you can find it here: http://twitter.com/engelina_c
- Location:kitchen table.
- Mood:
calm - Music:sound of tv
i made a few crochet turtles, and managed to remember what i had done while making them. under the cut is the pattern.
two pictures to show you what you can make with the pattern under the cut:


( ninja turtle pattern under the cut )
If you have any questions, feel free to ask me.
if you make a turtle, and want to, would you mind taking a photo and showing it to me? only if you want to, of course!
- Mood:
calm
there still are some bugs, but i am doing everything withing my power to solve them. if you encounter a serious bug, please report it to me. if possible with a screencap.
- Mood:
happy
( Who comments the most on this journal? )
- Location:thuis
- Mood:
awake - Music:radio nl
he catches them himself, mostly (( mum helps with the newer, more rare dragons) , of the abandoned page, and names and breeds them himself, too. normally, he can post them himself, too, on the fansite, even learned him how to trade. okay, it has been only from my scroll to his, but still.
but due to it being down for a few days already... time for some parental help. and some help from all the nice people on my friendslist, here.. please click on the dragons, and help my kid?




Your results:
You are Beverly Crusher
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A good physician and a caring parent. You are devoted to your children and to your occupation. ![]() |
Click here to take the Star Trek Personality Test
i think i have seen people get most of the others by now.. do we have a complete crew, yet?
Edit: Update done! all went smooth, and all should be in working order! report any errors you migth run into to me, either here or on the forum.
i also fixed the AFFA site-news Page, wich will work again when the forum works. i am going to do some minor updates on the site, and posted a change-log on the news page, wich i will update with the latest changes.
if you have suggestions for things you would like to see onthe site and/or forum , they always are welcome. i cant promise i will implement all, that partly depends on my coding skills.
and now the rambling part:
easter was nice, spend the first day over at my momÅ› place, together with other famly members, and went out with my parents and my kids on day two, to a local kinderboerdery ((sorry no idea what its called in english)) i made some photo's, from which i made a slideshow, which you can find here: Link
for the rest things are more and more falling into place.. my son changed schools, and seems to be settling in well, on his new school, and since last week, he finally got swimming lessons, too. my teen daughter is still being a teen, among things.. i will ramble about that in detail later.
- Mood:
okay
| You Are a Lynx |
![]() You've always been extra sensitive and aware. And it's made it difficult for you to fit in. You see past people's outward personas. You are able to penetrate a stranger's soul. What you've learned about people is both beautiful and ugly. And you keep these secrets to yourself. |

the egg, ball, hearth, and the second turtle. the turtle i made for my son, hearth went to my mom, and is not a key-chain, ball and egg still in the bag i keep my yarn and other crochet stuff in.

