Update-5 Desktop Calendars and 4 Desktop Wallpaper and tutorial news

Hi everyone. I've just uploaded 5 new desktop calendars for November and 4 new desktop wallpaper for you. I will make the matching stationery tomorrow.
I also have some tutorial news, Sandra of Le Jardin de Tutos just translated one of my tutorials into French here, my Golden Straw Frame. It's also been previously translated into German. Thanks ladies!
Have a great night, everyone. I'm running back and forth to the door for the Halloween monsters so I've gotta go! LOL
Happy Halloween.

4 Translations done and lots of new stationery

I've got 4 translations done for you, that's right, a whopping 4 of them! LOL
2 of Duchessa's beautiful blends and 2 of Futura's cute animated tags.
I finished them for the most part during the summer while on my trip and then just didn't have the energy to get them online, but feeling guilty here, so thought I'd get them done!
Stationery to match is also done and online, wallpaper coming next.
Click this link for New Stationery
Here are some small examples of the tutorials and the links.
You can't see it here, as blogger (for me anyway) doesn't show the animation, but they're all animated, but you can do them either way. I did!
Gold (Duchessa)

Love Blend (Duchessa)

And I'll Love You Always (Futura)

Don't Stop The Music (Futura)

Hugs, Ellie

New translation uploaded-scrap tag

I've just added a new translation from Steffi's Tutorials, called Greetings, a scrap tag.

Here's a small example.

I hope you like it!

I've also agreed to translate for Grafica di Duchessa, an Italian site, so look for those as soon as I get one done. If you go to her site, don't worry about the little popup window. It's only to ask you to vote, so just either say ok to vote or cancel to close the window. Nothing will happen.
We'll be gone camping for 5 weeks, from the end of July to the end of August, so you won't see any updates from me during that time, but I'll be doing translations on my laptop while I'm gone so I hope to have quite a bit to share with you when I get home again. Have a great week!

New translated tutorials, more link corrections, thanks from me

Hi everyone. I've just added two new translations for PSP. One is a scrap tag called Romantic Scrap by Jet of PSP Tutorials by Jet,
here is a small example:

The other is a scrap tag as well, called Grungy Elegance by Lien of X-Clusive Designz
Here is a small example:

Lien has also changed her site address for those that lost track of where it went, and also Marynez of PSPIArtes has just changed her site address. Click on the links in their site names here to get to their new sites. The addresses have been fixed in their index pages on my site as well as each translated tutorial.
I still have a few more translations that are nearly done to work on. We are going to visit family later this week for a couple of days, but I'll get them done as soon as possible.
I've also found out from some site visitors that FontLoader, mentioned in my Managing Fonts tutorial, is no longer at the link I provided. I went and checked and it is there, but it's incorporated into another freeware program there called ShellTools. I've corrected the link to download that program. It's a fantastic program and I use it daily.
I want to take this opportunity to thank those who so generously have donated to my site over the past couple of years. I have bought a membership for a tutorial site I love, called Carolaine and Sensibility, which I mentioned before, and just recently bought a number of tubes so I can freely use them without worrying that I'll have to remove the tutorials or stationery and wallpaper later. And I'm saving enough of it to help pay for my website renewal and domain name renewal when they come due. I really appreciate those of you who have helped me out with this. Thanks from the bottom of my heart. Even those that can donate just a dollar, it all helps me tremendously. I'm retired on a disability so I have no other income of my own coming in, so you can understand how much this helps.
Till next time, keep smiling! Makes people wonder what you've been up to! LOL

link correction and latest news

I just changed the website address of where you can get the newest version of FontRenamer (v2.16) on my Managing Fonts page.
I've recently come back from camping and have a few new tutorials translated. They now need to be assembled onto their web pages and uploaded and I hope to have that done soon. Some needed final animation steps added as I found out, to my surprise, that my laptop did not have Animation Shop installed. That is now remedied for my next camping trip. LOL Since I don't do a lot of animations, I never noticed before, but Futura's tutorials often have animation in them.
I also have a few calendars to make so best get my rear in gear!
My friend Sonel just changed her website address and I have a number of pages to change that on, as she often does my tuts and sends them to me and I then add them to my tut pages with a link to her. In the meantime, check out her new site. She translates Snakelady's tutorials as well and does a wonderful job. If she hadn't snagged Snakelady, I had been thinking of it, but she got to her first. Wonderful tuts! Sonel's site is here: http://members.lycos.co.uk/sonelscorner/
Have a great day!

