Why always stupid annoyances?

Goodmorning everybody!

Opening my email I didn't had any message and trying to send out one this morning I couldn't. I will have to be patient, because it may just be a temporary thing, (hope so), otherwise I will have to
dive into it and I don;t like that. Hopefully it is nothing and it will solve itself.

I have the program Incredimail and normally it works okay, but sometimes it has to do with the server. I hate it when things like this happen, specially when I am just awake and all set to post on my blog and want to read the mail first. YAK!!!

Yesterday my friend Heidi gave me a call(yes, I wanted to phone her Sunday, but still didn't , shame on me!) because we didn;t speak for some time. Really very much news we didn't have to tell eachother, but still we managed to stay on the phone I think for half an hour!!! Isn't that terrible! It's a good thing it doesn't happens every day!

Oh yes, I also was a brave girl, because I did a lot of ironing yesterday and all is in the closet too. There still is waiting some of the last washing on the drying-frame, but I'll do that somewhere this week, really.
Already glad that te big part of it is done, whooohoooooo!

Now for today's download. I didn't manage to finish the kit I was busy on, but instead I have a little set of 3 quickpages for you. I hope you don't mind too much. I couldn't think of a title for it so just named it "A QP set". Very inventive, hahaha.
Have to go out today for a it of grocerie shopping and certainly must not forget to buy me a new potatoe pealer, not just a knife, but one which peels thinly. My last one broke off last Sunday, wheep, wheep! I don;t like to peel my potatoes with a normal potatoe knife, I cannot peel them thin enough with it. How interesting this must be for you to read, LOL.

Okay, I post the preview now from the QP set and will try again the mailbox. Cross your fingers that it will work properly again!

Have a very nice day.
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New week, new plans

Goodmorning everybody!

So how was your week-end? Hope you had a good time, and charged your batteriies again for this week.

Yesterday evening I did reach the actual width of the blanket I am making. I even made enough squares already to have to rows ready. Jan looked at it with a "hible"smile on his face and remarked that it will take some more time to finish it, hahahaha. How sweet he can be sometimes, LOL!!
But it will be ready sooner as he thinks!

I also tried to prepare him on a job, he doesn;t very much likes doing! I told him, finally we will have to go out an afternoon, THIS WEEK, to look for a new couch. If possible, I want to have it standing in the house before Christmas.! Oh, he looked so very HAPPY, as I told him my idea. He knows I am busy with it already a long time, but some day he has to give in, as he knows very well. He hates going shopping with me, I think almost every guy does so. And I know why! I know myself, yes I do. I have a certain sort of couch in mind and then I want to find that kind of thing, but not at any price, oh no! So it will be necessary to DO several shops and probably as it happens lots of times, I will return to the first one and buy it there. AHA! Therefor Jan hates going out shopping with me. Guys just go for the thing they want, perhaps looking in 2 shops and that's it. But I want to see it ALL before making my choice and often I also see some other interesting things on the way. Do you know that???????????????

Well, hopefully I can tell you somewhere this week that we actually went looking for a couch and perhaps even bought one. But you also know, when I am planning something...................tadaa!

And now here is the new kit for today. It's named: The 4 Basic Elements.
I made a kit about the elements earth, water air and fire. I tried to incorporate matching colours for each element, so I did yellowish/red for the fire element, kind of aqua/turquoise for the water element, browns for the earth and blue for the sky.
I have to give credit to Delicious Scrapsfor the charms and to Gunhilde for the frames. I just adjusted the colours of them to match the papers. It's a wonderful thing to have designers around who make CU freebie and so beautiful! I try not to be too greedy when I visit their blogs, but sometimes it is difficult! So it's only fair to give them credit for the things I use.

I hope, you will like the kit and I started also a new one, hoping to get it ready for tomorrow.
For now I wish you all a beautiful Monday, and take care of yourself.

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Yes, there is a kit today!

Goodmorning you all!


Does it happens to you too when you have a bit ackward time inlife? Very often you come to hear about other people's problems they encounter and then, in a quiet moment it passes again your mind and I start to think: "well, it's not my favourite period in life, and we will have to cope with it, but when I compare it to some other problems I have been told, I am still rather well off!" It just happened I had some mail and a phonecall in the last couple of days with such kind of thing and I still consider us not too much in problem. Of course we still have the health concern about Jan and we have to try to get it better, but for the moment you can oversee it and I am sure there will come an improvement. Sometimes Jan and I smile to eachother when somebody comes to us with their problem, and I say to him, "When do we start a social help center here in the house?" I don;t know why people always tell me but to Jan too so often their worries. Perhaps because we try to listen, and let them speak out and also sometimes try to give an advice or at least an opinion, but never force them up to them. Always is best to try to put yourself in their place, however not always possible, of course. But sometimes we experienced a same kind of thing and if we hopefully learned from it, perhaps our view could help a bit. The most helpful always is that somebody REALLY listens to you, whicj sn;t easy all the time! And of course we cannot have the problems of the whole world on our shoulders, but it's nice to be able to make sometimes a little difference on a small scale,isn't it?


