Looking forward to...

I´m dying to start my pages about 2011 for my Year-in-review album, but I haven´t had the time and I still need a photo. Last year this time of year I had finished the pages for 2010 and I was so sad that I had to wait a whole year to do such pages again and now "suddenly" I´m here again!

Three mager events, two weddings and a birth, took place and a whole lot of other things, so I really look forward to doing that.

Here´s a photo that shows what I´m longer for... It´s from my garden book where I tell about plans and progress aso. Gardening and scrapbooking, what a lovely combination!

Welcome

Almost a year ago our little cat died and first we didn´t intend to have a new one, but six month ago Kit-Kat became a member of our family. He came the Week-in-the-life week so he´s been documented there, but I also wanted to tell a little more about him.

Here´s the Welcome page...

I was so glad I had the tree sticker because the first day he was allowed outside he was so exited. After having sniffed around for awile he began running like crazy! Up one of the big trees, down again, over the lawn and up another tree and so on. It was so fun watching him.

This other layout is about his first meetings with the nabour cats.

 

They both thought that our yard was theirs so they were kind of bosy towards Kit-Kat. When they didn´t stop, but wanted to fight him all the time Miss I and I got quite angry with them and started to spray water on them... That helped for awile but they got the same lesson everytime they came back!

10 on the 10th

Inspired by Laura I have made a list of my 10 "simple" tools I use when I scrapbook.

1. Camera. I have a quite old, small camera, but it´s didgital and it works for me.

2. Computer. I share a computer with my children. For photos and inspiration.

3. Trimmer. It tock me years before I bought a trimmer, thought I could do without it and I could, of cause, but its much faster with it.

4. Sissors. All kinds.

5. Pens. Maybe not strictly a tool...? But the story is most important to me so they had to be there, right? And I always write by hand.

6. Punches. A big square and a couple of different circles.

7. Tweezers. So much easier to handle those small things with those than with your fingers.

8. Ruler. Especialy for minialbums and such things.

9. Stamps. Mostly smaller alphabet stamps.

10. Stapler. Both practical and decorative.

Good night, ladies!

Little things I like

Today school started again after the Christmas break, but my boy is still home, he had some rashes so I keep him home to see what will happen to them. The girls wasn´t that thrilled about going back to school...

One of my favorite flowers around Christmas is hyacinths. I read something from someone who does NOT like them and that person called them ugly and with a terrible smell! Isn´t it funny how different we see things. I had two hyacinths in the livingroom during Christmas, but they are gone now, but I bought two new ones and I have them in my craftroom and they spead this wonderful scent in the whole room and I absolutly love it!

 I´ve bought some films on sale lately and one I really liked is Letters to Juliet. I´ve already seen it a lot of times, that´s how I am with things I love. So this one I very much recommend. One of the others I only saw a bit of before I throw it away...

ER is now stating to be available on DVD too, but I don´t want to pay full price for it so I´ve been waiting and now I found the first season to a reduced price so I bought it and it will give me many hours of enjoyment. Especially since I´ve never seen say about the first half of the series.

The last

My two final pages for my Christmas album, Dec 31st and Jan 1st, and now it´s all packed away.

New Years Eve. It included a 3 hour drive to get to Mrs S and family, meeting my newest grandchild for the first time and going to a party in the evening. This window frame worked really well for all those different things. Isn´t that baby sticker adorable?! It´s almost as sweet as Little B!!

New Years Day. It was a Sunday and therefore churchday and the big event was the blessing of Little B. We don´t baptise children until they are eight years old, but they are given their name and a blessing as babies. This funny little stamp was perfect for this occation.

My thought with this album was that I should be able to have several years in it, those years when I didn´t feel up to making a page every day, but as it gets quite bulky it will only hold one more year.

Now I will order some more photos! See you!

Top 10

On the to-do-list for today is making pages for Dec 31st and Jan 1st for my Christmas album and they will both be about little B, mostly anyway. And since the weather is so mild I feel a craving for going out in the garden to do some digging... Not the usual thing you do on Jan 2nd here!!

But right now I thought that I should pick out my favourite layouts from 2011 and give you a Top 10 list, so here we go.

                                             My titlepage for Week in the life.

Last drive home from pre-school. I love picures taken of the road while driving.

A non-photo page made as a stressrelease and a rememberance of a special day.  Full of nice things.

                                           Waiting for a baby.

A scraplift of my own page Last drive from pre-school, where I chose a similare photo. I was really pleased with this page and still love it.

Scripture study before school. I love all kinds of brownish cardstock as background for my pages.

My second take on Shimelle´s 6x4 photolove for October made me pleased.

                                               Back to school 2011.

Summing up spring. I like these layouts full of photos with just a little embellishments when telling about our family´s activities. Since we are quite a number it takes a lot of photos to tell the whole story.

And finally a bright and sunny layout, perfect for spring and a bright and sunny girl.

I always make a Year-in-rewiew each year and take much pleasure in doing it and I so vividly remember thinking last year how sad it was that I had to wait a whole year till I could do it again and now I only have one question - where did that year go?!

Happy New Year!!

I have just come home from visiting Mrs S and her family over the weekend. Little B was given his name and a blessing by his father at church today. He is such a darling! I am so blessed that I`m fortunate enough to be a grandmother.

Have a lovely week!