Little Corner of Ania

Finally got around to scrap my shoes from last summer! :)
I am going to blog about them too ala Xstine & Kine - just still need to get my lazy ass over to actually take photos of the rest of them (these pictures are from before last summer. Yeah. It took me this long to scrap'em :p)

I can share one small tidbit tho (cuz I'm sooo interesting *cough*) - it wasn't until I was pregnant w/Adrian that I started to realize I needed to have (&wear) some more..comfortable shoes than my beloved high-heels ;p And it wasn't really until last year or so that I finally started to use high heels more :p (sigh. I love high heels. I guess it's because I'm so small - 161/5.3ft :p)

This is one of the new layouts for the July GGG thingie (the midmonth garden) over at twopeas :)

Materials used: American Crafts

We spent the whole last week (well, close anyways :) ) out at the summerplace.
As usual I got home w/some photos mm..random selection inc..

Amalie and her beloved "diamond"-game.

Um yeah. I'm drawn to Irish beer.
Taken at 11pm, ISO 1250 and I love it =)

Adrian spent a good deal of the vacation at the pier fishing for crabs.
It's amusing listening to the kids convos about the finer art of fishing for crabs...and to see that Amalie now is old enough to do her share - she was the designated crab-food-fetcher (looking for blue mussels & opening them before handing them over to Adrian)

We did some regular fishing too (one day we caught six fish - w/me being responsible for four of'em. Yeap. ME! Hah! =) ). Amalie is letting me know when enough is enough when it comes to taking photos :p

Hubby preparing the fish :)

Did I mention how much I adore the kids? Esp when they're so lovely w/each others (oh sure, they can whine and tease each other like, eh, no other, but when they're good they're like, good :p) Here Adrian is reading a cartoon for Amalie..

:)
Hubby&his grandpa dragging another stump up behind the maincottage..the old one was rotten and there were lots of logs to be chopped for the winter :p


And I have to say...the cottage-life sure is nice but getting home and shower for the first time in like five days is awesome ;p

Some stuff for Hambly Screenprints July :)

A card (um, duh).
A layout. (again. duh.)
Some My Little Shoebox-stuff mixed in here by the way - the journalspots and the transparency-title :)

And finally a minibook made w/Clear Scraps minialbum and lots of Hambly papers and rubons..
The images are from a weekend earlier in May when dad and sis& my youngest niece visited us :)
I have to say I find clear-albums tricky!! I know I can cover'em up like reg minis sorta, but I feel like I have to um, like gain adventage of the see-throughiness and it really is tricky imo! Tried to think of ways the rubons could be utilized both sides...

Todays Pencil-Lines is guested by Gudrun Loennecken, an amazingly talented and sweet artist I've been fortunate to meet and scrap with once :) She's behind 3ndypapir together with Lene, and makes the coolest Norwegian papers around here - and they sponsed this sketch w/their papers!! :)

I used photos from a recent BBQ with some scrapping friends here in Bergen....loves :)
Mm...I have to admit - I'm not into the banner-thingie which's pretty popular with scrapbookers and other crafty people, but for this one I thought it sorta fit and I really like the way it turned out - between the banners and the distressed edges this layout didn't need that much more embellishment :)


Ps!
I hatehatehatehatehate my printer right now. Totally non-cooperable, being silly refusing to print and I have several deadlines looming (several of which's themed/specific when it comes to size/# of photos). UGH! Not.Good. :(
(Yeah, I'm a case-by-case printer. I hate printing out photos before I actually have a project for them sorta, which means printing out photos in advance for crops is one of my pet-peeves cuz...well, I just don't like that part :p)

Title: "Lovefool" - The Cardigans

Tattered Angels is hosting a GIVEAWAY on their blog atm to spread the awareness for their new labels (on the bottles) :)

Despite the new label, it's still the same ol yummy product inside :) :) Join them to get a chance to win a yummy package of brand new CHA-Winter glimmer mist (not available yet - until now :D)

I totally totally fell off my chair when I learned I was gonna be GGG at 2peas for July. Totally. Then I got this mad urge to yell and tell somebody who cared. Not that anyone were around at that time. sigh.

