some scrappin going on

Ok, so I have started doing some Amsterdam/Paris scrapping. For now I have only made 2 but I am getting some scrapping time today! We will see if the mojo hits me at the same time!



Sorry about the crocked scan.



The crepés with Nutella was tha bomb! OMG!


In the meantime here is my happy list for today:

1.

I finally found these soap crayons!!! Do you remember them? I loved them when i was a kid. It is basiclly crayons of soap that you can use in the bathtub or shower just for fun! I have searched for them since my daughter was born, she will be 9 this year!

2.

New baskets that I am using as flower pots in the livingroom. I saw this idea through a window to a houseboat on a canal in Amsterdam!

3. A bowl full of fresh fruit! That alwyas makes me smile.

4. Traces of my trip all over the house; a slideshow going in the digital frame, a mini eiffel tower in the kitchen, some art inspo on my inspiration line.



5. My lovely friend J bought me a Pro account at flickr so I am now uploading a ton of photos to my new sets!

flowers makes me happy

it was springish in Paris. The grass was so green and the weather was lovely. But I found the loveliest flowers at the airport in Amsterdam :)






And the bulbs were peaking too :)



Do you remember the travel book I did in January? You can see more photos here. I did work in it during the trip. Here I am in the hotel in Paris journaling.



I had my gluestick and a journaling pen with me and just added stuff like tickets and stuff along the way. I will be sharing some pages soon.

I just got some new ink in my printer and am starting to print out photos from the trip, so that means I will be starting to scrap them very soon!

I hope that you have a wonderful day!

home

ah...vacation is over...it is bittersweet, but I am still filled with the feeling of complete happiness. The trip was amazing in every sense. I don´t know where to start really. I think I will go with my comfortzone and make some lists :)

Best of Amsterdam (in no particular order):

1. The houses. I loved all the cute little narrow houses that laid down by the canals. They were so personal and diffrent. The doors were ornate and it was so nice to think that people acctually live there :)

2. The people. We didn´t meet one rude person in Amsterdam! All the people were so nice and helpful.

3. The van Gogh museum. We had worked with Vincents artwork with the kids at work last year and it was very interesting to see everything in real life. And it was here that I fell in love (the first time, I fell in love many times). We were looking around and this painting (scroll down)just hit my heart. I had to buy a poster to hang in our bedroom!

4. Hard Rock café food. I had this lovely veggie burger at the Hard Rock café and I think it was the best burger I have ever had!

5. The houseboats. How cool would it be to live on one of these!



Best of Paris (in no particular order):

1. The atmospher. Just to be in the presence of such a world city were mindblowing to me. I have read about and seen Paris in movies all my life and to finally be there gave me a feeling of good fuzziness inside. To wander the street and look at all the lovely, beautiful buildings...




2. The Eiffel Tower. When we went of the bus at the Trocadero and I walked up the stairs and finally, finally laid my eyes on that beauty, my heart skipped a beat. I was overwhelmed.




3. The Louvre. Oh my gosh that place is huge! We only went into one wing and we didn´t even finish the whole thing! My whole body and mind was at a place of calmness and utter peace when i was there. To be surounded by all that art was almost to much for me :)


4. The food. We seriously had some great food in Paris. The vegetarian food I chose were all very fresh and nicely prepared. And that the cafés and resturants were cosy and nice did it all even better.



Ok, this will do as a start! Please go to my flickr gallery to see more photos!

Hello from Holland

I had the best bithday in the pretty city of Amsterdam! The houses are so beautiful, I just went around with my mouth open all day long :) I am just saying hi and see you soon again!

picnic, preperations and good bye!

Me and my daughter decided we should have a picnic in the sun. Said and done, we packed some goodies and took Sadie (dog) and our bikes and biked to our special place in the forest. The sun was lovely between the tree-tops and the birds were singing. Divine, really. Sadie snacked on a hot-dog we brought with us, she was all over our bags :) I snapped this one of here begging, isn´t she the cutest!



Ps. She did get a cinnamon roll too :)

I have begun the big preperations for our trip later this week, I can´t belive that it is time already! I have done a few loads of laundry and now is the dreaded "what do I pack" epsidod. I mean it is only 5 days, but man a work week is 5 days and I use lot´s of clothes in those days! And how about shoes! We are going to do alot of walking so I think I will go for comfortable for that. And then my boots for dinner...I think :) I am sure it will be ok, it always is. I guess this is kind of travel jitters :)

I have been scrapping a little, so I did mess up that neat desk again :) Since weekends at my moms means alot of new photos, I have a ton of them to scrap. Just what I need when I come back with like a million Amsterdam/Paris photos after this weekend!
I tried those cute crumbled paper flowers on this one. Such an easy way to make your own embellishments!







And this one, using the yummy Amy Butler paper pack, with photos of my mom with her new grandkids.



I am loving the effect these frames do for the photos, even when I print them out!

Ok ok so I will quite stalling and say goodbye and see you soon!

week in photos

Monday: Me in the elevator at the dr´s office. New paper saying I can work half time and some new drugs :) No, really I am feeling so so very much better now that I can look back on almost a year filled with depression and anxiety.




Tuesday: Really feeling spring in the air. Town with my father and went second hand shopping, which is a blast with him. Did find a few things.



Thursday: V-day and my husband acctually suprised me with buying me flowers and this sweet yummy thing! ♥ I also went to a friend and had a nice time chatting and me sniffing small babies :)



Friday: Ah, the sun was so nice today and I just can´t belive how much it feels like spring already.




Saturday:

With the kids in the park, twin baby neices in the stroller, 2.5 year old nephew and my 8.5 year old girl and I loved every second! Beactrice, one of the twins, didn´t however think that food came remotely fast enough! :) Óh, and it wasn´t that cold really, but the ice was so cool on the cliff.





Sunday: Managed to take this on our way to the train station throught the tram window :) I love grafitti! Ok, not on my house, but if it is legal and in the right place I see it is art.




I know I know, wednsday is missing and I can´t recall what I did on that day...hm...
Anyway, my week has been filled with more house re-building (!) and all these yummy CHA sneek peaks! I love seeing all the new things that we are able to play with further on this season. Some of my faves are:

These scalloped minibooks.

Making Memories Travel Plans is yummy! All of it!

Jenni Bowlin makes wonderful stuff too!

Ok, time for a goodnight story and then a shower!

Love.
Love.
Love.

weekend fun

weekend fun, originally uploaded by lisafisa.

so this is what my days are filled with this weekend! kids kids kids! I will be back with a new post soon!

Ps. Note the 2 kids in the stroller behind them...mine too :) kinda!