Summer Bucket List album (part 3)

Gisteravond een dagje strand van vorige week toegeveogd aan het album.

Ik weet niet of een eerste raketje geldt als een nieuwe ijs smaak proeven, maar patajes eten op het strand kunnen we afstrepen!

Verder heb ik een pagina gemaakt over onze favoriete zomer-smaken: watermeloen voor mij, en aardbei voor Thijs. En wilde een tussenpagina maken van vellum om met de typemachine nog wat tekst toe te voegen. Ik wilde daar nog iets aan toe voegen en zo kwam ik op het idee een cutfile van een paar weken geleden die ik niet had gebruikt omdat de kleur van het papier toch niet goed was, te gebruiken als stencil om een rij hartjes toe te voegen:

 En natuurlijk kon ik toen niet stoppen met stencil-stempelen.....

Denk dat stencils mijn nieuwe dingetje worden komende maanden :) Hoe gebruiken jullie stencils het meest?

Project Pepernoot

Little Sinterklaas & Zwarte Piet

Let me start this with a very short explanation of the title. A Pepernoot is a traditional Dutch snack, similar to gingerbread cookies. We eat it around Sinterklaas. We celebrate that Sinterklaas comes from Spain with his boat and his Zwarte Pieten and brings presents to all the good children by dropping them trough the chimneys into shoes that the children place there before they go to bed. It's basically Santa, but on a horse and boat instead of with a sled and reindeer. And it is on December 5th.

As this holiday is bigger in Holland that Christmas -presents wise that is- i decided to make an additional album about the weeks leading up to this big day, and I called it project pepernoot.

In it I will try and capture everything that happens and how my now 2,5 year old son experiences it all. All his funny quotes, surprised looks, his wish list, what he actually got, how much candy he ate (hopefully without being sick!).... The whole story.

Above is the opening page. The decorations I hang the first day, and below is the story about how he reacted to them ( he thought it was his birthday!)

The wish list we made to give to Zwarte Piet. And of course I made a copy to give to Zwarte Piet, otherwise he would not get anything :)

First present in the shoe! Looking a little unsure about singing to a chimney :)

The invite for the boat ride we made in Amsterdam to see Sinterklaas arrive in his boat. Thijs is on the invite as well, cause i made it ( i work at the canal cruise company). I stapled it inside a full page page protector.

We had a blast and I love recording all these precious stories! But, the festivities do not end until December 5th, so there will be more!

If anybody wants to join me, use the hashtag #projectpepernoot!

Love,

Cindy

"This is me... @2"

I have read a lot of posts and saw even more pictures of everybodies "this is me" class projects. Loved all of them. Wanted one of my own.

But, I decided to do it just a tiny bit different.

Using a Simple Stories Sn@p binder & pageprotectors and Becky Higgins Project Life Core Kit Honey ( my absolute favorite one now!) I started a "This is me @2" album for my now 2 year old son.

It features his friends,

favorite toys, favorite tv shows, favorite foods...

... Basically all those things that are going to be totally different by next week :)

My plan is to to this again when he is 3, and 4, maybe even 5. So that he will always have