Photo of the day, January 2nd

This is my motif for the day - the ugly factory in the harbour of Karlshamn. But it looks kind of dramatic against the setting sun, don't you think? Eh, I don't think I'll scrap this one...

Photo of the day, January 1st

There's a photo challenge going on this month over at the Nook, and I thought I'd at least try participting. I hope I'll be able to take and post a pic every day, and I certainly need some practise with my camera. This is my pic for the day - Albin on a walk in the woods. He's not happy with me taking pictures of him all the time, so most of the ones I got today were of his back, or with his hands covering his face. But I did catch him off guard once, at least.

Scrappy update!

Finally I have some scrappy things to show you. I've been creating a lot between Christmas and New Year's eve, but most of it has been things I haven't been able to show. But at least I can show you these today.

We have a monthly challenge over at Svensk Scrapbooking, and this month, Handstämplat sponsored us with a beautiful winterkit. I did get a little trouble there, because there hasn't been any winter here, really. Well, it has been cold, but there's no snow! I have a few old winter photos, but I've scrapped them over and over again, and I didn't feel like scrapping them once more. But then on Christmas day I was going to take the garbage out, and I saw this beautiful winter sky when I opened the door. I went back in and took the camera and snapped a few shots, and I used one of them for a layout about the absence of winter down here.
The flowers are made from white mulberry paper, which I've cut with my slice (don't do it if you're short of adhesive, though, because a brand new layer didn't last for more than three cuttings with this paper...), crumbled up a little and layered on top of each other.

There were a few Maja Design papers in the kit too. I really like Maja Design, and I use them alot for altered stuff like this little mini. Yeah, well, there might be some snow later, and the kids might be able to play in the snow, if not this winter, maybe next, or so, so I made this one without photos.Here's a little dangling thingy for the wire. It was one of those that got me started with the bracelet in my previous post.

I've made room for photos, and there's room for journaling on the tags sticking out from behind the photo mats.

I'll be posting some more Bind-It-All-projects shortly, and speaking of Bind-It-All, I'll be posting at the Bind-It-All blog this month together with Jennifer. Don't forget to check in there once in a while, because there's lot of stuff going on.

Happy 2009 to all of you!

As if I need another hobby...

...but this is what I made last night. I love to have pretty things dangling from the spines of my Bind-It-All-projects, and I took out my beads and stuff to make a few of those yesterday. And then I put a few of them together and made this bracelet. Definitely addictive. Now I need to make a matching necklace too, right?

Pink and clouds...

I've been busy painting for a couple of evenings. Yesterday, I painted all the clouds on the pink wall, and today I did the damask pattern and the words underneath. And it turned out just great! The electrician is coming to morrow, and then I have a floor to paint (black and white checked), and after that we're almost ready to let the princess move into her new room. And then Albin has requested a wall full of stars in his room, and of course, he's going to get it :D

Santa's coming!

Finally, I had some time to scrap! Yesterday I finished up a couple of GDT-layouts, a Bind-It-All project and this layout, with some PPs and stuff from the Nook December kit (I haven't got the January kit yet, but it's supposed to be fabulous!).
The photos are from Christmas Eve, when Santa came visiting. The kids were thrilled, of course, and not even a bit scared. But poor grandpa missed out on Santa's visit, as usual... LOL!

I found the inspiration for the border around the circle at Leah's blog, with this wonderful layout. And seing that one, the more reason there is to look forward to the January kit♥!

Merry Christmas!

Tomorrow's Christmas Eve, and finally, all preparations are done. I haven't had a moment to scrap something just for myself in ages, so that's going to be the first thing I do when I have a moment to myself. We've celebrated a little here already tonight, and earlier this evening, I had one of Santa's little elves helping me putting the presents under the tree. The little elf later turned into a Lightning McQueen mechanic in his brand new pajamas, and DD has transfered from an elf into a fairy into a princess into Pippi Longstocking, and then she ended up a gymnastics queen in her new Hello Kitty gym outfit, complete with Pippi wig, fairy wings and Tinkerbell earrings... She's hilarious, that little one.

So, I'd like to wish you all happy holidays, and hopefully I'll have some scrappy stuff to show in a little while.