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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.

Thank you I will and I noticed that when you fly back to Canada I will fly back too. I'm only staying 3 weeks because that is the most I can/will leave my husband alone. Maybe our flights will cross somewhere over the ocean; a strange thought.

I am in too and will use Affinity but when this workshop is taking place I'm in California with my family and I don't take my laptop with me. However I take my iPad and will be able to see the lessons and will do them when I'm back home and have overcome the jetlag. I know that as a Diamond member I can always see those lessons on a later moment but I'm just curious to follow the new lessons for Affinity and this way will motivate me to really catch up when I'm back. Of course I will have a peek here to look what you all are making and cheer you on if necessary!

For this challenge I used Affinity, I have to practice otherwise I forget what I learned so far. I made a repeat pattern with a square following the tutorial in the blogpost and intended to use it as a background, but that was to much and I put another paper on top of it. When I took the photo of this Primula on my outside table I used the spotlight setting of my phone, hence the title. I can't write nor scribble with the mouse of my laptop or with my finger on the trackpad, it looks horrible 😧therefor I used a handwritten font from Ally at Affinity Revolution. The mask is by Jessica Dunn and the doily is by Sheila Reid. The striped translucent tape is one I made some time ago and the others are from my stash by Marissa Lerin. I didn't had the time to make more from scratch because coming Monday I'm in the plane off to my family and I have lots to do before I'm ready to go.

Lovely and maybe I should do like you. In between the lessons for the Build A Kit I try to do something in Affinity too, but I have to check frequently those tutorials and workshops from Carole.

Cristina you are so right! I'm flying coming Monday, so I'm finishing the things I'm working on and concentrate on everything that has to be done here before I go.

Wow that was a good deal and your risk with giving you cardnumber went well. Just last week I had a good experience at the opticien where we always go if we need new glasses. After my yearly eye check at the hospital I again needed new glasses and I got a new frame took, but it turned out that I was allergic for that frame and the opticien exchanged it with one of titanium and of course the glasses didn't fit and because all of this was within 2 months after buying they ordered new glasses al well. Great service! I never have my sunglasses with prescripton glass in them because after my eye surgery I need new glasses almost every year and if I would have those as sunglasses as well it becomes way to expensive! Therefore I use sun clips that you put over the glasses. Naturally those didn't fit over my new glasses, but I let it go for a while. Now with the sunlight getting stronger I need new ones and went to see my opticien and they only could offer as a solution, after trying everything they has in store, were custom fit clips that are made for the frame I have. Therefore they need my frame for a week, but luckily the opticien still had the same frame and could send it. So far so good but the next problem is, that it was not possible to guarantee that the clips were back in time because I travel coming Monday. The opticien then arranged that one of his staff goes to the manufacturer to fetch them and I can collect them Saturday. Service!!!!!!!!!

Very promising, but I think I will pass on Designer because I simply don't have time enough to do everything at the same time. I am going to concentrate on Photo2.

R = Radiant

O = Opulent

L = Light