Christmas feeling is creeping in!

Goodmorning everybody!

So how was your weekend? Here it was nice and quiet, most of the time it was not so bright outside, lots of rain, so it was good to stay in. Oh my, Dikkie Dik, the fattest of the two brother cats, did it again! Friday Jan said I had to look at him, cause he thought something wasn;t okay with Dikkie. So I went to take a look and yes, one of his eyes was almost closed, that because of a rather big wound just above his eye! And it was rather thick, so I pushed a bit and wheeeee, a LOT of dirty stuff came out! So I tried to get most out of it and cleaned it up with lots of alcohol, and then actually saw he had three spots close together that were wounded. So he had a fight again for sure. I probably cleaned it very well, because on Saturday there was just a tiny bit more left and it seems to healing well again. But he has a whole bold spot just between his eye and ear on his head again!!! I told him, he doesn;t look as Mr. Handsome anymore, but that this was his own fault. And as I idn't have a little hairpierce for him to put on his bold spot, he had to walk with that for the time being!

It's aweful with him, he keeps doing it! He is such a sweet cat, but outside he seems to be the macho of the neighbourhood!

You noticed of course I already dressed my blog in Christmas outfit. I made the layout of one of my own kits and I think I like it. Now tomorrow the real Christmas spirit will take over, because then the Worldwide Christmas Scrapbooking Freebie round will start! I will offer you my first of many more Christmaskits and you can collect then a lot more if you click the link on the right going to the blog of the WWCSF (blinkie in green).

And you may have noticed too, that I already put up the slideshow for the December Daily Download of the Magickal Scraps forum. Oh, I am proud to say I was the inventor of the theme and colourscheme and title: "Tales of the Raven".

And Oh boy, what a TERRIFIC job the team did! It is a real special Christmas related kit, so if you want to make some very different and special layouts I think you should take a look at the forum, starting tomorrow, and download the DD!!! And on top of all that we also have an add-on to it in the shop, a BIG one, believe me, for the tiny little price of $ 1,50!!! I'll give you the preview of it:

Click it to have a better view, but it was almost impossible for Snowy to get all the stuff into the preview, such a lot of it in it, so if you want to give yourself a nice Christmaspresent I think you should considere this add-on, LOL

Soon I will have to assemble my Christmas decorations again, I still will wait about this week, and I will start after the 5th of December, when we had the Sinterklaas here. So if I am right, Sunday would be the day. Oh boy, that will be hard work again, but also nice work! I'll keep you posted of course! If you want to have already a bit of the Christmas feeling you should go to Snowy's blog, she already started decorating at home!

Enough rambling I think, it;s time for your freebie. It's not a too big kit, but I will give you the winter feeling, a real December kit, named it "Snowy Days". Have fun, don;t forget to come back tomorrow for the 1st. Christmaskit I will offer this year and have a great day!

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How many Christmaskits do you need?

Goodmorning everybody!

Perhaps a strange question as blogpost title, but I will explain. I seem to have a slight "block"conserning the designing, although... not completely. Everytime I started a kit, somehow it still ended up to look like a Christmaskit. LOL. So I wondered how namy Christmaskits one could need. Well, I suppose it's nice to have a bit of choice for your layouts, in different styles and so. But don't you think I am overdoing it with 8 Christmaskits I have so far????? I suppose so, but can;t help myself. I just like making them. Therefore I also joined the Worldwide Christmas Scrapbooking Freebie train! I felt proud that they asked me to join in again. Already you noticed the link in the sidebar I think. This is every time a great event, with a bunch of designers joining in, all offering a Christmas freebie. It will take off on the 1st of December, so keep that date in mind, I am sure you will not regret it.

I hope everybody who celebrated Thanksgiving had a wonderful day, a day to look back to in good memorie! For us here it was just a average day in the year, because we don;t have this holiday. That's the interesting of knowing people all over the world, you get to know their customes, the holidays that atre important to them, but always a few are common ones, may be celebrated in a bit different way, or even on another date, but in the base still the same.

Yesterday I suddenly lost for a while internet connection and even telephone connection. That wasn;t so funny, but I was glad it didn't last for too long. As my telephone is going also on my modem, it's not nice when it's dead! I suppose they want to press you to take also a mobile phone. Hmmmm, perhaps to be safe, I should by me one very simple one, perhaps a prepaid, just to have possibility to do something when the "normal"phone won;t work. Something to think about LOL.

Well, not much more to tell, so I'll give you your freebie. I think it's a nice one to use for some special Christmas layouts, or New Years layouts it's just in two colours, red and black, with some gold and silver, so I named it "Red and Black Chic". Curious to know your reaction on this one. Have a lovely day, and a great weekend !


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A baby is born!!

Goodmorning everybody!


Golly gosh, I have plenty to show you, now it's up to me to make a not too chaotic blogpost LOL. I think best is to start with the most happy news!

