Welcome/Welkom

This blog is about my friend Jeanne and me. I met Jeanne on the internet years ago and since have kept contact with her through emails and common interests. A few years ago I was lucky enough to meet with Jeanne in person and it has made our friendship closer. Recently Jeanne bought herself a camera and we decided to create this blog and share some of our photos and hobbies.

You will notice this blog is in both English and Dutch.

Saturday, 16 March 2013

kaarten Febr.Mrt.

                         
                                        Hier heb ik een "koffie"kaart gemaakt. Eerst de achtergrond met
                                        de koffietechniek, daarna nog een waxpapier erop gebruikt, wat
                                         met distressinkt bewerkt.De stempel heb ik vandaag gekocht en
                                        bevalt me prima. Bovenaan een vlinderstempel die ik met
                                        verasmarck bewerkt heb en daarna goudkleurige glitterpoeder
                                        Het strikje moet  de kaart wat meer smoel geven.

                                                          
                                                   Dit is de buitenkant en een deeltje voorkant van de kaart,
                                                   ze heeft nl. een extra flapje waarop een sentiment.

               
                                                   Deze kaart heb ik al een paar weken geleden gemaakt
                                                   Ze komt niet zo aardig uit als ze in werkelijkheid is.


Tuesday, 12 February 2013

"overlappings" techniek

                                          Zoals U ziet heb ik hierboven "overlappings"techniek
                                          geschreven omdat ik hier een stempel over drie
                                          stukjes kaart gestempeld heb en daarna de donkere
                                          randen gemat heb. Deze techniek heb ik van een voorbeeld
                                          video en het was mijn eerste probeersel. Was niet tevreden
                                          en maakte daarna een nieuwe, wat secuurder en met iets
                                          meer durf. Daarna heb ik deze kaart afgemaakt en ben
                                          achteraf toch niet helemaal ontevreden over het
                                          resultaat.

                                     
Dit is de mijn 2e kaart met deze techniek.
Het afmeten ging me iets beter af. Jammer
genoeg is de vlinder die ik er tenslotte op
plaatste niet zo heel duidelijk te zien.

Saturday, 9 February 2013

Kaartenhobby

De kaarten hobby gaat ook door.
Hieronder een kaart met de water techniek

Hieronder heb ik de glimmermist techniek gebruikt


nieuwe hobby

                                          Dit is Hetty, ze wilde niet op de foto, maar staat toch
                                          heel vriendelijk te kijken. Ze is met de nieuwe hobby
                                          begonnen en heeft in korte tijd alwel veel gemaakt!

Hier showt Hetty een col die ze "zo maar" even
gemaakt heeft.  Ik vind 'm heel leuk geworden.

Beenwarmers voor 'n kleindochter, is weer
helemaal in, kennelijk. 'n Muts, passend bij de
warmers en  voor haar zoon een  dikke muts:
hij gaat de bergen is dezer dagen.


En dit zijn de diverse ringmaten. Er is nog een
kleinere maar die heeft 'n kleindochter in
 gebruik. Deze hobby werkt aanstekelijk.

Friday, 1 February 2013

It is winter all over again!

For the last two days we have been having a snow on and off.  A total of about 15 cm fell and made everything look nice and white again.
Yesterday Leo had to go out to town and on the way out, at the end of our street, he saw 2 moose.  I did not get to see them.  But late afternoon when the deer came to eat I noticed they were looking alarmed at something beside the house.  I quickly ran to the other side of the house and yes . . . . there was a moose.  He was very curious as to what the deer were doing and not shy.
Leo took these pictures for you so you can enjoy our visitor from yesterday as well.



 This gives you an idea as to how big these animals are.

 This is how close he got to our house.  First time ever for us.
And here he is slowly taking off to better pasture.  They are big!!!

Thursday, 24 January 2013

Ik kan het niet laten!

Ik kan het niet laten! Mijn uitzicht is weer zo mooi !
Nu tegen de avond


"Mijn"pony staat een beetje beschut, op zoek
naar wat gras!

En hiervoor had ik snel mijn camera gepakt!
De ondergaande zon.


Boven de voetbalvelden







Geen woorden nodig, dunkt me! Bekijk ze door erop 
te klikken!

Saturday, 19 January 2013

eerste foto's 2013


Ochtendzon bij eerste sneeuwval dit jaar


Hier de foto niet verbeterd. Is net zo mooi!

De lens zo groot mogelijk gemaakt!

En dit is mijn eerste kaart, voorlopig zonder
bestemming. Zoals je zien kunt heb ik 
stempels gebruikt. 

Dit is de voorkant van de kaart. Ik was niet tevreden
 over de randen, vandaar de ribbon erover.
Is me wel tegengevallen, want waarmee
netjes te bevestigen?



Monday, 14 January 2013

How is January treating you?

Well here the year started out just fantastic with near 0 temperatures.  We then got a cold spell and some snow and now it is an up and down situation with snow off and on.  A good time to spend some time in my hobby room.

This is my third card of the year.  My other cards can be viewed on my Offline Creations blog.  This card I made for a challenge where I had to spray card stock with gesso.  I could first work the background and then spray or just spray plain card stock   Well this is my result.
This is the front of the card.  I took some white card stock and sprayed it with colour wash ink.  I then sprayed it with gesso.  Added the tree frame and houses and the card was made.

This is the inside.  Again I sprayed the paper with colour wash ink but did not add the gesso spray.  

On to my next project.


Friday, 4 January 2013

Happy New Year!!!

Another year gone and on we go to a new year.  Lots of happenings in the last year but I am sure the new year will bring us new happenings.  I have not worked on my photos as yet since my last posting but I would like to show you how we celebrated New Years as a family.

These are our children and grandchildren having fun 'camping' at Opa and Oma's new house.  Yes it is still camping as we do not have the inside finished at all yet but we do have heat and I guess that is pretty important around here.  I just realized we do not have any pictures of their bedrooms while they were camping.  There is always next year.

But now for the pictures or click the link to start the slide show.
de Groot's New Year's Celebration!



Enjoy and wishing you all a Very Happy New Year!!!

Tuesday, 4 December 2012

How is everyone doing!!!

We are doing well.  We have been busy with our new house getting it ready for the winter but I will show pictures of that another time.  This time something different.  Jeanne and I were talking about how the winter has settled in here with snow and cold temperatures.  We also talked about the lake freezing and that I was able to walk on it the other day.  But there is still the danger of 'weak' spots in the ice so it is not totally safe yet and certainly not ready for the ice fishermen and their trucks and cars.  The day we discussed the possibility of going through the ice we did have an accident here.  Later in the afternoon, when it was getting dark already, we noticed an activity of many trucks going through our neighbour's lot and driving towards the lake.  Also around 8 pm someone knocked at the door and explained what had happened and why so many trucks were driving around here.  He had gone through the ice with his Jeep and was trying to pull it out.  These are some of the pictures Leo took of the efforts of pulling out this car.
This is the Jeep stuck in the ice

They had to put down some plywood to distribute the weight of people and later the car.

Here we are attaching the chains which were attached to winches on the trucks on land.

They also had to put some ramps down for the wheels to climb up on.
 
Here you can see how deep the water water was.

That water must have been cold!!!

Trying to get these ramps in the right place.

Here we finally have success.

Back on land and yes the car started.
I am glad ice fishing season does not start until December 11 as I hate to see more cars going through the ice.  Luckily this one went through where the water is pretty shallow so they were able to pull it out.  Who knows what they do when it goes down where the water is a few meters deep.
So this was one of our adventures last week.  Next I will post some pictures of the tree cutting process.