Smart kid!!

Woeeeheeeee, I've got a really smart kid. Hee as a parent you can brag about your little one right? Well, Sanne is 2,5 years old now, and today she made the big Dora puzzle (with 20 pieces!!) totally by herself. I was just checking my e-mail (....) and she was playing around in her cute underwear (yes, at home she doesn't wear diapers anymore!!!). All of a sudden I realised what she was doing and sneaked in with my camera. Took some great shots of her in progress!! I'm so proud of her. Just a few days ago she always said: "Noooo, mommy has to make the puzzle". I always tried to make the puzzle together and let her look for the images. But now she was making it by herself. Just piece by piece, trying and trying again (usually, when something is not working within let's say 1 second, she explodes... but now she seemed to have the patience to look for another piece if one wasn't fitting).

And sadly my last photo is a little bit to dark, but the joy in her face when she finished the puzzle!! That's what makes my day!!! Tell me, what makes your day??
Grz
Revlie

tag, your it!!

First of all, I think Sanne must be a little bit tired of mom and her camera. Look at this shot... She covered almost her complete head with that silly hat, and held her drink in front of her. And than the hand... And she said: "NOOOOOOOOOOOO photo's today mommy...". Maybe I should slow down a little bit, me little paperazi-woman LOL.

Well, Corinne tagged me with some really fun questions, so here we go, don’t laugh to hard ok...;-)

1. First time you got kissed: about 13
Well, I played table tennis at that age (yes i know...) and we were playing to a French group of young people (in the Netherlands). We had a party night (in a kind of youth society with a childrens playpark outside (where I played when I was younger). Our eyes meet constantly. His name was Christophe. Than al of a sudden he asked me to go outside (you can imagine how my heart was racing...hee hee). We walked for a bit and on top of some tower he suddenly came near to me and kissed me and stick his tongue in my mouth. All I could feel were TEETH, TEETH TEETH everywhere. Hee hee. Did NOT know what was happening at all LOL. When he went back to France we started writing. The year after we went for the ‘table tennis games’ to France and I stayed with a girlfriend at his house (no, nothing happened!!! We slept in another room, but it was exciting!). We went out at night, and when we came home about 3 in the morning, his mother sat there with a kinds of cake, hot chocolate and lots of sweets. Welllll that is a nice tradition!! I wrote with him untill I was about 20 years old.... it just died a little bit...

2. First time you drove a car: that must be around 19 / 20 years old
I was about to take lessons and my boyfriend (Arjan, still the same ;-) had already his drivers licence and his own car. He teached me the basics at a deserted industrial area....not legal but heeee who sais I am...;-)
What kind of car? It was an Opel (Vauxhall...) coupé, red and sounded like a harly davidson.

3. First time you scrapbooked: end 2003

When you look at your page do you love it?
Haha, the first one I even took out of the album. To horrible to look at. The second one I’m keeping because it makes me laught. I than bought the book: Clean & Simple by Cathy Zielske and read it in 1 night. She really explains how to look at different elements and helps you to create your own style. So thank you Cathy!!

4. First time you went on a date: that must be around 15 / 16 years old. But that was not really ‘a date’. We went out to the disco with a bunch of friends. We had to ride on the bike for about 45 minutes to get to the disco. And in the middle of the night ride back, drunk hee hee. Still wonder that I didn’t brake a bone LOL.
Where did you go and with who?
See above.

5. First time you fell in love: well, about 4 years old....How did you know? My parents told me that we were always playing together. I met him at kindergarten and we seem to be inseperatable... We told everybody that we were gonna marry eachother hee hee. Well, I met him again at a reunion from our school and heeee I’m glad I didn’t marry him.... He looked like ZZ Top LOL.

6. First time you cooked for someone: hmmmmm. I really don’t know. Probably when I started living together with my boyfriend around 19 years old. I know we were moved but had forgotten to do grocery shopping (not in your system yet, right...). So we had a pot of white beens.... but no plates only a knife to cut cheese... So we ate that out of the pan. Hee hee. 7. First time you got on a plane: 16 years old. With Arjan and 9 other guys... Yeah, sounds exciting wright.... Me with al the other guys. We went to Portugal and misbehaved terrible... Okay, I was young once...

