Cross stitching

I've been cross stitching for a few years now, and I really enjoy it! I've done quite a few pictures. And this year I decided to make Maja an advent calendar. I only started 4 (or is it 5) days ago, and this is the result so far. It's gonna look something like the picture on the right.... Hope I will have time to finish it before december.... something I really doubt.... but I'm gonna try!

The one million masterpiece

This is fun.... you should try it out. It's called The One Million Masterpiece, and you can contribute to this if you want to by drawing a little thing online.....

This is what I made:

Finally..... NEW atc's!!!

I made these only a couple of weeks ago..... but I've had trouble with uploading pictures to this site....

Alphabet ATCs

Here are the two alphabet ATCs I promised to upload when they were finished... They are for Wrick over at LMAO for the illuminated alphabet swap (one letter pr atc). They are both water colour and pen.

More knitting...

I've done some more knitting. It was so much fun knitting those pussycat arms, that when my MIL sent some knitting wool remnants, I decided to knit Maja some new slippers.... Nice, thick, warm ones for winter....

More old ATCs

I've found some more ATCs that I did before my holiday.... these I hadn't even scanned...... They're both water colour. I'm not quite sure if I really like them..... maybe that's why I've just left them.... Anyway, here they are...

Edited: Why don't my pictures get bigger when I click on them??? Anyone?

New.... old ATCs

I just found some ATCs that I made before my holiday stashed away with my paints....

Here we go again....

Ok, I've just signed up for another atc swap over at LMAO, illuminated alphabet..... I do love letters... Big letters, small letters, colourful letters..... mmmm.... where will I start. I used to do a bit of calligraphy years and years ago.... Too bad I've got all my calligraphy notebooks in Norway... Anyway.... The swap is 2/2.... which two letters will I choose?? I haven't done anything arty for a little while.... so it's a bit hard getting started again.... guess I'll just have to jump into it (as we say in Norway).

Oh, I came over a great blog today. I really like this girls style.... Artista Blog. Well, actually, I had a look at a lot of great blogs today, but I guess I can't really link to all of them....

Miaow....

I know this doesn't count as art.... maybe more like craft..... but I have been creating, I've been knitting. My little girl really wanted to have some "pussycat arms"..... so yesterday I decided to make her some....

I didn't have a pattern, so I just had to make it up as I went along....

This is what the pussycat arms looks like finished and on the model...

Maja was really pleased with them. She even insisted on wearing them to nursery this morning.... And this is how she looks now.....

Good night....

ATCs for Victoria

Ok.... finally...here are the two ATCs I made for Victoria in the "Theme of your choice" swap at LMAO.

The top one is called "Seahorse" and is a water colour and pen painting. "Slithering Snake" is painted in acrylics. The snake is cut out and glued to the card and the text is cut from an old book.

Finally

Yay.... I've finally managed to finish the two ATCs for that other swap I'm in.... yeeeessss!! I sat down yesterday and decided to just doodle a bit to loosen this stuckiness I'm in.... and voila... I'd made a card!! I guess deciding to just doodle took the pressure off and just loosend me up a bit??

Well, after the first card was done, I found my long lost acrylics.... and made another card with them.... I haven't got round to scanning the cards yet, but I will later on today (I hope).... and I'll post them here.... so Victoria; stay away if you don't want to see them.....

Struggle....

Uhhh.... now it's been more than a week since last I updated here.... I'm having some kind of block at the moment..... can't seem to get anything right... I've made a few ATCs, but none of them are anything to brag about.... but I guess I learn from that too....??? Hope so!

I have finished two of the cards for the swaps I signed up for at LMAO... still have two to go though.... and.... as I said.... I'm struggling! BUT there is still a week and a half to go.... so I'm pretty sure I will have worked through this silly block by then...

These are the two cards that I have finished:

The theme was "cityscapes".... These two are for Jessye. I hope she likes them.....

I'm surfing the net quite a bit now... just to get some inspiration to get over my block..... Follow links whenever I can/have the time..... My friend Victoria always has lots of great links on her site.... and she is also a very talented artist that inspires me loads..... Thanks for having such a great blog, Victoria!!! By following a link on her site I found Audrey Kawasaki.... wow, great artist!! I also happened upon Annette Lindner.... wowza! I like her use of colours....

Well, I hope I get myself sorted out with this block thing..... I'm starting to feel the neeeed.....

Another week gone....

Where does the time go??? It's been a week since last I updated this spot.... So, what have I been up to?? Hmmm.... Oh, yeah.... I've made another deco. A creepy crawlies deco. I haven't put it up anywhere for people to work in it yet.... guess I'll have to do that.... I made this one from that book I found a bit too small for my first deco. It's just over ATC size.... lets say about....*going to next room to find a ruler to mesure*... 7.5 x 10.5 cm. And here's a picture of the front:

I hope someone will want to work in it... Well, I guess it's up to me in the first place to let people know I have it so they can sign up.... will put it in a flight list somewhere soon me thinks....

I've also signed up for a couple of swaps over at LMAO. I wasn't going to sign up for anything just now since I'm off for my summer holidays soon.... but I couldn't resist... so I've been working a bit on those cards.... will post pics when they are done (or maybe not until the recipient have got them....) It's only 4 cards to send off, so I guess I'll make it before I go to Norway.

I've also received a few things in the post; a few lovely ATCs from different people (pics of them in my yahoo album). I also got a couple of lovely paintings from Kim in Saudi (haven't scanned them yet, but they will be in my yahoo album when I get round to do that...) It's the first time I've gotten something other than ATCs.... very exciting!! Will have to get more into that side of mail art.... maybe sign up for some 4x4 or postcard swaps when I'm back from my hols....?

All my received ATCs...

As I promised in an earlier post..... I've uploaded pictures of all my ATCs that I have gotten from other people to my Yahoo photo album.... you can have a look at them here. I spent most of the day today scanning them.... there is something wrong with the settings on our scanner, so it doesn't scan the colours right.... and I can't figure out how to fix that.... so I have to go and fix every single picture that I scan...... phew.... I couldn't get all of them quite right though.... never mind... now it's done... and if I scan things as I get them from now on, it won't be such hard work. Yea, that's a plan!

I DID it!!!

I finally made a deco!! Yay! Here is the front page:
It's a little book, 10,5 x 10,5 cm. It has 8 pages, so I'm gonna try to get 6 people to work in it.... The first and last page will be used for people to sign the book so I know who has been working in it. The theme is .... well... doh... Owls. I'm sooo excited! I've put it in the Deco flight list over at LMAO, so I hope someone signs up to work in it.... This is fun! Will have to make another one now... I guess I could get addicted....