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so we are leaving for vacation tomorrow morning...don´t forget me...please! :) I will be back in a week! Think of me while i am hiking on swedish mountains.

Awesome mail day!

I woke up to a mail box full of these! It is the package from the wonderful Suzanne with her gorgeous CJ in it. I can´t wait to work in it, though I am afraid that I am going to ruin the whole thing :)

I also recived my order from Scrapit.se a very good and affordable online scrapbookstore here in Sweden. These goodies might come in hand when I work in the CJ and on layouts from my upcoming vacation!

And I also got my order from adlibris where I bought Keri Smiths "Wreck this journal" . INGE! Go out and buy this book today!!! It is an order! I have always loved the feeling of a really used journal,but not quite gotten the feel of my own journals. OMG this book is so cool. It is paperback and you do all the journaling and things like, "rub a smell here" or "paste white things here" right IN the book. If you love journaling and such you have to see this book. It is perfect for my vacation since we are sitting in the car for hours.

In addition to these packages I also got my copy of the latest Scrapbooks etc. which is always a happy day for me. I was happy to see that there was an article ablout vacations too. Perfect.

sunday

Some lazy Sunday blogging over here. How was your day yesterday? 070707 and all.

I played with some aquarelle pencils yesterday. I took Emilys advise and just use my saliva to smudged out the paint. I know it sounds really yucky but please, it is just saliva :) I just played and this is the result, just experimenting. I am going to take my pencils and my new Moleskine aquarelle book on our little roadtrip we are taking from next Friday. If there are some results worth showing I will when I return.
Talking about the roadtrip you can see where we are going here and here. My MIL and FIL always go up to the mountains to hike each summer and this year we are going with them. Yay! They have rented cottages for us and we are all so excited to go. Sweden is such a beautiful country and it is really fun to explore your own country instead of going abroad. I am sure there will be lot´s of photos taken during this trip. And for a change I will let someone else hold the camera too, so that I actually will be in one or two myself.

I went over checking the usual blogs yesterday and found this one going from this one. Anyway, the first one had a really interesting link to the bloggers son that have been on a trip to learn more about the things he is an activist for. The link is to his flickr album where he posted some really nice pictures from his trip. If you have a few minutes over, take a look.

I took this photo of “my world” yesterday. I like it. But you should see the 10 I took before haha. To take a photo of 2 goofballs and 2 dogs is really interesting I tell ya´. I scrapped it here.

happy saturday

oh, I am excited because my husband finally started his holiday leave today! Yay! We are going to do only fun stuff the time he has home. Today we are going to a gallery opening where a friend of ours is having an exhibit. She works as a seamstress and make-up artist at a theater. It´s going to be interesting to see her work close up. The weather isn´t the most fun, but that is ok, we can du fun stuff in the house.
Yesterday night I sat where I am sitting right now and just glanced over to my left and saw this:

My daughter is the master of mess and play. She is really all about animals and has always been. She puts them up in rows and play and play for hours. I snapped a photo and scrapped it right away.

It took some inspiration from this layout by a fellow swedish scrapper. She is very colorful and a happy scrapper. Check her gallery out!

i am off to dress and go check the gallery and then...who knows :)

edited: Check this masks out. They were very cool! And a really good exhibition, it made me feel good afterwards. I think I might have to go back for a second look.

i totally made a book!

I did! I took some scrap paper (that happened to be lined but you can use any kind you like) and trimmed down to the size i wanted. Then I took and printed 5 photos and used them as page deviders. I pinned everything together nice and even and glued ( i used something like mod podge) on the top where I wanted the binding to be and let dry and repeated 3 times. A little this and a little that and VOILA! My own hand made book! Awesome right! I am going to use it as my note book for all sortsof things. I came up with the idea to create my own note book the other night, but I was going to use something pree made and just alter it, but this was so much fun! Go make one! Go!

fickr goodies

Miss Suzanne over at Suziebeezieland had a few tips on what you can do over at flickr.com One was to make a cute mosaic from your photos or from your favorites. Well, I have always been thinking that it would be cool to make one, because they always look so good. So here I go, these are my favorites from when i started exploring flickr.

1. sidewalk 4, 2. waiting for Morran, 3. colour therapy, 4. cold owl-house, 5. sweden_countryside14, 6. Loto III, 7. Frô 2, 8. Embellished Orange Heart Pin, 9. Colorful Hearts!, 10. Stationery and business cards - Little Hearts!, 11. Mais... / More..., 12. 'Strawberry Sundae' wall art closeup, 13. drought relief - felt art, 14. Colar colorido com flor em feltro. Vendido, 15. Colar de Borboleta colorido. Vendido

and if everything is working ok this is a few of Suzannes favorites:

1. floating around, 2. overexposed, 3. DSC_0002.JPG, 4. To find my way to you . . ., 5. umbrellas, 6. The Last Drop, 7. Kent, UK, 22.06.2007, 8. Azulejo, 9. Egypt, 10. Blue Door, 11. in the post, 12. Breakfast #1, 13. Geen appelflap, 14. One of my favourites, 15. honeysuckle, 16. Union School, 17. Cat Warmer, 18. Stocks, 19. DSC_2192, 20. DSC_2786, 21. DSC_2830, 22. Gardens032, 23. The Fairytale Cottages of Carmel, 24. La Fleur de Mer

You can totally get lost for hours at flickr just going from one photo to an other to an other...

So, i am back from living life over the weekend! As many times before we went to visit family in Gothenburg. It is always very relaxing and include GOOD food and GREAT shopping! My mother in law have had a hard time lately and was feeling a little blue, so me and my daughter took her out on the town for some shopping on Saturday. We went to lots of craft stores and can you belive we hit only the ones with big sales! Yay! I got some bargain papers, stickers and 4 really cool stamps. I will share some projects too.
Sunday me and my father in law took the dogs out to walk in an area called “Paradise” Isn´t that sweet?! It was like paradise too! Just look at this yummy blueberries :)

During my shopping spree I picked up a few magazines. Among others I bought “Adorn magazine” which I had never bought before. Have you ever seen it? It is all about crafts and other fun projects. There where a few cool links to blogs and other sites. I especially liked this one about Reconstruction Wardrobe. Doesn´t that sound like fun?! Check it out.
The other day I also found this blog. The thrift store project is so much fun for people like me who LOVES to go to thrift stores and garage sales. Lot´s of cool finds there.

Ok, here are some of my latest productions. Ofcourse i had to do one about the walk in "paradise" :)

I took this photo of my daughter down by the harbour the other day and I think it came out really cool. So, i tried on some doodeling. It was lot´s of fun! The big journaling says yes: aj lav jo = I love you!

My husband snapped this photo of me and my daughter on the ferry and I love it so much. I used one of my new stamps on this. Isn´t it cool?!

Well, that is all for now folks.