Little Corner of Ania

Before starting the catchup-post – I’d just like to say thank you for the nice comments to the babypictures of Lykke :) And if anyone would like me to photograph their babies, don’t hesitate to get in touch with me. I love babies and I need practice learning how to shoot them consistently good so I’m cheap for the time being ;) (I also do weddings and stuff by the way ;p) Right. ‘Nuff selfpromoting =)

 

Looks like “all” the other DT-stuff decided to get posted all at once – that’s just so typical (once I create stuff I hate usually having to wait to share them) – so it seems like all of a sudden I have a lot of projects to share..

This is an exploding-box I created for my nephew when he got confirmed. You can find step-by-step-explanations here. The materials used is mostly Father like Son from Fancy Pants Designs, plus a tag from Elle’s Studio inside.

  This box only has one layer – I think that’s more than enough for my use. I sewed pockets for money on the sides – this is something Polish Agnieszka usually do, and she totally rocks these boxes!

Then there’s this shadow-box made from a canvas, made as a tutorial for Crate Paper. Which tbh seemed like a great idea inside my head, and still is I guess – I just wasn’t all that satisfied with the end-result. Prob should have done a few things different, like diff. papers and stuff. Ahwell – live & learn! Plus I’m too lazy to redo elaborate tutorial-stuff! :p The materials used here are papers, stickers and chipboards from the Brook and Paper Doll collections.

And then we have these lovely (*wink*) monochromatic cards for Pink Paislee. I do my best to pretend I can be snarky too ;p

Gotta say I adore Pink Paislee’s Halloween-line Hocus Pocus. It’s different from the usual Halloween-stuff out there – in a good way, trust me.

I dunno – I see no harm in these cards – just harmless fun – but I guess – there’s some people I wouldn’t give these cards to because I wouldn’t be too sure how they would react. What do you think?   Oh, and look, the 6x6 pad fits perfectly inside these 6x6 cards (duh). =)

 

Might as well get done w/the catchup for now, so here’s the rest of the photos from Papirfesten :)

Eli in front of the landmark hotel.

Up close..

Visiting Oddbjørg’s lovely home :)

Trying to get Lykke to cooperate – to not much avail :p

Awesome circlethingie :p

Eli w/weird antennas! (yes, this was a planned shot in case you wondered :P)

A shot of me and Liz Hicks. Meeting her was really nice, she used to be my contactperson in Tattered Angels (when I was a TA-educator). Tbh I was not sure if she would remember/recall me, so it was a pleasant surprise when she indeed did. She seemed to be a really lovely person, walking around talking to everybody just like that – I sure wish I was as outgoing as her! I tend to only dare go to&speak with people I know in advance! I’m glad she asked for the photo as I was too wussy to ask myself! Haha :) Now I have a picture of me and Liz, yay! :)

Here she is again, demo’ing for a lot of very, very focused women :)
(And while I realize that being taken pictures of while teaching/demoing is just something you have to accept, I can only dream of looking as gorg as she do when teaching PACS later this year. Sigh. Be gentle with me please :p)

And lookie *wave Eli & Gry* – we didn’t try the local menu, but we noticed it seemed real cheap – 49NOK for a child? ;p

Gry came all the way from Belgia, so she brought chocolate and um, Rum for us (yeap, blaming Gry for that one alright, let’s ignore who actually requested it mkay? ;p).

I’m not sure why this picture, but eh, yeah, iPhone – me wantsssssss……

Cheers!    And finally, a group-photo of me and my lovely room-mates (whom unfortunately aren’t to be trusted if you’re standing in front of an elevator OR if you leave your camera unattended in the room…COUGH! COUGH!)

Right! Think I’m caught up now – only have to share the stuff I actually managed to create during Papirfesten (no small feat if you know me – I rarely manage to scrap at crops, and always end up with “need-to-finish-at-home”-projects…but not this year – I finished two layouts & two cards, yay!) – just think a few of them will go to various DTs, so not sure when I can share come to think of it :p

 

Right, gonna wrap this looong post w/urging you all to drop by my dear & talentful friend Ellen’s blog (she’s also my librarian! Well, not really mine, as she belongs to another faculty, but still :p) – she’s celebrating her blogs 4th anniversary with a lovely giveaway – you have three chances to win either of these items!

