A relaxed day, I think

Goodmorning everybody!



Thanks for your thoughts about Jan. Well, it all went well, and I must say he was quick back home, considering all. I must always laugh a bit, when he comes home from such an experience. He walks then very cautious and looks still a bit dizzy, if you didn't know better you could say he looked stoned!!! But of course that is the effect of the anaesthetic he had. This time they even offered him a sandwich and cup of coffee before he went home. Nice hmmm? Glad that is again behind us, now wait for the results.



I must say we did sleep rather sound this night. For me that is not so astonishing, but Jan doesn't sleep well the last months. Often awake, or just not falling to sleep. But last night he slept for sure 4 or 5 hours in a row. Wow, what an experience for him.



So sweet of Heidi yesterday. In the afternoon she phoned us immediately to inform how it went with Jan. How busy she may be, she never forgets those things. Just may be I will get a phoncall from her today, that we are going to the garden center for one of the last times this year. She wasn't yet sure, but it should be nice to spent some time together there. We always have a lot of fun then.



How are you Texans doing for the moment? I heard Ike is alreday messing up a bit and didn't yet arrived completely. Hope you all will be okay. Take care please.



And now I am going to enjoy the weekend, hope to do much designing, which is necessary again and for today I have a tiny, weeny kit for you, really a mini kit. But I hope you don't mind that sometimes I throw in such a mini. Oh, the envelope frame is form Gunhilde, from http://www.storeide.se/gunhild/index.htm



I wish you all a fantastic weekend, with lots to enjoy.

HUGS!!




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Hospital day

Goodmorning everybody.



First have to make excuses for not posting a freebielist yesterday! I think I started it 4 times over(i make it first on the "scribbling-block"on te computer) but I don't know what is wrong with the computer. Every time suddenly IE got stuck and I had to start over the computer again and the list. Also Firefox didn't cooperate. So I finally gave it up. Then I let run an anti spyware, perhaps it helped, it found some , but not really nasty ones. I hope it will be over now and surely not hope to make a sustem recovery. It isn't so bad yet, but I rather skip it. Well, we'll see what today will bring.



Now Jan is preparing to go to the hospital for another test, poor thing. It's about the same from a few weeks ago, with a minor anaesthetic. So we were up quit early this morning. He is not looking too happy, he hates hospitals, but he has to go through with it now, I do want him to get a lot better than at the moment!



Oh, what a great weather it was yesterday! I could go out without any coat, sun was bright and warm, I was in such a good mood (it was before the computer thing, LOL) I already did about ALL the grocerie shopping for the week-end and even have reserves for longer. Then I noticed that suddenly I was running out of socks! Funny, hmmmm. So I went on the search for a few pair and found some. Especially for the winter time I like long ones, much warmer, and I also found those. They are nice ones, horizontally striped in black and grey and light blue grey with on the top a little button on a little bow. Fancy, hey??



And what is there in store for you today? It's a blue kit, fantasy., "Spell of the Wizard". I like the blues in it, it makes it a bit mysterious, don't you think? So have some "mysterious"fun with it, let your spell work well with making nice scraps with it! I hope that today the freebielist will work.



Have a nice day all.


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Will it be the last beautiful day?

Goodmorning everybody!



Yes, I did visit Heidi yesterday, finally! It even became nice weather so we could sit in the garden. We had some talk to do, after not seeing eachother for a few weeks already. Séverine also was home, because on wednesdays the little children have only a half day of school. And big news, she can read(well, is starting). Actually she recognizes 4 WHOLE WORDS. Wow, now only the rest, LOL. And she also has started to write. They are now practising every few days a new letter, well, you know how it goes. So now they will grow up faster than you think. She proudly showed me yesterday a tooth that was wobbling and wriggling in her mouth! She is quit a character, that little sweet devil.



It seems, today we will have a very nice and warm day, but it only will be for one day. So strange the weather lately. It changes every day, in big curves. Hopeless. But let's enjoy today, it may be the last real nice day of September. But you never can tell around here. It could be that we will have some very nice weather still in October. Brrrr, I just don't want to think about the winter yet! Don't like too much the cold.



Okay, let's go to the kit. One colourscheme, today, in the brown. And no, it isn't an autumn kit. It is another horse kit, I just like horses and found some beautiful pictures to make the papers. So hopefully you will like this one, although I already made some horse kits before.

I named it : "Fly with the Wind". Oh I think I made a little type mistake in the name, so probably you will get a more or less strange name on the ZIP file, something like Fly ith the Wind. Sorry, but when I noticed I already had uploaded it and I must admit I was too lazy to change it and upload it again. I am terrible!



Hope you all will have a nice day too.



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I'll have to show you something.

Goodmorning everybody!

The visit of our friend yesterday was nice. He did enjoyed his sweet traet and was very enthousiastic about my computer.


And now showtime and so on. First I received again the brilliant blog award.

Am I spoiled lately with awards or not? This time I received it from Caroline, from http://cazdesigns.blogspot.com/. Thanks for that Caroline. I don't think I will nominate 7 blogs but a few I will. First the rules again:

1. The winner can put the logo on her blog.2. Link the person you received your award from.3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.4. Put links of those blogs on yours.5. Leave a message on the blogs of the girls you've nominated

Here are the blogs I give it to:

Lisa, http://ronimasil.blogspot.com/

Amie, http://amiebear.blogspot.com/

Laurie, http://lauriemademescraps.blogspot.com/

And now I will show you something soooooo CUTE. It is work from Becky Jo and I just love it. She makes cards, but also a lot of other stuff. Take a look at these treat boxes:

Aren't they just gorgious???? It's a lady with fantasy and talent!

