Lots created, and visit on Sunday

Goodmorning everybody!

It's a bit akward typing for me at the moment with Dikkie Dik on my lap LOL! But we try to make not too many mistakes.

Weekend had some lovely weather, but we didn;t go on a long walk or so. But we could open the garden doors and let some fresh air into the room. I did went out for a moment on Saturday, and it felt really good outside.
And yesterday I thought to give the room a quick sweep with the vacuum cleaner, I always wonder from where all the dust flocks and such come from. Of course with two cats, it also adds to the mess on the floor.
Just started with it yesterday and then the door bell rang, and it was Heidi with Séverine. It was nice to see them again and we had a nice chat about all kind of things. When she left, she had a lot of stuff to carry with her on her motorised bike( not a motorbike, but a bike with and little engine, it's a different thing). We had still a complete new electric gourmet, never use it, but she sometimes has a dinner with that. So she could use it, her current one wasn;t working anymore as it should. Remeber the little helicopter Jan won in the cafe? Oh whee, that was something for Séverine! I also had a completely new fleece vest from Jan, he never wears it, so we gave that to Heidi. I know she loves that kind of stuff, it's so comfy and warm at home.
I believe we gave her another thing too, can;t even remember, hahaha.

It was a nice break on Sunday, after she left, I finished the vacuuming and then made kebab from minced beaf meat for dinner. And there was a bit of time left to play on the computer too. Also Saturday was productive.
Made lots of stuff for Minky's special blog, hop over to her blog and you'll know what to do if you like to have some of it.
This time I made several quickpages out of the treats and giftbags Minky offered on her special blog. I show you some of it:

I have more but that will be for another day.
Also finished the November weekly download for the forum and already started on the month of December! Yeah, the flow for the forum is coming back again!
I still have to do a big part of the challenges there, but slowly they will be done.
I am also busy on different kits, and even started on a Christmas kit. I add every now and then something to it, it will be a more or less "traditional"one, but have also plans for another one in a different way. Idea is forming, but not yet completely clear LOL.
Weather looks rather nice today too, bit windy, but that shouldn't be a problem. I'm not making real plans(you know what happens hey?) but it might be a good day to go to the market. perhaps I can persuade Jan to it. I need to have potatoes and some vegetables and it's really worth buying them there. It really has a big difference with the prices in the supermarket! But berfore even thinking of that, I would like to have another coffee and then a nice shower to wake up completely. And of course I have a freebie for you, and it's again something for Halloween. I've made some bragbookpages,  6 in total (I have a crush on bragbookpages at the moment, don;t ask me why!) and today I have the 1st two of "Halloween Fever". I hope I've made them "spooky"enough hahahha!
Well, that's the start of a new week, let's see how it will devellop!
Have a great start of the week!

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The stereo adventure. LOL

Goodmorning everybody!

Jan, courageous as ever, (grin grin!!!) did start to install the"new"stereo. I hate things like that, it always makes in a few minutes such a mess in a room, you know, taking out the old stuff, put away on a couch and the floor, to be able to turn the closet where it is having it's place, etc.
So I asked him if he needed any help from(I hoped he would say "no"), but I could give him a little hand with removing the stuff and then I took off, doing some shopping and really taking my time for it.!!
As I finally came home again, oh wonder, the stereo was installed, only.................................not a single sound came out of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am not good at those things, but together with Jan we checked all the connections, and I couldn;t find anything weird, so Jan was completely puzzled. I must say, that I am completely dedicated to a very SIMPLE kind of stereo, just a button for off and on, a button for searching  the radio stations, perhaps with a memory button, to easy get the ones you like, some possibilities to get the right sound mix(bass and higher tones level), etc. and not all kind of extras.
Why do they have to make things sometimes so complicated, with all kinds of buttons and install memories and whatever, a lot of things a simple human being like for instance ME, never uses that! Now it might help, if you have a manual or simple instruction booklet with it, which we didn;t have!
Can you guess what happened after some time??????
YEAH WE PUT BACK THE OLD ONE, CAUSE THAT WORKED!!  The only thing that we kept and changed was the cd player. LOL!!!!
Probably we just overlooked some little button or had a connection not at the right place, but for the moment we can play music on a turn table, radio, cd player and tapes, on easy to handle stuff. The one from Jan's brother will be put away for a while and when one day Rob will visit us, may be he can check it out and get the other thing working. Jan was rather pissed off, cause he couldn;t understand what he might have done wrong, his remark after the whole operation was: "Why aren't these things working with us the easy way? You know, plug in some connections, which isn;t too hard, and you turn the thing on and it works? We ALWAYS have trouble, there must be hanging a spell above our heads!"
Okay, this was............. the stereo, wheeeeee!!!
 I can laugh about this, well, as long as we can play some music if we want, all okay with me.

We still have really nice weather, it seems to stay a bit this way the next few days, only temperature may go down a bit, well, as long as it is staying around 60 F with sunshine and not much wind we have no reason to complain yet.!  Although the days are shortening, it makes a difference when the sun is shining at the time you wake up. I don;t like it too much to wake up in the morning and it still is dark outside, it seems, as if it makes it harder to really wake up LOL!


