London, here we come!

It is finally official, the reason why I have been SO busy lately (and such a terrible blogger). We are moving to London! This summer we will be moving to Wimbledon, London to stay for the next 1-3 years. I am so exited, but also a bit apprehensive. I will be working at the London office, and my husband will be a stay-at-home-dad. I hope this will prove to be a wonderful adventure for the whole family, and that we will not be TOO homesick while we are abroad.

Any tips on scrapbooking in London are highly appreciated. I hope the English have crop-nights too!

Easter vacation

The kids are home from kindergarten, and we are off from work. It is so lovely getting to spend some "lazy days" together. Yesterday we went to the beach with friends and neighboors and grilled hotdogs. Today Ella and me are going into Stavanger to visit Scrappejungelen and pick up some goodies. Both Ella and Oliver scrapbook and have their own supplies and album :-) It is so great that we can share this wonderful hobby! Ellas 6th birthday is coming up, and more than anything she wants a camera (how cute is that!). So she is getting a pink Canon powershot E1 (hush, don't tell). Oliver and daddy are going to work in the garden. The weather is beautiful outside, and life is good!


New dress


I made this LO a while ago. The picture is of Ella on the Norwegian National Day some years ago. She is wearing a dress that me and my mother knit for her. So I got inspired by that textbox with a mother knitting for her daughter.

Some new LO's

I was at the crop in Misjonskirka in Stavanger last weekend, and I got to make a few new layouts. The two first below I made then. I also got to attend a course by amazing Ania AND I got to hang out with a bunch of wonderful, inspiring and amazing scrappers. Gotta love that!

Spring

Recognise the picture from my header? I love that picture, and just had to use it right away on a page.



Run like the wind

Oliver running like the wind last summer.



Practise makes perfect

Ella practising her skiing skills this winter. I made this for "Mesterscrappen" at Scrapping a few weeks ago. But had trouble betting a good picture with the winter darkness outside in the afternoons. So I have taken a new picture. Starting to get a hang of taking LO pictures with my new lense :-)

New header

I just love my new lense :-) I resently bought the 50mm 1,8 lense for my Canon EOS 350D, and love the sharper and lighter pictures. The picture in the new header I took today on our sunday trip. Sunday is expedition time in our family, so today we explored the old houses in "Gamle Stavanger" (old town in Stavanger).

I have been sick for over a week, so not much scrapping going on for a few days... Feeling a little better today though, so hopefully I am over the worst of it. Have received a few scrapping goodies in the mail over the last few days, and am looking forward to playing with them.

Jeg er på Scrapwalken :-)

Så gøy! Jeg er blitt plukket ut til februars scrapwalk på Scrappehuset Nå ble jeg kjempeglad!

I have been picked out to appear on the Scrapwalk on Scrappehuset Wow! I am so honoured :-)

Playing around with some new CHA goodies for Scrappejungelen (DT)

Bliss! May Lis came home from CHA with samples for us in the Scrappejungelen Designteam to play with. Gotta love that! So I made these:

Ready for school

This paper from MME's Penny Lane series reminded me of school and of Ella being so ready to start school. She does not start untill this fall, but last summer she was talking about it all the time, and wanted to start sooner. On this picture she looks so determined, so I thought it fit the story well. I have also "gone crazy" with Prima flowers and metall embellishments from Kort og Godt.

Gummel

I was challenged to make something from the new America Craft papers. Although not quite my usual style, it was a lot of fun doing something a little more clean and simple than I usually do. The story is of Oliver who awoke late at night and told me about an angry man who had been there. I was alone in the house with the kids, so I ran into Ella's room checking that she was ok. All the while wondering why the dog was not barking like crazy if there were strangers in the house. So as you can imagine my heart was beating fast while I was contemplating what to do. After a while though I managed to get out of my three year old Oliver that the angry voice had come from outside. The window was open, but the bedroom is on the third floor. Our yard borders a path where apparently an angry man must have walked by. Poor boy. He woke up so worried. But had to scrap the picture and story though.

Fri

The new Enchanted line from Pink Paislee is so beautiful! One of the papers is covered in adorable butterflies, which is where the butterflies are from. I punched out a hole in the background paper to frame one of them. The rose is from another paper from the same series. I stamped a fairy on an old magazine page and embellished with Stickles. I also stamped a bird on a corner of the picture and traced it with Stickles.

Balder

Ella and our dog, Balder. They are such good friends. She always wants to hold him when we go for his afternoon walk. And he will walk extra carefully when she is holding him. Another LO with the Enchanted line from Pink Paislee.

Mummy I don't know anyone I can marry !!?!

