Good Monday Morning.
My name is Mireille and I will be your host for this week.
Can you believe it will be December tomorrow??
I look at November and December as “celebration” months. All over the world there are so many celebrations based on culture, religion and location. There are celebrations such as Saint Martin, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Sinterklaas, Hannukkah and I think Christmas would be the most well-known worldwide. There are enough celebrations to scrap about and that’s exactly my challenge for this week!
Since I live in the Netherlands I cannot tell you much about Halloween or Thanksgiving for example but we do celebrate “Sinterklaas” and I thought it would be fun to scrap about that.
Sinterklaas is a celebration for children. Sinterklaas = Saint Nicholas was a saint that was well known for his generosity. Saint Nicholas arrives on his steamboat from Spain halfway through November. He brings his horse, Amerigo, and a lot of helpers, “Black Petes” (that are black from their work in the chimneys). They stay here for about 3 weeks. In these times you can see them everywhere. In the evening before they go to bed children get to put their shoes close to the fireplace, sing special Sinterklaas songs and if they have been “good” they will get a little candy or a small present in their shoe. On December 5th we celebrate “Saint Nicholas Eve.” This evening Saint Nicholas or Black Pete drops presents by. Sinterklaas is celebrated mainly in Europe.
Mireille Divjak- {Sinterklaas}
Pictures of my son on Zwarte Piet’s lap on Saint Nicholas eve. He was a little scared but after a while he really liked it. I used the cute houses stickers from the Downtown collection because Zwarte Piet works on the roof of houses all night- bringing candy and gifts through the chimney!
Liz Qualman – From our Family
Liz made this layout with the Pebbles Season’s Greetings collection. I’ve been seeing a lot of trees out there and love the way it decorates a page.
Liz even provided us – and you – with a sketch to use. Isn’t that awesome??
Mimi Leinbach – Christmas Jar
Mimi decorated this jar to a beautiful christmas decoration. Wouldn’t you love to have this on your scrap table?! (And of course the chocolate inside too…)
Deanna Kroll – Joy
Made this beautiful layout using the Skipping Along, So Tweet and Linnie Bell collection.
Deanna covered the edges of the paper with Pebbles Metallic Chalks to give a “snowy” effect. She added embossing ink to the page and then covered with the chalk. Notice the “ornaments” she made out of the circle chipboard shapes.
Samantha Sibbet- Joy Christmas tree decoration
And look at the beautiful Christmas Tree decoration Samantha made.
Here is a close up so you get a more detailed look:
Ginnifer Maloney – Christmas Eve PJ’s
I love Ginnifer’s layout and the atmosphere this breathes. A warm family atmosphere on Christmas Eve when the family sits together and opens up their presents. Notice the wrinkled paper ribbon at the bottom.