Sensommar

Jag har i det längsta vägrat acceptera att sommaren är över och fick verkligen vatten på min kvarn i förra veckan när det var så varmt några dagar. Men den här veckan kan inte ens jag låta bli att medge att det inte precis är högsommar längre. Men jag kan väl få lov att kalla det sensommar i alla fall?!

Har lite bilder på fina saker som växer i min trädgård just nu, som man kan glädja sig över. Det är just sånt här som alla i trädgårdsprogram, -böcker och -tidningar menar när de uppmuntrar folk att tänka på att plantera saker som är fint på hösten. Man behöver verkligen det här fina vid den här tiden på året.

Ljuvliga höstanemoner! De kan ju växa och bli enorma under rätt omständigheter. Verkligen värda att odla.

Kommer inte på vad de här heter just nu. Är det stormhatt, eller?

Jaha, det var så mycket som min dator ville ladda upp. Den har varit bråkig ända sen det stora åskvädret för några dar sedan. Grr... Hade tänkt visa bilder på min långa rabatt med höstflox, en annan favorit. Och på min jordärtskocka "Bianca", som nu blommar så fint med sina gula blommor. Den blir det mer av nästa år, helt klart! En annan favorit som jag helt klart ska ha nästa år är kryddtagetes, så underbara.

Och maken gillade blommorna på purjolöken, som stod kvar sen förra året, allra mest så jag funderar på att köpa lite alliumlökar och plantera åt honom. Har redan köpt pärlhyasinter och rosa tulpanlökar för mitt eget nöje.

Ha en skön sensommar! Ta tillvara de solstrålar som behagar visa sig!

The album

I´ve been taking some photos of my soon-to-be-finished album to show the different pageprotecter sizes I have used. Mostly it´s 12x12 but there are some others here and there in between.

The one to the right actually isn´t a diveded protector it´s fake!

Here I put two 12x6 pages in a 12x12 protector.

I´m not that thrilled over American Crafts divided protectors, I´d prefer tucking the photos in from the upside.

It´s Saturday but that doesn´t meen it will be a quite day, beause it won´t! But it will be a nice day I´m sure!

Blooming

I´m still working my way to get all the pages finished for my currant album, so I can put it away (from my scraproom to the livingroom, that is) and at the same time I´m working my way trough my Daisy Day papers. Lovely papers, but much to much blooming on most of them. It took me a long time to learn what I really liked when I actually scrapbooked and not buy other things just because they where beautyful. Sigh... But now I don´t buy papers with big flowers anymore, it´s just not my thing, no matter how lovely they are.

But as I have them I shall also use them!! So it´s just to do it, and I´m quite pleased with them, regarding the circumstanses. Here´s a few!

Four more pages for this album, I think, one finishing school and three Christmas pages. But no more Daisy Day´s, there´s just easier papers left and I won´t force my way through them.

Christmas?

I heard the roundtable discussion on Paperclippings and Ali Edwards were there and when she was asked what she was up to she said, with a sigh, that soon it was time to start working on her December Daily.

That made me think ever more on Christmas. I still hadn´t scrapped my photos from last christmas, since there where other photos I wanted to scrap first and I thought I should save the christmas photos till it´s getting near christmas again and I would hopefully get in the christmas spirit. BUT since my currant album is almost full and I want it to end with 2010, I kind of want it to be filled up so I can put it away and only have one album to put things in, so I decided to do them anyway. I´ve made one two page-spread from Christmas Eve, so far, and I can´t say I felt very Christmas spirited, so I really don´t know if I´m going to wait or what.

Here´s the pages anyway.

Even though I didn´t feel very inspired and didn´t put a lot of effort on them I´m quite pleased with them anyway. They totally lack style and design, but these where the photos I wanted to incorperat on the pages so I just had to do whatever I could.

Merry christmas!

Yellow

When I saw Shimelles Bingocard & butterfly layout I was really inspired to use yellow, but I was sure I would not combine it with black. And here´s my page:

Ain´t life, AND scrapbooking ,strange? 
This isn´t at all the page I intended to do but I happened to pull out this photo and wanted so scrap it and yellow cardstock was what looked best and suited the theme and...well, black looked good too, so there I was!

