A little surprise for you

Hello,
I was just playing around a bit on the computer, am in the middle of several kits and challenges, and just didn;t know what to do. AWEFUL, isn;t it??? LOL.
So I picked up the In Shining Armour kit and guess what? I made a QP with it. And well, why not, I thought, I could as well put it on the blog. A little extra for you, being so kind to me, giving such sweet comments on all kind of things I am rambling about.
So here you have it, hope you can have some fun with it!
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A big hunter in the house

Goodmorning everybody!

Oops, my back is a little bit overworked I think! Yesterday afternoon it was nice weather so I went into the garden, my garden scissor in hand and gloves.! First i vut down some roses which are growing much too big, and look messy. After cutting them into little pieces, I dug them out! Then I went around the garden with the scissor again and made lots of plants look better. Also made room in the garden. Some plants were taking over too much space, not nice! After some time I had here and there a bit of free space and there I planted the bulbs I bought last week.! Now if they come up as nice as the picture shows on the label, my spring will be very colourfull!
But I noticed I am not as often that busy anymore in the garden, the back is protesting slightly! Oh well, that will pass.

And oh boy, we have a great big red hunter in the house! Eeeeeekh, yesterday I wasn't happy all of a sudden! I know there are from time to time little mice under the floor and sometimes you could see one walking for a moment. But yesterday I went into the part where I have some of the food stock and the vacuum cleaner and the pans for cooking etc. I went for some potatoes but when I switched on the light I saw something running along the wall and into a coner and disappear. It wan;t as small as a house mouse!!!! It could have been a little rat!!! Not surprising, I know there are in the neighbourhood, thats also why every nw and then the street tiles have to be repositioned again and there has to put new sand under them. There are rats and they cause it because they dig the sand away. But I can live with that, if they stay there, I don;t like them to be visitors in my house! As it is an older house, certainly there are spots where they can come through if they like. Oh my, I am not afraid of mice, but the larger family memebers I DO NOT LIKE! And you are startled the most because it;s moving sooo quick! Well, I had a brilliant idea! I left the door a bit open and right away Dikkie Dik went looking! He already was a bit in practise, the last few days both of the cats are keeping an eye on the kitchen floor and sniffing around. Next time I had to be in that area I was smart and took Dikkie with me on my arm( heavy!!) and YES as I switched on the light there it was again a grey thing with long tail!!!!!! At once I put Dikkie on the floor, oh boy! He already had spotted it! And KABAMMM! In spite of his well-fed nature he moved sooooooo quickly and SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK I heard and Dikkie to a run into the garden. I could just see he had something in his mouth! I was so PROUD of him!
It may not be the most friendly solution but it certainly is working very good! So today we will let the door open again and see what happens. And Jan will take a good look to see if there are any holes we can repair!
Jan said, with a big smile to me."Well, at least they earn a bit their food and care back this way".

So far the adventures of yesterday. Enough for one day for me!!

Okidoki, now I have a kit again for you. It's is a bit medieval you could say, because of the papers, gives you the idea you are walking around in a castle, so I named the kit "In Shining Armour". Have fun with it and also have a great day!


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I have some pictures

Goodmorning everybody!

I had a very good night sleep after a slightly busy day. Yeah, I was a good girl and did a lot of my to-do list! Ha, after posting I did a bit of playing on the computer and then got busy/ First I turned on the washing machine(rather overcrowded this time) and then went for quick shopping. Got all I needed and back home put it all in place and then went for an ironing session. Brrrr. But.. I did it and even put all the stuff on its place in the closets. By that time the machine was ready and I hanged the bloody stuff. Then I had a quick coffee and ciggy and went into the kitchen to prepare for dinner, for two or three days! Well, the meat part anyway. I made meat balls and also had some meat on the stove for kind of stew. Then I finally made a picture of the new table and a pic of a coushin cover I found on the market for the new couch. I have four of them! And.........I have a pic of me, made myself, so it's a terrible pic but at least you will see my new glasses. Funny how I made the pic. I went into the kitchen, in front of a little mirror I have there, stood there with stretched arms and ppointed the camera on me. In the mirror I could see the little screen of the camera to see if I was in focus. Good idea hey? I was so proud of myself to have figured that out! LOL. Well, I didn;t do my hair really and no make up (I don;t use it often, make-up even special one, and my skin don;t seem to agree very well) so I look terrible, but it will have to do. It's a slightly better one than Jan took of me, so..............

Okay here they come:

TABLE

THE COUSHIN COVER



AND OH HOW TERRIBLE, ME!

I think if you click the pictures you get a larger one, I hope.

Then I even did another challenge yesterday after dinner, part of the letter challenge. This is the letter W, (still have waiting the V, X and Z, hardest!!)

