Gothic Cathedral Elements 1

Hello Everyone

Thank yu for all the birthday wishes for Rainer and the commiserations on the loss of my camera. I really appreciate it.

Have any of you been to Mojo's blog? Not only is she a talented scrapper, she has now got her own store and she posts the best food porn ever!!! Mojo has awarded me a Sweety Award, read all about it on her blog. I'd like to pay it forward to the following ladies

Kim B - Fellow South African, friend, great designer and a lady with a marvelous sense of humour.

Jazzy - Jazzy, you inspire me. You have had large crosses to bear this year, but you still put a smile on your face and create the most amazing word art for the scrapping community.

The Scrappin' Cop - Wonderful designer that shares stunning CU freebies daily.

Jenni - Another South African, guest CT for Kim, marvelous designer and "owner" of a stunning daughter that appears in the most amazing LO's.

And then also to all readers that prefer to do good to others. Kindness and good spirits are usually not rewarded in tangible ways. I'd like to give you all the Sweety Award.

And now on to part 2 of my Gothic Cathedral kit. This is the first part of the elements.

You can get it here http://www.4shared.com/file/62204416/35d1902f/_2__Gothic_Cathedral_Elements_1.html?dirPwdVerified=1524a939.

Enjoy the rest of your day

Much love and hugs

Proud and a bit of a Rant

The merry-go-round has been shut down for some major maintenance work. LOL. Well I've been so busy, that's how my life feels at the moment.

Yesterday was the PROUDEST day of my life. My gorgeous son Rainer turned 21. And man, can a milestone like that make you reflect on your life. How did this hooligan actually bring up the most gorgeous child in creation???

On Wednesday Jazzy blogged about the little poem about the days on which a child is born. Well on the 6th September 1987, I gave birth to my beautiful son on a Sunday afternoon. And yes, he is good and wise. I'm so proud of this son of mine. Not only is he beautiful of face, but of nature as well. A child that has from his youngest days set himself goals and achieved them. He played cricket for a provincial team from the age of 11, was head boy in Grade 7, played first team rugby from the age of 15 and captained his school cricket side. Did speedway motorcycle racing from the age of 16 and was a prefect in his matric year.

He then took a year to do an art course, just to have the qualification before he embarked on his true profession. Rainer is studying to become a chartered accountant, but he has opted to do his articles while he is studying, which means he works full time as well as being a student. He is in his second year and consistently gets distinctions. He is doing so well that he has received a full scholarship from one of our prestige auditing companies to complete his studies and work in the UK. So at the end of this year, he will be emigrating to the UK.

HAPPY 21ST BIRTHDAY my darling boy.

Last night we had a party for him with family and friends and this is where my rant comes in. 3 cameras of which mine is one was stolen at the party. Someone in their greed has decided to take away some precious memories of mine. We have no photos of the night. None of how we made up the marquee, none of the speeches, NOTHING!!! And this hurts especially as my child is not a lover of a camera. I hope whoever took the cameras will have a serious case of guilt and just return them.

Then I got an e-mail from Kim this afternoon to say that I was chosen for LO of the week at DSO using items from her latest grab bag and the pride came back again. I can't get over the fact that a LO of mine has been chosen on 2 forums for an accolade. And that is reason in itself to get over to Kim's before the end of today because the kit is on special until tonight. After that it goes into the store at regular price.

I used the kit to create my new header and as promised I've created a kit that reflects the new look of my blog. I called it Gothic Cathedral, but decided to stay away from the very dark gothic type of stuff. I has 8 papers and 18 elements. Some frames, dried flowers, crosses and books to give it a moody and broody look. Today I will give out the papers and I'll give the elements in 2 downloads tomorrow and Tuesday.

Here are some previews

And you can get the papers here http://www.4shared.com/file/62088526/2850fca9/Gothic_Cathedral_Papers.html?dirPwdVerified=1524a939

Thanks for swinging by my blog. HUGS AND LOVE - Renée

Get the Gogga Going

I'm sure everyone is thinking I've just lost my mind and have gone gagga. Well on a good day I'm not far from that.

I do motorbike racing and Saturday we had a meeting and there's the cutest little girl that always strikes up a conversation. Lyndie is 4 and has the most vivid imagination I've ever seen on a child. Once after a storm that washed the seedling out the planter, she politely told us "These little flowers don't like it here, they're growing to China." How cute is that?

Well on Saturday she was keeping me entertained about the gogga (chawcha/bug) that was travelling around the world. It was an interesting geography lesson as Johannesburg was a country right next to England and Durban (one of our coastal cities) was very far away. Well Lyndie's little story got me thinking, how far can we get a bug to travel in cyberspace.

Here's the challenge - I nominate 2 people in different parts of the world, they have to collect Lyndie's caterpillar from my blog and send her to another 2 countries. And then to track her progress, the new people have to link to my blog and leave a little note with their blog address for me to track her progress.

