Lots to show, lots of surprises.

Goodmorning everybody!

Monday I finally did some of the housework, yeah! A laundry, and changing of bedsheets, with removing the matras and boards under it, to give a good sweep with the vacuum cleaner under it, the bedroom took me a bit of time, but it was satisfying LOL.
Jan re-potted the tomatoe plants, they are still small, but steadily growing, may be they will even grow to real plants with some tomatoes on them, grin.

Yesterday was shopping day, some things always run out quicker than you think. It was a bit of grey day, today I think it will be cloudy too, may be again with a bit of rain, but........if they are right at the weather forecast by the end of the week temps will rise again and may be even reach around 53 F! With some sunshine to it too! Can't wait to see it happen, it might even look as if Spring is peeping around the corner. And if so, it will be a good time to plant the bulbs we bought and do some pruning, in short... garden time!
Today will be a quiet day, probably, but I promised myself to do some ironing, sigh sigh, better do it now, I hate it when the pile grows too big, ROFL.
Now some other things to tell and show. Got a few mails with nice surprises.
First one about a nice lady who told me she used my Dolce Ricordo kit (you can find that one under the freebies of August 2011) for a bloglayout. She is offering on her blog bloglayouts, and other things, take a look there, the link is http://sheadylandesigns.blogspot.com. 

Then I have some real beautiful quickpages for you from Linda. She made them with the kits Souvenir d'Autrefois (you can find the kit here) and you can download them on her blog
Here the previews, and if you download....well, you know the trick.....leave a little thank you!

And then there is Arlene, yeah, again LOL! She made some fun clusters and a page with the kit A Day in tom Kitten's Life and I can offer them to you! That lady is sooooo quick, the ink of my blogpost(well, matter of speaking then hahaha) is hardly dry and hopla, I find some beautiful clusters in my mail.
I can say it everytime over and over again, but it's the truth! I feel so proud that people like the stuff I make and see the results of their work, and that's one of the things that keeps me going, also part of that your visits and comments I receive, all that together brings little smiles to my face!
Here the preview from Arlenes work and don;t you forget a little word!

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There are already such goodies for you, that it seems too much to post a freebie kit today!!!
No, just joking, I have one for you. I returned for a moment to fairy land, which I visited much more frequent when Minky still was around, but every now and then I get fairy-tickles again, so here is
"Magical Fairy Spring". Have fun with it.
And have a wonderful day!!

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Missed a great photo shot!

Goodmorning everybody!

Friday, after posting, I went for the shopping and yes, I had my pizza at dinner. And in the afternoon I tackled just a few housekeeping things and that was it.

Saturday we started real slow. Took our time to wake up, LOL, had some coffee, a sandwich , quick shower, got dressed and finally we made a walk to the market. Although there wasn't much sun, the temperature was real nice. And a lot of people had the same idea, oh whee, it was really crowded there.

But it was nice to walk there, take a look here and there at some stands, we didn;t buy much, but......... Jan has some work to do in the garden again. There was the stand with A LOT of bulbs and seeds, and of course I took a look. Bought two little seedpscks with summerflowers and there was an offer for 4 sacks of different bulbs(they had a big choice in them), for € 5,00, and Jan and I made a choice out of them.

Now Jan can already start growing the seeds inside, and somewhere this month he can put the bulbs in the soil in the garden. I am afraid I will have to accompanie him in this, mainly, because I surely have to make a bit of place for them and I don´t trust him completely in replacing some plants that will be for sure in his way LOL!

Oh, I missed a great photoshot while we were at the market. Although I had my little camera with me, it was still in my pocket, so not ready to `shoot`immediately. Okay, we were walking at the ´veggies`part and in a glance I saw something strange. I took a good look and saw a lady walking there, with a parrot on her shoulder. Not attached with a line of something, he was sitting all free and it looked as if he had a real good time.! It was a mainly green one and of a good size! Now isn´t that funny to see or not? And by the time I realized what I´ve seen, the lady and parrot have disappeared in the crowd and ......gone a great picture!

Sunday was our leisure day, ROFL, I spent a lot of time at the computer, uploading some stuff, designing some stuff, great! Also received another gift from Arlene, so you are in for a treat again. But ladies, I saw that she had over about 150 downloads of her clusters last time and only some thank you´s for it. Now that isn`t very nice of you.!!!! I am used to it slowly, that it seems a hard thing to do for people to leave a short thank you when downloading something, but it hurts me a bit to see the same happening to Arlene. ( not including here the VERY nice ones, that do take a moment to leave a little comment).
So come up, you downloaders, it`s all offered for free here, why cannot you return the favour by leaving a small comment??????
Nevertheless, Arlene sent me new clusters, made with my kit Spring is Knocking on the Window. And I can offer them to you, just as freebie!!!
Here they are:

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I think they are really sweet, she did a great job!

Time for me to end this post, I did plan to do some work around here, it´s not playing time every day ROFL! But I have also a freebie for you, another one made with some sweet pictures of a Beatrix Potter story. It´s about Tom Kitten, so I named the kit `A day in Tom Kitten´s Life, not the brightest title for the kit, but it will have to do LOL.
Have a wonderful day and be nice!

