Oregon Coast Layout

Unfortunately, my yesterday's day did not start so well. Thorsten had to get up early because of his tennis game. When he has switched of the ventilating fan, I could have howled. All of a sudden it became boiling hot in the bedroom. In sleeping wasn't to be thought any more. So I have got up at 7.30 on Sunday morning!! As the first I have made myself a coffee to wake up somewhat. Then the plants on the balcony came to the row. Reaping and they were also a little bit thirsty. Finally, afterwards I have pulled myself up once more to process a few photos. Well it is only one photo and 2 postcards. Still I am very contented with my work. But now have a look at it:

3 layouts

Here I am again and showing you some layouts I recently made and the scrapbooking blind date layout from Stefani.

I'm a bad blogger

Sorry guys, that I didn't post anything since a long time ago. I wasn't in the mood to do so.

But I've made some new layouts and I'll show you a part of it later this day. Some of the layouts are made for a photo swap at the paperbraut forum. I can't show you the results right now 'coz the swap isn't finished yet.

I took part at a scrapbooking blind date at the paperbraut forum some weeks ago. It was really funny and I enjoyed it very much. I'll show you the layout which Stefani made for me and what I made for her.

At present I'm preparing my Circle Journal which is starting on 1st of August. My issue will be "Trees in landscape". At first I've chosen an issue which has included bonsais. Unfortunately I've none at the moment 'coz they were stolen as I wrote some posts before.

Okay, I'll making the photos of the layouts now. See you later!

A new layout

Hello everybody,

I made a new layout today. It shows my beloved mom. I took the picutere at the birthday party of my friends mom 2003, but just found them a few weeks ago. It really was time to make a scrapbooking layout of them.

I used the following stuff:

- PP from Cosmo Cricket "Twist & Shout"

- Chipboard from S.E.I.

- Template from Creative Memories

6 bonsais have been stolen

I couldn't believe it, what I saw opening the window shutter of our balcony door in the morning of 11th May. My bonsais didn't stand there anymore! The following bonsais were stolen:

1 Pedunculate Oak (Quercus robur)
1 Cherry tree (Cornus mas)
1 Field maple (Acer campestre)
1 Fig tree (Ficus retusa)
1 Elm tree (Ulmus parvifolia)
1 Apple tree (Malus with white blooms and green sheets)

I don't have a pictuere of every tree. But please, if you should see one of them, please contact me.

Quercus robur

Cornus mas

Ficus retusa

Ulmus parvifolia

Somewhere over the rainbow....

I was crying again, because our one and only Tuuli died on Mai 5th. She was very sick and the vet couldn't rescue her. It broked our hearts and she is leaving a big space. I'm still fighting with the tears which are running down my face from time to time, especially when I'm alone at home and have time to think about her. I made a little something today, a real scrapbook page will come later when some time passed by.

The journaling is in german, but it's easily translated because I use a phrase from the song "Somewhere over the rainbow - what a wonderful world" by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

Deutsch: Irgendwo da oben, über dem Regenbogen, ganz weit oben... All die Träume, die du mal geträumt hast, damals in dem Schlaflied. Die Singvögel fliegen, und die Träume, die du mal geträumt hast, werden wirklich wahr! Eines Tages werde ich einen Wunsch an einen Stern schicken, und dort aufwachen, wo ich die Wolken ganz weit hinter mir lassen kann, wo Sorgen und Ärger einfach so schmelzen, wie Zitronenbonbons. Ganz hoch oben über den Schornsteinspitzen, da wirst du mich finden. Irgendwo da oben, über dem Regenbogen.

English: Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high and the dreams that you dreamed of once in a lullaby. Somewhere over the rainbow, blue birds fly and the dreams that you dreamed of, dreams really do come true. Someday I'll wish upon a star, wake up where the clouds are far behind me. Where trouble melts like lemon drops, high above the chimney tops thats where you'll find me. Somewhere over the rainbow.

Haven't shown yet

Howdy my friends!

I made two new paper layouts I have not shown yet. The first one shows Thorstens grandma, who died some years ago. The photo was standing plain and lonely in one of our shelves. So I thought it would be right to make a layout of it. And see, Thorsten was very surprised and happy about it.

The second layout shows me. Thorsten took the photo on our holidays in Tunesia 2002. I always wanted such a photo like this and Thorsten succeeded in making such a gorgeous snapshot.