1. December

This will be my Advent Calendar - I'm hoping to write every day until Christmas Eve!  Taking pictures too.
Today I have to do! my wall of IKEA cupboards.  Making myself a place for all my stuff - collected over fifty years. 

 

I hope Nichlas and I can have Christmas dinner here...we'll see!  Last week-end Nichlas and I went to Hadeland Glassverk to get the Christmas feeling.  And we did!  It's a great place for the whole Family.  And I love thees small "nissene"

 

 

Later today I'm going to Actic...getting fit for Christmas and 2013.

 

Have a wonderful 1. Day in Advent...enjoy...!







Later in October 2012

A week ago - there were Totentreff - a fantastic event twice a year - this time I couldn't paticipate because we had to close down Evja before wintertime.  Hope you all had a great time Totengirls!

Last winter we got new neighbors at Evja - well not just neighbors - the kind that occupied some of our birches - just look!

Well, I guess The Beaver Family likes our birches - but this one was a little bit too big!  So this birch is floating in Evja - our Marshy Bay.  But you see, the beavers they do not like to get trapped - and this Beaver Family are one clever one - they have to be - they live in Osdalen! 

 

 

Do you see the road - the path from the Marshy Bay to the Nordre Osa River?  I just hope they don't divide the land in two?!

 

We do not have fences around Evja, except towards our neighbors in north - it has something to do with Norwegian laws and wilderness and other political stuff here in Norway.  Anyway - my father had kind of a humor! - the picture tells it all! 

 

 

No fences - but a Gate!  Have a wonderful Saturday - and don't forget to enjoy...whatever you like!!



October 2012

Shame on me - not blogging not nothing!!!  Well, sometimes life is not what I expected from myself.  I got tired about the blogging - I got bore about the blogging and the time for blogging was not there.  I do not now where it went - it just did!
I even got tired about the scrapping - I got bored about the scrapping.  Not because I didn't have a place to scrapp - I had a dream place to scrap.  The reason I got tired of the scrapping was my moving to the ground floor - I thougt that "that" would do my scrapping good - but it didn't. 
So I'm moving my scrapping studio upstairs again - there I can see all the way to Gjøvik and Elverum - there are view from the windows - there are sun and sky and ... well I feel much better scrapping upstairs!!

This wall is going to be my "Wall of Fame"!!  All my old pictures of my ancestores are going to be hanged! on that wall!  I'm going to paint it - you see the color in the right corner - vanilla!  Wow...

I wrote on Facebook today that The Sun was shining on me - and She did!!

 

 

Have a great evening - and do not forget to enjoy life...

New Years Eve 2011

Hi - I'm not a blogger - even though I have blog!  A Scrapbook blog! A Genealogy blog! 
I ended my period in politics in September - after 8 years in the Executive committee of Stange County as well as the County Board!  And started a study at HiHm...shame on me! 

 

I packed this glas with gladpack - packed the gladpackglass with a lace - and smeared the lacegladpackglass with plaster - let it stayed to dry for a day - then had some really hot water intop the glass or some seconds - an then the gladpack slipped from the glas!

I placed a tealight in the lacebin...

...lit it and..

Wishes you all a Happy New Year!

...do not forget to enjoy...

The Last Sunday In My Summervacation

My Vacation is over - it ends like it started - with rain.  Norway is pretty green now - I usually have red tomatoes from my garden this late in August - but not this year - the Sun has not been here.  Last Thuesday I took a class in making cupcakes - Manuela fron Passion4Baking had classes in Hamar - and I couldn't resist!

Anyway - yesterday it was so warm outside that we could make a BBQ - and my son Nichlasen and my brother made dessert...

...I think they enjoyed it!

My mother made the salad and I took pictures...I was a great evening.

And the Tower of Cup Cakes...cakestand bought in Sacramento!

...do not forget to enjoy life or cupcakes or both...

Last Day in July 2011

I got an e-mail from Nichlas - who are! is! in Oslo working - with three words and two pictures.

Look how beautiful!

 

 

The Flower Sea in front of The Cathedral in Oslo

The City Hall Square

Thank you Jan-Nichlas for sharing - and still - do not forget to enjoy life...

25th July 2011

Hello to you all - it's still unbeliveable what's happened to Norway.

It's been some horrible days - so many young life has gone away - so many families has been destroyed - because of one man and his thinking.

Here's a link to the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Here is a link I found on Solorlagets facebook site Paradise Shattered

My son, Jan-Nichlas, works in Oslo - just nearby where the big bomb exploded and destroyed the Norwegian Government Office Building. I'll talked to him just minutes after it happened - he is now home - safe and sound.

It's so unbelievable - so tragic - we are a little nation - a little country - not 5 million people - we respect each other - we have a wonderful democracy and openness- we are proud to be Norwegian.

We'll continue to fight for our fundamental values like freedom and democracy.

And it's vacationtime...whatever that is! 

Trying to read the paper...with candle in an old glassjar! called Norgesglass!

But it's cold at Stangelandet...about 60 / 70 Farenheit...no Summertime at all!

This is Varg...my Svedish Lappdog.

Thank you for reading my blog...and do not forget to ENJOY...even when the world are kind of black! right now.

Norway 22. July

...in deep sympathy with all The Norweigan people...

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...