Thanksgiving & christmas cards

Although it´s not usual in germany Andi wanted to try to cook a turkey. So he invites my sister Carola last friday and they both cook together. I can tell you it smells sooo yummy! Here´s a pic when everything was done and we start eating:


Doesn´t that look delicious? And believe me: it was! :o)

On saturday I meet some friends and after our trip to IKEA we were creative. I did some christmas-cards. I used the new hÄnglar & stÄnglar and the new Magnolias I got last week. They are all so adorable! I´m so happy I got them! :o)


Since 1 1/2 week Stamping Up! started in Germany and I became a demo. *yeah* I really LOVE their stuff and I´m so happy they are availible in Germany now!
I got my demo-stuff and some more I ordered last week and did my first card with it to show at the parties I´ll do.


Those snowmen and the great word-stamps are so cute! I really love this set! :o) I have some more ideas with them so I´ll definatly make some more cards with them!

Have a great week! - Coni

Invitations

I finally did the wedding-invitations! I had the idea for the cards for a while now and also the stuff I need for them. Don´t ask me why it took so long to finally do them!

I guess we are done now with our preparations for the wedding. There´s just a little left but all the important stuff is finally done! I didn´t expect so much work with this but I´m happy now that it´s done. And I hope we´ll have a great time at our wedding. I can´t believe it´s just three more weeks! Sometimes this makes me really excited and I couldn´t imagine to be a wife. But I guess it will happen nevertheless! ;o) We are just hoping that there will be no rain or storm on our day. I need some great pics! *lol* So wish me luck! :o)

Have a great day! - Coni

Mini-Scrap-a-Ganza

I´ve been to the Netherlands last saturday. We went there to join the Mini-Scrap-a-Ganza. It´s a weekend filled with scrapbooking workshops. I could just join for one day again but it was as great as the times I´ve been there before!

We started at 4:15 am and arrived there just in time to sign in and then went to our first workshop. It was a class teached by Jen Starr using Creative Imaginations and Ranger-Products. It´s a kind of sign you could hang on your wall to count the days down till x-mas. I really like the project but I think I need to change it a little because I didn´t like the paper and some other stuff that much. That´s why I didn´t finish it. But I promise myselve to do it before december! :o)

The next project was a workshop from "Queen and Co". We decorated a cute pillow with their felt-borders, flowers and some bling. I need to add some more bling befoe I could show you my pillow! ;o)

In the afternoon we did two make & takes. The first one was this cute doorhanger:

The next was a chocolate-bar we wrapped and made a tag for it. Right after I finished it I gave it to Andi as a little gift! :o)

The third class was about decorating tins for cookie. I alomist finished one. *lol* The second one I didn´t even start - and we weren´t supposed to do so. I didn´t like the papers - again. I guess my style right now is differnet from the stuff they use in the workshops... But I don´t mind! I change the papers at home! ;o) But I loved that they gave us some cookies for our tins at the end of the class! :D

The last class was teached by Karen Burniston. It was a transparency album. Again I didn´t like the papers and I think I´ll do my album very differently. But I don´t mind again! Karen was a great teacher, had some great advices and was really nice! I love her humor!!! :o)

It was a great day and I really had a lot of fun!!!

I bought so much great stuff at the shops at the SAG I didn´t thought of getting there! *woohoo* I f.e. got a bind-it-all and a stamp by stampingbella! And I bring home some bottles of stickles! :o) I love stickles but never had many of them. We used them in three of the classes and I bought some more. :o) So I stamped the cute bella on sunday and used my new stickles to do this card. Unfortunatly you couldn´t see the bling on the scan.

Last week before I went to the SAG I did a card with one of the cute Whipper Snapper stamps I just got. Isn´t that little ballerina a cutie??? I love her legs and her cute little belly! :o)

Have a great day - Coni

Lazy weekend

We´ve been lazy last weekend and it was just GREAT! There was so much to do to prepare the weeding lately. But this weekend was just lazy. I fould some time to become creative and scrapped and stamped a little.

