Yeah!!!

Ok, got great news and really the baddest news you can get.

Let's start wit the bad news. I have a leak in my appartment since last Saturday and I so do not like it!! My lower neighbour came up and told me she had water at her ceiling, so not good for me. But will not go into details... I'm really hoping everything will go alright with it as right now I don't like it anymore, specially with insurance!!!!!

The good news...

Finally went to the vet today. I have one down the block, so thought that was pretty cool. Last Monday I went there and they told me I needed an appointment for the Jet and Gizmo so I could go home and make one. Last week I phoned them a couple of times and yesterday I tried it for the last time, but no response at all!!! So I really thought: What if there's really something wrong with them, then I can't reach the vet!!!

So I phoned another one nearby, about a 10 min. drive (loads of trafficlights...., by bike I'm there within 5 minutes :) ) and they had some time this afternoon. Yeah!!!

So this afternoon I put Jet and Gizmo in the travelbox and went by car to the vet. They didn't know what was happening..hehe... For me it was really strange to go there, as I've practically been there only once... for passing away my eldest cat. So that wasn't a nice thing to remember about the vet... really worried :)

When I came in, I was shocked about the great atmosphere. Really friendly, loads of flyers about all different things the animals can get and about precaution and stuff.

I needed to give my information and also the names of the cats. The assistent told me they were "tortoise/turtle" cats, looking at their fur. She also told me normally those cats are always females, so I told her I thought that was also the case, but the vet needed to look at it.

People came in and were really cool about my cats! *yahoo!!* Asking me how old they were and stuff. It felt so good to talk about them since the last couple of days haven't been my most fave ones...

And then I was called by the vet.

She checked them, their eyes, ears, teath, stomache and also their gender!! *big smile*

She said everything is great. Nothing to worry about, only flees. I told her I also noticed them and asked her if they had some medicine, and they did, so bought it after I left.

She also give them an injection for catdiseases. Need to go back in 3 weeks time. Then I will also have them chipped.

They then will be registered and when I loose them and someone finds them, that person can go to a vet to check where the cat is from. I don't need it at my place as they will not go outside, but might need it at P.P.'s house, as I'm trying to let them out of the house there.

Oh, I forgot about their gender...hehe...

But here's the big news:

I have 2 sisters!! hahaha... So not a brother and sister, but two female cats!!!

I always told myself I wanted a female if I ever got a cat, and now I got two!! So my prediction was right, they are females! *YEAH!!!*

So now I have to mail the last owner of Jet and Gizmo to tell them they're females..hahaha...

Wonder how they react.

Well... have to go, but have to tell you 3 things:

1. (don't know if I posted this before...)

A great friend of mine also wants to start scrapbooking so we have to pick a date to start doing this.

2. Did some major sales scrapbookshopping at a warehouse in Amsterdam last weekend. Went their on Saturday with my bf and went back Sunday!!! Yeah.. I'm mad, but I got some great albums (like 12x12 now for only EUR 5,00 instead of EUR 27 in the shops!!!), great papers, loads of stickers and loads of great Prima flowers which I gave some to my mother as she really likes them.

Bought a great black All My Memories handbag on Saturday and a red one on Sunday. You can see the black one at the photo. Right now there are photos of Jet and Gizmo in it.

3. Will go to a scrapweekend in November:http://www.scrap-a-ganza.com/

Been there last June and I really enjoyed myself, now I only have to persuade a niece of mine to come with me! That would be so much fun!!!

Anyways... will leave you with some photos..hahahahah

Take care!!!

This is what I bought on Saturday. Bought loads of albums on Sunday and some more paper (can we ever have enough???)..

Can I ever have enough flowers?? Don't think so!!! See that look on my face! Really proud to get this glass as there were only a couple of people who were able to get one, and there were loads, and I mean loads of people who wanted one to! When I came home I saw I already had one of these..hahaha
I have two acrobats!! I left my bike in my kitchen this morning and Gizmo went on top of my steering-wheel and Jet just followed. Gizmo is a bit handier in jumping and stuff....hehe, but Jet was sitting on the tyre!!
Here we have miss Gizmo (named after Gizmo from The Gremlins, always liked that cute animal!). Gizmo has some lightbrown above her eyes.
Here we have Jet (named after Jet from the Freggles, a famous tv show with puppets I always watched). She looks the most like her mother, she has a black head with some brown. Did you notice her undermouth has 2 colors??

