City council taxes, hate them!

Goodmorning everybody!
It wasn't an overall good day yesterday. There was that hated envelope in the mailbox with the tax amount to pay to the citycouncil again, a repeating event every year! When you have your own house you'll have to pay a percentage each year about the taxed value of the house and also the tax for garbage recycling and sewerage use tax. I'm sure I haven't used the exact words for it, but I think you'll understand what I mean. And they know how to calculate!!!! Then the dumbo's made the assessment not on only my name but splitted it up in two forms, one for Jan and for for me. Talking about waste of paper etc!!! Now I have to settle that again, and try to arrange a lower amount. I am not sure at all the request will be granted but as we have no income for the moment from work AND we are no bother to the community(not in social service, yes we are blessed with a little money of ourselves, not for long!), so in fact we are poor souls, perhaps there is a possibility. But I HATE to do jobs like this, dive into regulations of the taxes, which are always sooooo easy, as they say, but when you read them 10 times, you still haven't the exact rules that may apply to you. Then writing the letter, making copies of some forms, waiting for the decision, and probably at the end having to pay the full amount from the beginning. Jan will not do it, he says I'm better in writing letters than he, etc, which may be so, but I almost always have to to these dirty jobs. It spoiles my week-end , well, almost! Better to get it done quickly and we'll see where it ends.

Thanks for letting me blow off some steam, I needed that. LOL!
Hey I did make another challenge for the Magickal Scraps forum yesterday, just in time for february. It was a challenge having to do with two people on a picture, showing love. I searched in my pictures and found one, that I scanned and made it look a bit older, although the event on the picture took place already about 25 years ago. It's a wedding photo from my Polish friends and I used the last kit "Old Photo Album"of mine. Here is the result:


http://i42.tinypic.com/2vv6x68.jpg

And now I will give you the second part of Old Photo Album. I really hope you can do some beautiful layouts with it.
Ladies, the weekend is almost there an yes, I am taking the break from the blog again for two days. I still don;t like it deep in my heart, to leave you without a freebie, or list or some rambling from me, but it is good for me for the moment to do so. It gives me some rest and a bit more time for the designing and also to look around on internet for material I could use. So I wish you all a very nice weekend, and hope to "see"you back again on Monday!
Adios muchachas!


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I will try no to ramble too long!

Goodmorning everybody!

Yesterday I had a funny thing in my email! I just nominated a blog for an award and I got an email from that blo, that she had given me an award too. It was Lynette from http://lynettesphotoart.blogspot.com/. It was an award I already received but not less appreciated! Thanks Lynette, for thinking of me.!

It's raining awards this last week, it's hard work to keep up with them and find all the time some other blogs to nominate. Well, today I have an easy job, I will not do the nominees cause I have already done that.

What was I up to doing yesterday? Not all too much, I kept a "low profile"!LOL. That's to say, I was very much time at the computer and left the house waiting for a day, only put on the washing machine and hanged the stuff out. And in the afternoon I took a little nap !! and then at easy pace prepared for dinner, and made it so that today we can have another meal of it. Good planning, hey???

Jan has to go to hospital today to have a blood sample taken, cause next Monday we are visiting his doctor again. In all he is doing fine, he has a few questions for her and we hope he can cut back on the medicine a bit. He still isn;t at his "old"condition before this all started, but really good on the way. He certainly got a big physical blow from this! Glad we still were in time at the specialist in the hospital and lucky we have a very nice and good one.

Today I have a kit for you in two downloads. So come back tomorrow for the second part. I am very happy with this kit, it turned out nicely and hope you have the same idea! It's a rather versatile kit, but will be great for older pictures. I named it "Old Photo Album".

You all have a great day, I will try to finish another kit and perhaps will be able to do something about the daily download for the forum. I know there is plenty of time, but better to have it ready in a folder, don;t you think? It will still take some time before it;s ready, just started with some papers, so you can imagine, I will be busy with it the coming time in between the other stuff.

Okay, I'm off now, posting the preview on some forums and then cuddling up at the puter to go on with the kit I started. Enjoy yourselves!

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Not made a movie, but still have an Oscar!

Goodmorning everybody!

I have a lot to tell and show you, so I better get started right away!

You know I am totally nuts about our Magickal Scraps forum, I write often enough about it. Now Snowy has come up with a great idea to make it even more interesting for you to join us, if you haven't done already. Lots of people only join forums for the freebies, but the idea is also that you do some of the challenges, so that you really are part of that nice community. Well, here is what Snowy invented and I think it's a great idea:

Quote:

"You can get an Award in my Forum as well now. Each month members can nominate other members for a challenge contribution which they think deserves it. Then a poll will be put up and everybody can vote for the best nomination for one week. The final Winner will receive this Award , plus a coupon to do free shopping in the Magickal Store."