There is a new download at our forum again, a new part of the weekly download of the Vintage Halloween. This one will be from Snowy .Don;t forget to collect it.
Today I have a little fantasy kit for you again. Yes, can;t help it, just love to make fantasy things with fairies and such. Is it because I still have somewhere in my systems a child's soul and mind? You know what? I am happy with it. The kit is named "Fairies love Autumn too". Make some nice things with it!!
And have a wonderful weekend!

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Our visit to Rob.

Goodmorning everybody!

Oops, we had our visit to Rob, Jan's brother, yesterday evening.
We took with us my shopping cart, cause we had some stuff for him and why doping difficult and carry things in bags when you have such an easy help around? So we took on time our bus, but had to get out a bit earlier than the stop we wanted, cause there was a diversion, some work on the road. Not nice. And therefor we were for a moment a bit lost inthat nieghbourhood(we don;t come there often). But... after a few times asking where the street was, we arrived. ( I asked Jan to take with him the little road plan I had, to be sure to know how to walk, but he didn;t take it with him LOL).
We had a nice evening, and are all up to date again from the things of his life. He has a little appartment, big enough for him and his son(just 17, difficult age!), he tries his best to keep it in good shape, but still you can see it's the home of two guys LOL!. But I admire him really, how it tries to make a living for himself and his son, he had to bring him up alone, didn;t always have easy times financially and with work. But he manages and the boy never was short of anything.
Rob is such a sweet guy, he hasa real good heart, always ready to help out, without expecting anything back for it.
You might expect we had an easy travel home! Wrong! First, we returned home also with a full shopping cart, because Rob had a complete stereo installation for us, it's was his former one, all in good order and all fitting together. He knew our stuff was a bit a mess of all different labels etc. so he gave this one, It almost all fitted into the cart, one piece I had to carry in a bag. We had to walk a few minutes to arrive at the busstop, were lucky to have to wait only a couple of minutes and then saw the bus coming.............................hey, what's that? ..........taking a turn into another street!!!!!! Oh whee, we forgot that there was a change of route cause of the road repairs! And to walk to the next stop wasn't so far, but the next bus only should come after half an hour! LOL! But not to dispear, we walked a little further and could take the tram there, only had to change from line a few stops further to have the right one that stops close to our house. We were lucky to have right away the connection, but it was a bit chaotic travel back I can say!
Okay, now the stereo stuff is standing on the table here and I suppose Jan is going to install that today and remove the other one. May be I should try to be away, and let him be busy on it and hopefully it will be ready by the time I return, hahahaha! It seems to be easy to connect it all together and in fact, it is. But things never go the simple way in this house LOL, I am almost convinced that one thing or another will not work right away.Am I a pessimist? No, I think more a realist, and........learned from the past wheeeeeeee!
We'll see if I can report tomorrow that it only took a short time to get it all in place and working as it should.!

What about a freebie after this story? Not the worst thing to end a blogpost with. Today I have a little kit for you, a Halloween kit. I named it "Goose Skin". Hope you can make some wonderful layouts with this kit.!
And as it is still quiet here in the house, I may be can get a bit more more work done on a new kit I started and then I have to be out of here!!!
Have a lovely day!

Just to tease you I will show you a backround of the kit in full size!

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Still blessed with lovely weather!

Goodmorning everybody!

As I planned I did the shopping yesterday and oh gosh, what a nice weather it was! You had no idea it was already October! Hmmm, today it looks  a bit less, it even rains a bit, I only hope that will stop in the evening, cause we are going to visit Jan's brother.
It was actually an ordinairy day yesterday, and I can;t remember anything worthwhile to tell LOL.
There are always things happening during a day, or there's often enough some news that is important or interesting etc. but that are usual and even boring things.
I can show you something I;ve made again for Minky's blog ( look for link in sidebar"Minky's Things"), it really is fun to make these.

Oh whee, this is going to be a really short post, no writing inspiaration at all today, and that doesn;t happen too often I think! I better finish up and give you the last part of the |Back of the Roots, then may be I will have a bit of inspiration to start a new kit or so and later today I will prepare already dinner for this evening. We will have to eat a bit earlier, cause of our appointment. I will make my potatoe salad and with it I have yummie shrimps in garlic, that I only have to stir fry in a wok for a few minutes.
It will be a feast meal!
Have a fabulous day!

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A busy couple!

Goodmorning everybody!

