Probably long post and anniversairy!

Goodmorning everybody!

I will start with the anniversairy! Today Jan and me are together for..............20 years!!! Can you imagine, how long that is already??? I hardly can believe it myself! Yeah, 20 years ago we went to a birthday party, I almost dragged him into the taxi home and never did let him go LOL! Amazing how things can change your life.

That said, I have things to show from several visitors, or at least giving you links to their blogs, and I truly would appreciate it, if you took the trouble to visit them. It's not all without compensation, lots of goodies to download there for you!
Let's start with Mat, she has made some wonderful layouts with some of my kits, you can see it HERE, and a cluster and border from the Far away World kit, that you can download at Miriam's Scrap.

Then Linda has made a beautiful quickpage with the Touch of Tenderness kit, you can get it on her blog HERE (may be because of time difference she didn;t post it yet, try it later again).

Then Kay started her own blog and and designed a lovely kit that you can download  HERE

I don;t think this a bad way to start your Friday with!!! I hope I didn;t forget anybody or anything, but if so, let me know!

It's going to be a little bit exciting day today, cause Jan is going to telephone a bit later to apply for a job in the health care again. After a few years of not having a job ( lucky we could afford that at that point), caused by his health problems and somewhat later because of me, having some health problems too(yes, we ARE growing a bit older). I hope he will get an interview and who knows, may be for once he will be lucky and gets this job right away. If he succeeds, he will feel himself even better, I am sure of that. Will not be easy at start, to get used to the work again, but it would be great. Everybody cross fingers for him, cause now a days it isn;t very easy to get a job, certainly not if you are in your late 50's!

I had hopes to catch a whee bit of sun yesterday, but of course, I planned it and then things almost always go different, LOL. Not that it wasn;t lovely weather, it was great! But early afternoon I started to prepare dinner first(stuffed long paprika, with minced meat, it was yummie) and Jan went for a llittle walk, I did a bit of ironing, dusting in the house, vacuum cleaning, typed a new CV for Jan in Open office, I printed it out and if necessary I can mail it to his "future-boss", I hope.

After I done all that, the sun was still there, but not shining anymore on the terrace, so sunbathing will be for another time.

It's not over with all the goodies yet! Arlene has made again wome wonderful clusters, with the Touch of Tenderness kit and offers them freely to you.

You can download them  HERE

By the way, you've noticed of course I changed my bloglayout again. Also made with the Touch of Tenderness kit.

Now it's almost time to wake up Jan, so he will be in time to make his call, and I have to get busy over here too. Should do just a few grocerie shoppings, not much, but a few things I still need to have.
Well, I just can say I have enough to do, and also want to spend a bit of time at the computer too.
So I bid you"Happy weekend", and offer you this kit : "Through Dark Ages".
Have fun with it!

Download      HERE

More and more looking like Spring

Goodmorning everybody!

Although not very sunny, Monday was still a nice day, and I even did some work in the garden. I had a pile of pruning stuff and leaves and all lying in a corner, and I have now two big plastic sacs standing in another corner, filled with it. So Today we can put it outside on the street, to be picked up by the truck that collects all the garbage . Yeah, good job.
Yesterday was grocerie time shopping again, well, it was also cloudy, but still rather nice outside. And it looking even better for the days to come.
Today still is cloudy, perhaps in the afternoon we will see a bit of sun, but tomorrow should be a great day. Sun and temps around 60 F!! It will not stay all week like this, but we will grab what we can LOL! May be I can sit outside for a moment in the sun, starting to have some colour back on the face, because it's looking really white at the moment, yak!
Today we will make it market day, I'll see if I can get us some veggies for a nice price, also need potatoes, bit of cheese, great things to buy at the market. May be even some seeds again for the garden. Jan is really enjoying seeding and growing the plants, and why not let him? We still have some pots to fill, so I certainly take a good peek at the flowerstand( and it's soooooo tempting!).

I receieved again a lot of clusters and QP's from Arlene, I told you she made some from the "A Breeze"kit, those I will post now. But she also made lots comining other kits, and you are in for a treat, I promise you. I will post them gradually, today the Breeze-ones.

Download     HERE

And another treat for you, made by Linda, also with the A Breeze kit, a lovely QP. You can go to her blog, to download it.