Jet absolutely loves water!!! Last week I showered and Gizmo came in... she walked into the water and didn't like it at all!!! But Jet... it looked like she was ready for jumping into it!! They're the best with their own characters...

Brother and sister???

Hi all,

I'm so happy with my two little cats. They're really cute and today I was away for about 25 minutes and when I came home, Jet was mewing. So really adorable, as I haven't heard that for quite a while now.

And I'm sure they're doing alright here. Jumping all over the place, running after each other and so on. They're the best!

Today my mother and a friend of her came over to make some cards. It was great! Didn't do much. I'm working on a Halloween-house. It's already looking great (at least I think *LOL*). Will make a fall-house as well as I got the latest line of Basic Grey: Mellow, which has the perfect colors for the house!

My mother and her friend were also amazed about the fact the little ones are so cute and running through the house that fast!

But also about the fact they can pick them up and caress them. And you must know I'm happy about it, as I don't want them to be cats that are too shy of people and/or are scratching and biting others. I want them to be social and I think it's going to work really good within 5 days time already! I also play a lot with them, getting to know me, cuddle them, getting to know all the noises in house and so on. They're pretty scared of some noises though, but I think that will go alright.

OMG! Just looking around my scraproom and I see so many beautiful things! Got an idea for the Halloweenhouse. Will use some fibers, but right now I think I must have some Halloweenribbon. I'm not too sure. Will find them (or not if I didn't buy them...heehee).

I'm also very proud of my scrapcleaning I did the last days. Still not finished, but my paperstack is just great!

Got some supadupa Display Dynamics paperholders fully filled with loads of Bazzill cardstock and patterned papers. It's just a delight to see it! All my cardstock sorted by colour and some by texture (like Chatterbox, Fourz, "normal").

Will go on with cleaning this next days, but will also be scrapping a lot! I want my Halloweenhouse to be finished and got some more ideas, specially for my little rascals.

The last thing about them....

The person I got them from said they're male and female, but I've been checking it on and on and I really, really think they're both females!!

I will finally go to the vet this Monday (they had their vacation and without any notices on their doors!!! So I'm really ***sed off about that to be honest), so then I will ask him/her to check it so I know it for sure! But I'm 99% sure they're both females...

Oh well... I always wanted one female, and now I will have 2!! I've magic!

Anyways.. Will leave you with a photo of them :)

They're the cutest. I will go on with scrapcleaning. My mom got some things I don't use, mostly they were in goodiebags from scrapweekends. So it's ok...

Love ya!

My cats

Here are my two little cats! They're really cute!! So pure, so little, so.... uhhh.... lovely!!
Their names are Gizmo and Jet. Gizmo for the brother and Jet for the sister.
Will go to the vetenairian (???) to check if everything is alright.
Wow... I love them!

And today I went to buy a thing where they can climb in and put their nails in. I put them in their little benz where I will transport them in by train and car. And when I came home... they broke out of it!!! Don't have any idea how they did it, but they did!!
Anyways... here's a little video of them... Enjoy :)

My cards

Ok,

Here are my 2 cards I made.

Just bought the newest BasicGrey paperpad: Mellow. Really marvelous fall-colors, so they were just screaming for me as I love those rich colors a lot (hee.... you just have to open my wardrobe and you see it!). I love that paper! Need more!!! *big smile*

Thanks for watching!

Will go away right now to a craftsfair to buy some nice scrapstuff. Already heard of some nice offers *big smile*

By the way... I made these cards for a challenge at Samm's (http://samm-l.blogspot.com/)

Loads to share....

First of all... let me update you about my cat! *YAHOO!!!*

I don't have it yet. Some personal problems came along the way, but I was still searching the internet and there I found this little advert on an auctionsite like Ebay, only in Dutch, last Wednesday.

So there this advert was for 2 little cats, about 10 weeks old. Brother and sister.

To my surprise I saw some familiar names with a phonenumber, so I looked up the number in my phonebook and yes... I know those people!

The man is the brother of my friend's husband!!

So I phoned him to ask if the cats were still there and they were, so I was quite interested *LOL* He said the cats won't go away alone, only with the two of them.
I will get them this Sunday... that's tomorrow!!! (it's 2.00 am Saturday morning!! *can you believe it?!*)

I'm so really happy and R., the man, also is, as now he knows where the cats will go to. And that's for sure a thing he's right about. Who doesn't like his cats to be cuddled and well cared for?? I do!!!

