Last day and up to the new year!

Goodmorning everybody!
Oh boy, I am late this morning. Didn;t hear the alarmclock, so slept till 10..30. this morning! And then Jan was up too and we switchted on the tv and suddenly the digital stuff was disappeared. So we had to reset that and then had to order again our favourite list you can put up in the tv. Oh, not a nice way to wake up, but it all works again, that's something to be grateful for! All the tecnique stuff is great and sometimes eases the life, but it can be also a pain in the ......... well, you know!!! As long as it does ts job, wonderful! When something is stuck, oh whee, it takes a lot of time and almost sometimes nervous break downs. LOL.

So this is the last day already of the year. For some it may have been a good year, for some not so good, we cannot always influence that. I surely hope the year 2010 will brings you all lots of happiness, above all a good health, just may it be a year that flows a bit smoothly for everyone!! Amen!

And for the last kit of this year I have a New Years kit for you. Hope you will have lots of great pictures taken, and that you can use a bit of the kit. I named it "Ring in the New Year". Now enjoy New Years Eve and we see eachother again next year! Probably I will be there on Monday again, another tiny break will be good for me and surely for the designing!
Hugs!

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Great news at the end of the year!

Goodmorning everybody!

I got a great email from Susan from http://suruha-freespirit.blogspot.com/!!! She's become a granny again from a little grandson Kaleb. Oh he looks so beautiful! I hope she doesn;t mind that I put on the picture she sent me, but it's such a beautiful event, a new life still full of innocence.

Isn't he adorable????? CONGRATULATIONS Su!!!!!

Hoho, i did the shopping yesterday and I think I have all for this week, at least I can stay in untill next year. After the shopping I got busy in the kitchen to prepare the porc rost and the rest for dinner. So in fact I wasn't really productive on the designing yesterday. But I did had a chat with Snowy, at last after some time again, we must keep the conncections alive!
I think we will stay home with New Years Eve. There should be some nice programs on tv to watch and it's better for the cats too! They get a bit nervous with the fireworks and I want to keep an eye on them.
But we will have a good view out of te window at midnight of some firework, every year some people in the neighbourhood have some great firework! And I have some nice snacks in the fridge for us, so we wll be fine and comfy. They expect that the weather will become colder again, may be even with snow again. Well, as much as I like seeing snow, I am not eager to see it fall again. In fact, snow only is nice and beautiful if it stays untouched, like in the fields, the forrest or parcs. But in town and on the roads it;s only making mess and danger too. And I and Jan too are heading to our birthdays again! Yeah soon in the new year we will be older again! Better not to think too much about it, we are getting into the denial process again LOL! No we aren;t old yet, we still feel rather young, at least the mind is hahahahaha!!!!!!!

And what about a kit? Yeah I still have one for you and even tomorrow there will be one, but then I first will have to make new ones, hopefully the first weekend in the new year will be an inspirational one concerning the designing. This one is a rather versatile kit I think, which will be nice too after all the holidays kits. I named it "Old Friends". Now today I will try to do a bit of work around the house, usual stuff, you know, yakkie, but also will certainly spent some time on th computer. You all have a great day now!

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Soon the year is over

Goodmorning everybody!
I am still amazaed about the speed this year went by. Just a few more days and we are living in 2010 already! As everybody does, I too hope it will be a good year, with at first a good health and then hopefully not too many nasty events. I just was at Edna's blog and her finale of the year sure isn;t the happiest one! She is having trouble with some leaking waterpipes that do need a quick repair! Poor Edna, she already had her share of house repair and now this on top of it. Oh, it;s nice to have your own house, but at times it can be a real pain in the ....................!!!
Now toay I should go to do a little shopping, which isn;t a bad thing, I think it's time to get me a fresh nose again! Oh, I don;t have to worry about dinner today. Jan was at the cafe yesterday evening where they had their monthly lotery and he came home with a good piece of porc roast. So this afternoon I will prepare it in the oven and no braincracking necessary for me about what to make for dinner LOL.
Then I started a new kit yesterday, which is progressing in small steps, but at least a little inspiration is coming back.

That's about it for today,not much I know, but there isn;t an adventure to tell every day(and I am happy to say so LOL).So better I post the preview of the freebie, named "Spring in Winter". I sddenly had a bit enough of the darker colours of the month of  December so I made a kit in some lighter colours. Hope you can do something with this one. Have a great day.

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Lovely days passed

Goodmorning everybody!

