A bit slow in designing

Goodmorning everybody!

It seems to be a returning event every 3 months or so, that at a certain point, designing goes a bit slow. I start full of enthousiasme with a project and after some papers or objects the flow suddenly seems to stop. Then everything I make I look at it again and in 90% of the times I just remove it. Hmmmm, am I being too critical on myself or are sometimes the ideas not so good? Or t must be that the ideas are there but the execution of it doesn;t apply to my wishes. LOL. I think I better accept it than desparately keep trying and loosing time with things that will turn out okay at a later point.
Sometimes life is playing jokes with you, and this is one of them. But I better stick to the things that still go right, and just advance in a slower pace.
I told you months ago that I was busy crocheting a bed -spread. It is on the bed already for a few weeks! Yes, I actually finished it. It hasn;t become a real masterpiece, but I am yet happy I finished it and it looks quite bright on the bed. I even made a picture of it:

 

One of my cats, Brodski, seems to like it, because he spends a lot of time sleeping on it, LOL!

Okay, here your freebie. It's a kit that reminds you a bit of the coming spring, named "Ladybug's Holiday".

Have fun with it and have a lovely day!

 

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I have to apologize!

Goodmorning everybody!

Here sits a almost reborn person at the computer LOL! Yesterday afternoon Jan and I both took a good nap, and oh how I needed that! But the result was, that I didn;t post a freebielist. So sorry, but I will try to put a little one up this morning and then the regular again this afternoon. Am I forgiven???
Then yesterday I went to bed a lot earlier than the days before, I think it was about 01.00 o'clock and I slept all night through, so I am feeling okay again.
It's still winter here, most of all in the eastern part of the country, but they expect that temperature will go up a little bit the next few days and I almost cannot wait! Not that it will be spring temperature, but at least you get probably the idea spring is somewhere waiting for you.

When I was in town last week I bought a terrific book and already started to read in it. It's called "The Big Enceclopedia of the Little People"wirtten by Pierre Dubois. And it's written with so much homour and about each clan or sort of goblin or gnome or elf there is also a description of their appearance, their way of clothing, their habits etc. This is the book:

 

And I made two shots for you from the inside so you get an idea of the marvellous illustrations in it:

 

  

I am having a great time reading it. I am trying to read each day a chapter or two. Yeah, I saw it standing in the bookshop and crying out to me: Buy me, I am wonderful!!" LOL. But it;s worth every penny of it.

Oh there is news to tell of the forum! We have a new designer for the daily downloads!! It's Su from

http://suruha-freespirit.blogspot.com/. Yeah, the girls finally talked her in to it LOL! She will be doing the theme and colourscheme for May daily download, so you will have to wait still a little bit. I am sure she will do fine and it is an enrichment for the team! Welcome Su!

Now it;s about time to give you your freebie, so I will have a bit time left to post the freebielist of this morning.
As in March there is St.Patrick's day, I made you a little kit with this theme, named it "Good Luck".
Have a fun day.

 

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I think we are nuts!

Good afternoon everybody!

Today I slept rather long and then first did the shopping, oh wow, how good of me! It had its reason. Yesterday late evening or already it was night was speed skating again, the sprint 500 mtrs for men. Well, we didn't expect to have somebody on the highest level but still wanted to see how our sprinters did it. Oh my, normally it wouldn;t have take so long but there were great problems in the Richmond oval, the stade were it took place. The Zambonies gave up(the machines that sweep the ice) and all by all, it took ages before the two sessions were done. You know the rule: when something is starting to go wrong then everything goes wrong!
So it was a much longer seat at the tv than we expected. I said to Jan that we were completely nuts to stay up and not going to sleep, as there is always the possibilitie to view it the next day. But.... it's not the same, it's not live! Can you imagine how I am sitting now at my computer???????? LOL! Eyelids are starting to be a bit heavy, so probably I will try to take a nap later in the afternoon. I am glad that this evening the speed skating for women(also 500 mtrs.) is starting earlier in the evening. Hopefully all the technical problems are solved today and I might end up at a more normal time in bed.
Oh boy, the Olympics are wonderful, but it surely is an attack on your normal day rythm, because of the time difference.

