Crazy Ideas and some Pictures

The first time we talked about our idea was in May 2008. We then thought about going on a crazy road trip for a year, all around the USA . Many other things happened and our idea was gone for a couple of years, until yesterday night. We were sitting on our white IKEA couch and talked about things we really want to do before we have kiddos (don’t panick, we don’t expect a baby ;) ). On Google Maps we made a route of a possible trip, all around America. Right now we are looking for the best time of fall foliage in the eastern side of the country – what means that we are looking for travelling THIS fall!! Well, it is way too soon to say anything concrete, but, hey, you never know :D It would be awesome to travel for about 1.5 months……. I really hope that this dream can come true and I don’t even care if we can’t go this fall, but maybe next fall…??

After saying this I miss Canada more than ever. I just loved the way it started to get colder and colder every morning I headed to the bus stop to go to school. I love it cold and freezing and snowing. And I loved the street I lived on. Our street was flanked with huge old trees and in fall the leaves would silently fall down. I loved to walk in this magical “city forest”…….

beautiful beautiful nature….

the last Canada Geese

and then finally it started to snow – a little

(by the way, that was the view from my room and this is the street I was talking about)

Gosh, now I feel fally and christmasy….. Great!!

Have a great Sunday :D

Bookmark and Share

Related Posts:

UPDATE!

WOW! Those four months have gone by like nothing! I can remember, when I was counting the days until I would leave Canada to see Adrian in California, 43 days ago! And now: California here I come again!! It was kinda funny, some of my classmates even started to count with me ;) I hope, not because they were sick and tired of me LOL

Yeah. The last days were very busy! Packing, canceling my bank account and finishing school.. You know, I was pretty happy to leave the College, but still, I made so good friends and when I had to say goodbye I almost started to cry. But just almost. I am very proud on myself ;)

I can’t even believe, that tomorrow I will see my fiance :) That’s just crazy! Isn’t it??

*******************

The last days or even weeks were kinda depressing for me, because I was so uncreative. I tried to do some things, but nothing really came out of that stuff. I hate those times. But now, after doing nothing for about a week, I can feel the energy and creativity pounding through my veins ;) I have some ideas of making more videos this Christmas break (for sure, about Scrapbooking!!!) and working for the magazine I design for. (Scrap Art Zine)

I got two columns (or how do you call that, series?), that I will be writing for the next whole year!!! (means, 4 issues = 8 article by Rachel!!!!) Isn’t that great?? I am really happy about it!! :D And I am glad that I (hopefully) will have time to come up with something really nice!

Okay girls (and boys?), that was just a really quick update of my life. I will be feeding you with more the upcoming days :D

xoxoxoxo, Rachel :)

PS!! THANK YOU ALL FOR GIVING ME SO MANY AND SO NICE COMMENTS FOR MY LAST VIDEO!!!!!!! IT MADE ME SO HAPPY :D

PS2 (no, doesn’t mean PhotoShop ;)   ) Today when I was weighting my bags I made a GREAT discovery!! I didn’t gain ANY weight the past couple of months!! I am 56kg (or something about that) and that means, that I actually lost four pounds :) hahaha (I think that is the second reason, why I am so happy right now…….)

Bookmark and Share

Related Posts:

Some more Canada pictures…

1. Hey! I wanted to show you my Christmas Daily pictures, but they still arent edited. So I have to ask for a little patience…

2. But I have some more Canada Eascost pictures I would like to show you. The colors aren’t edited, just the brightness and the contrast.

canada007-net

canada011variante1-net

canada010-net

canada009-net

canada008-net

(Ooookay, you got me! The birds are faked here. When I saw a nice bird flying away, I took some pictures of it and in PhotoShop I made brushes out of those pictures. Works pretty well!!)

3. Have a very nice weekend!!

Bookmark and Share

Related Posts:

Update

Today I want to make a quick update.

My Christmas Daily is growing rapidly! I have now the Frontpage, Day 1 to 14 and Day 17.

christmasdaily-detail-net

I went to Michael’s last Saturday. I need bookrings and eylets for my Daily. But no, they didn’t have what I needed. But what girl can walk out of her favorite shop without buying at least one item…? So i found very nice glitter alpha stickers in black and hot pink! Each for 1.50! So I bought both colors in two packages. There was also such a cute stamp with a  “Happy Holidays” writing that looked at me so tempting… And also two new ribbons, white fluffy and a red one with white dots.

michaels-net

Since you know, that I can’t wait for my wedding I am always counting the days down. Today there are just 6 months and 19 days left!

619-net

And then I wanted to show you some layouts that I recently did….

winnipeg-net

fall-net

fall-detail1-net

embosst foam stickers

fall-detail2-net

Okay, that’s it! I thought, it would give a much shorter update… ;)

Bookmark and Share

Related Posts:

Sketchy Thursday Challenge

Hey there!! I just finished a layout for a challenge that I found on THIS blog. It is a really nice challenge for me, since I never ever ever use orange on my layouts ;)   It was soooo much fun!! Hopefully I will win the prize…?? ;)

greenfall-net

greenfall-detail1-net

greenfall-detail2-net

greenfall-detail3-net

If you are interested for the Challenge, here are the rules…..

The challenge – create a layout:
* with a fall or family theme
* with browns and oranges as the MAIN color scheme
* with a pop of either TEAL or HOT PINK added to the color scheme
You don’t have to use a Sketchy Thursdays sketch, although it is encouraged.  When posting your layout, if you do use a Sketchy Thursdays sketch, please let us know which one you used.

You have until Friday, October 23 at midnight EST to post your layout to the special Second Chance Challenge Mr. Linky included at the bottom of this post.

Bookmark and Share

Related Posts: