Must make this a bit quick

Goodmorning everybody!

Later today I;ll have to go to my year check up appointment for my epilepsy, so I don;t have all the time of the world. Funny, that just this weekend I had some trouble from it, well, I can tell the specialist about it, but I am used to it.
I should have known that it might happen, cause Friday I was much too busy. When possibly I will have some trouble with my absences, one or two days before I get an attak of vigorous cleaning LOL!
So Friday i first did the weekend shopping, okay that's normal, but then I also did a good dusting, then a good vacuum cleaning and above that I even washed the curtains and while they were drying I even did the windows. Too much in short time, but it looks good.
So Saturday and Sunday too, I had to take it easy, I had some naps in between and already yesterday I was free of it, but still feeling a bit tired. And today it should be all normal again.
Hopefully it stays away now for longer time, and I will be happy.

As I slept a bit longer today, I don;t have all the time of the world to post, still have to get dressed and so and hopefully I can take the tram to hospital. This weekend they were working on the rails and whatever more(most of it during the night, how wonderful!), so they had a bus riding instead.
But all should ride normally today again. If not, it's een no problem I walk to the hospital, I think it takes about 15 minutes. We'll see what I will do.

Arlene did sent me some lovely clusters she made with the Easter kit, but as you can understand, I didn;t have much computer time this weekend, so I couldn;t put them together, make a preview and upload them. You;ll have them exr time. But I have some other ones from Arlene for you.

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And this new month we will start with a "daily download" serie. I thought it might be nice to make something for "the guys", and came up with a kit named "Men's Emporium". Hope you will be able to use it for scrapping some pics of the men in your life LOL!
I have 6 prts for you, but I may give you the next days more than one download, however today we start with just part 1 okay? Have to get busy here, so I wish you a fabulous day and till Wednesday!

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Work to do.

Goodmorning everybody!

As I was very lazy yesterday, and played a lot at the computer, I'll have to make up to it today LOL!
So first there's the shopping and then the room etc. cries out for me with "I need a sweep with the vacuum cleaner and the dustingcloth"!!!!!!!! Amongst other things.
Oh, I received a mail yesterday from the office supply shop, that they would go on with another candidate for the job. Of course I was a little disappointed, but I already expected it to be so. Okay, have to see if there might be another part time job for me. Jan still didn;t hear about his appplication for the nightshift, which I find a bit strange, to say the least! He called them Wednesday, then the person he needed wasn;t there, yesterday he phoned them again, then she was in a meeting, he asked to be called back, but still nothing. So he will try again today.

Wednesday we did go to the market, it was ever so nice weather for it, and came home with not too many things, but okay. Bought there 5 kg. of potatoes, bag of onions, a Chinese cabbage, some sweet paprika, and for very cheap 6 rolls of kitchen paper, oh and some apples. Good we didn't buy anymore, cause by them my shopping car was completely filled.

Yesterday and today weather isn;t that nice anymore, it is colder by several degrees, almost no sun, it's a pity, but they say next week temps will go up again, however, the forcast is different when you look at different ones. Very confusing, for simple human beings like me LOL!

I promised you an Easter kit for today, and so it will be, it's named Easter Sweetness. And then you will have to scroll down a bit more to find some lovely clusters and a page made by Arlene with the "Brief Moment" kit. And there's also a link to Miriam's Scrap again, where you can find a lovely goodie from Miriam herself and then two more QP's made by Mat with my Earth to Sky kit. So you are having some treats to help you through the weekend LOL!
Have a wonderful weekend, stay safe and healthy, see you on Monday again!

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Market day today.

Goodmorning everybody!

Well, today probably will be the last real sunny and warmer day, next few days weather will change a bit and will get colder again. But I saw that by next week temps will go up again, so no need to get drpressed LOL. As it will be a good day to walk we planned to go to the market, again, and hopefully we will be able to find some stuff to fill the freezer again, mainly veggies, and for a good price, of course.