And I am fortunate to have a very good friend in Heidi and then I have all of you, who endure my rambling about everything and nothing! So thank you for bearing with me all that time!LOL


Remember I put up some layouts for recipee cards? It's made by my friend Dee ant this is what she wrote to me:


It did not dawn on me until now that perhaps some of your other fans might
want the address of the recipe group. It is called "Scrappin' Yesterday,
Today and Tomorrow" or SYTNT for short. The URL to get there is:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrappinytnt/

If any one wants to join, they can use that link. If they mention your blog,
I will see that they get into the group so they can also make recipe cards,
family and heritage pages, and scrap booking crafts. Plus they can attend
the live classes we hold every Monday night. We have also started holding
live card classes every Friday night, and soon we will be teaching lessons
on various scrapbook tools.


She did start this group not all too long ago and may be some of you like to join her. Please do so, I am not yet in it, although she asked me several times. But when I join I have to give it proper time and attention and for the moment I don;t think I can. So I will wait still a bit with it.


The same thing with Edna, http://missednasplace.blogspot.com/ who has a new forum too:


http://www.magickalscraps.com/






You will find all sorts of wonderful kits and other goodies in the Shop. There's something for everyone's taste and style, so come join in the fun.

Do yourself a favour to visit it, I think you will find very special things there!


And now here is the kit I finally finished yesterday. It's just a small one but I like the colour of it. I think you even can use it for some pics of Halloween e.g. I named it "Timeless Dragon". I hope you like it a bit, and can do something with it.


Oh yes, I almost did all I wanted yesterday, only not yet the ironing, I know it is a bit weak of me. But I think it will be done, at least for a part this afternoon. Then I also want to make at least a phonecall to Heidi, hearing if all is okay with her. And I want to finish off another kit I already started yesterday, I is larger in size than today's and at the same time have to invent a theme for a new one. That's an neverending story in my life now, hahahaha!!!!


So have all a nice sunday and "see "you again!


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So sorry to disappoint you!

Goodmorning everybody!

I was so busy with a lot of mail and also doing all kind of things at home, it all took more of my time than I thought. So I did start on another little kit, but I couldn't finish it yesterday. So theterrible thing has happened: I have NO freebie for you today. It's aweful, I know and I do feel a little bit guilty, but I promise you that tomorrow there will be one up.

I started yesterday making a soup by myself. We both like to eat it from time to time, but for now I cannot use tins with soup, which you just have to warm up, not even the stock in little bottles, because there is too much salt in it. Well, no problem, I do it myself. The stock is ready now, all I'll have to do today, is putting in some vegetables, little meatballs etc. I still used some salt in it, te low-salt one, otherwise there is no taste to it at all. So I am looking forward to have a nice cup of soup this evening! I think I even can put some in the freezer, because I always make too much for one time.

I have still something to show you, it's a layout Edna http://missednasplace.blogspot.com/ she made with the Days for the Pets kit. It's with a picture of her sweetheart Tootsie. She is really posing like a STAR!

Is''t she SWEET????


Well, that's about all. I still have to do some things in the house today, like the favourite thing ironing(YAK), and at the same time turn the machine on for another laundry. It is just starting with it, that is always the most difficult. When busy it goes quick, so I must kick myself on my bottom to do so,.HAHAHAHA!

And then I will do the search for the freebies and also finish the kit. And I have already an idea for the next one, so hopefully I can make a start for it too. As you see, I have a full day ahead again.

I hope you still can have a good day, even without the freebie from me(LOL). Try to make it into a nice day, for pet owners, remember today is THEIR DAY, perhaps they are in for a little extra treat. I think my cats will have something real nice for their "dinner", they will not understand why, they will probably just swallow it down. But it feels good to yourself, isn;t it?? Not, that they are not traeted well the rest of the year, oh no. I think you can call them a little spoiled!

But why not, you took a pet because you liked it, they give you their kind of affection, so it's just normal you take good care of them!

Extra post, another award

Hi there,

Just HAVE to make this extra post today, I received another beautiful award! I am in the prizes lately, and still not understanding completely why, but I LOVE IT!!!!YIPPEEEEEEE!



