No heating!!!

Goodmorning everybody!

Well, in fact it isn;t a good mkorning at all. We suddenly have no heating, the central heating isn't working!! Jan tried a few things this morning, but no success.! So I called our service for the heating but they couldn't come till tomorrow. So I tried another one and he says he will be here around 13.30 afternoon! I HOPE SO! It's getting cold very quickly here, so I am not feeling nice and comfy, very pissed off (sorry for the expression) and very helpless and with a strange feeling that it will cost some money too! I do hope so we don't need to change the heating itself, cause that's a lot of money! First cross fingers and see if the service man really comes on time and that he can do something. Then may be we will be a bit warm in the evening again. Oh boy, the years starts off very good!!! It's the last thing we need now, a new installation for the heating. No thanks! And just in a period it's rather cold outside, but you will always see something like this happenes at a time, you  need some warmth. LOL
So you can imagine my mood isn;t bright and light and happy!

Well, I still do have a kit for you, it's the colour challenge we had for November. We were offered a very bright colourscheme and somehow it did me think of India, the colours of the textiles and so. And there it was, a kit "Along the Ganges". Surely hope you can use it and I am sending little prayers up above, that our heating will work again this afternoon. Cross your fingers please!
Have a great day!

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I love my fleece blanket!

Goodmorning everybody!

Brrrr, it has been rather cold this weekend sppecially the Saturday! And although I cannot say the living room is cold, it always seems to have a moment in daytime when it feels much colder then the rest of the day. Very strange! But no problem, I have my Christmas present of Edna, the fleece blanket and how I love that thing LOL!!! I am wrapped in it now too and I feel nice and comfy, Edna, it was such a good idea from you, thanks!!!
Saturday it started to snow a bit again and also yesterday and in this part of the country we were still lucky, because it wasn't a heavy fall, but other sides of the country had much more trouble! Oh gos, I think it has been enough now, we do remember again what snow and cold is, so let's get now some nicer weather again LOL
The weekend I spent rather a lot of time watching tv, because there were the Worldchampinships Allround speedskating and we Dutchies did it not bad at all. With the man we have Sven Kramer as number 1(for the 4th time in a row!!!) ad with the women we have Ireen Wüst with the silver medall. And the other compatitors of our team did have good rangs too! So my weekend was filled again, and even did a bit of designing, yet not as nuch as I wanted, but somehow it seems that the snow and cold freezes my brain, it's not working smoothly coming up with ideas for kits and challenges. Or is that the extra year of age I received a few days ago???? ROFL
Speaking of the birthday, I have to thank everybody from the heart for their sweet wishes. You are all ttoo good to me, but I love it!!!

Oh yes, Snowy's son Shaun had some bad luck! In England there is a lot of snow too and one day he was out and crossing street and was hit by a car! A car turned around a corner in big speed and couldn't stop in time,, because the road was slippery, and oh my, it could have ended much worse than it finally did! Still he will feel some big bruses and his leg was hurt, but still he must have had his guardian angel on the shoulder! Cannot understand people  who don''t take care with this kind of weather and slow down their speed. And the driver even didn't stop to check if Shaun was allright! That's the limit!

And what do I have for you today? A small kit, also in one colourscheme, named "Life is a Journey". Oh I did upload this one on 4 shared, because Mediafire was doing a bit weird for a while. Hope the link works well. Take care everybody who has to deal with snow and ice, in fact everybody take care, but with the winter circumstances it's even more tricky outside! Have a great day and till tomorrow again!

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It's Happy Birthday!

Goodmorning everybody!
Yeah, it's a little bit special day because it is

Yeah, yeah, I have another to my account, oops 57 today! And yesterday, a bit after midnight I finally could open my birthdaypresent I got from my friend Edna, lying there almost 1 month winking at me!!!!!! And she did send me some lovely things. I don;t have a picture yet but I can tell you I received a box of thesacs, pommgranate taste(sounds yummie) , the things that made Jan and me laugh :  a pair of striped socks, but nice soft and warm ones, (and in the good size, very good of her, because I have very small footsize!!) and the best a beautiful delicate neclace with a pendant of small fresh water pearls and matching earrings, made by herself!!! So lovely!
Also just after midnight I received already a phonecall from a friend, who happens to have his birthday at the same day! He knew I was up yet, so no harm done!
Now Jan is in a good mood for the next 3 weeks, because he can say he is younger than me and can call me "old women"LOL. Well, he can have his fun, I can say now: "You must do this or that, I know it's good for you and why? Because I am older!" ROFL.(we say that already for years to eachother having our birthdays, kind of tradition grin grin)
It's just 3 weeks then he has his birthday, so I will survive this period easily, hahaha!

So yesterday after the visit to the doctor(all is going very well with Jan, she keeps him "under surveillance"next appointment in May) we came home and right away started to take away all Christmas stuff. Oh my, Jan was a good help, really, so because of that it didn;t took that much time, although, before we had our house back again it was about 3 hours later! But then all was in "normal"state again. So empty suddenly, strange view, but nice too again.
Oh I received also a nice award from Minky, I don't know to how many I can pass it on but I will pass it on to a team member of the forum, Nana, from
http://nanabananascraps.blogspot.com, 
she is having a rather difficult time now and I think she can do with a bit of fairy dust

I think I covered all the things I had in mind so it will be time for your freebie. It's a fantasy one, yeah I like making them, so here is"Sometimes Fairies Show Up".Have a fantastic day and also weekend, I'll be back on Monday!

