inside the bag

first, thank you very much for your sweet words on my last post. We all miss Harry terribly, but we are blessed to have Sadie with us still. She is a great comforter! Do you remember this one? The title says: comforter :)



Ok, so I have seen a few of "inside the bag" kinda posts going around and thought that I jump on it. I took the things I always have in my bag and laid them on the floor and took a photo.



So, first I was so suprised that I have so many black things! I see myself as a colorful person so that was a real suprise!
♥ I have my Moleskine where I write all sorts of things so that is a must have.
♥ And a pen obviously :)
♥ My calender is with me too since I am a "plan-o-holic"!
♥ I don´t wear alot of make-up so i mostly just have my lipgloss with me to jazz me up from time to time!
♥ my purse with money and visa cards and other cards
♥ my cell-phone which holds most of my contacts and I also use ut as my alarmclock
♥ i usally have a pocket book in there somewhere. It is good to have something to read in line or on the ferry.
♥ sunglasses i have like 3 months out of the year :)

I have new photos to play with so...see ya! :)

goodnight harry

I am very sad to tell you that Harry was laid to rest today. His legs was getting worse and he was in pain. We are very sad and grateful for getting the op to give him a few months of heaven :) If you are new to the blog you can read more about Harry the dog here. We are exhausted because it was just last august we said goddbye to Chanty.





Think of us a little today, thank you ♥

summer weather

We have had such nice weather the last cuple of days and yes, the summerly toes did feel the grass yesterday :)




This weekend is full with activities for us. Saturday we are attending these guys christening. I am looking forward to that! I plan on making it to a garage sale before that.
Sunday is our 6th wedding anniversary ♥ but we are celebrating with a fancy dinner this evening already. My Gosh, 6 years already!

Ok, so I finished (almost finished) the projects I was working on. First there is this minibook that I titled "right now" and the journaling begins with that frase. I have noted what i eat and dring right now, what I read and watch etc. I like how it turned out!









And this super simple minibook is highly inspired by the one Jennifer Pebbles made for the 2peas garden. I love how it is just about the photos.






Have a wonderful friday!

spring festivals and new projects

If I haven´t made it clear before, my daughter attends the school where I am a teacher. The school and kindergarden are all the same unit and therefore we have the luck to go to the same spring festivals :) Yesterday evening it was a said spring festival! We had the the awesome opportunity to have all (not every piece, i mean that every child had something there) the kids art work on display at the local gallery, which I mentioned this past summer while I was there on some exhibitions. We were all so excited! The gallery looked fantastic and the waether Gods were with us also!



Here she is infront of one of her contributions. Since the author to Pippi Longstocking would have turned 100 this past fall, they worked with her books alot.



This piece was my favorite. Our young kids made this painting, it is huge. We had the paper on the floor and then they worked in layers; paint, paint, glue, all natural materials like rose pedals, leaves and stones. Isn´t it magnificent?!



There were also music, lotteries and other fun activites at the festival and it was a huge hit as usual :)

I have some sneak peeks of a few new projects...i will show more soon!






Ps. Please take a look at this library! Can you see why I love libraries :)

weekend in photos

This weekend we celebrated that my grandmother is home and feeling better. We did it by having a big family dinner with lots of food and laughter. I love these photos that I snapped of her and one of her great grandchildren. I also took a photo while my grandfather talked to another great grandchild.





I took some photos on our way home on the ferry yesterday. Can you see how we are homesick a lot of times? :) It was a glorious day yesterday and today is almost even better!









This will be my monday post, since I cannot wait to get outside!

wonderful wednsday

it sure is a wonderful wednsday here! I am feeling happy and content with everything and that is huge for me :) LAst night I also made up my mind on losing those comfort kilos I have gain since last summer. It started out great with me being up super early this morning and went for a power walk! I just hope that it lasts :) I don´t know if you all know, but I joined Weight Watchers in 2005 and lost alot of weight doing that. You can read more here and see the change here. I just felt so good at that weight and now my goal is to go back there again. I have about 5 kilos to loose and since I have lost 13 once, 5 would be a easy, right?! :)

Another thing that makes me happy is that my scraping mojo has come back! And maybe it has to do with me rearranging the scrapping room a bit? I have some projects going on and will share soon. And there is so much eye candy out there at the moment. Here are some faves:

I love the colors on Annas lo.

Nora had a wonderfully inspirational post the other day, yum!


Nicholes cool everyday layout makes me happy!

This happy layout also makes me smile.

I love the way Maria Grace journalled here.

And mrs Crowe made an awesome one here.

And some happy photos :)






Have a happy day!

finally a proper creative post!

In the awesome book "The creative family" Amanda, the author, gave this cool tips on how to use your kids drawings for embroidery! Lovely idea, I think! So, as her grandmothers birthday is coming fast we made a little project together the other day. My daughter draw a picture on plain paper and then we transfered it to a pillow wrap. She had to sketch a little right on the cloth too. Then we used a sewing hoop and then she started sewing. It took a while and I did help out a little but we both love the end result! + we had so much fun during this project! Below you can see the process :)








We stayed home today, since the said daughter has had high fever the whole weekend and still had one today. She is chilling on the couch and in between fetching her what ever she need :) I had some time to scrap.









As we are home, we took advantage of that and took some fun photos :)