It's a birthday, yeah!

Goodmorning everybody!

And it finally happened!!! Today my hubby has his birthday, reaching the same age as I have, and no longer is living together with an "older" wife LOL!!!!

 

I used a paper and a frame from my "Party with the Faries"kit, doesn't it looks nice?

Well, I did all I planned for yesterday, whoopeee! So I also found a little something for Jan. As I am always eager to give a present, I don;t have often the patience to wait, I waited till midnight yesterday and then it was officially the 29th, so Jan's birthday and I gave him the present. As I predicted, he first said he wasn't happy with it because we shouldn;t give eachother anymore presents, but I saw on his face he was happy with it. He is a funny character, you know!!! I bought him a little bottle with a liqueur (he isn;t supposed to drink any alcohol, but he has permission from his doctor just once in a while to have a little glass, so once or twice a year, why not? He can keep it down to just one in the evening and spreads it out over several days, oh what a change is that) and a nice warm fleece vest. So I hugged him hard and he looked very disappointed to me, saying"Oh boy, now I cannot say anymore "old women"to you, and I will have to wait a whole year for it again"(but also with a big smile) LOL!

All the kitchen stuff is back in the cupboard(which is standing on another place in the house, much more practical, really!) I got rid of a few old pans and had the room for the new set and even the grill. Amazing!

I gave the room a dusting, and a sweep with the swiffer for the wooden floor. Hoorray for me! And of couse I did the shopping, and eve rather early in the morning. Ha, that could mean today I take a it "off", and could have more playing time on te computer. Oh, sometimes life looks great! LOL

The last kit of this week is a kit I made for a challenge on the forum, I combined in fact two challenges in it, the brush and the colour challenge. As so often, I justed wanted to make a little contribution, but....I got carried away again and it resulted into this kit. Well, it;s about time to offer this kind of kit, speaking of Valentine. And here you have " Valentine, Be Mine". Make some lovely romantic layouts with it, okay?

I am off now, loging for my second cup of coffee and then I can play around on the computer for a while, yippeee! Have a fabulous weekend and we meet again on Monday, or perhaps on rainbows during the weekend as my friend Minky would say!!

 

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Oh my, we were sooo lazy yesterday!

Goodmorning everybody!

I told you we perhaps would go looking for a rack or something for the kitchen. To be short about it: we didn;t! Weather looked so dark and unpleasant, that Jan and I just looked at eachother and knew it had to be for the next day! So the stuff tht disappeared out of the kitchen still is dwelling on it's temporary place LOL! But today I should range that again, I hate to see it standing all around every time I have to go at the storage room. If we manage to go out I am supposed to have a rather busy day. because I also have to do a little bit of shopping and have to find also a little present for Jan. Gosh, give me today a day of 36 hours, that should be better!!!
Did I tell you that last Monday evening there was the lottery again at the cafe? Jan manage to come home with two prizes! One was a set of 4 pans for te cooking(they look not bad at all, and I could do with a few new, so good deal) and the second was a nice gourmet grill for 8 persons complete with the little pans and wooden spoons. I don;t mind Jan is coming home almost every time with something, but for months, or even years, we try to get rid of stuff(we humans do have a lot of stuff!!!) and  he is filling up the few empty places we sometimes have at last. Hmmmmmmmmm, it is a never ending story I believe ROFL!!!
But as long he comes home with stuff we really use now and then, it isn;t yet too bad.

Are you all getting a bit in the mood for the Olympics in Vancouver? It's is slowly going to itch with me. It's a bit difficult with the time difference we have (9 hours) , some of the events take place in the middle of the night here! But most of the speed skating is at a rather good time for us, nice in the evening, so that we can follow without problems. And of course we Dutchies have high expectations of our team!!! But other events, like ice dancing, which I love to see, is really in the middle of the night! So I will probably not follow it all in the live shows, although some of it I will. Then we just have to take a nap in the afternoon or early evening to hold it through an still be able to live through the next day without too many problems! Do you know we even have a men's and a women team in the bob??? Yeah, unbelievable, isn;t it! And they are even considered to be an outsider with possibilities! About two more weeks and that madness is starting. I truly hope it will be a great event, without nasty surprises of any kind and certainly without any injuries for the competitors.

Okay, on to the kit for today. It's the second one of the serie I am making, just imagine yourself a BIG house, with many rooms and you can guess what I am up to. This time I present to you the "Brown Chamber". Hope it's is something you can use.  Have a great day, I hope I can do all that I have in mind!

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Are we done with repairs now?

Goodmorning everybody!

Well, the plumber did come and made my wallet a lot lighter in weight and much less filled!!! It appeared to be a much longer job than thought off, but hey, they done the job, and hopefully the trouble is over now! I've had it with repairs and all those things for a loooong time ahead, can you believe that??