8. First time you shaved your legs: Huh? Who really wants to know that..... Should be around 14 years old...when i started to understand that 'furry' was not a cool thing LOL.

9. First time you put one make up: 10 / 11 (I have two sisters who are 10 years older then me, and they did make-up on me when I was 4..... so you can’t really blame me...)
Looking back how did you do? Did you look good or like a clown? At that time I thought I looked great....that should say enough...

10. First time you moved out of your home: unfortunately when I was 16 years old but that’s not a nice story to tell...Was it an apartment, house, etc? A house, I moved in with Arjan and his parents looked after me, which I’m still thankful for.

Now I have to tag some other people. Well here it goes:

Rachel C
Florence Bavinck
Cari

Sorry girls, but I would love to read your answers... If you already did this game, forgive meeeeeeee!!!

Grz
Revlie

The girl's got new boots!

Well, i'm not a real shopper. Actually hate it. Store in, store out. Nothing really fits comfortable (i'm not that big, no just a normal size...) but I just hate new clothes. Shoes that's more easy to try on also so i will shop for that. As you were asking me: pictures. Well ladies: meet my new boots:

yesss, thats me sitting at my little home desk and my little girlie girl on my background of my pc... Yep. Aren't my new boots great? I don't know if i'm in fashion or anything... and I actually don't care. Just buy what i like. And the walk great. Well, I'm kinda clumbsy so i almost fell today in the office. We have carpetting in the office, and I didn't lift my feet up high enough.. you can imagine the picture, right.. hee hee....
Grz
Revlie

Latest and gratest ;-)

Hi,
Well I'm so happy I finally got my hands on Christina Cole paper. I loved it so much. And saw it coming by and coming by on the 2peas gallery. Frustrating!!! Luckely for me Yvonne (thanx!!) told me that the shop she works at has it. So, about the next day .... I bought it!!! And ofcourse I made a lay-out right away. Love it myself. Well, have to be proud of something i'm doing right??
She just looked up at me when I was photographing her digging in her new garden! She is soooo loving the garden. It was really cold, but she didn't care at all. Just started digging with her new shelf? or what's it called....This was just a lucky shot!! And I love the way it turned out.

So.... yesterday I told i was going to our new house to help to paint and everything... well... plans just changed when i got there. They were removing al the central heating...We are getting brand new ones (yeaahh!!). But... heee, it's freezing now in our little country... so you kinda imagine what the temperature was like in the new house... Yep... So I decided I definately needed new boots... Hee Hee. So my dear Arjan stayed and build a wall (you gotta do something for fun right ;-), and I was shopping in the city.... I know, I'm bad, but someone needs to get to do the fun stuff, so why that shouldn't be me LOL.

Cya,
Revlie
PS Corinne, Yes, we should meet up!!

I did it...

Yes I did it. I made 2 lay-outs based on the sketch of Becky from CK..... Well, I e-mailed them yesterdaynight. And I was typing really quickly because I thought it was already bedtime... I accidently mailed my Worddocument with the journaling in Dutch. Well, that must come inhandy right??? Duuhhhhh..... I mailed again with the English version. Hope they don't think I'm just a stupid Dutch girl... which I am WOEHAAA.

I'm going to our new house this afternoon to paint my soon-to-be-really-cool-scraproom-but-now-looks-like-a-ruin-room....


To leave you with some happy thoughts: this Friday pictures were taken at our new office to get free publicity (yes... I know how it works ;-) on a local tv-station (I mean really really local, only in the little villages near us to see). And look at my funny staff: Kirsten (with the coffeecup) said: well, let's take a quick sip of my coffee, people might think I'm really working here ;-). Love those girls!!! (it's looking a bit borring, but paintings will come on the walls!!)

Cya,
Revlie

You tag, we tag, I've been tagged!!

I was tagged! Help. What is that???
I was tagged by my new (scrap-blog)friend Birgit with these funny questions. Like her, I also never have been tagged so I’m having fun answering all the questions.

