Yoshiko's @ MScraps

Yoshiko Designs is now at MScraps - and she has two brand new and gorgeous kits there! I used one of them here, and the other one in the post below :)This is Matthildur Inga this past summer. She was hiding behind trees and jumping at us when we got closer. She is such a little teaser - and had so much fun LOL

I used Yoshiko's Photo Wall for this layout.

Sleeping

Lovisa sleeps like a lady - crossed legs and all :) She does get nightmares sometimes, though. They were night terrors when she was little, but now it's better. I didn't include journaling on the online version of the layout - it's too personal to her, even though no one who reads my blog can read Icelandic, it still felt weird to put all that online :)I used Yoshiko's new kit, Nightmare, available in her new store at MScraps.

Baby Teeth

Lovisa Lin will turn 8 in two short months and at the middle of September she was losing her 8th baby tooth. It was just dangling there, reaching down onto her lower lip, making her look a bit like a funny little witch :) And she refused to let her dad yank it out LOLI used Dunia Designs' fabulous new kit, Easy, available at Digiscrappers Brasil and Zig Zag Scrap. The template is also Dunia's.

Dress Up

My girls LOVE playing dress up - most kids probably do :) Last February they got cute dresses which were pirate princesses on one side and pirate wenches on the other LOL Then they also got eye patches, pirate swords and pirate hats. They tried their best to look like blood thirsty pirates - making faces and all, but just couldn't. They are too darn cute :)No way anyone could be scared of them :)

I used Dawn Inskip's new kit, Let's Play Dress UpPerfect for boys and girls playing all sorts of imaginary dress up games :)

Dawn Inskip - BIG sale!!!

Dawn Inskip is retiring some of her fabulous products - so she's having a HUGE retirement sale in her Pickleberry Pop store...

50% off select products until October 10 - and they're gone, so better stock up. If I didn't already own everything she's ever done, I'd be going wild shopping right now!!

Dawn's newsletter

Dawn Inskip has a newsletter now - and for those subscribing, there is a fantastic freebie kit...

It's so cute!!! Hurry up and sign up for the newsletter :) Not only for the freebie - but you'll also get news of Dawn's newest designs in your mailbox as soon as they are released!!

2011 Calendar

I just made mine - and I used Biograffiti's 2011 CD Calendar Templates, which are FREE over at Persnickety Prints. Molly is their Designer of the Month for October - and there will be more freebies and givaways...I love these templates - and here's my calendar...I love it :) I have never made a calendar before - I've meant to, and maybe done a month or three, but I've never finished one. So I'm really happy about this one!!

My Handbag...

...is non existent :) I have no passion for handbags, don't usually like the look of them - nor do I like the feel of them on my shoulder. What I need, I keep in my pockets - some things are assigned for the left pocket and other things are assigned for the right pocket LOL And there is never too much stuff - just what I need, and I can always find it when i need it because there is no clutter :) However, I do need something on my shoulder: My beloved camera. Never leave home without it!!!

I love my camera :)

I used Dawn Inskip's fabulous new kit, What's In Your Handbag,available in both her stores, at Pickleberry Pop and Matrioshki Scrap Design.

Karen Funk has a sale!

Karen Funk has a sale in her store at Design House Digital. You will get $10 off every $20 purchase, using coupon code kf10off20 - it's valid until September 25!

This is a fantastic time to get some of Karen's gorgeous goodies for a VERY good price! Have you seen her newest kit, Remember When...Totally gorgeous!!!

Sweet Sugar Baby

My layout with the SugarHill Co. designer collab. Did you get it? I think you can still follow the blog train and pick up all the pieces - and it's totally worth it :)This is my layout with it. It's Matthildur Inga at 8,5 months. She has always been a sweet tooth - and here she is happily eating a cookie :)

Kristin has a sale

Kristin's ScrapDesign has a huge sale in her own store and her store at Pickleberry Pop for the next 10 days...

Check out her templates - they are absolutely fantastic!!! And at 30% off, it's definitely time to stock up on them!!

Dawn is having a sale

Dawn Inskip has her entire store at Pickleberry Pop on 30% off!!!

Dawn's stuff is fantastic, and this is a fantastic deal!!! Can't miss it - so go check it out and stock up on Dawn's goodies :)

The SugarHill blog train...

The designers at SugarHill Co. have put together an amazing collab, which will be yours FREE if you follow the designer blog train on Saturday, September 18...

Here's a sneak peek at the collab

It's really fantastic!! The link will take you to the first stop, The SugarHill Co. blog :)

Halloween

My second layout with Lindsay Jane's Spooky Halloween kit...I borrowed my brother's kids for this layout since we don't celebrate Halloween, but they do :)

Homework

When Lovisa Lin learned to read when she was only 5, a whole new world opened up to her inquisitive mind, and she's been reading anything and everything ever since. She is reading at a level far above her age and reads long (photoless :) books for her enjoyment. However, school requirements say that she is still supposed to read all the books assigned to her class level - and they are WAY too easy for her.She is supposed to read these books for 15 minutes out loud every day - but one of these books from start to finish takes her less than 5 minutes. Even while she does them lazily - like in these photos :) Her favorite books these days? Enid Blyton's Famous Five books and her "science books" like Animal Survival and something to do with fossils LOL

I used Lilleyscrap Designs' beautiful new kit, Sentimental.

Helping Out

When Lovisa Lin was little, she was very helpful - most kids are - and she refused to be left somewhere to play when there was work to be done in the kitchen :)So, her place was on the kitchen counter - we had huge counter space in our old house, and she had her space by the window, next to the sink, where she could do the dishes if there were any dirty ones, or keep me company while cooking :)

I used Karen Funk's brand new Remember When Collection - it's gorgeous!! - and a template by Kitty Chen.

Cool Matthildur

She was 8,5 months old in this photo

Pacifier and matching sunglasses - can you be any cooler LOL

I used a couple of things from Dunia Designs, one of her brand new templates from Scrap Easy Templates No7, most of the papers & elements are from Dunia's Mixed Emotions, but the rest are from her Be-Bop-A-Lula, Joy and Come As You Are.

Perfect

Lovisa Lin in August...my perfect little girl. Or not so little, now that she is getting close to turning 8 years old :)I used Re Kneipp's beautiful kit, Dreams In A Box and Studio Basic's Behind the Bars templates. Rubia makes the most amazing templates around. I've probably said so before - but it's SO true!!

Autumn

Not this years autumn, though - it really hasn't started yet. But last years autumn started in August and that's when I took this photo of Lovisa Lin...I used an absolutely gorgeous collab, called Color My World, from Re Kneipp and Damayante Designs - it's available at Digiscrappers Brasil and at 9th and Bloom.

Birthday...

...or almost :) We got together with our adoption travel group on our 3 year family anniversary on March 1, 2007 - and these are some of the pictures from the girls playing.There were only 4 of 6 girls present, the other two, unfortunately, live too far away to be able to attend all get-togethers in the winter time. And Matthildur was there too, of course :) She was adopted into the adoption group the day she was born LOL

I used Biograffiti's Around The Way No1 template album...It's fantastic - and I'm not just saying that because I'm on Molly's CT :) It really is everything you'd ever want in a clean, multi-photo album with lots of space for journaling!!