Monday was a quiet day, but yesterday I was in full activity again ROFL. As usual, first the shopping, in the mean time I let the washing machine do its job, so when I was home again, I could hang the stuff outside. And this was a good time to change the bedsheets and duvet covers too, with an empty machine.
And so I did! Even did a little bit of work in the garden, not much, but now is the time that you see something to do, every time you take your little walk through the garden.
Also found soe time to finish another kit and start with another. And..............I have more of Arlene's clusters for you!
She made some with the Call it Olive Green kit, so I will post them today, and next time I will have some "Various clusters" from her for you again.

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And if you would like some great quickpages, then go to Miriam's scrap, where Mat has posted some, made with my From Earth to Sky kit.
And if you like one more, go to Miss Edna's Place, where you can pick up a lovely QP she made for a qp-challenge!

On top of this all, I also have a kit for you. No. not an Easter kit, that will be for Friday, I think, but a sweet kit in blues, named "Magic of Blue".
Have a wonderful day, thanks for your visits and comments, ( I have the feeling I don;t write that enough).

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Gold, Silver Bronze weekend and a hard task!

Goodmorning everybody!

Weather has been good to us, although the "underground"of the air is still a bit fresh, when you are in the sun it is lovely weather!
So in between watching the WC speed skating this weekend, we also enjoyed a bit the sun in the garden, I even planted some seeds, some of climbing sweet peas, then also a species that will grow till about 50 cms. high, and I've tried my hands on peas this year LOL. Very curious if they will come up and will give us some peas!!!
Oh whee, the skating was very succesful for our Dutch team, we got 14 medals in total, of which were 5 golden, 5 silver and 4 bronze ones! There are hopes then for the Olympic wintergames yeah!

I received an award from Miss Edna's place!!

Rules are very simple. First, you must thank the person giving the award.  Well, thanks Edna for thinking of me! Next, you must share seven things you think people might find interesting about you and select seven fellow bloggers to give the award to(let them know by a quick message, of course). And this is the hard part of it. Not even to find 7 fellow bloggers, but to tell you 7 things about me, you might find interesting and do not know yet. I will give it a try, but it isn;t easy!

Let's start with fellow bloggers:

http://matsscrapbooking.blogspot.com/
http://miriams-scrap.blogspot.com/
http://linda-ohwhatfun.blogspot.com/
http://bonscrapatitdesigns.blogspot.com/

Yes, I am perhaps lazy, but couldn;t come up with more blogsThese are the ones I almost visit every day)  so It has to stay like this.

Now 7 things about me
1) When I was a little girl of about 4 years I had a big passion, that was ballet dance! As my mother did that, and gave lessons, I watched well and every evening after dinner I had my half hour of ballet. Mama even made me a real tutu for it. And I was serious about it, oh yeah. But, although I took lessons with my mother when I was a little bit older it never came to it that I wanted to make my profession out of it.

2) I am in general a very quiet person, lots of things are going round in my mind though LOL. But at times when I get very excited and cross about something, I can be very (!) hot-tempered, mostly when I have the feeling I am treated not right, or un-fair. I've learned a bit to control that, but sometimes ........ And then I am not nice at all!

3) I finished my secondary school when I was 18, it was a great one, called at that time the MMS, Middelbare Meisjesschool (this doesn;t excist anymore), but it was a great one, cause you had a very broad education, all foreign languages,(French, English and German) history, biologie, geography, art-history, music, mats, chemistry and physiscs, (those a bit less, but extended basics), it really was a great education, and after that I did one year  of Trade school, as it was called, where we had commercial correspondence in all 3 foreign languages and of course Dutch, and to it even typing and short hand.
After that I went working at administration at the firm, where my father worked, I was lucky, cause just at that time a girl left because she was pregnant and her place had to be filled in. Well, I stayed there for 29 years!

4) Creativity I got from my mother, together we did a lot of things, like painting, drawing, we spent hours painting Russian icons or scenes out of Russian fairy tales, my mother mostly did painting, I very much liked pen drawing. We even managed to have a few small exhibitions with our work.

5) Started to play the piano when I was 8. I was rather good at it, won some prizes, but never had the ambition to make it my profession.

