How was your Mother's day?

Goodmorning everybody!

I hope for a lot of mothers it was a marvellous day yesterday! But in fact it's a bit cracky, to have ONE day mothers should be treated all nice. It should be done throughout the whole year. In fact, I am stupified when I see there is almost EVERY day of the year a day of something! It is a bit overdone and too much. Well, we can pick out some days and leave the rest for what they are.
My weekend was a nice one, I can say. First Friday late we had the chat at Magickal forum, and hilarious as ever. We are quit a special bunch over there, you could say! All of different age, although the "hard core" mostly a bit older, but soooo young of spirit, amazing! We all have a different belief or religion and view of life. And still so much in common but what I like most of it, we aren't afraid to express our opinion and accept we are off different views and leave everybody in her value and respect that. It's a bit of an example of how the world could be. Only a pity, it seems only be possible in smaller groups, strange creatures, human beings!!

The rest of the weekend I tried to do some challenges, not accomplished a lot, but graduately I am and hope to have almost done all by the end of the month( we ALWAYS must have something to wish for, hahaha). I made another kit, but not as much as I wanted.. Hmmm, perhaps there will be even a day without a freebie this week! It's real hard to keep that up, or I should try to make some of the freebies a bit smaller or so. Why? I tend to make the kits a bit bigger now, so that takes more time and I am getting all the time a bit more critical about it! One way it is a good thing, I think, to keep critical about you work, but sometimes it is also getting out the speed of the designing. No solution for that yet LOL.

Oh, Saturday was an ever so nice day! I was just busy in the kitchen to make a pan of soup as the doorbell rang. So Jan went to the door and there was a guy with a little package. Not so strange, we often take them for our neighbours, so nothing strange. But then it seemed to be for ME! I received it from a friend far away and it was so nice to unpack it and see what was sent. There were some cd's in it, earrings, self made in a cute little pouch and a lovele bar of soap. I was so surprised by it and soooo touched, it made my day. Such surprises really sometimes spice your life, don;t you think?

So now a new week started, with still some holidays in store, we will have Whitsuntide( here it's called Pinksteren, or Pentecote) it's bringing another long weekend as the Mondya of that weekend is holiday too. And then it's done for a long time with big holidays until again Christmas. But let's not think about that, it;s too far away, first we hope to enjoy a beautiful summertime!
After my bit lazy weekend today there has to be done some stuff around here, oh, I do have a wish. If I could win a BIG prize in lottery, oh, I truly should take someone to do a lot of the housework, that would be great. Oh well, a person should always have something to wish for, it keeps your brain a bit alive I suppose LOL. Let's hop on now to the freebie. I know you all are waiting for that. It's a sweet kit I think, returning again a bit to the vintage style. I named it "Echo's from the Past".
Just like to say one thing more, I know there are true and loyal visitors who leave a comment every time they download or at least regurlarly. But to those who don;t I should like to say, please, acknowledge the fact that designers spend a lot of their time in making the freebies and you can grab them just like that. Shouldn't it be nice if at least you leave a little comment for them? I see the numder of downloads and it's great that people like your work, but the comments are in NO comparison to the number of downloads. I wonder why it is so hard to spend one or two minutes just to leave"thank you"or whatever on a blog? Please think about that. When you get a present from someone I suppose you say"thank you"too, isn;t it? Why should this be different?

Hmmm, I steamed off again a bit. Sometimes this gets to me and have to write it down. Not just for me, but this happens to a lot of designers who offer work for free!
And now enough of that, here is your freebie and enjoy it!

Download HERE

Still no photo of me!

Goodmorning everybody!

Well, we did have the visit to our friend last night and it was nice. He has a very nice appartment, certainly for one person. He divorced some time ago so had to find something new to live. So now he has and is settling down. We didn;t come home very late, cause our friend had to rise very early this morning for his work.

Hmmmm, tonoght we have the chat on the forum and I still don;t have uploaded a photo of me on there. I think I will have to digg in a bit older ones and scann one quickly. Might be even nice to see myself as a youg flower again LOL.

I have no particular plans for today, we'll just see how it comes. I certainly have to get working on kits this weekend, today I offer you the last one I have in stock! Hmmm, may be someone has a little idea perhaps for a subject???? I am busy on a bigger kit for the moment and hope to get it finished this weekend, but I truly hope I will be able to make a bit more.
Oh yes, this weekend there is Mother's day, at least here in Holland for sure and I suppose in other countries too. I forgo a bit about it, I don;t have to look around to find a present for my mom anymore, but I must remember to have my candle burning on sunday for a while!