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I have a surprise for you!

Goodorning everybody!

Oh, I went out out for the shopping on Wednesday, weather was rather good, so it was good for me to take some air. Nothing spectacular to report about that, though!

The matter that still keeps our minds busy is the health condition of our Queen's son. It's not that you keep thinking of it all the time, but every now and then it pops into the mind.
Yesterday we got the news on tv, that he was transported to a hospital in London( where the prince and his family have residence), but no change in his condition. He still is in coma and they cannot tell when or if he will awaken from it, and if so, his recovery will be very difficult, because he suffered serious brain damage. So all together not very happy news.

Oh, boy, how could I forget this! Jan wrote his first email ever! A while ago he met two young girls in the cafe, they live just across  our street, and the girls of about 20 years old left now for about 6 months to Spain, which has something to do with their study. And they were so nice to send us an email telling about their time there and of course Jan had to answer that. With a little help from me(LOL) he managed to send a message to them. I could see he was all proud about himself, grin!

I also received a suprise in my mail from a visitor, Arlene. She made some clsuters and qp's from my kit Far away World, and as she hasn't a blog of her own, she wrote me that I could offer those as freebie on my blog. Now isn;t that nice?
And I will have probably more to tell and show you about another visitor of my blog, but that will be for a bit later. It almost feels as if I have my own CT, ROFL. No, I don;t have one, but just the feeling of it makes me kind of proud. Yes, I am nuts at times, I know. But it is wonderful to be able to feel happy for a moment just because of a little mail with surprise.
Okay, first I will give you the previews and links for Arlene's work and if you download leave a little thank you for her in the shoutbox or comment box!!
And then I also have a kit for you, of course. I thought we could do with a bit of cheerful kit, and that resulted into this one "Spring is Knocking on the Window".
Off I go, after another cup of coffee, have to go out to get some medicin from the pharmacy, and get some last things from the supermarket. I think it will be pizza time for me this evening for dinner.
Have a wonderful weekend!

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Download   QP's    HERE

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Easy peasy going here.

Goodmorning everybody!

After the bit stressing weekend, LOL, the last two days were quiet. I did some householdtasks on Monday. and Jan worked even some more in the garden. Reaching an older age he really gets to like that, grin!
Yesterday I spent time at the computer, busy on a new kit. I think I will have to split up this one in two files, because without really noticing it became rather extended.
Oh, in a week or two we will have great times at night here! The city council decided that the rails of the tram need to be adjusted, there will be riding soon another, newer tram, and as always, to not interfere too much in the traffic they will work at night on it. Wow, I can;t wait till they start LOL. As the rail is rather close to our house, we probably will have some noise and such, how wonderful!

We still haven't heard much news about the son of our Queen. The whole family is still in Austria this week, to be close to him, they are having a real troubled time at the moment. We all hope it will end well, but to be honest, I think it probably will not. But as long as there is life there is hope, they say.

Well, folks, thats about all I have to say today. Not much, I know, perhaps because I have no inspiration this morning to ramble along. Yes, at times it happens to me, I can be very quiet and silent too, hahahahaha.
Better to post the freebie now and get into some clothes and then to the supermarket, suddenly I am running out of some basic things.
Here you have "Far away World".
Enjoy your day, "see" you on Friday again.

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Print, print, print, print!

Goodmorning  everybody!

Gosh, I feel so proud of myself LOL! Saturday I had to go out to buy us the weekend newspaper and as it was nice weather I walked down the shopping street and I knew there was a little computerstore there. So I looked what they had and I saw an Epson printer. Took all my courage into my two hands and entered the store. And...........I came out with a printer for very little money. Quickly back home and now the hard stuff started ROFL.
First had to remove the program files from the old printer. Well, that was done without any trouble.
Then installing the new one. All started well, and when that was  finished of course I had to try it out and print a little document. Oh whee, no luck. The printer didn;t recognized the four cartridges. Damn, why can;'t something go smoothly with me in these kind of things???? Okay, took them out, placed them back, tried again, no result.
What could I do more????? Tried again, no, nothing. So I went back to the store, told them about it, guy at the counter didn;t understand it either, asked me to try again, if no luck, he asked me to bring the printer so he could take a look, and if something might be wrong, they would give me another printer. He was very patient and nice to me.
Back home, Jan was back also from a little walk. Now he is no great help in that, he never done anything with a computer, well, certainly not installing anything. He suggested I tried again, so I did.
Took out all cartridges again, placed them back again and after doing this about 3 times a miracle happened..............there came out a print. YEAH, it worked, oh whee, you cannot imagine how happy I was.
So I'll pass at the shop today to tell them everything is okay!
I wanted just a printer, but this one also can scan. But is real simple in using, and that all for just € 39,00.
And another nice thing is, that the cartridges aren't very expensive.
So here is sitting a very happy girl, completely exhausted I was yesterday, I am getting much too nervous, I know, but it seems to be in my character LOL. Let's hope, this printer will serve me well and for a long time.

