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What!? Is it 20th of december already??

Can't believe this december went by SO quickly!!

I had so many plans and ideas I wanted to do and share with you before christmas, and now it is only 4 days left...

It is time to hurry up and wrap the last gifts.

I have made some cute gift tags to share.

You can use the circles as is.

I have printed mine on 85 % of the original size, and punched the corcles with my 2 inch circle punch
Then added a larger circle with 3D foam-tape and then another even larger ( 3 inch ) scallop sircle.

On the other side of the tag I added a smaller white circle ( 2 1/2 inch ) and a 2 inch circle of a wintage picture. ( used pictures from "julie" cut out sheet by 3ndypapir and from collagesheets designed by me for Minnehjørnet )

These two little gifts for my darling little nieces are just wrapped in white paper, added red paper ribbon, a chrochet star / heart-ornament and the gift tag.


You can download the norwegian gift tags ( pdf ) HERE

and the English gift tags ( pdf ) HERE.

Enjoy and have fun!!

And some free vintage pictures for you.

Just right click on the picture and save. ;)

xo

christmas star ornaments

Hi my friends, and welcome to december 17th.

Hope you are all fine, and enjoying your december.

Today is the last day of school before Christmas for my kids, and the christmas decorating of our house will soon begin.

We save the tree and the most "serious" decorating for the 23rd, (as we celebrate christmas eve on the 24th ;) )

But It is always fun and good to decorate little by little during december as well.

:)

Today I'll share some of my all time favorite STAR ornaments.

Love these tree.

As soon as you know how to make them they can be made in all sizes and variations.

Today I've made it easy for me, by just re-dericting you to some very instructive "how-to"s and videos.

You can find instructions on how to make the above beautiful swedish paper-star

HERE

Mine is not stuck together in the middle, but is all fluffy.

In Sweden these stars are usually made of wood / particleboard ("never" or "spon" in norwegian)

and the large ones have a light-bulb inside, and are hung in the windows.

:)

These super cute little 3D stars are made by Eirun and me the other day.

I love to hang them on the Christmas tree, or use them as decoration on my christmas gifts.

So fun to make and very affordable as decorations. ;)

You can find a great instruction on how to make them

HERE

This LARGE paper-star looks gorgeous in my window.

I used 3ndypapir "felicia" for my star.

My star has 8 points, and are made out of 2 pieces of 12 X 12 inch patterned paper.

The pieces for each point measures 6 X 6 inch, but you can make the star any size you like.

My star is glued together using a hot-glue gun.

In the instruction shown here the star has only 6 points, wich works perfect for smaller stars.

You can find the instruction

HERE

and another step by step tutorial

HERE

Thanks for taking your time stopping by my blog today.

Have fun creating, and enjoy the season!

xo

gudrun

gift Tag in a pocket

Hi my friends and welcome to my home for Christmas-blog.

Today I wanted to share this tiny, cute little gift-tag-pocket.

If you, like me, like to give away books for Christmas this is the perfect gift tag.

The tag inside the pocket will make enough room for you to write your greeting, and the pocket ( with the tag inside) can serve as a bookmark for the reciever of the book.

I created the pockets using patterned paper " tiril" and "jenny" by 3ndypapir
and the cute vintage motifs are from collage sheets made by me for Steffens AS
You can download the pattern by simply right click and save / print

This is a little Christmas card I made lately.

For Cristmas I'm in love with a sort of "simple vintage" style.

The old, cute motifs from old christmas cards, patterned paper from 3ndypapir "hilsen gudrun" christmas collection, old book-pages, a little feather, a snow-flake and a pearl is all I need to create a card like this.

SORRY about the poor picture. At the moment the days are short here in Oslo, and it is not much light for photography.
Today has been grey and cold ...

Thanks for stopping by!
Hope to see you back soon.
:)

japanese magic paper rose ornament

Hi my friends.

A new ice cold winter day here in Oslo today.

We are facing the coldest november start of december since 1920 ( or something ).

Everything is frozen, white and snowy, and the trees have these beautiful ice stars on their branches.

Beautiful!

Talking about stars and trees ... I have made this cute japanese star ornament for my christmas tree. It is truly cute, and I had so much fun creating it.

I found this video on how to make it at flixya

and I emmediately fell in love.

