Posts Tagged ‘scrap’

a faith scrap – from the bible; psalm 17:8
credits: paper and element from unconditional love by late night scrap

Bea is one of our good friends from back where we used to live 1.5 years ago, she is also one of MT’s godparents. We don’t see her as often as we wish, but this weekend we spend a few days together. And, off course, I had to take a few photos of her and MT together. The favorite got scrapped:

Credits: elements from shine on and unscripted no.3 by TaylorMade; papers and elements from bloom+grow by Ali Edwards, Amy Wolf and Meredith Fenwich; papers and element from de*lovely by Paislee Press and The Queen of Quirk; template by me

Journal: This weekend our good friend Bea came to stay with us. It was so nice to catch up, celebrate birthdays, drink coffee and just hang out together. I shot a few photos of Bea and MT, this one is my favorite. I love MT’s half smile and the way Bea looks at him. So much humor and love there!

As you can see, I’m testing my own block/boxy templates. Head over to my lime scrapped if you want a template freebie (available in a couple of days…).

My son correctly described with 2 words…..

Credit:
alpha, elements and papers from Brittney of Britt-ish design

I had big plans for this day:

• shoving snow
• clearing and boxing the Christmas decoration (yes, I know, been a while since I started doing this – got to get it finished already)
• making a 2009 calendar for a few family members (ahem, a really late Christmas gift…)
• clean and clear!!
• do some laundry
• run the dishwasher. Hey! I did that; the machine is running right now. Yay.
• make a fabulous and easy dinner (not going to happen )
• be ready to ski with my boy for ski carousel (I’m going to go there with him at least – he’ll be the one skiing, though!)

But I got so slow – almost like I-can’t-move-out-of-the-couch kind of feeling. So I stayed on it with the computer in front of me. Reading, smiling, downloading and getting inspired to scrap. Sadly the sun is soon leaving my backyard, and it would be nice to be outside feeling the sun on my face – but I just needed this hours of rest to come to grip with myself.

I’m still hoping to do some of the things on my list; but surely not all!!

Enjoy life – take time to rest and regroup

I’ve had some fun trying out new techniques on my scrap page this weekend. I also found some old photos from November 2006. I love these where MT is outside catching soap bubbles. The bubbles in the air is extracted from another photo, though, wish I had one where the bubbles had blue sky behind them originally…..

Anyhow; here it is:

credits:
alpha (recolored) by Britt-ish design; all else from Babyyaks

I LOOOOOOOOVE the colors and that beautiful blended face!

journaling:
BLOWING BUBBLES  As long as I’ve known him, MT has loved to blow bubbles. I love his smiles of joy and curiosity from this bright November day.

Jess is out with another kit at her sunshine studio scraps store. I got to be among the first ones scrapping with it. So fun, and also a challenge since pink isn’t really my color – but there is lots of other colors too

If you pop over to the store you can see that she also has quick pages made, leafs to go with the flowers and even some printables. Lots of GOOD stuff!!

This kit is perfect for Valentines day and for scraps of your loved ones – and, as you can see, it even works for BOYS and firework!!!

Here is my first go:

Credits:
template by Britt-ish design; staples from Christmas Heart by Jess Gordon; papers, elements and alpha from So Flirty by Jess Gordon.

Here is my second go, a bit simpler approach! The above took me more or less all weekend to finish – this one below took a couple of hours

Credits:
All from So Flirty by Jess Gordon

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This is a cross-post from lime scrapped

We got home late from the birthday yesterday, so today has been a day to recover and get ready for the everyday life starting tomorrow. It came some snow last night, so MT had fun playing in it and I got my exercise showing it out of our way. I also got some more wood in to the wood fire that we have got going all day; it’s so cold at our place – tonight closer to 20 degrees below zero than ever before this winter. Brrr. Almost wished I could stay at home tomorrow and keep the house warm, it gets cold so easily!

Anyhow, wanted to show you what I did scrapping today and then I’d better get to bed – tomorrow is an early morning(!)

Here is our Christmas Tree, a tiny bit crocked – but we like it!

Click for credits.

These two days, October 3rd and 4th, is really special to me and to our little family. 3 years ago, on these two days, me and MT met in Addis Abeba – and became family.

I’m not good with remembering every date that matters, but these two stands out in my mind.