6) Like Edna, I also would like to write a little book LOL. But although I have lying around a start for it, I don;t know if it ever will come to bloom. Perhaps deep down in my heart I am uncertain if I could do it, and then also questions come up like: How to get it published, where to go and if somebody would publish it, how to be certain you are not cheated?? I think I have the problem of not being self-assured enough about my possibillities and qualities.

7) I love nature, I love animals, and in general I love people, am not the most talkative person in company, but like to listen to people and watch them.

I am sure I forgot to mention things, but gave it my best LOL.

On to blog-business now! Make a visit to Miriam's blog where there are posted again some goodies, as by Mat, using again one of my kits.
Then Arline has more goodies for you,

Download Various Clusters 3 Here
And to complete this blogpost I have another kit for you named "Call it Olive Green"
Have a great day!

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Wow, more good weather!

Goodmorning everybody!

It definately is looking bright outside. Oh, how lovely it is, to wake up in the morning, opening the curtains and looking at a sunny world!
Jan applied for another job yesterday, he did it almost completely himself, meaning he typed the letter for it on the computer, LOL. It's a big thing for him, but if he does that every now and then, he will have some experience (well, at least he will know the basics)and that never can hurt.
This job is for help in nightshifts in a smaller elderly home, 7 days on and 7 days off. It would be a great job for him, he likes evening and nightshifts.
In the mean time I was chatting with Heidi. Yes, she did come over and it was real nice to be together for a while again. And we could do our chat sitting in the garden, enjoying the sun. She brought me some garden magazines, we always exchage them if we have them.
And of course she didn;t leave without a couple of cutlings from plants in my garden LOL.
I really hope they will grow nicely.

Today I am a little bit in a hurry, cause I want to do the weekend shopping before early afternoon. Why that? Because there are the World Championships speed skating per distance. It alreaady started off yesterday, but the broadcast was late afternoon and early evening. Well, it wasn;t yet a great succes for the Dutch team yet although we managed to get a bronze medail on the 3000 mtr. for women.
But today some of our best skaters will compete on different distances and we have good hope that we can win a few medails. Have to be ready to watch this mid-afternoon.!

During the skating it will be a good time to turn the washing machine on, may be I can even hag the laundry outside to dry. It sure would give the laundry an extra freshness.
Before we jump to a goodie from Arlene, I will give you the link to 2 quickpages from Mat, she made with the Satisfaction kit. You go to Miriam's blog for the download, and while you are there, scroll a bit down, cause Miriam herself made some lovely goodies, now that she has recovered from a bad flue.

Now here the clusters and a quickpage by Arlene, from the Fairy Princess kit.I think they are beautiful!

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And don;t worry, I too have something for you LOL! A kit, in a bit vintage style, named "Brief Moment". Now I just have time to do a bit of work on a new kit, but then I have to get moving, to have done all before the skating begins.
Have a lovely weekend!!

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My first sun-sitting!

Goodmorning everybody!

Unbelievable, may be, but Monday I made a little promise(to myself), and I kept it LOL! Oh yeah, all the laundry is gone, I did the ironing, and all is on it's right place in the closet. And I even re-arranged a little bit the spare room, well, not all but it's a start. In between I got a phonecall from Heidi( she must have been telepathic, cause I was thinking of her and said to myself I would call her later that afternoon!) and I even made it a short call, cause I wanted to get on with the laundry. We made an appointment for tomorrow, she will come by and then we have some time to chat.

Then yesterday I did the shopping, well, most of it, and.........big news..........applied for a part time job in a book- and office supply store. Not really something in the line of work I have done, but I like those kind of stores. I am not expecting to get the job, but if you don;t try you'll never get something. Hahahaha, I even wrote in my letter, that regarding my CV it wasn't directly in my line of work, but that I would be a very enthousiastic and motivated candidate, and that I didn;t feel ready yet, to be "out of the picture" ( if you should translate our expression for it as it is it would be"not ready to sit behind the pelargoniums").
Not good news for Jan either, he got an rejection to his appliance. Well, it would have been too much to be lucky the first time, so today he will write for another one. He always can go to a work agency for flex-work and then I am sure he will get work, but it would be better to get a job for steady right away.
So, we are not desperate, we knew it would take some time, specially because we aren;t the youngest anymore.

