2. Advent

Det er andre søndag i advent og jula nermer seg med stormskritt. Her tenner vi to lys og pynter med hjemmelagde papirstjerner. 

Fortsatt god advent! 

December journal

Can you believe we are in the middle of November already. Soon one of my favorite months will come. Can't wait for December! Love love love the month December with all the lights, preparations for Christmas, all the joy, time spent together, warm cozy indoor activities, maybe some skating or skiing, all the secrets, the making, baking, the lovely scent of Christmas in the house, the sparkle in the eyes of the kids, the preparing of gifts to the people we care for ... So many things that bring love and joy and meaning and reasons to be thankful into my life. 

As a part of my Christmas traditions is making of my December album a thing I really love and look forward to. 

This year all my scrapbooking is put away in different places around the house, but I enjoyed the process of digging trough my old paper and stash and find all things Christmas related. :-)

This years album is solely made of things I already had on hand and I enjoy bringing new life to old papers and stash. :-) 

Here are some of the premade pages I have made so far:

Thanks for stopping by. 

Strikka luer

Har strikket et par luer i det siste. Veldig enkle og raske å lage. Flotte julegaver kan det også bli. ;-) 

Jeg har brukt Rosendahl garn i 100% ull fra Nille, men du kan bruke hva som helst av liknende garn, f. eks pt3, vamsegarn el.l.  Pinne nr 6 garnforbruk: ett nøste. 

Lua blir veldig tøyelig og passer til en voksen person. 

Legg opp 56 masker på pinne nr 6. 

Strikk vrangbord, en rett en vrang eller 2r 2vr. Fortsett med dette til lua er så lang du ønsker den. 

Fell annenhver maske til det bare er 8 masker igjen. Trekk tråden gjennom de siste 8 maskene og fest godt. 

Lua er ferdig! 

:-)

Aglow

I created this page for this months word up at the one little word blog. Please join in and stop by the olw blog for all the amazing inspiration by the team. 

Have a great weekend!

Work in progress...

Here is a little work in progress, not sure how it will turn out when it is finished, but i have some plans on adding some text and some more color. Thanks for stopping by :-) have a great week. 

Autumn love

I was so inspired by this beautiful season,  the colors, the crisp air, the beauty of the trees .... And then I all of a sudden fell over the most beautiful piece of art by Neil Burley  https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/perfectly4med/5567006553/  and all of this lead me to create this little page in my messy journal. 

Thanks for stopping by my blog and enjoy the beautiful autumn. 

Love Gudrun. 

I'm thankful

Thank you for stopping by my blog. 

This month I'm the lucky one to have my word up over at the awesome one little word blog. I'm so thankful to be a part of the olw team. So many talented, wonderful, inspiring artists. So please join the journey at olw. 

This month it's time to be thankful. I'm thankful. Thankful for so many things: art, love, joy, challenges ... 

I created two pages for this word. One"official" for the olw blog and one just because I felt so inspired. 

Pretty simple pages, but I enjoy the simple way of creating right now. I don't have the space, the energy, the time to create in any advanced way even if I wish I had.... But still I'm so thankful I can crate a little bit...play in some way with paper, paint, colors....

You are welcome to join in! I would love to see your creations linked up at the olw blog. 

Travel journal to London. :-)

My oldest son, Edvin, got a trip to London as a gift for his 18th birthday, and this weekend we set of to London. We are so excited, and look so much forward to the trip. So, I decided, last minute to create a travel journal for the trip that Edvin can keep as a memory. 

I dug trough som old stuff to find a journal I could use, and then I stumbled across this wonderful pre- made travel journal i think is designed by Ali Edwards. I think it must have stayed in my cupboard for about 8 years waitng for the right time. It made me so happy to find it just on the right time. I have decorated the cover with some patterned paper by the Danish company ridderholmdesign.dk the stuff I used inside is some travel-pieces by Panduro and some paper and stuff (probably) by Ali Edwards designed to fit the journal. 

Now we are ready to go to London, ready to journal and put in pictures. Can't wait. :-)

Thanks for stopping by. Love Gudrun. 

