my life in random numbers

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1 kid
5 years working
15 years since senior high school
3 new shirtdresses =my fave to wear
27 days until our trip to budapest
9 people travelling
7 day stay
2 weddings to shot this summer
48 scrapbook layouts done in 2010
2 dogs
2 cats
8 years married
10 years since i met my husband
2 trips to holland
1 pillow of night
5 books waiting to be read
1 magazine ready to be read
10 candles lit every night
1 secret project in progress
119 friends on facebook
79 feeds on bloglines
1 scrapbook page that will hold all these numbers :)

crochet much?

One of the things on my list for this year is; crochet. and i have done fairly much alread i think! i got 2 books for my birthday which i love. the first one is a book by Ericka Laurell. the book is in swedish but her blog is in english, if you are interested in getting crochet tips and patterns. the book has a vintage feel to it and has so many cute projects. just the cover is delicious i think! there are patterns for everything from a bikini to necklaces. here are a few projects:

the other book is one from author frida pontén. and omg! i love this book so much, i have already made quite a few projects from this one. the photos are colorful and the patterns are easy to follow even for a hobby cochetter like me. here are a few of the projects from the book that i have already made:

i used this (photo above) pattern to make my 2 very first hats! isn´t it lovely. i used other colors...here is the green one:

when i finsihed the hat i wanted something extra, so i threaded a green ribbon through the holes and made a neat little bow. for the other hat i chose 2 different yarns:

the little flower detail is from this pattern below.

this thin kinda scarf was so easy to do i just have to take some photos of the ones i have made!

these balls are now on my keys so that it is easy to find them in my bag ;) these would also make a cute necklace i think.

next project for me is to make small flowers maybe to cover up sauce stains on my daughters white t shirt:

i´ll let you know how that goes!

scrapbook sunday

i guess i have to make a new feature sign and change the saturday to sunday since i rarely have the time to actually post my layouts on saturdays!

this past week my daughter has had a terrible cough and was home and so has i :) to makes stuff alittle more happy we took out the colorbox and painted her feet :)

i actually started to make this layout friday since it was hot pink friday over at for the LOVE of COLOR week flickr pool. obviously it is about my love for my pyamas and slippers :)

again, a photo from a bored afternoon at home with a sick daughter. i used a favorite quote from storypeople:

There has never been a day when I have not been proud of you, I said to my daughter, though some days I'm louder about other stuff so it's easy to miss that.

(in real life this layout is not as "acid" as it shows here.)

the weather gods have thrown us a few curvballs this month. march first it was a snow blizzard from hell and then the next day it was all blue sky and lovely :)

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next weeks blogging will be fun. why you ask? well fun becasue i am really going to make an effort to post every day! we´ll see if i can do that! until then: what have you done scrapbook-wise lately?

polaroid heart project

i have seen so many of these cute hearts made of polaroid prints around the internet. among others this one from dear lizzy.

and this one found on flickr

i love this and i also loved the fact that it is so easy to do! as i don´t have a polaroid camera i used the application from poladroid.net and used on my photos. opened them in a word document and printed. 

after cutting them out i played around with placing and when i thought it was good i added gluedots to the back of the photos (make sure the glue dots are removable) and put them up!

as you see i used 18 polaroids and you can easily do more ore even less, just make sure you have enough to make the shape that you are after! my pola heart makes me happy where it sits on the bathroomdoor!

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scrapbook saturday will be posted a little later today or even tomorrow!

come play!

photo credit

the ever so beautiful kristin (mainmomma) invited to a color week celebration! yay! she is so right about that adding color will be a instant boost to any winter blahs! i will be in the game, do you wanna play? head over to the flickr page. today i am on the search for greens!

awesomeness

1. Untitled, 2. lemony bench, 3. 57/365..., 4. choose happiness, 5. bench monday - trolley., 6. sixty-four colors :: mac and cheese, 7. hilarious outtakes, 8. Hello my name is, 9. Bench Monday::I <3 Camera's! Edition., 10. Untitled, 11. chillax., 12. . b u t t e r f l y ., 13. 21 :: 365, 14. 10 tiny hearts, 15. “Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.”, 16. IMG_3448, 17. this is how it looks!, 18. Snow fun!, 19. TILT--in love with these tones, 20. LOVE {A Haiku}, 21. just say it like it is..., 22. spaghetti scarf, 23. hearts for little hands, 24. our meal plan, 25. the finished products, 26. Note to self..., 27. Ode To Yogi Tea, 28. fuji*love, 29. 42/365, 30. {bench monday - this skirt won't zip up edition}, 31. Hope scarf, 32. ..., 33. *full heart* {2:52}, 34. bench monday ~ month of love ~ edition, 35. Bench Monday : : Valentine's Day Edition, 36. <3

my new list

ok, so i kinda don´t want to even go over my last list, because i didn´t do very well. but i am happy to announce that it is not going to stop me from making a new list for this year. if you don´t know what i am talking about :) i am talking about my list i did last year with 30 things to do before i turn 31. and since i turned 31 on february 22nd it is time to announce my new list:

1. show my photos in a show
2. take lots of photos in budapest
3. have more journaling on my layouts
4. attend my 15th school reunion
5. dance
6. really go to the local art gallery
7. do something alone with my nephew and neices, one at the time
8. walk on the hills on the mainland
9. walk atleast 30 minutes 5 days a week
10. stop drinking coke
11. simplify my wardrobe
12. give my daughter more photo challenges
13. get new glasses
14. use a step counter
15. wear nailpolish more often
16. rent the gymnasium
17. work on getting paid to shoot
18. crochet
19. make something in concrete
20. stop biting my nails
21. work on my relationships with friends
22. make a photobook
23. declutter
24. drink more water
25. call my grandma and grandpa more often
26. go camping
27. spend more time without tv
28. see beauty in simple things
29. write loveletters
30. go to the museum
31. have picnicks

Oh, and here are Elise´s list and Andrea`s from who i got the idea from the start :)