How long was Adam in Paradise?

Not for long.....

This has not been one of my best days. My mother called me at 6 am to tell me we had to come and get my son (he got a terrible earache the day before.. went to the doctor etc)
We're talking about an 8 hour drive-one way. So I made a deal with my DH and my mother that they would meet half way. My DH got so stressed, that on the way he manged to fill the tank with petrol instead of diesel *faint*. Had to call the car rescue and get towed to the nearest car workshop. It took ages and cost at fortune.
My son came home in tears because of the pain, and because he had to leave his grandmother. Not much fun being a mother then.

This LO of him is for the summerschool challenge over at Minneriket where we should use buttons.









Kirsten was so nice to give me this award. Thank you for those kind words, and I'm really looking forward to go to Paris with you!

The rules are as follows:


1. The winner can put the logo on his/her blog.
2. Link to the person you received your award from.
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4. Put links to those blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message on the blogs of the people you have nominated.

So here are my nominees:

1. Ingveig for making the most delicious cards and LO's
2. Vibeke for alwasys taking the time to leave a comment on blogs all around
3. Lene for inspiring me, and being my mentor
4. Linda for being such a brilliant blogger
5. Marianne for taking such beautiful pictures
6. Aase for getting things done
7. And last but not least Hege for being my scrapping-soul mate!
   

Luxury!

Today my sister in law called and wondered if Mette would like to join her cousin at a camp at Tromøya. And of course she jumped in excitement!


So now we have only the youngest at home until Sunday. What a luxury!! Only one child for 4 days *juhu*


So tomorrow I'm going to scrap. Just have to look around to see if I can find some challenges. So if you have come across any, please let me know ,-)





Here are some pics from last week..... we borrowed my brother-in-law's cabin at Storsand, Hurum, and had some friends staying from Steinkjer. The weather was great!
On Friday we went to Villa Malla; a restaurant with the most delicious food I've tasted in a long time. I do recomend a visit!
We also visited Tusenfryd and Sommerland in Bø.

Challenge at Scrappemania

Made this layout for the {Maniasummer} over at ScrappeMania before I went on holiday last week. They challenged us to use at lot of flowers, and one should be handmade (the one down in the right corner), and at least one should be layered. The picture is taken in Palma, Mallorca at the Pl. Espanya.

Ania says...

That woman says a lot of things; she knows how to express herself! I find it both funny and inspirational to read her blog.
But this time she has a challenge over at Minneriket called "Ania says...."
And this is what she said: Use 2 patterned paper, 1 carton, 2 stickers/stamps, 3D foam, 3 buttons or flowers and 4 ribbons.
I choose 1 sticker (eg. "glansbilde") and 1 stamp. Used patterned paper from LovElsie and KI memories.

Cardmaking *toot-toot*

Started on my vacation on Monday, with the intention that I would sit up late every evening and scrap... that hasn't happend (well, I have been up late), and I must admit I haven't been blogging as much as I hoped, but I have some (good?) excuses;
my mother has been here for two and a half week. She's been so nice helping out with the children, the dishes and the laundry!! I love her for that, since I pretty much hate doing the laundry. Thank you Mum!
My youngest learned to ride the bike (she just turned 5) (oh.. that would be an excuse to blog, not not too *lol*)I've been to Bruce Springsteen concert at Valle Hovin last Tuesday, and it was awesome. That man know how rock!!

Yesterday my oldest turned 11 *hip hurray*
( she often behaves like a thirtheenyearold) ,
and I have given six of my chairs a "make over"! As you can see, it was necessary!!

Before

and after:For those of you who knows me, knows that I'm a lousy card maker. But last week Linda was in Drammen, and she makes lovely cards, so I wanted her to teach me. I brought my sewing machine, and she had the rest. I managed to make three cards, and I think they turned out ok. Don't think I ever reach to Linda's level... but I had fun making them, and who knows, maybe I'll make some more...

Summertime

In the summertime when the weather is high...
Who isn't happy when the weather is nice? And the music in the summer always bring back memories from happy days; thinking of past holidays and summer love *sigh*.

But today it has been raining, and I got time to make a layout for the challenge at ScrappeMania; make a layout where you use the title from the Top20 music play list from VG.
I just had to use Jason Mraz's title, I'm Yours. I LOVE that song!! And it keeps spinning around in my head constantly.
This is how it turned out, size 6x12: AND not only that, but I also made two lettersize LO's at a friends crop the other night. I made them for the summerschool over at Minneriket. They're giving different challenges throughout the summer. The ones I've made is for "Use at least 5 pictures" and "Distressing". Quite simple, but I just had to make something, just to get the scrappin' feeling again... it's been quite some time now. (blaming my full time job...)

The scrapper has landed!

This weekend was awesome..I had such a great time with my friends Ingeborg and Lise!!
And I met Helle and Marianne. Two wonderful girls.(isn't all scrappers nice?? )

We had an early rise at 4.50 friday morning. But from 3pm on friday until 4.30 pm on sunday we where on a roll. One class after another.. Oh, I had such big hope before I left, that I would finish all my projects at the crop. *haha* I won't do that mistake again.

..yes, there where things that went wrong by the organizers, but can you really blame them? I mean; nearly 500 people on the most *shock*, something is bound to go wrong.
But they handled it the best they could. No hard feelings on my behalf.

I must say I'm eager to lay my hands on the projects I've started (most of them anyway), so hopefully I'll have a chance this weekend.

Oh... had to by another pair of crocks.. orange of course. So now I'll soon have a rainbow of crocks *lol*