By Dezign

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Sick Lame & Lazy

My household has COOTIES!!!!

First Rainer got the flu, rapidly followed by Corné and Katia and I've been taking whatever I give them to combat me getting sick. And men are so miserable when they're sick. Bunch of big babies.

Then my pc's power supply decided it wants to act up. It will work fine and the minute I decide to upload something, it would decide to go on the fritz. So I finally got round to buying a new power supply this afternoon and it's been installed and hopefully my pc problems have come to an end.

It's getting very cold here on the Highveld and I really dislike winter as it is. I wish my childhood dream of finding a RIC husband could have come true. I always said I want to follow summer. LOL, I can so do the jetsetting life to all the warm spots in the world. I'd probably have looked like a raisin from over exposure to the sun LOL, but it would have been worth never having to experience winter.

Today I only have a small freebie on offer. I made some glitter stars. It's my first attempt at a glitter and I must admit I like how the came out. I was thinking Walk of Fame type stars and Kim's CU use Starry Ties came in very handy for these elements. I'm so glad I waited for several months to start designing because it gave me a great stash of CU goodies to start off with. Thank you Kim from the bottom of my heart for the marvelous goodies you produce. The only problem I ever have is deciding which of your beautiful goodies I'm going to use.

Here's a preview

And you can grab it here http://www.4shared.com/file/52840265/b2e23ef2/Glitter_Stars.html?dirPwdVerified=1524a939. Remember the usual rules apply. No hot linking to the download site, for personal use only and say hi.

Enjoy the rest of your day, we're getting ready for nght and we're going out to supper at one of our local eateries. I'm in the mood for ribs.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Drumroll Please

We have a WINNER!!!!

ELIZABETH!!!! I'll be mailing you shortly so that I can ask you lots of questions.

Kristine has this really cute kit up in her store called Bat Boo. A real boy kit with aliens and spacemen and spaceships. It must have been a curse for Kristine to create because she really dislikes working with blue, but it came out so STUNNING. I love it. Funny I like blues and kits that are geared towards boys.

The little cutie in the LO is Rainer and Katia's half brother and I love him as if he's my own. They emigrated to the UK at the end of November 2007 and I cannot tell you how much I'm missing this child. He used to phone me on a Friday evening and ask if he could come and spend the weekend. We used to watch motorcycle racing or Animal Planet together.

Other than pimping Kristine a bit, I don't have much to say and I'm getting cold, so I'm going to snuggle up in front of the tv a bit.

Have a great day.

Monday, June 23, 2008

Last CU Bag Freebie

I'm so late because I had unexpected visitors and I could only get supper ready after they left, so I'll just get straight to the freebie today.

Kim's CU bags are only on special until midnight tonight, so please, if you haven't bought them yet, do so now!!!! They are so jampacked with wonderful goodies that you can start creating your own kits with just what's in these bags if you're a first time designer.

I had so much fun creating this little bird that I ended up adding the bow, frame, trellis element and 2 papers. Everything is made with items from Kim's bags excepting for the corner on the paper which is by Paya. I used older bags for the beak and body of the bird, but the rest is all out of these 2 bags.

You can pick it up here http://www.4shared.com/file/52458333/a822c491/For_the_Birds_2.html?dirPwdVerified=1524a939. Remember the usual rules apply - personal use only and send anyone to my blog and please leave a comment.

PS - Sharon, can you please let me have your e-mail address. You leave a comment every day without fail and I so appreciate that.

Friday, June 20, 2008

I'm a wreck

I don't like elevators and I don't like the dark. Our elevators at work have been very dodgy, but after 4 months one of the new ones is finally working and I don't have to trek up 4 storeys a million times a day.

Well my colleagues know how paranoid I am about an elevator and as we get into the elevator today, the light blows and we're in pitch darkness. Won't this young guy start making scary movie sounds. The more I beg for him to stop the more he sounds like the monster from the deep dark pit. I nearly pooped myself.

Then I get outside to discover I left my car keys on my desk and I had to ride the damn thing twice more. I was not a happy camper I can tell you.

But now it's weekend and I can relax and play at my computer. Kim has really gone all out and created the most amazing CU Grab Bags ever. They're so loaded with goodies it's not funny. And I have decided to put out a little incentive here. Leave a comment of which kit of Kim's is your favourite and I'll make one lucky winner a personalised kit using some of her new stuff. This kit will have 4 papers and 10 elements. Entries will close on Monday to coincide with the end of her sale and the winner will be announced on Tuesday. Please remember to leave your e-mail address.

