Supposed to be a LONG weekend

Goodmorning everybody!

As it is Ascension Dat today, we will have Whitsun weekend(or Pentecost) this weekend. And a lot of people certainly have taken the Friday also as a holiday and have a long weekend ahead. I think there will be quit a lot who take a little holiday and go someplace else for a few days. We just stay comfy in our home, and hoping the weather will be kind to us and all others who want to have a break. OH NO, I am TOTALLY wrong! The weekend of Whitsun is next week! Stupid of me. But still, people can make this week-end into a longer weekend, hahaha.
I did my duty yesterday and took Heidi's dog for the walk in the afternoon. The poor little thing was all happy when I came in and looked soooo sad when I left him again.
Oh I also had a quick look into her garden and grrrrrrrrrr, @@@####!!!!! etc (LOL), she has a few more poppyheads in her plant than I have.! No, I don;t mind that, it;s just a little competition that is going on between us, every year!

Well, I will give you today the first part of a kit, tomorrow will be the second part then. I give you the complete preview of the ki, so you can see what you will get, hahaha!. It's a nice one, I think myself and it will be a kit for some older pictures, so I am giving you some work, to find pictures of your youth or even from your parents or grandparents, get them together and scan them and make some nice pages with them. I called the kit: "Generations". So the name says it all, I suppose. For the ones who have the day off today: enjoy it as much as possible, for the ones who will have to work today: still try to have a nice day, may be you will have less stress today, a lot of offices etc. are closed, so you might have an easier day.

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Dog walking day.

Goodmorning everybody!

It looks to be a rather fine day outside. And that is good, because this afternoon I have to go to Heidi's home to get the dog oput for a necessary "sanitairy walk". He's always so happy when I come to see him, cause he was alone for some time. As soon as he hears the key in the door he is standing in the little hall, full of expectation and wiggling his tail. And as I am in he jumps around like nuts. And as I am at Heidi's place, I better take a quick look in her garden, to see how everything is doing there.
For the cooking today I don't have to spend a lot of time, because we have still left from yesterday's. After I came home from the shopping( hmmm, full shopping car again) I first unloaded the car and put everuthing in place. Made some packages to put in the freezer(like bread and some meat ) and then took a sandwich. Then hopped around on the computer a bit an started rather early with the dinner. I made my boeuf-parmentier(you know mashed potatoe layers with minced meat) but that always takes more time then eating it. LOL. Also prepared our desert (apples, filled with sugar and raisins, to put in oven and when ready whhipped cream over it, yummie). So the potatoe thing I always make for two days, otherwise it's not worth the trouble. Then a bit computer again and at dinner time I only had to shuffle things into the oven and make a little sal to go with it. And so today it's real easy for me. Only desert will be different, but I am certain it comes out of a carton.
Oh, I bought myself finally a new pair of shoes, sporty things, because they walk so wonderful. I had a pair that was like a pair of house slippers, they were soooo comfortable, but they almost are falling apart. But then to find a new pair that fits your feet as good as the old ones!!!! That's not an easy job! But yesterday I found a pair, pfffffff, and for a nice price too, because I never want to spend a lot of money on it. I am a kind of Scrooge in those things. LOL!
These were just 20 Euro, so not too bad.

Today's kit is a colour challenge kit I made for Magickal Scraps forum in January. The colour scheme was very pastel and had to do with the new start of the year in nature, our hopes for new life that soon should be visible in nature. Here you have: "Longing for Nature's Revival" then. Good for your spring pictures I suppose.
So we'll see what today will bring us, hope you will have a happy day!


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Good girl!!

Goodmorning everybody!

I told you I had to move around the house yesterday! Well, I am proud to say I accomplished a few things. First I did all the ironing, waiting for me! Then in the room where I usually do it, I had some curtains hanging, but they never were fully to my satisfaction. They didn;t shine through much(which is nice, when neighbours of on the 2nd or 3rd stock could look into it), and yesterday I had enough of it. I still have a big carton box standing on a closet, in which I keep curtains , still too good to throw away. Yeah I have that, I am aweful in those things, I always have the remark:"You'll never know if you could use them for something". Well, I did took them out and replaced the old things in the extra room, as we call that. They were a bit too long but for the moment they will do well and it looks much nicer to have proper curtains now. They let the light through much more and still are not too transparant. Hmmm, pity I don;t have enough for all the windows of that room, but still it is much better now. I even washed the windows before putting the curtains on! Ha, I was happy about it. I arranged all the ironed things in the closets, yeah, and in the mean time, Jan did the hoovering. How nice! Saved me some time.
It took me about 2 hours, all that, so it wasn't too bad.
When I do such things every day, it would be a good thing, LOL.
Then I received a phonecall, that at first did raise my eye-brows a bit. It was a call from the police from the Hague. Hmmmmmm?????? The lady announced herself with"good afternoon, here the police of Haaglanden(our town police), could I have a word with you? I am from the bureau from the opium control"So I started to laugh a bit, asking her what we did wrong THIS time, as a joke. Then the lady started to laugh and guess what?????????????????? I suddenly recognized her, it was my friend HEIDI!!!! I sent her an email about the poppy and Jan's remark on that and she played this joke on me.
Well, we both had a good laugh and talked some while about mostly the garden and may be we will finally have our trip to the garden centre next week. Whoopeeeee! I even may find something nice for her too, because she has her birthday on the 6th of June. And I really have NO IDEA what to give her, but something for the garden is always nice.

