My fairy house

I don't have much time to write anything fancy today. I just wanted to show you som pictures of the fairy house I made for Graphic 45 this month. The papers are from the fabulous Once Upon a Springtime Collection.

This must be the home of a Scrapbook fairy, don't you think? :)

Oh well, I'm off for some new adventures. See you!

Scraplagret utökar sitt designteam!

OK, här kommer ett ett ytterst sällsynt inlägg på svenska. Det är nämligen så att Emma på Scraplagret tänker utöka sitt designteam, och söker en ny designer. Så vill du bli DT-kollega med mig och de andra tjejerna? Kolla då här för mer info. Och en liten hint - det finns nog ingen bättre butik i vårt avlånga land att få designa för, jag lovar. Scraplagret är bäst. Jag passar på att visa en layout jag gjorde med mitt senaste DT-paket, om min Albin som var så hemskt nervös inför sin första dag i ettan att lillasyster fick ta i med alla krafter för att få honom att lyfta upp hakan. And in English, of course! :) I made this layout for Scraplagret, about my son's first day in first grade. He was so nervous, my boy, and that really shows in these photos. Don't you just love these papers from Webster's?

Farm update!

It takes time. It takes an awful lot of time. But slowly we are getting there. Life gets in the way, work gets in the way, and that's just the way it is sometimes. I can't wait until the day we can finally move into our little farmhouse, but that day most likely won't be here until sometime next summer.

We are, however, pretty close to finishing the bedroom! Everything has turned out just the way I wanted it, and it will be fab once it's done. This is the wall we covered with new panelling, and here is also the door that we found in the barn, now with a fresh coat of paint and that distressed look I love so much. This door will eventually serve as a headboard in here.
There are a few things left to do - put up cornices, build in the new IKEA cupboards, put in a new door and fix a curtain rod (I'm thinking of maybe using one of the old rods we found in the barn, previously used for drying hay. I think that would look really cool.) Oh, and I think I am going to write something on the panel wall too- a poem or something. I just haven't figured out what yet. Maybe I'll cover a wall with old dictionary paper. I have tons of ideas, and I am so anxious to get started on all of this! But, like I said, it all takes time.

Sweetness

Today I have a couple of projects with Pink Paislee's collection Sweetness to show you. I made these for Scraplagret.

The first one is a little gift box with a lamp post and and a bench on top. This is one of those times that I get an idea and I can't shake it, so I just have to try it. I felt like making a lamp post, and this is it. I've used a lot of my favourite Tim Holtz tissue tape here. I LOVE that tape, it's so versatile, and one roll lasts like forever!
Here's the bench. Actually, Agnes so wanted to help out, so she made a drawing of a board that she said I could use as a template and she told me to write on the piece of paper that "this board is mommy's forever, but daddy can borrow it sometimes". Isn't that terribly sweet of her?

Here's the top of the lamp post. It was actually the Tim Holtz bauble inside that inspired me to make it.

Speaking of Agnes - here's a photo if her at age 1.5, with her auntie Anna. Agnes was so tiny back then! It's hard to believe now three years later, when she is running around on long skinny legs with pigtails in her hair. They just grow so fast!

Oh, and by the way, the photos of the gift box were taken last week. It was still greenish outside then. Now it's all covered in really thick snow, and it's freezing cold. And I love it! I just wish they could plough the roads a little better, because it's no fun driving to and from work in all this snow!

Motorboys

A couple of weeks ago, I got a delivery from Scrap Within Reach with their two brand new collections, and I houldn't help myself from diving head first into the goodies and create a little. This is part of the outcome - a layout with a photo of my two motorboys.

It's approaching fast!

Christmas, that is! Wow, I wonder where on earth November went? I know, I know, there's still almost half of it left, but the days are flying past so quickly! I mean, normally I can't wait for November to be over, but this year, it's ridiculous how busy I am and how little time I have left to do things I really want to do. And at the same time, I try to prepare what most likely will be the last Christmas we will ever celebrate in this house. I want it to be special, something to always remember.

I am dying to start decking the halls, but I realize it's still way to early, and I try hard to restrain myself in that matter. However, if you make a Christmas thing that isn't all that Christmas-y, then it must be OK to put it up, right? Even though it's still only November, right? So, I took out my Graphic 45 Christmas Past Deluxe Edition papers and made this garland.
"Kom änglar" is Swedish for Come Angels, and that is the title of a song I love very much, by Swedish singer/songwriter Lars Winnerbäck. You can listen to it here.

And I'm ready for the angels to come now, and bring some Christmas spirit to our house!

See, it didn't thake that long until my next post. I think my break from blogging is now officially over :)

It's not as if I haven't been scrapping...

Because I have. A lot. I have my assignments to do, and my deadlines to keep. It's just the bloggin part that has been bothering me. I have had so little time on my hands, and I have chosen to use the time I have to create instead of writing about what I already have created. More creating, less writing. That's what makes me happy. It's as simple as that. However, although it has been really nice with a break from blogging and hanging out on the message boards and all, I've missed it all. And I've missed all of you people I get to meet out there. So here I am, determined to at least jump onto the MBs once or twice a week, and do something asbout this blog once in a while too.

And I have to admit, my blogging today has something to do with receiving a kit full of sheer beauty last week. It's the Nook November kit, with the Circa 1934 collection from Cosmo Cricket. This could very well be it - the BEST Nook kit ever. And what could be better than using it to make a couple of pages about the best children ever.
I had to pull out some old, already printed photos for these layouts, because sadly, my printer has died... or something. It just lost the connection to the computer, and I can't restore it, no matter what I do. Sad...

Anyway, this is what I have for you today, and I have tons of stuff on my computer to show you too, so I'll be back. Soon. :)