Last Part!!

Hi All! I have spent today trying to get my car to go..like me it has decided that it doesn't like the snow and ice!! I started off digging the poor thing out..it was covered in snow. I had parked it next to my neighbours and for one awful moment I thought I was digging out the wrong one as they are a similar colour.

But no, it was my little cutsie under all that white stuff. She was a sorry state, icy, snowie and very cold! Yesterday she started on the first turn of the key but today she gave a pathetic splutter and died. By this time she was not the only one that had almost terminal cold...my hands were white..even with gloves on..and wet! My feet..even in boots were tingling, so I decided to adjourn to the kitchen and a warm cup of tea..and a quick call to the RAC, lol!!

The bad news is they have an other weather warning out for more heavy snow on Thursday/Friday!!! Eeek...take it back...I don't need any more!!

I didn't take a photo of my car as I was too busy scraping and digging, but I have one of the garden that I had taken earlier. It looks lovely..if you only have to look at it!!

And here's one of the man himself...I told him not to eat the snow...but would he listen..no!! I had cleared the paths yesterday but today I had to do it again. As I was clearing them..yet again..Charlie decided to help and eat them clear!!! Needless to say I had more success than he had...but he had fun, despite a cold tongue.

OK, enough idle chatter!! Today is the last of the Element Packs in the Colour Basic Kit and it's slightly different from the others...this one was made with boys in mind..no bows or flower. This should please Bettina as she made a fantastic January Screen Saver Page using a photo of her grandson and of the papers form the Colour Basics Kit....but she would really have liked some boy stuff in the kit.

It is a great page and what a wonderful photo! I love the layout and the hearts are a clever touch, they set it off to perfection...beautiful!! Thank you for sharing it.

So Bettina these are for you...well, and the rest of you too, lol!! Have a look and see what you think.

 

 

You can download the last of the Element Packs here

That's it for today, it's evening now in my corner of the world..a dark and icy one too. So, stay warm or cold...depends where you are, lol!! See you tomorrow and there could be a little something for you!!

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Computer Problems..Bah!!

Yesterday I thought I'd relax...but my PC thought otherwise!!! I turned on my PC and all looked OK..until..I did anything then it just shut down!!! I tried all day and no joy. I just got more and more frustrated. I growled so much that Charlie was looking rather alarmed and took to his basket!!

Eventually after most of the day and evening I managed to get my virus scanner to run and left it running over night. This morning I got up and..yes...there it was a nasty little bit of malware that had started the problems!!!

So, it got zapped and I have checked my whole PC with a spyware finder and virus scanner again. Success, it all works and nothing is showing. I then reconnected my externals and have scanned both of those and they are good.

I have to admit that my blood ran cold when I first spotted the problem..I had visions of everything going!!! It was definitely hair pulling and growling time yesterday but today I feel so relieved that I am feel really upbeat.

Snow was forecast for last night but I didn't really expect much as we in the south normally escape most of the snow and only have frost..lucky us!! But...imagine my surprise when I woke at 5.30am and wondered why everything looked different. The light was wrong, even although it wasn't yet light.

Yes, you got it.....the weather forecast turned out to be RIGHT this time!! Snow was with us...and quite a lot by our standard.

When I came downstairs Charlie was peering through the glass door looking very puzzled.  What was all this strange white stuff? I opened the door and he was off..running and turning through the snow. He kept up this frantic running for at least 5 minutes and then rushed back into the kitchen...luckily straight into his bed!!! As he is only 2 years old he has never seen snow before. His feet must have got cold because he spent the first 10 minutes cleaning them and making sure there was no snow between his toes. I think he is not so sure what he makes of it all!

 

The snow at 6.00am with Charlie's paw prints crisscrossing the garden

 

Today is the second of the Elements packs in the Colour Basics Kit and it is using a few more of the colours from the papers. Orange, brown, green and a touch of yellow all add to the rainbow of colour in this huge kit. I hope you like them.

You can download Elements Part 2 here

I'm off now to see how the snow is going and to see if I can persuade Charlie to go for a walk!! Have a wonderful day and stay warm...I will.

I will be back tomorrow with the final elements pack to complete the Colour Basics Kit...see you then!!

 

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I don't do snow!!..and I've been tagged..three times!!

Sorry folks I have been trying for the last two days to upload images to blogger...but no success till now!! I am grinding my teeth but have finally managed to get them to upload..only after 48 hours trying!! Anyone else have this problem? Most of the images I have left until tomorrows post as this problem has taken up so much time!! I will eventually catch up on myself!!

Here in the south of England we get cold weather but not a lot of snow..rain, yes we do rain..lots..but snow, not us!! Imagine it's April and last week I was photographing my garden awaking to Spring, beautiful flowers and my magnolia was blossoming...today they are poor cold little flowers!! It's snowing and we don't do snow..especially not in April!! I'm sure a lot of you

have loads of snow but for us this is unusual.

Guess what.....I have been tagged three times this week...so I had best got them done.
Tracy at LattedahDesigns tagged me on this one and also Robin of Robins World and this is how it goes:

Just copy paste THIS and everything below up until my Five links.

I thought it would be cool to have a meme where we post links.

We can post up to five.

Then we tell five more people to share their links.

If we all share who tagged us, our links are sure to be seen!

They can be business links, favorite sites, affiliate links, whatever you want…

There are Five Rules:

1. MUST be clean. No R rated sites.

2. Only FIVE links.

3. MUST tell 5 people.

4. A link back to the person who tagged you

5. Lara's Place is the meme originator.

So here are five of my favourite Links:

1. One of my favourites is Newspaper Clipping Generator, do your own newspaper cuttings for layouts

2. My favourite site for Photoshop stuff is the wonderful Al's Action Fx Resources

3. One of favourite heritage info general sites is Victorian Passage

4. An other favourite for free fonts for my layouts Bravenet

5. And of course for news, gossip, great layouts Digishoptalk

I was also tagged by Carol. Carol you didn't leave me a link to link back to you!!

The rules for this are:

1. put a link to the person who tagged you ( see above ) Can't do..sorry!

2 . mention the rules to each person you tag

3. mention 6 things about you

4. tag 6 other people and provide links to their blogs

5. leave comments on these peoples blogs to tell them they have been tagged :

So the 6 things about me are:

1. I am too thin!! I rival a stick insect!!

2. I love old books...my earliest one is a prayer book from 1668.

3. I hate shopping...except when it's for me!!

4. I love cooking, have loads of recipes and love getting new ones....hint, hint!!

5. I have Graves Disease, autoimune plus a few other things...old crock that I am!

6. I am a night person, I hate mornings.

So now you know six more things about me!!

The people I tag are:

1. Gabrielle at her blog http://glo-gabrielle.blogspot.com/

2. Jessica and Leaonna at Scrapaholics http://scrapoholicdesigns.blogspot.com/

3.Lori at Digiscrapdesigns http://www.digiscrapdesigns-by-lorie.blogspot.com/

Sorry I can't think of anyone else who hasn't been tagged on this one!! I check so many blogs and they have been done, so thats my three!

Gotta go I will be back tomorrow with a great freebie, if you like BB pages you'll love these!! There will be layouts and an other Monday challenge.