A Scrapped WeddingBook

I've been looking at so many fantastic blogs.  Both cards and layouts - you are creative.  Lately I've seen books been made by cardstock - amazing!  This is my Wedding Book.  I had no idea how it was made - so I took some pictures along the bookroad.

...the back of the book...

...it's kind of pink...

...thank you for looking at my blog - do not forget to enjoy...

A Girly Confirmation Card

Finally, I have been scrapping again!  A girly and pink Confirmatin card.  This is how I usually start with a card...

...I always use my edgescraper...

...and so it goes with my sponge and ink...

....I love embossing...

...always Glimmer Mist on my beige flowers...

...simplicity inside the card with a stamp from Stempelglede...

...my own stamp made by Scrapmagasinet on the last page...

...from the right side...

...this is how it turned out after my edging and shrink plastic and inking and embossing...

Thank you for looking at my blog...and do not forget to enjoy the life with scrapping...

17th of May

Happy Birthday, Norway!

Have a wonderful birthday all of you...and do not forget to enjoy...!

Last Monday in April

Hello to you all that drops by my blog!  I really appreciate that - seeing all the countries that has been a trip to Norway - looking at my blog - Thank you!

Sitting here with my freshly brewed cup of coffee -

...here's to you and here's to 40 years of conversations unfolding, stories being shared and ideas being hatched - all over a cup of coffe... from Starbucks Tribute Blend 40 years togheter - Congratulation!

- and a freshly baked cupcake

...I found this blog - Passion 4 Baking - and I just had to try to make some cupcakes - I did not have the absolute ingredients  - so I used maple syrup instead of corn syrup and cane sugar insted of sugar - Delicious!

...have a nice day - and enjoy...it's fantastic!

Easter 2011

Hello - it's Spring and Easter here in Norway - lucky us!  All the snow has vanished and the lawns are getting greener - happy me!
I'm in a lazy mood - doing nothing - just having vacation.

Theese two birds!  I made them for my parents Easter Holliday in 1987 - they where fun to make - I wish I had some spirit to make some birds! today!

...and of course it should be 1987...

Happy Easter - enjoy...

An Ordinary Saturday

It's only thirteen days untill April comes along and this is how it looks like at Stangelandet right now!  Four Farenheit - a super blue sky - and ten centimeters with new! snow!  The sun is shining and it's.....noway - it's not Spring.....yet!

Have a wonderful Saturday - and do not forget to enjoy...!

A Sunday in February

Hello - when did January end - and when did February come?  Time runs too fast, nowadays! 
I'm not in the mood for scrapping or card making or any handcrafts - and thats annoying me!
Well I have been doing some genealogy - we got this Folketelling 1910 / National Census 1910 last month.  So I have been checking all my ancestors born in January towards this census...fun!  Try it!

This is my Great Grandmother Amalie Pauluda Andreasdaughter Torp Holter.  Born 1. January 1866 at Lista in Vest-Agder.  She married Johan Andreassen Holter in well I don't know - but before 1893.  They settled in at Elverum and got eight children.  Amalie Pauluda died 12. January 1955 - she is burried at Elverum Churchyard.

Siri Halvorsdaughter Skjærbekken Ulvevadet is my Great Great Great Grandmother.  She married Martinus Olsen Ulvevadet in 1836 and settled in at Ulvevadet Farm in Osdalen, Norde Osen.  They had five children - two who died very young.  The three ones that grew up where Oline Dorthea Martinusdaughter Ulvevadet Valen - moved to Madagaskar with her husbond Arne Farteinson Valen, Lene Martinusdaughter Ulvevadet Dahl married Per Person Løssetosdalen Dahl and mowed to USA, Ingeborg Martinusdaughter Ulvevadet married Nils Persson from Sweden and they settled in at Ulvevadet in Nordre Osen.  So Siri and Martinus had three beautiful girls in three corners of the world.  Siri died 4. December 1895 by pneumonia - she is burried at Nordre Osen Old Churchyard.

This is a beautiful picture of my oldest cousin - Ole Andreas born in 1952.  He is a farmer and he loves sport.  Last week he made Femundløpet - a "dogsledgerace" - Congratulations!!

It was like this when I started this Sunday!  Grrr...

Have a wonderful February - and do not forget to enjoy life!

The First Monday in January 2011

Hello - just a little note to say it's not so cold in Norway any longer - in fact it's only pluss! 12 Farenheit!  This ia a picture from Sætre - a place in Elverum County - Sætre has a fantastic view.   

The black bird is a huge crow!  Happy New year to you all and don't forget to enjoy life...it's great!

New Years Eve 2010

A New Years Eve letter to my family and friends.  I did not have time or the effort to make a Christmas letter this year.  I hope...next year. 
Nichlas and I lost CindyC - our Border Collie - in November 2008 - and we wondered if we ever should have a new dog - Nichlas beeing in Oslo for the next few years and me working in Elverum - well we got this little Swedish Lapdog in January.

His name is Varg - Wolf in english - he is quite a strongminded, barking and loving dog from Sabmebæna.  It is like beeing a mother again - with all that comes along.  He is a nice little fellow.

During the last decade I have done some genealogy.  It is the most creative hobby I have next to scrapbooking.  I just love sitting with my computer - searching for long gone relatives - and finding them - it makes life wonderful.  My father gave me two pictures of Botolf Martinsen Langerud - my grandmothers oldest brother.  I have tried everywhere searching for Botolf - not finding him at all.  I turnes out that he had changed his name to Barney Rudd - that I found on Ancestry.com  Some of The Story about Botolf and Marie and Steinhild I got from Margit Nysetvold Bakke at DIS-Norge Slektsforum Thank you so very much, Margit.  They are all long gone - but Steinhild Camilla had a daughter who lives in Alberta, Canada - lucky me!  This was last March and April.

In May month - well everybody who has been in Norway - or lives here - knows that it is pretty cold here during wintertime - that is why we do things like this...

...with all this

 

Now - in Desember - it's good to have chopped wood on the fireplace.  It is around minus 15 Farenheit and warmer during the Norwegian wintertime - brrr....

We did some Evja summertime - my mothers place in Osdalen.  Nordre Osen in Østerdalen - the place God left but did not forget - we just love Evja.  This picture is my brother making dinner outside - we usually do...

Then September and October came with sun and harvesting - this is our neighbours farm...

...and then suddenly it was Desember.  This year - 2010 - did run very fast - to fast - and I have not done what I thought I should have done!  But I did this one

So Merry, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you!  And do not forget to enjoy life!