My Little Shoebox bloghop :) :)

Hi, and welcome to My Little Shoebox "thankful" bloghop.

If you just happend upon my blog today Go to My Little Shoebox blog and make sure you join the bloghop. The MLS designers have so much inspiring to share on their blogs.

Visit all the blogs, and go back to My little shoebox blog and leave a comment telling what YOU are thankful for, and we'll randomly draw a winner, that will win a MLS collection of their choice. WOW! How cool is that!! :)

Here is my little thank you card for this bloghop.

Here in Norway we don't celebrate Thanksgiving. That's sort of sad, because there are so many things to be thankful for ... and I think it would have been a good thing to celebrate, and remember all these things.

Anyhow ... it is always a good thing to say thank you .... so I created this card, and I'll give it to someone special, that I think need a little thank you ;) ;)

So, THANK YOU for stopping by my blog today.

Now hop, hop over to

SUSANS blog

Have a great weekend.

xo

I have made some decisions :)

Hi My friends.

I mentioned a few weeks ago I wanted to have a class with lots of christmas inspiration starting this month before christmas.

I have been working really hard on this.

I have made printables, created patterns for giftboxes and giftbags, made different kind of stuff, gifts, cards....

Then I redecided.

...

I didn't want to have a class.

It will be all stressful and I will put too much pressure on my self (being my own hardest judge). And All I want is this beeing inspirational and fun.

...

And the best way making this all just fun and good is doing what I have done the last couple of years:

Make my christmas"class" free for you all here on my blog.

Last year I called my free christmas inspirational posts here on my blog "home for Christmas".

It will be like a free month long class, filled with lots of christmas-inspiration, gift-ideas and love for Christmas.

This will ( hopefully ) be a good gift for you my wonderful, lovely blogfriends.

Hope to see you 'round, as I'll start nov 24th.

Posting Christmas stuff at least twice a week.

I'll make a special badge for these posts, so you won't miss them. ;)

If you want to buy some of the papers I've used for my projects, you can buy the special Christmas bundle I've put together on Etsy.

This is all 3ndypapir, 3 of each paper from "hilsen gudrun" collection, and 2 of teach of the tree papers from "favorites". (this is for internatonal girls only!)

You Norwegian Gils can buy your 3ndypapir papers in your local LSS or at my Epla shop. :)

xo

I play

It is fall crop over at Cocoa Daisy this weekend, and I had so much fun joining some of the great challenges.

:)

The above layout is inspired by a CD cover.

The layout below is about Edvin, laying on the couch, playing Bass guitar.

Here is a layout about my passion for cooking.

:)

Thanks for stopping by.

Have a great week.

xo

happy news :)

Hi my friends.

Hope you all are having a great november.

Today we have some happy, happy news to share over at 3ndypapir. :)

I also had some time to play with my LOVELY My Little Shoebox papers today.

Love these bright and happy papers.

Wishing you a great rest of this november-week.
and

Thanks for popping by!

Working like a dog ... :)

Hi my friends.

Finally I'm in for just one second to say Hi! :)

Guess you kinda wonder why I'm not around here on my blog these days.

Well to be honest ... days are really, really busy.

Great but busy!

:) As you can see I'm getting ready for my Three upcoming classes this week.

One class in Moss at Anitas Hobby tomorrow, One in Drøbak, at Annes Keramikk friday and one in Ski, at Minnehjørnet saturday.

Hope to see some of the local girls there! :) :)

Here is one little project we'll make at the Cristmas inspirational classes.

We'll make 5 little projects in the class - so this will be SO much fun.

:)

I really love Christmas, and creating cards and giftbags and other things really makes me happy. :)

I have been thinking about having a

christmas inspirational online class

( in english ) this year.

It will probably be from nov. 15th to dec 15th.

I'm planning on sharing one project every day monday to friday.

I have made some printables, some fun templates and cute Cristmas ideas to share.

More info on this later this week, or early next week.

Please let me know if you are intrested.

This will be a "no kit" class.so you will just recieve the axcess to the class-blog.

The price for one full month of class, printables, ideas and so on will be 300,- NOK

Hope to see you there! :)

Oh, and I almost fell of my chair today when I headed in to

2 peas gallery

and found my " du og jeg" LO at todays featured layout.

I'm one big smile :) :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a great week

xo

first snow

This morning we woke up to the first snow here in Oslo.

I always feel a little bit sad to say goodbye to the fall ... even if I am happy to welcome the white season as well.

The thin layer of crisp, white snow gave the brown, yellow and orange leaves even more texture and color.

I had some work to do in Oslo city today, and Iver joined me and helped me carrying the packages of paper. I'm really so blessed to have kind, helpful kids, that really wants to help their mom when needed. :)

Iver and I had a good time together as well. Doing some shopping and had a little photoshoot.

I have really found new joy in playing with my camera and my photoshop lately, Thanks to the karen Russell class and THIS community I recently bumped in to.

Clickin moms is a super inspiring place for all girls in love with photography. :)

Thanks for stopping by.

Have a great weekend.

xo

It's all good

Hi!

