I´m still here :-)

Sitting here between empty shelves and full boxes there´s still so much to do and to clean and work, but I´m in a much better mood and stopped the sighing ;-) I didn´t know this song by Mr. Mraz before, but it really rocks, I think :-)

I don´t smoke anything, of course not, but this song keeps me moving while carrying and packing boxes, because, like most songs from him, it just sparkles of joy and summer!

Sigh... and week 28

Sigh one: ...only one week until we´ll move. We won´t move far, just to another part of town were all of our friends live, and I´m really looking forward to live there, but I´m not looking forward to all the work ahead. I haven´t pestered this blog with our house troubles to keep it as the last place where I´m undisturbed from paint, dust and boxes, but as we´ll try to move on Saturday, I´ve got to tell you, because I won´t be here for a while. I hope we´ll have internet really quick again, ´cause I´m a sucker :-)

Sigh two: We just took our girls to the airport - they are flying to London right now, to visit my husbands brother and his family. I so wish I could have borded the plane with them. They were excited and happy, and I hope they´ll have a great time. Here´s a pic:


And sigh three: We had computer issues last week, twice, and I´ve spent lot´s of time retrieving data, doing backups and reinstalling the most important things. After all, I managed to do this weeks page, it´s no killerpage, but according the circumstances, it´s ok. Sigh.


And to sigh of joy and not of sorrow, I´ll finish this post with a beautiful, beautiful John Mayer song. He looks so, so good in this video. I wish I had more time to sit and marvel :-)

Some lines in a song are so lovely...

...that I can´t get them out of my head for several days and have to keep singing them, and when I start seeing them in my head, it´s time to make wordart from it :-)

Here´s the song, and I think the beginning line is one of the most beautiful lyrics I´ve ever heard:

So I made this: In case you can´t see, there´s a sparkle on the last l of beautiful, to represent the reflection ;-) I think you can save it by just rightclicking the image, it will be .png, with a transparent background then, but in case you feel more comfortable with box.net, I uploaded it here.

Oh, and as a little riddle to leave you with: Those of you who recall where they´ve seen the font I used for "Beautiful" before are welcome to tell me in the comments. Let´s see if you find out :-)

Yay, my new header!

Since so many people come here, I thought it might be embarrassing to keep the old header with those badly made extractions. It grew on me, with Mehmet in the sling, but my boys are much bigger now, and I felt like making a new one. So, there it is :-)

My song of today is this one:

I must admit it sounds a bit, well, like a moaning 16 year old with lots of problems, but well, looking back, I loved that age. And I love the bridge starting at 2.50

Week 27, celebrate with me!

Yeah, can you believe it? We´re halfway through our 365 project! I don´t know if I already mentioned it, but I´m SO LOOKING FORWARD to holding the finished, printed book in my hands :-))

Did you see the great weeds and wildflowers sale? I bet you did. I wanted to buy tons of stuff there yesterday, but I had issues with my credit card (I forgot the password for Paypal AND my old emailadress is down, and I forgot to change it before it got deleted, so, well, it´s good that safetymeasures are so strong, but it still annoyed me yesterday...)

So I thought, if I can´t buy new templates, I have to make one myself, and I´d like to share it with you. It was a cluttered week here, we´re still working in the new house, there´s no bathroom and no kitchen yet and there are lots of little things to do, and we want to move there in two weeks, so I thought a template that expresses chaos would fit nicely. If you´re living in a chaotic world, (or just like it for another reason) then go and grab it:

That´s my version:
And yeah, the pirate in the thursday pic, that´s me! I read pirate stories in the public library.
I listened to a lot of music this week, and it´s hard to decide which one is this weeks number one. I finally decided to pick this one to show you, because not only the song is, well, perfect, but also the video is utterly beautiful and sweet.

Pics from the wedding, week 26, how to install fonts and greetings to someone from Indiana :-)

Ok, we´re back from the wedding. It was absolutely marvelous, actually much better than I had expected. Tim and I were really enjoying ourselves, we were dancing like we were 16 and that´s how I feel! So, here´s a pic of my girls, dressed up:

And then there´s another one with me and Eva, and I´m wearing the dress I made myself, it turned out much better than I hoped.


But there´s THE PROJECT, and I´m still on it, and I hope so are you. Here´s my layout for last week:

I used the Moriginals template from last week (as it was finally sunny enough), White Paper from Ellie Lash´s Jacob Kit and fasteners and petals from Cherry Kiss, and I know a sun on a black sky looks sort of ridiculus, but well, I really wanted my pages to look neat and orderly, and I decided to take a black background for every week, so I´ll stick to it, even if it looks, well... strange :-)

Last week Stathis Five asked me how I use fonts. I guess there are people on the net who know much better to explain this, but as I´ve been asked:

When you´ve got your fonts and unzipped them, you have a small file ending on .tff or otf. You open the control panel on your computer, that´s the same place you go to when you want to change the background pic of your desktop or the the security stuff. There, you´ll find a folder called "fonts", containing all the fonts your computer knows already, like Arial and Times. You just put the font file into that folder, and you´re done. It´s as easy as that. From now on all your software using textfiles will know the new font, too. When you write a text in your favourite scrapsoftware, you can chose the new front from your font list. Hope that helped :-)

Ok, and before, I´m finished for today, there´s still one thing: I recognized there´s someone from Indiana coming to my blog quite regularly, because I´ve got that little gadget on the left. And whenever I read Indiana, think about a song I really was in love with this spring. The artist comes from Indiana, and one of his records is called Indiana, too, and because I really listended to this song over and over again "Indiana" always brings a smile to my face. Here´s the song, hugs to Indiana:

Yeah, this will be on my personal soundtrack for 2009, too!

Off to a wedding...

...for the weekend: Ronjas godfather´s marrying his long time girlfriend, and Ronja and Eva will be the bridesmaides. I´m just hemming my gown, packing the suitcase, polishing our nails and hopp off to the train :-) Want to see my girls dance in their dresses?

They´ll be the most beautiful girls on the planet :-) I´m sure to take tons of pictures :-)))

And my very favourite song for this week´s this one:

It´s different to the music I usually like, but it sure makes me dance while wiping my kitchen floor!!!