LAST DAY OF THE YEAR

Goodmorning everybody!

And here we finally arrived at the last day of the year 2008. It was not the easiest year for us, although there were the good moments too. Now just let's hope and try also that the next year will bring us health at first place, and some surprises but then GOOD ones.
I had a little phonecall with Heidi yesterday, in which I told her we were not coming to her house to celebrate the New Year. Of course she was a bit disappointed but she also could understand it. I always find it difficult to leave the house at say 22.30 o'clock, just when you are sitting cozy and warm on the couch. But although it may sound weird to you, the main reason for staying home is the cats. Already some fools are blowing some fireworks in the last few days and I notice that he cats are more nervous and itchy even. As long as we are home, they feel safe and you never know what happens, if you're not at home around midnight today. They might startle from something, go out and some fool could hurt them or so. No, I better be home, we probably will close the hatch for a moment around midnight so that they stay inside and I feel much more at ease. It might be stupid, but you have to take care for your pets, isn't it. So Jan and I will be "lonely"at home, but don't pity us, we like it. We can watch whatever we want to, have some nice snacks from the oven and some toasts with smoked salmon and french cheese and so and we will be allright. So funny with me, when the clock strikes 12 I always think back a bit over the years passed by and I always get tears in my eyes. Also when I embrace Jan to wish him all the best for the coming year. I am sometimes a terribly emotional type, it seems!

Okay, may be I will have to do a few little things today, may be quickly a last shopping and then I can spend some time at the computer too. I made another challenge yesterday, I will show it to you in a few days. During my break I made a serie of kits, all about color. We will start with it today, may be in the coming days another kind of kit will pop up in between, but I got that luminous idea all of a sudden, LOL. They are rather "general"kits, very easy to use for all kind of things,which may be useful too, sometimes. Today we start with the blue, I gave the kits Italian names, this language sounds soooooo romantic, LOL. So it is Azzurro, Colore del Mare = Blue, color of the Sea.

Now I wish you all a very good and joyful New Years Eve and a fabulous start for the New Year! And THANK YOU for being so loyal and caring visitors!

Just a little note: may be tomorrow I will not post, on the first day of the year, it might be I am in dreamland for a loooong time, hahahaha. I suppose it could be a bit late today. So don;t startle if you see no post tomorrow, I am probably just catching up some sleep. Next day I certainly will be there!
Have a great day!
Lots of hugs to all!


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Soon the year will be over!

Goodmorning everybody!

Just two more days and we will be in the year 2009 already. It's all passing by in a flash.
Yesterday I did some shopping for New Years Eve, and I must say it is feeling cold around here. The last few days it was freezing and in daytime it stayed on very low temperature also. Now lots of people are looking forward to skate on natural ice, but I am certainly not! I hope this freezing bit will be over very soon.
I still could do a bit of "work"on the computer yesterday, but I hope to do more today. Just have to do a few things in the house, but nothing really time consuming. Dinner is already prepared, because yesterday I made potatoe mesh with sauerkraut mixed in and it pays to make a rather large portion of it, so we will have that too today. Only have to put it in the oven! And you know what? It always tastes better the second day. And if there will be left overs still, there is another solution for it. You frie it in a pan, take a fresh white sandwich and put the sauerkrautmesh on it. Oh, that is soooooo yummie!
So on to the new kit. It is a bit of fantasy, see related. Can you guess???? It's about mermaids and named "Song of Mermaids". I had enough now of Christmaskits and New Years kits so took something totally different as theme. Hope you will like it. I made it in a color scheme that might remind you of the sea.
Then for Januaray there are already a lot of challenges up, so I will have another busy month to look forward to! Snowy from Magickal Scraps had not a nice evening yesterday. Suddenly the site was out of the air and seemed rather scary. After hours, thank God, she managed with the site provider to get it back in the air again. I don;t know yet what was exactly the cause of the trouble, but that kind of thing nobody is waiting for. It could have been a kind of hacking or worse. Well, it's working again and let us hope it stays that way! I don't know how many of you took a look at the forum, but I can advice you to do so and perhaps join it? It is a nice litle community, with scrappers just starting and others more experienced. Where we can we try to help eachother, lots of humor going on there too. So why not challenge yourself in joining and try to participate in a challenge? You will see how much fun it is and on top you receive beautiful gifts too.
Okay, that's it for today, hope you will enjoy the freebie. Nice day all!!

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Here we go again!!

