Oh my, was a messy day yesterday!

Goodmorning everybody!
Let start with the good news, LOL. I did the laundry ironing yippee, cleaned up in the house somewhat, as was planned. But then suddenly my email program smmes to have trouble connecting to some other servers. Damm! Incredimail is  or was a nice email program, handy and such, but with their latest few updates it's not working so smoothly all the time anymore,. So to be sure I have another email account now, took some time to install it, as far as all the contacts. Couldn't be imported as normally happens, so had to do that one by one. May be I just didn;t understand it well enough as you know, I am hopeless in such things LOL. May be a bit later in time I will change it again, for now G-mail is working okay, I will try it out first.Hmm, on top of that we had a bit of mess concerning the daily downloads, I will not bother you with details, but it took me quit some time to organize it a bit. Don;t worry, ladies, all is well and as it should be now, so you can go to the forum every day and collect this great new kit of June.
Although, we could do with some new memebers, participating in the challenges and such. We would welcome you with open arms, you know. Take a look at the new challenges Snowy put up already for this month and throw yourself on them and take one or two and show us your creativity!

Oh i think I promised you a few more shots of my garden, well, here they come

Don't you love the look of the waterdrops on this one? When the buds open real wide it's covered with lacey looking yellow tiny flowers.
It's looks to be a lovely day outside, must take some advantage of that! So I will post your freebie now. A little set of quickpages again.
Have fun and a magnificent day!

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Have a little laugh!

Goodmorning everybody!

I should do a quicker post today, because suddenly my email program is acting weird a bit, perhaps time to change to another one? So that's a thing to sort out(and it's NOT my thing, I am hopeless in sorting out computer issues!!!)
Then I want to go out a bit early today, just must have a few groceries and I want to do some serious ironing on some laundry! And some more things. Could be a busy day LOL!
Yesterday there was the monthly lottery in the cafe again and guess what, Jan came home again with something!
And you will smile if you read what he came home with! ANOTHER BUDDHA STATUE LOL! But this one it's one for outdoor use and even has a solar light in it. So now I have two buddhas in the garden, hahahahaha!

Today is the start for a new daily download "My Summer Garden"at the forum of Magickal Scraps. Take a look, it's a beauty!

That's about all for today, must restrain myself and go to do the things I have to do, pfffffff! First sort out the problem with the email and then the rest. We'll see how far I come.
I have a little kit for you today, a bit inspired by Snowy, yes, really, because she is so much in love and calls her Erik "My Star", so my kit is named "You are My Star"LOL!
Hope you can use it for a star in your life!
Have a great day!

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My garden coming to bloom!

Goodmorning everybody!

Friday it still was great weather so we went to take a look at the fair very nearby. You always find the same stuff on these fair, but it was nice to be outside and have a walk in the sun. I even found some poppy plants, in different colors, yellow, white and orange, I also made a pic of them but it's not the best shot I made. Still I'll show it to you so you see about which poppies I am talking about.

And my garden is coming to bloom more and more so I thought it was time to make some shots, to keep up with the progress. My roses on the rosebow are starting to bloom, I just love them

There are lots more buds ready to open themselves, so it should be a fantastic view in a few days.
Here some white Lobelia I have in a few pots, just gorgeous and some blue flowers I think are called Ceanotis, of a wonderful almost blue colour.

I have made more shots, but I will save them for tomorrow.
Sadly enough the weekend had a different kind of weather, although Saturday I still had a bit of time in the sun, but towards the end of the afternoon it bacem darker and colder. Yesterday was all strange weather. Morning still tiny bit of sun, but around 3 o'clock afternoon it was real dark, we even had to light a lamp. And then rain poured out of some clouds and even there was some thunder ! But........it was good for the garden, it has been so dry lately!
The next few days it will be a bit cloudy, some rain may fall but if they are right towards the end of the week we will have real nice temperatures and lots of sun again. Whoopee!

My friend Minky has been busy lately!! She is going through a bit of tough time lately,  I hope it will butbe going better soon, but she has found a wonderful way of putting her mind to other things and by what? She started ANOTHER blog, yeah!!! It looks all wonderful and really is worth a visit, so after reading this post hop over to the http://faerienufangelblessings.blogspot.com/.
This girl has a never-ending energy and imagination and sharing ability, unbelievable! I am afraid the new blog is so beautiful, that I am almost bound to design something for that  too, although she can do easily without my help LOL!But I just love makig cards and sometimes little kits for her blogs, sorry!