New translation from new tutorial writer to my site

An Italian tutorial writer, Futura, asked me to translate her tutorials into English and they are beautiful! I've just done my first one for her, a Father's Day one called Festa del Papà.
Here's a small example:

I've included extra words with the tutorial so you can make it without a date on it, to use in other years. I've also included the font I used in case you want to make your own words for it. If you head to her site to see her tutorials, they are password protected, so you'll have to write her for the password. Or you can wait and see them here. LOL
I have a few stationery and wallpaper to make, I've done the headers, just have to get around to making the rest of the parts, such as backgrounds, etc. and get them assembled and uploaded. I hope to have that done soon.
Hubby wanted to go camping this weekend, sprung it on me as a surprise, and I was glad he changed his mind as it's still a bit chilly and we aren't really prepared yet. We are heading to the Toronto Zoo tomorrow, my health has improved enough with all of the weight loss (68 pounds so far) that I can do all the walking (it's huge)! Woohoo!!
I still can't eat many solid foods and I see another surgeon on June 5th to see what the problem is, as my original surgeon was extremely rude and unpleasant about helping me out. Apparently, the only thing he wants to hear from me is that I'm fine. Anything else is either ignored or criticized (after 6 months of no solid foods, apparently I'm being "too impatient", even though I was supposed to be able to eat solids after one month. Does that make sense? No, not to me either LOL).
Enough about me, at least I'm a lot healthier and continuing to improve in health all the time. Thanks to Atkins Protein shakes and bars (a little plug for my favorites). Have a great weekend everyone!

New translation-With Love Scrap Tag

I've got a new translation up, one of Marian's scrap tag tutorials, called With Love and it's for PSP.
Here's a small example:

I have some new stationery and wallpaper to upload today and I'm working on adding a new Mother's Day-Father's Day section to both the stationery and desktop wallpaper sections. I'm hoping to have it done later today. So hopefully, this won't be the last of me you see today! LOL Have a great one!

Update-New translation-tag from Jet

Hi everyone: I've just finished a new translation, Rood (Red) by Jetje's PSP Creaties. I hope you like it! I can see lots of possibilities for it, give it a try and see what you come up with!

Here's a small example:

Have a great night.

Update - New translated tutorial

Hi everyone, I have just finished and uploaded a beautiful new translation called Fantasy Parrot, originally written by Paola of Grafica Paola in Italian.
Here's a small example:

It's very easy. I hope you like it! Have a fantastic day!

More updates-2 revised translations and an Easter Tag translation

I've redone two scrap tag tutorials, from Marian's PSP-Lessen, that were removed a few months ago while Marian rewrote them. Past and Faith . Past has been slightly rewritten and Faith only had to have the frame tube removed from the supplies (the small frame around the woman's face-see example), for which you'll have to choose one yourself to replace it.
Here are small examples, Past on the left and Faith on the right:

I've also translated a beautiful and sweet Easter tutorial from Jet, of Jetje's PSP Creaties, called Celebrate Easter.
Here's a small example:

Isn't it just gorgeous! I haven't done the stationery and wallpaper to match this one yet.
What I'm going to try and get done today is separate the holiday and seasonal tutorials out into separate index pages, so you can find all of the Easter tuts together, Valentine, Winter, Autumn, etc. Have a wonderful day everyone!

Update - 2 new translated tutorials-note about synching software

I've got 2 new translations done from Violette at Violettegraphics.
A beautiful frame tut called Cadre Valentin and a gorgeous blend tag called Amour Toujours. Here are small examples:

I hope you like them! I haven't done the matching stationery and wallpaper yet, I hope to get that done in the next day or two. Hubby's home on vacation next week so I'm not sure how much I'll get done.
I've been having major computer problems. I started smelling really strong burning plastic a few days ago so frantically started burning things off on DVD's, like my website. Then it started shutting itself down, with no word of warning. John got it going again and I would back up more stuff and it would shut down again. Finally I convinced him that yes, you can fix the power supply yourself. So he did! He said the only thing he's never fixed on a computer yet is the motherboard, and I told him he may find out this week how to do that too, depending on if any damage was done to the motherboard during this little adventure. So wish me luck! It's been a rough winter trying to get things done for my site, between my surgery, lack of energy and now computer problems. Thank goodness I lost no data though. Yet.I'd been procrastinating about setting up a backup program, but there's nothing like the feeling of OMG, I'm going to lose everything to kick you in the bum about getting that done. I bought a 500 gig external hard drive (at half price!) and started backing up everything. I actually found out I didn't need a backup program as much as I needed a synching program. So I found AllSync and I love it. After the first batch of backing up the original folders, it now backs up 270 gigs of my data every night in 20 minutes! All it does is look for changed, deleted or added folders and files and it mirrors the original folder exactly, leaving the unchanged files alone. What a great program. Have a great night everyone!