Goodmorning everybody!

Here I am again! I hope you all had a great and warm and cozy Christmas! I first want to thank all who left me all the warm wishes for Christmas in email, in the comment box or in the shoutbox. It's is really appreciated, have a big hug for that!
I must say, Jan and I enjoyed ourselves wonderfully! Yes, we had a great time together. We did see all kind of lovely shows with wonderful music on tv as well as lots of other great things on tv. Our Christmas fondue was very tasty, so all was as I thought it could be. To add more to the festivity, just the day before Christmas we received a parcel from our best friends, all the way from Poland. Soooo sweet, it was filled with all kind f yunnie goodies, and some decorations for the Christmas tree, some candles and even goodies for the cats! Isn't that a lovely gesture of them? It brought me to tears when I was unpacking it all. So suddenly I knew what to make for the letter challenge at our Magickal scraps forum and here is the result:

To see it bigger just click it.

The break did me well, you know. I was very productive, as for the forum as for you, I have made a nice stash of freebiekist, and I had time to google a lot and found some amazing things I can use and did some bloghopping and had time to do emails(but not yet all) so the time was well spend. I think I must do that a bit more often through the year. May be not so nice for you but it certainly is amazing how much you can do, if you just have a few days when you don't have to post in the morning and in the evening. Don;t get me wrong, I LOVE the blog and all to it, but it's very good for freebie-production when now and then there is a bit more time! LOL

The year 2008 is really running out now with big steps, so for today I made you just a little New Years kit. Amazing to realize that in a few days we are already in 2009! Looking back on the past year it seems it flew away!

Okay, here is the preview and downloadlink, hope you are happy to see I am back again, so there will be a freebielist again this evening, and till tomorrow!

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I am having a break.

Goodmorning eveybody!

Let's start with this first:


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It was a fine day yesterday, got quit some things done, even boaring one, like ironing some laundry, hey! Cleaned up here and there and took lots of time at the computer. I made this wish for you, I posted different challenges, I will show you one, the Heritage challenge. We were supposed to take an old Christmas picture and scrap it, and with about 66% of things of Magickal Scraps forum or from Snowy from Snowraven's cave. I was lucky to have found really old pictures from Christmas. Here it is:

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Then there is a "Kitchen"challenge. We were given one color, which we could use, make different gradienst and then had to make 6 papers and then also make kitchen utensils, accesoories or whatever you need in a kitchen. I am not sure what else we will have to mke for that kit, perhaps still some other embellishments, I suppose. The idea is, that at the end, all contributions would make a substantial kit. It's a nice one. Here I can show you already what I made of it.





What do you think?

Wow, I do have a lot today in the post, isn; t it? But we are almost done. Now the tricky part. How difficult t will be to keep it up, I don;t know, but I will try to have a break from the blog for a few days. Or if it;s too hard for me, could pop in for a second, to write something, but there will be NO freebies for a few days. Oh, don;t worry, just after Christmas I will be there again. But I think that it's good for me, to focus a bit on the designing, putting up some "stock"again, trying out some new things and ideas etc. And then Christmas is there, and I surely will be be on my puter but most of the time I want to spend with Jan, on the couch, having nice snacks, watching all that there is on tv, well, just trying to have a good time.

So probably Saturday I will be back as usual. May be I will not leave you completely and still put up a few freebielists. We will see. Just check from time to time and don''t abadone me!!!!! It's just a mini tiny break, I am not giving up on you!!! Hey, what do you think??? You are a part of my life in a way, so I will cherish that always!

Now on to the kit for today. Born out of the color challenge on Magickal scraps, the one from November. It had a given colorscheme and it had to be a bit vintage, old style like, with something in it, for the New Year, it was my first try on something like that. This was the color scheme

Here is the kit, I hope I am not breaking any rules of the forum by offering it now as a freebie. Well, I should have checked before, but now I cannot ask because nobody is there at this time. So I;ll dive in it and see later. Naughty girl I am, yes!!

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And now, dear visitors, I wish you an awesome Christmas, all in good spirit and cozy and see you back soon.

Hugs

I had a real short cut!

Goodmorning everybody!

Today I have a whole different look, yes! I had my "short cut"yesterday, or in other words I've been to the hairdresser. No need to say I am feeling great with the hair very short! Not yet milimeterized but it's coming close! It feels MUCH lighter. So all in the mood, after I first did a short hopping, I cut Jan's hair too ! I'm not saying I am a professional in it, but it still goes better. So we are all neat and well hair-dressed for Christmas now.

