I WON!

edited: oh, i didn´t realzie what crappy picture that was. :) To clearify, I won one of the challenges over at SIS! Yay me! The challenge was to use cirlces and you know how i love circles :)

monday oh rainy monday

where is the summer? can someone tell me? someone stole our summer!!! please mr or mrs Summerstealer if you have a ransome i will gladly pay that so that we can have our summer back...

oh, well. rainy days are perfect for cozy times in the sofa with some coffee and a good book. to bad library day is tomorrow and i have read all my books already :( rainy days can also be spend crafting! i can do that! i will do that :) suziebeezie had some great craft ideas that she found on the martha site. i think i will try to do some of those.

i just want to share a few photos that i took while we were at the Dala-horse place.(you can read a little more here)




i love all these colors. and that craftmanship amazes me. think that they make everyone by hand! wow! and below you can see the whole process from the cutting to the finished horse!


they had craft tables and boy was i up for some arts and crafts!

lazy sunday afternoon

ah, how I love lazy days. My husband is freaking out since he has to go back to work tomorrow so he is sulking around. We sat out in the garden and had some fun with the camera :) Oh, ok I had some fun with the camera :) LOL!



Today when i woke up, had my coffee sitting infront of the computer and eating breafast (yes I do that!)(by the way this is what was looking at me while I was sitting here eating breakfast! I love her so much, but at that moment she loved my sandwhiches more :) anyway I just popped in to the "wreck blog" and I realized that my good friend Inge had finally figured out how to post there too. (blogger has had some great issues that last days let me tell you!) I am so happy that we are doing this together! If anyone else wants to play email me and I will send out an invitation! We are just going to share our pages with eachother and well, the world if they want to!

Linda: I love "Wreck this journal" beacuse it is really fun. I have lost that ability to jot and scribble as I did so much during high school and that book is so cool for that. The author writes that sometimes you are going to wonder about a few of the things that you are suppose to do with the journal, and it is very much so. But once you wrecked one page or maybe two you realize that it is really just geting better and better. I recommend it highly!

I am off to scrap a few more of the vacation photos and a few new ones from today! I thnk I will have to try more of those 6*12 pages. They are so much fun!
oh, before you go check out this sweet lo!

fun challenges

There are some fun challenges going on over at SIS. Come on over and play! I did 3 already!

This first one was for a circle challenge. And I love circles!


The second was a 1234 challenge: 1 page, 2 photos 3 patterned papers and 4 embellishments. Also the page was suppose to be about great friends!


The third was a challenge to use clear stuff. And that was a challenge for me because I rarely use overlays and such. But I like it! Oh, and the page is about how my daughter said: Mom you are so embarrasing! for the first time! Haha!


I am heading over there again. There are a few more challenges I´d like to do :)

ok so lets get started!

I have acctually found some time to scrap today between loads of laundry and cutting the grass. So here I go!

This layout is about a fabulous café we went to in one of the little towns we stayed in. They had SO many cakes and cookies to choose from OMG! It was so worth the 20 minute wait to get a table. I acctually made this layout up in my head sitting there in the café :)



The next one is totally about my new found love for hiking and the amazing mountains. I just love these big stones where people had left smaller stones as a mark that they had been there.



And I had to do one about the reindeers :) They were literally right there at the parking lot just walking through :)



And finally the last one for today. We lived in a few really cute cottages during the trip!



As a few of you know I bought Keri Smiths "wreck this journal" before I left and I have decided to create a blog for my work in that book. You can find it in the links section on the left! Come by!

we are home!

So, we are all home safe and happy. I will just leave you with my top 5 of the trip!

1. Being with family. By that I mean really being with them. You know talking, laughing playing board games and cards, no TV or radio to distract. That really made me happy! Living in a small cabin means sleeping in the same room every night, chatting together until late hours. Telling stories from past times...

2. Nature. We have drived well over 1000kms. We live in a very long country which means that we didn´t even hit the very north of Sweden. But we have seen some awesome acts of Mother nature. Incredible mountains, tight forests and lakes mirror clear. The contrast, the colors, wild animals just walking by. Just imagien a reindeers just walking by on the parking lot! So cool! And just being able to walk and be in nature as you please to take part of it´s greatness always brings me happiness!

3. Funny places and signs. When we drove through the country we saw all sorts of funny street names, signs abd names of places. They aren´t funny to translate :) But the fact that the entire north of Sweden seems to only eat pizza and kebab is funny to me! Everywhere we came there always were signs of PIZZA! KEBAB! :) But the funniest was "We serve pizza, kebab and food!

4. The mountains. They are so wonderful that they deserve an own # on my list! I could totally see myself living by the mountains. They are truly magnificent! To hike them was such an amazing feeling. The feeling of complete freedome. Just what I needed.

5. Culture. To see swedish culture places and famous places . Though I have lived in this country for 28,5 years I have never been to so many of these places before. The biggest thing for me was to visit the village where they make Dala-horses Incredible works of art and craft! Every piece is hand carved and then they paint every single one by hand! They also had craft tables where you could paint your own piece!

Ok, this is it for now, but I will be back soon with some photos and hopefully some layouts!

mountain mail

hey, guys! I am just stopping by to say hi! we are well and refreshed by the fresh air here in the mountains.
I have lot´s to share and will do that when we get home thursday! Have a great week!