February Desktop Calendars, new Translated Tutorial, new stationery and desktop wallpaper

Hi everyone. I'm having a little bit of problems in my recovery from surgery but I'm back in gear and hopefully can start bringing you new stuff regularly again. And I have new stuff for you today! Desktop calendars, a new translated tutorial, stationery and wallpaper!
I have 2 desktop calendars ready for you for February. The previews can be used as mini calendars as well. Hopefully I'll have some blinkie calendars and scrap calendars for March when the time comes, I'm getting into the swing of things slowly.
For the tutorial translation, I translated Scrap Valentina created by Violettegraphic. I also created matching stationery and desktop wallpaper, both with a Valentine theme and without so you can use it all month if you like.
Example of the new tutorial:

New Stationery New Wallpaper
I'm revamping my Love & Romance stationery page as the page itself is old and the stationery on it is old, and they're not converted to OE yet, so I'm refreshing the look of the stationery and page as well. I'm working on that right now and hope to have it done today or tomorrow. I hope to be back within a few days with more stuff!
Have a great week.

New translation, Fantasy Blend tag

I've completed a translation from Grafica Paola called Fantasy, a blend tag.
Here's a small preview:

I haven't completed the stationery and wallpaper to match yet.
Have a great day!

New Translated tut-new permissions to translate-stationery fixed

I've received permission to translate the tutorials of Lamiagrafica so the tutorial Autunno (Autumn) I translated a couple of weeks ago is now uploaded. I made a mistake and asked the wrong person and Isa from Lamiagrafica wrote 2 days ago to let me know I had made a mistake, so all is well now. I've had the matching wallpaper and stationery uploaded for 2 weeks now but the stationery has the wrong info in the footer to credit the original writer and to add the link to my translation, so if you got it before, if you could please go and replace it with the corrected copy? Thanks. New Stationery
Here's a small preview of the tutorial

I have also been requested by a Dutch writer, Riet Kuisters, to translate her tutorials and I agreed. And of course Grafica Paola that I mentioned 2 weeks ago. I will hopefully be up to translating a number of tutorials from all of my ladies as soon after surgery (Nov 22) as I am recovered somewhat. I am translating for 13 writers now so I have many, many beautiful tutorials to choose from.
The index page for all of the writers I translate for is here.
It links to each writer's index page and also lists the home site of each writer.

Have a great day!

Update-desktop calendars, new stat, new wallpaper, translation news

I've just uploaded the November Desktop Calendars and also a new stationery with matching wallpaper. New Stationery New Wallpaper
Here's a small preview.

I did ask the tutorial writer if I could translate it but I've heard nothing back and that was a couple of weeks ago, so unless I hear back I won't be adding the translation to my site.
Edit: I found out I had asked the wrong person and the original writer contacted me and gave me permission. Her site is Lamiagrafica . My translated tutorial link is here: Autunno (Autumn).
I also got permission from another Italian tut writer to translate her tutorials so look for them soon here. The site is Grafika Paola.

New translated scrap tag tutorial

I've uploaded a scrap tag translation called I Love Shopping by Luna of Secret of Luna, who's given me permission to translate her tutorials. It's adorable.
Here's a small preview

I have a meeting to run to now, hopefully I'll finish the stationery and wallpaper to match by tonight or tomorrow. Have a great day!

2 new tutorials-blend tag and stationery/background tile

I've translated a new tutorial by Violettegraphic, called Blend Rencontre for PSP. Here's a small preview:

I've also just uploaded my new stationery/tile tutorial called Exploding Clouds. Here are small previews. It can be done in any graphics program.


Have a super weekend!

Update-New translated blend tag tutorial

I have a new translated blend tag tutorial up called I Don't Care, written by Jet of Jetje's PSP Creaties. Here's a small preview:

Isn't it pretty?
Stationery and wallpaper to match will follow soon, maybe today if I can get to it.
Have a great day!

New translated blend tag tutorial-stationery-wallpaper

I've just translated a new blend tag tutorial, Country Companions, originally written in Dutch by Lien of X-clusive Designz. It's for PSP. Here's a small sample.

A beautiful, Autumn blend tag. I just love it!
I have also received permission to translate tutorials for Secret of Luna, a French site. Only a few tutorials there but they are very nice. I hope to have one of them done soon.
I've also uploaded matching stationery and wallpaper. New Stationery New Wallpaper
But first, on to the monthly calendars for October. I'm running out of time!! I hope to have them all done tomorrow and uploaded. I've finished the desktop ones and one mini scrap but none are uploaded yet. Tomorrow, I'm tired. LOL Have a great night everyone.

Update-2 translated PhotoImpact blend tag tuts-new wallpaper and new stationery

I've translated two PhotoImpact tutorials from Violettegraphic. Both blend tags and gorgeous! Blend Alyséa

and Blend Lorianne.

Although these tutorials are for PhotoImpact, they would be extremely easy to do in other programs. I've converted the PhotoImpact files to psd files that can be opened in any program, so give it a try!
I've also uploaded more New Stationery and New Wallpaper, made from these tutorials and extra wallpaper to coordinate.