I smile every time I remember his big smile and his love of kicking the ball. I almost cry when I think about how sad he was the first half an hour away from the other children and nurses he had spent his life with for so many months. He cried his heart out in frustration and fear of the new life. But I also remember his curious smile in the morning and the happiness when he was given a ball to play with and how our connection grew stronger each day. Becoming mother to him is the most important thing that have happened in my life. It’s not always easy, but I have no doubt that we belong together and that we love each other.

MT doesn’t care that much about this day, though, for him the most important stuff is here and now. But he enjoys looking at photos and asks “when are we going back to Ethiopia again? Tomorrow?!“

Songbird Avenue is having a scraplift challenge for September, and here is my go:

I scraplifted this page from Angela Powers. Using this months kit “Autumn Woods”.

Another month and another gorgeous kit from Songbird Avenue. It’s almost like I want the months to change faster….

This month the fall is in focus and the colors are warm and earthy. They have timed up with Two Sisters Design and this month’s proceeds will be donated to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Good for all the fall photos we are going to snap The colors are really starting to show here in the north.

So far I’ve only used it once for this scrap:

I’m testing out the Twitter Tool plugin at the moment. Not sure if I like it to post a blog-post each day just yet. I’m also a bit frustrated since it isn’t in sync with my time, meaning that some of todays tweets won’t show up until the Saturday digest. If there only was a control for setting what time is my time and a way to decide when I want the digest to post (like right after midnight or something). If I take a closer look I might find those settings, though, but please let me know if any of you know how

Another thing. I joined in on the Speed Scrap at Scrapmatters this evening. I’ve looked forward to it all week, finally a time that suits me But I almost had to give it up because we were late home and MT was a slow mover tonight. He even lost his pc-hour for the weekend before he got tucked into bed. (we have this rule that he have to eat when there is time for eating, if not he goes hungry to bed. tonight he was so eager to spend some time playing on the computer that he said he wasn’t hungry. off course he was. so right before bed he asked politely if he could get something to eat. he was hungry for sure, so it wasn’t fair to send him to bed without any food – last time I did that he woke up in the middle of the night wanting something to eat – so I asked what he was willing to give up. and he told me that he should have no computer time for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. so there. it will be a good weekend )

Anyhow, in the end I got to play, but boy did the evening go fast!
Now I’ll better tuck myself in, it’s half past midnight already! And tomorrow is the first day of Dyrsku’n

Note! I’ve changed a few things after the two hours was up, just because I wanted to make it a bit better.
If you want to see the orginal result head over here.

I loved taking MT to kindergarten by bike and feet, too bad we now live to far away to do that often. I think he loved it too and he felt so big riding his bike on the road and all….

After a couple of months scrapping I’m hooked. It is soooo fun! You should try it sometime

One of the great thing about digital scrapbooking is that there is so much to choose from, come to papers and decoration. I’ve found several wonderful places to search, but one stands out. At Songbird Avenue it is possible both to get and to give! Each month a new beautiful and creative kit comes for sale, and most of the income are passed on to a charity of some kind. What a wonderful idea.

This months kit are named Change.

I’ve used it a lot this month, and today I made the above srap for the Scraplift Challenge.

The inspiration for my scraplift I found in Christy Lyle’s scrap page about her daughter, Posing Princess. I loved her blocks of paper behind the photo and my plan was to also use a image with less colors, but well, I love the colors of my photo and made the papers a bit less colorful instead

MT finally got mom to go for a dip in the lake this evening. A bit late, but we had some other things to finish beforehand…. It was a bit on the cold side, though, but the look of the lake was as stunning as ever. I love this big lake and it’s sandy border I made a scrap page about the dip:

I finally got to join in on one of the ScrapMatters Speed Scraps this afternoon. All the others have been in the middle of the night (my time) and I just couldn’t get my self out of bed to join. This one, however, suited me fine (off course MT didn’t like it very much so he splashed water all over the bath room floor. And then he made up a story to tell me – and the kids in preschool, apparently – that he had put socks in the toilet. He never did it – but he got me worried – and himself a good laugh on mommy’s expense! What a boy. ). Anyway, this is what I came up with, click the photo for credits.

Note: After the challenge I corrected a wrong spelling and added the small photo of the umbrella.