So all by all I had a rather productive day, even today the company is busy again with the front of the house, they have to remove some of the cement and stones for a part and clean the iron that is supporting the second floor windows, put back new stones etc. I have to say the guys that are doing it, are not the brightest, still very young, I fear a bit for my windows, cause all the time little pieces of cement are falling down and tick, tick, hit the window. Not happy with that. Normally there is a kind of curtain to protect you from that, but they don;t use it. Hmmmm, cross the fingers that no harm will be done!

Okay, now on to the freebie. I have two more Halloween QP's for you. And tomorrow a real kit again. Can you live with that? I hope so.LOL!

Oh, before I leave you wanted to say to you to take a look at Snowy's blog, she posted a preview of a coming Christmaskit, all with cherubini's! A ever so lovely and beautiful kit!!

Now you all have a very nice day, it looks to be fairly well weather here, for the moment. If it stays until in the afternoon I may take courage to plant the flower bulbs, at least for a part.

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I have almost my house back!

Goodmorning everybody!

My oh my, I have the dinner table. They were supposed to bring it Saturday morning between 10.00 and 13.00 oçlock, but triiiinnnggggg, the doorbell range already at 09.45! So right away Jan put the thing together and oh, it;s a beautiful sight! I cleaned up the room, and I have my room back again. I will try to take a good picture of it today, so I can show you tomorrow, okay?

Yesterday I did plan some things to do, but I got very lazy and took a real relaxing day! So today will be "doing"things day!

As now a company started with the front of our appartment building to repair a bit the wall on the second floor , they of course had to put up a scaffolding to work from on height. But yesterday a nieghbour called on the door and showed us, that this thing moved from its place and was very badly attached to the wall(almost not!) and there was expected a very hard wind yesterday evening, so that didn;t look good at all. Could even be dangerous! So we tried to reach the company(they had a mobile number too) but no luck!! What to do? Jan came with the brilliant idea to call the fire department. Gosh, already were there within 10 minutes! They looked at it and put it back on it's place, secured it so far so good. They wrote down the phone numbers and address of the company, so I am afraid that perhaps they will get a fine to pay. I don;t know, but it's possible. It's their fault, I cannot help it.

I also made another challenge for the forum for the Book of Shadows part. We were supposed to make a layout for the Samhain, and if you want to know more about it, just type in the word in Google and you get lots of information.

But now I still have to do the Letter challenge and that are not the easiest letters to do, still waiting for me V, W,X and Z. Yes, the "Y"I did already.

What else to tell? Oh yes, one of my visitors, a fairy lover, Minky send me some cards she made again. In some of them she uses a bit of my kits too. Beautiful work. Here they are

I think I am in the middle of 3 kits at the moment. When I loose a bit of inspiration for one I hop over to another! A bit chaotic, perhaps, but that's me too! At the end all will come together just fine LOL.

I really must laugh when I read the blogs of Snowy and Edna. It seems we all 3 are a bit into house cleaning up, and surely house decorating! It's funny how that comes all almost at the same time. But it gives also a bit inspiration, and that is never a bad thing!

It seems, the weather will be okay for the next coming days. Not real warm anymore, but rather dry even a bit of sunshine. And I went to the market on Friday yes! Bought two new pillows for the bed and I sleep as a baby again! But it's always dangerous to walk there, cause they have a BIG stand with all kind of garden plants and in the moment flower bulbs of all kind. It's the right time to plant them, to have nice flowers in spring. And there was a nice offer. 3 packages for 5 Euro(most;y there were 10 bulbs in a package) I could help myself, hahahaha and bought 6 packages. Some allium, some tulips and such. And the seller was nice and gave me one package extra for the same price! So you see, there has to be done garden work too!

I think I rambled along more than enough and it's about time to show you your freebie. It's perhaps not a big one but given out of the heart LOL. I will give you 2 Halloween quickpages I made, hope that you can use them. Now you all have a great day, I hope to do all the things I have in mind for today. Cross your fingers ROFL!

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We can dance around in the room LOL!

Goodmorning everybody!

Whoopee all the stuff we wanted to get rid of is standing outside! And with no dining table and it's 6 chairs stndig in the room we have a ballroom now! Never realized how big a room we had LOL! We actually should try it out, putting up a nice record or cd and give it a shot on the dance! Hmmm, may be I will get Jan as wacky as that, I;ll see! It feels good to change a bit after it was there for a loooooong time!
Also we stuffed away some useless things out of the garden(there were still standing some big shelves and such in corner and an old garden table from a set we once had) and that's nice view too. We definately have a bit more space on the terras!
I planned for today a quick visit to the market. Who knows what I will find there for a nice price??? Only that will not be satin sheets, I think! Why I brought up this? Because Snowy has some on her bed now!!! She put up a picture of it on her blog, take a look, it looks awesome! The poor things will not be completely happy for the next 7-10 days! She will be loosing her internet connection for the PC. She's still lucky to have a laptop, so even if that's has sometimes the speed of a turtle(she said it!) she still can be in touch via msn and posting on the blog. I think I would be going nuts, so long without my internet, not having a laptop.

