Gee, it’s cold here – 1 degree celcius – brrr…. Here to go through Debbie Battersby’s eMMatrix certification program and moulding it to a focussed tool to help men and women eXperiencing their core! Look forward to that. The hotel is only 5 minutes walk from the venue – I think I am opting for the free shuttle though:-)

Arriving in Los Angeles, we found out that we had miscalculated the dates, and that it was still Monday instead of Tuesday morning. That was SO funny! Both Graham and I had completely missed that. Luckily the car rental place had a car available for us.

Alexander had asked us to extend our stay, so he and Connie were both thrilled to have us over so soon already. It is great to stay with them, to catch up, and seeing the fountain he wrote about on Facebook! The drive up to their place leads through a mountain range and offers a beautiful views of the scenery and the city.

Alexander invited us to his evening acting class last night and I enjoyed it very much. It gave me new insights for Mirror of The Moon Goddess. Click here to read about it (UK&NL)

Now we are off to meet Graham’s nephew. He writes filmmusic:-)

Finished the housesit in Gin Gin near Bundaberg yesterday and trained back to Brisbane. That was the start of a 2 week fun trip Oz2UK, via the USA, Ireland, and the UK back to the Netherlands, where I will be starting interviewing actors and talking to the other MoonScouts. I am really looking forward to this trip, meeting Connie and Alexander, Graham’s nephew, get certified with Debbie Battersby’s eMMatrix system and see Graham on-the-job at the cathedral in Adare, Ireland. After Easter with his family, then on to Tilburg.

These past weeks have been fun too, it has been raining a lot, and not just any old bit of rain. It was absolutely pouring down, flooded roads everwhere. Upside is that when the sun finally did come out, the whole countryside was lush and green where it had all been brown before.

Now – finish packing and on to the airtrain!

Here’s how to create YOUR Magic Moments – or any other slideshow – in 10 easy steps!
(click here to watch Magic Moments 2009)

The programs used are PhotoScape (free from PhotoScape.org) and Windows Live Movie Maker (free from Windows Live).

• Resize them if necessary (Windows Picture Manager or PhotoScape)
• Create combination pages of pictures that go well together, using PhotoScape , and save them
• Load the resized pictures and PhotoScape pages into Windows Live Movie Maker (Home/Load videos & pictures
• Put the pictures in the order you want to have them to appear in the slideshow*
• Add the type of transition you want between pictures; you can adjust the duration as well (Animations/Transitions)



• Where appropriate, click on the picture and add text to it (Home/Add Caption)
• Use drag & drop to decide where the text needs to appear for maximum impact
• Bring it all to life by adding just that piece of music; you can decide exactly where it starts (Home/Add Music/ITunes library)
• Last but not least: Save your Slideshow (File/Save Movie/Standard Definition)

THAT WAS EASY! Now you can watch your slideshow in ITunes or in Media Player, and upload it to any website. If you want to change anything, simply re-open the project* and save another version (10).

If you have a Mac… oops..????

*Windows Live Movie Maker froze a couple of times during this process and I had to close it and restart. Be sure to save your project frequently to keep it fun (File/Save Project As)