My 'second' first art journal pages

Last year i tried to do some art journal pages, but i wasn't very excited about the way they turned out. I wanted to give it another shot so this week i joined Kara's music themed art journal class and ... WoW! After finishing just four pages, i'm totally hooked. Kara is an amazing teacher. Love her way of art journaling! You should really check out her stuff!

I've also picked up scrapbooking again. I took a break for about 8 weeks and spent some time on other hobbies. But now i'm back and totally loving it again. I want to catch up with my son's album this summer(hence the December and January layouts!!!) and then start working on my daughter's album. So still a lot to do...I'm enjoying every bit of it though!

And finally i made an appointment for my second tattoo: 26 August. I'm having a pink rose tattoed on the front of my right shoulder right below my collar bone. Can't wait! My back tattoo seems to be healing still. My skin is a bit thicker and irritated on the outer lines than the rest of the tattoo and when i scratch it, it hurts...Hopefully that will get better. Looks like i had a minor allergic reaction there...but the rest of tattoo looks just fine! Anyone else experienced that too? I'd like to hear if you did!

i have a new friend and her name is Holga...

I am so in love with this plastic toy camera! The HOLGA love has come into my life for sure! I shot two rolls of film and here are the results. Enjoy!

Other than playing with the HOLGA i've been :

- enjoying life outside in beautiful warm weather,

- watching Miami Ink (and loving Tim Hendricks ;),

- knitting, playing my kids,

- getting re-addicted to my NDS and eating lots of ice cream,

- dreaming about opening my own etsy shop...

I've also been thinking about getting another tattoo. I'd like a rose on my front shoulder, but i'm still not sure whether to do color or black and grey...If only i lived in Miami...!

I really love my life right now. This season is the best! Hello summer, welcome lazy times!!!

Yay!

Finally...i got my tattoo today. It was a bit more painful than i thought it would be, but i made it through okay. I really love the way it turned out!

Placement was okay right the first time!

This is gonna hurt bad!

Finished outlines...

And the finished tattoo!

Enjoy your evening!
xoxo Eeffie

Chaos = not nice!

Phew! The last few weeks have been hectic to say the least. I've been busy with work correcting exams, both my two kids and myself had a nasty stomach flu that lasted a week, i've been knitting a lot(started my first cap sleeve cardigan!), etc...

So last holiday weekend we decided we needed a short break. We packed things up and took the kids on a four day 'camp' in a mobile home about an hours drive away from home. It was the first time we 'camped' and we had a blast! The weather was the best, the mobile home was okay and we did lots of fun things.

The mobile home we stayed in.

My two fav boys in the world!

He sure looooves ice cream! Just like his big sister!

Catching tiny frogs in the lake(they were not harmed and put back after being sweetly spoken to...!).

Having drinks in the mobile home. He doesn't want to drink from a cup, he prefers this thing...

Drinking ice tea...MmM!

This is how we spent the nights. Our kids are terrible when it comes to sleeping so this way, we all got some sleep!

Having breakfast outside. The weather was so nice!

Jump, jump, jump!!! And then falling down!

Pic of me and my hubby.

Feeding the goats. She didn't want the momma goat to steel from the tiny ones. Too cute! You should have seen her!

Me and my princess.

Killian's face after eating breakfast(his face all covered with chocolate paste!).

And finally the kids, totally knocked out in the back of our car!

Also did some scrapping, but i only have one pic to show you...

This week is going to be a busy one. Tomorrow i'm having a party with people from work, Thursday i'm getting my first tattoo(YaY!!!) and Friday we're having a party with the people from Michiel's work. Hopefully the weekend will be a crafty one!

HaPpY MoThEr'S DaY!

Woke up to this beauty this morning...First word my four year old daughter ever wrote!

Enjoy today!

Knit it!

I've been hooked on knitting for about four months now and didn't really share much of that here on my cyberspace place. I've been working on socks lately. It's been pretty easy once you get the hang of it(and that alone took me about four weeks!).

This is my first pair of socks. It took me six(!!!) weeks to finish. I started off using five needles, then went down to using two circular needles and finally started knitting with the Magic Loop. It's one long circular needle(you can see the purple thread in the next pic...) and you can knit two socks at the same time! There were times i just wanted to give up and start something new. But with some help from YouTube and other knitting websites i finally finished them!

And now i'm working on another pair for my girlie. She loves them already and they're not even finished yet(obviously!). It took me two weeks(about 12 hours on total) to get this far and i think i should be able to finish them this week. A lot faster, huh?! And please don't think i'm an expert knitter...these stripes just appear while you're knitting! No fancy pattern there!

Since i've been knitting so much recently i thought i should make a layout about it. Everything i used here came from a Dozen's kit. I already shared my love for the Dozens here like a million times...; ). Did some photo pimping on Piknic.com. That site RoCkS!!! It took my one click to get the vintage look!

Bought two books on knitting the other day this being one of them. It has this supercute capsleeve vest in it that will be one of my new projects. So pretty!

And this book has some clear instructions on knitting basics as well as some cute patterns.

Anyway, i'm off to bed now(and i'll probably knit some more...; )

Shhh! It's a secret!

Just a quick post to tell you a have a big creative secret to share! ; ) WooHoo! I've waited like FOREVER for this opportunity! Can't tell you any details for now, because i'm not supposed to share until further notice...WooHoo!!!