Declutter.

Sunshine. Fresh air. Dirty windows. Dust and cat hair on every surface. Stuff everywhere. Must declutter. Gotta love some of the Flylady ideas, like spending 15 minutes a day decluttering; it really does make a difference!

One more.

Aha, a second post for today! Just went through my files and found this little thing: it's a small card I did for a challenge [see also the the post titled "Recycle"] so all materials except cardstock came from an envie that was going around. People took what they wanted, made cards and added new stuff. Come to think of it, the envie might still be travelling!

Pretty in pink?

I needed two cards, so I whipped up quick ones; one with punchies and one with supersimple stamping. Some distress inks and chalks on the background.






Finished also a bunch of ATCs, but will not publish them until the swap they are for has gone postal. So something to look forward to?

Gotta love the kid.

DD drives me crazy at times, but gotta love her serious questions about life and her concerns about things like packing enough lunch for our train trip (5.5 hours). I thought I had packed enough, but no... the first thing she told her grandparents was that "please make sure there is more food for the return trip..." She also takes her candy seriously, as shown below.

Off for a few days.

I'm taking DD to visit her grandparents' for a few days. Should be good fun for her, a lot of attention and cross-country skiing with grannie! I look forward to catching up with my journal (which I got for new year's and never started...).

Torso.

Had a sudden urge to dress up a torso using all sorts of glittery things (digging into my stash of fancy papers and ribbons from candy boxes...). The torso itself was cut from a piece of cardstock I used to experiment with gesso and distress inks. Tons of fun!

Thanks Hanna-Kaisa for the idea!

Postcrossing.

Gotta love postcrossing, with all the emails (mainly spam) I get every day, a good old-fashioned postcard is so much nicer!

CJ.

Finalised a circle journal entry for a friend today, her book has a vintage theme. I kept it simple, the title is " a secret about a woman" and the journalling tells about me and some of the books I grew up reading; Jane Eyre, Emma and Wuthering Heights. I do wish that my DD will read the same books one day....

Sick.

Sick again, caught a cold from DH (and DD). Been a bad blogger and a worse scrapper. Nothing new to show... But I promise, soon there will be something for me to post and for you to see. Have faith :)

Outbox.

My outbox has four fun letters ready to go; I whipped up a little Valentine's day-challenge and will be sending out four heart-shaped puzzles to be used in altered art-projects. Keep an eye on your mail :)

I also joined Postcrossing, thanks to Stello. My first two cards are ready to go to Slovenia and Russia!

You spin me round.

Go check out the TOTP charts this week, yes, it's Dead or Alive. One of my all time favourite songs, for no other reason than that it makes me smile. A lot.

Old work

ATCs, again. This is old work but I don't think I've posted them yet.

Counter

I added a counter to this little blog of mine, just to see if anyone ever visited. Do drop me a line if you do :) Pretty please?

Seasons

ATCs I did for a four seasons swap. Ran out of UTEE, used regular embossing powder insted, it doesn't quite do the job... And for some peculiar reason, I could't get them in the right order on the scanner, lol!

Stuck.

I'm stuck with our travel album from last summer. The photos are so cute, mostly of DD enjoying her first trip to Germany. I got the album, I got the papers but I can't get past the journalling... darn. I can feel the journalling, but when I try to get it into words... blank.

Sing along

Highly recommended singalong song for any occassion really: Twisted Transistor by Korn. Hey you...

Shh, listen to the sound of silence...

DH and DD are visiting grandparents', so it's pretty quiet around here at the moment!Ahh, the blissful sound of silence. I think I will go and put on some loud music now!

Cleaning the desk...

or more like digging it out, lol! I'm doing a fun (and useful) organisational challenge at about.com and here's my first task, clearing my space.

Before:



After:

Almost 2006...

Can't believe how fast the year has gone by! During the past few years I've refused to make any new year's resolutions, but I will try to do the following in 2006:

• iron work clothes (at least every now and then)
• keep my craft stuff under control
• not to buy any cute stuffed animals for DD (don't tell her, pls)
• make and send more cards

Let it snow!

Not too many words needed here, give a 5-year-old kid warm clothes, tons of snow and a sledge :) All this snow is right on our backyard!