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.

8 new stationery and wallpaper, some Halloween and Autumn

I have 8 new stationery and wallpaper for you. They are the ones that match the tutorials I posted about yesterday, 3 Halloween ones and 1 Autumn one. The stationery is, as usual, in Incredimail, Outlook Express and Eml formats. I have a new size of wallpaper I've just started making, the large widescreen 1680X1050, that fits my 22"widescreen monitor. One of the papers, Practical Magic, is made in this size. I will continue making them as well in the usual 1280X1024 size to fit most non-widescreen monitors and 800X600 to fit the smaller widescreens, such as my 15" laptop.
Find the new stationery here and the new wallpaper here.
Now my back is killing me from sitting here since 6 this morning, so I am off to watch some TV and read! Have a great night!

4 new desktop wallpaper

I have 4 new desktop wallpaper up, the ones to match the 4 tutorials listed in the last post.
Click here for the new wallpaper.
Now on to my next project. I have soooo many new stats and wallpaper to get ready for you, tags all made, just waiting for the assembly line! LOL

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

Questionnaire!

Sonel passed this questionnaire over to me...thanks Sweetie! :-)
Well, you guys know I never do these but Sonel's a good friend so for a friend . . .
1. How long have you been using PSP?
2. How did you get into making tags, scrapkits?
3. Who is your favorite artist?
4. Who is your favorite scrap designer?
5. Which 3 blogs do you visit every day?

Answers:
1. I've been using PSP, along with a ton of other programs, for about 8 years now, I think.
2. I used to use Photoshop for very basic stuff, as that's what hubby used. I admired all of the things made by others but never in a million years thought I'd be able to do it, and write tuts as well! I took a free online course from PSP Imaginarium and that got me started. Then I took a free online course from PIRC for PhotoImpact and that got me started in PI, which is my favorite program.
3. My favorite artist, I don't have just one. My very favorite, of course, is my daughter Rachel Mumford. She'll be famous one day! I love Barbara Jensen, Jamie Kidd, Rachael Tallamy, Pinup Toons, Jasmine Becket-Griffith, Joel Adams, Renee Biertempfel, Caron Vinson, so many more!
4. My favorite Scrap Designer is Bel Vidotti, but I really love so many of the talented scrap designers. I go collecting every single day!
5. I don't visit blogs so much every day (but often!) but I do visit my daily downloads forums every day-3 Scrapateers, Arts Variety, Digital Design Den, Digital Divas Designs, Digital Craft Cottage, Gotta Pixel, Groovy Scraps, StudioStyleDesigns (a blog! LOL), The Daily Scrapper and The Scrapping Garden. I also love to visit Ikea Goddess as she has freebie lists every day.
I'll have to pass this questionnaire on to others later, when I get some time to think about that!
This post is failing to save and I don't want to lose it, so I'll publish it.
Hugs, Ellie

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!