Autumn is really coming close

Goodmorning everybody!



Yeah, autumn is very near now. Looking at the weather it certainly is. Can you imagine we already have to focus on some holidays in the next months? I saw on some counter that Christmas is about a 110 days away? It seems still a long time to go, but be prepared: before you know it we are decorating our houses with all the Christmas stuff. Somewhat frightening, isn't it? But certainly we designers have to think ahead and plan already for the holiday kits. Brrrrr, first better to think of the autumn, then there is Halloween and for a part of the world Thanksgiving, then here in Europe is Sinterklaas and then already Christmas and New Year. I always wondered why for eample my parents and grandparents so much sighed with the remark: how times is passing quickly, I never understood that but reaching a bit their age now I am beginning to understand. When we were much younger we always looked anxiously ahead, now we rather look not too much ahead and often look back in time. How things can change in a lifetime!



Today I have the other Mucha kit I was talking about. It is about the four seasons of the year, and the little bit of text with each season is mine! Those refelctions suddenly came up making the papers. Well, the name of the kit is obvious: "Seasons Come and Go". Hope you will like this, I tried to capture a bit each season in a colour: Spring in the fresh green for all the new plants peeping ouy of the ground, Summer in bright rose, a very outstanding and vibrant colour, makes you happy, Autumn in orange, brownish, for the fall colours and Winter in a blue/lilac/grey for the frost and sometimes gloomy days.



Now have a nice day, take if possible a bit your rest, sooner than you know, Monday already will be there!


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Goodmorning everybody!



Looking at the clock I see I am somewhat later than normal. But there is a reason. I still had to make the preview of todays kit! Yes, I am terribly behind on making kits! I really have to consider whether I have to cut down a bit on the posting kits every day. May be I also should try to make some more quickpages and/ or standing alone elements. I think that takes a bit less time in making and then there could be a little more time to make kits. I am so used of offering every day a kit ( well, almost). that it could be a real kicking off procedure LOL. Still thinking about it, so for the moment there are still downloads every day. And I know I will not be able to leave the blog for ONE day. When sometimes I take one or two days "vacation" I really have to restrain myself not to post. What aweful dilemmas I have to cope with, hahahaha. If that's all my life would pass very smooth.



I think I also must take a bit time to visit my friend Heidi again. May be I'll call her today, to see if she has a moment to spare. She also is a busy lady, always doing too much, which isn't so good for her, but I can understand her.



Well, quit some bla-di-bla and not too much said, I think it's time to show you the new kit. It''s kind of funny one and I had much fun making this one. It is one for all cat lovers (sorry dog lovers, I must find something equal for you) and I think we all recognize the habits of our purring companions! I named it "Moments In A Cat's Life". Have some fun with it.

Also have a very nice day with lots of fun moments!

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Do you like art?

Goodmorning everybody!



So a new day is ahead of us. As always there are things to do, but nothing special. Yesterday was a quit day around here, I took the day to do things on the computer, but was (again) in shortage of time to do all I wanted. So frustrating that there is always a lack of time. I think it is my fault too. I want to search for a specific thing on internet and then I find other things and have to read a lot and get links from one site to another etc. And then an hour is nothing! Must be a way to control myself a bit, but how????



Anyway, I wanted to ask you is you now the artist Alphonse Mucha? From origin he was a Czech, but spent a lot of time in France. When you'll see some pictures of his work I am sure you will recognize it. And that is what the kit of today is about. I found some work from him, showing the four pillars of the art. And I made this kit with it. I really like his work and I can already say to you there will another kit with his drawings. It was hard to think of extra subject related items, but I found something. And I must also give credit to Sylvaine, from http://scrap-artiste-lolotte.blogspot.com/, I used some of her things in the kit. She is a very creative and artistique lady, who offers all of her work for free. And she makes A LOT. It's worth to visit her site.



The kit is named "Arts of Beauty" and I hope you will like this. Make the most of your day, try not to stress too much, hahaha.



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I am not blown away!

Goodmorning everybody!

The weather forecast for yesterday looked much worse than it was. I couldn't say it was beautiful, but only late in the afternoon and evening the rain really was pouring down. However, when I went out for the shopping, all mentally and physically prepared for fighting the wind plus rain, I was surprised. The wind was not real hard and okay, it was raining but also that was to overcome. So far so good. Hahaha.

Oh girls, I won a little prize in a lottery! Not money, but still, .. a prize. Normally Jan and I aren't very lucky with lotteries. Now here, this a little bit funny. Every month they have in the cafe a evening where they can some cardplays(no poker) and they sell little tickets for a price of 50 eurocent a piece. And at the end of the evening they draw some and always have quit some prizes. So Jan went there, just to watch and have some talk with friends and I always give him some money to buy a few tickets for me. And he came home with a prize. Just guess three times what it might have been!! 1..........???? NO. 2........... ??? NO......... 3.............. ??? NO! You couldn't guess. I knew it. LOL. It was a flat iron on steam! Could that be a little hint???????????????? I have one, of course, but it's already a very oldie, bit old fashioned even, you could say. I think this one must have quit an age, at about 20-25 years! It's a very handy little things, very light and still doing it's job. But perhaps it is time to change now. Well, some day, who knows, it may even be this week, I will try the new one out. You know it is one of my favourite occupations, tada.. tada... tada( and DON'T YOU DARE TO LAUGH!!!!)

