Little Corner of Ania

[Cute photo of Oddbjørg here...supposedly]

Thank you so much for this weekend - thank you to everybody who took my class on Saturday and to new and old friends I met and especially to Oddbjørg for your generous hospitality taking on three crazy ladies from Bergen + me for the weekend ;) :)

Writing this I'm sorta supposed to do other stuff, so I'll keep it short - just *had* to show these images from yesterdays photosession at Solastranda Hellestøstranda - wonder why?? ;p I'll get back to you with more images by the end of this week I hope :)


Hummm :)
(and yes these photos are all edited differently..can't decide which way I prefer to edit these...)
Right.
Back to work.
Oh.
One more photo.
I promised to put this on the blog!!


Ps! Yey for Scenic Route :)

Title: "I have a dream" - Abba

Whoppetiwhopp!
Our March-assignment for Hambly was to create projects with the theme "Wish" and to use at least one overlay and sticker..this is how mine turned out. Love the new butterflies and making your own envelope like, freestyle is fun!! :)

Hambly is shipping all the new CHA-releases right now and celebrating it with a little giveaway on the blog. Seriously can't wait to get a refill of the new stuff :D

Tonight I'm off to eat Oreo-madness at TGI Fridays and watching "Watchmen" at the theatre w my husband. Yay :)
(and crap I still haven't packed for tomorrow)

Title: 24 - Jem

Bah!
Need to vent somewhat.
Undergoing long processes at the hospital sucks. Especially when it leaves you with little to no choice but to take what you're offered re. dates for appointments & surgeries because of having to rely on calling in a foregin specialist in the field. A very busy one (he so better not get sick when he's about to come here cause this was his only available date for the entire year).

Anyways.
It just killed a very cool opportunity I had to travel around&teach a bit in April. Sigh.
Bummer. Totally.
Don't get me wrong. I totally appreciate and really am grateful for the service&efforts from the hosp&doc...just wish it didn't have to crash with already-laid plans and that I was notified way earlier. Like when I started asking around for more info back in January to no avail :(


Jeje.
Post wo photo sucks.
So. Don't think I've shown this layout before -- one of my Fancy Pants layouts for February. Have I mentioned I LOVE the "Splendid" collection? Yeap. Lovelove :)
Photo of my nephews before the wedding-ceremony back around Christmas. I like it. Looks kinda photojournalistic. Or whatever you'd call it. Cool.


Title: Warwick Avenue - Duffy

Ps. Looking forward to this!

Peeking at this weekends Prima-class - "Good Memories - a minialbumclass" in Stavanger:

Hvorfor velge når du kan få med deg alt?
Ta alle de gode minnene og ta vare på de i denne delikate lille boken med god plass til både bilder og tekst. Med tøff bølgepapp og lekre primaark lager vi en flott bok med forskjellige spennende lommer og utbrettesider. Et komplett album på 1-2-3!

Selve sidene i minialbumet måler ca 4x7” (10x18cm) og på kurset fokuserer vi på å lage albumet helt ferdig!
Bilder til å komplettere ditt perfekte album fikser du selv senere – no photos needed!

See you in Stavanger :)

Title: "Lost in Space"

Wanted to share one of my layouts for Hambly this month of my beautiful niece Becca :) Everything apart from the alphas is from Hambly :)

And I almost forgot this little challenge I got from Cindy, one of the readers of this blog all the way from NZ (*waves* thank you! :) )....it's so sweet and the photo I found is just perfect so I decided to play along!! :)

She wanted me to look for a folder starting with "C" (for her name) - and I found a folder named "Celinekurs" (from when Celine Navarro was in town teaching) - and to pick the third photo in that folder. That was this photo of me and Mari - whom I'll see next weekend - perfect I tell you!! :)

Guess I should pass this on...hm?
Pick a folder named "A" (or with A in it) for my name and pick the first photo you see (cuz A is the letter #1 in the alpha, geddit? ;p)

Id like to pass this on to my friends I'll see next weekend in Stavanger...(you sooo better show yourself when Im there eh!!)

