With a Russian/Dutch heart

Monday, July 06, 2009

Weekend was fine, now on to "normal"

Goodmorning everybody!
How was your weekend? Did a lot of you have a great Independence day?
The weekend here was okay, great weather and yesterday a birthday visit to Heidi and Danny. I fact I don;t like those gatheringsvery much, you never get a good chance to talk to the people you are coming for, which is normal. They have to attend to all their guests. But heidi and I at least came to the conlcusion we didn;t change in our looks, so we still recognized eachother, LOL. We didn;t see eachother for more than a month! That's really too long. Well, we agreed to try at least to visit one another in the coming 2 weeks. I don;t know if we'll manage, but at least the intention is there, hahaha. In about two weeks they are going on a holiday, so we will be the keepers of the bird and rabbit again. We are too good hearted about that, but at least I know they are taken good care off, isn;t it?

Danny and Heidi want to buy a new digital camera, so Danny said that Séverine could have the old one. Oh, she is all excited about it. Yesterday she was running around and taking pictures at a row. And I must say, she made some very good ones(and she's only 7). She even made a nice one of Jan and me and I told her I wanted that one and a couple of others. And that she had to ask Heidi to mail me those. Well, she instantly told it to her mother, now I am curious how long it will take before I receive them!

In the weekend I managed to finish some work for the blogfreebies, but on the moment I have a kind of black out for those, it will just not come out of my fingers. I was struggling on one and then decided I better leave it for the moment and I went on finishing some daily downloads, already for October, the halloween kit. Yeah, incredible but true! I also saw some other contributions to it and oh boy, it becomes an awesome daily download! Also did some other challenges, not too much, but still I am advancing.

In the afternoon the piano tumer will finally come for my piano(after I advanced it a couple of times, poor man) and may be it will get me in the mood again to start playing the piano again a bit. It is really a shame I don;t do that anymore, because I was playing it really well. We'll see about that. I suppose the fingers have become a bit rusty but that sould be done with rather quick, if once I start with it again.

Now for today I have a rather small kit, but I think you get an all over sunshine feeling of it. It's named "Feel the Summer" and should make your summer pictures extra bright and sunny.
I think I will have a real long freebielist this afternoon, cause I already checked around in the weekend and then there will be the new freebies from today again too. So stay tuned and prepare yourself for a nice blog-freebie hunt today!

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Saturday, July 04, 2009

Happy 4th of July

Goodmorning everyone!

Just a quick posting to wish all my Amercain visitors a happy

We had a challenge in the forum to make something an LO or so for Independence Day. This is my contribution, to all of you!

I wish you all a very joyful and cracking day!

Hugs

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Friday, July 03, 2009

Freebielist 3-07-2009

It's VERY warm here!

Goodmorning you all!

Can't believe it that in the morning at 8.00 I went into the garden and it was already very warm, and then there wasn't even sunshine in it! It's really summer and although it sometimes is perhaps a bit too warm(often it gets a bit dampy warm here) I just love it. To be able to step outside in the garden early in the morning just in your t shirt, seeing the cats lying around already completely in coma, the flowers, still rather silent with only here and there some bird song! That's life!
I am so sorry!!!!!!!!! I don;t know why, but I TOTALLY forgot to put up a freebielist yesterday! I must have been really somewhere else with my thoughts! I promise I will NOT forget it today!! What a DUMB girl is posting here.

I told you we had a very nice chat at the forum, but we missed our Edna, the "mother"of the forum. So how I don;t know but wshe was subject of our conversation and suddenly a picture of a possible layout popped up in my mind. A naughty one. So I made a rough version and showed it to the chatters. Then we discussed the possibilities and the ladies came up with some great suggestions. Yesterday morning I finished it and posted it on the forum, in the team section and notified Edna. Ohboy, she's a good sport, that lady! Go take a look at her blog, she actually posted the layout(the little person at the right is her brother Moo, LOL).http://missednasplace.blogspot.com/

I really tried to finish up on a kit yesterday, but the flow wasn;t there LOL.
It will come back ( let''s hope so, hahaha) but I still have a lovely kit for you, it's great for this time of year, although"a "Stroll on the Beach"can be used for more, I guess. It was the result of the colourchallenge for March at our forum. Snowy always comes up with nice colour palettes and great ideas! She is a girl of character with a great creative mind, and I like her a lot. She's filled with humour, she's honest and sincere, always ready to help if she can, sometimes a bit chaotic(just like me ROFL) sometimes just nuts(also like me ROFL!!) but in all a very adorable and great person. (Don;t blush now. Snowy!!)