So that was the "news"about my day yesterday. I wonder what will happen today. I don;t think it will be too much, must run around again for the groceries shopping and such, but weather looks nice enough, so some walking in the air and sun never can do wrong.
Now here is the new kit, a bit sentimental one perhaps, but okay, I think the colours are nice. I named it"Secret Encounter" . Have all a fun day and see you around!

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Got a lot done in the weekend!

Goodmorning everybody!
I really took the days "off"in the weekend! I didn;t had to blog, I didn;t make any challenge!!!! but I did a lot of work on new kits! I am so happy, I must have had a real brain wave, sometimes I was working on 2 at the same time. You know, busy with one, get a bit stuck for a moment, so hop over to another one etc. I even made a rather latge kit of about 60 MB I will put in on later this week in 2 downloads. Whoopeeee, I feel great!
For the rest it was not a working weekend, only did a quick shopping on saturday, and that was it. I left the house the house(ohhhhh, what a BAD girl!!!) Jan and I even had our "music hour"again, I LOVE that!

The weather wasn't particularly good, but I wnet on a quick tour through the garden and there also was a surprise for me. I have a poppy, one with the big flowers, and the most numer of flowerheads I had was 3 I think. Yesterday I counted at least ......... 10!!! I almost danced around from joy. So you see you can feel happy about a little thing LOL. Jan made me laugh again with a stupid remark. He said, oh how nice from the poppy, soon we will have a harvest from the seed heads and can sell it as opium dealers. You know what, next year we will plant no more busy lizzy in "my"little garden but poppies!!!! Hahahaha, if anyone is against drugs it is him and I even never tried a soft drug in my life! Not even a weed cigaret! And when I had about 16/18 years it was almost in fashion.
So I can say I had a kind of restfull weekend, but the consequences are obvious: today I certainly have to move around in the house and do some things! And I read the blogs of Snowy and Edna and they are very busy rummaging through their stuff and clearing out things. It gives me a kind of tickle that it should be a good thing to do so. Now only find the courage to start with it! Hmmmmm, I think I will start with it too! For example I have a whole part of two shelves in a closet and even one shelve in another, filled with nothing else than slides and films from years!!! And NEVER watch them. Well, there are in the slide parts, a lot of pictures of me and and family of my young years when I was 8 and older. But what to do with them??? May be I should sort them out and put apart some really nice slides and may be I can let them put on a dvd or so. I must think about that. It takes a lot of room and for what? That could be a project to start with.

Anyway, today there will be the "normal"house cleaning and such and I must not forget to go to Heidi's house on Wednesday, to give their doggy a walk. They have to attend to a funeral of Danny's grandmother. Not such a nice things for them, but perhaps it is better for the lady, she was old and not in good health, I hope she found her rest now.

And ladies, on to the kit now. It's a fantasy one, kept in lilac colours and I named it"Fairy Dance".
Have some fun with it, and enjoy this new day of a new week!


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Didn't find a cave yet!

Goodmorning everybody!

I really did some things from the "housework"part. Hmmmm, unbelievable, but true. I did a wash, a dry one is removed from the line and part of it gone too. I had a good sweep with the vacuum cleaner, on this round here and there came across some things that needed a cleaning, like a door or a glass table, picked that in between, had a little pause in the garden with two sandwiched and my book to catch some sun as long as it was there and cleaned the toilet, got rid of some stuff standing in the kitchen that was waiting to be washed ohm put a new cover on the duvets and I felt good about myself. But.... still the cave is perhaps a better solution, to avoid a lot of this, perhaps!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!

I also had nice post yesterday! I did get some taxes back from the governmnet! Yeah, it isn't exactly a fortune, but still unexpected in fact and always welcome. Better it is in my poacket then in theirs!! So it added a bit extra to my good feeling. Then I made a whole new kit! I suddenly must have had a brain wash or so, because after I finished it, I even got started with a new one. Oh gosh, you could say I had a productive way yesterday in several ways.

Oh, Jan also made me laugh. You have to understand probably his kind of humour, but okay I try it in short. He had been busy with.... of course......... the dvd and videao again. And how amazing, it worked rather well! So he was happy with it, still has to figure out some "details"but that will come too! Well, as I was sitting at the computer, he watched the things he recorded and if that was okay. Then said to me: If I suddenly pass away, you should give me a lttle tv and dvd too, after all the work I put in this one! I said, but there probably will not be a connection on the grave-yard!! He said: oh, there will be a solution for it, you will find one! I said: okay, if you like, but you must be careful with it that there will not be a complaint about the noise around there! He said: Oh no, I will put the volume very low! I said, yeah that's okaym but what if everybody there is coming to you to watch tv at night????

