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@Cassel Carole I send you that email which gave permission, I can see if I can find it and resend it to you

Very nice Anja, I just bought that script in the sale and it is great seeing it in use

Happy birthday to you Carole and my card for you is on Facebook, because I only took a full size card with me and I can’t post that without resizing.

I agree with you about how easy some things are to do in Affinity and like you I hadn’t heard about until it was mentioned by Carole! My 90 days trial version expired the day before I was starting my trip and I just had time to buy it, otherwise all the customized things I did would have gone. I had just the time to have a quick glance and everything was still there🙂 Your photos are great as always!

There is nothing amiss with reusing a photo, especially not if it is such a nice one! Seeing all the great projects I’m almost, let well almost sorry that I didn’t take my laptop with me. But I’m having a great time over here.

Bonnie I just read the other day that pickleball is now being played in some places in the Netherlands too, although not yet in my part of the country. If it wasn’t you that showed so much about this game I wouldn’t have had a clue about pickleball!

I love the way you used that photo circle script and yourself in daffs are gorgeous!

Thank you Ann and today I already did take some photos of the flowers in their garden and neighborhood when I made a short walk to clear my head after yesterday’s long flight.

Cristina thank you and in the meantime I have arrived safely and my family was very happy to see me including the 2 dogs and I’m delighted to see all of them.

Thank you Cristina and maybe you have heard about Hardanger, because when I was doing it there were many pattern books and the special Hardanger fabric available in Germany. We traveled to Germany a couple of times with our children, many years ago though, and brought back fabric and pattern books for my sister in law, which we shared.

Well it involves a lot of counting, because the patterns mostly go round and if you are suppoost to make a stitch every four threads of the fabric and you do one after 3 threads the pattern does fit in the end. It is precise work and if you make a big piece it can take many weeks/months to complete it, of course depending on how much time you spend on it.

Wow Rene that was an interesting find, especially the one with your mom's name in it. It is great to have a house where you can store and find things in the basement or the attic. When we moved house 8 years ago we had to downsize and got rid of many things including books.

The H is for Hardanger embroidery. It is an old embroidery technique from Norway and my sister in law was very skilled in this style. I have done it too but when I got troubles with my hands had to give up on it. I still have a collection of her and my work which I draped over a chair for this photo. I have one of the pieces on our dining table and change it frequently because I think it deserves to be shown instead of locked away in a drawer.

I'm planning to take a package of chocolate Easter eggs and I already have made a thank you card to go with it.

Thank you and hopefully I see some nice flowers, my daughter just said it is still green from last winter's rain.