The rules for this particular tagging are as follows:Remove the blog name in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add yourself to the bottom slot.
1. Ruth
2. Peg
3. Karen
4. Birgit
5. Revlie

Then you get to select five people to pass the love on to (well I've randomly selected some peas who have praised me (thanx for that!), and some nice girls who have left a comment on my blog (also thanx for doing that!).... I'm only new to this game ;-p, don't shoot me right ahead...)

1. Rachel
2. Florence
3. Karlyn
4. Marmot (Mara)
5. Katpost

Now, on to the questions!
What were you doing 10 years ago?
Well... uuuhh... i’m not thát old ;-). 10 years ago I was 21 years old and I was working at a publishing firm on the Human Resources Department as an Personal Assistant. I worked fulltime, was going out every weekend and get drunk (shame!!!) and was having a great time. I was living together with my boyfriend Arjan. We lived in a sort of mobile home and in the Netherlands is illegal to live there fulltime (it's ok for vacations, but not for fulltime all year long). Well.... we lived there for almost 8 years and now my mother- and father-in-law are renting it from us. Arjan and I are 15 years together this year!!

What were you doing one year ago?
One year ago I was running my business as I’m doing now, only then I had to fire 2 people who didn’t work like they should... One just thought she didn’t like the job and called in sick. Well, she messed with the wrong person I must say ;-). And the other one thought it would be great just to have some documents of our company at home... well need I say more? Furthermore I was enjoying my little girl who was 1,5 years old at the time. And we were already thinking about another home because we don’t have a garden... That is solved, see my previous post ...

Five snacks you enjoy
Only 5??? Okay, number one Chocolate. Especially Cote d’Or, but any kind will do if i’m in need. Icecream, all flavors but especially Ben&Jerry’s, Nuts, all kind....., drop (a typical Dutch candy, can’t find the right word for it, something liqorish???), chocolate chip cookies .............. JUMMY i want some now!!

Five songs, to which you KNOW all the lyrics
”Not that Kind” – Anastacia
”Ik wou dat ik jou was” – Veldhuis & Kemper (Dutch artist)
”She is the one” – Robbie Williams (well, almost all of his songs...)
”Ironic” – Alanis Morrissette (well, almost all of her songs to...)
”Let it be” - KANE (Dutch artist)

Five things you would do, if you were a millionaire
Go on a really long vacation!!! As a business owner you don’t take a lot of time of and that is something I miss a lot! Furthermore buy a new house and let do someone else do allllll the work!! And ofcourse shop shop shop shop shop.

Five bad habits
Well, I’m a little bit unpatience....I don’t like housework, but that is solved: we have a cleaning lady and she is obsessed with cleaning so that’s nice: I'm making actually somebody happy, LOL, I can be easily irritated by ignorant people, sometimes I bite my nails. I know: it’s grose, but when i’m stressed out I do it automatically.

Five things you like doing
Playing and spending time with Sanne, my 2,5 year old. She is so full of live and joy. I’m always having fun with her. Scrapbooking!!! And buying scrapbooksupplies!!!, reading, going out to dinner and to the clubs/bars (spend time with friends) ;-)

Five things you would never wear, buy, or get new again
Woolen sweaters (they DO itch eventhough the saleswoman sais it does not...), to small shoes because they look more cute (eventhough I have size 38, which is small/normal in Holland), badingsuits: it makes you look bigger than big ;-), hats, i look totally dorky in them, funky panty’s because I buy them and then don’t wear them. It makes me look like a charicature of Pippi Langstocking ;-)

Five favorite toys
Well, if people count to: Sanne & Arjan, my scrapbooksupplies, my computer, my digital camera, my camera and my photoprinter (uuuhhh: lot of scrapbooking here??)

Well, that's all for today's post. Cya,
Revlie

Are U prepared...??