I added a ribbon on my ornament to make it possible to hang it in the tree. :)

3d Magic Paper Rose Star Kusudama. Not Origami . Easy For Everyb - More amazing video clips are a click away

I made these two little house-ornaments for a blogpost over at the cosmo Cricket blog last saturnay, and thought it would be good to share here as well. Love these little houses. They are so cute as ornaments on the tree ( with a little ribbon from the roof ) or just to use as decoration around the house.

Have a great week!

happy weekend

Hi my friends.

Hope you enjoy your december, creating, decorating, making gifts and cards...

Today was our first sunday with no plans ( in our family ) in a very long time, and we SO enjoyed just to hang around the house.

It snowed here in Oslo Yesterday evening, and today everything outside was clean and white and beautiful.

I grabbed the chance and had a really fun christmas photo-shoot with my kids.

Will show more photos later. ;)

I have created some simple digital christmas cards to share.

I love to create cards with real paper and glue and embellishments and all that ....

but when december arrives, and the most important thing is to make sure all the people I love and care for will have a greeting from us in their mailbox, these last years I have made some digicards using my own design.

print them, write a personal message in the journaling spot and mail it (snail mail )

This is a perfect solution for me.

So maybe you'll like a simple solution like this as well.

I created two PNG files, one english, one norwegian for you to download.

ENJOY!

Download PNG file digi card english version HERE

Download PNG file digi card norwegian version HERE

outdoor decorations

Welcome.

It is already the second day of december.

I know this season will fly by so fast, and I want to enjoy every second of it.

Today my Home for chRistmas blogpost will be all about outdoor decorations.

It is freezing cold in Oslo, about minus 20 degrees Celcius outside my window.

Brrr

Anyhow I love the winter, the little layer of snow that covers the ground and the beautiful winter-light.

I enjoy ice-skating and skiing, but after being out for a while it is wonderful to get home.

I tried to make the area outside my door welcoming and pretty with some cute, rustic decorations.

I have a vintage-looking birdhouse, where it actually is room for a real bird to come in, and if they like I have some little seeds inside the house for the birds to eat.

I also used some felted hearts and some grain sheaf ( nek in norwegian ) along with the bird-house and with two lantherns.

I have some real vintage wooden fruit boxes outside my door to put my decorations inside and on top.

It is hard for the birds to find something to eat during the winter, and I thought i was nice to welcome the birds to my front door as well as it looks pretty for my friends and family when they come home.

This moss-and-twig-heart is simply decorated with a leaf I found on the ground and a felted heart.

The moss-and-twig-heart is bought in a flower-shop, but it is possible to make one too using twigs and thin metal wire, and decorate with moss.

I found a really cute heart here at the " sweet Paul" blog .

Have a great day, and enjoy the season!

:)

pillow box and a cute envelope. :)

Hi.

It has been a busy weekend for me. Lots of friends around the house, we had a wonderful time with 16 people making gingerbread cookies around our table, and eating traditional norwegian christmas food together, laughing, talking and having the best 1st weekend in advent together.

:)

I also had a demo at my local scrapbook store in Oslo, Steffens AS.

I made alot of different things, and I will share them during this week.

Lots of nice ladies showed up at the demo, and I had so much fun showing things to create with 3ndypapir christmas collection 2010, and the new collage-sheets I recently put together for Steffens.

I thought this little pillow-box and the cute envelope with room for a greeting and a gift card would be a nice thing to share here at "home for christmas".

I love simple, but cute templates for christmas.

These are fast and easy to make, and you can use what ever paper and embellishments you like.

I have used patterned paper by 3ndypapir, "hilsen gudrun" christmas-collection.

download the template by just right-click on the image and save.

(if it doesen't work, please let me know, and I'll upload it to 4shared, and leave a link instead. ;) )

Here is the gift-envelope with room for a greeting and a gift-card inside.

I love this simple, but yet so super cute envelope.

** edit: I usually print my templates on simple printer-paper. Cut around the edges. Then I put the template on the back side of the patterned paper I want to use. I trace around the template with my pencil, and then I use a ball point pen ( kulepenn ) to trace along all the dotted lines, to make them fold easily. **

Thanks for stopping by, and have a great evening.

:)

warm toes :)

Hi my friends.

I'm sitting here by the fire, It is freezing cold in Oslo today, and we wear all the woolen clothes we can find in our houses. ;)

A really good day to knit or do something with warm soft wool and yarn.

