Wedding Gallery

This weeks prompt at Em is "my parents". This is one of the first pictures with me and both my parents..I guess there's some from the airport when I came to Norway, but I've only got pictures of either me and mom or me and dad....here we're at home...finally a little family...me, mom and dad. It says "happy days" at the bottom....they had some problems by then...but I really do believe they had some happy days ...especially when I arrived....well..I gotta believe that don't I.. I like how the little clock frames our hands together....makes the whole cards balance a bit off-centred, but ohwell. Once again a simple card, but I love how Ems cards makes me think some things through... one theme at a week... you know..kids sense a lot of things. I remember asking dad when I was little (maybe not so little...ten-eleven maybe? possibly younger..)....if he had a backuplist of women he'd be with instead of mom....if things wouldnt work out between them... I don't really remember his answer....but I remember being anxious about his reply and how he'd take it...and me really wanting to know who these women would be if he did have such a list.... that was way before their divorce...I really don't think I actually knew things was that bad...maybe it was just normal curiousiness? I also recall following dad at the airport when he was gonna say goodbye to his mistress..now his wife...they came home from a long trip in Pakistan together with some other people (he was doing a lot of these kind of stuff when I was younger, long travels to countries far away to help them establish their own sign-language and deaf organization and stuff). I was kinda wondering if he'd really kiss her goodbye or not..with mom inside at the airport... I dunno why I was thinking so...was that when they were separated? I don't think so.. did I know about their problems then? I can't remember either. Must have known, why else would I be curious about them and how they'd say goodbye... hm. Memory's a fuzzy thing. I guess they were separated by then. Must have been. Dad, sorry if you're reading this....but well..this is a part of the past now...my past too... besides...I love you both a lot. Am just not good at telling you but I hope you know :p

Anyways. Watched 300 yesterday. Neat movie. Cool woman. Love the photography and the style. Some of the same techniques as Sin City (ofc...both adapted graphnovels of the same style/genre). Lovely. Here's a photo of me and Simen in the elevator on our way home...eating icecream from McDonalds.....:D I wanna take more pictures of us together. Makes me happy. Soh!

Ukens kortutfordring fra Emily handler om våre foreldre. Syntes dette bildet passet bra - en av de første bildene av oss sammen etter adopsjonen. Hele kortet er helt offcenter og ubalansert...men jeg liker hvordan ghost-klokken ringer inn hendene våre...så den får bare være sånn. Var på kino og så 300 igår; måtte seff. benytte sjansen til å ta et bilde av meg og Simen. Jeg tror jeg vil bli flinkere til det. Sørge for at midt innimellom alle ungebildene så bør det være et par av meg og Simen. Sammen. Sådetså.

Ahh...the sun is shining, the skies are blue and the air is chill and crisp with a hint of warmer seasons - oh yes - it's springtime!

At 04.50pm yesterday I decided that hmm, the picture and papers I had would make a good layout for the sketch-contest at papirhylla.no which ended at 6pm. Right. I just needed two more pictures - so I speedied up and edited two more pictures & started painting (spilled paint on my desk, papers AND pants! grr1!), cutting and sewing. As it was afternoon still Amalie kept bugging me but I *had* to finish this layout in time, so I bribed her with some chocolate...bad mommy bad!! (to my defense...I was stressed!! *blush*). At 5.35ish I finished the layout after 45minutes give or take - and started to scan it. Noticed that the title didn't seem right (why do I always notice such stuff AFTER I've scanned stuff?), and after a confirmation from a friend at MSN I decided to change the title - thank god that MM stickers are so easy to remove/reposition! Scanned and stressed even more and at 5.50pmish I finally mailed this layout. Two hours later I got a message that I won! Woho. Haha. (okok, there were only 6-7 other layouts in that contest so :p)

What I learned?
1. Don't suddenly decide to join a contest an hour before while the kids are awake.
2. Don't scrap a 12x12 layout if you actually decide to scrap the contest afterall. TAKES TOO FIGGIN' LONG TIME TO SCAN!

Anyways. My sis & niece. Yes. That's a santa-hat she's wearing. It was taken a few days before Christmas. :p I love these papers by the way. Melissa Frances and Creative Imaginations Narratives (and Fancy Pants). Yummy. So perfect for those tender moments.

Monday means a brand new Em challenge! Wohoo! This weeks prompt was "I believe..." Well. I believe that things will be fine eventually..but I've never said that out loud - I'm too afraid to jinx that!! Hope I didn't jinx myself bigtime when deciding to scrap it o.O

Ohwell. New week, new possibilities. Have a nice week y'all :)

Ok! Et godt tips; Ikke bestem dere for å bli med på en konkurranse en time før fristen går ut!! ("det er jo bare så deg" fikk jeg høre..men! jeg mener det! denne gangen så! :p).

