Vintage Tearooms

No longer expecting :)

So I promised a blogpost about the finished babyroom a while back but the last couple of days of my pregnancy I felt really tired a lot and than, on May 1th, almost 2 weeks early, I gave birth to our little boy :)

May I introduce to you Aiden Martijn Cats.

picture by Youri Claessens

We are so proud!! 

Everything went very well, birth only took 3,5 hours, tihiiii. So I was up and "running" the next day again. Aiden is a very happy baby so far. Eats well, sleeps well and we just can't take our eyes of him!

Noa is the big proud sister since day one, she helps and love having him on her lap and to give Aiden his bottle. 

 

And now for some detail pictures of his room :o)

Those colored boxes I made myself. Used wrapping paper and a transparent varnish to cover the insides.

That bear is 36 years old and was Jacob his favorite when he was little :)

I created these curtains myself inspired by this tutorial I found online.

Meet Gordon! This cute elephant was created by a very dear friend :)

And this cute dude was a gift from some other dear friends. And maybe you guessed, he is from Hema :)

   

This super cute night light rabbit together with the crepe pompoms came from PSikhouvanjou. (It's a Dutch site but you really need to check this one out!)

Created this crocheted blanket and sheet myself. On the next picture you see a second blanket.

The cover for this little stool I finished the day before I gave birth to Aiden lol

 

Noa was so excited about the fact that her little brother was born that I made her a little something to treat in her class.

The ribbon and bags I bought at Leuke Lintjes (also Dutch with great wrapping stuff!) The kids loved it and so did Noa her teacher since she could easily let the kids take the treat home to eat it there :)

 

Well the wrap up this post here is an other picture of Aiden, only 15 minutes after he was born.

 

Thanks again for stopping by!

 

Love,
Natasja 

And the winner is....

Sorry i am a bit late anouncing the winner of my NSB blogpost but with a 6 days old baby things are still a bit hectic ;) The winner of the amazing Carta Bella Paper Collection Kit is..... " This prize is like 'gold'! I cant wait to get my hands on some Carta Bella product! I love Echo Park so I have high expectations for CB, Im sure I wont be disappointed!! Posted by: Holly E | May 06, 2012 at 06:14 AM" Holly please email me your address so I can forward it to Carta Bella. As soon as the collection is shipping first week of June you will receive your prize! Have fun with it! To all the others I want to says thanks for playing along and hope to see you visiting my blog again sometimes. Love, Natasja I will create a blogpost about baby Aiden later this week!

National Scrapbooking Day MEGA BIG bloghop!!

WOOHOO, Welcome to the Scrap Kitchen NSD blog hop!!!

You have a chance to win one or more of 50 prizes from 50 different blogs!!!

This is the EASIEST BLOG HOP EVER! All you have to do to win a prize is to PLEASE LEAVE a comment under this post. I would also love it if you would become a follower of my blog!

On Sunday May 6th I will choose someone randomly for the prize winner!

 

My Prize will be a BRAND NEW CARTA BELLA PAPER COLLECTION KIT!!!

Never heard of Carta Bella Paper?!

They LOVE scrapbooking and are giddy about beautiful papers and products! That’s why all the lines at Carta Bella are produced on textured paper. It makes all the lines completely irresistible. They warn you.…hoarding may become perpetually worse.

Their sister company Echo Park has been instrumental in making all of this happen. Check out the amazing team headed up by Director of Sales Lindsay Moore, Creative Director Carina Gardner and our fabulous group of designers including Deena Rutter, Samantha Walker, and Melanie Ritchie.

Our debut line is Beautiful Moments™. This line ships June 7th. This is a great line for layouts and cards! Make sure to take a look at their website to see and read more!

 

Here an image of this amazing prize Carta Bella Paper sponsored as todays give away!!! The brand new Beautiful Moments Collection Kit which will be shipped in June :)

The winners details will be posted on here so make sure you check back to see if you have won!

For more chances to win, please go to

 

Kim Jeffress http://www.glasshalffull-kim.blogspot.com.au/

to leave some more blog love. I have posted the complete blog list here just in case anyone forgets to post or has computer issues!

We would also love for you to come and join us in The Scrap Kitchen on Facebook here https://www.facebook.com/groups/358068404230630/ and will also be posting winners names there!

 

 

BLOG HOP Participants (in order)

 

 

