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!