Altså; klokka ti på fem igår kikket jeg litt på bildet og de to papirene jeg hadde funnet frem til bildet og tenkte...hmm....dette hadde kanskje passet litt til Papirhyllas skissekonkurranse....som jeg tidligere egentlig hadde forkasta fordi jeg ikke ble komfortabel med skissen (blush). Men. Joda. Trengte to bilder til, så hurtigredigerte to bilder i samme serie, skrev de ut, fant et tredje papir, klippet til, malte på bildene (hvit kant - malinga ble sølt utover bordet/buksa...hva gjorde jeg? Malte bildekantene rett fra bordet...istedetfor å tørke opp...*stress* *blush*), kjørte frem symaskinen mens malinga tørka, funderte på åssen i huleste jeg skulle få sirklene på skissa til å passe pent inn i LO'en, fant frem coasterne jeg hadde liggende fra Imagination Project, stemplet og fiksa tittel. Klokka fem over halv seks ca - etter 45 minutter - begynte jeg på scanninga - men fant ut at tittelen bare ble helt feil (den skurret....:p), sjekka med Gyda/Katta på msn og joda, burde nok ha en ny tittel, fikk hjelp til den og bytta på tittelen og scanna på nytt igjen (takk gud for at MM stickersene er så lette å fjerne/flytte på). Ti minutter før fristen ble mailen sendt inn.

To timer senere fikk jeg beskjed om at LO'en vant - wohoo!! Var "bare" 6-7 andre LO'er som kom til den konken, men allikevel. Heh.

Ellers: Mandag betyr ny ukesutfordring fra Emily; denne gangen skulle vi skrive noe om "I believe..." Vel. Egentlig tror jeg ting ordner seg....tilslutt. Jeg tør bare ikke si det. Langt mindre tenke det høyt. Ja. Jeg er vel litt overtroisk akkurat der - tenker jeg det for høyt eller "selvsikkert" så ødelegger jeg bare for meg selv, ting vil ikke ordne seg da just because. Så. Håper jeg ikke har ødelagt for meg bigtime nå da, ved å SCRAPPE tanken...!! *yikes* :)

Ha en riktig fin våruke!! :)

Ps. Nå skal jeg lage bursdagskort til kompisen til Adrian. Traff på ham igår da jeg skulle hente Adrian hos farmoren og han utbrøt med en gang; "Har du klippet håret ditt? Jeg synes du så skikkelig fin ut nå!". Aww bless! Seks år og så veloppdragen og storsjarmør allerede! ;) Tror kortet han skal få skal bli litt fint jeg *smile* - Adrian skal i bursdagsbesøk hos ham idag :p
(Og nei, jeg tror ikke han var beregnende..han er jo bare seks..og han gjorde store øyne og utbrøt det spontant med en gang han så meg med et stort smil. *fnis*)

Ooo this one was funny. Funny because people keep commenting on my name. My full name that is. I've got a whoppin six initials. Yep. I used to have five...my sister has four...I used to taunt her because of that - and now I've gotten six. All thanks to Simen & our marriage ofc :p Why? I dunno. Mom's got three names - one surname, one middle and one lastname. Dad's got two. Or well, he added another middlename some years ago. Anyways. People always comment on my name once they get to know all of them. Some people think it's funny to memorize them all aswell. (A sure hit at some parties for some reason) Heh. My initials are AJCNSL. And here's my card for this week; a collage of distressed paperpieces, some chipboard & a handcut feltflower w/a pearl in the middle.

Ukas utfordring fra Emily var initialer. Våre initialer. Jeg har seks navn i navnet mitt. Seks initialer. Navnet mitt har alltid vakt litt oppmerksomhet såsnart folk har fått snusen i hele navnet mitt - det er visst artig med seks navn. For noen har det også gått sport i å huske alle navnene mine riktig. Heh. Da jeg og søs var små så "kranglet" vi og jeg ertet henne med at jeg hadde fem navn - ett mer enn henne. Nå har jeg seks, fordi mitt gamle etternavn ble skjøvet til mellomnavn da jeg giftet meg.

Takk for gårsdagens kommentarer - interessant å se at jeg visstnok er en digital purist. Godt å skjønne at det ER helt iorden å redigere bilder for å gjøre de bedre. Finere. Forhåpentligvis. Skal iallefall eksperimentere mer og sånn tror jeg :)

Haha. Sorry. Just had to. Todays prompt (can I say prompt about this?) at the Her space:my space was "blue" and it made me think of one of the coolest songs I know of..BLue...by Eiffel 65...reminds me of my earlier studentdays when I was hittin town pretty much every weekend. Or something like that :p Anyways. Shall we move on?

Em's card challenge: Write a little note to yourself. Well, I've been intending to buy myself a new deck of cards with a more paper-texture rather than this plastic one that I've got now...but do I remember to? nooo....which makes me have to staple or sew the papers on the card to make sure it really sticks cause it's so slippery with the plastic surface mine have..heh. well. Maybe I'll remember it for the next week...mm...maybe. Used some KI papers and some wrap-papers I had...Heidi Swapp journalingspot, edge distresser & some sewing.

Oh, wanted to show this too; This is what I mean by neat & tidy package of ribbons! And they all came in a nice plastic bag with holes on top so you can hang them up if you like kinda.