So now I'm all ready for them to come. Only have to buy 2 things, but that's ok like Ali Edwards (aliedwards.typepad.com) says.

Yesterday, or Friday..hehe... I made 2 cards. Won't show you yet... will show them a bit later today...

Anyways... here are some layouts I made since the beginning of 2007.... My present for you as I didn't find the time to update my blog :)

Me in Vienna: First photo at Mozart's Grave and the 2nd of a monument.

BF's niece who really enjoyed playing with her telephone.

Some children singing at the "Dickens Festival" in Deventer, december 2006

I was her made of honour and witness. Really enjoyed this photoshoot! Learned so much!!
A CJ-entry for the "Hot & Spicy Peas" at www.twopeasinabucket.com

And another entry, in someone else's CJ
Another layout of the Dickens Festival. I embroidered the "wave" down the "floor" ("ondergrond" in Dutch). Copied some chipboardletters on patterned paper, cut them out and matted them with cardstock.
A really great ClubScrap layout!
My brother and his GF

That's all folks! *big smile*

Got some GREAT NEWS!!!

I really can't take this anymore... Just have to tell you I will go to the sanctuary this Monday to find myself a little cat!! Or I will have one from a nest of young cats.
Oh yeah!!! I'm really *JUMPING* everywhere and like to tell the whole world I love this sooooooo much!!!
At my parents' we had 2 cats: a mother and a daughter. The mother passed away about 5 years ago and I so really loved that cat. It really was mine and we were really close!!
And we had to let go of her daughter last November. That's when she passed away. It was so hard to do, but daugher was 20 years old!!!

And since the very beginning I knew I always wanted a cat if I lived on my own, but my BF didn't like it, he said we should have one when we were living together.
I really didn't like it, but hee... better than nothing, eh??
But still I felt incomplete without a cat.... having fun together, a real mate when I come home etc. etc. Really love those animals a lot!!

But... last week he said I could have one... we won't go with vacation, so I have all the time to raise this little cutie pie.
I was jumping all the way!!! Really, you can't imagine how happy I am... having an animal around who I can cuddle and all.
I know it will be a hard task to do, as I like to have a younger one, about 8 weeks old (that's when they can leave their mother), but I just love it so much!!!
The only thing I always wanted when I was living on my own was a cat... and now it's finally going to happen, 3 years after buying my house... I so love this!!! *HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY*

I do want a female though, don't know why, but I like them. There are also loads of cats that look like our mothercat, but I don't like one of them, they will remind me of her and I want the cat to be themselves :)
Wow.... really still can't believe it.
Right now I'm browsing the internet for all kind of things I have to buy. Have some stuff from my parents, but have to buy some things.... ohhhhhhhh... I so love this!!!
Well... better will not go on and on and on... I will update you about all of this really soon.

For now, here's a photo of my grandmother, 89 years old, taken yesterday in my parent's garden at my brother's bbq (he has his own house, but doesn't have a garden where we can do this).
I don't like bbq, but had some bread with garlicbutter (love this and I have a great recipe for my own...hehe).... But could take some great photos of my nephews and other familymembers.

VACATION!!!

Yeah!! Finally I have 6 weeks vacation!!! Really love it, I don't feel too tired like the last 3 weeks or so. My feet hurt real badly, will have a feetbath this evening for them to relax. I also have a lot of headaches. That's what I'm worried about, as in January this year I had a sinus ignition (?? Hope that's the right word) and also had pain right towards my lefteye and that started last evening as well... It's ok right now, but am worried. Otherwise I will go to the doctor for some antibiotic. I just hope it's not the same this time.

Went to the hairdresser this morning. Really relaxing... having some chitchat and so on. Was there for over 40 minutes!!! Loved it!! Normally go to the hairdresser every 2-3 months, even though I have short hair and it grows really fast, but I have this great hair that I just have to style and I can go out :)
After that I did some groceries. And now I'm in the middle of cleaning my house. P.P. cleaned the shower and toilet, so that's fresh as well. I really love a fresh bathroom!
Have to pay some bills this week as well. Don't like them, but hee... guess nobody loves them :)

Also have to make a birthday-card for my brother who will celebrate his 24th birthday tomorrow (still know the day he was born and the days after that when family etc. came to visit). He's still my little brother, even though he rides a truck and is bigger than me :)

Don't have any photo to share yet, will update this thread with a photo of my Bro's birthdaycard when I finished it this evening :)

*UPDATED: Here's my brother's 24th Birthday card :) Used a Penny Black stamp, some Clubscrap paper and some letterstickers from my stash)

3 hours, 15 minutes

That's the "official" time I have my class of 2006-2007 for the last time together, even though there are already some kids on vacation.