The weather here wasn't very nice, not too cold but rainy moments, and an unpleasant wind and I saw that the forecast says it will be much colder around Christmas. I don;t mind that too much as long as there is no rian or snow! And you now what it is with the weather forecast?? They change by day!!! They try to give a forecast for abut 4 or days, but how often does it really ends up being the weather they predict?? No too often, so best is to look out of the window each morning, pop your head around the kitchen door to feel the temperature and it works not bad at all!LOL
What did I prepare for you this time? a may be little bit wierd kind of kit, don;t know at all if it;s worth something, but it just came out this way. You could say it has a bit of Gothic-like style, it could be the influence of Snowy, from Snowraven's cave and our forum, LOL. Anyway, here it is, all in purple, a bit mysterious, a bit dark, maybe even a wee bit scary and named "In Dark Woods". And I am going to have to do a lot of work today, if it will come out of my hands. But first I have to get a brain flash for an idea for a new kit. Hey, if there is anybody who has an idea, put it in the comments, you never know what may come of it, hahaha.
Enjoy your Sunday, it's getting exciting, isn't it, just with Christmas a few days ahead? Hope Santa will be nice to you.
Bye, bye and hugs


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Just one more!!

Goodmorning everybody!

Really have to be quick this morning, I have an appointment at my hairdresser(at last) and it is rather in the early morning today. I kept pushing it forward and forward, and it's amazing how quick time has passed since the last haircut. Now it REALLY has to be done. Oh boy, the feeling must be GOOD to have a the hair in a model again, nicely short, wow!!!

Then in the afternoon I must be hairdresser myself, Jan has to be done. And if she's home and not too busy, I will try to pay finally a visit to Heidi.

I will post now the kit. It is my LAST Chrisstmaskit for this year. Yeah, I know, you probably have seen enough of Christmaskits by now, but I had still soo many pictures and papers (I actually scanned one of the papers in the kit of a paper I had , wow,) that were too nice not to be used. So here the kit came"Dear Santa" a bt of vintage looking, with some beautiful pictures of old Santa's. I hope you will like this, it's in traditional colors. Now I must hurry up, still have some posting to do on forums may be a few quick things on a challenge I am working on and then get dressed and to the hair dresser.
Have an aweful nice Saturday and enjoy yourselves!


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Shopping done!

Goodmorning everybody!

Yes, Jan and I went to that supermarket, with my shopping car and imagine, at the end we seemed to have bought just the right quantity, I could just pack it all in the car. After we came home I right packed all out and stuffed it all in the fridge and freezer and so on. I am ALMOST ready now. Just have to bu a few things more, but that can be done only the day before, to have it fresh enough. Wow, I am so happy that is done. Then I left the rest as it was and jumped at the computer. Had to finish a download for you. Pfffff, I bearly did. It will be a small one, but hey, at least there is something, LOL.

Then I had to go on with another kit, and I even made the masks for yet another kit and this morning I forst went to the forum to check around and OH BOY, these challenges!!! They are so fun to do, but Snowy is much to inventive with the ideas and than there are a few more who are making a challenge each month. So now I am stuck with about 4 or 5 to make!!! And for some a little search is needed on internet AND on the bookshelves, so don;t you have a little bit pity on me????????????? Please????????????????? Because of course the "work"goes on on the blog too, with downloads to make for you. Well, it's lovely to do, don;t misundertand me!

I am still enjoying each day the Christmas look of my room, you know. Looking around, seeing all the stuff and lights, it's so cozy and warm. Pity it has to go after the 6th of January. Yes, till then it all stays, because on the 6th of January the 3 kings arrived at the manger, so we 'll have to wait till then, and for one day the kings will be IN the stable(now they stand a bit on the side, as if they are still travelling) and only then we can put all back in "normal"order. And when its all in the boxes again, you suddenly have a much bigger room and that's a nice feeling too.

Well, I must do some things today, one of them is cutting Jan's hair, probably a washing to do, must not forget to phone my hairdresser, and I hope I will also be productive on the computer. And I have more things on the list, some of them could wait till tomorrow. We'll see what happens.
Now here is the download for today. I made you 6 quickpages out of different kits of mine. I truly hope you can use some of them, I still have to learn a lot about making quickpages, but they aren;t bad. I wish you a good and happy day.


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