PhotoWalk: Helsingborg

The next week involves travelling, so thought appropriate to share some photos from the Swedish city, Helsingbogr. Just one hour from my house and a place that I have visited over and over and .... and over again since 1981. Sometimes I forget that another country is so close by - in fact on clear days we can see Sweden from my office.

A Little Christmas Magic

If somebody says the word "Christmas" in front of most of my colleagues this time of year, they will be asked to wash their mouth with soap - Christmas is, according to them, only to be mentioned etc from either December 1st or 1st Sunday of Advent (depending on which one comes first). But let's face it: if you are a crafty person you know, that it will be too late if you start your Christmas projects that late.

When a colleague spotted me reading this book in the bus from work the immediate reaction was "Catching up on your reading from Christmas?"  HA!! No, because I did not buy this book until February: "The Magic of Christmas" by Trisha Ashley.

Read her "Twelve Days of Christmas" last year, which was a read-until-the-end-with-no-interuptions, so had really high expectations for this book. Maybe those expectations ruined the read of this book, since the book from last year reminded me of something from my life.

"The Magic of Christmas" is an ok chich-lit, and enjoy how it reminds us, that homemade stuff (in this case food and cakes) needs to be prepared well in time for Christmas. That makes it actually an "all year" read, as most of the story does not take place during the holiday season.

Hearts - Need More Hearts

I am close to have completed 2/3 of my quest to weave a heart daily for a year - still have some special ones waiting to be weaved. Surprised about the number of books about weaved hearts, that have been published locally, though most of them are out of print and "only" available through the library.

Today I published a weaved heart on the Weaved Heart A Day blog, where I have created the template. A simple one, but one has to start somewhere and dabling with some sketches that might end up in more templates.

Sunday Morning Inspiration

One of the beautiful things of having time off work is, that you can shuffle your plans around a little bit to make place for sudden input that one want to pursue. Quietly sitting at the computer this morning and checking some emails, blogs and news around the world, when I saw the new sketch from Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenges (#154):

Still need to finish about 5-6 Saint Patrick's Day cards, and immediately remembered the Friday freebie, that I grapped from Sassy Studio Design. Albeit the digistamp is rich on details to be coloured, I opted only to outline the stamp with green in and then use some green distress ink around the image on the grey paper.

Round sentiment is a freebie too from Andrea Design and the gingham paper is from Mat Stacks: Earthprint and Cardstock. Amazing how you sometimes can be clueless about a card, that you want to make for a special occation and other times new ideas spring into your head while creating one card. Well can not push all that I had on my to-do list today, but have scribbled the ideas down and will pursue them, when I get home tonight.

Hope you all have a wonderful Sunday.

Need More Time

Have suddenly realised, that I have several photos of Clocks (above photos represent cities like, Copenhagen, Ipswich, London and Oxford) and wondering why I even took those pictures? The motifs themselves are beautiful but can not stop thinking about that the little voice in my head might have reminded me to slow down without me hearing/noticing it.

Luckily I can stop worrying about the time for the next couple of weeks most of the time, as I have time off work to do wonderful things like reading, crafting, walking, travelling, photographing and mayby indulge in the pleasure of a scrumptious cupcake.

Unexpected Something

Maybe you have noticed this image on the rightside of my blog already. Got an emails earlier this week, where one of my blog readers has apparently submitted my blog to Blognation's category of Multiple Sclrosis Blogs with the description "This blogger proves that MS sufferers can revive cliches like "seize the day" out of sheer necessity. The randomness of the posts reflects her bent toward creativity."

Well I don't know who submitted my little blog of random thoughts to this site, but I am truly humble and grateful, that that person wrote those words: THANK YOU!! :o)

Sweet Paul Magazine

Sweet Paul arrived to Denmark this week - in a printed version. Our weekly magazine FEMINA also contained an issue of the magazine, that I have alreay encountered online (it is free of charge). It has a lot of really nice looking pictures with the various good articles and food recipes.

I still prefer the online version, but it is great that the Danes can now get to know this magazine - don't think too many know about the online version yet and buying an imported magazine at stores usually means either double or tripple the original price (subscriptions directly from the publisher is  a lot of money saved)