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I must be quick today!

Goodmorning everybody!

I just have time for a few words and then I have to get moving already around. We have to go to hospital this morning for Jan's check-up. Looks to be a bit cold outside, so I will put on my warm coat and stuff and it will be good to get a bit of fresh air. And then we have to get rid of the Christmas stuff. So I don't know if I manage today to do the freebielist. or, when I do it will be very late. We'll see how all works out.
Better I quit now and post your freebie, in a one colour scheme again, I wanted it to be a rather cheerful kit, and forget a moment about the winter So here you have "Thinking of Springgreen"Have a great day you all!

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Staying cold here

Goodmorning everybody!

Not such good weather forecast for the next few days. Although here in The hague there isn't much snow to see anymore, in other parts of Holland there still is. And because temperature is dropping at night below 0 and sometimes during daytime just one or two degrees above, it is a bit melting bur freezing up again at night. And that causes in some parts of the country very slippery roads. Especially the little roads and streets! And guess what? Several towns are getting short of salt for the roads! Oh what joy! And now the forecast tells us it is getting colder, nights between -3 C(coast) and -6/7C (inside country) and during daytime it stays a bit below 0 and the wind is turning to N/O. Brrrrrrrrr. And may be we will even get some snow again here. Well, I know, in comparison to other parts of the world, it's nothing but hey, I had a bit enough of winter time now. I am already looking forward to some warmer weather and spring time. But I suppose it will take still some time before it reaches that stage.

Oh Edna, you should know that your fleece blankets are used! Not that it is cold in the house, but in the morning I wrap myself in it and feeling quite comfortable sitting at the computer. What a great gift that was!!!
Jan sometimes takes his when he gets a little nap in the afternoon on the couch.

Well, today is the last day to enjoy the decorations and especially all the lights from Christmas. I posed the three kings into te stable, the poor guys looked exhausted after their long tavel LOL! Then tomorrow it will be a busy day. Clearing it all up and in between we have to go to the hospital, to see Jan's doctor for a check up. I hope we will get it all done tomorrow! Jan says it is always easier to take all the stuff off than to hang it up, but I am a bit strong headed in that. I know it doesn;t take quite so much time, but still it's work and I want to put all the things a bit orderly in the boxes, it saves so much time next Christmas. Hmmmm, we'll see if on Friday we will have an "empty"living room again LOL.

Today I even have a freebie for you! I know I wrote that perhaps I will not have one every day, but as long as I manage to make something new in time there will be one. I am so used to this "routine" ROFL! But I must warn you that I am a bit slower in maing them, and that's not only due to the computer crash. Perhaps it's just me, I am getting more picky, and I want to have them at the same standard and even every time a little bit better. I am getting back already a lot of resources, and that's a nice thing. But only when you loose those files you realize how much stuff in fact you gather on that computer! And I just will have to save more of it on discs, now only to do it hahahaha. 
The kit of today is in one colour scheme, I seem to like that in the moment, but you know me, it can easily change LOL. It's named "Roses are not always Red". Have fun with it, hope you can make some beautiful layouts with it. Now you have a fantastic day!

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I have a special award!!

Goodmorning everybody!

Yippee, I was a rather good girl yesterday I did some of the things to do list!! I did shopping, came home and turned on the washing machine, unpacked the shopping car, went to do some ironing, then prepared dinner, we had it simple but it takes more time to make it taste good than you should think. I made macoroni with ham and cheese and some chopped onions in it and to it drumsticks, and I was clever LOL. I made enough macaroni to have for today too, Tadaaa, Then I did a few other small things and only then I turned on the computer again.
I started a new kit to be a freebie and a kit for the forum, part of the brush challenge. I got carried away by that challenge again, seems to become a rather large kit.

This morning I had a very special surprise in my mailbox! I got an award from Minky, from
http://thecontinentofsulina.blogspot.com/! But it isn;t just a blog award, wheeeeeeeeeeee I am now a BLOG FAERIE GODMOTHER! Can you imagine????????? I don;t know how I earned that lovely title, but I am surely proud of it. Look here:

And Minky gave me also a link to a wonderful site a pure heaven of beautiful things to download, go and have a look there and you know, when you take something, leave a message for the designer! The blog is
http://pewter7.blogspot.com/.

I also heard from Snowy that a little package I sent her for her birthday arrived, oh I am so glad. She only has to pick it up from the postoffice, so I must wait another day probably for her reaction, cause she has to be off of work to have time to pick it up. But I am already really glad to know that it arrived. I did send it in time, but you never know with the holidays and a parcel always can get lost.

Now your freebie for today, it's a bit in a kind of Victorian style, couldn;t come up with a name for it and finally just named it "Old Fashioned". Do you know how hard it is sometimes to find a good name for a kit? I seem to be in a stage, that  I have trouble with it. Hmmm, we will survive that too, LOL ! Now it's really time for my 2nd coffee and a bit of designing and than go out again for some shopping again(but just a few things) and may be I will be a good girl again today ROFL!!! Have a splendid day everybody!

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HAPPY NEW YEAR

Goodmorning


Just popping in to wish you all

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!!!!

I hope your year will be good one, as it will always be a mix of good and not so good moments, let there be lots more of good moments!

I have just one thing to show you, it;s the new daily download from the forum. You can see the slideshow on top of the blog and here is  the preview of the store part, only for $ 1.50!! It's a really beautiful  kit, I must say!

Now you all enjoy your first day in this new year, and let's steam up into a beautiful year!
Hugs