And a little bear i made. I am making a second one for my son, with the same yarn as the carapace of the turtle above. and after hat, i have no idea.. but if i get my hands on some green yarn.. i am going to try and make a ninja turtle!
- Location:table, living room
- Mood:
artistic - Music:radio nl
the site moved from a sub-domain of my domain, http://tmntfan.nl, to its own domain:
http://tmnt-affa.com
this means the forum also has moved, and you can now find it here: http://tmnt-affa.com/forum
i am happy the whole move went smooth, did not loose one letter on the forum, as far as i can see! the only thing that still has to be moved, or altered into a new format, is the links page. i am working on adapting a base script i found on a site, to fit the affa needs.
i will be doing some optimalising, still have to fix the news page, (or replace it with something else)) and in the next few days will remove th\is year's section for the temporary fics. if you find anything not working, then mail me at: engelina@tmnt-affa.com , or reply here!
( under here. )
i tried to find a fix, but i can not find a fix that doe snot include using a less-saver version of the script.. and even then its not sure if the error will be fixed.
i have a few options, and am hoping you, are willing to tell me what you prefer. you can do that by mailing me back, or my responding to my livejournal, which will also have an entry about this.
the options are the following:
-live with it, and have people that use ie not being able to use the site properly (not one i prefer, at all. i lprefer all my sites compatible with any browser. just adding this one for completeness of options))
-try to fix it, with possible chance of it still not working/hackers. (( also not one i favor.. may cause trouble for the other sites, like the affa one.. ))
-find another script (already tried, did not find a decent one. if you know a good one, tell me. not efiction. ))
-replace it with a forum instead. ((most forum scripts are more stabile, and friendly for any browser.))
-merge this place with the affa forum. ((means people have to re-post. but the affa forum already as an story section, and author sections. ))
-just give up all together, and delete it.
- [ insert an option i forgot here , ] (post idea in a reply, in this case. ))
so, opinions, please? as many as possible, since i then can get an idea what most think.
- Location:soon to be my bed
- Mood:
annoyed - Music:radio nl
I plan on making some new ones, but i am not going to say when.. because i do not know when i will have the time to do so.
Anyways, here is the deal: these are free to be used, as a sig on forums, or here on lj. If someone asks you where you got it, then kindly point them this way. Credit is appreciated, but i am not going to force people to do so. So you may credit, but its not a must. just do not claim these as made by you.
Since i am a curios artist, i appreciate to hear what you think of these, and if you use them. again not something you have to do, but appreciated by me if you do so.
If you need help with the html code or the bbcode (for forums), just ask me, and i will try to help.
TMNT do not belong to me. just like making art with them on it.
( the glittery things are under here!! )
- Location:table, living room.
- Music:cd: de band, de zanger, en het meisje.
Association Meme: Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.
I got three sets of 5 subjects. I might get more, since I am seeing this meme more and more, but for now, I will post the 3 I already got.
- Location:table, soon my bed
- Mood:
bouncy - Music:radio nl
i have tried to fix it, but nothing works. brought the computer to a computer shop a few weeks ago, and they could not find it ea iter, but they could tell me it was not a hardware error. memory, hard disk, etc.. everything is in working order.
last week, i had enough. i had gotten a linux disk with a computer magazine a few weeks back, and decided to give it a try. so, installed linux, and it worked, except the wireless network cart. a post on a dutch linux forum was ansered very fast, and the person answering posted a link to what solved that part too. so yues, all working perfectly fine now. and last thusday my computter did not do the chrashy thing, either.
so, for me, dropping windows and now using linux works. and i like using linux, found a html editor that has the options i need, can access my server easy.. and if i need windows for something i can always use the kids computers.. ((my son now has a computer too.. one that also serves as my backup. gift to him and me from my mom, who was no longer using her desktop computer after she bougth a laptop. ))
- Mood:
optimistic
if you want to help me, please do the following: go here, and cast a test submission: LINK
then please post a reaction here, and if you can, add the following info ( posting can be done anonymous, if you prefer that)
1: the name you used, so i can confirm that i have got your entry here. working email is not needed, you can add yours, or type test there.
2: your browser ((ie, firefoc, opera, etc))
3: you operating suystem (windows, mac, linux))
4: if you encountered problems
5: if you noticed something missing, or wrong
6: did you see the thanks page?
7: did you get the confirmation mail?
if everything goes well, you should see a confirmation page after you have hit submit, and you should get a e-mail, also confirming your entry. if the mail does not arrive, make sure to check your spam filters first.
- Mood:
productive
Fandom: TMNT
Characters: splinter, Donatello, others are mentioned
Rating: all
Summary: splinter listens to the sound of the early morning in the lair, in the little turtle story verse.
