a little pause before regular posting

a little "getting to know me thing" i found at the copy and paste blog:

Everyone knows that I am creative but you'd never guess that i cannot draw.

I'm proud to admit that I like veggies but my guilty pleasure is chocolate.

I'm inspired by grafitti and it surprises me when people get furious over it.

I'm always trying to be nice to others but I'm never nice to myself...well, almost never.

I've got lots of things but I've always wanted more...

I tried to pierce my nose and it HURT, but was worth it!

If I never hear about war and injustice again it will be to soon.

I didn't go be an au pair when i was younger and now i can regret that.

It's not that I don´t like to travel but I'd really rather stay home.

Doing nothing makes me giddy and then after a while panic.

Someone once told me "i love you" and then i broke up with him :(

I'm happy to say that life is great and even if i do complain a bit i love it very much! 

now, copy the black text and paste to your blog and fill in the blanks! don´t forget to link it here in the comments so i can read it!

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random crafts

i did some other-than-paper-and-glue crafts lately. i thought that i´d share some of them now. first, sadies collar broke the other week and we just haven´t been into town to get her a new one, so made her one.

i used some thrifted fabric for this and a ring from one of my curtain holders :) i had bought the closers a while ago for something else. i will have to take a photo of her wearing it soon.

next up is some easy peasy keyholders or just something to snazzy up a handbag :) when i first sewed them i just stuffed them with quilt stuffer, but they were a bit light. so for the next few ones i filled them with rice. i use mine on the car key and it is nice and "heavy" in your hand.

i just realized that both these projects are great ones if you are new to sewing and to use up those bits and scraps from other projects, and god knows i have alot of those!

i also made an apron kinda thing. i plan to use it at work where we have a lot of really young kids right now, so they have pacifiers and stuff, and i think i blow noses like 50 times everyday :) so those kinds of things are going into the pockets. but i guess it would be equally awesome while shopping or even crafting!

lastly, a friend is having a baby like any minute now, so i thought i´d do something to put in a basket for her and the new little one. i have made these in the past, but this time i filled the "label-chewy-thing" :) with sime quilt filling. the ribbons are actually from 2 of my shirts that i don´t wear anymore. instead of throwing it away i saved them and use them as fabrics in my small sewing adventures :)

so, there you have it!

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i was thinking...

from time to time it hits me that i have all these awesome layouts on my shelves. i mean, i always know that they are there because i see the albums everyday. but i am so bad at acctually flipping through them and see what i have kept as memories over the year. this time i was looking for a particular layout because i had a little journaling i wanted to add to the back of the layout. as i was flipping through the books, i found the album that has the layouts from may last year. i stopped and sat down to really look and read. it filled me with the most awesome feeling inside. these 2 below is 2 of the favorites, but there are so many more.

i love dandellions and was so excited when my daughter said ok to a quick photoshoot on our way home from school! i remember that it made me ridiculously happy to play among the flowers :)

i am so happy that i have started to include the fact that i am sick (cronical depression) into my layouts,since that is a big part of my and my families life everyday. this layout tells the story about how i have had some downs, but that my garden has helped me very much. that is still very true!

just wanted to share my thoughts today!

the weekend that never happened

i ♥ water, originally uploaded by elisabet ottosson.

well, we were supposed to go out of town to celebrate our anniversary and we did it all the way to the gas station...then i started puking! bleh! so, we had to turn back and i was so damn sick i wished i would pass out! and i am sooo disappionted that our weekend didn´t happen, i had planned for it for months...

oh, well i am happy that i do feel much better now!

happy scrapbook day!

i will not be able to take part in any of the festivities around (inter)national scrapbook day because i am out of town. but i did make a few layouts this past week and wanted to share them with you!

this photo above makes me smile! can you believe that she made that hat herself?!! i was amazed when i say it!

while on holiday in budapest we walked by a flowershop on the street and she saw this feather boa. and i cannot believe how happy she was when she got it!!! these photos shows how she is nowadays, very glamourous! :)

also during our trip to budapest, we suddelny realized that the grass was green :) and snapped a photo ofcourse, beacause as you know i love to take photos of feet!

i can´t wait to go on my blog hop when i come back, and see what you all did on national scrapbookday!

it´s here!!!

my scrapbook inspirations ideas book that is! and as you already might know, i am in it!

twice actually! the layouts are both in the "about me" section of the book.

i made this early last year and used my facbook updates as the journaling.

i wanted to just state that life at 30 was grand!

i am so super excited about being in the same book as so many talented people! now i am off to read it from cover to cover!

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!

8 years

today me and my husband celebrates 8 years of marriage,

8 years of ups and downs,

8 years of love,

8 years of deciding it is us, really us against the world.

it is a glorious feeling to be crazy in love with my husband

still after so many years and days!

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?

scrapbook saturday - sharing

So, as i told you in my last post i have some new goodies to play with! yay! actually i did some paper + glue playing like 1 hour after the package arrived :)

i amazed myself with this one. i almost never use the color blue in my layouts. it is not that i don´t like the color, becuase i do and i can´t really say why i tend to walk away from it when i create. anyhow, i am loving how this turned out though!

the layout is about selfconfidence and the fact that it just hit me the other week that i always say i have such a low selfconfidence, and really i don´t. i am confident in so many ways and let me tell you how much of a burden has been lifted from my shoulders since i realized that!

i busted out my sewing machine for this one! i punched some circles from a few of the yummy papers i got. i first just sanded the edges and atached them to the patterned paper background, but then i just thought it needed something more. so a few stitches it was!

the story behind this page is that dixon tend to just pop into photos suddenly :) do you remember this? :) this time i was getting the camera ready for some self portraits and i guess he was curious about what i was doing :)

we has some serious snow this past winter and after tons of reports on roofs collapsing we decided to clear our roof from snow. we have never had to worry about this before, so it was an adventure :)

again with the blue! :)

happy mail!!!

during my vacation i emailed back and forth with the lovely mya. she had cleaned out her studio and had tons of goodies to sell! yay! and today 2 packages arrived on my doorstep and yum is pretty much all i can say! :)

i started playing with the papers right away and will show you some projects this weekend!

can we all say yum!

10 on thursday

Hm...what will my 10 on thursday list be about today??? i have nothing prepared and my mind is blank...i think i will link you up to my 10 latest favorites on flickr!

ok, here i go!

snutur uploaded this amazing photo and i loved the colors!

rosina shared a bubble photo that is amazing!

i wish this was my clothesline!

this wip project is so sweet!

you just have to see this dress! i so need it!

love these rocks!

i am on a yellow high right now and this is so beautiful!

so pretty colors on this grannysquare blanket!

oh, i so want to try a project like this!

my bike is pink, but i might need a blue one now :)

ok, was that 10? i have so many favorites :)

one year ago...

i read somewhere that someone was urged to look back on what they did one year ago. i got curious and went back to this month and almost the same day last year. apperently i had a bad day and turned to some garden work to cheer me up. i used to do that alot last year, garden work that is. now i am just itching to start working in the garden, but it is still alittle to cold to start putting seeds in the ground. i have, however, made plans for the work to come and have started taking care of the seedlings inside.

i also made some easy photo documentations of the everyday.

we were out in the woods everyday with work and i was feeling so lucky to have a job where i could be outside so much.

me and my husband got married on april 27th 2002, so last year around this time, we celebrated 7 years as a married cuple.

i might do a scrapbook page about how life has been this year, this month!