Day 2.

On day 2 St Nicolas came to work. We had a big party with children and parents. St Nicolas brought a lot of toys for the children to use while they spend their days with us in the Kindefgarden.

Lena

Day 1 in my "12 days of christmas".

My friend Jaine asked me if I would join her to make a "12 days of christmas" and of course I said yes to that - she always has these good ideas... But I'm still not sure what a " 12 days of christmas " is. I suppose it should be something about decorating the house, preparing for christmas, shopping ...(?)...
Because I love art journals, my "12 days of christmas" will be an art journal showing what happened in my life that special day.

So my first page is about changing windows and doors in our house. AND a discussion about eating pizza in the house when one family member might be allergic to gluten...

December 1st.
Lena

art journal page of 11/11-11

This is my page called 11/11-11. My thoughts at 11.11 o'clock.
I used cherrypie artstamps together with stamps from Tim Holtz.

A bit late, but still going...

Lena

St. Nicolas brings toys to work!

Big party and St. Nicolas arrived at work last friday... Making this "Kleesschen" (St. Nicolas) the children had some good fun with the cuttlebug, making his beard nice and swirly...


....and look at all the new things to play with!!! Thank you Kleesschen!



...working on my 12 days for christmas - just hope that I will be able to finish it before the big day!

Lena

Finally!

I finished Olivers advents calendar!!! Only 3 days left.... I'm happy I finally DID IT! It was hard work and a lot of sticking, but here we are!

Happy 1.Advent!

My shopping in Wiesbaden!

I forgot to show you my shopping in Wiesbaden, Germany. A whole day, with good friends, lovely possibilities, money "squirreled" away for mounths and a LOT OF INSPIRATION!

So thank you to de Stempelwinkel, Creavil, Stempelfeeshop, Scrapbookcorner, Scrapbookstore, La Blanche and Reprint!

Lena

My "silent night" for SDC.

Over at the SDC, they would like to see some creations for christmas but WITHOUT the traditional colours.
I stayed true to my beloved blue and made the background with acrylics and wet wipes.

The angel is a stampotique stamp, designed by Jill Penney.
The trees could have been a stampotique stamp, but it is made by the swedish company www.reprint.se .
And the little star is designed by Jo Copper-Sandon, from the Stampotique team.

I wish you all a nice weekend!

Lena

Another advent calendar, this time for work...

This one is made for work.
I used newspaper, old star cut outs, numbers and some christmas stamps. We filled these "kremmerhuse" (kones) with some grass fibre and soon St. Nicolas will arrive with sweets for the children...

Lena

Wet and wild!

This is my entry to our art journal this time. The theme is "wet" and I added some wilderness to it. Wich prompt is it this time? Could it be the 18th? Don't know anymore, but it is nice to have something new to think about every 2 weeks...

Have fun!

Lena

Silhouette

This is my entry to simply less is more, where the theme this week is silhouttes.
I'm not a good card maker as I normally find myself using a kind of messy style and that is a thing you just DON'T DO on cards. But I love what I see on their blog and I thought I would like to try ...
The silhouette is a cut-out and the stamped text is a new one, just bought in Wiesbaden at the Kreativa Welt Bastelmesse.

Wish you all a great week!

Lena

The advents calendar 2011

And this is this years adventskalender! I had some great fun trying to find different numbers to fit and it is always nice to find use for strange little things that I find everywhere... I will put this one on to liliths challenge for altering and decorating christmas stuff.

Hope you like it!

Lena

My gesso stars.

This summer my father taught me how to make these stars. I started making them in brass wire and then I painted them with black gesso. I think it is nice to see the brass shine through... and of course it's up to me to decorate them according to the season!

Lena