I hope to receive this week the last necessary papers from the bank, so that I can send all the stuff to the accountant for the taxes. I really will be gald if that will be done. It's hanging above my head like a big dark cloud filled with rain!LOL. Ha, out of the corner of my eye I see Jan stretching himself out on the couch, so I suppose withing a minute or five he will be sleeping. Yeah, we aren't the youngest anymore, where has the time gone that you easily could survive a night up ??????????
Okay, I have a little freebie for you, it;s the last of the Chamber serie, this time the "Apricot-Orange Chamber".
I;ll see if I can stay awake long enough to do a bit of designing, or may be some challenge. I'll tell you tomorrow if I succeeded.
Now you all have a lovely day.

 

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Bit of strange weekend

Goodmorning everybody!

As planned I watched the opening of the Olympics, and I found it very impressive and very beautifully done! But it had it's disadvantages too for me. As I wanted to try to catch some sleep before on Friday I tried already in the afternoon which was nosuccess. Just couldn't sleep. So in the evening I tried again, and it worked better, even too good, because I missed the chat on the forum! They should have wondered why I wasn't there, so later on Saturday I quickly sent an email to explain.
So Jan and I were rather sharp at the time the opening was taking place and after it we hopped into bed to have a few more hours of sleep.
Well, Saturday we took it easy on ourselves, I just did a few little jobs around the house and in the evening we were glewed to the tv screen again, to watch the speed skating for men, 5000 mtrs. AND WE HAVE THE GOLDEN MEDALL!!!! Yeah for Sven Kramer!!!
Then Sunday we had to go to the birthday party of Séverine in the afternoon. That was nice as always, and gave us the chance to catch a bit of fresh air too. And in the ecening there was another speed skating event, 3000 mtrs. for women. Our hopes weren't that high on this one and we were right. As expected it was won by the Czech girl Sablikova and she deserved it! Also want to congratulate my Canadian readers with the bronze medall of Christina Groves! Very well done!!!
I didn;t spent much time at the computer during the weekend, so I have to catch up a bit during the week LOL.

As I was blog hopping first before posting, I had a bad surprise at Edna's blog. The poor thing has broken her foot! I am glad it is "just"her foot, although it's not a nice thing either. And that happened just short before she will go on a holiday trip! Hopefully it will be healed enough, so that she still can go on that holiday, because she really needs that.
This kind of surprises we can without, don;t you think so?
I also think we have had enough winter now and that the snow should disappear and temperature will go up a bit more! So to encourage that I have a little kit for you in really Spring colours, so that at least we can have the feeling that the weather will change soon. I named it"Leave Winter Behind", it's nothing special, but has some nice papers in it.
Time to do a little bit of designing again and then do some work around here. Have a great day, be careful in the winter weather and see you around!

 

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I will be a looooong day!

Goodmorning everybody!