Oddbjørg
Mari
Xtine
Mo9ca
Ingvild

Ps. I won't get upset if you won't do the challenge...I mean, I usually suck at doing challenges myself......but...today I'm in the mood! ;p

Psps! Excited for this!!

Title: Dangerous and sweet - Lenka

Check out this little project I created for the Fancy Pants blog :)
I've been fascinated by this idea ever since I saw someone make something similar from uh, I think it was a writingpad or something like that..with loose ribbons across it. I think it might have been someone at Sassafras or Pink Paislee?? I never remember to save such great projects I see around for future reference...:/ Anyways. I originally wanted to use the back of a stretched canvas, but didn't have one at home when I finally decided it was about time to make one.... so while searching for an available IKEA shadowbox to use instead in my shelves I noticed my Bind-it-All spiralboxes and how they seemed to be the perfect size and all....and recycling is good eh? :)

This is a quick and easy little project, yet it took me what, three days or more to complete?? (Cutting out papers for the outer side = 1 day....cutting out strips for the inner side = another day...gluing them on the box = yet another day....I'm moving at the pace of a snail these days)

Anyways, I'm quite happy about the result (and about finally having all the hairclips in one place! YAY!) and think this must be such a cool idea for quick bdaygifts to little girls :)

Materials: Fancy Pants "On a Whimsy" - this collection really makes me smile :) :)

Title: "The Sinking Game" - Marit Larsen

Mhmm. Pencil-Lines #124, guested by Az :)
Fancy Pants delight. Lovely for such nostalgia-photos, like these of myself cirka -81 at my grandmothers place with her budgerigar named Pelle...I have no idea if it's Pelle no 1, 2, 3, or maybe even 4. All her budgerigars were named Pelle and replaced every once in a while when they died...which was sorta frequently (at least the way I remember it)...once it died because it flew towards the window, not realizing it was a window.....:p
Anyways....I wasn't afraid of them back then......nowdays I kinda jump if one lands on my head (right Sonja? :p)

Pretty much everything's from Fancy Pants - papers, chipboards & ribbon. I even hand-sewed on it (gasp!) and went back to my love for scalloped scissors :)


My little butterfly:




My oldest turned eight. *sigh*
How fast time flies >Guess what he got from us...

Mhmm.. Mario Kart...so popular!

My mom has been her for a few days...leaving tonight..

I can see that loving the phone indeed must be a girlie-trait..






Passing by Amalie in the evening I coudln't resist snapping this photo - coudln't even find Amalie - she was so buried deep down....it's quite unusual for her having all the pets in bed..:p


Working on some scrappy stuff -- I'm going to Stavanger for a crop (plus teaching a class :) ) next weekend (March 13-15 - get in touch with Oddbjørg for more info :) ), working on some more Prima-classes for April (Scandinavian by the looks of it..more info to come soon I hope..) and am most likely going to do some demoing for Scrappers Choice in Bergen later this month..


Title: Don't save me - Marit Larsen

Another one of these monster-posts I seem to post lately. Soz!
Pencil-Lines was guested by Denine Zielinski, who provided us with a darn cool sketch :D Loved it! :) I took the oppoturnity to scrapbook some photos of my husbands grandmother, who unfortunately is terminally ill. Sigh. Cycle of life I guess, and she's in a good mood despite the cirumstances which makes it a lot easier for everybody, herself included.
I love how Fancy Pants "Delight" is such a ...delight :p It's kinda perfect for layouts involving err, older people (do I sound ignorant now?? or just silly..), and those nostalgic, old photos (next weeks PL-layout is using "Delight" aswell - just w/childhood-photos of myself). Anyways. Im proud of myself using !!!three!!! rubons on this layout!! And you just gotta LOVE the gorgeous & generous heart-rubon used in the middle of the page...and I adore this little pocket & phototags made outta the cards-paper :)


Right!
Spent the past weekend w/some scrapping buddies. Photos galore & stuff..
♥ u! :)


