Rather good news from Heidi

Goodmornng everybody!

Yesterday evening I had a phonecall from Heidi, that she is home again! The specialist examined her and told her that the infection was on the upper skin and not in or around the portocabine that is in her vain in her chest. That's good news. So he didn;t see need to change it and operate her. She has to carry on with her antibiotics treatment, which will be finished on Saturday. For the moment she still has the Flolan, her medicine) via an infuse in another vain, but hoepfully it can be placed back in a few days on its normal place. Her blood tests were good, didn;t show anything, they however took another sample of her blood and also other samples from fluids, to check if they can find perhaps another infection somewhere that causes the trouble. It still will take a bit time for her to get back to her "normal"level and not feeling so dammned tired and having lots of headaches. But still, it sounded rather good. Now let's hope that within a few days she can her infuse placed back into the vain it is supposed to be. But I was happy to hear her voice. I urged her to take it really easy, not to move around too much, take her rest, lots of sleep, and as always she answered she would be allright and would be careful, but I know she is a stuborn lady at times, so I wonder if she will really do that!

The doggie was happy yesterday afternoon when I tok him out for a walk. We made a rather big round, good for me too to be in fresh air for a while, only I was stupid again, I forgot my photocamera and I could have made a few nice pics. Well, that has to wait for another day.
Only a few days left and the Olympics of 2010 Vancouver will be history! Gosh, can you imagine there passed already 3 weeks again? And that soon we already will be in March???
Then a new daily download will be there at the forum, it was Edna's turn to pick the theme and colours and I can show you a little teaser:

Here my part of the shop add-on:

For the freebie we will continue with the Gemstones( still have to do the last letters from the alphabet, LOL), this time F-J. Always nice to have a little preview what will be in this mini kit series so here you go:

It will be time this weekend to pick out a new bloglayout, I think I already decided which one it will be, it's a real nice one, you'll see. Okay, have all a fantastic day and weekend and I'll be back on Monday.

Download  GEMSTONES F-J  HERE

All in almost order again LOL!

Goodmorning everyone!
Yeah, I have a new vacuum cleaner. How happy a person can be with a household item???? And guess what? The shop where they sell all kind of items for the house was so nice to have an action just made for us LOL, they had a nice vacuum cleaner for half the price! So that was a good deal, and they also had an action for a laundry rack, which I needed too, because the old one was almost from pre-history and really was at the end, so we bought that one too!
Tested out the cleaner, works great, so house is clean again hahahaha!

Other good news, I have done my taxpapers, they are ready to be sent away today! WHOOPEEE! Now we only have to hope we receive a bit of money back from the government, we'll see if they will be so nice.
So it was a fruitful day yesterday. Now today I am a bit anxious, because of Heidi. I just had her one the phone for a moment, she seems to be rather relaxed, now let's hope it all will be settled without too much fussing around with her.!

I told you already several times that the designing is a bit slow these days, so I don;t have a real scrapkit for you today, but perhaps I have a nice change for you. We started a new project last year in the forum, called Gemstones, we had to make something for every letter of the alphabet, concerning a gemstone. Could be akind of journal page, or a quickpage or whatever you could invent for it. I ended up to make a mini-mini-kit for each letter, containing two papers and two or three elements. I will show you a preview of a few so you will know what you get LOL. The download contains 5 letters, so it will be a nice collection when all is done. I'll give you today the letters A-E.
Here are two previews

Today is doggie walking day, so I must get myself ready, because I want to do first a few things here and in the afternoon go to the doggie.
Make the best of today, if you're feeling a bit down , may be you should visit for a moment http://thecontinentofsulina.blogspot.com/   or  http://thestarchildrenproject.blogspot.com/
I always feel better just looking at all the beautiful things Minky makes.
Bye bye

Download Gemstones A-E   HERE

Oh my what a trouble!

Good afternoon.
A quick post because some people seem to have trouble with the download for The Blacksmith part one. If you have, please go back to the post and try the added link on 4-shared! I hope the file will open and that you will able to download it,
Sorry for this nasty inconvenience!
Hugs
Kyra

It was a terrible sports evening

Goodmorning everybody.


