The scrapbooking/collage social circle was a success, despite the kindergarten feeling that galestorm commented on at one point 🙂 My soup was good, and my dessert turned out fabulous! So much so that I have to share the “recipe” which I totally made up on the spot 🙂 Liz’s White Chocolate & Raspberry Pillows 1 package smördeg (dough) 1 box frozen raspberries (or use fresh, I couldn’t get them that day) 2-3 cups white chocolate chips (or cut up white chocolate bars) Grease a cookie sheet and preheat the oven to 200C. Lay out the dough and cut into 8...

The African lion may soon be extinct.

Original English Text: Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! Translated to French: Ho de ho de Yo et une bouteille de rhum! Translated back to English: Ho Ho of Yo and a bottle of rum! Translated to German: Ho Ho von Yo und eine Flasche Rum! Translated back to English: Ho Ho of Yo and a bottle rum! Translated to Italian: Ho Ho di Yo e di un rum della bottiglia! Translated back to English: I have I have of Yo and a rum of the bottle! Translated to Portuguese: Eu tenho-me tenho de Yo e de um...

If you know of any good links for scrapbooking, images, collage, altered books, I would very much appreciate your posting them in the comments. I’m compiling a list to print out for the people coming to the Scrapbooking/Collage Social Circle tomorrow night. THANKS! **** Edited to add, here’s what I have so far. Please feel free to send more I might have missed!!: Supplies/Ideas http://www.abovethemark.com, Rubber stamps, and much more http://www.queenoftarts.com, Rubber stamps, etc. http://www.collagejoy.com, Goodies for collage, scrapbooking http://www.rubberbaby.com, Rubber stamps, etc. http://www.scrappershaven.com, Scrapbooking supplies, etc. http://www.thescrapbookplace.com, Scrapbooking supplies, etc. http://www.limitededitionrs.com, Rubber stamps, etc. http://www.stampington.com, Rubber stamps, scrapbooking, you...

CNN has an article tonight about how the position you sleep in reveals what type of personality you are. I, according to the study, am “brash and gregarious.” The freefall, flat on the tummy with the hands at the sides of the head, is the most unusual position. Only 6.5 percent of people prefer it and they are usually brash and gregarious. At least I’m also unusual. 🙂 I can’t get to sleep at all unless I am on my stomach, one arm under the pillow shoved under my head, the other curled in front of me, one leg stretched...

Well, it’s officially fall here in Sweden. Yes, that’s right, I saw a huge sugar beet on the side of the road on my way to work this morning. 🙂 Yesterday evening, the kids and I walked to the library and afterwards we went around the school and daycare yards and collected berries off the mountain ash trees. We do this every year and use them as table decorations at the Halloween party. We found some gorgeous red leaves (already!!). In a couple of weeks, we’ll go up to the abandoned youth hostel in Lund and collect more red ivy...

I came home today to find a huge brown-wrapped package on the front doorstep, from the local flowershop. Upon opening it, I found a beautiful potted orchid and a thank you note from the FAWCO President and board for my recent help with their membership directory. Made my day, I must say. 🙂 It’s nice to feel appreciated!

I refuse to pronounce it EVRO.

I don’t want to do any of the things I have to do today at work. It’s sunny out. Why can’t I win the lottery and go live on the Riveria? oh yeah, I’d have to PLAY the lottery. sigh

Driving through the fields in a veil of mist, white whiskers streaming through and around the trees, droplets on every leaf and surface. Just as I reach the field, the sun burns the mist away and emerges in all its glory, reflected by hundreds of adoring copycats, peeping from under the green leaves. Pumpkin suns dot the ground, coyly covered in a blanket of green and yellow blossoms and to the right a waving field of broadly green, tall, tasselled corn. I bought two lagom big pumpkins for Halloween jack-o-lanterns and a handful of yellow squash, winter squash and zucchini....