So it´s not very hard to see what I lifted from Shimells layout, is it?!

The journaling tells about how different my youngest son is from his older brothers sometimes. They wouldn´t to save their lives had put those clothes on! This is what the Starboys wear when we celebrate S:t Lucia on December 13th here in Sweden. But E was happy to be a Starboy. I like that he is so independent towards others and what they think.

The main thing I have to do now, scrapbooking ways, is to make a picture for one of the children at church with pictures of him and his family, telling, by the way I decorate it, about who he and they are. That´s always a challenge, but a fun one. Wish me luck!

My signature

When Simelle told us to do a page with that which is something we most often use, it wasn´t very difficult to choose, just do a layout with multiple photos, letterstickers and journaling labels. Because when I do layouts about my family it´s always lots of photos, it has to be since there´s so many of us!! And all about letters, numbers and writing is my favorite thing when scrapping.

So here´s my page.

It´s my husband and our youngest son after the school breaking-up cermony in 2009. The title says "Father & son". Mostly things from October Afternoon on it, since they are my favorite scrapbooking company.

I love summerphotos with all this lovely green. They don´t need much help to look faboules on a page. Putting to much around them can easily bring them down and that´s a pitty.

I´m not sure I will do any more layouts for Shimelle´s week-end scrap. Maybe the "I love.." challenge. We´ll see.

I just want to thank everyone who´s been here on my blog looking at my layouts and thank you for your kind comments, they sure have warmed my heart!

Retro me

I knew that finding some photos for a retro page wouldn´t be so hard and I found these photos from the baby shower that was help for me when I expected my first child, 28 years ago, and that´s something that´s never been scrapped before so that´s a very good reason to use them now.

Here´s what I came up with.

Soon it´s time for a baby shower for my daughter, who was the one residing inside my belly at that time, so it will kind of be full circle.

It´s sad that I never had the chance to be on my second daughters babyshower, but she lived in Canada when she had her first child and five hours away when she had her second one. Maybe I will get another chance some day....

2 in 1

Is it cheating entering the same layout in two challenges?

I was working on the grid challenge and had cut my photos, when I looked a little closer on the photos and found both red and aqua in them. I didn´t mean to enter the red, white and aqua challenge, since that didn´t seam to be "me" at all, but now I sat there with these photos cut for the grid and saw this colours, so what could I do?! It just happend to be two-in-one. So I changed the green cardstock to a white one and there I was!

And here´s the result.

It´s from when my girls finished school last year.

Sticker love

Shimelle´s stickery challenge is definatly something for me since I LOOVE stickers. And like Shimelle I´ve always loved them, used to stick a lot on my letters that I used to write a lot. Nowadays I stick them on almost every layout. But this challenge was to have stickers from different collections. And I have this one to show you.

I hope it´s not cheating to show an old layout... Here I have stickers, letters and journaling labels, from Provo Craft (the red letters and they´re REALLY old), Cosmo Cricket (yellow letters), Jenni Bowlin (red label), October Afternoon ( the "&" and date stickers) and the red felt letters I don´t remember who did them.

Maybe I should say something about the layout. I made it in the winter when I was longing so badly for spring. It shows my feeling about winter (dislike) and spring (like).

Well, that´s my contribution for this challenge.

Edit:

I have now made a new layout for this challenge and here it is.

It´s about the fact that my oldest daughter and her husband is expecting their first child.

The stickers I´ve used are from October Afternoon, Websters pages, Crate paper and Studio Calico.

Min egen bok

Allt prat om smashbooks som var för ett tag sedan inspirerade mig till att göra något som egentligen inte alls har något med en smashbook att göra mer än spiralbindningen! Det blev en bok/album med lite olika innehåll som jag inte riktigt vet vad jag kommer att skriva i, men jag smalar lite idéer, så får vi se. Så här ser den ut i orginaltappning.