Today I'm all smiles. Hubby are back home from USA, and sick computer was fixed in a second. :)

What a blessing to be married to a engeneer. I think Computers love him ... :)

Luckily it was all saved in my backup, so nothing was lost.

Anyhow:

If you sent me an e-mail during the weekend it might have got lost.

Or if you have tried to e-mail me and not got an answer yet ... please be patient ... I have about 800 unread e-mails to go trough after this computer breakdown......

This weekend I attended the Large Crop at Drømtorp, Ski, meeting my scrapbooking friends, having a class ,chatting, laughing, creating ...

It was all good!

:)

I recently got my box of goodies ( the october kit and add-ons ) from Cocoa Daisy. It was perfect to bring to the crop.

I talked too much, so I never got to create more than this " du & jeg " ( you and me ) layout.

These pictures of Eirik and me in Odessa, Ukraine earlier this year, are some of my favorites.

This layout is created with a piece of patterned paper from my new Cosmo Cricket favorite line " circa 1934", and some bits and pieces I got in my goodiebag at the Cocoa Daisy event in Greece.

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a great day.

xo

My Little Shoebox bloghop

Hi, and WELCOME to todays My Little Shoebox bloghop!

If you just happend on my blog today, please visit

My Little Shoebox blog

for more info on the bloghop,

and make sure you visit all the super talented girls on the team.

Soak in all the wonderful inspiration and things they share on their blogs today.

Leave comments for your chance to win some really GOOD goodies. :)

I wanted to share three cards with you today.

All bright and happy.

The MLS-papers and stash always seems to bring a smile on my face with its happy, fun colors.

On these cards I have mixed different lines - they all go so well together.

On the first card I have used

"cute as a button" patterned paper and stickers ( LOVE this banner!!)

"Harmony" stickers and tag

"Green" Trees and patterned paper.

MLS "green" and "harmony", gradient jewels by creative charms.

MLS "green", "cute as a button", "harmony" and glitter alpha.

Thanks for stopping by my blog! Hope you feel inspired.

Now HOP HOP HOP over to the amazingly talented

TAJ WHITE.

Happy hopping.

:)

* Thank you for all your kind comments and well-wishes on my crashed computer. It does make me feel better. :) XO *

**Blog-hop Winner announced here**

The worst day

Hi friends.

A sad, sad Gudrun here today.

My dear computer just died.

Hopefully my backup is ok. But you never know...

I feel terrible.

Hubby away at work in USA.... so no support here...

Hope I'll be able to make things work to tomorrows MLS bloghop.

:(

:(

:(

So Sketchy :)

I had so much fun playing with My Little Shoebox October sketch by Pamela Young.

Visit the MLS blog to learn how you can win a entire collection from My Little Shoebox by creating your take on this sketch.

:)

And stay tuned:

This upcoming friday it will be a My Little Shoebox bloghop,

I'm sure you won't miss that! :)

Se you!

Circa 1934 - NEW Cosmo Cricket :) :)

Hi my friends.

Happy day!

Today is the release of the brand NEW and totally gorgeous line from Cosmo Cricket:

Circa 1934

Love, love, love these papers!

Make sure you visit the Cosmo Cricket blog today to see the new line,

for a giveaway

and a

Design Team Honorary spot!

I had a blast playing with the Circa line.

Here are three of my layouts:

Thanks for stoping by, and thanks for your sweet comments, it always make my heart smile.

:)

A rainy day in Oslo

It has been a rainy, grey day in Oslo today.

But wrapped in the colors of fall it is still beautiful.

The grey weather and the rain seems to give even more intensity to the red, orange and yellow leaves.

As the three smaller kids are away Edvin and I enjoyed a day on our own in the city of Oslo. Buying him a new winter jacket, wich he needed. Had a coffee at the jazz café.

Edvin covinced me he really needed a Louis Armstrong CD, recorded in 1954 as well.

( Strange - a 14 yo love music from the fifties...)

Kind of was thrilled my big boy loves jazz so much.

His trumpet ( and the piano ) never stays still...

Had fun playing with the camera. I really got a lot of inspiration after attending Karen Russells class in Greece. I have wanted to take tons of photos, capturing little things... textures, moments...life ever since I came home. Thank you Karen, you gave me SO much inspiration trough your class.On these pictures I have played with some Texture / overlays by Ninian Lif as well .

I had another surprise waiting at my doorstep the other day.

It was a great honor to be featured in this french magazine, Histoires de pages, along with Linn and Renee.

* sorry about the bad link, it is now fixed *

all smiles :)

Still enjoying the beauty of autumn here in Oslo.

Love to hang on to summer, sun and flowers as long as possible - the winter will be long and cold, and these last warm days when we are still able to be outdoor in the garden, having lunch or a cup of tea outside and embrace the low sunbeams are precious.
Some of the flowers are still beautiful, while other are getting ready to their long winter-sleep.

Eirik - the outdoor guy - he loves doing things in the garden or around the house.

:) Today "101 ways to use your scrapbook supplies" special issue of Creating keepsakes with Jennifer McGuire arrived at my doorstep.

I was SO honored and happy to find my layout Sol@7 in this magazine.

I'm all smiles

:) :)