Then.
Holy. Sh*t.
Then I was terrified. Horrified. Whatever.
This is some scary stuff I tell you! s c a r y

*sighs*

So.

Here's my stuff for the first garden - w/the theme being "Inspiration Fashion".

A paper-pieced Hello, Kitty card made w/Fancy Pants Designs

A gift-wrapping made w/Hambly and Prima - inspired by an image (which can be seen in the 2peas-post of this item)

A fairly clean&simple layout inspired by my imaginations of a catwalk (white, minimalistic, posh and all that).. (and I couldn't resist the darn cute chipboard from SEI which reminded me of letterpressed stuff which I personally find very fashionable.



Oh and there's usually always lots of wild colors in fashion. You know the kind of catwalk-crazy-one-of-a-kind stuff that no sane person would really actually wear. These kind of clothes got their own name, but I'm not into fashion that way so I can't remember what they're called.
I used Hambly & Danielle Thompsons digistuff here (am SO glad Kine introduced me to these on a package she sent me - they're so cute and so versatile!)



And that's it for now!
I'll share the rest when they get up at 2peas for the midmonth-garden 15th :)
Oh, and I got a tshirt too *snicker* I'll try to remember to take a piccie soon - I thought it was a neat touch to the guest-dt-gig :)

So, as I've mentioned earlier - we've been playing Diablo2 lately, and Amalie's been pretty interested in playing aswell. It's so cute listening to her and her daddys convos when it comes to the game - she understands a lot for a four year old (I'd imagine), about the game and its mechanisms and thinks it's fun - so proud whenever she finds something (money, items, new mobs - it gets a bit tiresome when she's absolutely gonna show us ever little thing tho) :) Her attention-span however is like every four year old - she tires of it after like 5 minutes and goes on to do something else entirely :p

She also drew herself playing - the lying one is herself when she's dead (and she dies a lot too ;p), the standing one is her when she's not dead and she even pointed out the boss among the mobs surrounding her. She doesn't look traumatized about that fact by the way, in case anybody wondered - she's just proud about the whole thing :) It sure warms a nerdy moms heart :p
(and yes I know we might have a different view on what children "can" and "cannot" do and games and all that blah blah, being seasoned gamers ourselves and hey I even took courses on children and gaming (I love Sherry Turkle - she was seriously way ahead of her time) when I studied media - a fascinating subject imo..really wish I explored that field more)

We went hiking up Ulriken the other day. I came home with a few shots of the kids and stuff, but none of the view. Figures.


On the top (you can cheat and take the cable car too)

Mm and I had to do a shot of my new wallet - it's so me ;p

And that's it for now :)
Oh, and I read about Geo-caching here at the Lifetime Moments blog and immediately became fascinated - modern day treasure-hunting - it sounds so fun! :)

Ugh.

I'll go with the popular subject these days and whine some about the heat. It makes me drowsy. Drowsy drowsy drowsy! I don't like it! (ok I like that I can wear summery & light clothes now, but other than that - too much sun and heat is ugh)

Anyways. Don't have much to say (blaming the heat here making me drowsy..did I mention that already hm? :p), just wanna share some recent stuff..


My two last layouts for the Bella Artista-guestthingie for Bella Blvd :)

Pencil-Lines #141 w/Christiane Muller :) :)
I borrowed the title (the idea of "name"²) from a layout I saw not long ago - I am so sorry that I can't recall whose layout, just saw how she did the title and thought "Oh neat!". Thanks whoever this was...I am sure it was a Norwegian....(and sorry for not recalling who you were :p). Anyways. Point is - my Amalie loved playing with Banglamarie's Amalie in her adorable pink dollhouse..so hence the title: "Amalie²" :)
I used various bits and pieces of old and new Fancy Pants for this layout :)

And then we got Nikki Sivils' "My Sweet Cherry Pie" - easily my favorite from her :)
Seriously, when thinking of my friend whom I made this layout about I can't help but smile - she's such a genuine force of nature - I am so glad she's my friend :)