What about the Magickal Scraps site? The forum is up and running again, only the shop part is still under construction. But I am "hosting" now the daily downloads this week and today will be the last for the May downloads. All links are still up, so you can get the whole kit together if you missed some. And tomorrow we start the June downloads, theme and volour scheme by Snowy, called "My Summer Garden"and ladies, believe me, it's again a wonderful kit!!!! You can take a peek at the top of my blog, where I already posted the slideshow for it, so you'll have an idea what it looks like! Why not quickly inscribe for free into the forum and getting some great daily downloads??? The team has done a lovely job again!

Okidoki, enough rambling done again, hahahaha! Time to post your freebie, this time again a set of quickpages, named it "Flowers for a Lady". Hope you have some great pictures on your computer that will look stunning in the quickpages. Have fun with them.
And also have a wonderful day! Till tomorrow again.

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Just popping in and out!

Goodmorning everybody!
Indeed a goodmorning, cause it's not yet 08.00 o'clock! Why I am so early? Just because I have to visit my specialist at the hospital for my epilpesie, nothing scaring, just the yearly control and she has to give me my new recipees for the next year. But the appointment is at 09.30, so I have to be quick a bit. It always cuts into the day, such things, time spent there is about 5 minutes, but it takes an hour or sometimes more, to get there, wait, wait, get the medicin and get back home again. I am lucky, the hospital isn;t far away from our home!
It seems it could be a rather nice day today, if we speak about the wether. Not too warm, but still sun could pop out a bit later, and if so, Jan and I may go check the fair that is nearby our house this time. You always find about the same stufff as on the other fairs, but.... it gets you out of the house, it can be nice and sometimes you even run into something you still need and suddenly find there.
Yesterday we went for a short visit to the second hand store, to look if there were 2 chairs for the garden, but the kind you can put in different positions and may be a little table too. Well, as it is with this store, this time we weren't lucky to find something to our liking, so we will try perhaps next week or so. No big deal. Of course we could buy ourselves new ones, but why spend more money if not necessary?

Oh, just came from Ednas blog http://missednasplace.blogspot.com and you should go there too to congratulate Moo, her brother who quit smoking for 200 days now!! Fantastic. I am not yet there, cause it still is hard for me to quit completely. I am working towards it, but I now, I am lacking some willpower for it, although I know it is better for me not to smoke anymore. It's just the question of saying to yourself : from now on it is over with the ciggies. Yeah, I know, but execution is still difficult. But there comes a day I will do just that and stick to it. And it must be in near future too!
Okay, I was honest with you, perhaps that is a first step LOL!

Now I must get on moving, just have time for another cup of coffee and then off I am. Today there is another kit for you, a small one but made it in PSE8, YEAH!!!!!!!!!!! Each day I am discovering things in the program, so in about a year or 3 to 5 I may be a bit used to it, hahahaha!
Have a lovely weekend!

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Market day and nature is weeping

Goodmorning everybody!

Yesterday afternoon I though it would be nice to go to the market. The weather wasn't really nice, I think temperature dropped about 10 degrees to the day before, but it was dry, so why not be brave and walk to the market. So I did, I behaved myself, LOL, which means I didn;t buy all kind of stuff, but only things I wanted to. 5 kg of potatoes, a box of strawberries, some fresh herbs(which I cut and then put into the freezer) yummie old cheese and at the butcher just close to the market some meat to make a nice stew( meat there is good and for a nicer price). I looked around of course on the market if there was anything nice for clothing or such, but although I saw some nice things I just looked but didn't buy anything.

Today Jan has planned something to do, but to be honest I am not sure what is was. Hope it is;t taking too much time, because I really need to do a bit in the house again.

What about the title of the blogpost. that nature is weeping?? Well, for starters there is still the oil leak in front of the coast of America, which is an real aweful thing. Company BP seems to try a lot to close the leak, but aren;t very succesful till now. And you know what is sad? There is a company here in The Netherlands, that has a solution for that, and they offered, it seems, their help(of course for a certain price, but business is business) and I believe the leak could have been sealed already about two weeks ago. All that oil released into the sea is a disaster, and when it reaches the coast areas it will be worse.
Then I just read the blog of Minky,http://thecontinentofsulina.blogspot.com/, where I read that there is a big problem at the coast area of South Africa too, because all 20 rivers leading to the sea(direction Cape Town) are poisened with all kind of bacteria, and very bad for humans. Go to her blog to read more about it, but it is a shame that this happened and also very dangereous!
And these things are only two of the many more taking place at the moment. I think I am right to say, that Mother Nature is weeping, because too many people are not taking care of it as they should. And lots of these disaters happen, because some people do want to gain heaps of money in short time at any way they can, without considering the effects of their behaving.
In a way we all are also  bit to blame, because we use the products coming from those companies, but on the other hand we are almost obliged to, because there are little alternatives, and if there are, prices for that are kept too high, so not always possible for everybody to buy that.
But just take solar energy! It could be such a great thing, but for a while there were some gouvernment-aided projects for it in Holland, but not anymore or to little, so for a lot of people it is impossible to put e.g. solar screens on their roofs. But in Germany I just saw, projects are very succelsfull, also with gouvernamental aid at first, but it created jobs, soon large areas will be self supportive for energy, and the costs will be gaines back after a few years. Solar energy is clean, you don;t need the oil, but oh my, that cannot happen, there is too much going on in the oil business, what if suddenly the whole world would use solar and wind energy, stick only to that for a moment! What effect it would have on the big oil producing countries and companies? the revenues are enormous, we are talking here about billions of dollars! But one day all wells are dry,  and used up and then? Wouldn;t it be much more clever to find other ways to provide energy when there is still time? I think so, but the "big boys"controlling it all are thinking far different, I have the impression.