Disclaimer: nope, don’t own them. Just having some non-profit fun,.
Notes: written from splinters pov. Part of the Little Turtle series.
( fic under here )
- Location:table, living room
- Music:radio-nl
After some thinking, i decided to start a second photobucket account, and upload everything there. After almost losing all the caps, ((good thing i do make backups, at least of some things )) i decided to make more haste with that, so i did. i uploaded every cap i had a backup off to a photobucket account.
Where this all is leading? to here: Linkie!! <-- that is where you can find every screencap i had on my computer. i sometimes add new ones, and will try and post in my lj if i do.
These screencaps are free to be used, no credits neccasery, but if you do give credit, i would appreciate it.
- forgetting a memo or two.. :will make up on that, promise!
- re-doing my website, to frames: been working on that for a while, finished last week, more or less. its now up. the only thing i need is to find some kind of graphic for above the menu.
- AFFA 2008 competition: we just closed the nominations, and now are working on getting the reading list ready, and the fics that need temporary hosting on the site. pages for that have been added, still need to add content on some.
- making art: working on a thing or two, and uploaded something to my deviantart a few days ago.
- real live..: we all know this one.. and that it can keep us busy a lot. may or may not post a journal about that later.. if i do, it will be friends-locked.
- fanfic: working on the resident evil/tmnt crossover, and finished a one shot.. wich, by the way, will be beta-ed, once my beta (reijiro) has time.. wich probably be after the affa. so fics are being written, in between.. posting ish on hold until there is time to beta and edit.
as for the memo's: here is one i got tagged with a while ago, by at least 3 people:
1. Post these rules.
2. Each tagged person
3. At the end, you
4. No tag-backs.
( 8 things under here.. )
- Mood:
content
i have no words for this. poor children, and poor parents. i think that guy should die, and preferably slowly. very slowly.
- Mood:
angry
The first seven (7) people to respond to this post will get something made by me.
This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make.
- What I create will be just for you.
- It'll be done this year (2009).
- You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be a mix CD. It may be a poem. I may draw or paint something. I might
- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange. <- WORD!
The catch is that you have to put this in your journal as well, if you haven't already. 'tis only fair if you expect me to do something for you!
- Location:kids/main family computer.. missing my laptop...
- Mood:
awake - Music:radio nl
the first few went too fast for me to read, but after turning of that reboot on error thing from vista, i got a good look at the page, got the erroro code, and googled it, to find a solution.. and did not find one that was not confusing me at all. took bits of solution of a few pages, the ones i could do myself, that is, and for now, it seems to be running normal.. will wait a few days before i declare the error gone, thoug..
and so i remember later what i did, i am listing it here.(( i also apologise to my flist, who have to read this... i just have to post it somewhere online, where i can acess it later, just in case.))
- re-install windows (yesterday, afternoon)
- remove the test trail stuff that comes with my install.. ((its one of those boot sector things, most laptops have these days.. and the manufacturer always adds stuff they think is useful to it... so, yeah, de-install allcrap i dont need, that is not a part of windows. or needed to run the computer, like a short traIl from office, and some of those play one hour and then pay games)) (also yesterday)
- by then, the blue screens started. 1 time during dinner, three times while i was chatting with some people. got a photo of the last one.
- get all windows neccesary updates ( part y
esterday, part today) - clean out fan. (not much dust there, but its clean now)
- do checkdisk (found a few errors, do not rember how much, all were restored.)
- de-installed norton three months trail, intalled my security suite (gdata) , did scans for viruses and other nasties, nothing.
- did memory check ( build into vista one ) all good, no errors.
- got another window update, installed. (not sure why this one came after the rest. )
- tested the system, by running browser, and mediaplayer. no errors. no bluescreens.
- did a last checkdisk. no errors found.
now i am hoping it really is gone, and that the bad sectors that where restored where the actual error, or that the updates took care of it. so, hopefully, i indeed am error-free. for now, at least
- Mood:
hopeful
instead i spend most of the oafternoon and part of the evening re-installing vista, and getting my computer back working at this momend, it luckily is.
i backup regulairly, so not much was lost... but some things where... i lost two fics i had finished after tthe last backup, for one. and some coding for the website. fortunately, ican get the coding part again easily enough, just have to rember where i edited it.
the fics.. i still have what i wrote in my head... just have to get it out of my head again. after i re-install word, that is... and photoshop... and at least two other programs i use often. i just hope its my last crash in quite a while.
- Mood:
frustrated
Your result for The Attachment Style Test...
The Free Agent
20% Anxiety Over Abandonment and 39% Avoidance Of Intimacy