Maitri, a member of the team in the forum was expecting a baby, and it's there already!! I received the news from Snowy yesterday! Isn;t that lovely news? She has a Thanksgiving baby!
Look at her and her son, Duncan Robert and you'll have to admit he's looking so sweet.
Perhaps you could leave her a little message on her blog http://maitriscraps.blogspot.com/

I right away made a card for her and posted that on the forum(not that she will be there for the time being LOL) and I;ll post it here too, with my congratulations from the heart for the parents, of course.

Take a good rest Maitri and enjoy your little boy to the full!

Then yesterday received a sweet mail from a visitor, Judy, who asked me awhile ago if she could use some of the Russian kits I made last year. It was for something kind of special, she makes Russian Christmascards for a friend and of course I did say yes. I only asked her to send me an example of a card she made and so she did. Perhaps the pictures aren;t a 100 % but still you get a good idea of them. She did a lovely job with them.

It's so nice to see sometimes what people make of the things I made, and what a variety there is among them. It shows what you can do with a bit of creativity and fantasy!

And I received another card from my fairy friend Minky! It's a card she made for the teenage visitors of the Sanctuary.


Great card again Minky!

Apart from all this what else to tell you? Not too much anymore, only that I did some jobs around the house, yeah, good girl and that I really didn;t go out. I did manage to finish the kit I was working on and even am half way on a new one! Oh boy, I watched again my favourite serie yesterday evening, The Eagle, and it was kind of one. One of the members of the team died, snof snif! Jan and I weren;t happy with it. You know what he said to me??? "I don;t like this at all. It was such a good team member and you don;t want the good ones to die, no, only the bad guys!" I completely agreed with him LOL. But it was another thrilling episode, and even so my eyes were protesting a bit to be kept open, I managed it to the end( they broadcast it rather late in the evening) and then right away jumped into my bed and I slept all night till almost 090.00 o'clock this morning.
I today I have for you my contribution to the October colour challenge, it had all to do with recycling and being aware of the environment and this was the result: "Care for your Earth".
And now I take my second coffee and will first do a bit of bloghopping and forum visiting, before continuing on the kit I was working on. Now you all have a splendid day!

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I'm staying in the house!

Goodmorning everybody!

Did I make a dumb mistake yesterday when I told you about Darwin's book! My finger lingered too long on the "0", so I gave you the indicated price of 700.00(euro), but that had to be 70.000. Just a minor difference, LOL. Well, today I read the final selling price at the auction: 140.00 euro! Still not bad, I think!

I went out yesterday, I had too, but got lucky, it stayed dry all the time. I made it a quick trip and when I returned home, Jan wanted to go out to see if we could find a new video recorder. Yes, the old one has finally died! We still have the dvd, so no real harm done, but to have a video is still nice too. For one: you can register more at the same time and for two: you can watch the old videó's we still have. LOL.

Well, we didn;t find one yet, but I think we will have to go to the center of town, to find one. We just need a plain one, and prefarably a very simple one. And they don;t cost a lot of money anymore.

But today I like to stay home, it's blowing outside and some more rain is expected, so I better stay puy, if possible! Gives me occasion to do something in the house and perhaps it can be a productive day in designing. Oh, every day there is something done, but for the moment it is a little bit on slow speed. Although I finally finished a kit yesterday and even did one challenge for the forum. I am catching up a bit on that, but I have to check again to see what I still didn't do! However I can show you the layout I did for a new monthly challenge that started, called "My favourite things". This month we had to make the layout about our favourite tv series, or program, which was hard to do, cause I have so many series and programs I like.! But I made the choice, and this is definately for the moment my favourite serie:

Just click the picture to have a better look.

What's next? I definately have to start this week with writing the Christmaspost. I want to send them a bit early, cause some of the addresses will need a bit of time to be delivered. And it's better to have them on the way before the big amount of Christmaspost is starting it's travel! Funny to think already about Christmas, while here we still have our Sinterklaas feest to celebrate. It will be on Saturday, next week. Jan and I don;t do anything about it, although I will have certainly some sweets on the table. There are some traditional things for that special evening, like chocolate letters, fondant(yummie), almond pastry, nutmegs(plain or covered with chocolate), things like that.

The fondant

The almond pastry

The nutmegs

Looks yummie, doesn't it?

On to your freebie, a kit in one colour scheme named "On Lilac Dream Clouds". And then all to do is to wish you a terrific day

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I feel myself like me again

Goodmorning everybody!

Oh boy, did I sleep well this night! And I am feeling myself again as it should be. Still was taking it a bit easy yesterday(although I did some housework yeah!), took a nap in the afternoon and then had a great tv evening. After that I slept without waking up till this morning. Great!

Oh, yesterday my contractor came by to finish off the job, so we are free again! That's a great feeling too, you know.!