Today will be really be a looooong day! Our time at 3.00 o'clock night, there will be the opening ceremony of the Olympics.Jan and I love to see it, so what to do to keep awake??? We figured it out LOL. First earlier in the day I must go out to do a bit of shopping. May be Jan will have the spirit to do a tiny task in the house in the meantime, then some other stuff to be done. And then we decided it would be a good idea to have a good nap in the afternoon or very early evening. Then we should be quite fresh again to watch the ceremony. You could ask why we are so nuts to watch that in the middle of the night, there are programs the next day with the highlights, but it is not the same. We are rather sport lovers and if you don;t see the life opening somehow you don;t have the right feeling with all the games, as if it's not the Olympics. Do you know what I mean? So if possible you re-arrange a bit the day and you are fine, hey!!!!!!!!!
I am still struggling with the PSE8 program, not yet spent a lot of time on it, it will come, be sure of that, but I must do it slowly, cause it's a rather extended program with so many possibilities that it isn;t so easy to master it all. As I am kind of chicken too in those kind of things, it must progress in slow pace, LOL.
Then there is the forum chat too this evening to attend! Wow, you see, a rather filled day and in between I even want to do a bit of stuff on the computer. Gosh, I must get moving soon!
So today I have yet another Chamber kit for you, I like this one, because of the colour. It's the Olive Chamber, looks real fresh to me, hope you will like it too.
Now you have a great weekend, for the sport lovers it should be, and as much as I like the all my foreign visitors, I rather hope that tomorrow in the speedskating (it will be the 5000 mtr. for men) we will take some serious medals.!!!!! And Jan just said to me that he has nothing against  Canadians , but that he truly hopes that in the women speed skating the Canadian skaters will leave a few medalls to the Dutchies!!!! YEAH!!!!

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Strange behaviour of internet.

Goodmorning everybody!

I was early this morning so why not take opportunity and post right away. Well opened my blog, and suddenly internet was gone again! That lasted for about 1 1/2 hours again! When it was just back I searched the providers site to see if any work was planned for my area, but there wasn't. But yesterday , even the day before and now today again they have fun in blocking the connection. Strange people. I hope it's done now again with that. In general I cannot complain about them.
Not so much to report, cause I did it all yesterday afternoon. I haven;t made any real plans for today, so I;ll see what it will bring. Ooops, I have to contact the bank I went to yesterday, this time customer service to get a copy of the year review you always get at the starting of a new year. I need that for my taxes. So I better do that this morning! I did that now, in between posting. Yeah for me. It's settled, I will probably get it next week. Pfff, I have taken a little hurdle again, LOL.

I hope today Mediafire will work again as it should be, yesterday there was a bit of trouble at time. Don;t know why, perhaps there was a bit of maintenance or so.
Let's see what I have for you today. Oh my, a kit with a bit of wisdon LOL!!!!!!!! It's a bird related kit, named "Mysterious Owls"! Hey, isn;t that making you curious. Then quick look at the preview and download it, I think it;s a nice little kit. Have a great day, where there has to be snow I hope you get it and where there is too much I hope it will disappear very soon!

 

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Internet problems!

Good afternoon everybody!

Yes, it is latertoday, I couldn't post this morning because I still had no internet connection. It started yesterday early night already! So we had no tv, no phone, no internet, nothing! You are feeling helpless in such situation.
I am glad it is fixed again. Must have been some problem at the provider, or perhaps they were making new connections or whatever.
I am thinking to buy me a very cheap prepaid mobile phone. When something like this happens, at least you can get in touch with the world. I don;t want one with a contract, not worth the effort. But one with a card for say 20 euro, you can do enough phonecalls, if necessary. And for normal use we just use the other phone, via internet connection.
So I could have stayed on the computer this morning designing, but I was a brave girl LOL and closed it down and went into town. I had a little business to do with a bank, which I have done to satisfactory, and I wanted to look if I could find a little present for Séverine, celebrating her birthday for the "growns-ups"at  Sunday.
I found her 3 little books, very easy to read by herself, one of them is more a do-it yourself book. She can paste stickers in it to dress a princess, there are some little games in it, I think it is nice. Jan even thinks the books are a bit too easy for her, but she has become just 8, hard to figure out how good she is in reading.
I don;t see her that often lately, so it's a bit trying the "lucky guess" for me.
And I found a great sweater for Jan in a nice soft yellow colour for only 9 euro in the sale! Whoopee!
I understood some of you had a bit of problem downloading the Magenta Chamber kit? I uploaded it to 4 shared now and changed the link in the post. Hope it will work for you all.
Today another Chamber LOL! We are almost done with them, believe me! And then I have to catch up a bit of lost time today LOL. So enjoy your day.

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