Dette er det jeg mener med lekker innpakning fra the ribbon basket; båndene er bundet med papirbelter i midten liksom :) Og så kom de pent og ryddig sortert i plastikkbag'er med hull på toppen liksom... :)

Ellers så digget jeg dagens oppgave på her space:my space; "blå". Finn noe som er blått hjemme hos deg. Hadde akkurat brukt dette KI papiret så da ble det fotografert - og med litt redigering ble det lekkert! :) Ellers er ukens kort i "A deck of you" en notis til seg selv. Vel...jeg har tenkt at jeg skal kjøpe meg et nytt kortstokk for den jeg nå har er så teflonaktig at det er litt irriterende..kan ikke gjøre stort på selve kortflaten, lim "sklir" og sånn....litt irriterende og grunnen til at jeg har brukt stiftemaskina så mye på kortene mine ;) Så jeg ønsker meg en sånn ordentlig papirkortstokk men husker jeg det? Nope. Så. Note to self: kjøp nytt kortstokk! :)

LO'en var et forsøk til DW2007 forresten; Messy stitching. Synes det ikke ble såå vellykket, menmen. Har prøvd meg på denne oppgaven to ganger tidligere uten å ha fått det til skikkelig, nå gir jeg opp og mover on :P (ja...jeg fornorsker engelske ord og sånn....get used to it :P) Er forresten stolt over dette bildet! Et analogt bilde! Og det er scrappet! WOw! Tok meg tre dager å endelig få scrappet det.....satte meg fast flere ganger underveis og kappet noen ark fånyttes ja....men....endelig ble det scrappet! (jeg har en mental sperre mht analoge bilder)

Oh BTW? Kan du tegnspråk, bor i Stavanger og har lyst til å lære deg å scrappe; det ser ut til at jeg skal dit den 14. april for å holde to scrappekurs. Meld din interesse hos Stavanger døveforening i så tilfelle :) Kommer tilbake med nærmere info etterhvert.

Thought I'd share some of my inspirations & nice finds lately.

Firs off; discovered this lady yesterday - I'm so outta the loop so I dunno if I'm just particular slow or if she's not that known *blush* but - I liked what I heard! Do check out her myspace spot and listen to some of her tunes: Regina Spektor. Pretty similar style like Tori Amos (who by the way will be out with a new album soon!!! YAY!), I actually almost thought it was Tori - just that her (Reginas) voice is a bit more clear kinda....I think the chances of me buying her album will be pretty high if I happen to see it in a store....(I've only bought music on the net once....because the cd wasn't available otherwise *blush*)

This blog seem to be new - and very interesting. Her space : my space. Love the delicious & yummy colors. Nice idea. Todays entry are about taps. Here's mine - after looking at the yummy piccies both here and at the next stop below I decided...I wanna play with photography too!

This wonderful lady. Jessica Claire. Wow! If you've been to my blog for some time now you may have noticed me "complaining" that I'm so lousy at taking photos of other stuff but my children. And that I want to be better at taking cityphotos and stuff. Well, have a look at her place - it's so SUPERinspiring!!! I've *almost* decided to take a walk and try and look at my surroundings with new eyes! Wowowow. Really. Check out her photos!

And how fun. Just as I was done writing this and thinking I should post I checked Em's weekly challenge & found out it was about what inspires you - so here it is; my card about what inspires me: I don't really have a constant source/muse - but lately it's been all about the colors. All colors bright and shiny and yummy. Like Jessicas pictures. I'm not a colorful scrapper, at least I do not think so. BUT. It doesn't mean I can't get inspired by others/things that's colorful still? :) I borrowed a picture from Jessicas site (I hope she forgives me :p) and well, I thought I'd try altering it somewhat with some 3d paste & white paint but it didn't turn out the way I wanted, but ohwell...thats what this challenge is for too? Trying new stuff....not necessarily be perfect or do everything right always..as long as you try? My other inspirationsource are the pictures themselves. The pictures I scrap. The pictures that MAKES me wanna scrap them. Boring know :)

Tenkte jeg skulle dele noe av det som har inspirert meg i det siste og som bare gjør at jeg har lyst til å dele det med andre og :) På musikkfronten har jeg nettopp "oppdaget" Regina Spektor. Liker du Tori Amos burde du vel også like henne kanskje? Jeg vet ikke om jeg er treg eller, men hun er iallefall ny for meg :)

Her space: My space er en interessant bildeblogg med et kult konsept. Jeg har prøvd meg litt jeg og for de er virkelig inspirerende!