Isn't that wonderful? Above is an example of the award you can get and with the coupon you receive there are real beuty's to collect in the shop. Is that something to considere? I really hope so, the more participating members the merrier we get!!

Talking about awards I received a special made award by Snowy! And however I am not in the movie business, I received an Oscar! LOL. It,s the Blogger Oscar, for blogs on which the owner is generous by giving freebies, entertaining and interesting to read and overall- a blog I would definitely come back to again and again !

She was so kind to me with the words she wrote about my blog and me, I quote them here:

":Another one who deserves it is Kyra-http://smiekeltje.blogspot.com/ -she does a great job posting freebie lists almost daily(everybody needs a little break from time to time) , is very generous with lots of freebies and very helpful. She jumped in when we needed help with creating a Daily Download kit and enjoyed it so much , she is becoming a "regular" now,lol.Plus obviously a great friend as well !: "

Now I am supposed to pass it on too. I would have given it to Edna, but she already has it so I have found some other ones,

http://bonscrapatitdesigns.blogspot.com/

http://lynettesphotoart.blogspot.com/

http://beckysscrapfreebies.blogspot.com/

http://hereascrapthereascrap.blogspot.com/

All the "administration" part is done now, LOL. So we can go on with the normal thingy, the freebie for today. I was playing around with some flower brushes and it resulted in this kit in lilacand named"Wisteria Bloom". I love the Wisteria when it's full in bloom, but it's a vigorous grower in the garden, so I haven't one in mine. But they are so lovely when it's covering a pergola or so. Have fun with the kit, and also have a great day!

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I feel kind of honoured

Goodmorning everybody!

Read what I am honoured about. As you know, we have every month a daily download for the members. Well, I participated in one, but now the big news: I shall have to pick the theme and colour scheme for the May daily download. It seems still far away, but you'll have to plan these things ahead, so everybody has the time for it. Ooops, now I am brainwaiving for the theme. I have already a few options in mind, but cannot decide yet. I still have time enough before I must post the colours and theme on the forum, so when I do I may inform you what it will be.

Then yesterday I could start with a new kit. Once knowing what to do, it advances quit quickly, today I will try to make the last things and I can upload it. It is a very colourful kit. Not much more news to tell. Oh yes, one thing. Every month they have a card playing evening in the cafe and with it a little lotery. Jan and I always buy some tickets for it and Jan goes there to buy them (he isn't playing the cards) and stays talking and I am curious sitting at home, wondering if we had a little price. And yesterday we had! It's not a big thing, but it's all about the fun to win something, isn't it? Jan came home with a little box and in it six little buddha's from stone, painted gold in six different positions. They are CUTE! About 10 cms. high, in fact very kitch, but so sweet. Now finding a place in my filled closets and home to put them on a row. I must think to make a photo of them!

I received again two awards. This time from Jaye from http://sparkling-special-designs.blogspot.com/. Take a stroll at her blog, you'll see see makes lovely things for you!

As I passed these two already to others I will not make nominees now, I hope I'm forgivven.

And here is the freebie for today. All different from the last ones, but perhaps you can use it for something,. It's named : Crime Scene"
Have a great day, and I am off to play still a bit on the computer and then first must go out to do some shopping. The ever repeating thing in our lives, LOL!


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I'm here after a mini break!

Goodmorning everyone!



It seems like ages I didn;t post, but I only didn't for two days! And I really like it, haha. I am having a bit of inspiration back and those two days give me opportunity to devote myself to designing and challenges.

Before talking of that first I will show you another award I received, it has no name, but it is a lovely one to see. I got it from Opanasko http://opanasko.blogspot.com/, and it was a bit difficult for me to read about it because it was in Russian. Yes, I do speak a bit of Russian, but not good enough to be able to translate whatever somebody writes. Well there are no rules it seems, so of course you will have to pass it on, but it can be one or several blogs. Just make sure you mention the one you received it from and notifie the nominees.

I pass it on to the following blogs:

http://vjscraproom.blogspot.com/

http://missednasplace.blogspot.com/

http://paisleycatscrapsfreebloglayouts.blogspot.com/

http://censloft.blogspot.com/

The weekend I was busy making the daily download contribution for April! Yes, you read it well, we are ahead of the schedule. It's a marvellous team over at Magickal Scraps, so eager and so dedicated and we have such a CUTE daily download prepared for members that you really should consider joining!!

