10 Things

TEN TRUTHS IN HARRY POTTER

1. It takes more courage to stand up against your friends than your enemies.

2. It´s the people who makes a home.

3. Love is the biggest force.

4. Be yourself.

5. What you weren´t from the beginning you can become.

6. The good will conqer.

7. A home should be welcoming, like a warm hug.

8. You can change and become better.

9. We all have to do the choice between what is right and what is easy.

10. It´s how we treat those who are inferior to us that shows who we really are.


And a big hug to my Linda who turns 28 years old today! Hip hip hurray!!

A long wait

I have now read Austenland by Shannon Hale and all I can say is that it´s gonna be a long wait for the film... I do hope it will go up in the theaters here, otherwise it will be an even longer wait for the DVD. Sigh. Keri Russell and J J Feild are already playing their parts in my head when I read the book.

Nicholas Sparks

I resently bought this book...

..when I really wanted something new to read. I had wanted to read his books for a while, since I so much like the two films made from his books that I´ve seen, Message in a bottle and Dear John.

So what did I think about it? Well, the story was good, the people easy to sympatice with, but still it didn´t touch my heart. I really don´t know why, but I guess it has something to do with his writing. But on the other hand many people like his books, so maybe it´s me, I don´t know.

Since I so much like the movie Dear John I really have wanted to read the book, so when I saw it at the bookstore yesterday I actually read the end of it there (shame on me!) and I´m glad I did, for the ending wasn´t as in the movie, that is happy and I want happy endings!! I guess the movie Message in a bottle is more true to the book since it ends bad too... But even if it does, the rest of the movie is so very good that I still like it. But I just couldn´t stand if Dear John had ended as in the book, those two people touched me such much that I´d be cruched if they didn´t end up together in the end!! The actors are so very good, they make your heart brake.

I´m quite sad that I didn´t like the book, since I really wanted to find something new to like, but not much to do about it. I will make a go for In Austenland by Shannon Hale next, I believe that will be in my tast.

Bara mitt

Idag var jag så självisk att jag köpte mig en alldeles egen mugg och en alldeles egen liten frukostskål. Om man känner mig lite så förstår man varför när man ser dem.

Jag älskar den här gröna färgen och jag älskar prickigt. Knappt 30:- för båda på ICA Maxi tyckte jag var överkomligt.

Jag köpte mig också en bok, nämligen den här:

Har ju ett tag velat läsa något av honom, eftersom jag sett två filmer gjorda efter hans böcker, Message in a bottle och Dear John, som båda är väldigt bra. Så det ska bli väldigt roligt att läsa honom för första gången, även om roligt förmodligen inte är det rätta ordet för hans böcker.

Är rädd att det kommer att bli som alltid när jag läser något jag verkligen gillar, att allt annat blir lidande för att jag inte kan lägga ifrån mig boken... I värsta fall får jag göra det som brukar vara min lösning på det här dilemmat, att läsa slutet så att jag får ro att läsa det andra!!

Jag rekommenderar

Idag tänkte jag komma med ett filmtips. Hade länge gått och klurat på om jag skulle köpa filmen "Dear John", som Lasse Hallström regisserat, men inte kunnat bestämma mig. Jag gillar inte att lägga pengar på något som jag kanske inte gillar, men det lät som en historia som jag skulle tycka om...

Så i förra veckan såg jag att man fick den på köpet tillsammans med ett magasin och då slog jag till. Tidningen var jag inte intresserad av, så den åkte i första bästa papperskorg, men filmen var jag lycklig över. 

Så vad tyckte jag då om filmen? Jo,den var väldigt bra. En lagom blandning av lyckligt och smärtsamt. Den är efter en roman av Nicholas Sparks och nu har jag ju blivit sugen på att läsa boken. När jag kikade efter den såg jag att han skrivit massor av böcker, inkl "Message in a bottle", som också blivit film, med bl a Kevin Costner och Paul Newman, och som också är en väldigt bra film. Den är samma blandning av lycka och  smärta, lite mer smärta än "Dear John" dock.

Har redan hunnit se filmen flera gånger, vilket är typiskt mig, när jag gillar något.

Så har ni inte redan sett den - se den!

There is a time for everything

I made this page about one of my quirks this morning. I´m really a one-thing-at-a-time person and thats what I´m talking about here.

 If I read a novel I don´t like pages of descriptions of the surroundings, that makes me skip it to get to the story. If I like to read things like that I turn to a gardenbook or other kind of book about a specific subject. Like this book about a garden that I bought on the book sale this week. She tells the story of how she made a garden out of a bare piece of land.

 I also quated my Father who used to say that if you are not the way you´re supposed to be, you have to be the way you are, just to show that I´m aware that this is an odd way of being.

Have a lovely sunday!

Beauty

This new (or is it new, it feels just like the one I had two weeks ago...) cold´s got me in it´s hold and I am not amused at all! I´ve made lunch and dinner and that´s about it.
 I´ve listened to These happy golden years by Laura Ingalls Wilder while I´ve been resting today. I love her books, they give such a wonderful perspective to your life. They had so little but was so grateful for what they had. And they were happy because they had each other and loved each other and they tried their best to what was right. That is so wonderful.

But actually I managed to do a layout today too! It´s about my two oldest daughters and their beauty, on the inside and outside.

Aren´t they beautyful?! It´s Miss S to the left and Mrs L to the right. I´m so very proud of them both. I´m a very lucky woman, I really like my children. I mean, I think they are such nice persons and I enjoy their company very much. It could happen that you love your children, but don´t like them, so being so lucky that you´ve got eight children and you think they are all very nice is a blessing. AND I have one very nice son-in-law and will get another one in three weeks time, and that´s wonderful too.

DIY 4

You can make other kinds of temlets than letters. I have made me a bunch of border temlets and I will keep adding to them. So far I have these.

And cut out in patterned paper they can look like this.

And if you are careful cutting them out you get two borders at once, as you can see here. The upper red and the striped one above it is from the same paper but different sides, so that way I got two in different papers in one cut! This is the kind of thing you can do when you want to do something scrappy, but you´re out of ideers or just don´t have enough energy to actually scrap.

Here´s a layout I did today, using one of my border templets as well as the templet I made out of the Wild Asparagus lettersticker sheet. It´s about Mrs L and her husband and his two children moving to Canada about a year after they were married.

Tonight I´m taking Master A and Miss E to church for activetes and while they are there I will go to the library to, hopefully, get some more CD-books for the Misses E and I. Right now they´re listening to Eregon. But I hope they have some of the english Harry Potter CDs too, I never get tired of listening to them, the books are great and Stephen Frye make them so much alive.

 Have a lovely day, or evening, depending on where you live. I´d love to read a comment from you telling me who you are, if you like.