Jessica Claire. Wow! Dyktig til å redigere (?) og en enda dyktigere fotograf....ikke minst fordi jeg synes hun tar så interessante bilder.....ikke mennesker (som jeg har sett)..men feks...sjekk låsbildene.....vindu- og dørbildene..... gosj! Jeg tror jeg må ta meg en tur ut snart og ta noen bilder jeg også! har jo hatt lyst til å bli flinkere til det å ta bilder av ikke-unger..... :p

Jeg begynte egentlig på denne posten igår men så så jeg Em's utfordring denne uken; hva inspirerer deg. Gosj. For et kult sammentreff, akkurat det jeg satt og skrev om jo. Så da måtte jeg bare lage kortet ferdig før jeg postet denne posten ;) Bildene inspirerer meg i scrappinga....å kjenne at jeg har lyst til å scrappe bildet...yay! Og så farger. Sterke, inspirerende farger. Sånn som på de to fotositene jeg linka her. Og som i feks Corinne Delis kule nye papirserie Cosmic Energy. Eller Rogue de Garances intense farger. Det er ikke nødvendigvis sånn at jeg scrapper sterke farger - jeg tror ikke det iallefall....men de inspirerer meg! Det er vel lov? :)

Oh my how time flies! My little boy turned six the other day...
And I've been thinking more than once in a while that - gawd...I *do* miss his cute little babycheeks. *sigh* Six years. You know what that really means? It means that I'm OLD! Yikes. So. Here's a picture of him and his brand new bicycles...and my week...uh..8.. card...in Em's "A deck of you" challenge which was about what you're missing....and well...in celebration of my sons bday...I miss his stinkin' cwute babycheeks!! :)


Also! Check out this neat and very inspiring photoblog: Her space:My space - I'm gonna start with happy: Look what dumped in my mailbox yesterday!! THANKS A LOT FOR THE HELP ANETTE!! :) Weee...this is what makes me happy! (I'm not high-mainentance... really :p) And for your information; this is 10 2 in 1 4x6 canon photopaper...pp-101 - loooove! If you know of places with the same deal (2-1) & for sg-101, DO let me know! I'll love you to death and beyond if you're able to help me out! :) I know - it's really cheaper to gather up a bunch of photos and mail'em to a photostore, especially when they have these special-offers once in a while. But really. I HATE that part of the scrapping. Prepare multiple pictures for future scrapping that is. That's the part I don't like about crops. I can't handle that kinda multitasking; trying to predict what kind of pictures I'll use and how to crop'em and stuff :) So I really really have become dependant on my photoprinter & printing pictures for one project at a time :)

Tenk det - vesle Adriangutten vår fylte seks år forleden. Store, vesle gutten vår! Han fikk en sykkel fra oss - en tøff og stilig en som han syntes var litt stas. Må bare lære seg å sykle den ordentlig bare :) I anledning bursdagen hans så tenkte jeg at - gosj - jeg savner virkelig babykinnene hans! De tykke, deilige kinnene som småunger beholder fra babyalderen før de får det litt mer voksne barneansiktet liksom. *sukk* Så til Emilys A deck of you-utfordring denne uken der hun spurte hva vi savnet så ble det babykinnene til Adrian. *sukk* :)

Ellers så fikk jeg en finfin pakke igår fra Anette S; 10 pakker med 2-1 fotopapir!! Weee! HATER nemlig å skrive ut bilder til flere prosjekt ad gangen, så fremkalling hos fotobutikk er ikke noe for meg, selv om det er billigere med de rette tilbudene....klarer det bare ikke.... så har dermed blitt ganske så avhengig av fotoprinteren min...og blekkpatronene....og fotopapiret..:) Tusen tusen takk for hjelpen Anette!! :) (Vet noen hvor jeg får tak i 2-1 pakker med 4x6 fotoark av kvaliteten SG-101 så ta kontakt! :) ) Og så fikk jeg en hyggelig nyhet igår og - eller to.... havnet på tredjeplass i Scraplift runden hos Papirgleder (wee) og kom med blant topp-ti i Februars DW2007 greie på Lifetimemoments...som Autumn Leaves DW2007-DT plukker ut...kjekt :) Litt rart å se ens eget nick på newsletteren fra LM hehe :) Har ikke scrappet noe på to dager nå, og kjenner det klør i fingrene....har mer enn nok av utfordringer og konkurranser å "ta av" så det er jo bare å komme igang igjen :) OG! Lyst til å være med på noe morsomt? Kathrine er mesterhjernen bak Jakten på Påskeegget på Minneriket og jeg er hjelpekaninen. *fnis* Bli med du også- dette blir gøy! :)

Saturday. It's been very quiet around here today. I think it's thanks to Cartoon Network. Yep. Finally got around to order extra TV channels etc when the kiddo asked us why "everybody else" had CN and we didn't. He was just wondering and slightly puzzled by this "fact"...so we thought it was about time to broaden the TV-assortment. Here he is watching the TV :p He can't sit still so he always keep finding new positions while watching :p I made two layouts yesterday - simple ones but I like them that way. I like playing around with the diff styles and this one in particular made me think of Elsie's because of the border. And the fact that I made the "sweetheart" title myself inspired by Nisa Fiin kinda adds to the whimsy-Elsie-style. I think? It's fun. I think I'll make more layouts with such a fun border & maybe my own handwriting in the title. And oh. These flowers. Got them from mom+sis++ aren't they beautiful? I do love fresh flowers. When I'll get rich I'll make sure to have fresh flowers always in my home! :)

Now. Hungry. No car means we're dependant on others to do the groceries etc. Kinda hard when we're so used to having a car.... hopefully we'll manage to find a new one by the next week - am searching and searching and I think we're closing in on finding out what we really want from a car. Anyways..gonna make food then go down to borrow mother-in-laws car to do the groceries!

