"zee trii"

a little late, but the tree is up and i must say that this year it looks especially lovely! we changed the place for it and i really like how good it looks by the window.



we like traditions, so me and my daughter put it up together while listening to our usual christmas music. all red and some glitter...and our letters almost at the top.




and yes, sally has already climbed the strange indoor tree :)

i´ll be back later with some other things!

ok, new week come on! i can´t believe that it is a new week yet again...i need a vacation!

I have some things to share today. First, i have loved to play in my random december journal. so, much that i have almost finsihed it :)





i have some journaling to do still and i will add a few photos of our tree too. it has been fun and that size is something i will work in again.

this weekend i started my holiday candy baking. i love that! my husband does too :) i just made a small batch now and will make another 2 this week. i am thinking yum! nothing like any of these but anyway...






these bags will be for friends around the neighbourhood instead of holiday cards.

and i also started a small project for my daughter who has entered the "wonderful" age of "nobody loves me!" so, to show her that we do love her i made a minibook with photos of all of us together and me and my husband are both adding love letter for her.






i hope she will like it!

winner (s) ;)

yup! i had both my husband and my daughter pick one winner of the first ever TOSGA!

drumroll please...







the first winner is....


mindi!

yay! mindi, you´ll get the package i described in the TOSGA post!


the other winner is....




Karine!

yay! karine, you will get a similar package, but an other book...namely:

Designing with details by autumn leaves


congratulations and please email me your adresses and maybe the packages may arrive before christmas, otherwise they will be there right after :)

happy snowy saturday

we have had snow now the whole week and i am loving all of it! well, ok the fact that my husband had to work due to the snow and didn´t come home for 2 straight days wasn´t that fun, but everything else is cool. i was thinking about how much the weather has changed since i was a kid. it seemed to always be snow in the winter then. now we are lucky to have snowdays for a month or even weeks every winter!



sadie loves the snow too! she always has snow on her nose when she´s out :)



we are having a nice day at home today, just laying around the bunch of us. it is such a nice feeling to have no plans! just a few minutes ago...





sally and sadie loves slow days...dixon on the other hand...has a to-do list :)



(wake up, stand by daddys bed and bang tail against the wall, follow daddy around the house, stand suprised by the door when daddy leaves for work, jump up in daddys bed, become extatic when mommy rises, squeel after the kitten, lay on the couch with mini-mummy, watch tv, check the kitten, carry stuff around, eat & wag tail, pick up the food bowl, jump up and down, run out, bite something, play with the cats, "make" a bed or two, lovingly bite the kitten, sit in lap and lick someones ear...and just be wonderful!)

last night i put "mama mia" on the dvd and scrapped a few things in the meanwhile :)



like this one about my 2. my world. my little family :)

i will be back later with a winner of the TOSGA!

celebrations and a giveaway!

last night our daughters school celebrated 40 years and they had a party and open house. they had picked out quite a few older items, such as photoalbums and old technology. the school has 2 new active boards and they are very much used!



the kids had a spectacular show and our daughter sang a short solo in english :)



i wore my new dress that i love!



i am in a giving mood, as i am quite often :) so in a kelli crowe">/a> spirit Happy first TOSGA! That means: Thursday Old Stuff Give Away!

I have put together a package of yummy random stuff i have been hoarding for a while and just now realized that i will not use or just want to share with someone that reads this blog! isn´t that great?! So for this first TOSGA the package includes:

prima flowers
a few different kinds of tags
assorted chipboard letters
my minds eye overlays
round tags
a wodden stamp
a few clear acrylic stamps
library cards
and...
a copy of the lovely Elizabeth Dillows book "the scrapbookers almanac"
now, how is that as a christmas gift?!!

so, how to win this? well, just leave a note here in the comments section and i will draw a random name by this weekend. sounds ok?

ok, go!

i have been enjoying to make stuff in my december journal! it is fun to just add stuff here and there whenever i feel like it. yesterday i made an entry about making christmas candy (yum!) and i thought i´d share a quick how-to for you all:

1 dl cream
1 dl baking syrup
1 dl sugar
0,5 dl almonds
butter or margarine
tiny paper baking tins

put out your tiny paper baking tins on a tray (about 30-40 of them). Mix the cream, baking syrup and suger in a container that you can later heat up in the microwave. Run the micro for 5 minutes on full effect. Chop the almonds in the meantime. Take the container out of the mirco and stir. Then run the microwave for 4 more minutes. Mix in the almonds and then quickly pour the mixture into the baking tins.
I use to put the tray in the fridge for a while so that the candies get hard.

oh, and i am sorry mindi, this is nothing for you right now ;)





Ps. i am very very sorry about the crappy photos!

yes, i did have a lovely creative day today. i got so much done!

the other day i journaled what i did at work...the list could be longer! as a kindergarden teacher you are really a multi-tasker!!!
the layout is very much a hybrid project. i did all the journaling in WORD and printed that and the photos seperate. but before i printed the journaling i inserted the photos in that document so i could see how everything would fit together. i would have printed it all together, if i hadn´t chosen a kraft paper as backgound paper.




my sister wanted a whole day shopping spree without kids, husband and cell-phone. so i made this gc for her! i included company, lunch, coffee and laughter or a baby/husband/cellphone sitter...i am hoping for the first alternative :)



it is a hybrid project where the computer work was made in Photoshop and printed in WORD and the handmade touch is the bling bling :)




i also made an evelope-package to put the gc in :) lovely wrapping paper, eh?! i love the colors!



voila! my super duper simple version of the winter wonderland in a jar project! all i had that would resemble snow was this lovely white yarn. so i used the cut-of scraps yarn after i made some pom-poms.



i decided to jump on the december daily thing...but with a twist :) i am not going to fool myself in thinking that i will journal e.v.e.r.y. day! so i am adding journaling about such as favorite holiday music and other faves about the season.





i cut a few buisness card holders so that each day will have it´s own pocket but the journaling and photos are just thrown in...

and i acctually made a paper wreath too!





that line is not entirely finished! there will be more little stuff there.

oh, and i made the headboard all christmassy :)




ok, i have to go ready for a lucia party :)

ps.this doggie post is to die for! the cutie remind me of my sadie so much!