Ugh. I haven't updated my blog in like four days and that's like, too long :p
But before I keep you updated on wassup (like that's anything interesting...Im doing what most people are doing these days, preparing for Christmas w/the occasional crop thrown in ;p) I wanted to share this Hambly-layout of me and Kine...made this one a while ago but didn't get around to share it. And because it's her birthday today (HAPPYHAPPYBIRTHDAY!) it made me think of this and like, "oh right, I have to share this" :) I have to admit....I've been looking at Kara Haupt & CandiMandis works lately and thinking.....I totally love their styles..... and personaly I love to alternate styles (or well, at least I like to think so ;P) and I think I'm gonna revisit this cool minimalistlaidback style more often. Paper, transparencies, kraftborder-stickers and rubons from Hambly Screenprints, alpha and button (LOVELOVELOVE..sniff..this was my last one...sniff) from American Crafts and flowers from Prima.

Speaking of scrapbooking -- you gotta check out Graphic 45's blog - they have been featuring Bad Girls this weekend and the creations with their papers are amazing!! :D


I love making these little gingerbread-lights. It's kinda a tradition to me.....one which I love to share with the children.... anyways. For the first time in several years however, I made the "walls" too thin...*grumble* And I didn't make backup-walls either, so ohwell - I had to repair the walls on my own.....:p Hm. It has it's charm uh? (just say yes) ;p

En av "mine" juletradisjoner er å lage pepperkakelykter. Vet ikke hvorfor, men jeg begynte med denne etter at jeg flytta til Bergen for mange år siden. Synes disse er så koselige å bake, pynte og bruke! Og ungene synes det samme og (men jeg begynte med dette lenge før de kom altså) :) Uansett...iår lagde jeg disse litt for tynne og to av veggene knakk....grr...og selvfølgelig hadde jeg ikke lagd backupvegger (pleier ikke å lage de for tynne altså), så jaja - litt reparasjon måtte til :)


And while I was taking photos of the lights Amalie insisted on me taking photos of her and her pressie in the calendar that day (thanks mom!)..
I love how my mother puts time (and money!) into these calendars for the children..every year she sends us 24x2 little presents in little Calendarbags, ready to use - all we have to do is to find the corresponding number on our sewn wall-calendar and put them up. And she does this for all her four grandchildren. Lovesit. Thank you!

Amalie insisterte på at jeg skulle ta bilder av henne også da jeg tok bilder av lysene - hun ville vise frem dagens lukegave. Mamma er utrolig snill - hvert år pakker hun sammen 4 forskjellige sett med 24 kalendergaver til alle barnebarna sine med masse småting hun har samlet i løpet av høsten. Tusen takk mamma, både vi og ungene elsker denne tradisjonen!

Amalie kjevler kakemann-deigen..


Adrian pynter pepperkakelyktene..


Og joda, noen må stå på stolen for å kjevle pepperkakedeigen..


Igår hadde jeg forøvrig en kjempekoselig gjeng på besøk :)
Vi scrappet (vel - de fleste av oss...noen strikket eller organiserte scrappesaker dagen lang ;o), skravlet (så mye at enkelte måtte roe seg ned ;p) og spiste god mat (Fatimas tomatsuppe og nybakte rundstykker) og masse cookies og snop :) Og gløgg :D Dere som ikke kunne komme - dere var savnet, men desto mer mat og plass på oss :D

Ut på kvelden kom veslefrøkna hjem igjen og insisterte på å være med og klippe ;p (barn og mann ble kasta ut av huset mestparten av dagen ;p)

Her kommer forøvrig oppskriften på den hjemmelagde tomatsuppen til Fatima...den er skikkelig nydelig, blir ganske kremete og tykk og er kjempeenkel å lage - bare bland alt sammen og la gryta putre :)

Suppe

2 løk som hakkes smått (stekes blank i litt olje før resten has i)
2 fedd hvitløk
2 bokser tomater
2 ss tomatpurre
2 ts sukker
3-5 dl kraft gjerne kylling ( jeg bruker kylling fond) men kylling buljong kan også brukes
frisk basilikum etter eget ønske( sett frem potta)
1 ss tørket estragon
salt
grovmalt pepper
3 dl fløte( ikke mat fløte)

Det hele kokes lenge. Jeg bruker også stavmikseren for å ikke få så mye tomat klumper. Finner du det som heter moste/passerade tomater bytter du den ene boksen ut med det. Da får du en jevnere suppe.