Igår fikk vi endelig fikset på parabolantennen vi fikk tidligere i uka slik at vi faktisk kunne få TV-kanalene vi har betalt for på TVskjermene våres...med den vesle hybel-TV-antennen (som faktisk har fulgt meg siden hybeldagene mine) har vi bare fått inn fire TV-kanaler - NRK, NRK2, TV2 og TVNorge..nå har vi plutselig ca 40 TV-kanaler, alle i perfekt kvalitet (TV-antennen begynner å dra på årene ja..). Det eneste dumme er at vi faktisk ikke har TV2 eller TVNorge nå, så antennen må fortsatt beholdes gitt..bleh. Men - guttungen er storfornøyd med å få Cartoon Network på TV-skjermen hans - han har registrert at denne kanalen finnes hos "alle andre" enn oss og lurt litt på hvorfor....ikke mast - bare vært litt forundret over det. Så da tenkte vi at mjo - guttungen burde kanskje få tilgang til noen flere TV-kanaler så han ikke helt merker hvor fattige vi egentlig er :p Så voila...nå får vi en guttunge som blir TV-slave istedetfor dataspill-slave for noen uker fremover gitt :p

Jeje...LO'en ble laget til en DW2007-utfordring, og selv om den er ganske enkel så merker jeg at jeg liker sånne enkle LO'er :) De gjør meg litt glad...kanskje fordi det ikke tar så lang tid å bli ferdig med nok et bilde i den svære "må-scrappe"-bunka mi og jeg kan fortsette på den neste :)

Christine: Ja - "a deck of you" tar utgangspunkt i helt vanlige kortstokk - det er 52 kort i et kortstokk og 52 uker i året - 52 utfordringer :) De fåes for mellom 10-20 kr i butikken og er veldig morsomme å jobbe med! Vil anbefale å ikke kjøpe kortstokk med "plastbelegg" på - det er ikke helt enkelt å klatte maling eller flytende lim på de da...tror jeg skal se meg om etter et nytt kortstokk snart som har en helt vanlig papiroverflate, for dette har irritert meg en stund :) Linken til Emilys utfordringer ligger på siden her - Emily Falconbridge - så det er bare å finne deg et kortstokk og slenge deg på utfordringen du også :)

Hehe...I kinda didn't read the text as close as I should have when making the last Em-card - but begones! I made a new one now! With the correct theme! My shoe-story.....well....these shoes....right...the short version? Don't buy shoes on the net. You'd think that'd be obvious, and it really is......unless youre able to try the exact same shoe at your local shoestore before purchasing them on the net...but well..alright...where to start..uhm... ok... Victorias Secret. I LOVE the store. It was my favourite spendingplace before I found scrapping (Can't afford spend stuff on non-scrapbookingstuff these days hehe). But as the store only excists in the US I had to do all my orders over the net. One day I saw these shoes. Woah! Totally cool shoes. I knew it wasn't particulary smart, but I just HAD to get me these shoes. So - I ordered these...I think they were on sale by then - 25-35$. Once they arrived I found out that they were too small ofcourse. BLeh. I had to return them, and talking with the VS costumerservice they told me to please use UPS which they were using for shipping. Right. I found the little UPS office here in Bergen and the guy behind the counter was nice enough, helping me out filling forms and stuff. When asked about the shippingprice he said he wasn't totally sure but it'd most likely be around 250-300 NOK, which is like 48$ max. Ouch. Tad more pricey than I imagined, but heck. I really wanted the shoes so I told him fine, I'll return them. After some weeks the bill arrived in the mail. The shipping price? 1200 NOK which's like 190$!!!!!!!!! OMG!?!? What the..!? Hello???
Calling the UPS headquarter to ask if this surely must have been a mistake they told me nope, that's the right price, and also added that I shouldn't have asked the guy at the UPS OFFICE for a price inquiry, he wasn't competent enough to tell (NO shit...) and I should have called directly to the UPS main office in Oslo to ask for the prices (how would I know when I'm at the UPS office and theyres a guy working for UPS there helping me out....not telling me that I should call the HQs for prices...I wouldnt know myself kinda!?) ..... they later added that the guy I spoke to denied that he'd given me any priceestimate (as if I'd send a packet without knowing the price in advance!??) and that I was shit outta luck and had to pay and I should have known that 2-300NOK was too little anyways (said with a snort). Right. That was the last time I ever bought anything from Victorias Secret (*sigh*), and the last time I ever trust UPS. If forced to use any kind of mailservice I'd go for Fed-Ex or someone else just because UPS called me a liar straight to my face and well... sigh.... hello..... would I actually spend 190$ to return a pair of 30$ shoes if I had known?? *sigh* Anyways. After a few weeks of quarreling and lawyers involved I had to give up. And pay. And yes. Tbh. At some point I really really wanted to just grab a bat and head to the UPS office and kick the stupid guy senseless for 1. giving me the totally wrong price (at least he could have given me more realistic prices like saying it'd about 80-100$ - I'd SO back up by then and rather resell or give away the shoes) 2. denying that he ever did so. No, I didn't, but I sure wanted to.

