Masks…

 

Today Jessica Sprague is giving a tutorial on how to use masks. Little Kristian looks good in vintage, mask and word-art. It is amazing what you can do in PS. If I could keep the passion going…I tend to loose interest after a short time of clicking and dragging. Then I forget the things I learned. The good thing is that at Jessica Sprague.com – your class is always available.

Our baby-baby has been given a name:

A little more dramatic;

Playing with PS…

 is fun, but it is so hard to decide when it`s time to stop playing. What is looking good? ME like – but do you like? It is hard to decide – but FUN! Today we got to learn to play with frames and vintage tints.

First out is Kristian:

Second is Elin Marie:

Third is visiting family:

 

Okay – maybe I need to try some more…

Celebrating…

 

Britt Mari`s new puppie. This little girl has been given the best mother – ever.

 Elin Marie celebrates summer.

I am celebrating my own achievements. Today I learned how to use brushes at Jessica Sprague.com. Always a pleasure to learn from JS. Aby Garvey posted the last lesson in her Organizing 101 and I celebrate all the things I have achieved in this class. So far – all good. The last lesson is the real challenge – How to organize a maintenance strategy. There`s a challenge for you!  One thing is sure – I will be returning to this workshop. I have been learning, I have taken action and I have enjoyed my self.

Jessica Sprague`s…

…new free class at Jessica Sprague.com started today and as always she gives a great class. This time around she offers a two weeks free class in frames and special effects and I can already tell it`s going to be fun. I do try to take this step by step but I do tend to rush things and sometimes I miss out on the teaching. It is so easy to believe you know it all, and suddenly I have taken a short cut and boom…I am lost. I used a photo taken of baby Elin this weekend. It is a little blurry, but I love it. It is so her!

Yepp – Sassy – that is her second name!

I also made another page for my family section in the ME-album.

I have always been grateful towards my sister in law for sharing her family with me. We may not always have been bestfriends but I have always been welcome to share the moments. And I can honestly say that I can feel a mothers hart beating in happiness and worries.

And Happy Birthday to Tor Helge who is turning 26 today. I am looking forward to August and Mallorca.

Sunday evening depression…

I am not happy about spending Sunday evening planning a diet plan for the upcoming week. Even if I know that eating less and more healthy makes me fit and happier in the end. My change of vacation plans involves a bikini and I need to lose 6 kilos in 6 weeks. It should have been 10 kilos, but I am human and realistic. It is scary that the training program says I should do 45 min on the step machine – as a start, when I feel totally dead after 5 minutes. This will be hard, but I can do it.

I finished my first layout for the family pages in “the challenge of me” class. I do agree with the girls having trouble doing these pages when they are single or have no children. But even the singles and the childless have family. At least I had excellent role models in the mother, father and 2.5 child department…

After last nights wedding celebrations I have been tired and lazy today. That has not been the case for the young ones in the family. For them summer means water and the kids love water wherever they find it…

Yepp – he knows were to go.

 And he knows what to do with it…

But…the big sister is ready for fight.

Wreck this journal – week 5…

…where did the week go? It is Friday and weekend again. The week started with a great Monday followed by thunder and lightning. Tuesday the fog hit us and I came home from work and found my computer dead. What to do when the computer don`t work? That is a challenge! I always read mail and my favourite sites when I have my dinner. Without access I feel paralyzed.

After several phone calls and some desperate journaling I finally get  my nephew – the computer nerd – on the phone. Nothing he can`t fix, and once again I`m on line. Lately there have been some talk in the blogging world about unplugging for a day or two but that is not my idea of fun! And thank God I did not have to unplug unwillingly.

This has been one of these weeks. I go to bed Monday and wake up on Friday. You have this great feeling when the calendar says it is summer and suddenly you are half way through. The long list with things to do is just growing and growing. The only thing I can mark out as done is the days. It is a little depressing.

The feeling of time flying is supposed to be an age thing. Maybe not? Baby Elin is preparing for winter in June…

Seems like we will have a great weekend with sun and warm weather and that is good for the sale. So I better put my best shoes on and go to work.

The challenge of Me – week two…

This album can be what ever we want. I want it to be the story of my life today. Just little glimpses of what my life is about this summer of 2009. I could have made it about my life, but I am not. I could have used a lot of words, but I am not. And the main reason for my choice is that I am absolutely sure that no one will ever want to read more than two lines about my life. But if someone is to stumble over this album in the future, they will see the essence of me and I believe this will trigger  their own memories. That is a good thing.

The theme this week is Family. Funny theme for a single girl at 48. I could go with my brothers simple statement; “We are family, and that is the most important thing in the world”. But I had to look for the Norwegian state`s definition of family.

With family we mean all the modern relationships that exists. Including; Parents, foster parents, step parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, siblings and cousins. It may also include other networks that people are depending  on and learning from through their life.

 

 

I made a first page and I have a plan for how I will approach this theme. All I need now is …more hours in the day or more days in the week. That would be a good thing in July!

Cathy Zielske`s new class…

…with the name I will never learn. Me: The Abridged Version  – I don`t know what it means and I have no idea how to pronounce it. That don`t stop me for signing up for the class at Big Picture Scrapbooking. What ever Cathy is teaching – I want to learn. The workshop is inspired by Amy Krouse Rosenthal`s Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life. Even more words I don`t understand. But I was lucky and found the book in one my book clubs; with a uncertain delivery date…But that is okay, the class don`t start before September.

I spent most of my evening organizing my Master Project List for my new and improved life.

Going over every room writing down how I want to improve them. When I was done I was a little disappointed. I had expected it to be a very long list. It was rather short. So – did I sensor my needs and wants to avoid a lot of work? I think I did.  I have made new list and I am starting over tomorrow!

Signature style…

Do you have one? I do. It may not be easy to detect but it is there.

Yepp – me and sloggi – best friends. I had no trouble at all to make my layout for Lisa Day`s challenge.

Still weeks before my vacation, and my plans changed last night, and once again tonight. I have been determent all year about spending  my three weeks at home, with no plans at all. Would have loved that – so would my alter ego, the accountant.

I could not resist. Closing my eyes - I can smell the familiar feeling of this:

So – Hola Viva Bahia – here we come. Again….

A change of plans can be good, but tonight I have a greater understanding for Cahty Zielske`s post earlier today about weight. I did not stress the weight thing this summer because  I was not to wear bikini. Wrong again.

 Gaining weight is a obvious result of finding your fitness tools scattered around the house with lairs of dust.

The good thing about Viva Bahia – they have an exellent beach bar. Who needs a bikini?

Lazy summer days…

 

…and grandma is so lucky. This summer she has two more hands to help her in the garden.