Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween everyone! Yesterdays party was awesome, I feel so happy today! I was dressed like an evil pixie :-)

Here is another little decoration I made

Close up on the pretty center

Mu door wreath 

A bat banner

And another banner

You can never have enough banners right?...

... well at least thats what I think!

Lots of love to you all/V

Crafty Halloween, part 4 - sparkly pumpkins

I made two papie mache black sparkly pumpkins...

It's so hard to photograph black things

Lots and lots of love to you all!

Halloween, around the house-part1

The hallway. I added a wreath, some web-curtains and other decorations

I made extremely simple halloween curtains with just ripped black fabric

I added some bling to my chandelier 

i took some branches, added some purple glimmermist on it and then some punched black butterflies.

Lots and lots of love to you all!

Crafty Halloween, part 3- Banner

I made a banner for my kitchen window today. It's almost impossible to photograph but I hope you get an idea anyway. To make the background I used lots of distress inks, glimmer mist and then I decorated it all with  papers from Graphic 45´s awesome line Halloween in Wonderland

Lots and lots of love to you all...

Crafty Halloween, part 2- Papie Mache Pumpkins

This is really super simple, it just needs a bit of time since the glue needs to dry and then the paint needs to dry

All you need is newspapers ripped in strips, a balloon and some wallpaper glue  

It needs to dry over night

I painted mine with acrylic paint. I'm also making two glittery black ones but there not dry yet...

I hope you had a great day

lots and lots of love!

Crafty Halloween, part 1 - shrunken apple heads

I added some rice-teeth on this one

Isn't he a cutie?

This is actually my favorite

You just carve faces into apples, It doesn't have to be perfect. Then you dip them into some lemon juice mixed with salt and let them dry. I actually dried them in the oven at a very, very low heat over the day to speed the process

Here they are semi-dried and they will actually shrink more cause there not completely dried yet

I will return with more crafty Halloween ideas tomorrow.

Lots and lots of love to you all! 

Augustidockan solros - crochet pattern in swedish

Äntligen är augustidockan klar och de andra dockorna är i planeringsstadiet, jag ska nog börja på semtember ikväll. Som vanligt är mönstret bara provvirkat en gång så det kan förekomma fel. Känn dig fri att kontakta mig för att fråga om du tycker att nåt intestämmer eller om du bara undrar övernågot, inga frågor är dumma! Tekniken där man virkar fast blombladen har jag lärt mig från crochetra HÄR:

Blomblad

Starta som vanligt med en ring eller 2lm, använd gult garn

1. virka 6fm i ringen eller den 2a lm från nålen

2. 2fm i varje

3-4. 1fm i varje, fäst ändtråden

5. *1fm, 2tills* 

6-8. 1fm i varje

9. *1fm, 2tills* 

Huvud

Starta som vanligt med en ring eller 2lm, använd brunt garn

1. virka 6fm i ringen eller den 2a lm från nålen

2. 2 fm i varje

3. *1fm, 2 i nästa*

4. *2fm, 2 i nästa*

5. *3fm, 2 i nästa*, fäst ändtråden och klicka fast dockögonen om du använder sådana

Byt nu färg till grönt och virka:

6. 1sm i varje

7. 1 sm i varje maska som du virkade i förra varvet, man virkar alltså i samma hål 2 gånger

8. Virka nu fast kronbladen runt om ansiktet genom att virka fm i samma hål som du virkade i de två föregående varven. Du virkar fast kronbladen genom att sticka nålen genom både dem och själva ansiktet. 

9. 1fm i varje

10. *3fm, 2tills*

11. *2fm, 2tills*

12. *1fm, 2tills*

Stoppa nu huvudet så att det är fast och virka sedan ihop resten av maskorna två och två tills du tycker att det blir för pilligt då kan du sy ihop det sista.

Ben

Starta som vanligt med en ring eller 2lm, använd grönt garn

1. virka 5fm i ringen eller den 2a lm från nålen

2. *2fm i varje* =10m

3. *1fm, 2fm i nästa* =15, fäst trådsnutten

4. 2 tills, 2tills, 1fm i nästa 7, 2 tills, 2tills =11m

5. 2 tills, 1fm i nästa 7, 2tills = 9

6-19 (eller så långa ben du vill ha). 1fm i varje, någon gång under sista varvet ökar du 1m för att det är lättare att räkna med=

20) 1fm, 2 i nästa

Kropp

Kroppen virkas direkt på benen. Börja alltså med det sista benet du virkade. Virka hela kroppen i grönt.

Varv 1) virka 10fm på första benet, virka nästa fm i nästa ben (så att du sätter ihop dom), virka 9 fm till på nästa ben, du har nu virkat ihop benen och virkat 10m på varje ben. Slut cirkeln på samma ställe som där du började att virka med en fm (Detta blir nästa varvs första maska). Det blir nu ett hål av 5m mellan benen som sys ihop senare.