I love these shoes though (I got new ones from VS after returning the first shoes natch). They're the most expensive shoes I've ever had and will ever have. And I aint gonna throw them away, I'm gonna use them till I'm dead and maybe..then maybe..they'll be worth the price. And I'll carry with me a grudge against UPS and stupid lying officemen and hq-women telling me that this wasn't uncommon, people *claiming* (emphasise "claim" - as if *I* was trying to scam them) they didn't know/got the wrong price and refusing to pay the real price (but then again why why why would I ever think the UPSofficeman would lie about that to me...if he really didn't know why the heck didnt he just say so but he didnt just said he thought it'd be 48$ and well hello 190$ is WAY more than 48$ dude). Now that's my shoestory and thank you for reading. Kick ass ~~

*breathes*
Ok. I'm calm now. This really ripped a bad bad bad story. I love my shoes. They look good on me. Period. And want to forget all about evil stupid lying men and women.

Anyways. I need help!! Should I buy the cutecute "fatbirds" stamps from Bampop or should I not?? They're so cute! But I know...I won't be using them that much.....so that'd be a waste.....but still..cute birds! And the name! "Fatbirds"! Aww..

Her er min ordentlige uke#7 kort i Em's "A deck of you" challenge, etter en liten misforståelse tidligere i uka :p Disse skoene .... har en lang forhistorie. Dyreste skoene mine ever. Dyrere enn bryllupsskoene med alle omkostningene :P Gidder ikke gjenta historien her (den kan leses på engelsk), men jeg sier bare en ting; ned med UPS.

Oh dear ...heh...I recently got disqualified in a contest because my layout didn't look that much like the sketch we were supposed to follow. Hm. Ohwell. I got a pretty layout outta it and I'll see if I can fix another one which is more sketchy this time...I originally intended to do it different (and maybe more sketchy) but someone else already did that idea when I got around to finally scrap and it'd be too noticeably similar (and diff from the sketch-directions)....we'll see, maybe I'll go for that idea this time then as she got hers approved :p I'm also doing another sketch - a doublespread - which in the end may and may not look like the original sketch. I'm so bad at sketches :p

Anyways. I'm back home and I'm feeling okay. No direct pains, but a lot of uncomfortiness & I get exhausted easier....or maybe it's because I'm stressing (trying to finish a layout) & then it hurts extra because of the stressing..and when I stress...or feel like I'm stressing..I kinda panic and feel not too well I've noticed. Weird. Maybe it's just mee looking for these symptoms and thus noticing them...I dunno...it's tiresome getting this exhausted so fast...I got so much I wanna and need to do!!!! I don't have time to keep gettin dizzy and exhausted and having to slow down! :P Finished two cards and am up to date with Em's "Deck of you"! Yay! Used some hospitalpictures this time...and stuff from the hospital...lazylazy...:p I've been looking forward to make week 6 - my love card.....and this picture is from the hospital..when he took me home...after uh, six days at the hospital..and I remember being very very grateful for my man...my love!

Edit: LOL.....I'm so sorry...in my hazed & stressed state I read wrong on Em's challenge for this week....it says "shoes - whats your story"....not just "what's your story" as in any story....*blush* Off I go to remake that card :P

Hehe....ble visst diska i en skissekonkurranse, så her er LO'en. Har ennå litt tid på meg til å prøve meg på nytt, så vi får se om jeg rekker den...det går helt sikkert...:p Holder ellers på med Hetal's dobbel-skisse-konkurranse på Minneriket - også den kommer til å bli litt anerledes fra selve skissen ser jeg - men vi får se hvor forskjellig..:p Og så har BG og Cherry Arte og noen BamPop stempler funnet veien til Papirloftet - BG fikk jeg raska med meg da de ankom (og allerede da var noen papirer utsolgte..bleh!), men CA og stemplene tenker jeg å vente litt med til påfyllen av BG kommer...eller noe sånt...får se....må ha...måha!! *smile*

Er ellers endelig ajour med Em's "Deck of you" utfordring - yay! Uke 6 har jeg gledet meg lenge til å lage, og når det kom til stykket...så ble det enkelt..men jeg liker den for det (med et bilde fra da Simen hentet meg hjem fra sykehuset..my love :) ) :) Ohwell..off to work I go! So many plans, so little time.....blir så alt for lett utslitt for tiden...irriterende...jeg vil scrappe!!

