THE Journey

 Hi my friends.

Thank you for all your kind wishes on my journey / vacation to california.

I tell you: we had the best time ever!!

It was all gorgeous and beautiful!

We enjoyed the time at a beautiful Hotel at the beach of Chanal Island, Oxnard, and got to stay a lot at the beach.

 We also came to visit a lot of fun places: Six flags, Sea World in san Diego and Disney Land.

It was all super fun and lovely.

 We went on a road trip to Sequoia to see the giant trees, to Yosemite national park to se the beautiful falls and nature and to Death Valley to see the desert and to feel the heat ( 122F ) ( 50 degrees celsius)

 We also visited the beautiful city: San Fransisco, wich we all emmediately fell in love with.

This was just a tiny little glimpse of my journey.

I'm sure I will tire you with more ... and of course all the photos will keep me busy scrapbooking for quite a while.... ;)

Thank you for popping by.

Thanks for all your kind comments. Thanks for all your thoughts and love - it really means a lot!!

Iver 13 :)

Gratulerer med dagen kjære, kjære Iver gutten vår!!

Happy happy birthday to our beloved Iver.

You are the funniest, kindest, most talented, warmhearted boy.

Love you so much!!

Wish you all the best on your 13th birthday today.

LOVE!!

ready for the adventure

Hi my friends.

Just wanted to pop in and say happy, happy summer!

I'm ready for vacation. Ready for our big journey and adventure to Los Angeles, California.

I have created this travel journal. Inspired by the "on the road" minialbum by Ali edwards.

I will try to keep my little notes and memories in this book, and add my thoughts and capture the moments along the way.

this is just a few of the pages in the book I wanted to share with you.

Now big hugs you all!!

xo



last week of school

Next week will be last week of school here in Oslo.

My kids will be laving school on monday - due to our trip to California.

So this weeks pixie challenge: school / bookmark theme, was perfect here at my house.

I created this thank you card for one of the teachers.

Will create three more for the other teachers ;)

Happy weekend you all!

xo

my day

Hi my friends.

Thank you SO much for all your kindest birthday wishes on my facebook page, on my e-mail, on Cocoa Daisy forum, on my profile at "The Color Room" and other places.

I SO appreciate it all, and you totally made my day!

big hugs!!

This has been a beautiful day here in oslo.

the weather was good and I celebrated my day at my mothers house.

My kids and my mom made delicious food and the girls made me their special crunchy chocolate cake.

We had a great time outdoor in the sun.

it was all good.

:)

Thank you mom, Edvin, Iver, eirun, sol.

I love you!!

When we arrived home Edvin and Eirik had arranged a wonderful surprise for me:

I found this romantic, beautiful, new bench in my garden, along with a basket full of yummy strawberries.

It just couldn't be any better!

:)

And, at last I got some cozy, wonderful scrappy time - just for me

:) :)

I created this mini album with pictures from my day.

All patterned paper by Cosmo Cricket ( the new line: Odds and Ends )

Now, Thanks for popping by!!

xoxo

in the spotlight

Hi friends.

I'm so happy and honored to be in the spotlight over at the Cosmo Cricket blog this weekend.

:)

You can se more of my projects, with the brand new "odds and ends" collection, and learn more about me if you visit todays blogpost at the Cosmo blog.

See you there!

:)

The layout above is made using the new "odds and ends" line. LOVE the colors and the beautiful patterns.

The layout is all about my mothers birthday. Our family gave her a new bike. She really love to ride her bike around the little city where she lives...and we found she needed a new one. The kids were SO happy to give her this gift. The girls decorated the cycle-basket with flowers before we gave it to her.

:)

Thanks for popping by.

Happy weekend!

xo

Some sunshine on a rainy day :)

It's a rainy day in Oslo today.

It's pooring down.

A good day for scrapbooking.

:)

I found these sunny, happy spring photos of Eirun and Sol, and Inspired by the Color challenge over at

the Crate Paper blog,

I created this layout.

Thanks for popping by!

have a great week

xo

My sunshine :)

Hi friends.

Hope you are all fine.

Days are crazy and busy around my house.

As you know I'm working on my kitchen.

Right now I'm here with 4 kids, no stove, the fridge in front of the sofa in the living room, all the kitchen utensils in boxes around the house, no running water ( except in the bathroom ).

Yea, Life is good, isn't it!  :p

Now well

...

it eventually will be good

I just have to work on it 

...

I have now sanded the kitchen floor with a huge sanding machine, and I'm working on the coating with a special oil coating.

The carpenter is working on the kitchen cupboards and will finish them in time.

It will all be good!

:) :) :)

Now on to this weeks sketch challenge over at the 

Pencil Lines sketch blog.

Sketch 241 is up with special guest Sarah Jane - and sposored by her company Little Musings.

I had a lot of fun playing with these super cute digital stamps.

My layout is all about my little sunshine - the happy, creative, wonderful girl in my life.

She brings me so much joy.

And she LOVEs to write.

