Corrie Kinkel

A couple of weeks ago I came along this plant and with the sun on the silvery seedpods the seeds were shining through. I used all the elements in the DIY image but I rearranged them to my liking. Three of the rectangles have a part of the same photo and the fourth has the text about this Honesty or Judaspenning in Dutch. As it is about silver. I colored the leaves in silver with some noise. For a decoration on the 4th rectangle I used cass-Decostitches3 which I was very lucky to win but hadn't used yet due to working on my calendars. The font for the text is Franklin Gothic Book and the background is again made by using some of Anna Aspness goodies. There are some seeds scattered on the background and those are by Sheila Reid.

Over here we have a radio station that from December 1st is non-stop playing Christmas music and I like it when it starts but when it is almost the 24th or 25th I can't listen to it any longer.

I'm not a fan of her, but this is a stunning layout! She has been to the Netherlands this year on het Eras tour and the Swift mania was gigantic.

The weather this week is a repetition of the weeks before, foggy and gray! The best place to take a photo where you can see this, is the railway crossing in our small station. I have to cross the tracks almost daily because the shops, pool, library are all on the opposite side from where we live. The only color in this photo comes from the trees that still have their leaves.

There is always a solution if something doesn't go as wished. Great you could finish your calendar!

I learn so much new things here in the Campus and it isn't always about scrapping either. Never heard of this plant/flower and nature never ceases to amaze me!

This picture reminds me of a visit to Scotland many years ago now. In Scotland as well as in England there are so many castles and a lot are still inhabited, some even by descendants of the family that build the castle in the first place. Others are now owned by the National Trust, some are restored and they are open to the public. Some are even free to visit and for others you have to pay an entrance fee. I would love to go back there and take photos.

Anne I admire your tatting work! I never mastered tatting or crochet, somehow that wasn't for me. However I did knitting, embroidery, sewing and lace making.

No horses over here! The only place where I could see a horse was on the weekly cattle market on my way to and from school. At that point in time there was still a cattle market in the center of Rotterdam! When I was in elementary thé thing to collect were sugar packets and I think I just went along because it was fun to exchange the double ones and those from abroad where the rarest you could have. My 3 aunties were already travelling abroad and brought back lots of them because they didn't used sugar in their coffee or tea😉. The sugar packets are long gone but the hobby that always has been a part of my life is photography. It must be in the genes, my dad was a keen amateur photographer and made me enthousiast as well. For this layout I used a couple of Anna Aspnes goodies, the font is Gill Sans MT and I made the aperture of a cameralens to substitute the letters O in the title. I used black, gray, white and a bit yellow to make the background in honor of the old photos!

OK I'm not as bad as you but I put my decorations away on the 2nd of January, which is almost as much work as getting them up in the first place. One year we thought well lets us forget about the decorations this year with my husband still not very well after his surgery in november. I only bought us a bouquet of flowers, but the day before Christmas we decorated the living. Without it didn't feel like Christmas at all!

My husband was never happy when he had to climb on the ladder and did it only when absolutely necessary. I had to be home as well in case something went wrong and to hand him stuff he needed so he didn't had to climb up and down. I could give him what he wanted from the first floor window because we have a flat roof. Since we have solar panels there is a company coming to check on those and they remove the leaves when needed, but there are gutter guards. The only gutter that must be cleared is the one on the shed and that isn't very high up, it is single story. Besides that we now have moved the garden chair cushions inside and the chairs are in the shed. The table stays outside during the winter and I put some baskets or pots with for instance cyclamen on them to watch from the living; our winters are mostly mild with not much or no snow. It is a nice spot to have some X-mas decorations as well, but that is for december. Not all the leaves are already from the trees or shrubs therefore we have to sweep the path and the patio regularly.

I'm with Rene in this discussion but I have never so many groups that I want merged at the same time. However I can understand that in some occasions it would be a fantastic timesaver.

W = WWII cemeteries

Susan that is an impressive calendar and I agree with you that the colors of the flowers more or less dictate the background colors. It was the same with my mushrooms. All the quotes are a nice touch and I thought of doing that too but decided against it because I have my calendars in 3 languages and that was a bit too much work and searching to get that done.

Donna very creative and I like it very much!

Finally I have completed this layout! I don't think I ever have done that long about making something. However the calendars were a lot more work to complete and print; the first one is in the mail by now. Before doing anything else like the AAM-Challenge I wanted this one done. It was difficult to take it up again and remember what I wanted to make, but this must do. I used a photo of fallen leaves that we have in abundance now, every street is littered with them. The background I have in my stash and I used a leaf picture tube from Carole as well as an Edge punch. The font is Fantasy Snowman, a freebie from CF a couple of days ago and the leaf bouquet came also from CF if I remember correctly. All the colors are taken from the leaves in the circle.

N = Number, on some of the bigger cemeteries there is a discrete number at each grave which makes it easier to locate and the rows have a letter. At the entrance there will be a map where you can locate the grave you want to visit if you are not familiar with the site.

Julie that is a spectacular photo and this layout does it justice

Here is my calendar ready to get packaged and send of to the recipients. I'm on time for the Holidays! Carole I have loved doing another calendar, although it always takes a lot of time to get it finished and printed; I'm happy with the result 🥰

When working on the calendar workshop I promised Carole that I would show my calendar when printed and today it is completely finished. I have taken a photo of a couple of pages laid out on the table. In the next post is the calendar ready to hang on the wall. I printed the pages at home but went to the Copy Shop, a local smaller version of Staples, to have a binding. I can't upload 2 pages on the same post because I have kept them at a fairly large size when resizing for posting.

Me neither, at least no longer, but I understand the technical bit of this process. Our camera became out dated, we had one that needed an actual roll of film. And it was heavy with all the different lenses. But when I buy a new cell phone I always go with the one that has the best camera. It is becoming amazing what you can do with your phone nowadays and for me that has to be enough; besides that I always have it with me!

Here too and if you ask a child to draw a mushroom you will in most cases get something like this one. Red with white dots! I know it is poisonous and we always told our kids. But in the calendar for this year I used a photo of an Amanita phalloides or death angel that is deadly if you eat it and every year there are cases reported of people dying after eating this mushroom!

Yes his name pointed in the direction of the northern European countries, like Norway, Sweden or Denmark.

Sue I did a translation and it is in the same post where I said I do it after dinner, I think you might not have seen it there, sorry I better did it in a separate post

L = Lawnmower, some cemeteries have a grass paths