moments

i enjoyed my view at the beach yesterday.

my daughter came home from camp where she has been over a week.

i missed her.

she played in the sand, serving me all kinds of sand meals.

but this is where she made a pool, which became a bubblepool after some ehm air was broken :)

this ofcourse was hilarious :)

i love that she is home!

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this week i will share some photos of how and where i use the things in cement i have been making.

i hope to find both the time and the urge to scrapbook.

i will share some of my favorites from the book "14,000 things to be happy about" which i heard about over at this lovely blog.  

i hope that july has treaten you good so far ♥

a hot day

today was so hot!

so we are spending the night in the shade in the garden reading and dozing off ♥

my black boy

he is such a good boy!

where i go to get energy

you know all people have those days. those days when you are like drained and down. i have those day kinda often. today was one of those days. i am home alone, the other ones are out and about. i am home with the dogs. i haven´t really talked to anyone the whole day and i didn´t quiet know what to do with myself.

so, i packed the dogs up in the car and we went to the beach.

the beach is my place to place to think. my place to wander. my place to pick rocks. my place to breath.

i especially like to go to the beach at night/sunset year round. it is usually quiet and empty. i like to be alone with my thoughts. rock picking and just to sit and feel the sand on my hands. the light is usually magic. just magic. 

sometimes i go to the beach when it is stormy. i can sit in the sand and just feel every bad thought and anxious feeling blowing away in the wind. 

 

tonight the air was so fresh and the sense of a beautiful summer night was so intense. the water was so still and glimmering.

 i stretched and took a few deep refreshing breaths.

i waded in the water.

i picked rocks.

 i felt better.

my june so far

my june so far from Lisa Ottosson on Vimeo.

drizzel + fullbodied {creativity boot camp}

i finally got these two done for the creativity boot camp. i struggled with both, but then i googled the translation of the words abit better and these two ideas came to mind.

ps. be sure to stop by tomorrow as i am having a giveaway!!!

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.

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.

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!

the aftermath

wow. it is over. the weekend i have been preparing for since october. it was so cool to chat with everyone that came by. i got lovely comments and also sold lots of postcards and bookmarks. and a few prints aswell! the weather was superb and the people were out and about and joined up all around the events that took place all over the island.

in the same gallery i was in, there also were 4 others. among them there were a guy who showed some fantastic origami pieces! and a woman that did japanese stitching. and a doggy fan aswell :)

a friend of mine also showed these very cool re-used material flower arrangements. check them out and see of you can see what everyday reused items you see!

and this was my spot. and that is my personal assistant :) i am happy with how it ended up looking and there were many people standing infront of the photos saying that they felt energy beaming out from the colors. that made me happy.

as my status on facebook says; i am tired but happy!

one way to spend an afternoon

we took the dogs and some blankets and headed to the beach. the weather was so and so, but we had such a wonderful time. the dogs played and my daughter played with her animals in the water, i picked rocks and just layed down and enjoyed everything!

today 25/4-10

so technically yesterday :)

photo from april 2009

outside my window: spring has sprung and even the wind feels warm!
i am thinking: about what a joy gardening is for me.
i am thankful: that my daughter feels better, the warm weather and lazy mornings in bed.
i am wearing: sweatpants and a t-shirt
i am creating: a new collar for sadie and a headband for me!
from the kitchen: pancakes
i am going: to make a new to-do list
i am reading: reginald hill + jan guillou
i am hoping: that neither me nor my husband gets the stomach flu!
i am hearing: the birds chirping.
around the house: it´s a bit of  a mess, but only because we have been cleaning out stuff and organizing.
one of my favorite things: snuggles in the morning.

i can´t wait to see your list!

ps. i made a flickr set for these kinds of lists!

photos from the weekend

this poor one got down with the stomach flu during the night to saturday. i felt so sorry for her because she was sooo sick. the weather was nice though, so she layed outside sleeping most of the day. she is so much better today and now i am just waiting to get it myself, since i always do!

while she was sleeping i did some major gardening! yay! i am so happy it is that season again.

 

it doesn´t quite show in this photo, but the cat came with a mouse he had...well killed. i guess that was his way of cherring her up :)

these are the flowers that makes me happy when i see them in the livingroom :)

this one was out playing all night between saturday and sunday, so she has been asleep all day :) lucky cat!

she got some company ;)

how was your weekend?