It seems ages that I did write a  post, but it's only 3 days! I did turn the computer on at Christmas, but i didn;t spend hours on it. No, I behaved myself, just now and then popped in to check mail and do a tiny little bit of designing. I really hope you all had a great Christmastime! The nicest thing of it aren't even the presents for itself, but the idea that somebody spent time on you, thought about you, so that you received a nice card or  a little present. That's the most important thing: that people remembered you!
Oh my, we had a great Christmas Jan and I. The only thing that wasn't completely well, was me. I think I got perhaps a little cold, I noticed it already Thirsday evening. My stomach wasn;t working as it should, so Christmasday I did eat a bit of all the goodies, but not too much, it just didn;t seem to "fall" right. Oh well, Saturday it was already a bit better and yesterday already almost to normal. Nothing to worry about. Oh another surprise arrived just in the afternoon on Thirsday. Another package from America. That was from Marianna(we usually call her Tutudragon) also a member of the group of the forum and she send me some really yummie stuff for Christmas. Special kind of sweet cookies you could say, I didn;t know them, but I LIE them. It really was a Christmas full of surprises this year. Whee, we had such fun unpacking our Christmaspresents from Edna! Oh, we were GOOOOOOOD! We waited with it till in the afternoon at Christmasday! I made a few pics and even Jan did a few, although he still is having trouble with the digital camera, LOL. It's a pity a picture I did from Jan didn;t turn out completely well, but you can still see what he was up too with the present of Edna. She sent us to fleece blankets, but they are more kind of morning gowns of so, great things, I never saw these in this model! And Edna sent me a calendar made with pictures she took herself during the past year, sooo lovely! Oh whee, what a laugh Jan and I had with Edna's fleece blankets! You've made our day, really! And then I was checking every now and them the mail, waiting for a message from Edna, that she unpacked her presents/ And it was there. I was so happy that I was able to bring a little bit of extra joy to her home. And she sent me a few pics too!A layout she sent me was of Moo! I feel as if I am the last of the 3 musketeers, posting it. Snowy and Edna already showed it on their blogs but here I am too: Look at Moo, showing of his apron from me and the oven glove, cook-hat and wooden spoon from Snowy!

Doens't he looks great in it?
AndEdna also sent me a picture of herself, holding a candle holder I gave her, sweet of her isn;t it?

I'll show you two layouts I made of us during the present time:

 

Christmasday I made us a dinner from all little bites, like the protobello mushrooms, then avocado with little shrimps and as dessert Tiramisu. And then loads of French cheeses and also some smoked salmon.! Yummie, it tasted all very well! And suddenly Christmas is over, after looking forward to it for such a long time.  And it's almost not to believe that now just ina few days, the year 2009 is gone too!

Well, it just is like that and we have to accept it.

I am slowly getting into designing again, oh whee, this computer crash not only whiped away my files but also inspiration, it seems! No, not really, but I am still in the period of wanting to make an element, or a paper, have a certain idea for it and then just don;t have the right stuff yet for it. But I am not complaining really, I already have gathered again lots of resources and oh my, my mail already was loaded with links for resources, all sent to me by a freind of the forum, Nana. That girl was really nuts, she must have spend hours to gather them and then sending them to me! But so sweet of her, all the girls of our group are real great ladies!

Okay, back to "normal"business again, although this is still a bit of funny week, these last two weeks of the year  with the holidays in it, always seem to be a bit different. Somehow you loose a bit track of the days, or is that just me? LOL.

I do have a kit for you, all in purple( I seem to like that colour for kits, hahaha) and I named it "Love forever".

It may happen that in the time to come, I may not have a freebie for you every day, I hope you can understand that and still will be visiting me. I will try not to let that happen, but I also want to make a new stash again, I am terribly behind with all kind of things, the forum among that!. So we'll see how it advances, it's not because I don;t want to do the kits anymore, just takes me a bit more time due to all the events of the computer. But don;t feel sorry for me, I get a lot of help and already am on the good way back LOL.

So here is the preview of taoday's kit, hope you like it, and wishing you a great day!

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It's almost the Day!

Goodmorning everybody!