Summer here i come. :-)

I've had some plans on making a mini-album/journal for this summer, and today was the day to start. I got two cardboard envelopes used at my boyfriends office, and I wanted to use these as cover for my journal. 

I loved the idea of the rough cardboard, the recycle/reuse-idea and the look of the postage-address-stickers on the envelope. It all made me feeling creative and filled with joy. 

I painted the envelopes really rough with ghesso on both sides. Then I went trough my alpha-stuff and found some old, old goodies. I wanted lots of letters in different colors on my cover, and the word summer in yellow. (Old yellow, sparkeling alphas from doodlebug, the other alphas are unknown) 

Added the coolest tag ( got it from cocoa daisy, the may kit today) on the inside of the cover. My journal will be held together  with two jump rings, then it is easy to put in and rearrange the pages of the book. 

The size of my journal is 7,5 x 12 inch or 20 x 30,5 cm so it is pretty large this time, wich leaves me plenty of room to play.... :-)

The plan is to create some pre-made pages for the journal, so I can easily write and fill in photos along the summer holidays. If you want to join in or get inspired please follow my posts here on my blog and join me on Instagram #summerjournal2014 

See you ❤

Nytt fra hagen

Hei mine venner. 

Litt nytt fra hagen idag. Været er herlig, og det er deilig å bruke litt tid ute. 

I går plantet jeg ut noen forkultiverte purre, noen blomkarse, som jeg håper vil slynge seg oppover og utover og ta lus og andre udyr bort fra urtene, grønnsakene og salaten Eirun sår idag. 

Jeg plantet også en lavendel, som kan få lov til å dufte deilig og trekke til seg bier, sommerfugler og humler. 

Jeg har hatt en potte med basilikum stående utenfor kjøkkendøra en stund nå, og tenkte å plante den ut i hagen nå. 

Basilikum er veldig lite hardfør, og jeg syns det er litt vanskelig å få til.... Så vi får se hvordan det går. 

Eirun har hjulpet meg å så ruccola salat i en gammel vaskebalje, og salat på det lille feltet i hagen vedsidenav purra. 

Rundt salaten og mellom jordbæra har vi sådd ringblomst. Foran jordbæra tenkte vi å sette ned litt hvitløk. Det holder sneglene borte ( håper vi...)

KrusPersillen kommer kjempefint, og sukkerertene har begynt å spire. Vi føler oss stolte og glade for å se at det gror. :-)

Foran huset blomstrer den rosa-blomstrende jordbærplanten sammen med sommerblomstene. 

Har stukket noen solsikkefrø i jorda mellom sukkerertene. Håper de kan lyse opp litt utover sensommeren når sukkerertene har gitt seg. 

Takk for at du stakk innom. Fortsatt god uke. Hilsen Gudrun. 

Gardening

Hi my friends. It has been a nice day in Oslo today, not too warm, so it was perfect for some gardening. On Wednesday my kids, my lovely boyfriend and I, all worked in the garden and had a major spring"clean". It was so good and it actually encouraged me to do some more gardening.... So today I started to dig and "clean" the tiny little "garden box" I made for the kids years ago, where we used to grow strawberries, a few potatoes, sugar snaps, some herbs and flowers. It's not big, so it is almost like growing carrots in a juice-box.... Never the less, I really enjoyed to get my hands dirty. 

In the evening, after the gardening I was so enlightend by all the great outdoor-time I wanted to create something for my art journal. This piece is pretty quick, but it felt so good to both dig in the garden and create!! Some of my favorites. ❤

So thanks for popping by and reading my blog. See you soon. 

Love Gudrun. 

Artjournaling

I've been working on a few art journal pages lately, and finally, yesterday night I came to finish them. I have enjoyed the process drawing the girl, making backgrounds using glimmer mists, paint, metallic paint, stamps by "ett Trykk" and some old ones , some of my old patterned paper designed by me and by Cosmo cricket, cutting out some gift wrap-paper, using tape.... Simply had fun playing. :-)

I've used some of my favorite quotes ... Have been saving quotes ... Just for the love of it. Love words, love quotes, love how words can have a great impact on our journey....

