France, Belgium... really cool!! So I spoke English almost the whole weekend which was great. Had some problems with it on Friday, but when my parents came to pick me up this Sunday I was still thinking English and saying some English words. Really funny.
Why my parents had to pick me up? Will tell you later.
Even Dutch people spoke English to eachother as we didn't know if we were English, from another European country or just Dutch. So really cool to laugh about it when we found out we were both from the Netherlands.
The workshops were really cool! Met some really nice people (we had a 2 persons table and I sat to loads of people from different countries which was cool!).
From an Irish girl sitting next to me at one of Lance's (from Rusty Pickles) I heard I didn't have to come to the 2nd part of the workshop after meeting eachother later that Saturday. I booked the 1st part for Saturday and the 2nd at Sunday. So I thought... I have all the supplies, the book isn't that hard to make, lets try to see if there's a spot open on Sunday for another workshop and on Sunday I made it! Did another workshop!
Had to sit in front of the class. Met an English girl Saturday evening during Diva's night (we were all wearing Diva clothes, like boa's, tiara's and stuff... we met on the SAG forum) and she's so really really cool! Had some great laughes with her!!
So I spoke to her before my last class and she introduced me to the teachers and I had to sit in front..hmmm...
Well it was great!
During Saturday evening Diva's night I won some great goodies and on Friday I won a Junkitz-book... It's so good to win stuff!!
Not only did I get loads of stuff from the workshops, but I also shopped a bit and won some fab prizes!!
Here's the stuff I needed to bring home with me:

I had 1 suitcase with me, 1 scrappingcase and 1 big bag, but it just didn't fit!!! I had too many stuff to bring with me.
As the car broke down the Thursday before SAG, I had to travel by train, and had to go home by train as well.... but with all of this... no way... just too much!!
So I called my parents to pick me up. They were with my grandma (my father's mom), but they liked it. So lucky me!!
Today I'm here, still really exhausted from the weekend, but have met so many wonderfull people, had loads of great classes (actually learned how to work with alcohol inks!! Really fun to do this!!), but most of all... I had great laughs and enjoyed myself every minute of the weekend.
No regrets for me. It was the first time, but no way it's going to be the last one!!
Heard there was going to be a mini SAG this November, but am not sure to go or not. Next year there will be another SAG :)
We'll just wait and see. Will have to make a start with finishing all the wonderfull workshops... gotta go....

Almost time!!

Yeah!! Only 3,5 more hours before I go to Scrap-a-Ganza and totally loving it!!
Have to pack my bag with clothes, but that's not a problem, the problem is I have to go by public transport as P.P.'s car has to go to the garage today for a new radiator and I so not love it!! We were planning to go to Egmond aan Zee together, having a few hours at the beach together, some shopping and stuff, but now plans unfortunately totally changed.
Went home yesterday and now I really miss him.
Well... will see him within a week I hope :)

Keeping positive...
Can't wait to be in Egmond and having a great weekend with loads of workshops (16!!!), some make-n-takes and off course some heavy shopping. Planning to buy some items I always really wanted, but were too high in price in my humble opinion, but now they seem to be *great!*
Made some nice forum friends swap cards we will trade this evening with 24 other people from the SAG-forum, so really looking forward to that one :)
Bye for me right now. Have to take care of some clothes :)
Will leave you with the last layout I made for the stamps challenge on National Scrapbook Day

To share...

Just wanna share a layout I made this month during National Scrapbook Day, 5th May.
It was an easy layout, but it took some time because of the sewing.
Have to buy more white cardstock, almost out of stock (yeah... I also run out of stock sometimes..hehehe...)
Anyways... try to post before my weekend at SAG again, not promissing you anything :)

Only a few days...

Before I go to Scrap-a-Ganza, a weekend full of scrapbooking workshops, make-n-takes and loads of fun!!

Really looking forward to it. Will be sharing a room with a woman from Belgium.

P.P. will go with me the morning/afternoon so we can go to the beach and hang out a bit.

Friday I had my 2nd class of photography. There was a model we had to photograph. Really inspiring, especially the people who are there as well, learning so much from them! Unfortunately I'm not able to come next time as I'm in Egmond aan Zee already for SAG (Scrap a Ganza). Really excited as I absolutely love modelphotography a lot. Hopefully I'll learn a lot :)

Anyways... yesterday I bougt myself a new bikini for this summer. Some blue, green and yellow in it.

Also bought new candels at Xenos. Love those!! After that went shopping for the groceries at Hoogvliet and Lidl. They didn't have cola at Lidl anymore so we just wait and see.

Today I'm scrapping a lot. Making a planner for SAG where I can see what workshop I have to attend, what time and what to bring with me. Hopefully this will help me in my chaos :)

Will leave you with a picture of the prize I won with my quote:

Fabulous!