Well, are you prepared to see some pictures of our new 'home'. Well, it isn't a home yet. It is a ruin at the moment....sigh.... Well, I have the utmost respect for my man (well, we are not married (yet!!), but I just call him my man...) Only 2 years ago we moved to our house we are living in now. He did everything! And when I say everything, I mean everything: the walls, the ceilings (painting), build the kitchen handmade...., the bathroom (handmade again... thanks to the ideas of his lovely girlfriend ;-), the tiles around our undue big bath (LOL)..... the floor, well everything. In 1 year time we decided that this house (appartment) is really great... if you don't have children. We don't have a garden and that is NOT working with a 2-year old. And O well, I like to sit in the garden to ;-). Last november we moved with our own company to another (new) building. We decided to do a lot ourself (read: Arjan does a lot himself....) to get a lower rent (we're Dutch!). He was there working every night for 2 months... And now we have another home to rebuilt.....And it's his turn again. Mondaynight and Tuesdaynight I helped him. Well, i'm making my own scrapbookroom ;-). Wednesday I took a day off of work and decided to help him again. Around 15.00 I was totally worn down, broken down, sick of it.... And said I went home. He is soooo sweet. He said: take a nice shower, you'll feel better. I'll see you around dinnertime.... Well if I was him, I would be pissed of... ;-). So in 2 years time we're going to move for the third time.... First in 2004 private, than in 2005 for our company, and now in 2006 again for our own home.....But now: the great pictures. See and shiver:

This is all the stuff we threw out......let's say: everything but the walls... Well, we also threw some of them out also!! And on the right one side of the living room. Those colors???!!! How can anyone have lived there....

A part of the livingroom / kitchen...
the bathroom..... (well turn it 90 counter clockwise....)

And now the great part: this is the home we are leaving....:
the appartment building. We live on the right, on the ground floor....no garden... just a balcony...
And my dining room. It’s not that neat everyday, but the broker took those photos for the selling of our appartment, LOL
the balcony ..... my kitchen which i'm totally in love with...
the hall.... way to big! What do you do with al that space? When you’re 2: you race it with bikes, tricycles, steps, or anything else you can race with....at the end you can see her room

the bathroom. Designed by me (duhhh) and Arjan made everything. If you look closely in the mirror you can see our undue big whirlpool! Sanne just thinks we have our own swimmingpool LOL.

Now you probably understand why i’m a little bit down... I’m leaving this for the pictures above. But i’ll know Arjan will make this new home as beautiful as he made this one. But how the house looks now... it is hard to imagine.....;-))
Cya,
Rev

we're getting there!

Since monday we have the key to our new home. But there is a lot to be done. That's why i'm here, typing (LOL) and my boyfriend is breaking out walls....Well, a girl's got to do, what a girl's got to do...!
The family who lived in this home before us were not the clean kind... They left the refrigerator (parden my English...) and I think rats could live in it.. YEAAAKKKHHH. So that's in the dumper now. Today we complete the breaking out and off of things. By tomorrow we start rebuilding our palace. Everything has to be painted (walls, ceilings, window-side things..). So a lot of work has to be done. We have our own company so I probably try to take a few weeks of. And get my hands dirty also. Yes, I'm not that kind of a princess, you know. I like to work. So the painting will be my part. Starting tomorrow evening. So I'm enjoying my 'free time' now and go on make another scrapbookpage. Cya
Rev
O, and another mentionable thing: our little Sanne, 2,5 years old, peas for a month or 2 on the potty. She didn't poop on it yet. Yesterday i was cleaning house (yes... I do clean) and she was running around in her knickers (as usual... why you need clothes??). Suddenly I heard her laughing and giggling in the bathroom (al downstairs for us). She called me: LOOK MUMMY!!! I pooped!! So I went and look in the potty. Disappointed I said: no you didn't I don't see any poop. NO she said enthousiasticly! Look!! And she pointed to the toilet. She already throw her poop in the toilet. And there it was. Floating happily around. A little girl poop. LOVE that poop. We laughed and clapped our hands. How can you be so happy after a bit of poop right? Well, I think it was so cool she just went al by herself and thought: I'm going to poop on the potty. And she did!'. So now I try to keep her out of her diapers at home. We'll see how it goes!

OUCCHHH!!!