You like to be independent, to play by your own rules. You're not terribly interested in finding a partner and settling down, and it makes you nervous to imagine that someone might depend on you for anything. Were you to find the right partner--someone as independent as you, probably--you'd not be too put out about sharing your adventures with him/her.
Fictional characters with whom you might identify: Han Solo (Star Wars), Beatrice ("Much Ado About Nothing")

| Other Attachment Types: | |||||
| Secure: | The Unicorn | | | The Cuddleslut | | | The Free Agent |
| Preoccupied: | The Cling Wrap | | | The Squid | | | The Insect |
| Fearful: | The Doormat | | | The Leper | | | The Exile |
| Dismissing: | The Hermit | | | The Stone | | | The Player |
| Confused: | The Waffler |
Take The Attachment Style Test at HelloQuizzy
nice for results, me thinks. got no idea who the girl is, though.
- Location:table, eating breakfast
- Mood:
awake - Music:radio nl.
Title: The Thief
Fandom: TMNT
Characters: Raphael
Rating: all. Nothing bad happens.
Summary: some steal the weirdest things…
Disclaimer: nope, no mutant turtles are mine. Not earning any money with this, just having some fun.
Notes: exactly 200 words. Slight re-write of an old drabblish fic I wrote. Also: un-beta-ed, since I see no use in bothering my beta for 200 words. ( 200 words under here... )
- Mood:
curious
over the course of the next few days, i will be adding the fanfic links i have, and the ones recced to me so far. extra recommendations are still welcome, and i want to thank the people who aklready did rec stories for that page! i am also looking into a guestbook for my sites, but so far have not found one i like yet.
i also decided to make more use of my deviantart account. so, what will be where: fanart, wallpapers, etc will be posted on my site. photo's, scrapbooking pages and manips i make using non-fan chars will be on deviantart. here on lj, i will show something of both.
the birthday and gift part: tomorrow,. jan 11, i will become 35 years. i already got the first gifts: 6 months lj and 6 months of 100 userpictures from my mom, and my daugther made something in school for me. will take a pic and post it later! probabbly after tomorrow.
been adding some avvies already, can still use a few nice ones, thoug!
- Mood:
happy
updates:
posted re-written text with all info on 2008 competition page.
some updates done on the nominating rules, one rule added, please re-read.
some things got added to the faq.
added a link to us page
updated the look of the links page a little to fit the rest of the site.
nominations form added.
contact form got re-scripted, it works again.
reijiro did the writing of all the text on site, coding and uploading done by me.
to be added soon:
voting form.
die to a server switch, and me losing the script, i lost all those links. i have some in my bookmarks, that i since then found again, but many good fics are missing.
now, i decided to re-start the fanfic links page, you can find the start of it here: http://tmnt-fanfic.jouwpagina.nl/
now what i need help with, is finding good fanfics, old and new, to put on the page.
and that is what i am asking help with. know a fic that really should be added? tell me! post the link, what it is about, and if possible, the genre, so i can divide the fics into categories using that. the fic may be written by you, or by others, just if you think it is good, and should be added, post it here!
p.s.: if a story has an adult rating, you still can mention it. i will add those too, but label them 18+.
spend this day watching Christmas movies with my son: first the grinch, then the tmnt Christmas episode, then Santa Claus. my daughter had fun too, at her grandma's house. all in all, a relaxing day.
day 5: 21-12:
winter eggies on dragcave! bred one, caught one from abandoned., daughter bred one too. traded bred one with another bred winter eggie with katt, later.
day 6: 22-12
todays fun thing: did some card making with my kids. had to sweep floor later, but that is a small price for the fun i had making Christmas cards for grandma. ((helps that i have a floor that i can sweep easy, too.))
and day 7: 23-7 (today)
got all shopping done! had to wait until this week before i had money to buy most of the stuff for Christmas, and got all i needed. groceries where half-paid by me, half my mom , since we celebrate Christmas togeter each year, that one is always a shared one. got the gifts i needed too.
and with that, i can end this meme!
my kids have their vacation. that means i can sleep a little longer each morning. not much, but still.
and my income was payed out a week earlier this month, and just arrived on my bank account! wich means less counting each dime while Christmas shopping.
and updated my site, with a christmas background: http://tmntfan.nl
also got some very nice icons from reijro *huggles* thanks a lot, will go and get some of then uploaded here!
- Mood:
calm
1. Post about something that made you happy today even if it's just a small thing.
2. Do this every day for a week without fail.
3. Tag 8 of your friends to do the same.
Firstly. i don't do the taggy thing,. whoever wants to and has not done this already, feel free to grab. i did the same myself, from my flist.
todays good things:
i spend a nice afternoon watching avatar with my son, and because i watched it on my laptop, i also got some useful screencaps out of it.. *holds one screencap out* this one is gonna be a nice avvie for reijiro. and if i can find a cap fitting the other idea i have, it will be two!
- Mood:
cheerful
Subject: tmnt wallpaper, theme family.
used: screencaps from a btts episode, idea is mine, quote from the Internet, don't remember where, wordart family from a scrapbooking site.
both are clickable thumbnails, leading to full sized ones to use. please view full size to enjoy then the most.
Normal size:

Widescreen size:

