Rikkis Teleidoscope

21st of March is World Down Syndrome Day. Just a few days later we received a stack of the official German brochure from the DS-Info Center. Guess who the cutie on the cover is! It’s our little dude, Sean. We are so proud of him. The picture was taken last year by Conny Wenk at [...]

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It’s not new, but I only discovered recently that Basic Grey went digital. If I was a paper scrapper I’m pretty sure that almost all my papers would be Basic Grey. So I was pretty excited to see that they are now selling digital kits as well.
So far they have seven collections available, [...]

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Lately my ACDSee has annoyed me quite a bit. It froze constantly, I had to restart it, froze again. Then, all of a sudden it stopped working altogether because of some error or other that I didn’t care to investigate. So I had a look around for another picture organizer to replace ACDSee, preferably cheap. [...]

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Since this product is available in Germany – I assume Rico Design does not distribute this in other countries as well – I’m going to continue in German now, Hopefully for the benefit of potential buyers who, like me, thought that by buying a product of the popular Rico brand, they are getting a quality [...]

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My interests have changed in the last few months. Well, not really changed, but they have extended to other areas than only scrapbooking. So I decided to extend the topics of the blog as well, give it a new name and change it looks.
I know, “teleidoscope” is not really a name that sticks or [...]

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I’m so totally out of the loop that I almost missed Digital Scrapbooking Day. Not that I am scrapbooking much theses days, but shopping for supplies is always pleasant. And, who knows, the right kit might get me back into it. So, the Paislee Press newsletter drew my attention this morning to a gorgeous collab [...]

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I know, my scrapbooking activities leave a lot to be desired these days. So maybe this will get me back into the swing of things. Jessica Sprague offers a free class “Holidays in Hands” where you create a December album project. Jessica’s classes are awesome, I know this from “Digi in deep” which I took [...]

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I think I need to redecorate the blog, so if you think things look a bit strange around here, it’s because the blog gets a little facelift and I’m right in the middle of it.

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I just found this great feature on Etsy that I never knew existed. Did you know that you can shop by color on Etsy? I could just hover my mouse over this forever, LOL.

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On Literary Menagerie I found this link to a gender analyzer, where you can have your site checked. It gives you a guess whether the site is written by a man or woman. Imagine my surprise when it turned out that this blog was written by a man – admittedly the probability is only 51 [...]

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If you are a fan of  Vera Lim’s, don’t forget to go over to her blog for some awesome freebies during the 2 week countdown to Christmas.

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OK, since I have to share John’s PC and can’t scrap or anything, I spend a lot of time in the evening browsing the net. Does anybody else get really bored, not to say pissed off, at the total overload of Twilight everywhere you go? You go on amazon, search for a book that isn’t [...]

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My PC has died on me. One minute it worked, the next it didn’t. We thought it is the C drive, but maybe it wasn’t, since replacing it didn’t help either. So next thing to do is take it to the shop. You usually have to wait for an appointment, so God knows how long [...]

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Oh, miracle. An email I received yesterday caused me to totally update my homepage today.  The looks are still the same, but the links are all checked, deleted if necessary, new ones were added etc. I’m so proud of myself, LOL. I added a few interesting links that I talked about on this blog, like [...]

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Nicole from "Der Scrapbook-Laden" gave me an award that I’m going to pass on. Have to think though about to whom. I’m always so lame when it comes to that.

Nicole, thanks so much for it. I totally agree with what you said. I think we would get along splendidly. Too bad you live quite a [...]

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Anyone miss me? Didn’t think so. Well, we are back from our vacation and I’m ready and eager to start working on my vacation album. I already ogled the Happy as a lark quickpage album by Paislee Press before I left, so now I finally got it and a few nice tidbits on [...]

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Just to keep everybody updated on our activities. I’m not very active at the moment due to all sorts of reasons.
Sean and Corin are having lots of fun in the garden. We bought them a little slide – actually too small for Corin, but he’s enjoying it nevertheless. Sean is having a [...]

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Is it only my imagination or is Digishoptalk getting the most boring digicrapping place ever? Most of the times I go there at least half of the posts on the first new posts page are in "The happy place". The rest is new products, offers to win a kit for free and other such stuff. [...]

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Happy World Down Syndrome Day!

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I posted my new ad challenge at Polka Dot Potato today. Check it out! Here is my layout for it:

Credits: Photograph: from the net; Papers: Vera Lim; Photo edge: Ninascraps; grid overlay and edge overlay: mine; Fonts: X-Files, Hootie; Haiku: Issa, Quote: Mark Strand
Now that I have a nother look at the page I [...]

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Does anybody else think that online chats are as boring as anything? Not the ones on hello with my friends, but scheduled online chats from shops, communities, whatever. So far I have been to a handful that were informative and interesting, but as a rule they are the most tedious thing ever. When I go [...]

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I’m totally excited. Stacy Julian sent me an email yesterday saying that she’d like to feature my layout about beauty (see below) on the Big Picture blog. I’m doing a little happy dance here.
You have to have a look at the gallery over there. More than 2400 people have registered for that workshop, so the [...]

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has started today and I already did today’s work. Actually I had it done already before noon – not bad going. It is a page that waited to be done for ages.  It was sitting on my HD with the photo on it and that’s it. 

Credits: Papers and beauty mark: Reverie – Scrapartist; Paper fold: [...]

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I gave the blog a new outfit today – well, I changed the colors a bit, but I really like the layout of it, so that is not going to change any time soon. I just thought with that grim weather it’s time for some colorful look.
I’ve been totally sick today. All I did was [...]

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I decided to move my German blog over to this one, so in the future I’ll only use this blog for everything. Not only digi scrapping anymore, but all sorts of stuff.
 
*** Gifts ***
First of all, Kat, if you see this, thanks a lot for the awesome gifts. Your book was such a success, in [...]

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Auf Michelle Ward’s Blog habe ich eben diesen Artikel gesehen: In another life…
Schaufenster bei Bergdorf Goodman. Geradezu magisch. Von solchen Dekorationen k�nnten sich Karstadt und Breuninger mal eine Scheibe abschneiden. Aber, Moment, Karstadt hat ja �berhaupt keine Schaufenster, spart man auch ‘ne Menge Geld.

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Am I the only one who is rather disappointed with the mag? I received the newest issue a few days ago and really can’t help thinking that after all the hassle to subscribe (see this post here: Dilbert country) this was a waste of money. First of all the obvious additional service of getting the [...]

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In unserer Zeitung habe ich heute gelesen, da� das sch�nste Wort der Welt gew�hlt wurde. Ca. 60 Nationen beteiligten sich an dem Wettbewerb; entscheidende Kriterien der Jury waren Originalit�t, Definition und kulturelle Bedeutung des Wortes.
Das weltsch�nste Wort ist demnach das t�rkische Wort “Yakamoz”. Ich spreche kein T�rkisch und habe demnach leider keine Ahnung, wie das [...]

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Offenbar hat mich das dauernde Betrachten von Socken auf Ulli’s Blog angesteckt. Oh nein, nicht zum Sockenstricken – Stricken mag ich nicht sehr, und schon gar nicht mit 5 Nadeln – falls man Socken �berhaupt mit 5 Nadeln strickt. Ich h�kele lieber. Ulli, wenn du das hier liest, vielen Dank daf�r, jetzt verbringe ich nicht [...]

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Yes, it really seems that way. OK, tchibo came out with that sort of set already last year, a leather album and some scrapbook papers, but now even Aldi offer supplies. And Aldi never offers anything that won’t sell big time. The selection is not a great one, but nevertheless. Not even hobby shops (there [...]

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