sunday news

May I introduce the latest member of our family; Rocky!



Rocky is a rottveiler at age 8 months who really needed a new home. As people know we have taken care of 2 other dogs from the animal shelter before they asked us if we were able to take in another one… Well, my first reaction was NO! I thought that it is more than enough to have 2 dogs and a cat who thinks he is a dog. And I would have considered it if it was a smaller dog in question. But a big dog like that, oh no! But soft hearted as I am I agreed to meet him. Mind you my husband and daughter had already made up their minds, which were saying YES YES YES! So, we met and he gets along great with the other 2 dogs and also my daughter (which is very important to us!) It was a BIG dog who is still very puppy-like and very sweet. My heart melted of course! And we brought him home to test him out in our home environment for a few days. And well, he seems to be staying…
My entire family is very animal loving and loves to look at animal tv-shows and documentaries. We have stumbled over a few animals that makes our hearts melt and ache. We would gladly take care of each and every dog or cat in our animal shelter, but we can of course. Have you taken care of an animal? No? But you have always wanted a dog or a cat? Then go visit your local animal shelters website today and check it out. Maybe your animal is just sitting there waiting for you. It has to be said that some of the animals in such shelters have been abused and mistreated so they have problems...it is not going to always be easy.

The very same day that we met Rocky (oh, just look at that sweet face!) I also went to IKEA. Yay! One of my favourite places. I had an idea in my head for a while about using fabric instead of patterned paper on my scrapbook layouts. So, I picked up some scraps of a few different fabrics and went home to begin to create! This is what I have done until now and it is really fun so I will surely make a few more.





If you have noticed, the little poll I have about me opening a online store a lá etsy has ended. I know that it is not scientific because I had only 5 voters but as I can see the felt items are in the top. Good because that is what I thought too! The store idea is still just that, an idea, so I am not making any promises.

I am leaving you with the link to one of the funniest places I know right now. Go play with your photos here.

august already!

i can´t belive how fast this summer has gone by! But I guess that is really the case every year :) So now I am uploading layouts from my "from august" folder on my computer.

I didn´t blog yesterday because...are you ready for this?.....by God we had sun! Yes, I am not kidding you! *sigh* finally... So my daughter convinced me to go over to the pool. Then came the clouds :) anyway the kids had fun! I had my camera with me and belive me or not i managed to miss her jumping in the pool EVERYTIME! Oh, well that´s a story too isn´t it!



While I was out walking my daily walk I glanced down on my trusted dog Sadie. Then it just hit me that she is the only one who is really knowing how to always comfort me. I have had a cuple of really rough years and she has really been there almost the entire time. Isn´t it fantastic how animals just know? without words the just know. So, I have done alot of Sadie& me layouts lately.





Since it is the first today, I am just now going through the Garden over at 2peas. They always seem to inspire me in all sorts of ways. Here are a few of my favorites:

Emilys "maximize your letter stickers" always good to get ideas on how to use those ZXY and how to get more A´s :)

I will have to finally try this masking thing really.

Jennifer made some really cute butterfly cards.

yep, that´s it for now...out

sunday faves + RAK winners

i have found some really cool photos over at flickr the last cuple of days. I made an other mosiac and this time of my favorite photos right now.



1. cosmos, 2. trailing verbena, 3. lunch*tray*lovin, 4. rainy*day*love, 5. mar307, 6. mar607, 7. bedskirt, 8. P1040407.JPG, 9. family art : inspiration, 10. more books, 11. farmers market strawberries, 12. wake*up, 13. for baby, 14. dahlias, 15. everday, 16. Artlines, 17. Buttons, 18. fleamarket finds, 19. studio 2, 20. fruit, 21. Satisfy Your (Ribbon) Craving, 22. MyFavoriteThings, 23. Untitled, 24. ....

I also choose not only one, but TWO RAK winners! Yay! Drumroll please....the winners are Anilu and bunno!!! Yay, Anilu and Melanie! Please email me (lisa.mrs@gmail.com) your adresses if you want me to send you some goodies! Happy day!



The other night I was putting some of my newest scrapbook layouts in albums. I took some photos of my album system. Someone emailed me questioning my method. I recently switched from cronical albums i.e i just put every layout after each other just as i made them. Now I changed to have albums for me, me and my husband, my daughter, the pets and one for other people we love. It has worked out really well. especially since i usually take my albums with me to show my mother or so, and now i only bring the ones she would be especially interested in. My album, which i am showing below, consists of 3 different sizes; 8,5*11 (my usual size), 6*12 (my new love) and 4*6 (which is perfect for just pretty photos or other smaller things that i just want to be in the album). I love the layered look.






Finally i am leaving you with my cute daughter...

ok

wow cool that you all commented :) I am closing the comments on the RAK post below now. So, now i have to come up with a cool way to choose who will get a little package from moi! This is fun. I started to pick a few things for the package and it is going to be a little of this and that.

Today was a good day. we took a little roadtrip with my dad to a town nearby to do our monthly food shopping. Well, the food shopping isn´t that fun, but they have a store right next to it with some arts and craft things = Lisa happy! I got some paint, that´s all but it´s fun to look. When we got home my dear husband treated me to dinner at a local resturant. sweet :)

So, now i am here just blogging and checking message boards and other fun stuff. I miss last weekend when SIS had some of the greatest challenges that was so inspiring. I wish they could have another weekend like that.

ok, here is a little list of cool stuff I have found during my "blog-walk":

Sarah is just such a cool thinker. Me and my husband seriously had the discussion on down sizeing and decluttering during our recent vacation. Sarah speaks about that alot on her blog and she and her family has just recently bought a RV and are travelling the country. How cool is that!