Wow, it doesn;t happen often I am throwing myself into a comment like I did. And I am not explaining it all just as I liked to, but that is because English isn;t my native language ad I am sometimes missing some expressions etc. But I think you understand what I mean to say.
Okay, let's jump to a more light hearted subject, the freebie LOL!It's named "Bear-able Life".
This time just 3 quickpages, but I think they are really nice. Have to thank Helga, from
http://grannycharacters.blogspot.com, for the characters I used. Hmmm, after all this typing I think I deserve my second cup of coffee! So have fun with the quickpages and enjoy your day!

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Is soccer fever coming up?

Goodmorning everybody!
I am a bit later, but I liked to take it real easy this morning. No big plans for today, so why not ? Yesterday we had an extra gift from the weather! Although predicted much less good than the weekend, it was a radient day with still very nice temperature so I took some sunrayes in the afternoon, in the garden with Mrs. Polifax again LOL.
Walking in the different neighbourhoods you notice that soon the World Championship Soccer is starting! In lots of pubs the orange decorations are on again(the colour for our national team and lots of other sport events is always orange) and even in some streets they did their best. Now I only hope that our team will survive the first round, otherwise it will be very sad for all the trouble people take. Obvious we are supporting our national soccer team, but we also pick out an underdog. But we'll have to wait till it all starts, before we can decide which team we are going to support extra. For lots of you this isn;t a very big event, but as you know here in Holland and Europe soccer is a very popular sport!
Still have to wait a bit, it all starts on the 11th of June.

As promised I have a tiny kit for you today, but....... oh miracle!!..... I did it all in my PSE8! Perhaps not a big deal to you, but to me it was a major step forward LOL! Therefore it's only a small one, in fact I was just trying out different things and though somebody could use it perhaps. I named the little kit "Bluebird". I even have made another one already almost completely in PSE8. Some things just don;t work yet and then I switch to my "old"program, which is much less complicated to handle. And perhaps I will always switch a bit between them, one thing is better to do in PSE8 and another thing just as good in Photofiltre, only there it works quicker. LOL
Anyway, hope you can use this kit.
You all have a great day!

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Dark clouds, go away!

Goodmorning everybody!

I spent a lovely day yesterday with doing almost mothing LOL! Jan went out in the afternoon, but I just stayed home, did a few tiny little things and then installed myself for a while in the garden with a book of Dorothy Gilman "Mrs. Polifax and the Golden Triangle"! I love those books, specially the humour in it.
It was nice and warm in the sun and after reading for about an hour I got very sleepy! So I installed myself on the couch and took a nap. Wonderful. In the meantime Jan came home again and then he took a short nap too. So that's about all there is to tell about yesterday! BOARING BUT OH SO NICE SOMETIMES!
In the weekend I received also a few mails from oh so nice people who are having a bit of rough time you could say. It seems that dark clouds of worry and misunderstanding are spreading over people that don;t deserve it at all. Everybody has times of worry and so, but often these bad times are brought to you by other people, because they really intend to do wrong to you and sometimes in their innocence too. The first group is the worse one of course, but I believe life is already difficult enough at times on itself and I cannot understand why people like to make your life more difficult, out of misunderstanding, or greed, or whatever the cause is, it's never a good excuse.
So I hope that those dark clouds will go away very soon, and hopefully they will stay away. Let everybody live their life as they choose, in their own way, try to have a bit of tolerance for one another, it may help to have your own life on a happier trail too.

Hmm, today is the last day of the Fantasy quickpages, hope you liked them a bit, I promise tomorrow I will have a little kit for you again, with some papers, elements like ribbon, bow and such. And now I will try to make a start for a new kit and then get moving and do the things I have to( you know, the shopping and house, after our looooong free weekend LOL)!
Have a wonderful and uncloudy day!

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