Oh, you also should take a look at Edna's blog. She has a new halloween QP for you! And it's another great one! Skeletons in a romantic dance, hahahahaha!

And today I really have a lovely kit for you, in my humble opinion! It's for the lovers of fantasy and fairies and such! I named it "Bright Fairy world"and has some really shiny papers. Hey Minky, it should be one for you!
Okay, I will get ready in a short while to leave, it's looks to be a rather fine day, quite sunny so good market weather I suppose. Tomorrow it's a bit early rise, cause they bring our table and chairs somewhere in the morning and hopefully all will be looking fine again after weekend.
And you have yourselves a wonderful and fairy like weekend!

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Received a sweet postcard!

Goodmorning everybody!

Okidoki, yesterday Jan and I rummage up all kind of stuff to get rid of. Also the dinner tabled is gone from the living room, and tonight we can put all the stuff outside! It will be strange to have half a room empty for a while. My cats were used to lie on the couches, specially when I was sitting there, but I want to try to keep the new one a bit clean. So I arranged it for them, oh, my, what we all do for our pets!! On just one seat I placed a piece of cloth and that's the place they will be allowed to be on. They seem to understand a bit, but now holding on to it, LOL!!
You know what? Looking around the sitting room I realized I haven't the spot free anymore for the Christmastree! Gosh, I;ll have to think hard, where I can put that this year! Might seem not such a big problem, but I like having my tree and a bit in sight too. So we will have to be inventive to find a right place again! I'll find it, no question about that! LOL.

Oh, I had such a nice surprise yesterday in the post. Jan brough in an envelope and there was no address or name mentioned on the back, so I was curious. I opened it and found a little card in it and then I read: "We wish you strength to cope with the loss of your beloved cat Micky". And it was from the vet's clinic where we brought our Micky on Friday. Now isn;t that a sweet action of them? I really was touched by it.

Did you see the last Halloween quickpage of Edna? These halloween qp's of her make you really laugh! I think this last one is hilarious too! Mrs. Skeleton sitting on the couch with her kitty, waiting for Mr. Skeleton to come home for dinner, as Edna explained it!!! You really should take a look http://missednasplace.blogspot.com/

Now on to the freebie for today. It's an Autumn kit, in the warm, and also somehow mysterious colours of the Autumn. So it has a simple name"Warm Colours of Fall". I hope you enjoy it. And now I will just try to continue a bit on a new kit and then must go out for a bit of shopping, then in the evening we have to put all the stuff on the street. Enough to do! Have a splendid day!


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Almost a new room!

Goodmornig everybody!

So we have our new couch now in the room! Oh, it;s wonderful! And I have more news! When they had brought the couch rather early in the afternoon, yippee) I still asked again if the guys would take the old one with them. When I had asked in the shop, they said I had to make another appointment with their organazation for the picking up. Well, no need, we already got rid of the couch! I know, we have the city council service coming y at Friday. but don;t worry, there will be enough! After putting the couch set in it's place Jan and I went to another shop of that organazation, a bigger one to look around for a new dinner table. And oh boy, were we lucky, they had a splendid table standing there with 4 chairs. It just fits in so well with the kind of wood our closets are made of, unbelievable! And it will be delivered on Saturday morning! All of a sudden we have almost a complete new room for not much money! The only thing that we need really to change still is the smaller carpet we have. That we will have to buy new, okay doesn't have to be a very expensive one either. I am happy as a little child, can you imagine?? I made a few pics of the couch and of course I will show it to you. Now I only need a good picture of me still. But okay, the couch first. One is taken still with a bit of daylight, the other at evening time.









Looks rather nice, doesn't it?

So all together we had another busy day yesterday. I think today we will roam the house to see what stuff we can get rid of to place on the street on Friday. Well, of couse our old dining table and chairs, surely the chairs needed to be replaced. But we have some more, good time to clean up, LOL.

I promised you today a new kit and so it will be. It has happy colours and I named it "Do you remember summer". I think it is a versatile kit. And yes, still this week I will put on a fairy related kit too for you! It may be on Friday. Oh before I end this post I surely want to recommand you to take a look at Snowy's blog, she showed her Christmaskits and are they great!!! Really beautiful ones, it will be heavey downloads, but worth it!
Then Edna started to offer Halloween quickpages, and they are so funny! She has a really special and wonderful kind of humour. Also a special lady of the magickal scraps group!
Okay, I will pout on the preview now for the kit, try to do a little bit of designing(I still have the colour challenge kit to finish for the forum) and I think I can show you tomorrow some LO's I made for other challenges. Now you all enjoy your day, see you later!

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