Oh, my, I had some great news in the mail today from Magickal Scraps friend Nana http://nanabananascraps.blogspot.com/  . She had a lot of health trouble in the past time and was undergoing all kind of tests. The most stressing thing of it all was, that there was a suspicion she had a really nasty disease, cancer was the first option. But......... finally after waiting a long time, she had the good news... NO cancer, NO Lupus,. so that was a big relief of course. I am so happy for her, she had some terrible months to live through and her life wasn;t going so smoothly either. Now she has a much brighter view on the future!

Then my friend Minky surprised me with another awesome gift. Look at this certificate:

Click it to see it in full size. Isn;t this a lovely certificate to receive? It's an awesome lady I got this from, a very special person and you should go to her blog to read all about the news plans she is having for the Starchildren.

To stay a bit in Minky's "world" I have a lovely kit for you today, at least, I think it's a lovely one LOL, and about what else it could be than about Fairies???? So here you have a "Party with the Faries". You enjoy the kit and make some awesome layouts with it, okay?

Today Jan and I will have to shuffle all the stuff back into the kitchen, but it may be we first have to go out to look for a rack or so to place in the kitchen to have a bit more storage room there. We'll see if we can find something.

I better try to get some clothes on soon, so that we can go out, LOL!

Have a beautiful day!

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It could be a messy day!

Goodmorning everybody!

We are now waiting for the plumver to arrive, so I have a little moment. I think I will leave the house as soon as he gets busy, it will be better for me. And no need to be at three when he does his job. Jan will watch it, that's enough.
I have something else I want your attention for! You know Minky, http://thecontinentofsulina.blogspot.com/ by now. They have a marveloous project they want to start and it will be realized quicker if a lot of people could be nice to them and do a little donation, just only when you have some nickles to spare! She started to make a little kit)which is lovely' and you can download it for free on her blog. But if you have the means, she also has a donation button, and believe me, every little amount helps! This is the mini kit of Minky

Click the picture and you see  it huge! If you want to know more about the Starchildren School Project just hop over to her blog and read all about it. I think it´s a marvellous idea to give children an education in love and peace, with compassion to others, and still standing with both feet in real life!

Aha, I hear the door bell, well, Jan is taking charge, let him do so, I am happy with it. I better try to finish the post now and then go to do the shopping, I just hope the guy will not be busy for a too long time.
Oops, it´s not the boss himself, but two men! Well, let´s see how they will do the trick. Cross your fingers!
I am ofering you today a kit which is the start of a serie, suddenly got the inspiration again and I just hope you like it. We start today with `Blue Chamber`. Have fun and a lovely day .

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We must get busy!

Goodmorning everybody!

I will try to keep it a bit short today, because there has to be done a bit of work. As tomorrow we get the plumber , we have to clear out the corner of the kitchen today. Jan already wanted to do that yesterday, but I managed to keep that off LOL! Well, I didn;t want to be two whole days with a partly empty kitchen and the stuff of it wandering about somewhere in the house! Can you imagine? So a bit later in the morning I will wake Jan and we will have to do the trick.
Apart from that little problem yesterday I can say I had a great weekend, nothing happened but I was productive in the designing, whoooooo! Suddenly I had a great idea and now I am making kits with that idea. Not telling you yet, what I am cooking up, but I think you may like it. If not so, pity, I am still happy about it LOL!
Some day this week, before Friday, I should take a little trip to the town's centre and look around if a nice thing catches my eye for Jan's birthday. I know, we officially don;t give eachother a present, but most of the times I cannot resist buying a small thing. And I know he will be a bit cross at me when he receives it(but I know inside he's happy with it), oh that's okay, I am used to that reaction LOL.

For now I just want to finish a preview of the latest kit I have completed and then I think it will be around the time to get moving around a bit. Oh even yesterday I was a nice girl, did a laundry and also did the ironing of a nice pile of laundry waiting for me. Good hey?
Gosh, just this week to go and January is already done with! Then I will have to think about a next birthday, the one of Séverine in February. I should call Heidi one of these days to inform what kind of thing I could buy as a present. I really have noidea at all. But kids these days already have so much stuff, that's it isn;t easy to find something a bit different. The last few mnths we Heidi and I don;t see much of eachother, somehow we don;t find(or make) the time for it. That should change again a bit, but she is so busy, that I don;t want to bother her too much at the times she can take it a bit easy and although it may not look like it, my days are filled too and it's also the weather that is playing a part in it. When it's nice and sunny and a rather warm temperature you are quicker in leaving the house for a short walk than in this winter time. And may be I am just being a bit lazy. Anyway, I must at least call her again, although we know about eachother that as long we don;t hear too much from eachother all is going rather well, good to know too.

Okay, now the kit for today. May be good for some kids pictures, because it's a pirate kid, named "Pirate's Landing"/ Long time ago I made such kind of kit. Have fun with it and have a great day!

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Just one more week the oldest!

Goodmorning everybody!

