i love lists...

...have you all noticed :) Here I am not posting for almost a week and feeling bad about that...but I don´t belive in rambling kind of posts so then there is none at all for a while! Here is a list though:

♥ Go here for awesome kinds of stationary and cards.I think some of these products can be great Christmas gifts. And you still have time!

♥ Check out these gingerbread houses! Cool eh!

♥ And you are not like me (who loves Christmas parties! see photo!) you can use this party excuse generator!



♥ And if you have some foam laying around you can always use them to make some of these!

♥ I still love all these cuffs!

♥ Kidley had some great tips on what to give kids if you have many in your family.

♥ And if you are all in the Christmas stress you might want to do a "Not-to-do-list" like this.

♥ And if you are like me that loves my Moleskine you can enter their contest everyday until Christmas to win some goodies!

♥ And how have I not seen this?!!

♥ I am just saying: how cool is this!

♥ I lost myself here for an hour and a half this afternoon.

And I leave you with a photo of my favorite Christmas flowers!

monday happy monday :)

I am back after a weekend of runny nose and a bit of a fever. We had some rotten weather too. Just raining and raining :( This is not how I want decembr to be like. I want snow and cold beautiful days! I guess that weather is not doing wonders for my mojo either. I haven´t scrapped in weeks! Yikes! A friend of mine called me yesterday and she decided we needed to get together this weekend to scrap together. I am hoping that my mojo has arrived until then!

I did manage to get a little advent minibook together though. Just a simple thing to where I can add a few photos from each of the 4 advent sundays.


While I was having no fever this weekend I did wrap (or atleast started to wrap) our Christmas gifts. I am going with kraft paper for them and I am using red and black ribbon. I may stamp a big stamp on them to to decorate a little. I have orange pieces to dry and when they are all dried up I am attaching them to each of the tags too.





The first photo shows the gift wrap I am giving my gift to a co-worker in. I think it looks lovely :)

While I was out walking the dogs out back this morning I glanced over at the house and saw this.



It is my kitchen window and although it is one of my biggest fears that someone would stand outside my window looking in, I had to get the camera and capture this.

And i am happy to say that the Sew Mama Sew crew has me featured on their blog today! I am so happy that they recognized me :)

Have a wonderful day and look out for my many many layouts coming soon :) I must cheer myself on a bit :)

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For the Sew mama sew blog meme

This post is for the Sew Mama Sew Holiday Meme. So here I go! I am doing just the first part in this post.

Gifts:

♥ Do you have a favourite gift that you love to give? I love to give people books. I think that a really good book is the best gift to receive myself and if you really make an effort to find the perfect book for someone that equals love. The cutest children book I love to give is Sam McBratney´s book “Guess how much I love you”

♥ If you are making gifts this year, what are you making? As my blog readers know, I am making quite a few gifts this year. Here is a little list with links to some of the projects:

Ricebag warmer
Pacifier holders
Mushroom mittens

Ear rings, mini note books, mini scrapbook holder

♥ Name one thing on your personal wish list. Ali Edwards new scrapbooking book.

♥ Do you make and sell things that would make fantastic gifts? Well, maybe something from my shop?

You can check out lots and lots of cool stuff in the Handmade Holiday flickr group.

I just have to share a photo of my Christmas card making daughter :)



And this is the photo that we have used for our Christmas cards this year!

bad blogger :(

sorry! I know that I have been a bit of a bad blogger but it has been stuff hapening with my internet connection and so on... it is all fixed now.

I have been not motivated to do anything crafty lately. I haven´t even taken any photos! The last 2 weeks! But I have some projects that are either done or in progress. Some Christmas cards in the making, I have to buy new ink for my printer and was planning to print out some photos for them.



I have so many friends with little ones right now and my sister is having twins early next year, so I have been looking for sweet things I can make for a dew of them that they would like to use. I found an easy tutorial in a magazing to make some pacifier holders. These are so simple, but I know how much they can mean to a stressful little momma.




Also we are making gifts for co workers this year. I made a risewarmer that I am happy with. It is such an easy thing to make yourself! Just see the sewmamasew blog from one day in November.




