Layout | Cyprus #1

Hello friends,

Are you ready for Christmas? We are far from being ready, but nevertheless we are in progress, I think I'm in a lack of Christmas spirit this year, but I'm sure it will come.

Anyway I have a layout from our trip to Cyprus last year. Actually I created it a while ago, but my computer has had a total virus breakdowm and has been out for repair. Argh... I'm really lost without my computer, it's just like missing a part of yourself LOL.

A view from the balcony

The photo is a view from our balcony. Just across the street was a really, really noisy Amusement Park Luna Park. Thank God they closed the park at 1.00 a.m. so one could get some sleep.

The patterned paper and some of the stickers are from Echo Park, I also used different stuff from Freckled Fawn and what was in my stash.

Thanks for the visit :-)

Mallorca | Layout #1

Hello again,

Wow, I've finished my very first layout from Mallorca, - the island which we call Our Little Piece of Paradise. The photos are from September 2014 where we spent a week with our family in Alcudia. On the second day in Alcudia we strolled around the lovely marina area. The weather was lovely but a little cloudy, that's why the grayish colors.

The marina area in Alcudia, Mallorca

Because of the colors of the photos I chose to stick to light, dusty colors which I think matches the photos rather well.

What about you, are you getting your travel photos scrapped?
I'm SO excited I got started. It's just like being on the destinations one more time, so why not getting started?

See you when I have finished my next travel layout.

Ireland | Layout #2

Today I have another layout for you. Once again it's a travel-layout from our road trip in Ireland this summer. The photos are from the biggest of the Aran Islands, Inishmore, where we spent one of the days. We were on our way up to the ruins of Dun Aengus and the main road ended up at this little square. From the square a path led us up to Dun Aengus.

The main road ended up at this little square

Close up

The view was fantastic from the Dun Aengus ruin, I guess there will be a layout or two from there sometime.

I wish you all a Happy Weekend.

Ireland | Layout #1

I've made the first layout for a very looong time and WOW I enjoyed creating it. Actually I felt I totally had forgotton how to create layouts, so I struggled a bit doing it. This is how it turned out.

Clonmacnoise

I still can't create a layout without using my pens :-D

Great to use some old stickers and rub-ons :-)

I can assure you there will be more posts from the roadtrip we did in beautiful Ireland.

See you,

Cyprus | SMASH #11

Hey everyone,

Did you enjoy the summer?
Besides our 2 weeks vacation the summer has been extremely busy at the job. During our vacation we did an amazing roadtrip in Ireland, it is really recommendable.

You might have given up on my blog because of the summer silence, but now I'm back with the very last pages from  my Cyprus SMASHbook.

Drinking coffee in the airport while waiting to boarder

Food and a cold beer on the plane

On our way back to Denmark

I'm still working on my SMASHbook from our family trip to Mallorca last year. I really hope to find the energy to be more creative, and it is my goal to finish the Mallorca SMASH before we are going back to that wonderful island in September. I'm not sure I will succeed, but I will give it a try. Anyway it's better to take time to create a result one is satisfied with than to force things.

Well, this was the end of our Cyprus story, at least with the photos I chose for the SMASHbook. I have saved some of the best photos for layouts, so I'll be back with some travellayouts one day.

Project Life 2015 | Week #12 and #13

Hi guys,

Wow time is running, it's almost July and we are so much waiting for summer - real summer I mean. It had been a very cold and windy June here, so I guess all danes are longing for some warmth and sun. In a few weeks it's time for a couple of weeks vacation, I really can't wait.....

Without further ado here you have my Project Life spreads for week no. 12 and 13.

Week #12

I only have a few photos from week #13 so I used one of the small inserts.

Week #13

I hope to be back with another post tomorrow. See you!

Hej, jeg hedder Magnus.....

For et par uger siden flyttede det nyeste medlem af vores familie ind. Vi har adopteret en super dejlig golden retriever på 10 år. Det er selvfølgelig noget af et sats at adoptere sådan en moden herre, men efter vi havde mødt ham var vi ikke i tvivl om, at han skulle fortsætte sit liv hos os. Om det bliver et par måneder, et par år, eller i bedste fald endnu længere, er jo ikke til at vide.

