For those of you who have no clue what is “Sinterklaas“, just click on the words “Sinterklaas” in this text and it will take you to several other sites that explains what is “Sinterklaas” in English, with pictures and more just so you dont confuse it with Christmas because they are two complete different holidays, altho I am sure there are some connections to be found, the story is quite different. Ofcourse if you look for images on Google you can find a lot more pictures about it in many places and situations. After you have learned what is “Sinterklaas” you should continu to read on here.

Last year we basically skipped Sinterklaas because my youngest daughter was merely a few months old and my oldest was already 11. So instead we had a nice Christmas celebration. This year I wanted to do a little bit about it, not to much because shes barely 1 and a half and what does a child that young know about this stuff anyway. I doubt she understand anything of it. But the tradition that we did picked up here this year was putting the shoe with a carrot for the horse and singing songs just before bedtime. Then in the morning ofcourse there where little gifts to be found in the shoes. Nothing really big, just some candy, because like i said it doesnt really have a meaning to her yet I just wanted to introduce this holiday a little bit to her allready in a manner that its fun and maybe recognisable for her in the next years when we celebrate it. On the last morning she found in her shoe the traditional chocolate letter. I was late with shopping for them because there was only one letter A to be found anymore in the store. So for Antonio I bought the letter P for Papa and then ofcourse for me the M for Mama and the M for Merel, my oldest daughter. I am in doubt wheter she actualy understood what was going on all with the carrots in the shoes n the singing n why there was a package in the shoes, but she did understood what was a chocolate letter when she saw it and she also knew right what to do with it! I took some great pictures of this. And no worries we didnt let her finish that letter, after taking the pictures I took it away from her n cut of a little piece that she could have.

Now on to the next holiday, wonder how Anarosa is going to experience all that and how stressfull for us that is going to be. Last year she wasnt walking or even crawling arround in the house, she wasnt able to reach for the Christmas balls in the tree and prolly didnt even noticed any of the other decorations. Not sure yet how she can be part in the decorating but I’m sure I find a way. I just hope she stays out of the tree LMAO. For now, enjoy the pictures of Anarosa and her Chocolate Letter.

So I re-discovered again my creative side and dig up my photoshop. I have worked on several contest projects but not all of them or actualy onl few of them I had decided to upload to the contest site.. However I wasnt that thrilled about one of my entries, its there now and it lost. I havent created anything yet in the last few contest that I would really classify as a top piece.. I just have to get back into it I guess.. and my last chop thats running in a curent contest is actualy not so bad at all. I wont say which one because I dont want to influence the contest that way. I dont want ppl to vote high or low because they know a certain work is mine. You can see all my works in the finished contests on my pxleyes page. You can find the link at the right bottom of this page 🙂

Ever tried to cut out a furry animal in photoshop to copy paste it onto a different image and did it look like the animal has been hit by a grass mower?  Now you can keep from this sort of digital animal abuse XD. Simply follow the steps in my tutorial and keep our pets save and happy :).

In this tutorial you will learn how to re-draw the fur on animals you have masked or cut out and chopped. This tutorial also includes the use of quick-mask, more uses for the “fur redraw trick” a different way of making a shadow in grass, and many other tips and tricks.

Don’t mind you, I am still in the progress of restoring this tutorial so If it is not completed yet with all images, please check back in a day or so. Thank you!!

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As you can see I have started to rebuild my blog. A lot of my poems have been re-added and I added a new section aswell.. Jokes :). I thought we all can use to laugh a little once in a while and I may not always have the mood to make a post depending on my time aswell.

Soon my blog will be ina top condition again once I have once again restored my photoshoptutorials and the lyrics too. Ofcourse my love story will be updated too some time but I am not sure how i will portrait that so I am holding the writing of that a little off yet.  Thats all for now since i’m a little tired with all the work i have allready done today on my blog. Take care all!!