Ha, today we can watch a new episode of one of our favourite series at the moment. It's called "Larkrise to Candleford", serie of the BBC, I just LOVE it.

The series is set in the small Oxfordshire hamlet of Lark Rise and the wealthier neighbouring market town of Candleford towards the end of the 19th century. The series chronicles the daily lives of farm workers, craftsmen, and gentry, observing the characters in loving, boisterous, and competing communities of families, rivals, friends, and neighbours.

The narrative is seen through the eyes of a teenage girl, Laura Timmins (Olivia Hallinan), as she leaves Lark Rise to start a new life under the wing of her cousin, the independent and effervescent Dorcas Lane (Julia Sawalha), who is Post Mistress at the local Post Office in Candleford. Through these two characters, viewers experience the force of friendship as Laura and Dorcas see each other through the best and worst of times.

If you want to see or know more bout it, just Google the title and I believe you even can see a lot of episodes on You-Tube.

So our evening looks to be good again, LOL, but first we will have to make it a lovely day. So time to get dressed and prepare for the market.
Not before leaving you with another kit, "Touch of Tenderness"
Have yourself a beautiful day!

Download     HERE

Hope the flue keeps away from us.

Goodmorning everybody!

We spent a nice weekend overhere, not done much, but that's oh so nice. Well, I did first on Friday a bit of the house stuff, but the weekend days were spent most on designing, watching tv, a quick look into the garden and being happy with the careful arrival of Spring. Definately is looking it is very near! Yesterday there was some nice sunshine and in our town there was taking place a yearly event, the City Pier City run, and they had wonderful weather for it. It's a run for professionals ( half a marathon)and also for amateurs,( also could do half the marathon, but also only 10 km, 5 km, and for the kids 2,5 and even 1 km) who just like to do some sport. I believe in all there were 33.000 people taking part!

Jan went out in the afternoon to take a look at the parcours, that wasn;t very far from our house, I should have gone with him, because it was real nice weather but I was just too lazy! When he was gone, I prepared dinner for the evening and when that was done, I went on with a kit I started. And nice coincidance, he met Heidi on the way. 

I have to have knock wood, but till now we are free from the flue bug and I just hope it stays that way! Just read that Miriam and husband are suffering from it and also Edna catched a bad cold during her holiday. And I read and here it more, so for every one suffering from the flue or bad colds, : quick and happy healing!

Now today the weather is looking good too, we even have the garden doors open at the moment. And Jan is becoming almost a real gardener, LOL. Just now he is planting some bulbs into a large pot outside, it are lilies, just dwarf ones, in a nice soft pink colour. I hope they will do it well.

I am really late today, I slept till late in the morning, so should be doing a not too long post.
I have today again a surprise download for you, from Arlene again. She made some wonderful clusters with the Magical Fairy Spring kit.
Here previews and downloadlinks:

 Download     HERE

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I think she is doing a real amazing job, and there's more in store for you from Arlene, just received another mail with some adorable clusters and qp's with the A Breeze kit, but they will have to wait till another blogpost.

Then time for a kit too! Kit is in browns this time, could be great for some heritage scrapping, perhaps. Have to leave you know, I should get dressed now and have a sandwich and then I'll see what I will do today. Perhaps I will be active, or perhaps not, LOL!
Have a wonderful day!

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It's definately garden work-time

Goodmorning everybody!

What did I do the past days? I think I was rather busy, on all different things LOL!
Wednesday I did some of the ironing and even managed to get most of it into the closet too, Then had to some email, received also some wonderful work, made with some of my its, but cannot give you the link to the maker of it, cause I don;t have it. Cassie made some great tags, here a couple of them:

She did sent me more, but you get an idea how lovely she makes them. Thanks to you, Cassie!

Then Arlene was real busy again and made a bunch of clusters with the Magical Fairy spring, but I didn;t had really time to make the preview and upload them, so you will have to wait till Monday, then I will definately post them.

