Christmas in August

I made a Christmas-card! Yes, we still have long ways to go until Christmas, but you can never start making them too early! This one I made for a challenge at Altheas Mix. This week the "theme" was free (well, it should be Christmassy)... I came up with this, a pretty simple card, but I think it's cute! What you cannot tell from the photo is that I did put some stickles on the frogs' hats, on the white "fluff", just to add the extra bling I thought the card needed...

Accident

So much have happened recently. My mom and her husband Örjan was involved in a traffic-accident 3 weeks ago, and it was really scary. They got hit from behind on the motorway - the young man that hit them was probably speeding like **** and hdid not pay enough attention to the traffic in front of him. Mom and Örjan both ended up in hospital. Mom was released the same night, Örjan was kept at the hospital for observation but they sent him home the day after. Still, he didn't get any better, only worse, so after a couple of days mom called the ambulance again and they came and got him (at 3 AM). They gave him another X-ray and it showed he had a broken rib that had punctured one of his lungs. Then they emptied the lung of 7 deciliters of blood... One wonders how on earth they could have missed that on the previous hospital!? Those were very nervous days, but now he's fine after the circumstances. Well, you can tell by the photo of the car how bad the crash was! I am soooo glad to still have my mom alive!

Oh well, I won't talk only of accidents and car-crashes - here's a card that was ordered by a colleague of mine. It's a birthday-card and it turned out pretty good, I think!

Springcard for a challenge

Oh well, it might be a little late to show a springcard... Nevertheless, here is one I made recently, for a challenge. It should be something spring-related, a stamped image and a ribbon. So, here it is, folks! In reality, summer is here and has been here for a while already. Today it's rainy and dull, though. Hoping for it to clear up tomorrow!

Photo-problems...

Oh Gee, I really have been absent for a very long time! So sorry about that! I thought I would be able to add a photo of all the 40 wedding-invitations I made for a friend - I gave them to her a couple of weeks ago and she was actually very pleased with them. That was a lot of fun, but soooo time-consuming! Even though I enjoyed it, I don't think I will ever take upon a task like that again! However, I did take a photograph of them all together - with my mobile-phone - but somehow I cannot transfer the picture from the phone into the computer! Very frustrating! Oh well, I'll post it if I ever find out how to do it!

Meanwhile, I'll show you this piece above! It's a bookmark I made for a friend in a group-swap. I was very happy with how it turned out, maybe I will make a similar one to myself! :)

Busy!

Spring is here! It's soooo good to be able to go outside and the air is warm and nice. And no snow left!

This deco is themed "Silly Cats" and I found this picture and found it so adorable and funny. Cats really are so special and unique, noone is like the other. I am a huge cat-lover, can you tell?

I have been very busy this last month - both with work and the commuting (I work full-time and commute 45 minutes each direction), but I have also some orders of cards that will have to be ready by the end of April. 40 of them are wedding-invitations that a friend asked me to make for her. I have made 26, "only" 14 to go! And also, a co-worker asked me to make her 4 birthday-cards. She will retire by the end of the month, so I'll try to have them ready for her next week. And of course I will have to make her a "goodbye"-card as well!

I will try to remember to get pictures of it all, and upload here!

Longing for spring!

A friend and co-worker turns 40 today and I made her this card. Very appropriate with the cats since she is a big cat-lover just like me! :)

What else? Not much has happened lately, just quite busy at work. Spring is around the corner now, I can smell it, but it is not quite here yet. Yesterday we had pretty bad weather with lots and lots of snow coming down, that needed to be shoveled later at the evening. Not very amusing, if you ask me. I really long for spring now!

Vintage Children and spring

This is a deco I made for a group-swap, and the theme was "Vintage Children". I found this beautiful picture of a young boy dressed in a sailor's suit and I thought he looked so sweet! I am really happy with the way the deco turned out!

Now we have the month of March, and even here in Sweden we can sense that spring is arriving! Today the weather is beautiful and sunny, and the snow is slowly melting away. I cannot wait for it to be totally gone, I'm not a fan of snow or winter...

Yesterday I had really big problems with my neck - it was so stiff and hurt a lot. Lucky me, I have a chiropractor in the family - he's married to my mom - so I could just give him a call and them go over there to get some treatment. Today feels soooo much better! :)