October Calendars up-Desktop, Scrap and Blinkie and personal news

Did you think I'd disappeared? LOL
I have October Blinkie, Scrap and Desktop calendars up.
Go to the calendar index page here.
You can see an example of one of the blinkie calendars at the top of the right column.
I hope to make one more scrap and one more simpler Desktop by tomorrow. I'll try and get the November ones done earlier in the month so the pressure isn't so bad at the end of the month for me to get them done. Go check them out, I hope you like them. I know many of you have written and were missing the blinkie calendars.
I have a few stationery and wallpaper to finish getting ready and hope to have them up shortly.
For those that wrote and enquired about my health, I can eat a bit more than I could before so that's a good thing! I'm still having trouble with lots of meats, so I'm careful there, but can eat a lot more stuff than before, very slowly and carefully. LOL
I was having trouble with the medication for my fibromyalgia and was in a deep depression due to the meds for months, and finally realized what it was. I stopped the medication a couple of weeks ago and suddenly feel like my old sunny self again. I am just not a depressed kind of person and that was simple awful! I hope to never go through that again. I'd rather live with the pain.
Thanks to so many caring people that wrote and asked if I was ok. I am now and you are all appreciated for caring!
On a brighter note, my youngest daughter had her second child, a little girl called Keira Mikaela, Sept 5th, on our anniversary! What a beautiful anniversary gift! I'll share a picture of her later.
Have a wonderful day everyone

I'm still around!

I'm so sorry for the lack of updates lately. I've been having a hard time getting back to creating and updating since coming back from my long summer trip. We just got back and got a call that my youngest daughter had her baby, a beautiful little girl, Keira Mikaela. A beautiful name for a gorgeous girl. We went up to see her and when we got back I still am dithering about getting back to work. I do have some translations done and almost ready to upload. A lot of new stationery and wallpaper to add as well. It's just getting to it! Kick me someone, please! LOL I just came on here to customize my blog some more, adding blog lists and blog follower. Check along the right column for those. A new layout coming soon, I hope! Take care, everyone.
Hugs, Ellei

Update-second one for today-calendars, wallpaper, stationery uploaded

OK, I felt so guilty leaving you without desktop calendars for 2 months (and more counting the months I've missed) that I went and made 2 desktop calendars for August and 2 for September. There's new desktop wallpaper and stationery as well. Now I can go on my trip with a clear conscience. LOL
Have a great day!
New Stationery New Wallpaper Desktop Calendars

Update-apology for lack of calendars-trip coming up

I apologize for not having calendars done every month. I seem to have lost my creative spark and the summer has been so busy. I was so long recovering from my surgery and then it was summertime!
I am leaving on a long trip soon, going camping to Northern Ontario and then west, not sure how far, so I won't have any new calendars for you till the September ones. I will have my laptop with me so will work on them and hopefully have a few to choose from for September. You won't be getting any updates from me while I'm gone, but hopefully I'll get tons of stuff done during my trip.
I have translations to finish, lots of stationery and wallpaper to finish, those calendars to do, and lots of new things buzzing in my brain. Let's just hope the buzzing gets to my fingers! LOL And I'm not talking about the buzzing of all the bugs I'll run into on the trip.
Worst thing about camping, in my opinion, is the bugs. BZZZZZZZZZZZ BZZZZZZZZZZZ BZZZZZZZZZZZ

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!

Update-June Desktop Calendars, new desktop wallpaper and stationery

I've just finished creating and uploading 4 new desktop calendars for June.
I've also uploaded 10 new desktop wallpaper in regular and wide-screen sizes and 8 new stationery in Incredimail, Outlook Express and eml formats. In both the wallpaper and the stationery, 2 are summer ones and 1 is a Father's Day one.
I hope you find something you like!
I may make a scrap and blinkie calendars tomorrow if I find the time, but no promises. I really would like to get back to it though, so keep your fingers crossed. I'll announce it here if I do make them.
Have a great weekend!

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!

Update-Mother's Day and Father's Day stationery and wallpaper plus more!

I have 3 new Mother's Day stationeries and 1 new Father's Day stationery, in all formats (imf, exe and eml) with matching wallpaper for all.
I also have 3 new simple background wallpapers and 2 new wallpapers with "My Desktop" on them. I hope you like them!
Find them here: New Stationery New Wallpaper
Have a super weekend!