And now the new kit for you. I think it is a kit you can use for a lot of things, but as I have to give it a name it became"Confidence". That can mean confidence in yourself, in some other people or in a mysterious presence. Just look at one of the papers where it says: "Be true to yourself". I like that phrase. So I hope you also will like this kit, it's in very fresh colours, that make you feel happy. Oh, the two frames are from Delicious Scraps, I just adjusted them a bit. Have a very nice day indeed.

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I must be a bit quick

Goodmorning everubody!



Well, the internet was still going on and off yesterday. How very unpleasant it was. I was just lucky to have the time to post, because when I started to collect the freebiesites, it stopped again. So there was no freebielist yesterday. Now today I must shake myself and have to be shorter with the post, because I want to do a few things in the house before our friend is coming. And I must go to the bakery for something sweet with the coffee.



Well, today there is my first Halloween kit this year. I think it will be followed by one ore two more next month. You know, I already find such nice things for Christmas kits, I already am assembling them in a specail map, to have them ready for use. I like making Christmas kits, and don't ask me why. Yesterday I bought a few very nice tulip bulbs for a low price. They must be planted this month or even next. And yes, I must spend again some time in the garden, to clean it up again. How fast everything is growing! Aweful, sometimes. Okay, finished with the little talk. Here is the kit "Ghostly Night"and I hope you will enjoy it. Have lots of fun, be happy with another day and spend it as cosy as you can.

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Finally I am in the air

Goodafternoon everybody!

Yes, you read it well. It's already late in the afternoon. Internet was playing tricks with me, so I couldn't update my blog till now. It will be a very short post. Oh, in a way, it was a good thing I couldn't be on the net. I shut down the computer(after just a little bit starting a kit) and I did some things in the house. I ironed a great part of the laundry, I found a place for the big box of my computer(better to keep it for a while), so the bedroom is much spacier. Did some necessary shopping it was a fruitful day. But I am glad internet is working again!!!

Tomorrow a friend is coming to visit to take a look at the new computer . He's always very interested in those things. Have to buy tomorrow morning something tasty to go with the coffee. He is a terrible lover of pastry and cookies, so the few times he comes over I always have something for him. He enjoys it so much. Sometimes you don't have to do much to make someone happy!

Now the kit. It was sooo much fun to make this. I truly hope you will like it. It is not such a big sized one, but nice. It has all to do with dance, about a special dance: the tango! The kit is named "Passionate Tango" and I hope you will have some pictures with fire and emotion to go with it.

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I watched amazing tv

Goodmorning everybody!



If you are a bit sport minded you must know now the Paralympics have started. So yesterday was the opening ceremony. I don't understand why the Dutch television didn;t broadcasted it life, in the knowledge we have about 80 sporters competing.! I think it is very respectless and I low them for it. Yes, ecah day they have a little summary of the events of the day. But Jan and I watched the BBC,

And how amazing the show was!! Not only amazing, but very beautiful and touching and full of respect for the sporters. It was such a feast to watch it. One of the spectacles was a ballet of about 200 ballet dancers. Not too amazing, you should think. But it was a group of girls which were all deaf. How to dance on the music then and specially all at the same time? There were a few ladies who, with gestures gave the tempo and the movements to be done. I never saw a thing like that before. It was more than beautiful. If you have a chance to see it perhaps in a summary on tv, I recommand you to look at it and I am sure you will agree with me. It was stunning how the show was put together. What a fantasy was used by the creator of it. You can notice it had a great impact on me, whle I am still talking about it and I am still very enthousiastic. Today the sport is starting and I want to watch some of the games, for sure. I must be honest with you. It will be perhaps sometimes, a bit hard to watch, because you will have to look beyond their physical appearance sometimes. Not because I cannot watch a disabled person, but more because it hurts a bit. But you must forget about that and certainly not think they are pitiful. I think that in a way we must admire those sporters evenmore than the regular sporters. In a lot of cases they had to fight, train harder and had to have more perseverance than the not disabled ones. I think the attituede towards the paralympics is changing more and more, The world is looking at those people less and less with pitty in their heart and more and more with admiration and acceptance. That is a good thing.



What a speech came out of my fingers. I wasn't planning this at all, but just typing the words just came. And why not, they are great people.



And now today I have a kind of Back to school kit for you. School has started again, surely regretted by a lot of children (hahaha). Because vacation is a great thing, but unfortunately there is school to attend to. Well, on the other hand we'll have to be glad that there is school. Still a lot of children don't have that possibility. I know, when you are a child, you don;t think too much about that, and that's a good thing too in a way. Soon enough the children are grown up and will hav to face the real, big and often mean world. So let hem enjoy as much as possible their schooldays, and let them be child!



Oh boy, what is the matter with me today? I am rather in a phylosophical mood. How strange! Well, let me wish you an enjoyable Sunday, have fun, try to relax this one day left of the weekend and I'll "see" you tomorrow.



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