Annelie's scrapförsök

It's not an April fool's day prank - the blog service have been shut down for a few days. But now we're back!

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So - I hope that the visitors who came for my  competition - who couldn't comment' - will come back and try again! I will let the competition go for another couple of days ('til Friday) so that more people have a chance to grab the price!

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Thanks to all of you who have already participated. There's quite a difference in your guesses... Anneli from the Netherlands has even gone back and counted my LO's on the blog!!!! The question is though - have I published them all...?

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Today is the day when the April Class Kits have gone up on the Scrap With V site! Very exciting! This is one of mine that you can purchase!





I've also taken part in a few of the monthly challenges over at SWV, but I did them without my otherwise so present mojo. The first one is for a black/white and green challenge, the second one for a challenge where you could only "spend" $5 on your LO.






I think my mojo might be back now though... After spending a couple of days at my new job at Scrapbookers Delight, I feel inspired!!!

See you again Friday!!

So... Normally I don't share much stuff about my famliy and our life on this blog, since I have another blog (in Swedish) where I post everyday for my family and friends back home.

But today I just have to share with you how PROUD I am about how my daughter is doing at the moment! :) She started daycare yesterday, she's going to be there two days a week from now on. And - she loved it!!!! I knew she would, she has been so bored with me lately!

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These last two days, she has had SO MUCH FUN! The teachers are raving about her happy mood, how well she eats (she even eats yoghurt - she won't touch that at home), and that she has even had naps during the day! I know - she is 18 months and these things are probably nothing to rave about, but I AM SO PROUD OF HER! She hardly cries when I leave, and she doesn't want to go when daddy comes to pick her up. It's such a releif that she likes it so much! Goodness, I have tears in my eyes just writing this!

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And... The teachers at daycare asked me to put a little list together, of Swedish words that Tova says, to make it easier for them to understand her. Well. A scrapbooking mum can't just write a list, right? So I made a little album. This one:

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Myself, I had my first day @ Scrapbookers Delight today. I knwo I'm just gonna LOOOOOOOOOVE working there. I feel very lucky to be able to work in an environment like that. Just the smell makes me happy!

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OK, so I'll end this looooong post with some of my latest LO's. Both for challenges over at SWV.

And - DON'T FORGET my competition in my previous post. You still have a few days to enter!!

This will have to be a short post. I'm knackered and need sleep! We've been fighting off a nasty tummy bug the last week, so my brain is not fully in place (even worse than normal that is, thank you very much...)

The newest dare over at NZ Dares is a G R E A T one, and I had to do it. Sick or not sick. I have the perfect photo (not taken by me) of my best and oldest friend - we've known each other for almost 30 years now!!! (Gosh, that makes me sound VERY old...) She is a professional flutist (is that how you spell it?), and the music coming from her is JUST MAGIC. I love her to bits, and am very excited about the new adventures she is about to experience.

My dear L - I will see you soooooooon!!!! This is for you!

I've been absent from the SE forum for a while, but on Friday night I joined in on their cyber crop. Hilarious... They've got a chat function, and it's just so funny chatting to everyone, and using the "sound effect" button. Yep. You had to be there...

Anyway, there were three challenges and a couple of games going. Challenge #1 was to be inspired by a logo of some sort, here's my take:




Challenge #2 was to finish you LO within an hour, you had to use 2 photos, 3 papers and two embellies. I used the same range of paper as the LO above, the gorgeous "bisous".




The third challenge was a little bit harder... You were to scrap about 7 moments from your day. The only criteria was that you had to use your own handwriting. I wanted to do something a little bit different, and this is the end result:





So, all in all, a very busy weekend so far!

This is the last LO for the cybercrop at SWV. It was such a fun weekend! Can't wait for the next one in April!

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My next project is to finalise the class kit's for SWV - my first. I'm panicking a little bit about it, but looking forward to it at the same time! I'm also hoping to find time to do a couple of other challenges that I have seen on different sites and blogs. Oh if there only was more hours in the day...

Don't forget to leave a comment after your visit!!!

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It has been a few late nights this weekend. I was planning tonight to be another one, but since I got up at 5am this morning to take the family to the airport, I am just TOTALLY knackered. I have done two more challenges for the CC over at SWV. I'm almost done with the fourth and last challenge, but just have to finish it tomoroow. There was also a photographic challenge, but I won;t be joining in on that one this time.

This LO was for a challenge to stamp with bubblewrap, use machine or hand sewing (I daon't have a sewing machine so I had to do a couple of stitches by hand), torn paper and handwritten journalling. My journalling is written around the swrily bling. Teh title says "I can do it myslf" and the journalling talks about how Tova now is a "big girl" and she can CERTAINLY put her shoes on herself!




The next LO is for a challenge to use yellow and green, a 4 leaf clover, basically to think "St Patrick's Day". Hard one... This is my take:




The last challenge, the one I'm hoping to finish tomorrow is a sketch challenge with many photos. Good for me who seem to stick with only one photo on each LO!

The CC has been so much fun, and the creations in the SWV gallery are just stunning!

Rightio, bedtime!