Well, here it is

I recieved it from http://vmooredesigns.blogspot.com/. Thanks a lot girl, for this shining award! Read what she wrote about me:

Kyra of With A Russian/Dutch Heart... Hugs girly thanks for helping me get lots and lots of downloads on my freebie Quick Pages and for posting my Blog Link on your page.... Sending you tons and tons of hugs.....

Here the rules:

If you receive this award, you must pass it on to 3 other blogs.

If you have already received this award, you don't need to pass it on.

You must post on the chosen winners blogs to let them know about the award.

Now here are my 3 choices:

http://scrappingtildawn.blogspot.com/

I admire her because she also comes up alomost EVERY day with a freebie, for now she has a whole serie of flowers, sooo beautiful, and she is so inventive in coming up with all kind of themes for her freebies. And by the way, she is a very nice person too!

http://missednasplace.blogspot.com/

She is such a very nice lady, I love to read her every day stories and she makes also beautiful freebies for all of us. And I always must smile when she tells about her Tootsie, she is sooo concerned about this little dog and she doesn;t need to have a World pet day, to be nice to pets and other animals. It is just in her heart!

http://morrighanwynter.blogspot.com/

I chose her blog, because I think she designs a bit in a different style, but very beautiful. It worth a little trip, ladies, to meet a very creative designer and also so nice to offer us freebies.

Think about your pets

Goodmorning everybody!



Starting right off with the new kit, I did finished it yesterday. PFFFFWWWWW! It's a real theme one, because of tomorrow, the 4th of October.

Then it's World Animal day, given this date, because of Saint Franciscus of Assisi, who was known to be an animal friend, and they took the day of his death for this special day. You are supposed to think a bit more this day about all animals on earth, and perhaps give your pet a little extra treat. But basic, it is to make people more consious of sometimes the awefull circumstances animals are put in and to try to prevent that. I think, this is a good thing, but it isn't a ONE DAY thing. There are still a lot of animals in need or threatened with extinction( although it is sometimes also a natural process, which cannot be stopped). But when this happens by human behaviour it is a bad thing. So to keep this a bit short, hahaha, I made a kit for this day : "Day for the Pets".

Well, there are a lot different kind of pets, but I chose some of the smaller ones and a bit general ones. I have goldfish, ferrets, mice, rabbits, dogs, cats, guinee pigs and birds.

So I say sorry to the owners of other animals, but it's almost impossible to make a kit with ALL of them(like snake or turtle and so on and so on!).



As I was checking on Linda's blog(bonscrapatit designs) she told about a blog from a....GUY.... YEAH, it is still a rare thing in scrapperland. So I went over to SCRUBBIE and liked it. He tells humorous stories makes very lovely layouts and has a few freebies too. I suggest you take a look there, nice to read life from a man's view sometimes! Do you believe, he has made RECIPE CARDS???? How nice!



Okay, I will put up now the kit, must see, if I can come up tomorrow with a new one. I still think, one of these days I'll have to skip a day or two with the freebies, not the posting and rambling. I know, I ssay this more often, and it almost never happens. Just let's see what time brings to us, tadaaaaaaa!!



For now, that's it, I hope you all have a fantastic day, and don't forget to check the Fall Splendor links, and the other, daily downloads from several blogtrains. I just keep repeating it for you, so you won't forget and it saves me a bit of time in the freebielist, because I will skip those blogs mostly.


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Another award, how cool!

Goodmorning everyone!

Hope, you all spent some time yesterday on the freebielist. At least with going to a few blogs of the Fall Spledour blogparty. But I think, you can take some time for it this week-end too. Because of the enormous offer of downloads.

Guess what? I received another I love your blog award! Isn'that cool?? And I am very honoured that it came from a very nice person, Valinda http://vjscraproom.blogspot.com/.
Just have to show you the picture of it again!

Here are the rules for the blogs I nominate:

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...

Now the blogs:

http://vmooredesigns.blogspot.com/

She is on Blogger since August this year and I like very much her QP's.

Rochelle from http://maninthemoondesigns.blogspot.com/

She just started this blog, but I think she makes lovely things.

Mary from http://mh51.blogspot.com/

Already long time on my freebielists, but admit, she makes great stuff.

I will leave it to these 3 blogs. I already made a lot of nominations in the past.

Now I want to spend time designing the new kit for tomorrow. I will hope, I get it ready. Still a lot to do. So perhaps tomorrow no freebie, I don't know yet. But at least you know I am working for you!!LOL.

Today I have an Autumn kit for you. I guess I was inspired by the Fall Splendour somehow. It just turned out to be this kit. Hope you still have some place for it after the freebielist of yesterday, hahahaha.

Have all a very nice day and I'll catch up with you tomorrow.

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