Oh yes, after I came home from the shopping, I really needed something to eat, so made myself a sandwich and went into the garden, put a chair on a sunny spot and took my first sun-sitting this year, LOL. Oh my, it was real nice and perhaps I will do that today too. Might just be for 15 minutes, but that's okay. We really have a few days of real spring feeling. Jan is like the "motherhen", putting his seedlings in the sun at daytime and when the evening comes he takes them in again. grin-grin.
But he is right, the nights are still too cold to let them stay outside.
With all those things we keep ourselves busy enough besides the puzzling, computering, etc.

I have some more clusters from Arlene for you (made from various kit, she also sent some made from the Fairy Princess kit, but I will have to make a preview and upload it first).
Goody, almost forgot to say, my friend Edna put up some more parts of her kit for March on her blog, in collaboration with Su, to find on suruha-freespirit.com/
On Edna's blog you should scroll a bit down to find it!
Okay, here's the preview of Arlene's goodie: (even with a quickpage in it!)

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And here a little kit for you, "Just Smile" ( something we should try to do every day at some time).
Have a great day!!!

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Getting sunnier and warmer.

Goodmorning everybody!

Oh, I enjoyed the weekend, I promised myself to do almost nothing and I kept my promise LOL!
I spent a lot of time at the computer, found some music I can burn on a cd( mostly "Oldies"), but also finished a whole new kit again and made previews of clusters from Arlene, and I know you will love them!
More clusters are made, by Mat, that she offers on Miriam's blog.
Then you could make a visit to Mat's own blog, showing some lovely layouts and if you are on Facebook, she's there too with a beautiful layout.

Well, yesterday I mailed the Jan's application for the job, now we will have to wait if they will call him for an interview or may be better, to come to work. Sure hope it will be a succes right from the start.

We should be ready for some real nice weather here, they promised us temps will go up again a bit, with some days of sunshine, is it really going to happen???? Today looks good, sun is shining, lots of blue in the sky, yippieeeeeeeeeee, I can dig that. It makes me feel right away more energetic, not saying that I will go through the house like a mini tornado, ROFL, but I definately want to do some ironing today and what's more, I really want to get it all in the closets and have the impression that the "spare"room looks a bit tidy. ( I know that is wishful thinking, cause there are always things in it, that have no place in the rest of the house, grin, grin, but I can tidy it all a bit up, re-arrange it and it will look much better).

Had a wonderful time yesterday evening, watching another episode of my present favourite program, Larkrise to Candleford. Such a pity it only lasts about an hour!Then we watched a weekly quiz,and after that a recorded episode of Silent Witness, and after that I was ready to go to bed. !
Woke up after a sound sleep at about 2 o'clock at night, went back to bed at 3 and slept sound and well again till 08.15 this morning. It was a bit crowded in the bedroom you could say, not only Jan and I were there, but also out two cats, lazy creatures as they are LOL! One at the footend and the other on the window-sill. What a life those cats have! They lay around for hours, then with difficulty stand up, make a walk in the garden, lay around in the sun again, when they are hungry, food is provided, and go to sleep again. Oh, they are a tiny little bit more active, cause we already had twice a little present, can you guess???? Yes, a little mouse. Hard to be grateful to them, but you have to be enthousiastic about it and tell them they are great hunters! It's in their nature, and we have to be realistic, but it always makes me feel a little bit sad when I see the dead little mouse.

Let's go to your goodies for today. First some lovely clusters and quickpage made by Arlene, with the Dark Age kit. Thanks Arlene, again!

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And I know, I am spoiling you, but I will put on some more clusters made by Arlene from various kits of mine.!!!

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Then I have a kit for you, I;ve made by request of Natalia, she wanted to have something to scrap some special pages for her little girl, something a bit princess like, with some sprakles and such, so I hope I succeeded in this "Fairy Princess kit".
Now I am going to enjoy this day, sunny and all, you have a fantastic day too!

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