Birthdays, owls and deers

Friday we celebrated both mine and Benjamins birthday (mine for the second time). It was a nice evening, great gifts, happy children, a walk to the playground, good food and cake. One of my best friends made me a pretty scarf, and even gave me a shirt to match. I also got at vase i've been wanting for a long time now. It is made by Susan Liebe, for some reason i did'nt take a picture of it, I will soon.

The scarf

Benjamin got a golf set and Lego

and maybe a girlfriend...

Last week i bought these pretty birds, they are from House Doctor. The are made to hold a candle on the top of there heads, but I'm not sure about that.

I also got these from a fleamarket, they were only 50kr (about 9$). The man asked if my husband is a hunter...

Can't wait for these to turn red and sweet.

Saturday is Benjamins actual birthday, and that is going to be the last party at our house this month. I'm not sure when I'm going to find the time to prepare for it. Thing are pretty hectic at work this last week before the school is out.

bad blogger, i know...

It is not that nothing is going on in my life, for some reason im' just not blogging about it, I'll try to make amends.

• My pretty niece got confirmed (is it really called that in english?). She was really beautifull and didn't look like a little bride, like some of the girls tend to do. 

Vi gave her this Margurit (daisy) necklace by George Jensen, and she loved it.

• We began to get our house ready for sale, even put up this wallpaper on one of the walls in our livingroom.

This is not our livingroom, though. The weather is so bad, that it is really to dark to take picures in right now. But the wallpaper looks great in our house too. I just love ferm livings products.

But in the process of makeing it all look pretty, we decide (again) not to sell and went back to the plan of making our house bigger and renovating it...

• Together with a friend, i bought an I-top-tool, it is fun to use, and truely does make pretty little brads. But the video is just hilarious

• Took a suprice mothers-day portrait of that same friends daughters

• This is what i got for my mothers-day present (or at least it should arive in the mail on friday...can't wait). Isn't it cute?

• And last but not least we are making a dream come true for our son on saturday, by finally taking him to LEGO-land. He letteraly stod on his head in the sofa when we told him. 

This photo is four years old - Lego has always been a favorite. (please don't notice the messy bed in the background).

That is it for now  - plan to enjoy a long weekend.

busy days

We met this jolly guy at the kindergarten christmasparty...

...we open several of these every morning...

...and some of these...

...we visited Tivoli...

...had fun...

...and we had to buy Brian a new wintercoat, because he forgot his at home, an hours drive away...!!!...

...we have made a lot of these (mazipan balls covered with dark rich chocolate)...

...the very first snow of the season, had to be tested...

...lucky for me my Christmas holiday begins tomorrow after work...

Christmas time is here

December mornings spend playing with the gifts from the advent calender

Dreaming of a white Christmas...

The adventskrans- for lighting a candel the 4 last sundays before Chrsitmas.

I think a was a little inspired from the work and art of Shane Brox

My three first advent calender gifts, from my "advent-calender-group" over at Scrapsisters.

...and even with all that going on, I can't seem to find my Chrsitmas spirit.

Our first Halloween

We decorated muffins...

...and cake...

...after dinner, the children decorated halloweencookies...

...and we played fun games in the dark...

...trick or treated a little bit

...and ate a lot of candy just before bedtime...

...it was a really nice and fun evening, and think we are going to do it again next year!

My blog-nap is over...i hope

Two months is way too long not to be blogging, it feels like starting over again. Not much has been going on, besides work, work and work, and some scrapbooking. Scrapbooking has kept me sane, kept me from thinking of work all of the time!

We have also had a week of the chikenpox.

But made it through with big smiles.

A new blue baby

It has been over a month, so i thought i would share a little about what i have been up to, which is not very much.

I started on my new job, which is hard - teaching 4th grade!

But it is getting better and easier, along whith the kids getting to know me and I them.

The school where i work, is a small school in the coun

tryside, so i had to get a car...and how lucky am I, my very (own) first car is also one my absolute dreamcars.

A Fiat 500

Here is my little blue baby, isn't it just the cutest little thing? I would love to get fluffy white clouds on the sides of it...

The inside - also blue :-)

I would love to get family portraits taken - whit a 50's-style picnic theme, like these. Of course with the Fiat in the background.

I just love these photos from LIFE, shot by Leonard Mccombe, se more here.

This picture is from my sisters wedding in 2007, (shot by me). I would like to get one of the old ones, one day, maybe a pretty pink one...

Last but not least, the first thing on my christmas list a Dianamini, also small, cute and blue, would be perfekt for the new car.