fluid + ornament {creativity boot camp}

i have been out of town for the weekend, so these "fluid" photos are a bit late, but fluid nontheless! there are some really good photos in the creativity boot camp gallery, have you checked it out?

todays inspirational word was ornament. i chose to take a photo of my braclets. they ornament me :)

i am still struggling to get a photo with "fly" which was yesterdays word...i´ll be back with that!

coming up this week:

a possible giveaway

some craftiness

a book share

and hopefully some sunshine!

schools out!

i am so happy for my darling that schools out and that she has so much to look forward to this summer ♥

grow (creativity boot camp)

grow is such a big word, really. my first thought was to go outside to my garden since it is very much growing, but then i didn´t. then i realized that at work (kindergarden) we are all growing everyday. but i got not photos from there that day either. when i came home i was looking at all the little piles that were growing on my work table, i ended up cleaning my desk, but no before photos. so at last i went with this photo of love yellow flowers that makes my heart grow.

summerlist number 9

number 9 on my summer list (see a few post down) was to make a new windchime. well, it doesn´t really chime :) but i love how the wind moves the different fabric strips. 

while i was cleaning the backyard i found our old grill and i used the actual barrs (?) to tie the strips of fabrics to. i bought rolls of fabric strips at a yard sale a while ago so i had them just laying around. i love the summery feeling that it has!

here comes the sun and 11 years ago

ok, so shall we get started on that promised scrappy post?!

i made this layout after a warm day now in june. and it just marks the fact that we all love when summer and the sun gets here every year. the photo is of one of my daughters older drawings. i love these colors!

you know the other day i had a post about how to scrap your right now? well, this layout is the opposite from that. i have been looking hrough my daughters baby pictures and this one is one of my favorites. she is almost 2 months old, i am just 20. i have had this photo right infront of me for a while and it speaks to me. tells a story about a very young woman that really has no clue of what life is about. a young woman that has really just realized that she has a baby of her own and have just started a new kind of love. sometimes i ache to go back in time and record everything, to savor every single detail and moment. i can´t belive that this photo was taken almost 11 years ago...i am so happy that i got this down on paper!

i look so young!

i used the photo of our feet during a recent weekend getaway. for the journaling i used a piece of transperency, i almost never use that!

elin and markus

i know i promised a scrapbooking post today, but i just had to share a few of the photos i took during a test run for a wedding i took yesterday.

these guys are getting married in july and we all wanted to make a test photoshoot. i am so happy that they brought their little one with them! we got somereally cute familyshoots too!

multilayered {creativity boot camp day 3}

multilayered was the word of inspiration for today. i went most of the day pondering on how i could challenge myself for this one. then when i went inside after a walk in the forest, i looked over in the flowerbed and saw this. i thought, well that is multilayered, right?!

i have a scrapbooking post coming up tomorrow! yay!

picnick {creativity boot camp}

picnick {creativity boot camp}, originally uploaded by elisabet ottosson.

it was raining cats and dogs today so an outdoor picnick was out of the question and since we were all late home from school and work we didn´t have time for an indoor one, i plannd one for thursday instead. this is my twist on creativity boot camp day 2 where the word was picnick.

{creativity boot camp: ivory}

i took this photo for the first daily prompt of creativity boot camp!

my mother in law always has the most wonderful gifts for me. she knows i have a soft spot for angels and she found this lovely tealightholder for me. i fell in love ith it at once and i love the light it gives.

right now kinda scrapping

today is all about "right now" kinda scrapbooking. i love to record the things and events of our life that is happening right now. a time that will not ever come back.

the title and concept of this page is actually plain and simply " right now". i started with that frase and filled in things that are us in that moment. i urge you to do that too, it is kinda fun! on a different note, this is the first "familyshot" since new years eve last year! yikes, i need to be better at that!!!

here i used the same concept of beginning with at frase. this time it was "you are..." and filled in the blanks with things i think my daughter is.

don´t you love that patterned paper?! i do! it is from pink paislee ♥

how are you doing on recording your "right now"?

summer list

well, i have seen some awesome summer-will-do-lists buzzing around the blogs i read. among others; on whatever and madeline bea. since i already have my 31 list i didn´t want to make a very long summer one. so i went with 10 things i will do this summer:

1. read lots of books

2. swim in the lake

3. pick strawberries and make lemonade

4. sleep in the hammock

5. grill as often as possible

6. eat outside

7. sit outside at night

8. make something with concrete

9. make a new windchime

10. have a garagesale 

do you have a summer to do list? please share!

again

i have been ranting forever and ever  about making photo mosaics using the easy peasy tool over at bighugelabs and using them to scrapbook. and i still love it very very much! just to show you like the easiest scrapbook page i have ever done i have used 2 different mosiacs on this 2pager. i love how clean it is! and all i did was add the text in WORD and the flower accent by hand.

have you used photo mosaics in your scrapbooking? i´d love to see!

forced scrapbooking

i am sharing with you today the results of scrapbooking that i physically forced myself to do! i have been in such a rut, and i thought well i did the cleaning thing and thinking thing and doing nada thing. now i just did it. i sat down and did these (and some more) pages just to get something down on paper that included glue and pretty paper.

i took a bunch of photos of our cherry tree at different stages in the blooming process. i wanted to use them as a reminder of that spring comes bit by bit. this page is actually about A5 in size. i randomly cut the paper in my cutter and used it as my background. i wanted to use lots of flowers so i did kind of a grid thing.

during our trip to budapest, hungary earlier this year, my daughter kept doing this thing with her fingers on.every.photo! i drove me nuts!!! i knew i wanted to keep that memory. for the photos i did a mosaic over at bighugelabs.com and cut the individual photos out.

for a long time i have loved the lyrics to "beautiful" with james blunt. i especially love these words. so i took special photos and did a mosaic (again at big huge labs) and used them as my "photo". added the lyrics and voila a gentle reminder to myself!

this is the page where i record how much fun my photoshow was! i love these different patterned papers ♥

my new favorite quote

"Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination." ~Robert Fulghum

A.M.E.N

our weekend

this past weekend we finally made our way to the westcoast and our hotelstay just the 2 of us. the girl went to her grandmother for the weekend. and we spend the weekend laying in bed, taking hot baths, lounging and moviegoing. we also took a drive up the coast and stop where we wanted and took long walks in nature. just reconnecting, being in love and resting.

today, i have all the intention to scrapbook!

creative blocks

i have been having kind of a creative block lately. i am itching to do something, but then i never get to it. then when i do get to it, i am not feeling very creative. i have done all sorts of things to try to unblock me, i even cleaned of everything from my desk. everything. my husband came into my room and just stopped! haha he was impressed.

so, one of the things was to do nothing. i had a whole week when i didn´t do anything crafty. it was like being on detox for me. i could gather my thoughts, make some lists and plan some mindful crafts i want to do. i had a feeling of uselessness when it came to my crafts lately. you know, i want to try so many things, but when i finished them they were all just laying around and not being used for anything. and as i am trying to get rid of things i really don´t need, it added to my dilemma.

i also organized. i sorted my bits and pieces. did a big donation to the local school with tons of craft supplies that i don´t use anymore. i decided what i wanted to have at hand and boxed the rest. it is always easier to get started with something when i am organized and can find everything.

then i went through my scrapbook albums. that took a while :) i love to do that. i do that to rarely. as i am a fast scrapper, i do my layouts in a bunch and just put them into the albums. i don´t really give myself the time to enjoy them. i am going to make that into a new habit, to flip through my books more often.

and after that i decided to scraplift myself. as i looked through the albums alot of pages stood out and for now i chose this page.

the page is personal to me. it is all about how my body looks after my c-section and pregnancy. i have had a lot of feelings around this and i love that i did a scrapbook layout about it and that it is right in there between the others. i also love the actual lay-out (design) so i challenged myself to lift it in some way.

i am not in love with my result, but it did kind of unplug me from my block.

i on the other hand love the story. the title is what love looks like around here. i listed things like doggie kisses, small notes and hugs, to amuze me when i ask for photos, many i love yous and massages. it was fun to think of small everyday things that we all do in our family to show that we love eachother.

what does love look like at your house?

what do you do when crafting doesn´t come easy?

what crafts are you itching to try?

please share!

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when i saw this by accident the other day, my comment was just; i am so in!

a boost in my creativity is just what i need right now.
and that the e-course is held by the very lovely and talented miss Maegan just added a special bonus! i have been a fan of her photography for some time. have you seen it?

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