Yes they're downright s i l l y I tell you!!
=)

I..ahem...was told to drive straight ahead!! And it was daaaark. And there were WAY more snow covering the ground!! Totally covered the lawn!! True story!! So, I drove straight ahead...and turned right..cause it seemed right....at that time...the spot looked like a nice lil parkingspace...a lil large maybe, but hey, this is the luxury of living in the county no......only to be told by the dying-of-laugher-ladies behind me that I was on the lawn *cough*. Right! Turned the car and all and crossed fingers the rain would take care of any leftover-evidence of my lil mishap =) The lawn might be a lil bumpy due to the tires but I think it'll be ok ;p


Marie made some yummy icecreamcake :D


Sneaky Marie :p
Fell in love with this sheep ♥♥♥
(I love sheep!)
While grabbing for something in my bag this loose Prima-flower stuck to my uh,wristbands (what is this called in English??). Thought it looked pretty so decided to sew it on :)


Yummy food & drinks!

Silly photos =)



The results of our Round Robin in the middle of the night :)
It's like, pure genious to scrap fresh photos you've just taken and have it scrapped by everybody in the photos :)
(Round robin: everybody gets like 10-15 minutes to add something to a layout before passing it on. By the end you've got a layout which everybody's contributed to :) )



Yeah. It's cold and it's raining but it doesn't stop Marie from enjoying the icecream outdoors!! =)

Right. Mom's coming over tomorrow and Adrian's turning 8 this weekend. And I am struggling w/a nasty headache and have too much I should have done like long time ago. Yay. Have a nice weekend? :p

Title: Fairytale - Alexander Rybak (yah yah. eurovision. wohoo)

Friday...
and FFF :)

1. My schweeeeet schweet schweeeet D700 ♥♥♥♥♥
   Can you freakin believe that the upper photo was taken w/ISO800 and the latter w/ISO640?? And no noiseninja involved!! Totally, totally, totally schweeeeeeeeeet :D :D :D I softened the latter photo somewhat, dragging the clarity-slider to negative (like, subtle blurring) and ran a vintage-action on it (the tulle and her sweater is actually more like fuschia-pink :p)
2. My nieces
   Miss them already. See photos above :p
3. Mad Men
   I have to admit...it's intriguing and it keeps well, twisting...but not really in the normal twisting way you'd come to expect from a TV show kinda I think..like, twisting the other way kinda, or not twisting at all...just..normal life-twisting or somethin...hard to explain, but I really like do the show despite it kinda annoying me aswell :p (Don punching the man who told his wife that he (Don) was rompin' with his (the punched man) wife?? liek wtf talk about blaming others for your own deeds ><)
4. Pushing Daisies
   Cute!!!! Kinda hard to explain this show too unless you've seen it, and by just reading the plot it does make you think it's a too silly weird show...but....loooove the style/genre of this show (what is it called? kinda naivenostalgish?? uh??? anyone? Hm. Kinda in the same gate as Amelie I guess..?) And I just adore Kristin Chenoweth :) :) And Emerson's expressions. Priceless :D
   
5. I'm not sure wheter to put Gossip Girl (yes..it's my guilty pleasure..it's silly and it's sorta catty and it's sooo soapish and I love it......*blush*) or House MD (Hugh Laurie. Nuff said!) here. Both I guess. ;p
   

And there you have it! :p
Have a nice weekend :) I will do my best ;p

Oh btw!! Had such luck asking about Lightroom last time so I'm trying again; I did fix the colorthingieproblem w/ Lightroom to CS, but still have a petpeeve left: if I wanna save the changes in CS it automatically gives me .tiff (The only options for file format in external editing in LS are tif & psd as far as I can see) which is sorta not too bad but still annoying cause I want it to remain jpg and have to do "save as" (I hotkeyed it now but it's still a few more steps needed than necessary kinda). Anyone have any quick & smart solutions to that?? *hope*


Title: The Show - Lenka