Vita sidor och ett par olika sorters plastfickor, nerklippta till lämplig storlek. Ser kanske inte så mycket ut för världen just nu, men vänta bara, har stora planer för den! Och allt medan jag dekorerar den så kommer kanske idéer om vad jag vill dokumentera i den.

Här är en liten hög med papper som jag samlat, som kan tänkas bli trevliga i den.

Ska bli så jättekul att göra!

My 10

Shimelle wanted us to show our ten whatever we choose. And I chose ten photos from my Summer of 2011 file and here they are.

My sweet boy learned to swim this summer and that is a very good thing. And he is very happy about it and very proud of himself.

We saved 10 chickens from an egg farm. When they are not so productive anymore it´s death, but these ten are now having a wonderful life. And that is good. And we get a lot of very tasty eggs.

My husband has cleaned the facing on the house and what a difference! It looks like another house. Very good endeed.

Picking cherries from your very own tree is absolutly wonderful! And we´ve gotten a lot of cherries this year and they tasted so good.

My oldest daughter is expecting her first child and that is such a happy thing since she´s wanted to become a mom for such a long time. It makes me SO happy.

Sitting ouside eating in the sun, enjoying summer with your loved ones, that is a memory to treasure when winter is here.

Getting a new cat that we love and who loves being in our family is happines, seeing how he enjoys his life here.

Fantasy. My boy at play, full of this imagination inside of him.

Second hand finds that you love is very nice. Like this tin that I love for which I payed just a pund! Great!!

Living in such a lovely place. Here I feel peace and happiness. I am so grateful for that.

Me. I like being me. I like being with myself even if I´m not perfect, but I´m working on it!

Nya kuddar

Man kan aldrig få för många kuddar! Tja, jag vet inte om jag egentligen tycker det, ibland ser man bilder i tidningar på soffor som är så fulla med kuddar att man skulle vara tvungen att plocka bort hälften för att kunna få plats att sitta! Visst det ser snyggt ut, men ändå, soffan är väl i första hand till för att människor ska sitta i den. Åtminstone är det min naiva tanke. Men så är inte heller mitt hus till för syns skull utan för människorna som bor i och besöker det.

Och nu var det så att en av dessa människor som bor här tyckte att vi har för lite kuddar i sofforna! De räcker inte till för allas bekvämlighet, med kuddar bakom ryggen, under huvudet osv. Så nu har det kommit tre nya kuddar i alla fall och de ser ut så här:

Båda tygerna är köpta på second hand. Det blommiga var ett påslakan, som jag är ganska säker på är från IKEA. När jag hittade det gröna blev jag urlycklig, det är inte lätt att hitta snygga grön/vitrutiga tyger kan jag tala om! Och sådana kan man aldrig få för många av. Åtminstone en grön kudde till ska det bli, är planen.

Medan jag nu är inne på temat sömnad så måste jag ju visa det fullkomligt ljuvliga lilla lapptäcke äldsta dottern har sytt. Hon är så otroligt begåvad vad gäller färgkombinationer och det här är nog det vackraste täcket jag sett. Döm själva!

 Liksom jag föredrar hon att använda gamla tyger och ha många olika tyger i ett täcke så att det blir levande och ser ut som de ursprungliga lapptäckena, som man sydde av diverse gamla kläder mm och inte som de moderna där man använder en kollektion tyger som är perfekt matchade. Visst det är väl snyggt på sitt sätt, men...

Idag ska jag och döttrarna in till stora staden och handla och vädret verkar vara med oss, för om prognoserna stämmer så ska det inte regna idag, så vi hoppas på det!

Ha en underbar dag!

Min sång

                       
                                                    En sann vän är någon
                                                    som kan mitt hjärtas sång
                                                    och kan sjunga den för mig
                                                    när jag har glömt bort den.

Idag sjöng min bästa vän min sång för mig så att jag kunde hitta den igen. Tack.
Han finns här alltid i både mina bästa och mina sämsta stunder.
Det kallas kärlek.

Week in the life - finished album

So here is my completed WITL album. Hope you like it.