saturday ramblings

Can you blame me when I say I want to go back to this? I dream and think about Mallorca all the time. Maybe it is just because it is just a year ago that we went? Ah, the simple and good life of vacation...

Yesterday I scrapped in my clean scraproom. It is nice to create when there is a organization and you see all you stuff. I tend to be a very messy scrapper. This day it was all about the pets for me. I finally made a layout about when Sadie got bitten a few months ago. And the second one is about my cutie cat. I think its the naughty girl in me that wants to use that bird paper in my cat layouts :)

I was going through some older pictures on my computer and found this one of my daughter when she was 1. How cute is she! I can´t belive that I am now a mother of a smart, witty and such a beautiful soon to be 8 year old. Where in world did the time go?

crafty crafty :)

I actually felt some craftyness coming on today :) I have been wanting to do one of these minibooks for a while now, since I saw something like it on 2peas a while back. I am going to have it as a travel journal type book over the summer. I´ll bring it on diffrent adventures and such. It was lots of fun to make it!
Instructions: I used a paperbag which I cut of so it became one size. I adhered paper on the right side and toar out some journaling paper and stapled it to the paper. A tip to make it more sturdy I used some cardstock on the inside of the bag. I made a little tag and added a button. For the left side I sewed 9 plastic envelopes (where I plan to put tickets and other small things along the way) to cardstock and adhered that to the page. Just so I could devide the envelopes i put stickers as tabs. The front page is selfexplainatory :)

I have also completed a minibook of favorite photos. A simple all-about-the-photos kind of minialbum. I like how thick it became! Here is the cover and then a selection of pages.

Mary Jo made a comment where she wanted to know how I make the pictures in my 2peas BOS into smaller squares. Here is how. When you are about to print your Power Point presentation there are some options in the print section. In the lower part of the Print window there is a PRINT title and below that it usually says pictures or something like that. Change that to the second option (I have the swedish version so I don´t know what it is called in english). After that you can decide on how many pictures per page you want to be printed. I chose 6. Good Luck!

ps. I officially suck at the photo per hour thing! :(

Thursday blogging going on...

I am so happy that it is finally thursday because that means it´s weekend! Yes, you read that right… a 4 day weekend for miss Lisa this week. Ah, I so need that!

My friend Inge, made a really cool post on her blog the other day. She talks about taking and making time for herself to play/create everyday. Good for you, Inge! She gives a few book tips aswell. Check it out!

I could easily live here, sleep here…

why does my wardrobe look like this and not like this? (these are NOT my real ones!!!)

Oh, if I had a porch (crossing my fingers!) i´d like to have it look something like this!

And this is really cool art I think.

I am a proud member in Beezieland a place filled with wonderful and spunky ladies. It is a password protected place so I can´t link you, but I was thinking about all the fun stuff we do there. For example the leadlady Suzie (suziebeezie over at 2peas) lurkes places where we can buy cute, cool and beautiful things, she has house beautification projects, different challenges and so on. The newest challenge is a flickr adventure where we (the members) post weekly photo challenges. At this time we have posted 3 times. The first one was “my kitchen sink” then something red in your home that you love, and finally our computer areas. It is lot´s of fun, I think. As we are shattered all over the world this is a fun way of getting to know eachother better. I am putting a link to my gallery in the sidebar!

I am cleaning out “my world” today. Phew! I like it though, you find stuff that you didn´t know you had. Maybe I´ll do a little before and after thing? We´ll see.

I am doing a really fun thing right now, I am making my BOS (over at 2peas) into a Power Point presentation and then I am going to print it so it comes out in those smaller squares. I then am going to put them all in a binder and wow what a load of inspiration it will be! This makes me so happy.
I think I will do the same thing with a few of my layouts and projects and show them as a slideshow at one of my classes I am teaching.

I am also doing the my life in photos, by the hour, every hour thing! Inspired by Susanna!

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Ok, I am back! I didn´t realized it was going to be so nice outside today! But, I am true to the art so I took some of the work outside :) Here are the results of my day!

Fill a inspirational bulletin board (check)
Make a necklace (on the go)
Scrap a few layouts (check)
Prepare a scrapbook class I am teaching (on the go)
Decide on a new album system (can´t decide!)
Begin a new canvas project (check)

First here is the bulletinboard I filled with some goodies. It is not a finished project for me, as i am going to change and add some in time...

The next project I saw somewhere at flickr but I have totally forgot whos idea it was, but I love it. I bought some of these sewing frames at the thriftshop and just added some of those cool pieces of fabric I once bought. Voila, art! Of course I am going to change the fabrics as I please. (I showed my husband and said; see thats my thing easy and cheap... He said: They are nice, but are we going to have them all over the house? ) :)

And here comes the layouts! I am happy that I got a good use of that bird paper :)

Ok, have a great day!

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So, I am going to make a dubble post today. A before and after if you may. I am going to make some crafts today and I hope that I am ready by evening to be able to showcase the results! Here is my to do list:

Fill a inspirational bulletin board
Make a necklace
Scrap a few layouts
Prepare a scrapbook class I am teaching
Decide on a new album system
Begin a new canvas project

...maybe that would be enough for one day! :)

What are your weekend plans? Leave a message!

hrm...