Magnus

Magnus tidligere hundeforældre skulle skilles og desværre havde ingen af dem mulighed for at have ham i deres nye hjem. Vi ved ikke så meget om ham, men han er en utrolig rolig og rar hund. Lige nu er vi i "lære-hinanden-at-kende" fasen og gør hvad vi kan for at han skal falde godt til hos os. Naturligvis er han en smule påvirket at skulle forholde sig til nye mennesker. rutiner og omgivelser, men jeg synes det er gået rigtig fint indtil nu.

Der er ingen tvivl om, at Magnus hygger sig

Vi er allerede blevet utrolig glade for ham, og vil gøre alt hvad vi overhovedet kan for, at han kan have et godt seniorliv her hos os.

Project Life 2015 | Week #11

Hello there,

Once again it has been a while since my last post. The last couple of weeks have been pretty busy, firstly I've had many shifts at the hospital, secondly we have got another member of our family. I'll tell you more about him in my next blogpost, which will be in Danish, but feel free to use the translation-button.

Today I have another Project Life spread for you.

Mid-March the spring seriously begins here in Denmark, one of the very first signs of springtime is the little snowdrops which pops up everywhere and of course they had to appear on the spread.

Project Life 2015 | Week #9

Hi everyone, are you enjoying the Sunday?

It's time for another Project Life spread, so here comes my week no. 9.

Week no. 9

Thuesday we celebrated Nicoline's real Birthday. Even though she had the flu she enjoyed being celebrated. Among the gifts was a nice bicycle and a babydoll with lots of functions. She was rather tired so she finished rather quickly playing with it.

I didn't take many photos over that week, so this was what I had for my spread.

Throwback Thursday | Torsdagstilbageblik

Vores genbo har lige investeret i en KÆMPE "fætter" af en ny campingvogn, og den ER virkelig stor! Mens vi sad og drak morgenkaffe kunne vi  se, hvordan familien baksede for at få vognen hægtet på krogen, så de kunne komme af sted på Kr. Himmelfartsferie.  

Hele det scenarie fik os til at tænke tilbage på januar måned i 2006, hvor vi indledte jagten på en god, brugt campingvogn, og på hvordan vi i starten baksede rundt når vi skulle afsted, for ikke at tale om, da vi skulle stille op de første gange. Det kan godt give sved på panden, men er vældig god underholdning for andre. 

Jeg har altid lidt af udlængsel og elsker at rejse, heldigvis er det noget B. er helt med på. I og med vi valgte at få Cæsar, og også valgte at han ikke skulle passes i en hundepension, mens vi tog ud på opleveren,  begyndte udlængslen for alvor at gnave. Vi besluttede os for at kigge efter en campingvogn, der ikke var "finere" end at vi kunne have en stor, (til tider) våd hund i den, så vi kunne have ham med ud at rejse. Det skulle vise sig at være en rigtig god løsning for os.

Valget faldt på denne ældre Adria:

Sådan så den ud fra starten. Vi shinede den op indvendig så den blev lidt pænere

Toilet var et must

Alt blev grundigt undersøgt før vi købte den

Vi startede med nogle små ture i Danmark for at prøve af, om campinglivet var noget vi alle 3 kunne leve med, og vi ELSKEDE det. Lange ture til Frankrig m.v. klarede Cæsar med bravour, men mon ikke der dukker  torsdagstilbageblik op fra en campingferie eller to op senere? - Jeg vil næsten tro det. 

Project Life 2015 | Week #8

WAUW.... May 13th and this is my first post this month, - I'd better tighten things up.

I have lots of spreads to show, but it will come little by little, but now on to week no. 8 (better late than never).

There were two main topics this week. Firstly Claus and Maja was here to celebrate Nicoline's birthday, it was 3 days too early, but family plans had to fit and a little girl who turns 3 doesn't care about the days. Sunday my DH and I went to the large Travel Fair in Herning. We got tons of inspiration for our next travels, or at least a lot of ideas for our bucket list. It was a really exciting day and of course we ended up booking our next vacation at wonderful Majorca later this year. I can't wait to be there again.

This was what I want to show from my week no. 8.

I hope to be back very soon.