So to kick Lyndie Caterpillar's trip off I'd like to send her to Kim B in Port Elizabeth, South Africa and Kristine in Canada.

Want a little hint what's in Kim B's PU Grab Bag, I used a little something from it.

Keep well

Hugs

Renée

Cleanup almost done

Whooohoooo

I've cleaned up my pc from top to bottom.

I set myself a task to organise my pc and had a rule that every day I'd clean out my Outlook inbox, my Gmail inbox, make either 2 papers or 2 elements, do at least one LO and clean up 1 folder on my pc.

Well those folders were such a mess that I only stuck to cleaning up my inboxes and the folders, but now I have a neat and tidy pc and I can actually find stuff.

With the result that I'm incredibly behind on doing any scrapping stuff, but I had to celebrate having finished a major task by changing the look of my blog.

I'm now going to finish a kit to celebrate even further and hopefully that will be ready before the end of the week.

Don't forget to stop by Kim B tomorrow as it's the new month and she's sure to have her new colour swatch for the new colour challenge at DSO up. I think it must be one of the most popular challenges ever and we look forward to it every month.

Tomorrow it's officialy spring here in South Africa and you can already see the new life foming in the gardens. Wheeee, I cannot wait for my first swim of the season.

Keep well and be sure to pop by in the week for the colour challenge freebie and my new look freebie.

Hugs
Renée

Major Clean Up

I've spent the past week and a bit cleaning up my computer files. I've really let them get into a state. I'm about halfway done, but at least now I know where to find most of the goodies I'm looking for.

Onto the good stuff.

Kim B has her new Designer CU Grab Bag on sale until this Thursday and it's loaded full of the most amazing goodies for $8. I have seen designer resources for sale with the equivalent of 1 of her items for the same price and she has 5 new products in the bag, the one being a mega.

Here's a LO I did with just one of the items.

And if you pop on over to Wenchd Grafix you'll see a whole lot of new products on sale from Kristine (Summer Slush Kit), Cate with amazing PU and CU Templates and Andrea from Boyerville Scraps with Verdant Kit and Oh My Goth Papers.

Here's a LO I did using the Summer Slush Kit and one of Cate's Templates.

And here's one using Andrea's Oh My Goth Papers - I just love the acid colours.

The freebie kit I have for you today has had me stumped. I usually come up with elements quickly and have to really think about the papers, but this time it was the other way around. And thank you Cate for naming the poor orphan. Here's a preview of Gazebo.

And you can get it here http://www.4shared.com/file/59517788/bfb55dc7/Gazebo.html?dirPwdVerified=1524a939. I'm now off to go do some more cleaning up of file folders.

Enjoy the rest of your day.

Hugs

Elizabeth's Gift

Hello Everybody

I've just stayed in relax mode for a few days. I've been taking things easy and cleaning up some half done stuff on my pc.

One of them being Elizabeth's prize from the end of June and she's kindly given me the go ahead to share it with everyone out there. Her colour choices were salmon and tan and she's very happy with what I've come up with.

Here's the preview

And you can pick it up here http://www.4shared.com/file/58133170/fa3f381d/Elizabeths_Gift.html?dirPwdVerified=1524a939

Relaxing Weekend

I'm finally having that relaxing weekend I've promised myself ages ago.


Friday evening when I got home from work I immediately saved the colours of Kim B's August Colour Challenge over at DSO. Go and check it out. How stunning is that posting bonus you get just for participating in the challenge? When I saw the colours I knew immediately what I wanted to do with it.


I then got a call from Corne's dad to say come out to the gate, he's in a hurry but he has a present for me. I LOVE music and I still have great affection for my favourite singers and bands from the 70's to date. He bought me a dvd of Kat Stevens of his 1976 Magikat concert. Well creating was put on the back burner and I was watching my dvd.


Yesterday it was a quick run to the shops to buy my fresh produce for the week (I don't eat frozen or tinned vegetables) and then it was me in front of the computer creating a mini kit. HAHAHA, famous last words. This sucker ended up in 2 zipped files. I was having so much fun and just couldn't stop. And horror of horrors, I ended up with 13 elements, which we just couldn't have, so I was a little stumped for a 14th, but I did come up with one. This freebie has 8 papers and 14 elements and I just loved the soft colours.


4 shared was being a PITA last night and I was forced to wait with my upload and that's why you're getting your freebie a day late.


This morning I was at the track at 06:00 to do some practice laps, but the garage was closed and we couldn't get any fuel. We had breakfast and decided to come home.


I'm just going to vegetate for the rest of the day.


Here's the preview, not all shown



You can get the elements here http://www.4shared.com/account/file/57524827/db934182/Thistle_Lite.html



And the papers here http://www.4shared.com/account/file/57527412/9b7bb044/Thistle_Lite_Papers.html



Enjoy what's left of your weekend.