I did another challenge, the Book of Shadows challenge and we were supposed to pick some god or goddes we were interested in and scrap that. Snowy is giving us hard times with her challenges! She isn;t picking very obvious themes sometimes! Well, after a long thought I did this one (click the link to be able to read the text well)

http://i40.tinypic.com/2n7lffc.jpg

Then I made another kit and I was happy about all I could do in those two days. It could have been a bit more, but yesterday afternoon, just as Jan installed himself n the couch to take a little nap and I was in the middle of a kit, all nice and quiet the doorbell rang and it was Jan's brother who payed us a visit. Awefully nice, of course, but sometimes.......... well, you know. But we had a nice chat and thats good too.
It's about time I am going to the freebie. As the weather is slowly growing a bit better, there is a bit of hope that spring will not be too far away anymore. And that's the kit for today: "Hoping for Spring". Hope you can use it for something, and don't forget to come back for the freebielist. I bet you have missed it over the weekend, LOL.

Enjoy your day, and I am curious what kind of kit I will start today, I have no clou yet, but inspiration will come I am sure.

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Whoohooo, awards, how cool!

Goodmorning everybody,

I will have a rather short post, because yesterday it was an easy and quiet day, as I promised myself. Yippee, I finished a rather BIG kit,well, for me it's big about 55 MB all together, and even could start another one, completely different! So I was a happy girl, when I shut down the computer yesterday evening.

And my day was even better, cause I got again Awards. I really have to think about a special page with all the awards. Hahahaha!

Here they come and also the nominees,

the rules are simple, post it on your blog, refer to the blog you received it from and nominate 5-7 or so blogs and let them know about it.

This one I received from Jaye, http://sparkling-special-designs.blogspot.com/

I nominate the following blogs:

http://missednasplace.blogspot.com/

http://silversnowyraven.blogspot.com/

http://bonscrapatitdesigns.blogspot.com/

http://efies.blogspot.com/

http://jonigray.blogspot.com/

http://a-liya.blogspot.com/

The others I received from my friend Edna, http://missednasplace.blogspot.com/

As I received these before, I am thaning my great hearted friend Edna, but will NOT do the nominess for these two. Hey, I have done my best with the other two, hmmmm?? LOL

This is a Look how cool blog award.

Nominees are:

http://lynettesphotoart.blogspot.com/

http://www.le-petit-monde-de-renee.fr/

http://cynthiab-learningscrapbooking.blogspot.com/

http://polarfuchs-treasures.blogspot.com/

http://wewsik.blog.cz/

Thanks to ladies who gave me the awards and to you readers, do take a moment to visit the blogs, there are very interesting things to find!

Today I give you the second part of "On Waves of Music"kit. Hope you liked it a bit. And yes, I have a little annoucement too: I will take again the break in the week-end. It did me very well, last weekend, so I will try to keep cool and be strong and not post the coming two days. So sorry, but I think I need a bit the tiny holiday for a while. Have all a great and super weekend, and please visit again on Monday, because then I will post again and a freebie will be waiting for you!

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I was busy yesterday!

Goodmorning everybody!

Gosh, I was a very good girl yesterday, well, I think so of myself. LOL I finally HAD to wash the curtains from the back of the room, they looked awefull! But as they are almost hanging from the ceiling, it's always a bit of struggle to get them donw. You know, getting the ladder out, wriggle it on the right place, to be able to reach the hooks. Okay, I pulled myself together and did all that. I washed them by hand, and wow, the water that came off of it had a very strange, dark colour!! Okay, hanged them out to dripp off a bit in the bathroom and as the ladder was anyway the the room, I walked with it through the room and attached several strings of the little lights we have at the ceiling properly again. So imagine, me, clapping in the ladder to move it for a meter or so, climbing up with some little nails between my lips and the hammer in the hand, tok tok tok, and then hanging the cord with lights on its place. Ladder again clapping in, meter forward, clapping out, climbing it up again etc. Now almost all of the cords are hanging as they should be. After that I had to hoover the room, then the ladder again wriggled in its place to hang up the curtains. (it's a BIG ladder!). So I performed an intensive physical job ysterday. All in place again I was very happy to be able to sit for a while.
But I was proud of myself, I pushed it forward for some time, and finally it has been done. Whoopeeeeee.

Then I made the freebielist and even had ttime to have a short chat with Edna on msn and started on a new kit. Not by long finished, but it;s a start.

Today's kit is one in two downloads. It has a musical theme, and I named it "On Waves of Music". I prepared you a general preview and some more detailed ones, so you can see a bit what the papers and elements look like. (Clicking on the previews bring them up bigger, I hope)
I think I take a bit more easy today, I earned it, don;t you think so??? LOL.
May be I even get another challenge done today, cause there are still two or three I am struggling with but want to make. We'll see about that!

I hope your day will be an easy one too, have some scrapping fun if possible!









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