arts and crafts

ok, so this is going to be a L O N G post as promised yesterday! I have the ballons on the top to celebrate a new day!

What have I been up to lately arts and craft wise? Well, I am still experimenting with fabrics on pages. It so much fun, but its harder to work with fabric because it is more "dead" if you know what I mean. Normally fabric is alive, but on a page I guess paper is more versitile. I mean paper you can rough up, sand or ink etc. I am still going to work on some projects with fabric though. Here is an example where I have used tyll and felt. Both these materials are so easy to work with.



And an exampel on how a cool IKEA fabric can look kinda good as a background!




I saw a webisode over at SIS the other day and they used a lot of tape in that show. I have never used tape before, accept offwhite masking tape. So, it inspired me to go out to do a little shopping :) I bought a few diffrent tapes and went home to do a little experimenting.





And here is the first one i did a few years ago with masking tape.



Although I really like the look of using lots of tape i sometimes belive that "less is more" and I made one having that in mind.




As another craft thing I have always love to make fridge magnets from various materials. It is somuch fun and such an easy project! Maybe that is why some of my etsy products are magnets?! :) This time I used all from buttons, stones to coins! Aren´t the fun!



Another thing I am really wanting to do more is to use my daughters drawings and notes on scrapbook pages. I remember doing one a long time ago (2004) here it is.



At that time my daughter greeted us with her drawings every morning! Now she has changed her style to use more words that acctual drawings. The other day I joined her at the table when she was making us (her dad and me) a card. I snapped a few photos of her drawing and this is how i used that!



In the Suziebeezieland 2007 CJ´s I have gotten to Maries "Songs that make you go la la". Isn´t that a fun subject?! Wow, there are so many songs that make me go la la, mostly everyone there is! I know, we don´t we do a little poll. Up in the corner I am going to put a poll and you all can vote on when your favorite song was made! This could be so much fun! I am starting the CJ as soon as I get my butt down from here!

ok, so this was the long post from me today! I hope that you enjoy it!
Oh, and make sure you check out the shop because I have updated with a few more items!

suprise!

Ladies (and occasional dudes!) I have an etsy shop! YAY! After much consideration and quite some work (ah!) it finally works and I will be adding more items this week. As you all can see if you visit my shop I ship EVERYWHERE! :) Only for you! I am very excited to share this because this has been in my thoughts for so long. I hope you all like it! I am adding felt items and also maybe some prints from my own photos.

I hope that you all have a wonderful day and I promise to share some layouts, project and other stuff tomorrow!

Edited: check out Anilus blog because she has some great news today! Yay for you girl!

photofeelings

I saw somewhere an idea to post a photo and then talk about what feeling that photo generates for you. I think it was a cool idea so here I go!



This is a photo I took a cuple of years ago of my dad in his rearview mirror. It makes me feel so many diffrent things. You see my dad is from Hungary and when i was younger the whole family used to drive there twice a year. Although I can´t remember every trip I still have the feeling of us all in the car together. I learned my first german words while listening to dad asking for gas at gas stations: bleifrei, bitte! :) The photo also makes me remember all the trips me and my dad made just because. We would take the car and just go...go where ever for a day. Just driving through the city, country or both. Stopping where we wanted to stop, to buy an ice cream, peek in a cute country store or just to sit by a beautiful lake. To see his eyes through that mirror is like home for me. Just so used to it, it is how it should be, really. So the feelings would be something like: happiness, calmness and something familiar.

according to me

A person should really: laugh more
I just hate that: I am sick
I have all I need but: some more money would be good
If I could do whatever I wanted I would: travel
I am the happiest when: I create
One day I will: go to USA
When I am really down: I just want to sleep
I feel anxious when: I have to sleep away from home
I am scared that: I will never feel real happiness
I want people: to like me
What I really want to do is: make money on my hobby
I wish: I could work from home
I don´t like people who: think that they have never made a mistake

sunday senses

Starting today I am going to list Sunday senses every Sunday. In that I will recap my week through 5 senses. (I am borrowing the idea from here)

Touch: This week has been all about petting my animals. A lot. I always show and give our pets a lot of affection, but this week has been a little different. When Rocky came into our lives we understood that he needed a lot of attention and affection. So of course we gave him that. And sure enough he appreciated it to it´s fullest. Showing it laying on his back across our bed when we woke up the first day!

Sight: It has been a lot of the color green in my sight the last week. Everything in nature is so green here right now. It has been raining for weeks and now the last week has been sunshine. Everything just bursts out in wonderful green!

Smell: Right now I am smelling my husbands wonderful cooking. Yum for roasted spareribs! Otherwise it has been those wonderful summer rains smelling divine.

Taste: Unfortunately I love chocolate all to much! I have tasted some yummy chocolate this week. Nothing fancy, just been indulging in goodies.

Sound: The horrible sound of my husband being sad because we had to give the dog back to the shelter… He is one of those manly mans if you know what I mean. His manlyhood means so much to him and he rarely cries. But this week he did…

i am back

so we are back from our long weekend in Gothenburg with my mom and my MIL and FIL. It was nice to come away, as usual but it was sooo sticky hot it wasn´t even nice.

I am sad (very sad) to tell you that we no longer are a 3 dog family... we just had to unfortunatly give Rocky back to the animal shelter. it was so sad, but it was just not working out with the cat and we saw some tendences to guard all to much. Poor little thing we already loved him so much. it was so very hard for us to decide to give him back, but we couldn´t risk anything to happen to anyone in our family. we are keeping in touch with the shelter to find out what happens to the little guy.


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we had the time to do lot´s of things while away for the weekend.
play
shop :)
watch movies
celebrate a 87th birthday girl
sleep
laugh
wash the car
go for long walks with the dogs
take photos :)
eat great food
take self portraits in the car
eat lot´s of ice cream
draw




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my daughter had spend the whole week with her grandmother (my mom) and her cousin erik. he is 2 and she is 8 you can see who admire who :) he wouldn´t leave her side and she tried even running from him :)



here they are at my mothers



i hope to have a nice suprise for you all by tomorrow or monday :)

monday mosiac

I went blog hopping last night and among a few others I found this blog to be very interesting. I know this girls scrapbooking stuff from SIS and she is very talented I think. Anyway the most inspiring thing on that blog was her fabulous Ranunculus mosaic. I loved it! And I too love that flower so much. I just had to make my own!



Doesn´t it just make you happy?! I totally forgot to catch the credits but these all come from a search I did writing: ranuculus in the search all photos bar at flickr.com

We just decided to make a mini trip to Gothenburg over the weekend (leaving wednseday) and I totally would enjoy that. I am so bringing my camera with me because I need some new photos to work with! We are going to meet family and have some relaxing times.

Oh, before I forget I did take out the sewing machine yesterday! Yay me! I intended to make some new pot holders and I acctually did! I also made a holder for my daughters Nintendo DS. I used some of her old to short jeans that had this cute floral pattern on the bottom of the leg. I just mesured (not very correctly the first time!) and sewed it all together, attached a ribbon and Voila!







Oh, and a Rocky update: He is home :) He is melting our hearts everyday :) He loves to chase butterflies :)



And one of my princess



That is all from warm and sunny Sweden today....over and out...