Yep, the cyber crop on the SWV forum is full on! I have managed to get one challenge done, planning to get some more done after my family have gone to bed. It's their last night in the country. We're leaving for the airport around 5.30am tomorrow, so they will probably go to bed early... :)

This is my LO for the "Haberdasher" challenge. We had to use three different types of fabric or felt, at least 5 buttons, and two ribbons or lace. I managed to do ALL that!  :)


The next one I'm doing includes bubblewrap and stitching. YAY!!!

My family is still here, so this will be another short post. We're having a great time, although my little girl has not been herself since our trip to the South island. Hopefully she'll come right before I start my new job... The good news is that we have childcare sorted! It's very exciting!!!!!

So - time to explain my heading! This weekend, starting at 9pm NZ time,  we have a very exciting Cyber Crop going over at Scrap with V. If you are not already registered I reckon you should! There will be a lot of fabulous challenges and games where you can win prizes! There are also several monthly challenges, some of the March challenges are already posted!

I hope to see you on the forum!!

Even though I've been busy with my visitors, there has been some scrapping going on... :) I can't show you all of it, but here's one LO that I can share.

So, it's been a very exciting week for me. I applied for a job a week or so ago, went on an interview last Wednesday, and if we find daycare for Tova I will start this job in the end of March! And - it's not ANY job, it's a job in the shop Scrapbookers Delight!!! I AM SO EXCITED!!! So if you live in or are visiting Auckland, you have to come visit me in the Mt Eden shop!

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But that's not all...

I'm also a new DT member for the Australian shop/forum Scrap With V !     

H O W   C O O L   I S   T H A T !? !? !?

2008 is looking good from where I stand!

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So, Tova, me and my parents are off to Queenstown for a few days from tomorrow, fingers crossed the rain won't follow us there!

I'll leave you with a couple of LO's - all in Swedish I see! :) # 1 says "you two are my whole world", #2 says "Tova - right now", and #3 says "total harmony". Thanks for stopping by!

Yes - I'm still on a break! Promise...

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My friend A has left, and on Tuesday my family arrives. I'm SUPER busy, but somehow it seems I have had time to create some stuff. Funny that... Have not been very good at commenting on all your blogs though, but I DO TRY to catch up on your posts!

I'd like to show you the mini album I have made for my parents. It's been finished for a while, but I can now safely show it on here, as they are on their way  as we speak! I decided to not do it the "ordinary way", with matching papers. I just picked papers and embellishments that I liked, and this is the result:



I made a "I'm thankful 4" book for my friend A, and it came out pretty good. She LOVED it, and that makes me very happy!



I've also made some simple cards in the last few weeks:



We've been renovating the house bit by bit since we moved in 2005, and the entrance is pretty much finished now. I bought a cute little basket to keep the keys in, and this is the tag I made to go with it:



Finally some LO's. I was gonna save some stuff for after my "break", but I'm sure I won't be able to stay away for very long... I just have to create at night time!!!





Thank you for reading this far... and THANK YOU for all your comments and thoughts! I am so grateful for my "online friends".

Tomorrow one of my best friends arrives in New Zealand, and the week after next my mother, father, and one of my sisters arrives. This will mean less scrapping time for me, so you might not hear from me in a while. It's gonna be awesome to see them all though, and there's going to be lots of opportunities for photos, so I will have great memories and scrapping materials when they are gone!

Leaving you with my take for the Paper Pesto blog's first sketch challenge. It's hard to photograph a LO with an overlay, but anyway...

'til next time!

So... By now most of you know that I am a total challenge junkie... :) It's all good though! It gets me going, gives me ideas, and that's gotta be good?

All the LO's and the minialbum have been submitted for different challenges @ Scrapbook Essentials or My Scrapbook Nook.

ENJOY! (and let me know if you need translations... :))

The new dare is up @ The NZ Dare blog! I'm the guest designer this time, and this is my contribution.



Go check it out, and accept the challenge to be in to win a fantastic prize!!!

I've been cropping today, and will share some of the stuff I did with you soon!

I am so excited! Got an email from the UP2Scrap people today, and they have accepted the LO I sent in! It's going to be published in their May issue. I'm stoked!!! YAY!!! Yippeeeeeeeee!!! If I weren't on a diet I would have a glass of bubbly, but I'll just have to toast in sparkling water... :)

Have one LO to show you; my second contribution to SE's Friday night challenge. The title says "the help". Tova loves helping me with the cleaning, but prefers the big broom to the dishbrush. It looks a little bit funny with that big broom... So, the bracket is cut out on my cricut, and I have painted over mesh to "dolly it up" as Megan so funnily called it!

I'm in a good spin. I make a lot of stuff, and I end up liking what I've done. Don't you just love that? I can't show you everything I've done, but here's a couple.

This first one is for SE's Friday night challenge. The challenge was to "dolly up your die-cut". :) Cute... I've been wanting to scrap this photo of Kelly - or this occasion rather for a while, and I'm happy that I now have! I cut out the skyline on my cricut, and put yellow and red paper on the back to get the light in the windows. Looks cool I think!!!




The title on the next one says something like "Tova - cutie pie", and I love how it came out. I've had the idea in my head for a while, maybe I've stolen stuff from someone else, but... I like it anyway!

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Back to my desk for more creating now. Thanks for stopping by my little space!!!

I just stopped by Stellas blog, and saw that my LO for one of their competitions is up, so I guess it's OK to show it here. The competition ends on February 3rd.