Oh and take a look a Linda's other blog, where she used the Souvenir d'Autrefois kit for her bloglayout!!! http://www.scrapswithoutscraps.blogspot.com

Also started to work on new kits, also not uploaded, I running behind!!!!!!
Yesterday, when I came home, Jan told me with a big grin on his face, that he planted some of the bulbs we bought some days ago. But the wicked guy didn't want to tell me where he planted them!
It would be a nice surprise for me when they start to flower, he said! And I couldn;t find the spots, cause he arranged the soil in a way I couldn;t see where he had worked!!
Then Jan went out to buy a present for a friend and I decided it was nice enough weather to go into the garden and do some work too! I pruned the roses, the hydrangea, and did some cutting on plants that can do now without bloomed and dried parts. Pfffffffffff, I could feel I didn;t do gardenwork for a long time, but I will get used to it again ROFL. Still some more to do, specially need to cut off a lot of ivy, that is always growing like mad, but I think I will need some help from Jan for it too. All together, the garden seems almost ready for spring now, looks quite neat now.
For today I just have to do some things here in the house, like the vacuum cleaner dance, grin, but that's okay.
Today and the following weather forecast is not too bad at all, may be we could make a little walk, it's good for the mind, it's good for the condition, and may be even good for some photos from some starting spring, who knows?
It's still not too late, so I will have a bit of time left to play around in PSE and may be even upload some stuff. Then first thing is get dressed and the house, and I also should make an appointment at the hairdresser, the hair really needs another cut now!!!
Before leaving you, here I have another kit for you, named "A Breeze".
Have a lovely weekend!!!

Download     HERE

Lots to show, lots of surprises.

Goodmorning everybody!

Monday I finally did some of the housework, yeah! A laundry, and changing of bedsheets, with removing the matras and boards under it, to give a good sweep with the vacuum cleaner under it, the bedroom took me a bit of time, but it was satisfying LOL.
Jan re-potted the tomatoe plants, they are still small, but steadily growing, may be they will even grow to real plants with some tomatoes on them, grin.

Yesterday was shopping day, some things always run out quicker than you think. It was a bit of grey day, today I think it will be cloudy too, may be again with a bit of rain, but........if they are right at the weather forecast by the end of the week temps will rise again and may be even reach around 53 F! With some sunshine to it too! Can't wait to see it happen, it might even look as if Spring is peeping around the corner. And if so, it will be a good time to plant the bulbs we bought and do some pruning, in short... garden time!
Today will be a quiet day, probably, but I promised myself to do some ironing, sigh sigh, better do it now, I hate it when the pile grows too big, ROFL.
Now some other things to tell and show. Got a few mails with nice surprises.
First one about a nice lady who told me she used my Dolce Ricordo kit (you can find that one under the freebies of August 2011) for a bloglayout. She is offering on her blog bloglayouts, and other things, take a look there, the link is http://sheadylandesigns.blogspot.com. 

Then I have some real beautiful quickpages for you from Linda. She made them with the kits Souvenir d'Autrefois (you can find the kit here) and you can download them on her blog
Here the previews, and if you download....well, you know the trick.....leave a little thank you!

And then there is Arlene, yeah, again LOL! She made some fun clusters and a page with the kit A Day in tom Kitten's Life and I can offer them to you! That lady is sooooo quick, the ink of my blogpost(well, matter of speaking then hahaha) is hardly dry and hopla, I find some beautiful clusters in my mail.
I can say it everytime over and over again, but it's the truth! I feel so proud that people like the stuff I make and see the results of their work, and that's one of the things that keeps me going, also part of that your visits and comments I receive, all that together brings little smiles to my face!
Here the preview from Arlenes work and don;t you forget a little word!

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There are already such goodies for you, that it seems too much to post a freebie kit today!!!
No, just joking, I have one for you. I returned for a moment to fairy land, which I visited much more frequent when Minky still was around, but every now and then I get fairy-tickles again, so here is
"Magical Fairy Spring". Have fun with it.
And have a wonderful day!!

Download      HERE

Missed a great photo shot!

Goodmorning everybody!

Friday, after posting, I went for the shopping and yes, I had my pizza at dinner. And in the afternoon I tackled just a few housekeeping things and that was it.

Saturday we started real slow. Took our time to wake up, LOL, had some coffee, a sandwich , quick shower, got dressed and finally we made a walk to the market. Although there wasn't much sun, the temperature was real nice. And a lot of people had the same idea, oh whee, it was really crowded there.