I've really been struggling with colours and I've had to go and dig in Kim's past colour challenges to come up with anything, so hopefully this little mini will match some of the kits you may have collected. It's a paper using 2 different products in her overlay bag and a frame using an overlay and 1 of the itms in the element bag.

You can get it here http://www.4shared.com/file/52069438/5e32543f/For_the_Birds.html?dirPwdVerified=1524a939. Please remember that it's for personal use only, send others to my site and don't link to the download and please leave a comment, I so appreciate them.

Have a GREAT day.

Thursday, June 19, 2008

SURPRISE!!!!

I just love Kim. I think her motto is "Don't go BIG, just go HUMUNGOUS". Her new products are in store today and let me tell you, this is the bargain of a lifetime. She has 2 grab bags up that are on special for 4 days only, plus if you buy both, not only do you get it at an even more reduced price, but you get an added bonus too. She is the MOST generous person that I know. But I'm not going to make it all easy. Swing by her blog and go and check it out. And then she still posts a freebie too.

And then she gives so much of herself for charity too. Watch her blog carefully over the next few days.

Talking of charity. Why do people have such a harsh stance about charity? I deplore the expression "Charity begins at home" - personally I feel love begins at home and if you have that, then your heart is open to give charity. There are so many people the world over that are worse off than what we are and sometimes all they need in the form of charity is an understanding ear and the willingness to approach someone that can maybe do something about their plight.

Because of random acts of kindness I have made some wonderful friends the world over in the digi community and sometimes what was given was not to my liking, but I still said thank you because the fact that that person thought of me, meant the world to me. And on this note I would ask that everyone boycott the smack blogs. If they don't get any hits their general negativity will dwindle to just them reading it for themselves.

Enough ranting from me, let me go straight on to my freebie. I made these frames with 1 item from Kim's element bag and I think they're the cutest things under the sun. I made one pink and one blue cupcake frame that I think will be perfect for those birthday LO's. I hope you like them.

You can get them here http://www.4shared.com/file/51945136/99b01c5e/Cupcake_Framers.html?dirPwdVerified=1524a939.

Have a great day!!!

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Sing a little Song

If you go to........., you're in for a BIG SURPRISE. Well not yet, I'm going to keep you in suspenders (as my friend Eloise's little one would say) and you'll HAVE to come back tomorrow. But I can tell you this is HUGE.

We had a long weekend this past weekend and I was MISS behave. First off my friends Margie and KC came up from Mosselbay and that had to be celebrated. It was so incredible to see them and 3 days is much to short to spend with your loved ones. KC (short for Kevin Craig) is a decendent of the Hopewell Indian tribe and him and I love to listen to authentic AI music. Dork Dancing has nothing on the 2 of us. Not only do we call up the great spirit of joy, we can make rain and sun at the same time and it's probably why we're having hot days followed by very cold, followed by very hot. And KC is a Kansas City fan too!!! So for all the fans that read my blog, you have one here in good old SA too.

On Saturday I went to cut my hair at a new hairdresser in the area. Well I can tell you, she's a keeper. I have never had such a beautiful cut as this one and YES you guessed it, that was cause for celebration too. Ended up at our local pub to watch the rugby match between South Africa and Wales.

Then on Sunday we went to play bowls. Oh my living, I have never laughed so much. It's only my crowd that can decide that a bowling green is the perfect place to have a rock 'n roll competition. And the sillyness started way before that when we all decided to wear a funny hat. So we had a chef, a sailor and even someone with a furry critter on his head. I'll post some of the photos on the weekend.

Monday we went to the driving range as my darling son decided that his mother needs to learn to play golf. OK when it comes to golf, I'm dyslexic, I just can't get the long stick to connect with the minute ball. I was digging for oil. If I stayed 15 minutes longer I would have ended up in China. Oh and when I did hit the ball I got a shock up my arm and this ball went hoppety hop and landed like 2 steps away. Tiger Woods can relax, I'm not any competition.

Did I make you read a lot of stuff before I got to my freebie? LOL, I made 5 chrome knight elements to match the dragon thingy's from yesterday.