I really can't want.

We moved classrooms yesterday, so today and tomorrow I will be in a different classroom. Really love it! It's so large! I now have so much space for the kids to play. Really love it and today I also loved it, because they seem to really enjoy themselves.

They were singing, dancing and stuff like that. A bunch of happy kids today, will see tomorrow. Loads of kids will go on vacation to Turkey and Marocco. Wish I could be with them... having loads of sun (need it!!!) and just relaxing.

I feel I just need that, and loads of sleep as well. Feeling really tired and my eyes are as well.

Still have loads of things to do for the new schoolyear, but I promised myself not to be in a hurry. Need time to load myself. I really want to work on those things, but have to be fit in the first place and right now I'm not.

Oh... will go to the hairdresser this Saturday. Been over 2 months since I've been there. I can still put my hair in the right direction, but I feel it just needs a big cut so I can keep it in better form.

Don't have much to tell... Just need to work 3 hours and 15 minutes :)

I spy with my little eye... (went to the forest in October with the kids. There was also a playing ground.)

Just need a break, real badly...

Never had this feeling before, but right now I just want it to be my summerholidays.
Yes, I always love vacation, but this year it seems like I really, really need it. So many things happened and are still happening here.
Just feels like it's too much right now, too much to handle for me.
Only 5 more days.... just 5 more...

Leave you with some close-ups of CJ-entries I made :)

Sharon's CJ...
Misti's CJ...

Donnette's CJ...
Camille's CJ...
Alice's CJ...
Susie's CJ...

Birthday Bash!

Yesterday, only a few hours ago... the Kindergarten teachers celebrated their birthdays together. That way we can have games all through the whole hallway and our classes. It's always a great sight to see all those kids with big smiles on their faces because they are enjoying themselves.

We started in our own classes with packing out all the presents the kids gave us. Got some really nice things! Loads of flowers, some chocolate, some speculaas (Dutch cookies..jummie!!), some showergel, a bracelet and a ring. They really spoiled me.

It's always funny to see the parents at the beginning of the day like: Didn't know it was your birthday! And when they come to pick up their kids, having some presents with them :)

Really have the greatest parents there are!

When my kids were in the class they spontainiously began to sing "Lang zal ze leven"(Happy birthday in English) and "Happy Birthday to you" (yeah, we also sing that one!!) and loads of other birthday songs. That moment really made my day! Seeing them all singing, the thing I really love doing with them (and hee... they sing really amazing I can tell you!!) and enjoying themselves. Felt some tears in my eyes of happiness. They're cute!

Then unpacking the pressies and kids who didn't have presents congratulated me with my birthday. After that a boy came to me and whispered in my ears: "Happy birthday dear sweet teacher. Hope you will have a great day!"

Now who can resist that, especially when you know he's the class most difficult boy, but he's changed so much the last year. From bad into good!! And I love to see that change!! Also other teachers notice that, so guess I'm on the right way :)

Here are some photos of today.

In my class the kids could make chipschains. A "dropveter" (a long licourice) with potatochips on it and they loved it!! All the kids (about 175!!) made them and it was fun!!!!

Well... just see the photos, they speak for themselves!

The girls and boys just love having their faces painted :) A girl of mine :) She was really into thoughts when I made this photo...
We have a game called "stoelendans", something like chairdance. There are about 10 kids and 9 chairs. When the music stops playing they all have to sit on a chair. One child doesn't have any and can't play anymore. Then one chair is put on the side, etc, etc.... Till we have 1 chair and 2 kids left. The one who sits on the chair when the music stops, is the winner :)

Catch the fish :)
Some kids of me :) Enjoying their chipschain :)
Making the chipschains...
"Jumping" is really hot overhere in Holland. Just watch this movie(http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=KkOikxh0kKg) and you know what these kids are doing :) It's really cool to see those little kids jumping..hehe