But it was nice to walk there, take a look here and there at some stands, we didn;t buy much, but......... Jan has some work to do in the garden again. There was the stand with A LOT of bulbs and seeds, and of course I took a look. Bought two little seedpscks with summerflowers and there was an offer for 4 sacks of different bulbs(they had a big choice in them), for € 5,00, and Jan and I made a choice out of them.

Now Jan can already start growing the seeds inside, and somewhere this month he can put the bulbs in the soil in the garden. I am afraid I will have to accompanie him in this, mainly, because I surely have to make a bit of place for them and I don´t trust him completely in replacing some plants that will be for sure in his way LOL!

Oh, I missed a great photoshot while we were at the market. Although I had my little camera with me, it was still in my pocket, so not ready to `shoot`immediately. Okay, we were walking at the ´veggies`part and in a glance I saw something strange. I took a good look and saw a lady walking there, with a parrot on her shoulder. Not attached with a line of something, he was sitting all free and it looked as if he had a real good time.! It was a mainly green one and of a good size! Now isn´t that funny to see or not? And by the time I realized what I´ve seen, the lady and parrot have disappeared in the crowd and ......gone a great picture!

Sunday was our leisure day, ROFL, I spent a lot of time at the computer, uploading some stuff, designing some stuff, great! Also received another gift from Arlene, so you are in for a treat again. But ladies, I saw that she had over about 150 downloads of her clusters last time and only some thank you´s for it. Now that isn`t very nice of you.!!!! I am used to it slowly, that it seems a hard thing to do for people to leave a short thank you when downloading something, but it hurts me a bit to see the same happening to Arlene. ( not including here the VERY nice ones, that do take a moment to leave a little comment).
So come up, you downloaders, it`s all offered for free here, why cannot you return the favour by leaving a small comment??????
Nevertheless, Arlene sent me new clusters, made with my kit Spring is Knocking on the Window. And I can offer them to you, just as freebie!!!
Here they are:

Download     HERE

I think they are really sweet, she did a great job!

Time for me to end this post, I did plan to do some work around here, it´s not playing time every day ROFL! But I have also a freebie for you, another one made with some sweet pictures of a Beatrix Potter story. It´s about Tom Kitten, so I named the kit `A day in Tom Kitten´s Life, not the brightest title for the kit, but it will have to do LOL.
Have a wonderful day and be nice!

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I have a surprise for you!

Goodorning everybody!

Oh, I went out out for the shopping on Wednesday, weather was rather good, so it was good for me to take some air. Nothing spectacular to report about that, though!

The matter that still keeps our minds busy is the health condition of our Queen's son. It's not that you keep thinking of it all the time, but every now and then it pops into the mind.
Yesterday we got the news on tv, that he was transported to a hospital in London( where the prince and his family have residence), but no change in his condition. He still is in coma and they cannot tell when or if he will awaken from it, and if so, his recovery will be very difficult, because he suffered serious brain damage. So all together not very happy news.

Oh, boy, how could I forget this! Jan wrote his first email ever! A while ago he met two young girls in the cafe, they live just across  our street, and the girls of about 20 years old left now for about 6 months to Spain, which has something to do with their study. And they were so nice to send us an email telling about their time there and of course Jan had to answer that. With a little help from me(LOL) he managed to send a message to them. I could see he was all proud about himself, grin!

I also received a suprise in my mail from a visitor, Arlene. She made some clsuters and qp's from my kit Far away World, and as she hasn't a blog of her own, she wrote me that I could offer those as freebie on my blog. Now isn;t that nice?
And I will have probably more to tell and show you about another visitor of my blog, but that will be for a bit later. It almost feels as if I have my own CT, ROFL. No, I don;t have one, but just the feeling of it makes me kind of proud. Yes, I am nuts at times, I know. But it is wonderful to be able to feel happy for a moment just because of a little mail with surprise.
Okay, first I will give you the previews and links for Arlene's work and if you download leave a little thank you for her in the shoutbox or comment box!!
And then I also have a kit for you, of course. I thought we could do with a bit of cheerful kit, and that resulted into this one "Spring is Knocking on the Window".
Off I go, after another cup of coffee, have to go out to get some medicin from the pharmacy, and get some last things from the supermarket. I think it will be pizza time for me this evening for dinner.
Have a wonderful weekend!

Download clusters     HERE

Download   QP's    HERE

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