Well, may be it will not make you laugh, but we did, I think we have sometimes a strange way of humour, and when the time realy comes then it will be time to be sad, of course, but in the mean time better we have a good laugh about it. I think we two are also gifted with a huge immagination-vision. I see it all in my mind happening. Funny thing, sometimes.

So in all it wasn't a bad day, I suppose. What kind of freebie I have today? I must check on my list of zips first, mmmmmmmmm, I have choice of two for the moment. Yeah I will give you a blue one! It's the one I meant to be a mini kit, but it turned out to be a complete one! Making it, I had to think about my friend Snowy, who is going to take probably a whole new direction in her life.I so hope for her that it all will come true and that's also how the title came into my mind. I named it"Reaching for the Stars". This one is a bit for you and Erik, Snowy! LOL.

Now you all have a nice day, and let's see what this new day has in store for us.

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I do understand my friend Edna!

Goodmorning everybody!
I just come from the blog off my friend Edna http://missednasplace.blogspot.com and she gave me a good laugh! It's about saving stuff for whatever reason and then finally saying to yourself you will have to sort it out. It will give you surprises!! I KNOW!! And about two options for the rest of our lives if you don't like too much housework(but you have to, of course, otherwise you will come in a terrible situation, LOL. Or you will take a housekeeper or you choose for a cave!
I know I am talking in riddles a bit, but if you want to know, you should read first the short blogpost of Edna and you will understand HER and also ME afterwards. LOL LOL.
And as the housekeeper option is NOT within my means( and how I regret that sometimes, whoooo) it will definately be the cave option! So Edna, shall we give it a try, hahahahaha????

I started a kit with the intention to make it a mini one( you know, 2 or 4 papers and a few elements) but it grabbed me and it has become a full kit of about 30 MB. You see, how I loose my time???? LOL. I even could make the second part of a challenge from the forum. Wow and even made another page of my Botanical challenge. You will see it one day, first have to finish it all, then the first ones to grab it, if they want to are my fellow butties(oh, that doesn't sound nice but I mean it in the GOOD sense) of the forum but later I could make it a freebie. I will see, okay?

Ha, yesterday I did the grocerie shopping, tadaaa, so today I don;t have to move, that is to say, not outside, but inside, well, here comes the cave part again!!

Hmmm, as you know, NOT the favourite part of my activities. Oh well, a good attack and perhaps an hour or maybe 1 1/2, woops, and you can do A LOT of work. And it's true, afterwards you feel a bit broken sometimes, but also kind of satisfied and PROUD of yourself. So that is worth also something, hey??

Well, enough stupid bla-bla (cannot be serious all the time, not in my character, thank God!!) and on to a new kit for you. Oh, this is for mothers to be or mothers just become or even grandmothers, cause it's a little baby kit. Have fun with it, enjoy your day, even if you will have to do some of the "boring"stuff in the house, LOL.

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Hoorray for a little sweetie!

Goodmorning everybody!
As usual I start with reading some blogs on my following list. And of course I read Edna's blog, as one of them. But now there was really good news. Her little dog, Tootsie (here's her portait, haha)

is under chemo treatment for a long time already, but the intervals will be longer and perhaps after the 8 weeks interval she will be so far okay, it will be done with. And she did loose some weight too, for her a good thing. (Lots of you would LOVE to be able to say so too!!). So that was a happy news to read, specially it is for Edna, cause little Tootsie is her pride and joy!

On the blog of Snowy her news was a bit less, it concerned the Mexican flu. Seems it reached England now and the neighbourhood she is living. Not such a good news, I must say. However we know each year there are people dying of the flu, whatever variant it may be. And it just may be so, that okay, this is a new variant, but that is is blown up a bit too much too! The only ones who really profit of this kind of thing is the medical industry! Nevertheless, we should be a bit cautious with this flu, because you never know. Well, we will just have to survive this one too! And then in a few years there will be another variant again.

What about news here? Not really. Just a normal day yesterday(how good it feels to be able to say so!) with some housework, new kit made, did a "round"in my garden, Jan again struggling but coming further every time with dvd and all connections to tv and video and digital box, we even watched a few videoclips on you tube from Britain got's talent! Amazing talents there are! It was a revellation, really! If you like music and singing, try to look at some of the contestants, unbelievable!

So we better get you your freebie, yes, I still have a couple! Today we take a trip to the Middle East with the kit "Mysterious Middle East". Hope you will have some pictures that will fit this kit. It's colourful and with some nice things in it. And then do enjoy your day, we must try to do so, each day you live, is a gift that we should cherish a bit. Happy day to you!

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