Before telling you a bit more about the title first a message to Linda, about the Tuscany kit,. Linda, could you please send me and email with your email address in it, so that I can contact you? We can work something out for it. Thanks.

Then the disaster from yesterday speed skating on the 10.000 mtrs. Our Sven Kramer was in the last ride and he was doing so well. He was riding on 1st place , as we hoped for. Then something weird happened. Every round the skaters have to change tracks, from inside to outside track and opposit during the whole race. And suddenly Sven hesitated at a changing point, at the last moment took the inner track and.......... it was the wrong one!!!!!!!!!!!! Nobody really understands how that could have happened, if it was his mistake, or perhaps his coach was troubled, or a misunderstanding from a gesture. Whatever it was, it was disastreous, because Sven was disqualified! Oh my, I think all the people who watched the race were in a kind of mourning. Such a shame, it happened on one of Sven's most important races till now, and skating the best time and being disqaulified because of a un-understandable mistake! So no gold medal for us, still a little consolation there was a bronze one.
We better forget that very quick.

Then another "sad"thing happened LOL! Yesterday Jan wanted to sweep the vacuum cleaner through the house and that was a nice thing. But when he switched it on, it made a VERY weird noise, produced a strange smell, so he switched it off and brought me the message that our vacuum cleaner died. Oh whee, again something we didn;t expect to happen yet. Well, now we will have to buy another one today, or tomorrow, because to be without one, isn;t an option of course.

May be Jan will go by himself to buy one, so that I can stay home(gives me time to finish up the tax papers for the accountant, now that I have received all necessary papers, yeah) and tomorrow I have to go to Heidi's home to give the doggie a walk. Why? Not because of a nice occasion. Heidi has an infuse tube in her chest for her medication which is Flolan, for her longs. But it seems that the vane is infected and it was impossible to put the usual new tube in it. So now she has her medication via her vain in the arm, but it is no good, it could hurt the vains too much with very bad results! So tomorrow she has to go to the special hospital in Amsterdam, where they will look if they can insert a new tube by operation in the saim place in the chest. If the vain is too much infected, they have to place a new tube in a vain at the opposite side of the chest, so that the infected one can heal. That together with a antiobiotic cure. Not such great news. If they can replace a new tube at the same place, she could be home again the same day or may be the day after. But if she has to undergo the real operation on the other side of her chest, she has to stay several days. Well, she has to be at the hospital tomorrow at about 12.30 afternoon, obviously Danny will be with her and not knowing how things will be, she asked me if I could take care of the dog. You can understand it is a bit of stressy situation now. Cross your fingers please or send a little word to the big Chief, that it will not be the worst scenario for her!

You could say that the last two days were rather eventful in very different ways! I am not against events, but I am really waiting for some truly NICE ones, and they seem to be quit rare at the moment!
But we must not let it get us down too much, because that is of no help at all.

On to the order of the day, the freebiekit. It's a real Spring kit and I have to thank Sylvaine from http://scrapkado.blogspot.com/ for resources I used in this kit!
I called the kit "Sweetest Scent", because it is all about a flower, Lily of the Valley.
Let's see if today can stay a day of more easy-peasy, LOL.
You all have a great day!

Download HERE

Blacksmith part 2

Goodmorning everybody!
Oh, I watched beautiful ice dancing this morning when I woke up! And I really must congratulate Canada with its GOLDEN Medal, which is completely deserved. It was the best performance, so fluently skated and a wonderful choreography.  It was a feast fot the eyes!
This evening has to be a big one for the Dutchies, LOL! Speedskating 10.000 mtrs. for men, with our very strong Sven Kramer and we have another one Bob de Jong, from whom we expect also very much. We'll see where it ends, but you know where I am this evening!

The I have to show you an award I received from Minky

http://thecontinentofsulina.blogspot.com/
http://thestarchildrenproject.blogspot.com/

 

Thanks Minky, it's a beautiful one! 