Don't you have the feeling too that Christmas was already so long ago? And if you look back it's not even a month ago! Oh my, I think this year will rush by again. We better stick to the day and not look too much forward in time, before you know you have lived already two months without even noticing that time passing! Just one more week to go and I will not be the oldest in mubers of age anymore in the house(I will always be in DAYS but not the NUMBER, ) because next Friday Jan will have his birthday and will reach also the beautiful age (LOL) of 57! Yeah I am living now with a younger man, doesn't that sound awesome???

Yesterday Jan went "underground"in the kitchen, because we are still loosing slowly some water from the central heating system, which means we have to fill that regularly, which isn;t good. There has to be a leak somewhere, but to find that isn;t always that easy. But he thinks he has found it. Now as he is no wizzkid in DIY we called for the guy who repaired our heating and he will be there next Tuesday. Again some expenses we didn;t calculated, but if the problem will be solved then I should feel happy. Let's hope he can fix it rather easily and that it really was the place where the loss of water came from! So Monday we will have to move some stuff out of the kitchen (the closet I just cleaned) because the plumber will have to remove some floorboards to reach the pipe. Hmmmm, hope it will not be too messy and easy to repair again. We are always such lucky persons in these cases, it almost never is simple to put back something or so. Sometimes I think we just attrack that sort of misery, LOL! Oh well it will compensate itself in some way, let's try always to be optimistic!

Oh, if you have a moment go over to Minky's blog http://thecontinentofsulina.blogspot.com/.
She has made a few lovely layouts, that girl is creatively gifted, I think her hand and mind are sometimes really guided by some artistic fairies! And before you leave, put a little message in her commentbox, she loves to receive them!

Talking about fairies, that's just the kit I am offering today. I made the "Fairy Hiding Place" for you, I think it turned out not bad. I made two papers that you almost could use as pre-made quickpages, I love making sometimes complete scenes. Hope this it will bring a bit of magic to you LOL.
Today I must tackle some rather boaring things, like a bit of shopping and vacuuming and may be even a laundry. It's something that returns all the time, sadly enough.
To give this day a beginning with a smile I found you a fairy poem, just so delightful and very much describing our feeling about the housekeeping LOL!

The fairy at the bottom of my Garden

There's a fairy at the bottom of my garden she flits in and out of my flowers I can sit on the step here and watch her she stays there for hours and hours Her wings and so golden and flimsy Her little body a few inches in size but her heart is her biggest attraction and that isn't any surprise For the fairy at the bottom of my garden spends her day saving the bees for they keep on taking the pollen but dropping it each time they sneeze I bet you didn't know that the buzzers had allergies from pollen, sad hey? the sound that you thought was just buzzing are bee's that are sneezing away Now this fairy works hard as she gathers the droplets of sweet pollen that fall diving and swooping and gathering up and rolling it into a ball She sings an enchanting little melody that sounds like a gentle wind chime Oh how I would love to have a fairy to pick up after me all the time Janice M Pickett

Isn't that a lovely and sweet poem?
Have all a magical weekend!

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Multiple purpose fleece!

Goodmorning everybody!

The last few days I really have some good nights! I suddenly sleep through till in the morning the alarm clock rings, or even a bit before that. Oh boy, you feel quit different after such a night or one in which you wake up in the middle of it and after an hour or even two go back to bed to catch two or three hours more!
You know about the fleece blanket I received from Edna? Well, I love that thing, and in the mornings, when I just turned on the heating, it's a bit fresh in the house. And then you come out of the warm bed, and put on the morning robe or whatever, but you are not feeling completely cosy. Okay, then I wrap myself in the blanket a bit. Wonderful. But this thing has multiple functions! As soon as i walk around with that thing waving around me, my cat Brodski seems to come alive and starts playing with it. I don;t know what it is, but he just loves it. Must be careful though when I walk around, because sometimes I don;t notice him, when he sneeks up behind me and is holding a part between is paws!.So it is giving my cat some excersie! Best thing is to let him play for a moment, then he gets boared with it and I am "safe"LOL.

Hahaha, I did do a bit of "serious"stuff yesterday. We have a closet in the kitchen, where I have all the "kitchen"things like, laundry powder, cleaning bottles, sponges, stock for the bathroom(no place there to keep it), plastic bags for the dustinbin etc. Well, it needed a good clean up. So I took all out, cleaned the closet and sorted out the baskets with al the stuff. It looks much better now again! As an extra I changed the duvet covers on the bed, LOL. So I felt rather good about myself yesterday, ROFL!
They say, that if you do every day a little part, you get all done, but you know, kicking yourself each day to actually DO something is the worst part of it. Well, if it may not happen every day I make up with it when I really am busy, I sometimes look like a little whirlwind and do more than one thing at a time and then it is done too. (this you can call "cheating yourself",    grin grin!)

I have a whole kit for you today, it was long ago I did something on a safari, or jungle theme, so I searched around a bit and found some nice stuff and it ended up in this kit "In the Wild". Now today I would like to continue on a kit I started yesterday, so I first take my tour on some blogs, then the forum and then I hope that the kit will progress a bit smoothly! Have all a fantastic day!

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