Photos from christmas and my Birthday

I am very sad to say I didn't have a great christmas nor a great 30th birthday. I have had the flue now for over a week and was way too tired to celebrate anything. I guess I have to make up to it later when I am feeling better. I didn't even take that many photos this year but here's a few.

I took some photos of the gingerbreads that Tommie, my sister and my mother baked.

My mother had made me this painting for my birthday. I think she made a wonderful job and I am very proud of her! I'm going to find a special place for this painting.

Notre Dame

I haven't done any layouts for a while, I've been more into altering items but the other day when I got my scrapmuse kit I had such a good idea for a layout. This photo is taken by Tommie a few years ago when he was in Paris with his classmates.

Nicolaus gift

In Germany we celebrate Nicolaus today. On the night of December 5 to 6th you are supposed to clean your boots and put them outside your door and in the morning they will have been filled by the Nicolaus with gifts. We did a Nicolaus swap at my scrapbook forum and this is what I got from my secret Nicolaus partner.

Altered round box

A while ago I altered this round box using only PP from Rogue de garance.

Altered clock

A few weeks ago I altered this broken clock from IKEA for a challenge at scrapmuse . I am happy to announce I won second prize with this clock :).

Winner at Scraphappy

I am a big fan of Scraphappy and Lains pod casts. I download them to my ipod and listen to them on my way to work. Often they are very funny so I sit on the subway laughing for my self which means the people are staring weird at me ;). You can check out her blog HERE and listen to her pod casts HERE.

A few weeks ago she was interviewing Rene Pearson The author of Digital Designs and she held a drawing to win the book. Guess who won the book ;). Thank you Lain for picking my name!

I haven't had time to try it out yet but I am taking it with me when I go visit my sister and we will be trying it out togehter.