"In the Summer of 2005, we were staying in a hotel for 4 weeks for business. We had a small suite that had a bedroom and a little kitchen. I realized while we were there that I was EXTREMELY HAPPY living in a smaller space. I liked knowing where Bella was at all times without searching. I liked that cleaning up only took a few minutes instead of an entire afternoon. It just clicked."

and I love this about decluttering:

>"The state of your home is in direct proportion to the state of your heart/mind. When you have piles of stuff all over your house, your spirit just gets bogged down with all of it whether you know it or not. When you don’t have to worry about moving your STUFF around, cleaning your STUFF, and storing your STUFF…you have a lot more time to spend doing things things that you love and spending time with your family and friends! And that’s what life is all about."

It so makes sense to me.

Miss "hyperstarre" Caroline is one of my faves over at SIS and just looking through her blog makes me happy. She is really an outstanding scrapbooker and is always inspiring me in different ways. And she is an awesome photographer too :) Go check her blog for some yummy layouts!

I love Cheryls latest blog entry. Just go read it and you will understand. And by the way, I love that lo too!

Emma have made a clear album tutorial that is just so good. Today she is showing us page 10 of the album and letting us in on a very personal tragedy.

Carl Honoré is "still dashing around telling everyone how marvelous it is to slow down." :) I love that! But I love it even more that he is writing his new book on childhood in the 21 century. That will be very interesting. If you don´t know what I am talking about I have blogged it here.

I am leaving you with this...my wall a few nights ago...

R.A.K

horray! my flickr gallery has been viewed 300 times as of right now! I am a big fan of celebration, so... i am having a little RAK give away. Leave a comment and we´ll see who gets it! Come celebrate with me! Good luck! :)



A mosiac from one of my flick sets.

creating stuff

ok, so i acctually did create something yesterday. First I "created" some newely cut grass :) That is my job here (ontop of alot of other things!) since my husband is allergic to grass. How convinient isn´t it?! :) But I like it, i see it as some alone time with my MP3 and it is tecnically exercise :)
I also scouted a new scrapbook table. You remember I got a new one not long ago, but I realized that it was not tall enough so that i could stand and scrap. Alas i got a taller one. I love it! It is such another thing to stand and create. I like it alot!
Then I started the fun things! I scrapped some things, a few photos from our trip, I still have about a hundred :) But I did feel that i wasn´t really feeling it, you know. I wanted to doodle and paint largely. So I picked out my journal and played with that for a while. You can see one page here.
After that I laid on the floor for a while just looking around and finally got up newely inspired. The first layout i did was this one:



While laying on the floor I got to see my paper bags I haven´t been using for a good while. Volia! I made my printer a little upset with this one, but I hugged it and then it acctually printed the journaling ontop and the stars too.

I was out looking for new fonts on the internet and found a few ones. Mostly dingbat ones which are really versitile. I made this patterned paper myself in the PC using one of those dingbat fonts.



I know that I have scrapped this photo before, but I wanted to scrap the feeling it gives me. I love that we are interacting and are in focus.



The other day I did this one. I love how it turned out!



ok, so I am thinking of maybe possibly opening an online store where I will sell stuff I make myself. I need your help on that. Please make a little vote in the sidebar. You have about a week. Thank you!

Edited: I have changed the answers choices in the poll so if you have already voted please do it again! Thank you.

another rainy day

seriously i NEED some sun soon or else my freakin´depression is never going to end!!!

Have you check out my "wreck this journal blog" lately? Do, it is fun...i think :) and my friend Inge too :) Especially the last 2 posts are fun! I am uploading new pages about every other day and it is fun to share them with my friend and the world if you want!

Went into town today to the library. Yay for library day! I have read all my books from last time; another Agatha Christie (not my favorite at all, but I just had to finish it, you know), a Michael Connelly book about his Harry Bosch called Fallen angel ( I think that Michaels books about Harry Bosch gets better and better) and a few books on meditation and relaxation. This time I picked up an earlier copy of the Harry Bosch series called The black echo (we´ll see about that one) and a book by a swedish author called Camilla Läckberg she also writes police/thriller books (do you detect a pattern? :) ), I also got a CD book by Nora Roberts (not my favorite author by far but it got me interested). The library had a exhibition about spanish speaking authors. As it seems they had a "boom" in authors writing about spanish and hispanic history lately. I have always been very curious about those countries and i acctually took spanish class for a brief period of my life. I can proudly order beer (although I don´t dring beer) and icecream (which I like very much!) and a few other useful terms :) Anyway!, I picked up a copy of the José Saramago (nobelprize recipient 1998) from Porugal. "Ensaio sobre a Lucidez" is the original title but I can´t seem to find the english title. I see this one as a challenge for me.
Sorry, blah blah :) I love the libray, and I am proud of it! :)

Since I have been in town all day I have not yet been able to create anything today, but tomorrow...i´ll be back with more Lisa wiz :)

I am leaving you with a cool photo I ran through a LOMO action. You can find that here! it is cool, go try it!