Busy

Spring is here and I´m out working in the garden every day, so there really isn´t any energy left for scrapbooking right now. But I will show you one of my old layouts, about my quilting.

This is two wall hangings I made for Miss E and Miss I as Christmas presents in 2005. They were so much fun to do. On the layout I call them Gifts of love.

Here´s another one.

It´s about the first big quilt that I finished. I got the patterned paper with the quilt pattern from I good friend. Here´s a better photo of the quilt.

I was inspired by a quilt made by an english lady, which I saw in a magazine. The stiching around the hearts was inspired by another quilt I saw in another magazine.

Have a lovely day and a lovely spring!

Not me

Here´s the layout I made that really isn´t my style.

Miss I arranged a congregation a cople of sundays last year, using all her stuffed animals, before we went to church, so they could have their own meeting! I had to document that! She likes the layout. I used up some things I bought some years ago and never really liked, yahe! And the patterned paper is a backside that I really never notisted before.

Today my sweet Master E turns 7 and pancakes and brownie is ordered! Bye!

Finally

Finally I got it done, the layout I had problems with. Sometimes when it something that really means something special to you, it´s hard to make it because often you can´t put down on paper how you see it in your head. That´s what happend with this one.

This is a lot of not so good photos, but ones that mean a lot. It´s when all the children, including son-in-law and grandchildren, where here at the same time, which always are such special occations. I love seeing them all enjoying each others company, loving each other. It surely makes this mother´s heart sing.

A simple border under the photos, a title that´s a big part of the decorations and a lot of little this and that - voilá, a typical Monica layout! I made a not at all typical Monica layout yesterday, I´ll show it to you another day.

Blogging is addicting... I´ve started another blogg. It´s on a swedish garden site, talking about my garden and what I do out there. Something I will only do this time of year when there is actually something to do, all winter it´s just full of snow!

 If you want to see how I live you can visit it on http://medodlingiblodet.tradgardsblogg.se/

Promises

Yesterday was such a lovely day and me and Mr A was out working in the garden. That is so much fun. He was working on more places to grow vegetables and I was just tidying up around the yard. Looks much nicer now. Removed a lot of branches and leaves. I brought out the camera and took some photos and here´s what´s gives promises of spring.

Here´s a layout I made a couple of weeks ago, about how much Mr A enjoys growing eatable things. I like the title with the letters in different papers. The background paper is a really old one from Provo Crafts. I´ve had it for more than ten years!

I´ve been having a dubble layout lying on my desk for days now and I kind of got stuck with it, I haven´t got the right feeling for what to do with it yet and that stopped my whole scrapbooking. Hope to be able to finish it this afternoon or do something else, since it´s sabbathday and I won´t be working in the garden. I keep my fingers crossed!

Finally a little greeting from me and Master A, a photo I took yesterday too.

Have a lovely Sunday!

Weekend

The birds are singing outside and almost all the snow is gone in our garden and I even heard and saw a flock of geese flying by yesterday. That is so lovely.

I´ve had a good weekend. Did some baking on Saturday, donuts and cupcakes, which was very much apreciated. And yesterday was general conferens for the church and we watch and listened to so much good and wise advise from the church leaders. Wonderful.

And I´ve made som scrapbooking too! Here´s one of the layouts I did.

It´s about our trip to the medival fair that was held in the fortress in Varberg on the swedish west coast. Miss S vas going there with her medival group for the whole weekend and the rest of us went there on the Saturday. Master E was in a soldier school and he and the other children won the "fight" they had against the grown ups - big susprise... He also bought himself a new wooden sword. We watched a tourney and we was inside the museum and saw, among a lot of other things, Bockstensmannen, the remains of a man from the medivals that was found in a moss.

We had a nice day, but it was very hot and there was a lot of people. So sitting down in the shadow and having an icecream was lovely!

Hope you all have a nice week!