Fabulous! That's how I feel. Feeling really lucky the last week after winning some National Scrapbook challenges and when I checked the weblog of one of my fave stampingstores, I came to the conclusion I won some really great Cosmo Cricket Dutch Girl goodies!!
Never happened to me before winning loads of prizes.

Though there's also the other side... wanted to become a member of a DesignTeam, but wasn't the one they were looking for. No problem, as I was just trying my 2nd time. Not bad at all and already feel lucky winning loads of prizes!

Also feeling fabulous the bachelorette party has finished the 12th. Had a day full of fun, but really stressfull, specially with organizing this. So I made a promise myself: Will NOT, I say NOT!!, do this a second time like this has been. So didn't like it at all!! But it's all behind now.

Last Wednesday was the wedding and I must say it was ok. Really love the party!! They had a great disco playing 70's & 80's music. Wow!! That's partytime for me! :)
Also went to the photoshoot and wow.... that's so great to be a part of it! Really loved it how the photographer worked and I made some very, very, very great photos of the weddingcouple.
Learned a lot as well about lightning and the setting, background etc. Really usefull! And the groom's stepdad also like to photograph so we were talking about photography and now I have an invitation to come to him with P.P. and see photos he made. Learned so much of him that day!
Will not post a photo I made, the couple has to see them first :)

Last Saturday P.P. and I went to a 70's party with P.P.'s best friend Peter, Peter's 2 sisters and his wife Anita. Enjoyed it so much. Danced and sang a lot! It was great!!! *really big smile*
Also knew some songs P.P. didn't know. Why I did know them? Uhhmmm... I'm still a really big fan of Take That :) And they had a 70's medley quite some years ago (about 14 years..hehe) and therefor I knew the songs last Saturday :) Really funny to notice.
Yesterday, Sunday, we had it quite quiet. Went to church. Some children did their Holy Communion (?? Did I spell it right??) and had to play flute with the child's choir. After that went to my grandpa and grandma. Liked it to see them again.
Had a relaxed afternoon after.

Today I had to work again after not working since last Tuesday :)
Just came home from the child's choir. They were terrible! Didn't listen at all to the director and I don't wanna play the teacher all day, but I just had to! Well... just wait and see next Saturday when they have to sing again *keeping fingers crossed*

Well... leave you with the comment I left on the blog I won a prize at last week!
Gotta watch the Musical Awards (another hobby of mine: going to musicals!), after that reading the new Creating Keepsakes I just found on the doormat *yahoo!!!*. And after that... uhhmm... it's bedtime :)

Excited...

About having a bachelor's party this next Saturday of a friend of mine who will be getting married next Wednesday.
Have organized it as well with friends of her boyfriend. Really excited what will happen.... Got some nice plans in mind, now if they only happen :)
We will see. Will be a witness for her as well next Wednesday, so double excited. Really looking forward to it. Hopefully the weather will be a lot better than! It's only 15 degrees Celcius or so and since Monday it's been raining!!! And today it was terrible!! Rainy all day. Just keeping fingers crossed :)

On the other side... life isn't easy at the moment. Feeling really tired all the time, even though today was my 4th day at work since a 2 week holidaybreak. Things at work really keep my head busy a lot which isn't quite good and that's why I'm still awake at 0.30 am Fridaymorning. Ah well... better go now.
Will talk about Saturday's party later on.

LoveXXX

I'm a winner!!

Really still can't believe it, but I won 2 challenges on a scrapsite this weekend due to National Scrapbook Day!!!

Can you believe it?? Me winning something?? Me neither!! It was so much fun to participate! :)

I won some Fontwerks-stamps with a challenge where we had to look for a layout in the gallery with some words on it. Boy... it was really hard to find this one I tell ya. Overlooked it twice at least, seen the entire gallery of that page (at least 9000 images I guess), but I'm overwhelmed by ideas from it! Really love that gallery!! :)

Anyways... the second challenge was hard for me and a really tough one as I have my stampingsupplies, other than my 7Gypsies framestamps and my foamstamps, with Peter-Paul. We had to use 1 stamp at 3 ways.

I used my 7Gypsies framestamp for:

1. Frames around my photos (see layout)
2. Backgroundfiller (see 2nd layout)
3. Journalingstamp (no image, later on I guess)

Won 2 Fontwerks-stamps in this challenge and I really like them a lot!! :)

Also scrapped a lot this weekend: 7 layouts; 4 8,5x11" and 3 12x12". Did find some time to eat. And I really, really enjoyed myself being busy with these challenges. They challenged me to use my supplies on another way, especially with the stamps-challenge. Liked it!