Sherry Mendoza http://sherryscreations.typepad.com/sherrys-creations/

Katherine Prefol www.scrapeverything.wordpress.com

Kristie Taylor http://kristietaylor.blogspot.com/

Melissa Harris Goodman http://melsartjourney.blogspot.com.au/

Jenny Burns http://burns900.blogspot.com.au/

Tina Dalton http://tdscrappin.blogspot.com.au/

LeAnne Payne http://australianscrapbooking.blogspot.com.au/

Sheree Power http://sheree412.blogspot.com.au/

Michelle Clarke www.blueshell.typepad.com

Jamie Dougherty http://www.jaylynnscraps.com/

Liz Hicks http://blogerisms.blogspot.com/

Heidi Kelley http://seesterk.blogspot.com/

Irit Shalom http://iritshalom.blogspot.com/

JJ Sobey http://1-goodthing.blogspot.com/

Scraptherapy http://scraptherapysessions.blogspot.com.au/

Gerry van Gent http://gerryscrafts.blogspot.com/

Cheryl Bodkin Waters http://blog.artsyfindings.com/

Mel Connell http://mouldsbymel.blogspot.com.au/

Gine Kristofferson Silvera http://ginesscraproom.blogspot.com/

Sarah Moore http://sarahmoore-thescrapjunkie.blogspot.com.au/

Samantha Hauzer http://justlovescrappin.blogspot.com.au/

Drew Scott http://www.scrappyhappiness.com/

Jennifer Priest http://hydrangeahippo.com/

Jordie Craig http://combatcardswa.typepad.com/today_is_a_gift/

Kathy Hall http://kat-meowsmusings.blogspot.com.au/

Melissa Elsner http://theprofoundbrunette.com/

Michelle Thomas http://scrapbookdivas.blogspot.com.au/

Trina McClune www.trinamcclune.typepad.com

Nadia Cannizzo www.samnadia.blogspot.com

Lynne Erskine Forsythe http://lynneforsythe.blogspot.com/

Gloria Stengel http://www.gloriascraps.blogspot.com/

Leanne Allinson http://leanneallinson.blogspot.com.au/

Wendy Crafts http://wendycrafts.blogspot.com/

Agnus Kasprzak http://www.a-place-in-my-dreams.blogspot.com.au/

Natasja Cats Verbeek www.vintagetearooms.com (YOU ARE HERE)

Kim Jeffress http://www.glasshalffull-kim.blogspot.com.au/

Gina Rodgers http://gingerbread.typepad.com/

Trudi Harrison http://scrappinwitht.blogspot.com.au/

Steph Devlin: www.stephdevlin.typepad.com

Beck Beattie: www.justmebingme.blogspot.com

Melita Chow: http://simplyscrappingbyhisgrace.wordpress.com/

Emeline Seet: www.scrapvilla.blogspot.com

Crece Thomas: www.crecet.blogspot.com

Rebecca Boyer: http://rebeccaboyer.blogspot.com.au/

Emma Rose Sabourin Rayburn: http://auntieemsscrapbookingbeading.blogspot.ca/

Brandie Partello: http://parttotell5.blogspot.com/

Marjie Kemper www.marjiekemper.typepad.com

Susan Pyrcz Weckesser: http://mysweetearth.blogspot.com/

Iris Babao Uy: http://irisbabaouy.typepad.com/creativecorner/

 

 

Simple Stories blogpost

Yesterday it was my turn to put up a blogpost over at the Simple Stories blog. My first one!

Since I have been very busy to put up the last decorations for the nursery I though it was a good idea to combine these two. I still had some blank frames which I used to altered using Simple Stories.

 

Please check out all the details over at the Simple Stories blog :)

 

Since the nursery is done now I will create a post showing it soon!

 

Thanks for stopping by :)

 

Love,
Natasja 

Introduced over at Simple Stories

I wanted to share with you the project I created for my Simple Stories design team call and to invite you to check out the Simple Stories blog to go check out my introduction!

 

Thanks for stopping by!

Love,
Natasja

Exciting News

I am so excited!! This morning (on my daughters birthday!) i got an email telling me i got selected for the Simple Stories design team!! Me!! There are some great names on this team and I can't wait to work with them and the new releases! Haven't seen them?! Go check out their blog here ( http://simplestories.typepad.com ) were you can see those releases as well as read the list with names on the new team.!! Thanks for stopping by! Love, Natasja

So much to do

I was hoping to by now have some more project life to share...but I have to be honest and admit that I am behind. I do print my photo's every week but just don't come to put the pages together. But I know it will be okay, in the end. For now we have been to busy putting together the nursery. We had to take of the old wall paper, paint the walls and paint the doors. Than we had to get the furniture, put the furniture together.....a well, you get the point ;)

Yes it's a small room but hey, we live in the Netherlands. My sweet Canadian friend once said; in Dutch houses you have to go outside to change your mind :) 

As you can see everyting is in place now, so I can start the decorating! My favorite part! I am now sawing and crocheting all kind of stuff to put in the room. Next to that I also crocheted this cute hat for Noa. Well actually I wanted to make a baby hat for my little niece that was born on January 18th but, it turned out a bit bigger hihi.

Next to working on the nursery I worked on some scrapbooking projects of which some for a design team call. Hope something good will come out of that!

What more??!! O yeah, I turned 34 last February 3th. My sweet husband was stuck in the snow that day and wasn't home till 9 pm. So instead of a birthday diner out I ate microwaved pancakes with Noa. Jacob did maneged to buy some gorgeouse flowers before coming home!

Because we were so busy the last couple of weekends working in the nursery, were Noa was a great little helper by the way, last week I took Noa to the cinema for some fun time. Fun it was! We went to see the Muppets Show. New for Noa and good old times for me :)

Will share some sewing and crocheting projects soon. And who knows, some project life ;)

Thanks for stopping by!

Love,
Natasja 

A new look and what we are expecting!

I thought it was about time to freshen things up a bit and give this blog a bit more color! So here you a go, a brand new look to my blog. I for one am very happy with how it turned out :)

Now that we notified the family and close friends about the gender of the baby we are expecting (and we got overwhelmed with sweet reactions about it) I thought it would be fun to let you all know! So if you hadn't noticed already ;) Check the upper right corner!

 

Thanks for stopping by and have a colorfull day!

 

Love,
Natasja

 

My mojo is back!

After showing my layout from my last post to Cosmo Cricket I got an email back right away asking if I could create some more. Asked, 2 card and an altered item. First I was a bit afraid, I mean me, creating cards? But I think I like what I came up with!

and after those cards I created this frame with a picture of Noa taken about 3 year ago.

Here is most of the products I used:

Thanks for stopping by!

Love,
Natasja 

I created a layout

It's been a while is an understatement here, it has been more like ages since I created a layout.

On twitter I read that Celine had posted a sketch on her blog and this inspired me to actually get some stash out and play along!

Celine is inviting everyone to play along so go check it out!

This is the sketch

And here is what I created :)

 

and here is most of what I used

InLinkz.com

Thanks for stopping by!

Love,
Natasja