
our summer holiday at the Beekse Bergen (in the Netherlands) was fabulous! we had such a good time, and we were very very lucky with the Dutch summer weather (sunshine all week!).
about a week before we went away i figured i wanted to do scrapbooking-on-the-road so i purchased this lovely tutorial from Ali Edwards. And that was just perfect. Lots of fun video's to watch, stuff to think about, and limiting myself with what supplies to take :). so i only got a small box of products and i was good to go. i didn't prepare the mini album, i made it all at night when the kids were sound asleep.

i was lucky to get some help painting the covers!
and it really felt so great to get my notes out at night, when my memories were still fresh. like i seriously forget the next day some of the most fun things the kids said or did. happy to record it all!

and the little girl got the at-night-scrapbooking-vibe-too. so cute how she made a page about 3 small ducks she saw that morning. she wrote "i saw these ducks on our holiday, i think they were 1 year old and that they were triplets, they were very cute". seriously, sweets, triplets? haha. so cute.
the 3 above pictures were taken with my phone. here's the album completed:
i so love shots from above for mini-albums. it just makes them extra yummy!
same goes for side views. ahhh the thickness...
i really used only the products i had on hand. the pictures were taken with my lovely Fuji Instant camera. perfect for this use! i used a maya road album, but ripped the sides apart so i could open it and make it extra chunky (it had standard binding). i simply wrote on the papers that were in the mini album.
i had to get used to the Fuji Camera though... this was a picture from the car of a gorgeous bridge. right. it's just white, but it's in my album anyway, cause that's how i roll. it simply belongs there. i still remember the view of the bridge, and that's what counts.

i added cards i bought at a local store. just to have som e more shots, but also to journal on the back.
added vouchers and brochures of the park we were at.
that tape makes it very lovely. and see that giraf?? see it??
seriously. when we did the Safari-tour it was (together with his friends) licking our car! the kids were laughing their heads off. so much fun to watch those dudes.
the picture i took of them in the lake after our dinner are more gorgeous than the ones i took with my digital camera. the atmosphere simply is more gorgeous when it looks 'older'.
i saved the receipts from stores and put them all in a lovely green envelop. i think that's fun to see in a few years from now. how much things will have changed.

Ruben took some pictures too. obviously. love the one he shot from Sanne near the lake.
Sanne rushed to us when she was in the water. she said she saw small fishies. she wanted to catch one with her hands. we laughed and said: sure, go ahead. big surprise, there she was holding that itty bitty fishie in her hand. i shouldn't have been so surprised. she usually pulls off stuff like that...
lots of words, but that's what this album was all about for me. getting it all out in detail.
life is good. jot it down!
rev