Oh my, we were a busy couple yesterday. I just had to wash the curtains hanging in front of the garden doors, they had a strange colour LOL. So took out the ladder and detached them from the hooks and washed them in the washing machine. As it was not bad weather at all, at least it was dry I good hang them outside to dry. And while they were there I wanted to givew the windows a sweep with some water too! As I was filling the bucket Jan took over, he would do that, he said. Wasn't that awefully nice of him?
So him being busy at the windows, I did some serious ironing, then you have to put all at it's place in the closets, after that already prepared the vegetables for dinner, in between grabbed a quick sandwich and did some washing up.
 Some cleaning here and there and then the curtains were almost dry, so Jan could hang them at their place again. It definately looks much better, LOL.
Written down it doesn't look we did much, but it all takes it's time and after that I was happy to sit down for a moment.
Today I have "shopping"day again, filling up the fridge etc. It's not looking as bright as in the weekend outside, but  think it's still not too bad to be outside.

And all the time, at the back of my brain, I thought about my friend Edna and her brother, who are facing a terrible difficult time to come. The worst thing is a person feels herself so helpless in times like that, you cannot do anything to improve the situation, just can put your hope on the doctors and on a Higher Power.

Not a very uplifting post, I suppose, but life isn;t always so nice and easy. And sometimes life reminds you of that in a very crude way.

I better put on your freebie for today and do my things, and sorry for this a bit low spirited post.
Have a good day!

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October started with nice weather

Goodmorning everybody!

Unbelievable but true, we had lovely weather. Well, it also rained, most of it was on Saturday but Sunday it was real nice weather, around 70-75 F, with some wind, but still unbelievable to have this in October. So yesterday we went to a shopping centre a bit further away from us, where there was a fair. These fairs are about all the same LOL, but it's an opportunity to go out and looking around is always fun.
And cause that wasn't far from the place Rob, brother of Jan, lives, naturally we stumbled upon him.We had a little chat and then made at last an appointment to visit him on Wednesday evening.
It was very easy for me to make dinner, because I had left over from Saturday. I bought a "roti with lamb", that is a Surinam food, little chunks of meat, special grean beans and potatoe in a kind of pancake. But a portion always is soo much we usually eat two days of it. Made just some salad with it and voilà, ready!
Then after dinner my hubby already prepared the meat for today, yeah!!!! I told you some time ago he made meatballs. They were not really bad, but not as he wanted them. So I had to buy minced meat for him and he wanted to give it another try. So he did yesterday evening. He gave me a little piece to taste and I think these are better. (I've made a quick picture of him in the kitchen, but don;t have it yet on the computer, LOL).


In between I was busy designing. Also came up with something for the brish challenge on the forum. We had to work with lace brushed and here the result:

 

Some bragbookpages with love quotes.
The word challenge, which was "PATH"this time:

Then I have been busy for Minky's special blog too! Not showing you all of it, but just to let you have an idea. If you like to have it go to the blog and read how you can get to the downloadlinks.

There are more: create your Bragbook kits to find there!

And now I've come to some sad news. Edna is going through a very difficult time at the moment with her brother Moo, who has cancer. It was stable for a time, but now it has come to a time with difficulties and lots more, in the weekend he was brought to a hospital in Boston to undergo an operation, you can all read it on her blog. I would ask everybody to go overthere and leave a little message for her, just as a support. They will both need it a lot for the time coming. And send a little prayer, or perhaps burn a small candle for them.
Thank you!

Time  for your freebie I suppose. Number 3 of the Back to the Roots2.
Have a lovely day.

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New month,new forum downloads, etc.

Goodmorning everybody!

To my surprise Jan already was up when I woke up this morning. Well, it happens sometimes, but I am not used to that LOL! One thing is always nice, I don;t have to make coffee and wait for it to get ready, he already made a pot! Only thing that is tricky, is that he is then already awake and starts talking to me about a cycling event, broadcasted from Australia. I like to watch that too, but don;t start with it when I just have opened my eyes! I suppose you can say, I am suffering of "morning-sickness" a bit. Just give me 10 minutes to get fully awake and have a sip of my coffee and I am okay. When you don't I can be very unpleasant, yeah I know, but it passes quick too!! I just like to get awake in peace and tranquility. Terrible hey?
Well, everybody has some imperfections, this is one of mine LOL!

Not to believe we already arrived at October! Just 3 months to go and the year ends! I wonder where the passed months have gone!
Okay, new month, new thigs at the forum. Today starts a new free download, as we always have. Yesterday however I explained already that we changed that to weekly downloads. Every Friday you will find a part of a collab kit, this month it is "A Vintage Halloween".
Just read Snowy's blog and she already did put up new challenges, didn;t have time yet to go over and take a look at them.  But, who ever likes to join us there and perhaps do some challenges, you're welcome! As you know we have just a little group, but it's a nice place. Link is in the sidebar.

The last couple of days I was busy making some stuff for Minky's special blog and it's such fun to do. She has a kind of crush on the colour purple LOL and I like that colour too a lot. From some of her gifts I made some quickpages, She will post them soon I suppose.

It could be a nice weekend, speaking about the weather. Specially temperature could go up till around 70 F which isn't bad at all for the time of year. Together with a bit of sunshine, may be we can do something nice in the weekend. Making no real plans(never works too good here LOL), but we might go out for a while.
Before I leave you I give you the second part of Back to the Roots-serie 2. Wishing you all a happy and gorgeous weekend!

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