I suppose I will have to pass it through to a few blogs, well, I know the first one, may be not the real intention for an award, but I think it's deserved, I know i give it to myself too because I am a little part of it, but I forget that LOL)

I give it to our forum, because of the daily downloads, I think the ladies in the team do an excellent job, so there you go:

http://www.magickalscraps.com/bb/index.php

http://magicalrealitydesigns.blogspot.com/
http://cajoline-scrap.blogspot.com/
http://creadorena.blogspot.com/
 http://wishing-onastarr.blogspot.com/
 I will leave it to these blogs, although I could make a large list, but my time is also running out a bit.
I'll have to do some shopping, and I must take my time for it, not running too hard, just easy pace, cause I am not yet 100%. Don;t know what it is, it;s not lack of sleep, I had enough the last couple of days. Must be the time of year, just between winter and spring, I always seem to have problems somehow a bit. Well, let's not worry about it, I will survive, I just want to and so it will be LOL!
So I will take a bit more time for the shopping and then tomorrow just some little housework and I even don;t think about the day after that. I will tell tomorrow.
So it's time to give you the second part of the Blacksmith. Hope the link will work right away, if not, you give me a message and I will post it again.
Have a lovely day.

Download    HERE part 2

A "golden"week-end

Goodmorning everybody!

I did have some nice visits from Mr Sandman and it was really necessary! So you can imagine we didn;t do a lot during the weekend LOL! But we watched, of course the Olympics and it was a great weekend for us Dutchies! We have won two golden medals, yeah. One on the 1500 mtr speedskating for men and on on the 1500 mtr for women! We were a bit hoping for a medal, but never could have predicted that it would be twice a golden one! Oh it was exciting and being in suspense till the last minute!
I even did a bit of designing in between the sleeping sessions and olympics LOL. I am rather busy with the DD for the forum, working a few months ahead, which is great. It gives you a bit more time to make them, and we can go on till the month of October. Yeah, we DO some work there, and the kits are all soooo different, really exciting to see with what themes everybody comes up and colourschemes and then also to see how they are interpreted by everyone. I can already promise you there will some great stuff to collect!

Now today I have a kit that I splitted in two parts. I started with some papers with a metal texture, just to see how it looked like, not bad, I thought and suddenly the theme came into my head and so it's named "The Blacksmith". Hope you can make something with this kit, it surely was great fun to make it.
Now let's see if I can do today a bit of stuff in the house, and also do some more designing. For dinner I don;t have to do much, yesterday I made a big portion of macaroni with cheese and ham, so I only have to put it in the oven. Easy-peasy and even tastes good!
You all have a lovely day!

Download   HERE part 1   mediafire or you can download on 4-shared  HERE

Send Mr. Sandman in !

Goodmorning everybody!

What is it with us folks that when we want to we cannot get the sleep we need and otherwise too! If I look at my cats they don;t seem to suffer much of this problem!
I did go at a rather normal time for me to bed yesterday, but woke up, having the feeling I slept already a few hours, but looking at the clock only had about 1 1/2  hour. I know myself, so I better stand up then and take something to drink and sit around for a while, as I did. Finally after some time I got a bit sleepy again, hoorray, back to bed, woke up this morning and saw I woke up far before the alarm should go off. But then better I stand up, and take it as it is, otherwise I would end up with a headache.
Definately not the night I had in mind! Don;t feel too sorry for me, I just had to get it out of my system, LOL!
We hope for a better night today.
On the designing part not going all too much better. I did some work on a daily download but that was all. But who knows, may be that will go better in the weekend.
It isn;t that bad if you cannot sleep as you want , but after some time you are feeling a bit quaky, that's all.
Reading over this post, I realize it isn't a very uplifting one for my readers. Okay, I will try to have a better post after the weekend.
I still have a small kit for you, may be that will give you a better feeling, it's named "Fairies Holiday Spot". Have some fun with it, enjoy your weekend, and send Mr. Sandman my way today and the next few days too please!

Download    HERE