So, where the heck did my mojo go? Did you see it? Did you take it?! I am sitting here with lovely new materials and photos and I just sit....and sit...ah! This is so typical! I managed to make these 2 atleast. Have you seen Lilo & Stitch? Of course you have! While I was sitting and thinking about what to do with that photo of my family (the one above) my daughter just walked by and said Ohana! I jumped and thought ok, there is my title! She has been helping me more and more with things like that. I love it!
We have 2 dogs and Chanty (golden) is sertainly my husbands best friend. Chanty is getting old and is tired and has some pain in his legs. My husband is terrified that Chanty is getting so old that we have to let him go. He´s not, he is still happy and enjoying life, but my husband is still afraid. I am happy that I snapped this photo of the 2 of them while they were resting.

While looking for my mojo :) I went outside to do some gardening. I took these photos of my garden today:

And look at my crazy cat!

weekend re-cap

We had a wonderful weekend yet again! The weather could have been better, but oh, well. Me and dear daughter spend saturday with my mom doing the thrift shop tour! You know that makes me happy :) In one I just walked in and saw this krochet shirt and thought, well this is mine :) Isn´t it cool!

Saturday night we all went to my BIL release party. He is a musician (and physician) and released his and his bands CD. It was a blast! There were other bands there too and everyone had such a good time. Here is my BIL and SIL playing together.

In the place where the party was held it used to be a place where they made wall paper. And they had left these really cool pattern rolls as decoration. Wow, eh!

And I just then realized an important thing during the concert...everyone should dance with their kids! My daughter loves to dance and in the end we went up to take a dance infront of the stage. And man, the look she gave me the whole time. You know we danced by ourselfes jumping and being silly. She looked me deep in the eyes the whole entire time with this look that was saying Mom, I love you so much for dancing and being silly with me! Ah, I can´t explain it but I know that I will forever have that picture in my head and heart. So girls and boys! Dance with your kids in public places!

Clearly I don´t have a photo of this, but here we are during the party! :)

Sunday me and dear husband had a day for us! We went out to one of the islands in Githenburg and had some good lunch at a cute place and walked on the shore.

There are so many nice houses out on that island that we could go house looking all day long! I snapped this one:

And now to the shopping part of the weekend! :) I went into Press-stop to wander through hundreds and hundreds of magazines. I picked up a few crafty ones. Then I just heard about a new scrapstore and went in there as well. The woman working there was a little bit well, not nice, but the prices was! For some reason I am all about flowers right now, maybe it is the spring coming?! I bought a few diffrent paper flowers and Li´l Davies Chipboard Alphabets the doted one :) I found a few Hero Art clear stamps that I think is really cool. I have been hearing so much about those clear stamps but these are my first. I bought some Basic Grey papers and a lot more :) And this time I have so many new photos to scrap so I am all set!!!

I just want to leave you with a photo I snapped at a department store. I love this display! Yum!

Oh, yeah go here to: Ordning & Reda

Have a wonderful day!

Happy NSD!

I am so not in key with anything really, but I am peeking in to 2peas every once in a while. Lot´s of stuff happening over there today! It is a fantastic thing to be celebrating a day of a hobby, isn´t it?! And all over the internet too!

I was browsing 2peas yesterday evening and I realized I had totally forgot about the garden! Oh, my! and what a garden it was! Have you seen it? It was packed with inspiration (as usal) but for me it was even more this time. I am so making some of those projects. My favorites:

"My life by the hour, every hour" This is just SO doable. I love to document these things that are so normal and sometimes SO normal that we tend to do them without even thinking about them.

"Notes from you" I have done this before (see here) (oh damn I haven´t got it here at my moms...I will share later) and it is really a fun way to use all those sweet notes and or drawings I tend to get from my DD.

"Daily list" Well this one would be easy to do as I love making lists! And I have done something like it before. It is so fun to list things you make in a day just random. Jessi Fulkerson did one too that got some notice one this fine day! :) Another fun twist to the daily/monthly theme.

"Diffrent sizes album" Oh, I LOVE this idea. It is also a really fun way of doing an ongoing minialbum, I think.


And a blog entry from my friend Inge made me smile!

And I am so happy to see my girl Suzie posting to the gallery again!

I am leaving you with a link to one of my favorites over at flickr.

Have a wonderful and happy day, friends!

I was tagged!

So, I was tagged by Kim and the thing was to name 7 Quirks or interesting things about me!! So, here I go!

1, I am multi languaged (I speak Hungarian, Swedish, English and understand a few more)

2, I have been married twice. (Yes I am 28!)

3, I don´t have a driving licence. (Yes I am 28!)

4, I love presents and I know everyone does, but I still feel the Christmas presents when I find them!

5, I LOVE coca cola light.

6, I have a bellybutton piercing.

7, I am a plan-o-holic. I can´t make a fast decicion I have the need to plan everything.

And i have to tag 7 people, so here I go:

Marie

Inge

Ali

Mel

Sophia

Lucy

Liz

And a few recent Flickr favs! This X-dolly person in on fire!

(All of these are not hers)

I am off to Gothenburg this weekend and will be back monday but hey they have internet there too, so I´ll be HERE!

My daughter = Sally the seal! Ah, she had the leadrole in the play about Sally the seal who gets to go out into big sea and discover all things. Isn´t she the cutest seal you have seen! It was so funny! Note the electric eals (SP?) in the background LOL!!! Not to mention the octupus (SP?) :)

I´ll share more tomorrow! Have a wonderful day ya´ll!