Varv 2) Fortsätt att virka på denna cirkel som blir kroppen Virka*1fm, 2fm i nästa m* varvet ut KOM IHÅG ATT DU REDAN HAR VIRKAT VARVETS FÖRSTA MASKA; BÖRJA DÄRFÖR MED "2fm I SAMMA m =30

Varv 3-6) Virka 1fm i varje m, Sy ihop mellanrummet mellan benen och fäst ändtråden (från benet) Stoppa sedan benen lite extra och underkroppen.

Varv 7) *Virka 2fm, virka 2 tillsammans* = 25

Varv 8-10) 1fm i varje

Varv 11  *1fm, 2tills.* = 15

12-15)   fm i varje

Stoppa kroppen ända upp

Armar:

Starta som vanligt med en ring eller 2lm, använd brunt garn

1. virka 4fm i ringen eller den 2a lm från nålen

2. 2fm i varje

3-4. 1fm i varje

Virka nu en luftmaskekedja av 9lm i grönt garn och virka fast kring handens sista varv. Det är bara att virka genom båda lagren. Fortsätt sedan att virka med grönt 1fm i varje tills armarna är så långa du vill han dom.

Montering

Fäst eventuella trådar som finns kvar. Sy fast huvudet på kroppen. Stoppa armarna lite grann och sy fast dom. Brodera ögon om du inteanvänder dockögon som trycks fast.

Lycka till och glöm inte att fråga om det är något. KRAM!

Is it christmas already?

The UPS-person knocked on my door today. She brought me this wonderful package from Cosmo Cricket that I won at the alphabet-crop over at my sketch world How lucky am I?

I also got my wool that I had ordered from dreamfelt.com It is great quality wool, now I can´t wait to felt. To bad I had to pay extra in customs though...(over 300 SEK now thats just crazy don´t you think?) 

Look at all of this...amazing! I'm guessing tomorrow is going to be a felting day :-)

Lots and lots of love!

Knitting for Molly

My best friend had a baby almost two weeks ago. So today I finally did some knitting. I'm making something cute, white and warm for this gorgeous little girl...

Isn't she just perfect and wonderful?

Oh those chubby little baby cheeks

Do you notice she is wearing the cardigan I made for her?

I think I could have held her forever :-)

MOLLY COME SEE ME SOON AGAIN! Your auntie Veronica loves you and misses you!

4 more "weekend in Paris" creations

Sketch and color challenge

Card inspired by the Arc de Triomphe The sentiment reads: For a little princess. I made the front with some distress inks, my ink blending tool and a paint brush

Inside of card

A bookmark. I played with my distress inks a bit :-)

A scrap lifted card for a new baby boy. 

I hope you all had a great start of the week

lots of love!

A weekend in Paris

Well I'm not actually inParis but I'm doing the "weekend in Paris" cybercrop at Mollys scrapbooking. Here are my the four layouts I made so far... 

challenge 4, inspired by the Mona Lisa. My title is: You are a masterpiece (du är ett mästerverk) The inspiration is not really the painting itself but the word masterpiece.

Challenge 1, sketch challenge using the special kit

Challenge 3, Inspired by Vanessa Paradise song Joe LeTaxi. I was inspired by the 1980s so I scrapped some old 80s photos of me and my sister 

Challenge 2, Kit challenge

I have been extremely tired all day, I feel a bit better now so I hope tomorrow will be more productive, I need to do some studying before Monday, I also want to do some more of the challenges. 

Lots and lots of love!

Project- happy me!

So this is my new project. I really  want to be happy and healthy (well, who doesn't?)! You know I have been struggling with finding balance in my life and know I really want to do something about it.  To keep me motivated I have made it in to a scrapbooking project. I'm going to keep this scrapbooking-diary for six weeks while I try to set up new routines and make them into habits. I just want to make choices that makes me happy in the long run, not just for the moment.

I just got this little suitcase that makes me totally happy so I decided to make it apart of my project. 

I keep all the little decorations and other stuff I want to put in my diary in my little suitcase. My plan is to make it really simple so I can stick with this for six weeks. I'm also planning to add photos.

I made really simple journaling cards to document all the food I eat every day. I do this both to get control over what I eat but also to get inspiration for all those days when I don't know what to eat. 

Here is the front and back of the book. I just want it to be really happy and inspiring. 

I am going to stick with this for at least six weeks so I have tabs for every week 

And I prepared two page spread for every day to make it simple and easy to do every day

Here are my pages for today. I'm going to add more but every day doesn't have to be full no pressure! just a little every day :-)

Yep, this project makes me happy (so far anyway)

The book actually fits into the bag :-)

I will write more about this project in the future...

Lots of love and happiness to you all!