I made this card just for fun. I guess I´ll use it as a birthday card or a RAK. I´ll see! :o)

After I finished this card I realized that I should start with some christmas-cards. If I want to send all people on my "list" a card I need to do a LOT of cards! We´ll see if I could do this. Here are my first two cards for this season:

After I started doing them I worked on my BIG Picture-class "Crazy about kits". Last weeks lesson was to do a page-kit on our own. I choose my stuff and when I looked at it I realized that maybe doing the x-mas-cards influenced me. :D So here´s what I did:

This is my first 6x12´´-LO. It was really fun so I guess I´ll do more of them!

The next day I worked on this weeks task. It was about putting a kit together for an album. I decided to to this for my Florida-vacation-album. I´m a little stuck with this project one so I thought this might help. I started to bring the pp together and when I was done I choose to do my "dedication"-LO for it. Here it is:

(journaling: This album should remind us about our first vacation together that we both choose as one of our favourites ever!)

I needed a babycard . So this is the last thing I´ll show for today. I hope the reciepient will like it:

Guess the gender of the baby! *lol*

Have a great new week! - Coni

Happy Halloween!

I haven´t been creative lately. Seems like my mojo is gon. But I guess this will change - hopefully soon.

I stamped two cards when I met some friends last saturday. The first one is for a swap and the second is for a good friend of mine. It´s for her birthday. I´m a little late. That´s what I´m often this year. I hope to be more in time with the birthday-cards next year!

Last sunday Andi, my sister Carola and I went to an amusement-park. We go there each year in October because the park is decorated for Halloween and we really love that! We had a lot of fun and were very happy that the weather was ok for our visit! Here are some pics I took:

Have a happpy haunted Halloween! - Coni

We´re going to get married!

I know: this is nothing new because I already told you. But the date is new: we are going to get married on the 14th of December this year. This is just 7 1/2 weeks from today and there is so much more to plan! We changed the date the last days but now everything is fixed. We are very happy that our dream to marry in the "Bergedorfer Schloss" ( a castle nearby) will come true. Here´s a pic of our wedding place:

I´m very excited! But who wouldn´t??? Wish me luck that planning everything woundn´t be that chaotic anymore! ;o)

Have a great day! - Coni

Family-reunion & "fall"-crop

I´ve been to a family-reunion last weekend. I went there with my mom. It was nice to meet so many people I haven´t seen for a looooong time (some of them more than 20 years!!!). My great-aunt told some stories about me when I was a toddler. She said (agreed by my mom) that I was doing a lot of funny stuff and that they always had to look for me. :o) It´s awesome to listen to such stories about yourself. I didn´t remember a lot of my childhood so this was just great! I just hope now that I´ll never have a kid like me! *lol* And the best about one story she told me is that I have a picture of me when this happend! So I guess there is a page coming up! :o) I took a lot of pics at this meeting too and I´ll surely do a LO about this reunion too!


When I got home yesterday I went to join the "fall-crop" at Scraplove. I was so sorry I couldn´t join for the whole weekend but it was fun doing some stuff yesterday too.



I started with a sketch-challenge and this was my result:

After this I´ve decided to do a little project. I loved the idea to do a magnet so that what I did next. This magnet is on my board in my scrapspace now:

Then I started another challenge. It´s about something "not good" or "special" in our life. Life isn´t always sunshine and so there are a lot of memories that may not be scraped. But it´s part of your memories too. So this was the challenge: scrap this! I often feel very blocked when I sit on my desk to start being creative (stampin´or scrappin´). I wait all day to do it but when I´m there I get stuck. I don´t know if you know what I´m talking about but this very often happens to me and makes me sad. And it happend again yesterday. That´s why I "lost" 1 1/2 hours of precious scrapping time. I could have done more... So, this is my LO:

Title: Brake
journaling: I often sit down to become creative but couldn´t. All day long I can´t wait but when the time arrives nothing happens. It´s like my desk is a brake.

The last project I did was another frame. Last weekend I made it for a calendar-page and this weekend there is a to do-list on it. I could write my stuff on the glas and erase it when I´m done.

There were a lot of other great projects and challenges. I wish I had more time doing it. But I´ll try to get more of the stuff done soon!

Have a great week! - Coni