The summer is coming to an end...

Can you believe it is already September tomorrow!!! OMG!!! Where did the time go??? We have had such a busy and wonderful summer.

First with our holiday back home in Sweden and then my brother and his girlfriend came to visit us here for 3 weeks, only left us Thursday last week. Now we are trying to get back to "normal" again but got news from the nursery that they have postponed the start until the end of September due to the new influenza... Poor kids are going to go mad and me too!!!

So to keep them busy I enrolled Freya for some "ballet"classes since she literally lives in her ballerina outfit and today was the first class - needless to say she LOVED it! She tippy toed all over the place, did pirouettes, splits and skips, stopped, shouted BRAVO at her self and bowed!!! *LOL*

She was the entertainment of the hour! One of the other little girls sat down besides me and said "she is sooo cute"! Where do they get everything from!?

A little side story of funny things that's been said - Yesterday, Freya did something she shouldn't and I told her off, she then sat down with her arms crossed over her chest and said "Mamma, I don't know!" I answered "what don't you know?" She "If I like you anymore!" Me "Ah, don't say that then I'll get sad" She stands up comes over to me and put her hand on my shoulder "Ah, Mamma, don't worry I'll find you a new home"!!!!!!!!!
Anyway... thought I'll post some pictures for a change so here's some from Oman

First out - Kian trying on Freya's sunglasses... no comments!

Freya trying out her snorkeling kit...

This is the view from our roof topWhilst my brother was here we did some sightseeing...

A typical view
Here we are in one the many great wadis, this is the entrance and you trek for about an hour up in the wadi where you finally jump in a pool and then swim and walk for another 15 min to come to a rock wall with a "key hole", depending on how high the water level is you either swim under or squeeze through it into a cave with a waterfall.... GORGEOUS!

Note 2 small figures on the edge of the cliff... me and my brothers girlfriend!
Trekking ... midday,+ 40 degrees C....
The pools

Me in action
A beach with a stranded turtle

Another beach

a local

The zink hole... a natural phenomena with tunnels up into the mountains and the sea. The water is brackish and stunning. Stopped for a swim
Sunrise in Oman
Beautiful country isn't it!?

Think this has to do for this time... will be back soon!

Have a great day!

I'm back...

It's been a long, gorgeous holiday and now we are back in the real world, playing catch up! I didn't know so much could happen in one month!!!
Designers and shoppes have been hard at work and there is so many goodies to play with that I hardly know where to begin!!!
Anyway, just a small "Hello" and I'll be back with some pages and photos soon!

Have a great day!

Still alive...

and on holiday!!! Yay!

We arrived here in Sweden last weekend and we've had a fab week.

Catching up with family and friends. The children is loving being outside in the garden all day. Unfortunately the mobile Internet connection we've got in our cabin is extremely slow and just enough for checking emails not much else.

Annika managed to sort her Internet so whenever I've get a chance I use hers.

Here are some pictures from our first week.

Cousins out on a walk.

Freya tasting red currant from the bushesThe playground in the gardenKian playing with his digger

Hope you all are having a great summer too!

Have a great day!

Exciting news!

I know I said I would tell you all my news on wednesday... well, I've been in bed since with high fever, sore throat and generally feeling..blaaaaah!!!! I'm still in bed but couldn't stay away from the computer so my dear husband has set it all up in here.

Scrap addict..me...never!!! ;)

Anyway, my big news is I've been invited to guest Catscrap for July/August! YAY!

I'm absolutely thrilled about this and so excited to get scrapping if only this fever would give in allready!

Here are some pages I managed to put together before I was bedridden

I've used Lynne-Marie's new fantastic kit "White linen", Creashens "Yours", Vinnie Pearce "My sister", Madam Mim "Fish in the sea" from Catscrap and Dido Designs template pack IV and her "Playful wordart" from A5D.

I'm back to my blanket and pillow now so I'll see you later...

Have a great day!

Some pictures...

I've been playing with my new camera and it is such a totally different ball game to my old Sony DSC-5H, which is a long zoom automatic and by all means take great pictures but not like my Canon 5D! :) The most difficult thing with the Canon is me having to think more *lol* that is hard!!! Also, I'm taking about 100 pictures and if I'm lucky 5 is in focus (pictures of the kids - MOVING!!!) but when I get it right it is worth it! I'm still very lost when it comes to the different settings and tend to go for automatic a lot but feel it is such a shame so I need to work on experimenting more! Any good advise - PLEASE send them my way! Here's a few pics I've managed to get fairly ok ... I've used Christian O'Dell's Lightroom Presets Pack 2, available at Catscrap, to edit them and I've fallen in love with this particular one "Ansel".
This is Freya with her fairy wings, she loves them!!! She's a real girly girl at the moment it is all fairies, princesses and ballerinas.

We had the big pool out over the weekend but all they wanted was this IKEA storage box filled with water and they played in it, TOGETHER, all morning!
Managed to catch Kian in the Kitchen with the sun shining through the blinds creating the shadow lines.

Kian with milk all over his mouth!

Kian in a moment of day dreaming, he looks so grown up!

I couldn't resist this shot of him standing by the windows. You can see how badly he wants to get back out there, it was just too hot, +45C!

His little toes and fingers

It is now exactly 10 days until we fly home for the holidays!!! YAY!!! Can't wait! The kids are going to love being able to be outside playing all day!

PS! Got some very exciting news but can't share anything until Wednesday...

Have a great day!

Summer

There's a new fun challenge over at the blog at Catscrap, it's called ScrapMash.
It's all about your birthday and what numbers you kan get out of it and each number represent a sertain color, element, titel work and theme...
Mine came to "A summer page, color = Orange, element = Button and One word titel.

Here's my page

I also managed to get a GSO for it, YAY! Thank you, Sandra!

Have a great day!

The most beautiful memories

I just came across this very moving and STUNNING work of art.
Grab a tissuebox and look at this.
Thank you, Ang for charing it on your blog!

I'm lost for words......