I think this was the perfect day to share some really cute slippers I recently made, and they are SO comfy, soft and warm.

These are great gifts.

So easy and fun to make.

You tell me you are no knitter ...

Well, Don't worry! This pattern is for beginners and non knitters. ;)

It took me one evening to knit these slippers. ( and I'm a slow knitter!!)

So it is still time to make a few of these as gifts for christmas. :)

Mine are made with double tread of Mirasol from Du Store Alpakka, and knitted on needle eur #4.

You can use what ever yarn you like the best, just adjust the needle-number to fit the size of you slipper.

Size:

5/6½ - 7½/9 – 9½/10½ (US sizes)

35/37 - 38/40 – 41/43 (EU sizes)

Foot length: 22-24-27 cm / 8¾”-9½”-10 5/8”

Materials: DROPS ALPACA from Garnstudio

50 g for all sizes

For a more hard wearing slipper use DROPS Fabel or DROPS Delight.

DROPS POINTED NEEDLES size 3 mm / US 2or3 - or size needed to get 24 sts x 32 rows in stockinette st = 10 x 10 cm / 4'' x 4''.

SLIPPER:
Worked back and forth on needle. Beg with strap over foot. Cast on 8-8-9 sts on needle size 3 mm / US 2or3 with Alpaca. Work GARTER ST – see above – for 8-8-9 cm / 3 1/8"-3 1/8"-3½", cut the thread and slip sts on a stitch holder. Cast on 18-20-23 sts (= towards mid front), work in sts from stitch holder and cast on 15-16-18 sts (= towards mid back) = a total of 41-44-50 sts.
NOW MEASURE PIECE FROM HERE! K 5 rows on all sts (first row = WS). Work next row as follows from RS: 1 edge st in garter st, K1, * P2 in next st, K2 *, repeat from *-* until 3 sts remain, P2 in next st, K1 and finish with 1 edge st in garter st = 54-58-66 sts. Continue with K over K and P over P and 1 edge st each side in garter st. When piece measures 16-17-18 cm / 6 1/4"-6 3/4"-7" work next row from RS as follows: 1 edge st in garter st, K1, * P2 tog, K2 *, repeat from *-* until 4 sts remain, P2 tog, K1 and 1 edge st in garter st = 41-44-50 sts. K 5 rows on all sts, bind off loosely.

ASSEMBLY:
Fold slipper double and sew tog each side inside 1 edge st. Sew strap to the other side of slipper, edge to edge.
Knit 1 more slipper in the same way.

The pattern for these slippers are by DROPS design

You can find the pattern in Norwegian HERE.

:)

The slippers look like little knitted handbags when finished .... :p

But as soon as they are put on they fit so well to the feet. :)

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.

Have a great weekend - and keep you toes warm. ;)

Home for chRistmas 2010

Hi my friends, and welcome to the first "HOME for chRistmas 2010".

I'm really SO excited to be hosting this month long christmas-inspiration "class".

As you know I LOVE Christmas, and all that comes with it.

I love the planning, the creating, the shopping, thje decorating, the thinking of what to eat and what to buy ...

Making lists, and cross out things that have been done.

I hope I can share some of my joy for this season, and that you all can enjoy a happy "unstressful" december.

To make sure I remember all the things I have to do during this busy month I need to keep some to-do-lists.

So I thought it was a good idea to start out this first day at "home for christmas" with some printable lists.

Have you ever felt the lists of things to do before Christmas just goes on and on .... and never seems to end.

Here is the list for you. ;)

Just click on the links below the pictures, and download the printable pdf.

Make as many pages as you like.

I have just put mine together with a old fashion paper clip. added a rusty snow flake and tied a bow, and put it up on my wall.

Download printable angel-to-do-list HERE

Download printable neverending to-do-list HERE

I have lists for all that has to be done, and also for gifts that need to be bought and things you need to remember.

I have made lists in english and in norwegian, so it should be something for both my national and international friends. :)

enjoy and have fun

:)

Download printable gaveliste (norwegian) HERE

download printable gift list HERE

Download printable norwegian Huskeliste HERE

So many things to remember. Make sure you write it all down...

Download printable "things to remember" list HERE

Thanks for stopping by.

Hope to see you back soon.

I'll put up new projects and more Christmas-inspiration as often as I can.