Yesterday I had surgery on my gum. I've been having problems with "sick gum" for 2 years now. Actually since my pregnancy. I picked up a rapid progress infection and even some bone is lost in my mouth. Not the worst thing in the world, but I would like to keep my own teeth!

So yesterday I had my 4th surgery. The 3rd went really bad. They 'found' a lot of complications and it took 1,5 hours (in stead of half an hour) to complete it all. I was in a lot of pain.

Well this one was going better but now I feel the pain of them poking and sticking and doing all kinds of things ....

So because I was feeling so sorry I bought a lot of nice scrapbooking stuff. Heee Heee. A famous Dutch football (soccer) player once said: every disadvantage has its advantage! And he is so right! So, hee, what the heck I have reallly really bad teeth.... I can buy scrapbooking stuff if I want to! So i'm a rich girl!

It's not that i'm not cleaning my teeth people, i'm just not so lucky at the 'infection-department'....

Well, this is my page for my BOM. A book of me! I've been doing a lot of scrapping for my darling little girl and now it's some ME-time.
C ya
Rev

it's hard...

I'm struggling between working and staying home with my little girl. I have my own company and am lucky I have such sweet and great employees. But still I work 3 days in a week at the office. Sanne goes to a (girl)friend of me, who herself has 2 little children, aged 3,5 and 5). Sanne is 2,5. So usually she's having fun over there. She goes there 2 days a week. On friday my boyfriend stays at home and he takes care of her. Usually he takes her to our friend and at the end of the day, ususally 17.00 hours, I pick her up. This morning he had an early appointment (with the painters of our new home!), so I was going to bring Sanne to our friend. But this morning she was crying. She didn't wanted to leave the house. She wanted 'to play with mummy!'. She broke my heart. I told her that I'd rather be with her, but I just had to go to work and earn some money.... But deep down I know I'd rather be at home with her. The business continues even if i'm not there. The employees don't need me to be there. They are very good in doing there job without me ;-). So i'm torn between my feelings. Ofcourse i think it is good to work and be motivated and keep my mind trained. But i'm sure i feel great at home. Although friends tell me i will be climbing up walls if i stay home for 7 days a week. But that's just it. I have more stay-at-home friends and the are enjoying themselves so well. I think it depends on how you spend your day. I can do a lot of fun things with my little girl and i'm not easily bored. (borred?). Sooooo. When she turns 3 she will go to a preschool for 2 mornings a week. I decided that she does that on my working day. Than I work in the morning when she is at preschool, and then i can pick her up and can spend time with her. than i'm only working 2,5 days. Maybe that's a start......
Grz
Revlie

Love my little girl!!

Sanne, my little girl of 2,5 years of age, is so amazing, so easily to love! And everyday she does things that I couldn't dream of doing. For example: without her pants/trousers (which is it...) on: getting on her jacket, hat and sjawl and say: Going shopping mommy, be back in a minute!'. Woehaaa, little cold isn't is cutiepie....O well, thats why I lovvvvvvvvvvvvve to scrapbook!!
Speaking of which.... C ya,
Revlie

getting a kick out of this!

Hi,
Well my bad mood is already over. I rather be a happy girl ;-). I'm posting some new lay-outs on 2peas (see the link on the right) and I'm getting some really cool comments from some awesom-lay-outs-making ladies!! Wowie, that's just making my day!!! They make so much great stuff and THEY are telling me they like MY stuff? Woehaaaaaa LOL.
Grz
Revlie

some frustration...

