Kindergarten

Matthildur Inga had a 7 week vacation from Kindergarten this summer. When it was finally time to go back, she was MORE than ready and really excited :)I used Studio Basic's fab new kit, My Wish For You...It's not totally new, though, it's Rubia's part of the fabulous charity collab that was for sale at Digiscrappers Brasil earlier this summer. Rubia has revamped it, though, and it is bigger and really beautiful!!

Sweet Smile

Lovisa Lin in March 2007 - I'm finally doing my 2007 album so I'm scrapping a lot of those photos. I'm already done with January and February, so now it's March :)

She had just gotten out of the bathtub and was just so happy and beautiful and her hair was just wonderfully messy :) I love her to bits!!

I used Karen Funk's Happiness Is You collection

Pure gorgeousness in neutral and green!!

Goofy Girl :)

Matthildur Inga being a little goofball - we had been expecting visitors that day and when they came by around dinner time, she had gotten so excited and had to show it :)I used Dawn Inskip's gorgeous new kit, I Got You Babe, available at Pickleberry Pop

It's gorgeous!! Fantastic colors, papers - and amazing elements!!!

8 Months

Matthildur Inga at little over 8 months at the beginning of March 2007.

She's such a cutie :)

I used Lilleyscrap Designs' Urban Ink kit - and stitches are by Anna Aspnes.

Playing

Lovisa Lin playing in the garden last spring :)

I used Yoshiko Designs' freebie, Pressed Letter Style, and her Shade of Flowers kit. The template is by Dúnia Design and wordarts are by Penny Springmann & Natali Design.

Cheeky!!

Lovisa Lin modeling a new haircut :)

I used Lindsay Jane's new kit, Spooky Halloween, for this layout. We don't celebrate Halloween in Iceland, so come this time and all the Halloween kits, I sometimes have to improvise LOL Thankfully, Lindsay's kit is easy to use for everyday photos too :)

Singing

Lovisa Lin takes singing lessons. She started with the local Children's Choir last fall and in January she started taking lessons at the Music school. She's really good :) However, when it comes to performing for an audience, she gets really, REALLY stressed out!I took this photo in February. It was her first public singing performance on a little informal concert at the music school. The audience was just families of the ten or so students who were performing that day - maybe a total of 30 people. She was really stressed, but when she was called, you really couldn't tell how stressed she was, because she just walked up to the piano, faced the audience and sang like an angel. I was so proud of her - I know I could not have done this myself LOL She is amazing. The weird thing is, she's been playing the piano since she was 5,5 years old and she has never had a problem with getting on stage and playing the piano for small or large audience. Singing, and facing the audience, however, is more difficult.

I used a bunch of stuff from Lilleyscrap Designs...

...among other things, Sarah's new grungy paper pack. It's gorgeous!!

Where is Fall?

I've been looking for fall for the past 2 weeks. Usually, around here, the leaves are starting to turn at the end of August and in my little windy part of the country, the leaves have usually turned and been blown off the trees by the wind around the middle of September LOL Right now, though, it still feels like summer - weather wise, that is. And not a fall color in sight!I made a double page layout with photos from a walk we took last Saturday, looking for fall colors - which, of course, we didn't find. And when I say "we took a walk, I really mean that the girls went biking and my husband and I tried to keep up with them on foot, only catching up, panting and sweating, when they chose to stop somewhere LOL

Anyways, I used Biograffiti's new Project 365 September template album...And since I'm on the subject of P365 - I'm still doing it, just not posting my photos on the blog out of pure laziness. And I've already ordered the first of three P365 photobooks I'm planning on making from my 2010 photos - all nicely scrapped using Biograffiti's templates. I think there is a link to my shutterfly book somewhere around this blog, though. It looks nice :)

Camera Crazy

My daughters are camera crazy!!! I shouldn't be surprised - they are growing up with a totally camera crazy mother LOL

On our vacation this summer, I supplied them each with a digital camera, hoping it would increase their interest in what we were seeing and doing. And I have to say, it worked!! They were on their best behavior, most of the time, snapping away, asking questions and just being generally interested in what we were doing :) So basically, they took photos of things and places and I took photos of them taking photos LOL I love cameras!!

