One last flew...

Op Deena's mooie blog 'A Necessary Creativity' vond ik een verwijzing naar de Crafty Creations challenge, waar het nog rond 'Halloween' draait! Joepie, eentje om het af te leren dus! Heks is van 'Stamp of Excellence,Inc', achtergrond 'sponged' met Adirondack Butterscotch, Stonewashed & Eggplant. De scene van Peddler's Pack Stampworks werd met Versamagic op zwart papier gestempeld, net zoals de vleermuizen van Stamp Crafter (Ik hoop dat het zichtbaar is op de scan).

At Deena's lovely blog 'A Necessary Creativity' I found a link to the Crafty Creations challenge, where the theme is Halloween! Yeehah, one more to unlearn! The witch is from 'Stamp of Excellence,Inc., background sponged with Adirondack Butterscotch, Stonewashed & Eggplant. The scenery from Peddler's Pack Stampworks is stamped on black paper with Versamark, as are the bats from Stamp Crafter (I hope it shows on the scan).

Only 364 days till Halloween...

Only 364 days till the next Halloween, lol.
Next year I'll definitely have a party. Last year I cancelled it because life was to hectic and I'll always regret it because one of my dearest friends ever, Edgard, who loved our Halloween nights, passed away last August 17th, only 61 years old. I miss him so much, although we have only known each other for 6,5 years, he was 'my buddy'.
Here he is 'fooling around' (eating a - fake- spider - Halloween 2005):


Now for this year: I invited our dearest friends and a couple of Portuguese friends we don't know that long, but who have become very dear to us real fast. Guess what happened; our oldest friends were invited only two weeks ago to the wedding of their niece, who's husband to be secretely planned the wedding on 31st of...October! OK, that was a pity, but the party could go one, couldn't it? But last tuesday, Paula stumbled into my office, with horrible news: Carlos got hit by a bus and was in hospital. Luckily he could go home soon, but the poor guy is all bruised and stiff and to be honest, looked more like Frankenstein than himself! I told him he didn't have to go through that much trouble for just a Halloween paty, lol. But without kidding, I'm so glad he's feeling better everyday!
So it was just me a my darling: we had a real nice evening with bread, cheese and wine and our pets (who always take care of the animation on Halloween, and every other day too, lol) and talked about the past parties. We shed a few tears in remembrance of Edgard, but had some good laughs too, talking about all those wonderful memories!
So I guess this weekend was really all about the death and the living, as those days are meant to be!

Some more pictures of our past parties and decorations:

It's Halloween!

Happy Halloween to you all!

Have a batty Halloween

Joepie weer een nieuwe House Mouse Monday challenge! Het thema deze week is Halloween (mijn favoriet!!!). Gelukkig had ik nog een leuke tag over van de challenge vorige week, die nu handig van pas komt. De tekst is een stukje van een stempel van Creative Images, waarvan ik vond dat hij perfect bij de leuke (vleer)muis paste. Deze kaart is heel simpel gehouden en dus vlug klaar; zo hoef ik m'n favoriete challenge toch niet te missen! Zo... dan nu te voet op weg naar college, want het land ligt 'plat' door de nationale staking. Gelukkig heb ik een dagje verlof genomen!

Woohoo, another new House Mouse Monday challenge. The theme this week is Halloween (my favourite!!!). I was lucky enough to have an unused tag from last week, which comes in very handy now. Text is part of a stamp by Creative Images and I taught it would be perfect with the 'batty' HM. This card is kept very simple and therefore finished real fast; so I don't have to miss my favourite challenge! And now off - walking - to college, because there's a national strike. Luckily I took a day off at work!

Have a Mice Halloween!

Deze kaart is voor de House Mouse Monday challenge #5 'Paper Piecing'. De bekertjes op de stempel zijn met stukjes gekleurd papier 'gelaagd'. De stempel is 'Halloween Purr-ty' en ingekleurd met stempelstiften. Papier van S.E.I.

This card is for the HM Monday challenge #5, which is about 'Paper Piecing'. The cups are layered with DP. The stamp is called 'Halloween Purr-ty' and coloured with markers. DP by S.E.I.

Halloween

Halloween met een 'stoute' knipoog voor de Theme Thursday challenge. Spijtig genoeg zie je het spinrag niet echt duidelijk. Stempels: Stamp it Crazy, Inkadinkado en PSX.

Halloween with a 'naughty' twist for the Theme Thursday challenge. Pity the spidersweb I used isn't clear on the picture. Stamps: Stamp it Crazy, Inkadinkado and PSX.

The midnight hour

Geen vlinders, maar vleermuizen en uilen voor mijn interpretatie van Friday Sketchers #18!. Om middernacht is het heksenuur!
De heks is van Stamps Antwerpen, de uil van Timeless images, de klok een Heidi Swapp clear stamp.

No butterflies, but bats and owls for my interpretation of Friday Sketchers #18. The midnight hour belongs to the creatures of the night!
The witch is from Stamps Antwerpen, the owl from Timeless images and the clock is a Heidi Swapp clear stamp.

Spooky!

Natuurlijk weer véél te laat, maar hierbij mijn eigenzinnige interpretatie van sketch 9 van Friday Sketchers.

Way too late of course, but here's my 'spooky' interpretation of sketch 9 from Friday Sketchers.