Well, that is about all I could tell you for now, so here is the kit for today, partly in very soft pastel, except for a few backing papers in a stronger colour, to have a bit of difference. I caleed it "Little Flower Garden" bacuse the papers are for a part on a flower base.
Enjoy your weekend, think a bit about your mom, I know know we take it all too much for granted that she is around, and you will miss her when she will no longer be there. Well, I can only speak for myself, but I hope most of you have or had a good mom. It is effecting our lives sooo much, haveing a good mom or not such a good one.
Anyway, as I said, enjoy your weekend and I'll see you back on Monday again.


Download HERE

Later, but I am here.

Good afternoon everybody!

So we returned of Jan's appointment at hospital, and in fact it was good news. His liver is recovering(well, as much as it can) but still good, blood values were good, no more aenimea, blood pressure good, weight to satisfaction. So she wants him back somewhere in august and then his doctor is soon after that going on a leave for a while, because she is pregnant. But she will return again to work, so good for Jan. He got his necessary medication and we went home rather happy I could say.

Then right after I persuaded myself to do a bit of shopping, all kind of things I couldn;t carry along anymore on my trip earlier this week. Coming home I grabbed the vacuum cleaner and did the house then had a sandwich and pfffff, now I can sit!!!
This evening we are FINALLY paying a little visit to a friend, to see his new appartment and have a cup of coffe. We planned that already weeks and weeks ago, but never came to it. It's nice we don;t have to go far, just across the street! The nearer somebody lives the lesser you go over for a little visit, I think!

I made yesterday a few challenges, one of them was to take a funny quote and make a layout with it. This is mine:


Cllicking it brings a bit bigger picture.
Now the freebie for today. It;s a bit music related, I just felt in the mood, I think. It's called "Faded Melodies".
Have fun with it and do enjoy your day!


Download HERE

A hair-cut today!!!

Goodmorning everybody!!

I finally did it! I made an appointment at my hairdresser to have a haircut TODAY! Whoooooooo! May be I will look a bit more like a normal person again LOL! So I must be a bit quick, lost already some time by reading some blogs I follow and first thing will be a promotion for my friend Edna, who has a new kit in the store but also a lovely freebie from it on her blog. So check that out, ladies on http://missednasplace.blogspot.com/. She alsways makes me laugh with her blog posts, she can be so FUNNY!!

I was a GOOD girl yesterday too, because after the groceries shopping, I first made packages for the freezer with food for one of my cats Micky( she ONLY eats fresh beef or chicken hearts, of sometimes even chicken filet, no stuff from cans, quit a character) and made some other packages for us to put into the freezer, then dusted off the room, and some cleaning. Then Jan also got the spirit and sorted out a bit the mess that was standing a long time in a corner of the garden. We even met again a little frog, that seems to come back every year! So tonight we will have a lot of stuff to put on the street for the pick up car for the carbage!!

Then even worked on a challenge and finished a kit, so it was a good day. Now have to get myself moving to put some clothes on and go to the hairdresser. Oh, I might be late tomorrow with posting, cause at about 10.00 o'clock Jan has an appointment with his doctor at hospital, for control and may be even some results of his tests. So don;t worry, if there isn't anything on the blog, nothing wrong, but it will be for a later time that day!

Here is your freebie kit, named "Soft Whisper", I think a sweet little kit. Have a nice day, may be I can persuad Jan to make a picture or two of me, with the "NEW HEAD". We'll see.

Download HERE

I am somehow feeling overwhelmed.

Goodmorning everybody!
Yes, I am feeling overshelmed a bit really and perhaps even a bit stressed. How come?? There is soooo much to do for the challenges(I like them all so want to try to make them all) and then keeping up with your freebies too, and a bit out of ideas again for the moment. So can you imagine my feelings???? Simple answer: don;t do ALL the challenges. But boy, there are a few nice one. Got to say I spent almost all weekend on one: the colour challenge. I did it, one day may be I will offer it on my blog, it;s a real HUGE one. I'll show you a preview later, if I think about it LOL!

Coming Friday we will have a new chat on the forum and that's a tricky one! We'll have to send in a picture of ourselves and somebody else will have to scrap that! I only have one problem: don;t have much pictures of myself, certainly not of the past two or three years. So I will have to dive into the "old"pictures and perhaps I can find something there. Hmmm, otherwise I will have to ask Jan to take some pictures of me. It's an idea, may be I will persue him to do it. But first I should like to the hairdresser to have a cut. It's been way over too long ago I was there. My hair is looking AWEFUL, no model in it, much too long already, I should give him a call.

So with some plans in my head I better start to move a bit early today! Here is the freebie, namend it "Forget Me Not". And I am at the end of my little talk today. So have a nice day and till later!