So we'll see what today will bring again. I already have a wash turning in the machine and I even did some ironing, eah already at 9.00 o'clock in the morning! So I feel already good about myself, whooooo! Well, I will put up later the freebielist of course and in the weekend we'll have to visit Heidi and Danny, because Danny had his birthday this week and invited some friends and family on Sunday. Time is filling up already, as you see.
Enjoy your weekend, hope it will be a creative one and happy one. See you on Monday!

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Thursday, July 02, 2009

Early rise today!

Goodmorning everybody!

It was an early rise this morning, due to installment of a new watermeter. But.... they came. Good. It took the guy only a few minutes.

Yesterday evening(for me) we had the chat at the forum. As usual we had a good laugh, although we missed some regulars, so to say. Hopefully next time everybody will be able to join again.
I better take advantage of the fact that I was up so early, and try to move earlier than normal, LOL. Well, I have to do some shopping, and as they expect today to be the warmest of the whole week, better do it before noon.

To start with, I was given another award, oh boy!
It was passed to me by Zaza, http://blogchezzaza.vefblog.net/, a lovely blog with beautiful freebies. It this award

This award is dedicated to a world without borders in the world of Scrap,by people who always give you:

Help, Gratitude, Respect, Solidarity, Affection, Love, Friendship and Imagination

Pass this award to who you know have these qualities.

So therefore, I give this award to the following blogs that have all these qualities and more :

http://silversnowyraven.blogspot.com/

http://missednasplace.blogspot.com/

http://suruha-freespirit.blogspot.com/

I will try to make a layout or two from the pictures I made during the last walk Jan and I made in the centre of The Hague. But I am a bit in shortage of time, designing wise spoken. I already started a new kit some days ago, but it isn;t advancing very well. I am still busy enough with a lot of things, but somehow I lack a bit of inspiration. Well, that happens from time to time. May be I should consider taking a real break for a week or two, like a holiday, from the blog. Yeah I know, not too nice for my visitors, but I do it almost every year and sometimes it is a good thing to step back for a moment. We'll see about that.

For now you don;t have to worry, because I have another kit for you. It's a rather funny kit, all in very bright colours, perhaps nice for some pictures of the kids.
I named it"Bugs Invasion".
I have to give credit to http://thescrappincop.blogspot.com/ for some of the lovely templates I used.
Now you all enjoy the day and I hope I will have something for you tomorrow!

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Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Freebielist 1-07-2009

A new daily download

Goodmorning everybody.

Just take a look at the slideshow on top. It's the new daily download for July on the forum of Magickal scraps. Doesn't it look gorgeous??? Such happy colours and lots of fun in it. It's called Crayola Garden and theme and colourpallet were chosen this time by Edna. Check it out and I know you will not be sorry!
I must not forget the chat tonight. Normally we have that on a Friday, but as there is the celebration of the 4th of July too some would not be able to attend, so we moved it to tonight. I am curious how that will be again. Usually a lot of fun, so it's a nice thing to look forward for.

Yesterday was a normal day. I went for the shopping a bit earlier than normal, to avoid the greatest warmth from the day. It was a lovely day again yesterday. For some time it was even too warm in our garden, well certainly in the sun. But I am not complaining, this weather is fine for the old bones, LOL.

I managed yesterday to make one of the last challenges waiting for me at the forum for the month of July. It's part of the letter challenge and it was the "P ". It's about one of really the funniest cats I had, eyes all round and always acting differently from other cats. A very charasterictic attitude of that cat was sitting on it's bump, really!!! Already as kitten this one was different and funny so it received the name of the famous Russian clown Popov. I used my own kit Cat Society for it.

Now I have, I think, a beautiful kit for you, it was made for the February colour challenge of the forum and is named "Renaissance Treasures". I was rather proud of it, so I hope you will like it too.

And if the inspiration will come, I should try to get a new kit together for you. Hmmm, we'll see if that idea will be succesful. Anyway, have a wonderful day and till tomorrow.