Well, yesterday I spent a lot of time at the computer, made a new kit, uploaded other ones that I made earlier last week and Jan spent some time in the garden, cleaning up, removing things there(I didn;t want to know what exactly, cause he has the tendancy of removing the worng things LOL), sweeped the terrace, re-arranged the rack where we had e.g. the tomatoe plants standing, re-arranged another corner of the terrace where we have the little garden tools and sack with fresh soil, etc.
He was having great fun I believe. I must say it looks already much better. Later in March I will have to do some pruning, better when I do that, specially with the roses and the hydrangea!

Today I must do a few things in the house like laundry for sure. And must not forget to pay that visit to the computer store and then I also can post the envelope for the accountant for the tax declaration. Pfffff, I'll be glad when that is on the way!
Freebie time! Kit is named "Satisfction", can be used for lots of things.
Have a great day!

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I knew it, in some things I am unlucky.

Goodmorning everybody!

Finally tried to get my printer working again yesterday, but till now no luck. But I almost could feel this would happen LOL! May be I will give it another try, but I am too thinking very hard about another printer. They don;t cost a lot these days, well,you can make it as expensive as you want, but the thing you also have to look at are the cartridges you need for the printer. Some printers are real cheap but have expensive cartridges, sometimes it's better to buy a little more expensive printer, which will pay itself almost back cause the cartridges are less expensive or you can easily buy compatible ones, which saves also some money.
I just want to find a simple printer, that prints out and a lot of them are "all-in-ones"which can be practicle sometimes, but to be honest I just want a printer that prints and nothing more LOL. If possible I will not buy one from HP, that's the brand I have now and always was a bit tricky. And the cartridges are also rather expensive.
May be I will find one from Canon or Epsom, some of them have rather good reviews from users.
Okay, we will think it over for a day or two more and then we'll see what I will end up with.

I received a nice mail with the request to offer a quickpage the lady had made with the kit Eveline. Of course that was okay, it's a freebie for personal use made by Linda and you can download it from her blog
http://www.linda-ohwhatfun.blogspot.com/
Here a preview of the page, real beautiful!

Weather today isn;t looking all too bright, sky is all grey, I hope it will clear up a bit later today.
Then I have to go out, to make some copies of formulas needed for the tax declaration, which comes back every year. Jan wanted it to do ourselves this year to save a bit of money, but I am really no good in it and thought this year I can let the accountant do it again. Oh whee, I think Jan will be not amused, but sending it all to the accountant will give me a great peace of mind and that's nice.

One of the things we have to mention and give copies of is the tax the city council is charging you for the house you live in. It's a certains percentage of the value of the house, I received the papers yesterday and you know what it strange? The valuing of the house has the same amount as it had last year, and I wonder how that is possible, with the crisis going on, bad sales of houses at the moment, prices dropping every month, but to them it has the same value. That bills aren;t the lowest ones to pay, but you cannot do much about it.
Oh, how nice was life when we were real young, not having to bother about bills of all sorts to pay, just living day by day, just having to worry a bit about the school and the tests and exams you had to do, I would gladly go back to it ROFL.

I think it's time to finish the post now, just have to choose which kit I will offer you know. Yes, I know, it will be "Carnevale Veneziano". Hopefully you can do something nice with it.
Have a fantastic weekend!

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I love to see temperatures go up!

Goodmorning everybody!

Temperatures are going up and I love to see it. They expect that towards the weekend daytemperature might go up till about 10 degrees C( about 50 F) and that is quite "warm"for the time of year. Of course it isn;t reaching temps that I really like, but it's a start! Pity that there is just a bit too much wind, and that isn't coming yet from the right directions, so feels a bit cold. But let us not complain, it's already much better than having frost!
Yesterday I didn;t do a great deal at the computer, to be honest, I must say I took a nice nap in the afternoon and it did me a lot of good LOL!
So I only downloaded a bit of music from the internet in the morning and then wnet out for a bit of groceries shopping.
Today I might burn the music on a cd, and really soon now I will have to dedicate some time to my printer.
I know, I should have done that way earlier(I said it before, I know that), but I am bad in these things, as you might know. But I need the thing, so I must remove the files from the printer first from the C drive, download a new full installation file from HP with new drivers etc. and install it again. I am always reluctant in doing those things, cause I am always afraid doing something wrong, or if I do it right, it doesn;t work with me ROFL. But it sure isn't handy when you cannot print anything, and when it doesn't work, you ALWAYS have things you NEED to print out. Is that a part of Murphy's law???

Well, I don;t know if I will do it today, cause I also have to do some errands around here. And have to go to the bank, to deposit some payments for bills, not the nicest thing to do, but necessary.
Weather doesn;t look too bad, so the walk might do me some good too.

There isn;t more news about the Queen's son, perhaps at the end of the week the doctors might say something about his health condition. It certainly will be an anxious week for the whole royal family.

 Today I havean almost white kit for you, named "Souvenir d'Autrefois". Hope you can use it for some real great layouts.!
Have a wonderful day.

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