feel free to use on your desktop. if you want to post anywhere else, please link back here, or credit me. ( i prefer you just linking here, thoug ))comments are welcome as always. i fact i like getting a few comments... okay, enough hinting. enjoy.
- Location:somewhere
- Mood:
artistic - Music: nice and silend here now
Drabble it forward: Make a post inviting people to request drabbles in the fandoms you write; any number of commenters you can handle. But the catch is, once someone makes a request, they also have to post the meme, and drabble it forward.
Fandoms: TMNT. i migth be persuated to try biker mice, thunderbirds, or swat kats, but i prefer tmnt, no matter what incarnation ( movies, old or new, new toon, old too, comics.. ))
I'll write pretty much anything, since i want to use this to practice writing stuff, so..
you don't *really* have to repost the request for prompts. I just wants 'em.
- Location:living room, trying to keep cat from keyboard.
- Mood:
artistic - Music:dutch music.
Dear Santa...Dear Santa, This year I've been busy! In November I helped Overall, I've been naughty (-4068 points). For Christmas I deserve a spanking! Sincerely, |
erm... me better hide from movie leo?
grabbed from rei:
Stop writing with
Cut down to ten making photo's a day.
Ask my boss for a diskworld.
Go to the swat kats every month.
Find a better fanfic.
-get in contact with thunderbirds? well...
-i write to much? okay..
-aw... do i have to? me loves taking photo's!
-yeah good idea!
-and another good idea!
-... no comment.
tried the 12 days one too, but all i got as resuld was a list of lj usernames, and i did not really like that, so..
- Mood:
awake
firstly, there was the wedding i took photo's from, on Friday. all went well, at least with the photo taking, and i gained some courage, now knowing i can do something like this. the newly wed couple already saw the pictures, and complimented me about how good they looked. and that is before i did any basic corrections.
now i am in the process, if sorting trough them, deciding which ones to use for an album for them which is going to be my wedding gift to them.
the wedding itself went good too, lots of fun, good food, yummy desserts. the only thing that went wrong was one guest getting a little too drunk for his own good, and almost started a figth. with me. one of the kids spilled a drink on his suit, and he got angry about that. when i told him to calm down, since his shouting was scaring all the kids in the room, he started yelling at me, instead. the groom worked him out of the room before anything bad happened, so it luckily was solved.
for the processing of the photo's i loaded my mom's flatscreen monitor, since she is not using her desktop computer atm, after she bougth herself a laptop. i really like having the second monitor, especcially when working on the digital art-like stuff i like doing, and while this one is only a temporary loan, i now know what i am going to save up money for: a nice flatscreen monitor to use next to my laptop, if i am working on.. well, anything that means i normally dont seem to have enough roon on my screen. which is a lot of things.
but with all the good, there is less good too. the sick friend of my mom i mentioned in my previos journal died, basically on the day i posted that journal. even if everyone knew he would die, it still was a bit of a shock, especially for my mom.. it is what could have happened to us, 5 years ago, when my mom was diagnosed with the same illness. we where lucky, and it is things like this that remind us of just how much luck we had.
It is December again.
For me, it is a month where both good and bad things have happened in the past.
one example is the December of 5 years ago, right after we heard my mom had cancer, and that she would have to be operated as soon as was possible. Which in this case, was after New Year’s Day. This year, that is 5 years ago. My mom is still around. She was declared free of cancer, and still is. I still can visit her, and am very thankful for that.
My father also died in this month, several years ago, but I never had too strong a bond with him, so that is one thing I am not that sad about. I know my mom is not, either. He was not that much of a good husband, or father. Not going to waste many words on him here.
The biggest shadow this year is a friend of my mom that is dying because he has the disease my mom survived from: cancer. He was given up quite a while ago, and every one knew he would die soon. From what I last heard, he will not make it to Christmas, and probably not even to the next week. I never really met him, but I know it hits my mom, and I know for sure one thing that she is surely realizing. I myself am very aware of it too. It is what could have happened 5 years ago, but did not happen.
There are good things too, thankfully. the holidays, like sinterklaas, which normally would have been Friday, but is moved to Thursday for our family, due to another event ( more about that one later), Christmas, and decorating the house before that, shopping for Christmas, even if I am on a budget, it still is fun to do!
We also have a wedding on Friday the 5th. Two friends of us are tying the knot, on that day. On me, the honour of making the photo's fell. The first time I make wedding photos. I read up on it, and memorised some tips and tricks for the day. I have prepared what I could: my camera is ready, I got my stepdad's camera as a backup, and making sure I have enough memory for both camera’s, and batteries enough for the whole day. I will try and type up a journal after Friday, telling how it went, in case anyone here is curios.
- Mood:
thoughtful
the forum update is a security update, and thus nessasery
site update is also minor, adding some info about the next competition.
forum update: done, successful
site update: done, successful.
find the site here: http://affa.tmntfan.nl
- Mood:
calm
Which Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Character Are You? | |
![]() | You are part Donatello. You are reserved and intelligent. You favor the use of brains instead of brawn. |
![]() | You are part Splinter. You are patient and wise. |
| Find Your Character @ BrainFall.com | |
- Mood:
working
which makes me a very proud mum, now. will post piccies and short movie tomorrow, after me cleans it up a bit. (( want it all to look good, after all!!))
- Mood:
excited
Wallpaper: Flowers by ~engelina-cartoonfan on deviantART
- Mood:
sleepy
( under the cut. )
are any of these worth trying to continue at all? or should i just leave them where they are: my dumped story iteas folder?
- Mood:
thoughtful
blend: Johan by ~engelina-cartoonfan on deviantART
- Mood:
happy
As for where i got the money for two months: i had put some money on my paypal, a month or so ago, and still had it, so used it for this.
I have been playing around a bit already, and plan on adding a few more user icons too. Already managed to get myself a custom mood theme. Well, technically i googled it.
- Mood:
happy




Dear Santa...