Det med stavmikseren er viktig synes jeg, for suppa virker veldig tynn helt til du bruker mikseren oppi (brukte 5dl kraft) - da blir den mye mer fyldigere og yumyum med en gang :) Lagde forøvrig dobbel porsjon igår og det holdt til flere omganger og til varm frokost idag =) Smaker enda bedre oppvarma :)

Som garintyr er finrevet ost og en klatt rømme til godt, og hardkokte egg i båter funker supert og. Rundstykkene har jeg ikke oppskrift på for de bare blander jeg sammen på måfå :p

I like crops.
I like getting together with people Im happy to call friends (hey I can call you that eh?? =) ).. fellows who "get" this hobby.
I like to touch other peoples stuff. Scrapping-stuff that is, duh.
I like drooling on the pretty and cool stuff other people make.
Seeing others creations IRL is so so so cool.

Sharing some photos from the last crop - taken by me, Vibeche and her husband. Thank you so much for having me ladies!! & thank you so much to Elis husband getting up at 2am just to drive us home. THANK YOU!)

And because it's Elis birthday today (jubajuba!).
(Don't ask me what she's doing here)

Pretending to be like, innocent or something.
P r e t e n d i n g being the keyword here ;p
(so cute! :) )

Shorties in front :p

No photosession is complete w/o "da Elsie" eh? ;p

I had great ambitions to get a lot of stuff done.
Ended up with a subpar layout, an average layout and uh..that's it :p
Ohwell.
Next time?
:)

Ahh! Those kids! Too darn cute :) It's difficult to take decent pictures from the Lucia celebration (at least for a noob like me) - I wanted to try conserve the atmosphere by not using flash - I dunno how good an idea that was, but here goes nothing :p Probably should have alternated just to see how good either was, but ohwell :p

I had a very nice time yesterday at Hobbykrokens Christmascrop. Even got a Christmaspresent from them with instructions to NOT open it before Christmas! How fun! :D Did three presents, one layout and one almost finished layout. At around 10.30 Simen called and wondered if I could rent a movie or two, and since he's so nice taking care of the kids allowing me to go out I thought why not..besides, I was stuck on my current procject needing some stuff from home to proceed :P So I left a bit early (sorry girls :) ) to hit the videostore before it closed. Got "Fun with Dick and Jane" and "Lady Venegance". Went for the first last night - a soso movie but with ok kicks to Enron and the like. Will watch "Lady Venegance" tonight. Wonder if it's just as peculiar as "Oldboy". I guess. Looking forward to it!

Oh. Check out the Chatterblog! My picture is featured there :) How cool is that?? :D

Ps. Have I mentioned? I LOVE BG Blush!!
Ps2. Crop-layout means QK! Thanks Dinna :p Once again. :p I thought Vixen looked a bit funny, but it's really gorgeous and cool! And once again. Gotta love these "Amalie-you-little-mischievous-imp-but-alright-just-hold-on-I'll-snap-some-pictures-first" layouts :P

Da var barnehagens Lucia-feiring over (*gjesp*), og de var jo skjønne de små - som vanlig :) Var litt usikker om jeg skulle bruke blitz eller ikke, men valgte å ikke bruke den for å prøve å fange stemningen med lysene og mørket og sånn -- selv om motivene ble litt så-så-ghostaktige....jaja. Burde kanskje tatt bilder både med og uten blitz, menmen.

Hadde ellers en fin scrappekveld hos Hobbykroken igår - fikk til og med en julegave fra de på obbykroken - noe så hyggelig! Tusen takk! :) Og så fikk jeg unnagjort tre julegaver, en layout og en nesten-ferdig layout. Dro hjem litt tidlig for Simen ville så gjerne se på film - så da måtte jeg rekke videosjappa før de stengte :) Dessuten var jeg ferdig uansett -- kom ikke videre på layouten jeg holdt på med fordi jeg tenkte jeg trengte noe som lå hjemme for å gjøre den ferdig. Typisk, eh :p

Ellers - sjekk ut Chatterblog!! Stilig, eh? :) Og så er jeg totally forelsket i BG's Blush. Nydelige lekre ark! Really! Mine tre all-time-favoritter for tiden når det gjelder ark er BG, Scenic Route og MME! :) Digg! Ha en fortsatt fin adventstid! :)