Egg Hunt

Irene V Alexeeva put out a fantastic altered kit this week. It's called Easter Quirk and this is what I made with it...This is Lovisa Lin hunting for Easter eggs on Easter Sunday 2007. She was recovering from Chicken Pox, so she was covered in pink anti-itching cream :) She loved that cream - especially the fact that it was pink LOL

Dawn Inskip's CT Call

Dawn is having a very rare call for new CT members - she is amazing to CT for, not to mention her unique and fantastic designs, so jump on it!! This only happens once in a blue moon :)

The Glacier

Today's photo

Even though we've had good weather, it's been a bit overcast and we haven't seen much sun. Finally, this afternoon, the sun shone on bright blue skies - making our backyard glacier look especially good :) I took this photo from my balcony, without using any zoom. Admittedly, I cropped it a bit to take away a few houses and a bit of the sky.

Spring in the Air

I think spring is coming - at least we are having very spring like weather these past few days :)

March 9The girls were cuddled together in their room after dinner and then all of a sudden called us downstairs to play out a musical they had been rehearsing. Or so they said :) The musical consisted of the them singing the songs from the Sound of Music. It was fun and they love giving these performances, either singing for us or acting out a play :)

March 10

The weather was absolutely fantastic, and the light over the fjord was amazing - it was just clear and totally blue, so I had to get a photo :) It didn't hurt that there was a blue fishing boat laying nets right there.

The Reason for Everything

Using Amy Stoffel's This Is Why I Scrap

They are the reason for everything I do :) I took the photo on a picnic stop while we were traveling in July 2008. Lovisa spilled chocolate milk all over herself, and since we were on our way home after 2 weeks of traveling and all the clothes were dirty, I dressed her in my woolen sweater while I washed and dried her clothes. Thankfully, it was a warm day and the clothes dried fast LOL

Zoo Adventure

Using Ziggle Designs' In The Wild...We went to Des Moines Zoo last May on a very hot day and the girls had fun seeing animals they had never seen before :) This, however, is my beautiful niece on that visit. She took a notebook and pen and kept a record of the animals we saw :)

Fantasy

Using Irene V Alexeeva's kit, Lilypond Adventure

This is pure fantasy :) The photo is taken on a hot, rainy day in a dinasaur park in southern England - and I love Lovisa's bare legs in the shiny pink raincoat and hat :) She also had a huge pink Disney Princess umbrella - but you couldn't see it in the photo.

Rainy Days

This is with Dawn Inskip's gorgeous kit, Rainy Days & Mondays...Lovisa Lin again, this time in July 2008. We were camping in the north of Iceland and caught really nasty weather, cold and wet. We went to take a look at this old sod church and Lovisa couldn't be happier, dressed in her warm rainsuit, splashing away in the rain and puddles. I guess rain is happy weather for some. Not me LOL

Sleeping

This is with Irene V Alexeeva's kit, Incredible Things...This is Lovisa on June 17, 2005. We were traveling in England and she got really, really sick. She threw up and slept the whole day. This child hardly ever gets sick - so I was a bit worried, but she woke up on the 18, feeling fit as a fiddle :)

Best Friends

I have lots of new layouts - so bear with me :)Lovisa Lin and my niece saying goodbye in May 2009. They met for the first time on May 15, and were instant best friends. When we left 10 days later, it was hard for them to say goodbye.

I used one of Kristin's ScrapDesign's new templates and the new Catscrap collab, A Hand To Hold.

More 365

I'm still doing it - and uploading all the photos to facebook - I'm just not good with the blog thing LOL

March 1

March 1, 2004 we got this beautiful little lady in our arms for the first time. She is now 7 since December and the light of our lives in every way :)

March 2Matthildur playing with her pirate accessories. I think her pirate costume is her favorite one ever :)

March 3

We got unexpected horrid weather this afternoon, with high winds and blowing snow. I so want it to feel like spring and this weather gets on my nerves. Big time!!

March 4

My husband injured his leg while playing soccer last Saturday. Now he's black and blue and yellow and pink and purple from his knee to his crotch!!

March 5

The girls love to help in the kitchen and while my husband and I made dinner, they made the salad :)

March 6

We had a southwesterly storm today, and when the wind blows from the southwest, the ocean is always wild around here. I took this photo in the afternoon, the ocean was much wilder in the morning, but then it was too windy and too cold for me to venture outside LOL

March 7

I cut the girls' bangs today, and while Lovisa acted silly when I tried to take her photo, Matthildur loved playing a model for me and put up her sweetest face :)

March 8Finally the weather let up and it actually felt like spring. Even though it's still coat and hat weather, we could still bring some toys out on the balcony and let the girls play there for awhile this afternoon. They've been waiting for it all winter LOL

Penny's new site

Penny Springmann opened her new site, My Digital Stash, on March 1. It looks FANTASTIC!!!!There is a lot of fun going on there right now, games and givaways. Right now there is a Preview Hunt Game, and the winner gets $10 to spend in Penny's fabulous store!!Check it out - it's definitely worth it!!! Penny has some amazing stuff in her store!!

And the monthly...

February on one layout...
And that's it for the month of February - let March begin :)

And the layouts

And here's the rest of my February weekly layouts :)

And now I'm almost done...

Rest of February

Now for the rest of my February photos...