She writes little books, little stories and little love notes for all of us in the family. :)

This layout was made today.

LOVE this picture of  these fun, happy, wonderful boys.

I'm sure they will be something big one day.

:)

One actor - one musician

;)

This layout will probably be the foundation for a class I will teach in Austria in september :) :) :)

Thanks for popping by!

Have a great week!!

xo 

playpen

Hi my friends.

I have had a wonderful weekend with my husbands family in Trondheim.

Bapthism of my kids youngest cousin - the cutest, most beautiful little princess.

So I'm two days late on showing you this super cute new release from Pixie Dust studio.

Love the darling playpen images.  :)

You can find them all here.

And make sure you join this weeks "homemade embellishment" challenge.

:)

best friends

 This post is all about "friends layouts".

Because what is life without friends? I'm so lucky to have some really wonderful, nice, lovely friends. And nothing makes me happier than when my best friends kids are best friends with my kids. How awesome is that!!

These layouts are inspired by two of the challenges at the Cocoa daisy Cyber crop.

both layouts are about friendship, about people I love.

It feels good to create layouts about good memories.

Wish you were here!

Now, thank you my dear blogfriends, I really love you too!! And your visits on my blog and your sweet comments mean a lot to me.

Have a great day.

xo

Pencil lines #239 and a winner! :)

 Hi my friends.

This layout was made for this weeks sketch # 239 over at Pencil Lines sketch blog.

Make sure you jump on over to the PL blog to soak in all the inspiration, and join the fun  :)

This layout is about Eirun, and the beautiful spring flowers she keeps on bringing in. She loves flowers, and she put them together and decorate the table every day.

All papers and embellishments are from my april Cocoa Daisy Kit.

:)

This card is made with the latest digistamp set from Pixie Dust Studio; Circus.

Make sure you join the challenges at Pixie Dust Challenge blog for your chance to win.  ;) ;)

Thank you so much for all your super kind and sweet comments on my 100 000 blogpost.

All your comments makes me so happy, and they all mean a lot to me.

hugs!!

The Winner of the 100 000 giftbox is

FIE!!

Please e-mail me your name and addy.  ;)

Now have a great week you all!

:)

Cocoa Daisy Layouts

 Hi friends.

It has been a busy week here in Oslo, with our national day celebration on may 17th, and all kinds of things happening at school, a shoot for a commercial movie, and the rebuilding of my kitchen and doorway and windows...

I so wanted to attend the Cocoa Daisy Cyber Crop last weekend. Luckily I managed to join a bit ... most chat, but also a few layouts.  So glad we are able to still finish up and upload the layouts for the crop before the 22nd.  :)

The above layout is pictures of Sol.  She created her own little book and made up a story she wrote in the book. And then she read it all to me.

I created this layout with room for the book and pictures of her. :)

The other layouts are of my girls, and one layout from the beautiful food markets in Stockholm.  :)

Thanks for popping by, and have a great weekend! :)

And dont forget to leave your comment on this post for your chance to attend in my 100000 visitors celebration.  :)

shiny and soon 100000

Hi my friends.

 

I'm SO sorry blogger messed up this week, and deleted this post.

I have made the exact same post over again today, so no worries ;)

All the comments made between may 12th 7pm and now, may 13th 7pm are all gone  :( :(

So please leave a new comment.

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Seems like I soon will have my 100 000 visitors celebration here on my blog.

THANK YOU all for visiting my blog, thanks for all your encouraging, warmhearted, kind comments.

It really mean a lot to me!

For the celebration of the 100 000 visitors I plan on putting together a treasure box with some scrappy goodies.

So please just leave a comment on this post and I'll draw a random winner as soon as I hit 100 000

:)

Now on to this weeks challenge over at

Pixie Dust Challenge blog.

This week the challenge word is SHINY.

My card is misted with glimmer mist ( not too visible on the picture tho... )

I have added silver and golden stars, pink gem stones and painted the heart and the crown with pink, shiny smotch.

Thanks for stopping by!

xo

splash

The super cute new digital stamp collection "splash" is up over at Pixie Dust Studio.

Love this summery fun collection.

Also make sure you join this weeks challenge over at the PDS challenge blog

;)

happy weekend!

Capturing moments

 Our family was so lucky to get free tickets to the fair "tusenfryd" from our neighbor.

I went there with Eirun and Iver, and we had the best time.

I even got some cool snapshot with my beloved hipstamatic app.

I'm really into these "grungy" looking little pictures lately. It makes it so fun and easy to document and capture little moments of life.

This layout is made using all patterned paper from my wonderful Cocoa daisy "central park" kit.

:)

I created a envelope with room for a large tag with journaling, and even more photos.

thanks for stopping by.

xo

Pixie Dust Sneak Peek :)

 Hi friends.

Today is the day for the sneak peek on "SPLASH" - the new

Pixie Dust digital stamp collection

that will release on may 5th.

These summery images are SO very cute!

:)

Stay tuned.

I used all Cosmo Cricket "salt air" patterned paper and stickers for this card.