Edit: haha....leste feil i forbifarten...sånn går det når man stresser og vil gjøre 1000 ting ferdig..ukens oppgave var "shoes - what's your story"....ikke bare "what's your story".....som i at vi kan velge våre historier.....*blush* får ta det kortet (uke 7) senere ikveld :)

Allright! As I missed last weeks' card challenge I did two today, and for good measurement I think I'll just throw in some random pictures. I got this crazy little challenge from Heidi yesterday...the one where I'm supposed to lift Catrine's doublespread with like, a gazillion piccies. One of the suggestions I liked was to display my fave things. I think I'll call it...."things that makes me happy". It'll take a while though, cause....as I said....gazillion of pictures needed! So. Better get started, no? :) And look! A picture of the sun! In Bergen! Woah! :p

Fikk endelig gjort uke 4+5 til Em's kortutfordring...a deck of you..... & siden jeg tenkte at LO'en til Heidi's utfordring skulle være av folk/ting jeg er glad i...eller gjør meg glad... så...er det bare å sette igang med å ta bilder...eller? :P Dette kommer til å ta litt tid gitt :p Patience Heidi!! :D

Gotta admit I'm pretty darn tempted...Cathy linked to these tshirts, and well, the segment is uh...true...I'd guess...not that I'd know cause I woudln't have anybody else to compare with kinda..uh..er..right :D Might order one. Might actually wear it aswell on like, bulletproof no-show-grandparents-in-law-days. Or something like that :p

Anyways. Uh. Yes. Finally got around to do Emily's cardchallenge week#3. The question was: "I am..." Well. I immediately thought of Pearl Jam's "I am mine" song - then proceed to think about one of my all-time fave quotes from Tori Amos: "She's been everybody else's girl, maybe one day she'll be her own". Alright. Didn't feel too inspired to figure out cool things about my card this week - sorry - but I did feel like trying out my new chipboardshapes (a lovely RAK from Earane on minneriket :) ) so. Daisy D papers, MM stickers, Cherry Arte chipboardalpha & painted Plain Jane paisley. I wrote Tori Amos' quote around the edge. Not very visible nor easy to catch with that pp, but *I* know it's there and that's good enough for me :)

Still in a low-flow scrappingmode - but I've recently played around with the Bare Elements Josh Wood Blocks. SO CUTE!!!! SO MUCH FUN!! (and so much waitin for the glue to dry for each side :P) Anyways. Here's one look. My blocks has three different looks, and I'll alternate them whenever I feel like doing so. Here's my family at row 1 (yeap, that's me too), Simen's bro's kids at row 2 (all boys :P) and my sis' cwute girls at row 3. It really makes me happy looking at my family and all our nephews and nieces close to me like this - this one is also placed upon the shelf above my scrappingdesk. Yay! I'll share my fave block look in a while. Save the best for the last, no? (and yes, I had three diff. looks on these blocks, but I didn't like how the third turned out. One good advice: Don't stamp and emboss stuff on the papers AFTER they're glued to the blocks. It'll be kinda too late to save the look if it didn't turn out the way you wanted. *cough* :p)

Anyways. I've decided that I'll scrap something tonight. I think it'll do me good. I hate going several days without actual scrapping :p

Her er mitt bidrag til Emily's tredje uke med kortstokkgreia. Denne uken skulle vi skrive noe om oss: "I am..." - vel, tankene gikk øyeblikkelig til Pearl Jam's sang "I am mine", som jeg liker veldig godt, og deretter spant tankene videre til mitt favorittsitat fra Tori Amos: "She's been everybody else's girl, maybe one day she'll be her own". Jeg hadde på forhånd delvis bestemt meg for at denne utfordringen skulle stå i impulsens tegn - dvs - at jeg ikke skulle tenke eller gruble for mye - bare gjøre og skrive det som faller meg inn når jeg ser promptene fra Emily... så. Følte meg ikke så veldig inspirert når det gjaldt utformingen av kortet dog - no ideas - men ville iallefall bruke en av chipboardshapene jeg fikk i en RAK fra Earane Oronar på Minneriket.

Ellers har jeg puslet litt med Bare Elements fra Papirloftet i det siste - her er Josh Wood Blocks - det kule med disse blokkene er jo at man kan lage seg forskjellige mønstre og "looks" - og her er et av de; bilder av min lille familie (inkl. meg :p) og våre nevøer og nieser. Guttene er Simens bror sin, og jentene er min søsters. Digger blokkene - går jeg lei av å se på det samme så bare omarrangerer jeg de og får noe nytt å se på. Favoritt"mønsteret" mitt skal jeg vise litt senere tenkte jeg. Kan ikke vise alt på en gang heller..eller? :p

OG!! Scrappefeber's avstemning er igang!! Over 40 flotte LO'er - og kun 20 går videre. Bli med og stem du også! :) Avstemningen avsluttes fredag 26. :)

Yay. The Burning Crusade releases tomorrow. Or well actually, midnight tonight - here's the countdown site (and the place where you can register your expansion). That's the expansion pack of the game World of Warcraft, if you weren't aware :p Our copies were mailed two days ago - so I *assume* it'll arrive sometime tomorrow. Yay. Looking forward for more xp grinding and leveling and new stuff. I think :p

Anyways. Week 2 of Emilys cardchallenge has arrived - yeah! Sure have been looking forward to that new challenge :D "What's powerful to you?" Hm. I guess that'd have to be love. The love I feel for my children, the love I have for my hubby (at times :P) and the love I hope he'll still have for me for years to come. The background is a collage of various distressed newspapers. I've elaborated on the word at the backside of the card. Not happy about the stamping, shoulda done a little more of that *before* the word was glued on the card - but ohwell...now I know :p

Uke to av Emily's kortstokk utfordring: "What is powerful to you?" Det må vel være følelsene - båndene og kjærligheten en har til ens barn og den en er glad i. Har forklart det litt nærmere på baksiden av kortet :)

Håper alle får en finfin scrappeuke - har et lite "luksusproblem" jeg, har laget to LO'er til Scrappefeber og aner ikke hvilken av de jeg skal velge..urk. Har jo litt lyst til å være med videre og, da. Den fine og "klassiske" eller den tøffe men litt veldig rare LO'en. Mainstream eller uvanlig. *klø seg i hodet* Jaja. Har noen dager på meg til å bestemme meg da :P Begge er såklart fluet med DW2007 utfordringer ;)

Nå er det forresten ni dager siden jeg leverte fra meg kameraet&den ene linsen ...uten noen som helst tilbakemelding...... de skulle jo ringe når de hadde tatt en kikk på kameraet..urk...*abstinenser*

Ahh..I love blogging, and I love checking out what's going on at my blogger friends. They always inspire me in one way or another, and enlighten me on small and big fun things going on. Thanks to Lene who's doing Emily Falconbridges card-challenge. It was so inspiring and looked so fun that I just had to run to the store to buy myself a card-deck too and start on my own cards :D This is week one: "What are you proud of?" Well, I honestly think of anything else apart from the obvious, my family, which I think is pretty much a given - at least for me, but my hobby. Scrapbooking. I'm not necessarily always proud of anything I make (two recent layouts come to mind heh), but I'm proud of having found this hobby in the first place, thankful for what it gives me, for the fun I'm having in the process of creating stuff.....and so on and so on ;) So. Here's my take on week one. Which I now see is pretty much inspired by Lene's card now that I checked hers again *blush* Hope you don't mind Lene! :D Now. I know I'm NOT the best at keeping such long-duration journals. BUT. This really do seem doable. Decorate 52 small cards in 52 weeks? No problem! We'll see how I'm doing 52 weeks from now. If I'm not on this art-journal anymore then something really is wrong with me :P (or that I've finished the whole thing already :p)

Anyways. Checking in on Kristina Contes blog I noticed a worrying post. About people - other bloggers or forumwriters or whatever calling her names and stuff. Ugh. I don't know what's happened. I just know it seemed very unfair and uncalled for, from her post and view at least. And now her blog is gone. Gah. What's wrong with people who always have to do mean personal attacks? *sigh* I hope she'll be back soon. She seem like a cool and spunky kind of girl, and I really like what she's doing scrapwise. EDIT: Ahh..she seem to be back :) Maybe it was just a little random downtime, a coincidence, or she actually closed it then changed her mind... I dunno. She disabled the ability to comment tho. Glad she's still posting :)

Oh. I joined the Calendar Girls DW 2007 group. Maybe I'll join LM's too. I'll try to combine stuff so it won't be that difficult keeping up in time :)

Jeg digger å følge med på hva som skjer rundt omkring med andre scrappere - og jeg er takknemlig for at de fleste deler villig med seg av ting som skjer - både når det gjelder scrapping og ellers. Jeg blir ganske ofte inspirert og synes det er gøy å kikke litt rundt - og denne gangen ble jeg skikkelig inspirert at jeg stakk av til butikken med en gang :p Lene er nemlig med på Emily Falconbridge's art-journal - å dekorere 52 kort (kortstokk-kort :p) i løpet av året. En gang i uken poster hun en oppfordring - og denne ukes oppfordring var å fortelle hva som gjør oss stolte. Jeg har ærlig talt lite å være stolt av føler jeg bortsett fra familien min - men jeg er faktisk ganske stolt av hobbyen min om jeg kan bruke det ordet. Stolt over å ha funnet den og over gleden den gir meg underveis selv om jeg ikke alltid er like fornøyd med sluttresultatet. Men det å endelig ha funnet noe som jeg faktisk trives ganske bra med å gjøre - og som attpåtil er "artistisk" - det er jeg stolt av.

Ellers har jeg blitt med på DW2007's utfordringsgruppe med the calendar girls på twopeas. Fluer jeg denne med andre utfordringer og gjøremål burde det ikke være alt for uoverkommelig, eller...? We'll see :)

Forresten! Lyst til å bli en godterismaktester? Send en mail til panel.norge@leaf.no :) Har vært snopetester for de i uh, iallefall over ett år, kanskje to snart..? Artig "jobb" og så er det litt kult å få snop tilsendt hjem til seg :) Skulle bare ønske de også hadde sjokolade i sortimentet deres.....jaja :)