This is the kit I used, Movie Project, by Yoshiko at Matrioshki Scrap. Love her stuff. And, you can actually also buy my layout as a QP along with 3 other QPs in Yoshiko's store :)

Be Happy

My girls visiting a friend in February 2007...

I used Yoshiko Designs' gorgeous Shades of Flower and wordart from Natali.

Miss Vivi's Birthday Sale

She has a 50% discount for all her personal use products and 30% all commercial use products for a whole week - starting today!!It's fantastic savings...check out her store!!

Happy

Matthildur Inga is always happy :) She was helping her dad build a vegetable garden and I was watching them from the balcony. This is the look I got when she discovered I was there :)I used Karen Funk's new collection, Simplicity, available at Design House Digital...I love the colors here - just beautiful!!

Never Mind...

We went to visit my brother and his wife in Iowa over Christmas 2007. Our flight home was on New Years Day 2008. My younger daughter was 18 months and was allowed to grab food from the table and eat on the go sometimes. My brother's two dogs quickly found out that her grab-and-go food was easy prey for them, so they hunted as a pair. One came in front, pretending to want the food, so she put it behind her back. There, the other one was waiting and quickly snatched the food away from her hand LOL She never minded, just came back for more food - and then the hunting continued :) I think all three quite enjoyed this little game, although it always looked like the dogs were tricking her LOL

See, there they are :)

I used Dúnia Design's beautiful kit, Never Mind...It's gorgeous - and don't forget, Dúnia is having a huge sale....

A Fresh ReStart

The designers at Digiscrappers Brasil came together this month and created an amazing charity collab. All the proceeds go to help families in Brasil that suffered horrible floods in June...It's a great cause - and a fantastic kit!!

This is one of the layouts I've made with it...using only Deca Designs' portion of the kit.This is Matthildur Inga at the tender age of 8 months. She seems to be counting her fingers, only to find out that she has 4 :)

Lilleyscrap Sale

Sarah is having a HUGE Labor Day Sale!! 50% off all her products in her personal store, Lilleyscrap Designs...Check it out, her designs are fantastic!!!

Around the Way No1

Biograffiti makes fantastic templates. I love her Around the Way template album...

I made this double page layout with it...It's just photos from a little walk to the beach which we took in June - but I love how many photos I could add and it still looks clean :)
And if you're wondering why on earth the girls are wearing winter coats and hats in June - just remember that we live in Iceland LOL

doodlemania.ink

Dawn Inskip is the absolute queen of doodles...check out her newest kit, doodlemania.ink...It's fantastic, and I can tell you it makes some beautiful layouts!!Here's my happy little 4-year old kidlet. She is always happy :) At this point she was watching the cat try unsuccessfully to grab some sticklebacks from a bowl of water LOL Lovisa Lin went fishing and brought home a bag full of these little fish. We put them in a bowl and the cat wanted to fish them too :) We ended up dropping them back into the creek.

Dunia Designs - Sale!

Dunia has her birthday and is celebrating with 50% off all her products!!!It's valid in both her stores, at Digiscrappers Brasil and Zig Zag Scrap

MScrap has a sale...

There is a store-wide sale over at MScraps...30% off everything - and a huge collab as a bonus with every $10 purchase...

Playground

Just photos from a trip to the playground in February 2007It's a part of a double pager using Biograffiti's Take Two No2

It was Matthildur's first real trip to the playground - and while Lovisa loved being there, checking out all the amusing toys, Matthildur just didn't see the point and started crying miserably after not so long :)

Around the Way

Using one of the templates from Biograffiti's Around The Way No1 template album...

This is in February 2007 and Lovisa Lin is having one of her cuddle, tickle and laughing moments with her dad :)
The kit is Memories by Deca Designs.

Primeval...

In June 2005, we were traveling in England and visited Dinosaur Adventure World (I think...) in Norfolk. It was such a fun adventure park, for the kids - and even for the grown ups :)

Lovisa Lin was not afraid in the least of these huge beasts - she just wanted to pet them and try to put her hand in their mouth LOL At one time, though, we went to a bit of a wooded area where there was a lonely little dinosaur standing under a tree. It took some persuasion to get Lovisa away from him - she just couldn't stand the thought of him being all alone in that dark place, so she was going to keep him company until someone else came around :) She's so sweet!!

Anyways...the age of the Dinosaurs - it's so exciting and the theme of Dawn Inskip's newest kit , Primeval, was just perfect for my Dino photos!Gorgeous isn't it? Just filled to the brim with fantastic dino doodles - and amazing papers!!

First day of School

School has already been in session for a week now and the novelty is fast wearing off LOL Already at the end of last week, I was shaking my third grader awake at a quarter to eight - fifteen minutes before she had to be out the door. And she is NOT a fast dresser, so I'm not looking forward to repeating this five days a week all winter long :) However, on the first day of school, Monday the 23, she was up by 6:45, got dressed, made her bed, drew her curtains and was in an all around terrific mood. So I shot these photos of her excited little self - summer vacation is sometimes too long :)I used Misty Mareda's First Day kitand one of Rubia's (of Studio Basic) fantastic templates from her Oops I Did It Again template pack...Love these!!

The return of Phuong

Phuong Ton returned to designing for the month of August as a guest at Scrapbook Graphics during their birthday celebrations. I wish she was staying on as a designer - but unfortunately she's not :( I so love Phuong's designs and she is also one of the sweetest people in the world.

I got to scrap with the kits she created for her guest spot at SBG,These are my older daughter and her friend at the beach in June 2007. They were only 4,5 years old and had grown tired of chasing the waves, so they sat themselves on the sand and dug their bottom halves into the sand. Then they yanked their legs free, showering everyone around them with sand - and laughter LOL

I made this layout using Phuong's Sincerity kit......isn't it gorgeous? It's no longer in her SBG store, it's sadly been emptied now that the birthday month is over. However, you can still get this kit through Phuong's blog. And I have to say, it's a total steal at only $4,40

2011 Calendar

Are you making a calendar this year? Biograffiti has fabulous calendar toppers to help you...They are Shutterfly ready as is...

...I decided to print my own and resized them to 12*12 and made my own calendar grid...This is my January page. One down, 11 to go LOL

Ice Cream

Lovísa Lín at 18 months - having one of her favorite treats, an ice cream :)I used Lindsay Jane's gorgeous kit, Ice Cream Sunday...

Home at Last

My older daughter on March 11, 2004. Her first morning home in Iceland after a LONG journey from China and very little sleep :) She was surprisingly alert and happy!I used Kim De Smet's gorgeous new kit, Home Tweet Home, available at OScraps.

Playstation

My daughters love playing the Playstation computer games - and on the occasion that they can't do anything, they call their dad and he fixes things. He does sometimes get lost in the game as well :)

I used one of Studio Basic's templates from her Oops I Did It Again! template pack, and My Big Hero, the fab collab from the Digiscrappers Brasil designers.

Chatting Away

Lovísa Lín and one of her very best friends chatting away outside a café we had just been to :)I used Miss Vivi's new kit, Hesitation, available at Scrapbook Graphics, and Lilleyscrap Designs' Simply Mapped: Templates No5, available in Sarah's personal store at Lilleyscrap Designs.

Laughter

My beautiful younger daughter in July 2008I used a fabulous collab from EHstudios and Scooty's Designs, called Sound of Laughter, available at MScraps.

Ballet Recital

One fantastic kit from Dawn Inskip hit the stores yesterday. It's called Ballet Recital...I made this layout with it - not many ballet photos in my house, I live in a small town and ballet is not offered as a choice for after school activity :)

My girls, however, are rather athletic and limber and they both really enjoy physical activities. This is Matthildur Inga doing handstands on the lawn - and the fun of it was, that there is a slope where she was doing it, so she kept falling down towards the bottom of the slope :)

Home Sweet Home

Dawn Inskip just released a fab new kit @ Pickleberry Pop - and it's called Home Sweet Home...

It's gorgeous - I just love the colors, and Dawn's doodles are always the best!

My husband has been really busy this summer finishing up our house, putting in new windows and new siding. No vacation for him - poor thing :) Right now, he has finished all the windows, except for one small one, and he's used up pretty much all the siding material we had - so he's off until next summer when we (or him, really :) can finish the rest. I'm happy - it's so much fun watching your house transform from an ugly box to a beautiful house :D