I was TAGGED!!!

OMG I was tagged by the faboulus Kim. I was just strolling by her blog as I do daily and just happened to see my name of the list of people she was tagging! How cool is that! So, here it goes!

A - Available or single: Married
B - Best friend: my husband
C - Cake or pie: pie (apple)
D - Drink of choice: Cola light
E - Essential item you use everyday: my computer
F - Favorite color: green
G- Gummy bears or worms: Neither (blah!)
H - Hometown: Visingsö, Sweden
I- Indulgence: anything chocolate :)
J - January or February: February (my b-day is on the 22nd)
K - Kids & names: Stina
L- Life is incomplete without? family
M- Marriage date: 2004-04-27
N- Number of siblings: 2
O- Oranges or apples: oranges
P- Phobias or fears: I fear the dark
Q- Fave quote: "Choose your battles!"
R - Reasons to smile: many...
S - Season: Fall
T - Tag 3 or 4 people: Marie, Lucy and Nadine
U - Unknown fact about me: I get chills when I watch a emotional movie or hear good music.
V- Vegetable you don't like: I like them all...raw onion maybe?
W - Worst habit: crying...
X - Xrays: cheek, knee, head...haha yes I am glowing in the dark :)
Y - Your fave food: fried chicken and potatoes
Z- Zodiac sign: pisces

This was fun! I can´t wait ´til the other girls make theirs! Have a good day ya´ll!

looky looky

I have had a "scrap- all- weekend" type of weekend. i love those, don´t you? :) I scrapped 3 lo´s which you can see here and a little tag project for gift tags going on the christmas gifts this year. It is also a great way to use up some of those hoards of scraps a lot of us scrappers house in our scrap rooms!!! A flower here, a brad there...you know. I cut up some cardstock as tags and printed out some little photos of the person recieving the gift and embellished away! It was a fun little project that doesn´t have to take that long to make.

Before

After

I also created a little something for a friend who is in the same CJ as me! She had her birthday saturday and I posted this is the gallery along with some of the other girls in the CJ aswell. I baked some cupcakes too! As she thanked us on our 2peas CJ thread she announced some great news!!! I am so happy for you Inge!

Suzie!

...did you see me at that great womens dinner at your church! I was the goofy girl with a pony tail and colorful necklace! :) I made this! It is a scrap mat (ish) thing...:) I made it with cardstock and all sorts of old and new scraps. A great way to use up your scraps by the way. And if you have a really great paper that you have trubble to find again, it doesn´t waste much! It is here too!

So, GO make one it is fun!!!

a mini album

A little mini album from our vacation in Mallorca this past June. I love how it turned out. I wanted it to be all about the photos really. (I have tried to upload the pictures so that the right page in the album would display on the rigt here too... but you may see all the pictures in a long row...if that is the case the right page is ontop of the left one. )

this was supposed to be...

a reflection on a sunday morning, but blogger was messed up for the last days... :) I was sooooo lazy sunday and I was absolutely loving that! I finished up a Christmas gift for someone at work this morning. I made a mini album with quotes and a few of my own photos to go inside. I am hoping it will serve as a coffe table book or something like that. It was fun to do, but I can´t show it here just yet! ...ok here i s a sneek peek:

Then I send in a few more layouts to possible publishing to that swedish magazine I have told you about. Keep your fingers crossed! :)

And then I did something I would advise all you scrapbookers to do once in a while...go through your BOS at 2peas. I do that from time to time and I find new inspiration everytime. You know how it is, you see a lo in the gallery and put it in the BOS and you try to take some inspiration from it or lift it at some point, but if you are like me you have like pages and pages of BOS things. I love going back to like page 12 or something and see what I have there and what inspired me then. And you know what? I can see a lo and understand what drew me to it in the first place, but now say a cuple of years down the line, something else catches my eyes on the same lo. Am I making any sense? For example todays latest add to my book of scraps is this layout by Karla Dudley. I like the whole thing here, but especially the small photos and the text.

Then I jumped to page 10 in my BOS and found this one by Doris Sander:

I remember that I liked the title right away and that is why it is there in the first place...but now that I look at it 6 months later it is the composition that catches my eyes. The border is fab and the sewing also...

A favorite (still) from page 20 Marie Cox´ layout is one of the jummiest I have ever seen. I fell in love with it right away. And still I can just sit and look at it... I love the small photos and the calendar feel to it. I lifted this on and mine is the second.

Well, I think you get my drift right?! I love doing these things and as I said I advise you all to do the same thing from time to time. See what inspires you now with something that inspired you a year ago, a month ago or just yesterday! Have a great tuesday!

Edited: Haha...thank you for helping a busy mind BRADS!!!! Is the name!!! haha...

can you believe...

...that I missed that today is december 1st...which also means that the new Garden is up?! That my friends has NEVER happened before! You (scrapbookers) have to see all those very cool holiday projects... Makes me think of my own a little...I have finished the advent calender project and it turned out ok I guess. I would have wanted to embellish it somewhat more..but I just didn´t have the inspiration enough. My daughter loves it all the same! And that is really the most important. She got this Lego christmas playset a few years ago and it is really a nice tradition to take them out every year this time.

I love Christmas decorations and it can´t be soon enough to take them out. In Sweden we usually wait until the first of advent (the first sunday in dec) to take out the decorations..but this year I couldn´t hold myself...:) I put up the lights in the windows and almost all my angels (I collect them). It is so nice to have them out! Here are a few of my favorites. Oh..and that glass container and angel is the first thing you see walking in the door and it will be filled with gingerbread cockies we are making on sunday!

I am working on some new gifts that I made up ideas for in the last minute. My sweet SIL mentioned that she didn´t have any pictures of her and her boyfriend and I have a few, so I am making her a little photoalbum with a few photos of them. This is the cover...I am going to add a title of some sort...maybe their names or simply the word LOVE. I made the album out of cardstock and....um...MY GOD I totally forgot what they are called...it is not pins...ah!!! you know the small pin-like things wich you put in a hole and seperate to things so that they stay there. I am so sorry...but I am seeking help for this!!! Haha...

And my dad mentioned that he hadn´t recieved a picture of my daughter in a few years (a lie!) but I am making him an album too!

this could be me singing...

Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair
In '77 and '69 revolution was in the air
I was born too late and to a world that doesn't care
Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair

When the head of state didn't play guitar
Not everybody drove a car
When music really mattered and when radio was king
When accountants didn't have control
And the media couldn't buy your soul
When computers were still scary and we didn't know everything

Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair
In '77 and '69 revolution was in the air
I was born too late to a world that doesn't care
Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair

When popstars still remained a myth
And ignorance could still be bliss
And when God Saved the Queen she turned a whiter shade of pale
My mum and dad were in their teens
And anarchy was still a dream
And the only way to stay in touch was a letter in the mail

Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair
In '77 and '69 revolution was in the air
I was born too late to a world that doesn't care
Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair

When record shops were still on top
And vinyl was all that they stocked
And the super info highway was still drifting out in space
Kids were wearing hand me downs
And playing games meant kick arounds
And footballers still had long hair and dirt across their face

Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair
In '77 and '69 revolution was in the air
I was born too late to a world that doesn't care
Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair
I was born too late to a world that doesn't care
Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair