A little bird told me - challenge -home made paper!

On the "a little bird told me" blog they have a monthly challenge, this month you have to make your own paper. This is my little project, i used colored pens and glimmermist to decorate my paper. This is also one of my favorite photos from springtime this year.

I also used, thickers, Love, Elsie stickers, vintage childrensbook page, colored tape, paper lace, Hambly rub-on and Dymo tape.

My "baby" is four

Benjamin turned 4, at the end of last month, we had a great day in the garden with a lot of great food and a lot of chocolate(-pirate-)cake.

"maybe it is a little bit dangerous?"

The closest thing to a smile

The cake - Ahoy Matey

A post from the birthday boy (if he could write):

Turning four changes a lot, it definitely makes you feel a lot bigger. You only wants to take showers, sitting down in the tub is for babys. You will no longer have the use for a smaller fork og spoon, the grown up kind is much better, even if you spill a little. If you feet is in the way, it is because the have grown over night. You will say, to you grandmother, something (that will probably come back and bite you later on) like that you will never misbehave again, because big boys don't do that.

You WILL remember that your mother told you 6 month ago that you had to be four to play at IKEAs "Småland" (supervised playground - while parents are shopping) and you WILL know that she is lying when she now tells you that you have to be five, and therefor you WILL make the rest of the trip through IKEA a living hell for your parents.

But you won't be to big a boy to tell your mommy that you love her almost everyday and you will always know that she loves you too!

We put up wallpaper on one of Benjamins walls today, it looks really cute, no photos yet, coming soon.

This picture (from his birthday) is a good before-shot, please don't notice all the mess, the room is actually not much bigger than what you see, the picture is shot from the door, so a little toys look like a lot. I have been trying to convince him to put away the big Pooh and Tigger, but he is not liking the idea.

This is the wallpaper we put up.

...now we just have to get rid of the Mickey lamp... (I think he is ok with that...)

Got my licens...

...I'm driving now!! :-)

I am officially a teacher now

I had my final exam yesterday, religion. I passed with a fairly good grade, so I am happy.

Happy to be done. My boys gave me these flowers.

They also wanted to give me a new chair for my desk

(maybe just a chair - since i dont have one know)

But they were unsure which one i wanted

- I am too, what do think?

I'm leaning towards the Tolix chair - but i'm unsure about the color. I really want to put a lot of colors into our living room, but i don't know which!

This is actually the Eames chair I really (really really) want - maybe this color, maybe pink!!

The other day i had a photoshoot with this little angel - Elias

He was really easy to work with and so cute!

My birthday came and went...

I'm 31! My birthday was yesterday. Saturday we had some family over for coffee and cupcakes (and appelpie and rhubarbpie also) - It was my first try decorating cupcakes like this, I think they turned out really sweet (tasted sweet too). I bought the roses here. 

I'v been gone for too long

It has been allmost 3 weeks since my last post so a lot has been going on. 

The 21st of may i went to "Livsstilsmesse på Ledreborg".

It is a really beautiful place, filled with lots of beautifull things (very overpriced things). The weather was ok, but not great, so i didn't take that many pictures. 

The carnival came to town, and Benjamin had his very first ride in the bumper cars. 

...and his very first ride down the big slide - the girl next to him is my best friends daughter, Kamille.

In-between all this i had to prepare for my art exam. Which meant making two Red ridinghood collages. In the process i learned (my self) how to embroider, I'm not sure I'm doing it right, but I am pretty satisfied with the result - see pictures below.

Yesterday was exam day, so i put up all the art work i have made in class for the past two years.

...and the exam project.

This is my Jim Houser paraphrase (yes also Red ridinghood)

The whole thing!

I past the exam, not greatly, but I'm ok with the grade.

Today we are going to a summer-party at the kindergarden! So i have just baked 40 pigs in a blanket...

Scrap-a-mania - Here I come

I'm going to SAM today with two friends, I'm actually looking forward to spend a lot of money on a lot of scrap-goodies (though i don't think a actually spend a lot compared to some of the scrappping women outthere, I read on scrapsisters that some of them in the past has spent 2500-3000kr every month on scrap-stuff....!!!!).

Afterwards we are going out to dinner and then here to scrap, scrap, scrap. It's going to be so much fun and relaxing instead of doing schoolwork aaaaaallllll of the time.

I finished my scanography project, these are some of the best pictures and the finished collage:

This was just for fun - but turned out sweet

If only i had the skills...

I would make these! 

Home again and a new job

We are home again, after a really nice week on Rhodes in Greece, though we had a couple of days with at bit of wind and rain. The water was very cold but we went in anyway...

I absolutely love the old town in Rhodes-city, i have been there once before and was really looking forward to show Benjamin the castle, he loved it...

...and came to love knights even more

The view from our room

...and the cutest ice-cream ever!

I went to my very first jobinterview yesterday...and i got the job. I'm going to be a teacher on a small school (120 students from grade 0 til 7th.) and the best part is that i'm also going to be the school-librarian. I don't know many details yet, waiting for them to call me. I start the first of august.

Today i'm working on one of the last project for my artclass, it has to be something which is made on the computer. A couple of weeks ago i stumbled upon  scannography which is basically making pictures/collage directly on your scanner. It can produce som really beautiful images (i haven't made these) 

I will show you mine when I'm done with them.

I'm here

...coming home on saturday.

Great blogcandy

Take at look at this blog for som great blogcandy!

A little break!

Benjamin and I went to the playground for a little picnic, together with my oldest and best friend Signe and her son Anton (my godson :-)) It was really nice to get away from the school work, (which is driving me crazy, I have given my self until friday to get i done, it is due monday the 4th, so..). But it was a fun hour, and just relaxing. At the moment we are having really warm and sunny weather, allmost summer-like. Benjamin is spending all the time he can outside with his dad.

By the way, i failed my drivers-test...oh well I'll pass some day :-)

To much on my mind!

The look on his face, really shows how i feel inside right now. I'm trying to get my exampapers done in time, and i'm facing a drivers test, really really soon, and honestly i don't expect to pass it. And with a little boy looking like this a lot of the time, because he misses his mother attention, it makes it all a bit worse...