Time flies. Mitchell is already 2 weeks in school. The first week he had a hard time. He didn't want to go but the second week he already had much more fun.

Joey had his first morning at school. He was okay untill we walked to the school. He started crying and put his little hands before his eyes. He was like that for about 1/2 an hour and it broke my heart. He just kept asking if he could go home :( But his teacher did a very good thing: he read a little book about a pig who was sad because his dad had to leave him at school. This did the trick. halfway into the book he opened his eyes and started looking to the book. I could feel the tention lowering and I could start to relax a bit. When he found out he could play with dough at school it was all over. He was happy and was more than okay with me leaving. When I picked him up at the end of the morning they were palying outside and he looked so happy. He waved at me and I was so proud of him!
He will go again next Wednesday and he already looks forward to it!

Mitchell started his hobby club last Friday and really enjoyed himself. They can make whatever they want and Mitchell wanted to work with wood. He saw a little duck that he can paint next week. It's so nice to see him enjoying these things.
He also found a wounded dove today. We took it to the bird care centre and the bird will totally recover and the woman at the care centre was really proud of him to capture the dove. This is so good for his self confidence.

Tomorrow ScrapArtist will move over to another shopping cart. We have been very busy with moving our products over and I can't tell you how much work Dean,Patrick, Nancie and Isabelle have done behind the scenes and still doing of couurse. If you still have any downloads left for products or a GC please go and get it now!! We can't move over the downloads so this is your last day to do so!!

My Chirpy collab with Jackie Eckles is the featured product at The HUB this week. I am really proud of the layouts Kristen and Aja made:




Kristen's credits




Aja's credits

Hope you all have a good day!

School started; new start :)

After 6 great weeks with the boys Mitchell started school again. He was pretty nervous, couldn't sleep the night before and had trouble eating in the morning. But he did more then okay. He was very happy, had fun but also already had to do some difficult things. Tomorrow he'll have his first gym lessons so that will be fun.

Joey started his last month at pre-school as well. He had to cry for a sec, but did okay straight after. He'll turn 4 next month and here in Holland they start school again.

I made a LO about it:



Credits can be found here:
Credits LO 4 more weeks @ ScrapArtist

Journaling reads:

School starts again tomorrow for Joey's big brother Mitchell. In 4 weeks it's his turn to start school; because he will turn 4 then.

The change from pre-school to the ' big boys' school (as Joey says) will be hard for him. Joey is very over-responsive to changes, so having to deal with new kids, a new teacher, a new enviroment will be extremely hard for him. But I hope and think that once the worst is behind him he'll do more then okay and will have a lot of fun. We need to go through this tough period, I feel sad as well. I have to let go while I am not ready to, not yet.. But we both have to face our difficulties and we'll manage. I am right beside you sweetie on every step you have to take on this road.

Tomorrow is the start of another workweek. I am going to teach a beginners workshop this month and prepared the class today.
We're going to have some fabulous classes over at Scrappendoejezo.
Jo-Anne te Raa will be teaching some fabulous freestyle workshops. Go check out her blog to see some of her work!

And we also have some famous people coming over! leandra from PaperArtsy will be teachings ome amazing stamping classes and in November and December Lance Anderson from Rusty Pickle will be teaching a few classes! Go to the SDJZ website for more details to come!

okay that;s it for now, I made it a goal to update my blog way more often so talk to you soon!

Going to finish with my latest products: 2 fabulous Collabs with 2 amazing designers:

Chirpy Days- with one of the sweetest girls around: Jackie Eckles. Love you girly!!
And Summer Fun with the amazing Vera Lim