IKEA!

Me and my sister spend a good 2 hours at IKEA this afternoon. I had to buy things for work and I am on a strict Christmas budget, so I didn´t buy alot. This is the only thing really It is a really big glass container and I am planning to stuff it full of my mini books! What do you think?

Edited: It is really big...but not in the picture :(

I am back...

...from creating! I have 5 layouts finished in the last 2 hours!!! Yeah! This one is for the third Lisafisa challenge! I used the colors as inspiration and actually took out the sewing machine :) .

I have the others over

HERE

...crazy people!

First up; thank you so much for the congratulations on my last post! It is awesome to have people like you come on here and congrate me :) Makes me happy! And yes it is an awesome feeling to be able to say that I am being published aswell. At first I was happy the way you know when you jump up and downs and really want to just burst out in a good musical tune :) But I didn´t because i was at work at the time...but I did call my dear husband!I am looking forward to that!

We had some fun visitors this weekend; my husbands brother and his girlsfriend. They are such a funny cuple: she is a "tree-hugger" as my husband says (biologist) and he is a physic major. Odd as can be but very fun to be around. On the ferry ride over today we had a little fun as you can see :) haha...who won?

I am behind on my Christmas projects, and I am making up new ones all the time :) This week I have to finish the advent calender for my daughter since the first is on friday. I am planning to make it out of matchboxes where I will place either a small gift or a small note telling her an activity or where she can go to collect a larger gift. This way I can slide in the actual note the day before, when I really know if I am up to for example cookie baking or not :) Am I clever or what!!! :)

I am really itcing to go create something now, so I am leaving you with a new favorite of me and my husband...I love him very much!

*drumroll please*

...this is a brand new swedish scrapbooking magazine that came out for the first time this october. They asked for layouts for their 3rd and 4th issue and I emailed 3 of mine in. AND a few days ago I got a call back and they want to publish one of my layouts in the 3rd issue!!!! So, people!!!!!

I AM BEING PUBLISHED!!!!!

Lisafisa challenge #3

...And I promise I will do it this time!!!!

This is my journal where I write everything in my creative life. It can be ideas, websites, lists (lots and lots) or anything else you can think of. Iove it so much, not only because it holds my ideas and inspiration, but it is so nice to look at aswell! :) Isn´t it?!

Have fun! I will...

...tada...

...here is Inges fabulous take on the second Lisafisa challenge! I L O V E it!!! It is su funky and fun, isn´t it! Thanks again Inge for doing it!

Otherwise I have really been in a low point creatingwise...but yesterday my daughter went home with a friend after school and I had a short day at work, so I rented a movie, bought some candy (!) and scrapped a while! I did my CJ entry do Ines CJ. And started on an idea from

Lisa McGarvey (will share later). And this one:

My daughter is such a rocksuperstar right now. Before she was all pink and princesses, but now she listens to rockmusic and headbangs in the car :) I love it!

reflection on a friday morning...

First up I am terrible at my own challenges...sorry :( But I´d love to see yours :)
Second, I felt old for the third time in my life yesterday.

• First time: when I realized that I had been friends with someone for 17!!! years!!! (Now it is 19...) Yikes!
• Second time: WhenI realized that kids that were born in the 80s are adults! What??!! I know what you are thinking; "She was born in 79´ for God sake!" I know that, but really people come on! The 80s!
• Third time: A woman I barely know, but chit chat with once in a while had a shirt on yesterday that said" Graduation (High school) 2004, "Oh, are you that young", I said jokingly and expevtion an anwer like "Oh, no I borrowed the shirt from my kid sister" But how wrong was I?! "Haha", she responded, "Well, yes I had to go one extra year, so I am 22 now." What??!! For a year now I have thought that she is in her 30s or atleast the same age as me. But 22!!!! And she has 2 year old twins!

Let me say that I really don´t feel old, but at those times it just hits me. I am almsot 30! And I don´t feel older than I did when I was 15 (that would mean that I feel like 13 !) It is just the math that makes my head spin.Today I am embracing that I am a 27 year-old-feeling-like-15 (13) woman!