Now that I have a faster internet I have been raiding the internet for some good inspiration. So, here I present to you the list:

1. Studio Calicos gallery went up today and it was fabulous as always!

2. Nisa celebrated her 6 month anniversary with some cute photos from her wedding.

3. I have found a new blog.

4. Kelly Purkey had a fun color post a while ago on her blog.

5. How about orange showed a different kind of Christmas tree. Maybe for the small living people or one who does not care for bling bling :)

6. The same had the yummiest cupcakes I have ever seen!!!

Ps. Check out my shop for some new goodies that just came in!

another slow sunday

I seem to have alot of these slow days lately. And don´t get me wrong I am all for slow, but this weekend I have been plain bored! It was a long time ago I was bored really. My life is very full; with activities,pets and family things to do. But this weekend was just boring. Although I acctually finally saw the movie Rattatouille with my daughter and her friend at he movies yesterday. I have been wanting to see that movie for a while now. It was a good one! Although the french accent could be hard to understnad, especially for the kids. The movie made me want to go to France. Hey, you who have been in Paris, is it really how it is pictured in the movies? You know with lot´s of small cafés, cool houses and just so...so romantic? Or is it only how they all portrait it in the movies? Speaking of France i have just finished reading Anna Gavaldas book Ensamble, c´est tout (transl. "Together, you are less alone") If you like an odder kind of book you should read this. It is very european :) That made me want to go to France even more :)
Currently I have gone back to my comfort zone reading wise. Yep, Agatha Christie :) I am reading one of her Miss Marple books.

I ordered a few CD´s yesterday. Among others I ordered this. I am a sucker for nice looking guys singing nice and I love Christmas songs :) Perfect! I also ordered a few CD´s and DVD´s as Christmas gifts. I am almost ready with my shopping. I just have to buy something for my BIL and FIL then I am finite. Although I am sure I will see something more that is perfect for someone I know! I always do :)

I was flipping through Keri Smiths book "Living out loud" today and that always makes me happy. Have you seen her blog? She always have something thoughtworthy (is that a word?) to say. I especially love this entry plain and simple. I should have that taped on my bathroom mirror! Also she has that Guerilla Art kit book I am dying to get. I am so in the mood for some guerilla art! Just check this out! That is just such a simple way of spreading the love, isn´t it! You can read more on how to be a Guerilla artist here!

Speaking of love, I know that this photo was in my latest flickr mosaic, but I just had to show it again.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/saylamarz/490108654/

I think it is amazing...you know the sparkle of love...

I have no projects that are done or even in the making at the moment. I was so bored my mojo went out the window, but I am going to blame that on my second fall cold that has developed itself in my nose and head...

Just look at those cute feet! My friend just got twin boys early November and I just had to take some photos of their swet babyness :)

Ok here is a list for today!

1.Ingunn had the funniest link on her blog the other day! I think anyone with pets, especially very hungry dogs, can relate totally with this story! I know I can!

2. I found this cool company while browsing the ever so wonderful internet. They have some really cute things.

3. And this girl makes some very cool cuffs, that I would love to have!

4. Sew mama sew blog had a Holiday Handmade Blog meme today that I will make when I have the time. Go check it out!

5. Inge made the best CJ entry into my "For the love of seasons" CJ! She is a fellow list lover :)

6. I made some sweet Christmas gift finds at my local Red Cross second hand store today. Go check out if you have one near you.

7. I am waiting on this and this to arrive on my doorstep tomorrow! Horray!

8. I like this layout.

9. Ali hade some cool links on her blog too.

Haha there is no number 10 because the family is calling for my attention now!

Please leave your mark in the comments section!

a few new projects

First I promised I would show my Holiday planner when I finished it. So here it is. Nothing fancy at all, just a black binder and a few contents like gift lists, shopping lists etc. It feels nice to have everything in one place.







And I made a gift for my sweet SIL who is a biologist and specializes in mushrooms and fungus (!) She also like everything handmade. I bought a plain pair of one size fits all gloves. Then I drew a template for a mushroom which I then cut out in 2 colors of felt. I pinned everything together and handstitched the felt onto the gloves. Voila!








I also made a chipboard frame that I have begun to embellish to make it a holiday frame where I can put a Christmas photo in.



And a few weeks ago I was inspired to make other chipboard frames. These I just cut out of a sheet of chipboard and got busy with some tape. I think they look cute :)










One day during my daily wanderings around the internet I came across Simple Scrapbooks site where I found a cool link to the book Elizabeth has written, where she bases her projects on calenders or almanacs. If you go here they have sneak peeks on a few of her projects. Right now they have an easy Birthday planner up. I made one in like 20 minutes! This is a gift for someone for Christmas.





My daughter made my day when she suprised me with breakfast in bed this morning! I have the best girl in the world!

Oh and the cutest Tech gifts are up on sewmamasew! Check them out!