Have a great day. 

Love Gudrun. 

dare to join the adventure

Hi my friends. 

I just wanted to invite you all to join the great adventure over at One Little Word this month. There are plenty of inspiration - soak in it and make sure to join in and link up your own creation before may 15th.  :-)

Love to see you there.

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Just some happy Picks

 

Some pictures from today that makes me totally happy. Spring, sunny warm weather, people I love, flowers, taking a nice walk, photographing.... Life doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful. ❤

adventure

Inspired by words - and this months word over at the One Little Word blog is ADVENTURE.

I embraced this word and found it really inspiring. 

Make sure you visit the OLW-blog for some really really wonderful inspiring pieces of art made by the OLW-team.

here is my take:

Words

I was totally inspired by a quote from Karen Sahlmanson about words. Yes, our words have great power, and how we choose to use our words, or not, may have great impact on our lives. This is just a little something I created with these words. 

And a little collage of things that makes my day. A cup of tea, my favorite recepie book, my cat relaxing in the sun... Some art in progress.... Just some little things..

❤

I create :-)

After almost three years of "silence" my inner creativity have finally found a new spring and are slowly getting back to its "old self". I feel so happy to have my kitchen table all messy with paint and stencils and paper and stuff .... Feeling the joy of creating. I created a card for a very good friend today, and have more projects going on .... It all makes me totally happy. 

:-)

be calm and dream on ....

Here are two pieces I've created for the two words up: CALM and DREAM,  at the One Little Word blog.
Make sure you join us this time, get inspired, create and share. There are some pretty awesome prizes to be randomly shared this time. ;-)
so pop over to  OLW to soak in all the wonderful inspiration by some great artists.
see you..

Ski treff. :-)

Tusen takk for et kjempefint treff!!! Jeg er fylt opp av inspirasjon og varme og glede og kreativitet. :-)

Everyday art

Yes, i must admit I kinda love street art. I find it inspiring, some times amusing, sometimes it makes me happy, sometimes it makes me think, sometimes it's beautiful, sometimes ugly.... Anyway it inspires me, everyday art. Makes me realize you can find a little piece of art every day, or you can create with something "everydayish", to remember little happy moments.... things that matters to you, things you want to remember or things that just makes you want to shout. Here is a little piece I created with a little note I got on a piece of chocolate from my daughter. Love it. 

If you are interested in streetart, this book about streetart in Oslo by Alm forlag is super cool. You can find more here: http://oyvindholen.wordpress.com/tag/alm-forlag/

Just a note

I found this little blue note on my kitchen table after my darling boyfriend went to work early one morning. Love his little everyday " i love you-notes" and messages. It makes me so happy. I stuck this note into one white page in my art journal, just to keep it. Then today I was just in the mood to create, and this little note was right there in my book ... So why not use it. Great way to save it and remember it forever. :-) 

Just wanted to share some little everyday love. ❤

Have a great weekend 

❤Love

Just a little love for you my blogfriends. I appreciate you all so mutch. Tanks for still visiting my blog, encourage me and leave me nice comments. Love you!

Here is a li'l card I've created for my oh so wonderful boyfriend. Used my old 3ndypapir summer collection and some graphic45 paper. Creating this made me so happy and excited .... Still love card making ❤

Have a lovely day. 

Hugs

Kindness

Kindness is a precious gift. I have some really kind people in my life, they make my life worth living. I'm so grateful.

 I believe  it's always good to be kind. Never give up kindness, even if you get disappointed. Just make sure you have your limits, so no one take advantage of you. 

Thanks for coming by my blog. 

Love

Gudrun

Dreams

Here is a little art journal page I've recently created. I have collected so many beautiful, encouraging quotes the last couple of years, and now I was inspired to write down some of them in a art journal. I really enjoy getting back to playing and creating a little bit. I've finished my Christmas album, and have made some cards lately, but find it hard to be able to use the daylight for photographing and sharing my projects while working full time. Any suggestions on how to resolve this, and find time to blog and share the way I would love to do? Anyhow, thanks for popping by. 

Love Gudrun.