Well, just had to get it out. I've got my own company and in the end of November 2005 we were very busy! We were moving to another building, and had a lot of work. Everybody was working overtime. One of the employees (who also is a friend) suggested that her (unemployed) sister could help us out. I thanked her and her sister helped us for 2 days (in 2 weeks). I promised to get her a gift as a 'thank you'. And I did. But I didn't give it to her yet. I spoke to her 2 weeks after she had helped us and told her that I hadn't forgotten her, but I was busy with our moving to the new building, busy at home (scrapping LOL), busy planning on our personal moving (yes... another one within the year...) and that I would come by. We made an appointment 2 weeks later (half of December). In the morning I called her, and made my excuses, that I couldn't make it, because at the company some things went wrong, and hey, that's my responsibility! So I said that I would call her... And I didn't. Yet. I always thought that people could see your good heart and that you can be busy sometimes. She already knew I had a gift for her and I didn't 'forget' her. But now, yesterday, I get a call from the husband of my employee. That he thought I had to get her something because her husband was complaining about it to him (are you following this still???). I think it is sooo cheap. Just CALL ME if you have any problems (I get rid of my problems in my blog LOL). So I really felt really BAD. What was he thinking?? That I let someone help us out and not getting something for her? And the stupiest was, I DID get a gift (and some money) for her! But just there was just no oppertunity to give it to her.... So well, yesterday I was pissed off (yes I too CAN get pissed off). But now I just think: okay, thats how you think? Now I know a little bit more of you ;-(
So, thats of my chest. Go off scrapbooking now and have FUN.
Grz
Revlie

The key!

Yessss, it's finally official. We HAVE the key to our new home. We have about 7 weeks to totally strip it! Yes, everything is going out, and all new stuff is coming in. this was a rental house for 30 years, so everything is old. Last year the family who was living there bought it and sold it again to make a nice profit (and they did ;-(....). But we are going to make it nice and clean (it's a big old mess now...). So I can't week to get busy! Here a picture of it how it is looking now, from the outside. We are going to buy more garden on the side so the garden is getting bigger!
CU
Revlie

my funkiest lay-out ever

Well, my little girl Sanne is just a little funny girl. I want her to be herself as much as possible. So sometimes she does crazy stuff, and I just laugh out loud. For example, she takes all her clothes of. Yesss also her diaper (luckely she feels her pea coming, so see is in time to sit on her potty!), and she only keeps this little shirt-ondies on. She puts on her winter-hat and her gloves and starts to read her 'Winnie the Pooh' book. Well, that's why I take so much pictures of her. I just HAVE to preserve all these memories. So, when she grows up, she'll thank me for sharing and keeping all these memories. Well.... I hope so! I only have about 6 baby- and toddler pictures of me, so I would kill for have more of those. Maybe I'm a little bit overdoing. Taking more than 100 pictures a month... But Hey, there are worse things in life, right? :-))
Ofcourse I made a lay-out of this. The journaling is:
What do you do when it’s freezing outside? Yes, you take all your clothes off, also your diaper. The only thing you hold on is your shirt-underwear and you say: “nice in my bottoms”. You put on your winter hat and your cloves and you’ll go on reading Winnie de Pooh. Ofcourse, all normal…. Really Sanne, you make me laugh everyday and sometimes you make me laugh out loud!! You are really a little crazy girl and O well, what to expect with a dad like this… ;-)

Have a nice sundaynight! Looking forward to tomorrow! We'll be getting the key to our new home! YEAAH!

he he another one...

So I'm just trying to get the picture uploaded ;-))

get started!

Hi!
So, now this is serious. I'm starting my own blog. In English. Yes in English. I'm Dutch but I like to think that people around the world will read what I'm doing, so I think English suits bests. So forgive me for the errors....I'm only Dutch ;-)).

I'm 31 years of age, living together with my soulmate Arjan. We have a beautiful little girl Sanne who is in the Toddlertime: 2,5 years of age. She is so funny, sweet and a little crazy. She says the sweetest things! Most of my freetime is for scrapbooking! I'm totally hooked on this hobby. I like to preserve memories, collect great pictures and make nice lay-outs of them. And even better: share them with others. So I regularly post on 2peas and I'm planning to send my work to the magazines.... Just have to figure out how that works.... I'm working parttime. I have my own company for almost 6 years now!! It's a business for secretarial services: www.artifexsupport.com (but it's all in Dutch folks..!). 2 days I stay at home, but sometimes I wish I could be more at home with my little angel. Maybe next year there will be more time for that!

Well, i'm going to surf a little more on this page, getting some stuff done. I'll try to post a picture of me (over 1 year old, but who cares!!) and I'm planning to post dayly?? Hope i'll do!!

If you have something to ask me, or want to share something with me: please DO!!
Thanx,
Revlie