More "My Sweet Cherry Pie"- this time a card - I also used one of her stamps on the twill-ribbon - I really like how it turned out :)

Right. Hope you're surviving in this heat - have a nice week :)

Ps! Just finished the Twilight-series. Mhmm. Personal opinion? The two first books were a bit dull. Like, blah blah blah yadayada. Third book was (thankfully) more interesting, and the fourth book was very enthralling. Please don't burn me for saying the two first ones were dull!!! :p (and yes I still had to read them all - I'm like - once I've started I had to finish them all) Oh and my personal favorite is Alice. Ofc. ;p

Ps2! Need more books for the Summer! Got any suggestions? Now that I'm done w/the Twilight-series I'm gonna move on to "Good Omens" then one or two of the unread Mo Hayder-books I have here and hopefully "Neverwhere" aswell - mhm.. and that's it for now...

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Mm just sharing two more Fancy Pants stuff for June :)

Materials include:
(top): Papers & stamps from Delight, punches from Martha Stewart, random buttons&ribbons from FP, letters from Adornit and Prima, glimmermist (on the prima-letters).
(bottom): Journalingsheet from On a Whimsy, diecuts from Kraft Kuts, cutout from a sheet of Summer Soiree-paper.

Today is the oldest kids last day at school - a day he's been looking forward to for a good long while. Eight weeks without school - he's marvelling joyously just at the thought of it :) And then he'll start in third grade. *insert long where-the-heck-did-the-time-go-mommy-type sigh here*

Random stuff:

• Regina Spektors newest album (Far) is gorgeous!
• Hambly Screenprints just released a peek of their newest transparent sticker-designs! Yum is all I can say!!
• I got my Nikki Sivils stuff yesterday and I'm happy!!! :D
  
  
• Browsed around and found this image sorta funny (the original game is more than ten years old..I remember the anticipation when it was released...good old times..). Looking forward to this one (although I always found the terrans the most boring races of the three and they're the ones being released first. Mm..)
  
  

And by the way - I wanted to let you know that I so totally appreciate every one of you who checks in on this blog just to read, glance, look, get inspiration, quickly scroll past, laugh, roll your eyes, whatever - and mmm, maybe an extra thank you to those of you who take the time to drop me a visible proof of your stay on this blog (I don't want to make those of you who doesn't feel bad, cuz I'm not so good at it myself either so I totally do get you, but at the same time - I am happy every time I get a new comment so thank you for making me extra happy :) ).

Thank you so much for bearing with my less-than-perfect-English (I am aware that I'm doing the same mistakes esp when it comes to the grammar over and over again but I can't seem to correct myself, grr) and thank you for the patience to those who wish I wrote in Norwegian too (I will. Once in a while. Promise. It's just..Blogging in English has just become a habit and double posting in both languages sorta makes the posts even more annoyingly long methinks. Feel free to object!!).

In short - thank you so much - it totally makes me so happy :) :)
(Just wanted to let you know :) )

Title: "Mary Jane" -Alanis Morisette

Haha yeah.
1. The photo's supposed to be like that.
2. And if you're following Pencil-Lines, which this layout is for, you might (or might not) notice that this isn't about any fathers or anything, but about my friends instead. Cuz I totally missed the date and stuff thinking it was last week ;p

So there.
This weeks guest was Elodie Touze, a talentful french scrapbooker (love her style and LOVED her layout for this one) and she also provided us the sketch. I just decided to add some more photos to my interpretation of the sketch.

Creating this layout sorta made me feel... old-skool :p It's something about the way I made this that made me feel that hm. Maybe it's because I decided to do the layering quite flat sorta, and not w/distressing or sewing on the edges..like..just plain.. mm. Ohwell. And the upside-down photo? *snicker* Well, the photo was taken that way so figured it'd be scrapped that way too (after being teased about taking some photos while lying flat down on the ground I rolled around and snapped a photo of the teasers while on my back :p)

Materials used: Scenic Route, Hambly transparency & rubons, glimmermist (the beautiful blue frame - love this color - jazz blue I think it was), KaiserCraft rhinestones..

Title: "Mr Bad Man" -Tori Amos