I did a bit of work on a new kit, not too much, and also made on Sunday and yesterday some quickpages. It was because of Nana, she wanted us to make a qp with nutcrackers on it. As usual, once started, I made in total 4 of them. Let me show you 2 of them:

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I just loved the nutcracker with the witch! It's such a funny one!

Let me know if there are any nutcracker collectors among you, I may even offer these and two more qp's as a freebie.

The weather is still looking grey and rather wet, although when I went out for a moment yesterday I was lucky. Just a few drops fell down. But there is more rain to come and to the end of the week it seems that temperature will go down too a bit.

Do you perhaps have any books in your WC? If so, better take a good look at them! I read, that somewhere somebody found a first print of Darwin's book "The Origin of Species"( only 1250 books were printed in that first edition!) and it will be offered on an auction with Christy's, I believe. They expect it will go for about 700.000 (don;t know anymore if that is in pounds or euro's). Not a bad find! I wish I found a book like that in my collection, LOL.

Okay, here to your freebie. I am sure some of you will be happy to see that finally I madeagain an oriental kit. I named it "Asian Dreams", cause it is a mix of Chinese and Japanese style. I think the colours turned out very well. Have some fun with it and have a great day you all!

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Not really my weekend

Goodmorning everybody!

I surely hope your weekend was a bit better then mine. Already on the Friday a bad headache started and stayed and I wasn;t feeling too well on Saturday either. Had a bit of trouble with my epilepsie, that's probably why I started with that headache. Oh well, I am used to that, but it isn;t nice. So I kept a bit "low profile" and took my rest, which is the best thing to do. I think, it;s gone now again, already yesterday I was free again from those nasty absences, so don;t worry. I think it happened because the last weeks we were pretty busy here, with all the moving around in the house and then on top the contractors and such.
Friday evening my contractor came over as we agreed, I told him what his boss told us and he was okay with it. So he promised me to come today to finish the things, but I wonder if he can do much, cause there is a lot of wind and rain.
Saturday the neighbours contractor came and did their job. Glad that all is almost over now.

So in fact there isn't much to tell about my weekend. I did some things on the computer, but took also enough breaks and slept a bit more, so it was a quiet an even a bit dull weekend. Sometimes that seems to be needed LOL.

The last few days more and more rain is falling down, accompanied by a bit of strong wind, I think we received it from England, where in parts it is terrible weather for the moment. In the north part(Cumbria I believe) and also in Wales they have masses of water and lots of rivers are flooding and people are not happy with this, it's ruining their houses and all. In Cumbria they have to controll around 1800 bridges, cause a lot of them are suffering from the water and some already collapsed! Although the temperature here is still higher than normally, it is really autumn like weather now. Grey, wet, wind, too dark, not my kind of weather at all!

Today I have a bit smaller kit for you, with not too much elements, but some nice papers in it. I named it "Tender Moments". I hope, you still can use some of it. Now I will take first another coffee and play around a bit on the computer and after that I slowly get myself ready to go out(brrrrr), I have to do a little shopping. I think that is all I will do today, then just take a easy and stay a bit at the computer and tomorrow all should be completely okay again.
Have a nice day and be creative!


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Good work done yesterday!

Goodmorning everybody!



I slept rather late this morning, so I guess I just needed it after yesterday's work! Yes, I did the backroom and it's looking much better now! It was a bit of hard work, but I am happy that i did it. Now I have room enough for the ironing board and me swinging around on the music which I listen to doing this boaring work! LOL.

Then yesterday afternoon, when I was in full speed, the doorbell rang and there was standing the head contractor to see how the work was done by his man. I let Jan take care of that, and after asking Jan if the boss was pleased with it, he said that he thought it was okay, but that he wanted the guy to come back again and finish it off completely! Oh boy, still not quite done with it?? Hmmm, we told him that we were rater satisfied with the work, but not with the way of making the appointments, that were in fact no appointments and he agreed. I told him, that this wasn't a good advertising for this guy and I am sure the boss will have a good talk with him. I am curious if he comes this evening to collect his money! I agreed with the boss, that if he does, I will give him a part and the rest will be given to him after he finished everything. So we will see when that happens!

I told you that Edna's brother had to have surgery on his nose. That's done with now and Edna has some great shots of Moo and his new nose on her blog! It really looks terrific! Congratulation Moo, you are even looking more handsome than before, LOL!

This morning I received another card from my fairie friend Minky and I will show it to you, because this is a really beautiful one! Just click on it to see it full size.

And now the kit for today. It's in bright colours, dealing with some funny animals. I named it "happy Animals" . Could be good for kid's pictures or some layouts for you pet, I think. As I am somewhat late today I have to speed up a bit to do the things I have in mind for today. Not too much, but I want to have it ready before the weekend starts. Then I'll have time enough tomorrow and Sunday to play on the computer.Lots to do on that! You'll have a marvellous weekend and see you again on Monday!

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