Did you see the big button on the right of the blog, the one with the cat??? Isn't it awesone. There are more of them, as I mention below the picture. So I could change them now and then, because I downloaded them! You should go to Susan, of http://scrappinobsession.blogspot.com/. Just take a look at those button and agree with me that they are beautiful. Certainly for cat lovers. Perhaps we should suggest to her to make also some for dog lovers?

We'll hop over to some serious business. Today's freebie. I hope you'll have some space for another safari like kit. I gave it the name of "Dream of Safari". It's not too bad, I believe, so play with it and if not, tomorrow there will another kit, ALL different from this one. And now I finish, because I want to post still on the forums and then I want to get on with a kit I started yesterday. Still lots of things to make for it, only just made the papers. So have all a nice day, I hope no one is bothered by Gustav. I heard on the news it seemed not as bad as predicted, but still people are hurt and have to cope with damage, still not good. Let's all think a moment of those people, who will have to deal with that. As well as in other parts of the world, where nature also is playing around horribly! Thinking about it costs us only a moment, that's still to spare, I think.

"Doswidanje"or "arrivederci" or "au revoir", till tomorrow.

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Summer over already?

Goodmorning everybody!

Did you had a good search yesterday with the freebielist? Boy, was it a long one! And then you had to cope with me again, because I couldn't wait with the award! YOU POOR THINGS!!!

I think I will be rather short for now. Must try to get out of the house before noon, because rather nasty weather is coming up. Last weekend it was such nice and summeray weather and in a day all is changing. They expect not so few rain showers in combination with a lot of wind, may be on the coast here till force 6 or 7. So Kyra must make sure not to be outside when the wind is coming to that force, because of danger of flying over the streets without wings. LOL.

I have today a kit in soft pastel colours. I tried to make a kind of heritage kit. I know, it isn't but may be I came a bit near it. But it is a kit to use for all kind of family pictures, real nice moments you captured with the camera and you want to preserve. It's not a "heavy"kit but it's a little bit different from the others, I think. Well, try to make something beautiful with it.

Hey, suddenly Blogger is playing little tricks, with jumping on and off with the message there is no connection with Blogger and then there is again. Quick safe this post, before I have to start all over again. Have a very nice day!


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Here I am again!

You must be thinking I am nutz to post 3 times in 1 day. But I am soo Excited, that I wanted it to share with you already.





Nore from http://noresnice-ities.blogspot.com/ gave me another award. I like this one a lot. Here it is:

Isn't it a nice one? And here are the, thank God, simple rules:

Receiving the award you post it on your blog(of course) and nominate 4 other blogs. And I think it is only fair to mention the name of the blog you received it from. That's all.

I nominate:

Linda from http://bonscrapatitdesigns.blogspot.com/

Edna from http://missednasplace.blogspot.com/

Valinda from http://vjscraproom.blogspot.com/

Gavotte from http://tygavotte.canalblog.com/

Now I still have a bit less than an hour to play a bit around before I must make dinner.

Nice evening all !!

I stumbled upon a marvellous program

Goodmorning everybody.



First thanks to all who gave a reaction to the question for Becky Jo. She appreciated them very much. And this morning I received an email from her that she probably solved the whole program. Good for her!~



Yeah, I found a very convenient program for me. Probably a lot of you already now it, but for me it was a revellation. It ABR.Viewer.Net.(all free) It turns photoshop brushes from the abr extension into png. Isn't that great. So I went on the internet like crazy, searching free photoshop brushes(there a soooo many) and tried it out. It works, certainly for my Photofiltre version. Perhaps it takes a few clicks more than in photoshop, but it is great I can use lots more of brushes now. Now I must get the practise of it in using them, but I will.

So again I have something new on my computer.

I can't say much happened this week-end. I did enjoy the good weather and yesterday morning, when it still wasn't so hot in the garden I did spent about half an hour reading with a cup of coffee at hand and it was a fine moment. All still so quiet around.

Well let us see what the new kit is like. It is romantic, yeah! A bit Victorian like, but I am sure you have pics to with it. I named it "Remember Tender Moments". We all have such moments in our memorybank, do we??? So now is the time to relive them a bit, hahaha. Oh the two frames and also the ribbons in it are from Gunhilde, from http://www.storeide.se/gunhild/index.htm. Just recoloured them.

Have fun with the kit and have a nice day too!

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