Today I had to go back to work after 2 weeks off. Had to replace a colleague who's on vacation. It also rained alot here. Since 22nd March it hasn't rained, so it's good for all the trees, plants, etc. Love it! Also.. told you about me going to the hairdresser right?? Well... my other colleagues complimented me loads of times with my new hairdo which I'm proud off. Actually I always have the same hairdo, but the hairdresser cut it the same, but played more with the result. So I still have my same do, but I just style it different. Went home early. Didn't want to stay long. Did some shopping for work. We're making cakes this week with all the 4 groups 1 and I volunteered to buy the products which is fun. But still need some biscuits, so I'm off right now. TTYL!

XXX, Ang������lique

Scrapbooking Day!

***Update: Just received my pb (pizzabox) from ClubScrap with loads of great goodies in it! Love the colors all the goodies have!!***

Yeah! In the USA it's National Scrapbooking Day today, 5th May. They always have loads of activities like competitions, workshops etc. this day and that's why I will be near the computer the whole day.
Already went to the hairdresser really early (9 am) and after that did the groceries for the next couple of days. Will be scrapping loads! Got some 8,5x11" albums lately and I discovered I like that size of scrapping as well. So probably will make some layouts for those albums today and tomorrow.

Yesterday I got my scrappingvibe back and it feels really, really great! Made so many cards lately I wanted to do some good old scrapping again :)
Made a layout of my brother with his girlfriend. The photo was made a few months before. It's a bit blurry, but I like it so much. True love that is :)
Made it 8,5x11", the perfect size for this photo and I like the quote. A really simple layout, but turned out perfectly for me.
Used Bazzill cardstock, Bazzill flowers, Autumn Leaves button, American Crafts pen and my fonts on the pc. Thanks for looking!

Going to scrap!!

Queen's Day

Yesterday it was Queen's Day in The Netherlands and this year I decided to sell some stuff. It was great, exept for going out of bed at 4.10 am!!! Thought that would be a nice time, so we could leave home at 5 am so we did and wow!!! I was totally shocked when I saw loads of people already sitting at the "Fred" (as we call the Frederik Hendriklaan here in The Hague).
There wasn't any room for me to sit, so I decided to sit at another road. We were there at 5.30 am and boy, it was so, so, so cold!! It was good P.P. left his shirt with me so I could wear that as well.
But at about 9.30 am it went out, as it was getting to warm and at 11 am I was sitting in my tshirt!
Really enjoyed watching all the people looking for stuff.

My parents and P.P. came as well, by bike. It was good and they also walked the Fred. I didn't. Left once to go to the toilet.
It was a day to remember and time passed quickly, couldn't believe that. It was fun.
Left at 4.30 pm or so with not many Euro's extra, but enjoyed the vibe.

By the way... as I was at fairs when I was younger, I saw a difference yesterday.
In the old days we didn't have to show people everything we had, but could leave stuff in boxes, they always went into them searching for stuff. Now yesterday, we had to show everything as people weren't searching any boxes!
Also made some cards, only sold one!! People overhere are still looking for 3d-cards and I think people aren't ready for stamped and scrapped cards yet, but that's just my opinion. Cause when I send my cards to people they really like them and are stunned about them!!
So... got to find a solution for that...

Not much more to say. Going to P.P. today, cleaning his house, doing some laundry, he's going to paint the stairs. Maybe even going to Ikea (http://www.ikea.nl).
Will also be cleaning my stampingroom there.

Leave you with a photo...

Amsterdam

Did nothing much yesterday. Cleaning the house and getting rid of the old papers (they are in Peter-Paul's car right now..hehe... did a great job on that, now didn't I??). Then went to the Haagse Hogeschool to talk to a teacher and a student from my course Master Special Educational Needs. Really enjoyed.
When I came back home, made pancakes and made a Circle Journal.

Today me and Peter-Paul, my boyfriend went to Amsterdam.
First we went to a fair and after that we went by tram to the innercity and it was great! Really enjoyed ourselves a lot.
Didn't bring my camera with me as I found it too heavy to carry it all day. Just wanted to enjoy really ;)
The weather was great and it was getting warmer in the afternoon. Bought some nice stamps. Hope to play with them soon! :)
Also bought some stampingpapers and we also had to eat, so bought a "frikandelbroodje" for Peter-Paul and a "saté-broodje" for me.
Also went to the Albert Kuypmarkt and I tell you.. It's great! Really love all the colors overthere and I certainly am coming there again. Such a nice vibe as well.
After that we went to the train, and left at Schiphol Airport to watch the planes and.... having some icecream!! Lemon and straciatella for me... JUMMIE!!!
It's been a great day. Now gotta go... gotta put the pricestickers on the products I'm going to sell (hopefully) on Queen's Day this next Monday! Looking forward.
Tomorrow we will go to Peter-Paul's and then I will go to a scrapbookstore!! Can't wait.
Leave you with an old photo of Amsterdam, made in January when I was there with my photography-class
:)