Can you imagine, just one more day and Christmas is there! Looking so long forward to it, it's suddenly there and before you even know it it will be over again. Sooo sad, that you cannot stop time for a moment sometimes!
And today is the day to do all the last jobs for Christmasday. So I will try to hurry up a bit and leave the house a bit earlier than I usually do, and I an prevent that way a little bit the big crowd in the supermarket and elsewhere. I have to do this shopping, cause some of the things I want for dinner tomorrow must be as fresh as possible. Afer I returned I will be a tornado (or try to LOL) in the house to do some cleaning up like dusting, and hoovering. That all done I think I can have my Christmaseve relaxed. There should be some programs on tv for Christmas, like some shows with a bit of Christmassongs. It's not Christmas for me, when I didn;t hear a few of the old fashioned Christmas carols. And then tomorrow when I woke up I will light on the little candle in front of my house icon and wish all the loved ones who passed away a Merry Christmas. And in the afternoon, when it's getting real dark all the lights will be on and I will light a lot of little candles and then Jan and I will have our little Christmasdinner. And of course, somewhere during the day we will open our presents, and I hope to make some pictures of it.! So you see, all counted together a lot to do, certainly today!
I probably will not be blogging during Christmas, so if I am up to it we will meet again on Monday. Whoooo, it will be a long-weekend break then. Not too bad, cause a lot of you will have other things to do too! Now let me first show you the little card I made for all my loyal visitors and with that thank you all for coming back every time and for all your lovely comments.

I also received a lovely card from Minky for Christmas, look:

Now I really must get to the freebie and then get myself slowly in the mood for putting o some clothes and then get runnig around LOL. Also have to post a little package for a special person so that it hopefully will arrive in time. I cross my fingers that it will be not too crowded at the postoffice today!
Okay, here is the freebie I announced already yesterday. It's the last Christmaskit for this year, in an all different colourscheme. I named it "Hark now, hear the Angels sing"after the Christmas carol, I love to hear. Have yourself a merry Christmas, in peace and harmony and we will meet again next week!

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I arrived safely at home!

Goodmorning everybody!

Oh my, it was a kind of adventure yesterday, the shopping! When out stept out of the frontdoor it was half snowing half raining, but that stopped after a few minutes. It was rather slippery to walk, so had had to to cut down my normal walking speed. In the little streets almost all the now was still there, but the worst was going off and on the sidewalks, because there was a heap of wetty mud/snow to plough through! But I managed, it was'n't yet too diffucult with my empty shopping car. But returning home was a different story! Jan already thought I did make a tour around The Hague, because it took so long. Imagine, I had a full car, rather heavy and stamping through snow and walking on frozen underground wasn't so easy at all. I REALLY was glad when I arrived home. I was pooped out a bit, I used some muscles I didn;t know I had! So after I unpacked all the stuff I made myself a nice cup of coffee and took it easy. It looks as if it'melting now a bit, so I hope that it will be not so messy anymore tomorrow when I have to get the last things.

Oh I have to pass on a birthday wish for a forum friend Suruha, from http://suruha-freespirit.blogspot.com/ it's her birthday. I made her a card which I posted already on the forum.

Hope your day will be birght and happy Su!

That's about all that I have to tell today. Not too much, but I had enough after the computer crash LOL. I am happy it still works, may it stay this way!

Today I have another Christmaskit for you, I even will have one for you tomorrow(Somehow that is one of my favourites!). This one is a traditional Christmaskit, I named it "A Classy Looking Christmas". I hope you still have some place for another Christmaskit LOL.

Enjoy your day, don't get streesed in making the last preparations for your Christmascelebration!!

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Still with working computer

Goodmorning everybody!

Yeah, amazing, the computer is still working till now! I even can get updates again and they are even installed(missed that too for a while). And yippee, I have windows messenger again, which for a while I couldn't install anymore. So slowly I am getting al the programs installed again. Could anybody tell me this: If I download the free open office program can I open and see pps attachments from my incredimail program with it? Should be great if by only clicking on the attachment it opens in a viewer. Perhaps somebody knows.

Yesterday I did also some home stuff, but also was busy a lot with getting resources again. But I even started making my new kit for the daily downloads for February. Advancing slowly, but I am on track a bit again.
We still have snow around here, may be there will be some more during the days to come, it might be that at the coast it will be wet snow or even almost rain. But as it looks now, we will have a white Christmas and we didn;t have that for a long time anymore.! I have to go out today to do some shopping. That will be a bit of a slippery experience, I am afraid! But I rather to it today then waiting till Thursday when everybody is doing the last minute grocerie shopping!!! I think I already know what we will have for diner the 1st Christmasday. As we are not really big eaters I will make us some smaller plates, in different style like porcini (big Italian)mushrooms filled with mozarella and ham in the oven, and perhaps avocado with shrimps and french bread with a few different kinds of French cheese and I think, we will have enough. But it easily could change with me you know. When I see something else that appeals to me, I just do something else ROFL!

Okay, I should be getting ready a bit early today, to do all I want to. Better I give you the freebie now, a small Christmas kit named "Three Kings". I think you can guess what it is about LOL. I thought, I made already enough"general"Christmaskits and perhaps it would be nice to have one a bit more to the point. Hope anybody has a bit use for it! Have a great day and be happy: it's almost Christmas!


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