Throwback Thursday | Torsdagstilbageblik

Når jeg surfer rundt på Facebook og Instagram  falder jeg nogle gange over begrebet  #Throwback Thursday, hvor man poster billeder (egentlig er meningen, at det skal være billeder af én selv, men det vælger jeg at se bort fra her på bloggen) fra noget, der er sket tidligere, det kan være noget der er sket for flere år siden eller bare for nogle dage siden, - det er helt op til en selv. Jeg kom til at tænke på, at det egentlig er en god måde at hive nogle gode minder frem på, så jeg har bestemt mig for at lægge Throwback Thursday poster her på bloggen, - ikke hver torsdag, men en gang i mellem. 

Vi har lige haft besøg af min søn, Claus, og hans kæreste, Maja, i nogle dage. Snakken går jo om løst og fast, når man bor i hver sin ende af landet, og ikke lige ser hinanden hver dag. Før i tiden snakkede vi meget om musik, når vi var sammen - både Claus og jeg har altid været glade for at lytte til musik og har begge en ret varieret musiksmag. For år tilbage spillede Claus i nogle forskellige bands  både i Esbjerg og i Aarhus.  

I går sad jeg så og kiggede på nogle ældre billeder, blandt andet af Claus og min mor. Vi mistede vores dejlige mormor tilbage i 2000, og Claus havde et helt specielt forhold til hende. Den skole han gik på, ligger 2 minutters gang fra, hvor hun boede, så han kiggede ind til hende næsten hver dag på vej hjem fra skole.

De gamle billeder gav mig et flashback til en episode, som fandt sted mens Claus læste i Aarhus. Nu ved jeg, at der er nogen der læser med her på bloggen, der har hørt historien før, men nu er det jo et torsdagstilbageblik, så den kommer lige igen.

Under et af vores besøg hos ham sagde han, at der lige var noget vi skulle høre. Han gik ind på sin computer og fandt et nummer, som hans band havde indspillet. Det var en dejlig rock-ballade. Da nummeret var næsten færdigt fortalte han, at det var ham selv der havde skrevet både teksten og musikken, og at det var en sang til hans mormor.

Det er en dejlig tekst, synes jeg.

Egentlig er det sådan et lidt bittersweet flashback, - for jeg blev naturligvis dybt rørt, stolt og glad over, at han skrev en sang til sin mormor, min mor, og har kun gode minder fra episoden, men det er også et flashback til et savnet, dejligt menneske, som ikke er mere.

- Og så måtte den "dumme dreng" jo have en ekstra kæmpe krammer :-)

God Bededaqgsferie.

Vi ses en anden dag.

Project Life 2015 | Week #7

Hello again,

I think it's time for another Project Life spread so here is week no. 7.

It was the week where terror struck Danmark with 2 awful attacks in Copenhagen, which literally kept everyone in the whole country occupied. I think we all knew it was a matter of time before the terror hit us, anyway it was a nasty thing.

Otherwise it was a week with many working hours, I started creating a banner for Nicolines new room and bought a doll for her as a birthday present. 

IT was the week elsewhere terror struck Danmar with 2 attack in Copenh

Status update on my project life: I'm working on week no. 15 so I'm still running a little behind but I guess I can catch up on some of it the next days.

Må jeg præsentere.....

I dag vil jeg gerne præsentere vores nyeste familiemedlem for jer. Netop i dag, for præcis en måned siden, den 22.03.2015, blev vi morforældre til endnu en fantastisk lille pige. Hun blev født om morgenen på en herlig solskinsdag, så det må da siges at være en god start på livet.

Nicoline blev afleveret hos os, da fødslen var lige op over, og vi gik naturligvis over for at hilse på lillepigen om eftermiddagen.

Vores 3 dejlige piger

Her er så det lille vidunder, bare 6 timer gammel, sammen med sin stolte mor og glade storesøster, Nicoline, som i øvrigt på det bestemteste mener, at lillesøster skal hedde Johan!!!  :-D

Nicoline mente, at lillepigen frøs, så hun gav hende en af sygehuset strikkede huer på :-)

Vi havde slet ikke regnet med at blive bedsteforældre (UHA.. jeg synes det lyder så gammelt :-D ), og så er det ekstra stort at få barnebarn nummer 2, det er vi meget taknemmelige for.

Det er ikke så meget vi har set til lillepigen endnu, når vi har været sammen med den lille familie er det nemlig altid faldet sammen med hendes sovetid, så jeg må indrømme, at det klør lidt i fingrene for at få hende i hænderne, men pyt.....vores tid skal nok komme.