Ella was really into growing up last fall. She planned how many kids she would have (at most she was up to 2 boys and billion girls). Of course she needed a husband to be a father for those children (well daddy is mummy's husband, and to her at 5, we are the big rolemodels). It was kind of a blow for her when she understood that she could not marry her little brother, Oliver. So then panic struck, and she exclaimed: "Mummy I do not know anyone I can marry!!??!". I suggested her friend in Kindergarden, Lars. But she explained that he pushed and hit her, so she could not marry him. I (proudly) agreed. After all we cannot marry someone who does not treat us well...

All this happened in the back seat of the car driving to kindergarden so I did not actually capture it on film. But I wanted to scrap the story, and this picture seemed fitting. The story is recorded on the tags behind the rose. And I added a photo of a mother and baby from a 1950's magazine for good measure :-)

I made this LO for round 3 at Mesterscrappen, the task was to use the word "Tenk" in the headline.

Adventure

I made this for the second task at Mesterscrappen, and came in second in my group :-) The task was to be inspired by an add.

I love this picture from our local park. The kids love to explore it. And an added bonus is my mother living close by. So our little adventures often end up with waffles or ice-cream at her house.




I got a new lense today for my camera! I am looking forward to hopefully taking better pictures of my LO's... I have a Canon EOS 350D, and it is so difficult getting good pictures with the kit lense, when I try not to use the flash. But the new lense takes in more light so hopefully that will help!

Run like the wind

I made this for Mesterscrappen at Scrapping.no We got a sketch to scrap. And I was lucky enough to share the 1st place with Anne :-)

I love these pictures of Ella running like the wind ("fort som vinden" as we say in Norwegian). Giving it her all.

I fell in love with the new Prima Vines the minute I saw them. But since they are not available yet, I improvised and made my own with Got Flowers and Bazzill Daisy's. The felt gate is from Prima too. I cut out the center of it to make it into an open gate.

A little while ago I bought a lot of vintage lace little table cloths from Ebay. So I used one of those behing the picture. Something with lace that reminds me of strawberries and summer days for some reason...

More new LO's

I made these too for the M game at Minneriket

Sheep

Last fall we went to the mountains to see the sheep return from their summer stay up there. The kids were amazed at the sea of white coming towards us. We stayed in a cabin with my in-laws. And on such trips there is always a crossword-puzzle we work on. A cup of coffee and the crossword-puzzle has kind of become a tradition. So I use the crossword from an old magazine to back the photo. The task for the LO was to use a bit of fabric that might otherwise get discarded, so I used a bit of an old scarf.



At last

Snow is always popular with my kids. We do not really get that many days with snow each year. This picture is from the first snow day we had. Me and Oliver played outside, and I made snowballs for him to throw on the garage. So much fun! I used Prima bling snowflakes and a coaster from Indiska(sorry about the terrible picture of the page though).



New Years Eve

The kids celebrating New Years. One of these photos where I kind of wanted to save the photo, and keep the memory, but the photo is not really very inspiring to scrap :lol:

Christmas pages

I made these layouts for the M Game on Minneriket, getting most of my Christmas pages done.

Anticipation

Ella waiting for the guests to arrive on Christmas Eve. All dressed up, she is even wearing my wedding tiara for the occation :-)

The deer is a Christmas ornament I picked up at Åhléns before Christmas. I just fell for it and knew I had to use it on one of my Christmas pages! And I have used feathers again. Something about them that goes so well with Christmas I think!



Twas the night before Christmas

This pictures is of Ella sleeping the night before Christmas. I told her that she had to sleep before Santa could come and fill her Christmas stocking. And she very seriously nodded and put her head on the pillow. Moments later she was sleeping. So cute!





Christmas tree traditions:

This page is about our Christmas tree traditions. I grew up with a cat that loved to play with the Christmas tree ornaments. So on our tree we never had matching ornaments, because the cat would always break a few every year. So I love to have many different ornaments on our tree now too. I pick up odd and charming ornaments when I travel or whenever I stumble upon them. And so many of our ornaments have a story. The ballerina is from the Oprah in Budapest, the white elephant is from Prague, the blue house I got as a child and the toy soldier is new from this year.

I had so much fun with this page. It started out with a christmas ornament PP from BG's Figgy Pudding line. I was thinking "now this must be the perfect opportunity to use that!". But then I started adding gold paint, glimmer mist and distress stickles. And before I knew it the pattern did not even show any more :lol:





Christmas 2008

Now these pictures of us going around the Christmas tree, seldom turn out well. But, on the other hand I want the kids to remember that we did do that every Christmas of their childhood. It is part of the tradition from my family. After dessert on Christmas Eve, we walk around the tree and sing. And then (after a while) Santa comes and visit us, bringing presents.