Post #999 - Giveaway!

After over two years of blogging I've reached my 999th post! Yay!

So I think it's about time I share some goodies with you. I've put a lot of thought into what I should give away. I've decided upon these items:

A Dutch memory game, vintage of course

Collected doodles, an A4 print. My own work (see my other blog)

Djeco stickers by Benjamin Chaud

Doodle, A4 print, my own work (see my other blog)

Birthday calender, the months are in Dutch... my own work

If you would like a chance to win one of these items:

1)  Leave me a comment below, telling me which item you would like to win (make sure to leave me an email address). 

I'd love you even more if you'd start following this blog or my other blog officially ;-))

2)  Spread the news via twitter, facebook or any other means and you will get two chances to win (let me know if you do).

This giveaway runs until Wednesday 13th of December at 8 pm, CET
I will draw the winners randomly and try and announce the outcome the same evening. Needless to say, 5 items, so 5 people can win!

Good luck!

Post #995 - Mila and her friends

Our daugther Mila turned 9 a few weeks ago. For this occasion she and 6 of her friends did a workshop 'animation'. Writing a story, moulding clay characters, filming. Quite difficult for 8-year olds... but a lot of fun. 

Here are the results!

Don't forget, I'll be giving away stuff when I do my 999th post! Check in again the upcoming days.

Congratulations

Today we celebrated my son's birthday. Quite exhausting, but always fun to have a room and a (small) garden full of people! 

Birthday boy

Our son turned 6 last week, but eveyone was still on holiday. So we decided to have his party in September. This is the invitation I made for his party. (Click on the image to enlarge)

Happy Birthday

Last Friday, May 20th, was my birthday. I thought I'd show you some of the greeting cards I received when I had my childhood birthdays.

Birthday gift

Blom by Jurianne Matter definately is a perfect birthday gift! My neighbour Carlijn was certainly happy with it.

Turning 8

Two invitations for my daughter's 8th birthday, which was yesterday. The first one is for her swimparty with schoolfriends (a co-production) and the second one is for family and friends. 

Illustrated birthday calendar

A great birthday calendar with tips and recipes for party food. Illustrated by Dorine de Vos.

Turning 5

My son's birthday invitation. He loves his Wii.

H is for HOORAY!

Today I received this in the mail! My friend Yvette sent it to me as a birthday gift! (Yesterday was my b-day). Thanks Yvette! I love it, I love the typeface, a big fat slab serif, gorgeous! My collection is getting bigger and bigger

Cars, cars, cars

Lewis is 4 years old now, but when he was 2 all he played with were cars. So, the obvious choice was a birthday invitation with a car on the front. It was clear that it was a wishlist as well...

A few more gifts

A few more birthday gifts I found in a box. I made these for the children who were at my kids birthdays. (see an earlier post)

Thanks for coming

I used to make these little gifts for the children who were at a Lewis' of Mila's birthday. Nowadays I don't get around to doing that anymore. Besides, I always forgot to give them at the end of the party. So we were stuck with about 15 of those little gifts...

Finally, presenting...

... the birthday calendar I made with a few of my collages. I didn't get around to making the pictures so it took me a while to post this one.

flying low

My mother always wanted to fly, so finally, when turned 64 we gave her a flight in a small plane as a present. She enjoyed it very much. She saw her hometown and the region she loves so much from the sky. A really exciting experience for her!

Creatures

This is the birthdaycard I designed for Lewis' 4th b-day. I made him a friend-book with these creature as well. I'll post that soon. The book is constantly 'on the road' travelling from one classmate to another.

Seems a long time ago

These two birthday-invitations are made a year ago but looking at the pictures it seems much longer. The kids look a lot different now. How time flies!