Download HERE

Did you manage the freebielists??

Goodmorning everybody!

Well, I provided you well with freebielists the last couple of days! I hope you found some nice things to work with.
It was a fine weekend with fairly good weather. Saturday I was all "FREE", meaning no shopping to do, hahaha.! So I had time for my hobby, the computer, LOL. During the afternoon Jan came up with a pile of records again for our "Music-session". But.......then the phone rang and it was Heidi, asking if it was allright to come by. Of course, so we had a nice chat in the sun, talked about a lot, but too a large part about the garden. As Jan knows how we are like two hens in a yard, he went out for a while! After heidi was left, Jan came home again and we grabbed a sandwich and had a pleasant evening at the couch, watching the tv. Sunday weather looked good again, so you always wake up happier and easier when you see the sun shining.
Early afternoon I put up my garden boots and acted like a jungle explorer LOL. No, not as bad as that, but some bushes were growing out of proportion and needed a good pruning so I did that. Looks much better now. Did some other bits and bobs in the garden and was quit pleased with myself! Returned inside and installed myself again at the computer and then.............hahaha........music session!!! So Jan and I had our happy hour again and I love those sessions!! After dinner I had a looooong talk on msn with my friend Edna. I was glad she was there again, because during weekend I had no mail or anything from her, which is weird and I had heard from Snowy, that Edna wasn't feeling well and was in bed. Oh I worried a bit, and was ever so happy that she was on masn again. It seems she catched a bad flu, and is still recovering from it. She goes to her doctor today, to check if it's just a "normal" one. I truly hope so! But as she was feeling already more like a "normal and living person"again, we could chat along.
New month so new challenges on the forum and oh boy, there is WORK for me there to do! Snowy NEVER gives us a rest, wicked women as she is, LOL. She ALWAYS comes up with new and interesting challenges and always manages to give us a few in there, which really need a bit of research before you can start with them. So she is feeding our brains too, school professor!!!

After a such relaxing weekend we have to get back in the weekly rythm again, starting today with some ironing to do and a washing. Hmmmm, not the most favourite things, but I'll be strong and do it!!!
Today's kit is a one colour schemed one, in greens and named "Explore Dreams". Everybody always has some dreams(if you haven't there is something wrong with you I gather!) so use it to scrap some dreams you have. Could be a nice thing to look on much later!
Now you all have a fine day, thanks for stopping by again!


Download HERE

Month of May has come !

Goodmorning everybody!


Just a bit about yesterday, which should have been a happy day for our nation. This terrible event made a great impact on a lot of people. You just cannot imagine that something like this happens here! The man who made the "attack"died in hospital, so perhaps we will never know exactly what drove him to this action. It seems he planned it and it meant to be an attack on the Royal Family. He just missed the bus they were riding in on a few meters! I'll never understand people who take this kind of actions. Whatever reason you have to unlike another person, it never justifies it. And may be somehow I can understand, no follow the reason why somebody does an action, but point it only to the person or whatever, but why to harm innocent bystanders, people who have nothing to do with your dislike! But in fact, I don;t approve any violence, it's such an useless thing to do. Violence, murder etc. is never the solution, it only sturrs up other violence as an asnwer and so on and so on.


Well, for now the result of it is, there are 5 people dead and still a few in very critical condition.

This day will not be forgotten easily!


Now here is already the month of May! Every time again I am surprised by the speed of passing time. Never will get used to it, I suppose. But one good thing it has: we are heading for summer time, mostly to be considered as a cheerful time. Unless you are gasping for breath and almost are suffocated by the heat, and that is happening too! Well every good thing has and opposite, I think, of a less good thing. We'll just have to accept that, isn;t it?


Before going to the freebie I must remind you that today on Magickal Scraps shop a sale is starting AND MY FRIEND EDNA IS STARTING THERE AS DESIGNER. Look here:

And look what kit she is offering for only $ 2,59!! Isn't it LOVELY?

And lots more of beautiful stuff is there to find! I will give you the link to make it easier for you LOL!! http://www.magickalscraps.com/Shop/

Okay, today's freebie then. Because of the sad day yesterday I thought we had to cheer up a bit, s I made a bright kit, to prepare you to the summertime. I named it"Summer Song". And now I post some things on other forums, may be even have time to start with another kit I have in mind and then I'll have to do some grocerie shopping. Shouldn't be too bad, it should be a very nice day today, about 20 degrees C, sunny and such! Oh I even made some pics of my garden yesterday, well, somewhere next week I will show you a few, okay? Off I am, heading to my week-end break and hope to come back with some new stuff for you in my pocket on Monday!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Download HERE