February 24There was a concert at the Music school and both girls performed. Lovisa Lin is taking piano and singing lessons, so she sang a song and played two songs on the piano. Matthildur Inga had only had two piano lessons, but she had learned to play the "C" note - so that's what she did :) And she was VERY proud of herself!!! She did want to sing, though, just like her sister, and had prepared a song, so she was not too happy with not getting to perform it LOL

February 25

Winter's here! It's a bit late for my taste - we really should be seeing warmer temps, but this is Iceland so we know we can get any kind of weather all year round LOL

February 26Since the weather has been rather bad, cold, windy and snowy, the cat hasn't been able to go out as much as she's used to. So she's grumpy - just gives us the evil eye as if the weather is our fault :) I love that cat LOL

February 27 Matthildur Inga at the sports hall watching her dad play soccer. She didn't find it too exciting LOL

February 28

The weather has been great this weekend, so the girls have been outside playing in the snow a lot. It's been SO much fun - but they were so tired when they went to bed tonight :)

Mystery Challenge

This is the last one - I promise :)

I'm running the Mystery challenge at Scrap Orchard this month - and the challenge is to scrap family and to journal quite a bit. This is my layout...about the day when we became a family of 3.

Use the challenge to journal, to remember – just tell us how important family is. And it is by no means only about children. Family is so much more; parents, grandparents, cousins, friends, fur babies…anything that means family to you.

And a couple more...

Can't stop now LOL

Penny Springmann released a fantastic kit last weekend. It's called 4 sho and it's available at Sweet Shoppe - and in Penny's new and fantastic personal shope, My Digital Stash!!

This kit is filled with teenage attitude and slang - and since English is not my native language, I have to admit, I didn't know half of them and was afraid to use them wrong LOL "Just sayin'" was about the only one I felt comfortable enough to use :)
This is Lovisa Lin at 5 - showing all of her pre-teen attitude. Can't wait to see what this girl will be like when she actually hits her teens LOL

Last week was a huge release week for Scrap Orchard - as usual :) I made three layouts using their new releases

This was once my dog - she got killed a few years back. She was completely crazy, never did anything we asked and always ran away from us on walks to chase birds or sheep LOL But she was such a lovable thing - ans she ALWAYS waited for her food. We could tell her to sit and stay while we put the most delicious food items in front of her, and she would sit and stay - and slobber - until we told her to go ahead. No matter how long it took. We took this photo for a competition that was running on one of the radio stations in the summer of 1999. We never sent it in, but the photo was supposed to advertise a candy bar - and that's what she is looking at and slobbering over in this photo :)
I used a template by Megan Turnidge and a fab collab from Julie Bullock and mle card, called The Good Dog - bot available at Scrap Orchard.

This is our cat. Can you see an animal theme running through this week? No story with this one, except she was having fun playing with Matthildur, running all over the living room. Both of them LOL
I used AnnaBV Designs' Kit Cat kit and Cat Wordart pack, as well as Tracie Stroud's stitches and worn overlays. All available at Scrap Orchard.

These are my girls. They disappeared into their room one afternoon, only emerging to hand me a ticket, which said that I was supposed to pull up a chair and enter their room to watch a play in 5 minutes. I did - and they gave a brilliant performance in a play about a bad pirate who kidnapped the princess and made her walk the plank. They got a standing ovation :)
I used a Clean and Tiny template by Dani Alencar and also Dani's collab with Bianka Argollo, A Whole Year - February. Both available at Scrap Orchard.

Couple of layouts

I've been slacking in posting my layouts on the blog - and since it's been a long time, and I scrap a LOT, I won't even pretend that I can ever catch up LOL So, I'll just post a few now and try and do it regularly from now on :)

Dawn Inskip released two new kits last week, Sugar and Spice was one of them and About a Boy was the other. They are both available at Pickleberry Pop and Catscrap.This is Matthildur Inga, my mud magnet :) We went to the beach the other day and it was windy, rainy and cold. Matthildur sat herself half on the sand and half in the ocean and was happily wet and dirty within seconds LOL I don't need a boy to scrap boy kits!!

Lovisa Lin, however, is a princess through and through. This girl does NOT like to get dirty LOL

Irene V Alexeeva also released two kits last week. She is guest designer at Scrapbook Graphics this month, so she released Squeak With Love there and Chocomint at her regular Scrap Orchard store.

This is Matthildur Inga on Ash Wednesday. Her Kindergarten always comes to my workplace on Ash Wednesday to "trick-or-treat". It's so much fun to get all the Kindergarten kids marching up to the house all dressed up in their cute little costumes - on top of their warm winter coats and skisuits LOL I took these photos of Matthildur while the kids were singing for treats :)

Now these are my girls on Shrove Monday - or Bun Day as we call it here in Iceland. This was my photo of the day, so there is a bit of explanation a little further down on this blog. Basically, layout shows how much my girls enjoyed their cream puff buns with jam and whipped cream - and of course their pink and green frosting :)

Egypt

Lovisa Lin is fascinated by Ancient Egypt. When I went to a book fair on Sunday, I bought her a book on the subject...

She spent the best part of the afternoon looking and reading and asking questions - she was so engrossed in the book that I hardly saw her face the whole time LOL

One Love Charity Collab

Just a quick note to let you know that this is the last week to buy the One Love Charity Collab at Scrap Orchard. The kit will be retiring at the end of the month!!

This is such a fantastic kit where forty-eight designers from around the community have joined together to bring you this incredible kit with the common purpose of raising funds for Haitian aid and relief. Our theme, "One Love", symbolizes not only our heartfelt effort to help the people of Haiti, but also encompasses the diverse styles of all the designers involved in this project. This kit represents the diversity of our community and shows that even though we are all different, when we come together the result is truly spectacular.

The profits from the sale of this kit will be donated to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund. We chose the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund not only because it embodies the spirit of One Love, but also because 100% of the donations will go to the relief and recovery efforts in Haiti and because they are working to provide both immediate relief and long-term support to the earthquake survivors.

This beautiful kit includes 114 papers, 356 elements, 3 alphabets, 6 page templates and 1 hybrid template and 16- 12 in. x 12 in. .png quick pages.