Lots of horses in my life right now

Hey all!
I am still alive, but I have been quite busy working with horses lately. Since we moved I have been looking for one or several horses I can help out with, and I've beem looking at two. First, Arja, who was nice, but it was an hour drive to even get to her, and then one hour back home.. that's a little bit too far. Sad but true.
She was cute though. Here's a layout I made from some pics I took of Lucas and her:
The pics are not the greatest ones I have taken, but that's because my camera is slowly dying :o( plus it was dark.. But Lucas had a blast!

I have been riding today too, and even Peter was riding for a while, and we managed to capture it so there's evidence!! *lol* He was riding a horse called Hollywood, "Holly", and I have been out riding Hera with him on Lyster too, but didn't bring a camera :o( Anyway, I made another layout showing the horse-lover in Peter:
Isn't that cute? That's Peter with Hera on the big pic, and riding Holly today, and with Pearl and Hera in the pasture. It's sooo nice to have found someone that can join me in my "horsey" part of life too, not just nag about it!!
I made everything in the lo's myself btw.
I haven't found time to scrap it, but I took a shot of the horse I was riding today too, Olav. Here he is!
Cute, don't you think? I'll go back on sunday to ride him again!! I can't wait!!! He was SUCH a sweet little horse. I'm so glad to have found him!
Gotta go now, thanks for stopping by!
HUGS
Jessica

CT for Deanna Jones aka Flower Scrap

Hey all, this is just a wuick note to brag..*lol* I was asked to join the CT over at Flower Scrap, and of course I took the oppurtunity!!
My first layout is made from the kit called Frostee that will be released Jan 1st 2009.
Here it is:

It matched my sweater SO well I decided to take away most of the colors and let the blue parts speak.. hehe. That's me on the big pic, hugging Lyster last saturday. I'm also having a cozy moment with Hera on the left, and Peter is playing with her in the right pic. We had some fun that day!! Thanks Deanna for sharing time and talent!!
HUGS
Jessica

Free grab bag

Hi there!
I thought I'd give you a small gift in the shape of a grab bag. I haven't made a preview since it's some items I made to help out a friend with some layouts, and since I made it I think it's a waste not sharing it.. *lol*
But first I wanna show a layout I made last night, another horsey one to show the similarities between Pearl and her sister Tella..
Items used are made by me. Pärla is the swedish word for pearl, and since some fonts don't have the letter "ä" (sounds like the first "e" in the word "there"..) I translated it in the previous layout.
I borrowed a ribbon from Leaonna and made it my own by adding horses to it.
Ok, enough talk I guess..*lol* Here's your link for the grab bag freebie. Enjoy!
See you soon, I have some cool news by then!!
HUGS
Jessica

Happy Holidays a bit too late!

Hi there.
I am sorry I haven't been around but we had a huge storm and I wasn't able to connect to the internet at all for days!! Plus we left for the Christmas celebrations with my parents and some other events-birthdays.
I am back home now, and I have scrapped some pics I took when we went to see the horses I used to work with yesterday. I can't belive Pearl has grown so much!! She was just a baby the last time I saw her.. But then again, I have been away for some time now..
To show you the difference, here's a little lo I made when she was just a few days old..
(I used a template from Tracy for this one and added my own styles and stuff..)
And look, here she is NOW:
I didn't use a template, but I did use a freebie kit I found at Flower Scrap (by Deanna Jones) called Celebration. I did make the chrome frame myself, but I added her stars. The text is also made by me except for the number 6. That's from the alpha included in the free kit. ;o)

Hmm. I have some more pics to scrap, and I will have to give you some more freebies, I did promise, didn't I? But that will come later on this week, I'm too tired right now.
I hope you all had a great Christmas and that you'll have a good week until New Year's Eve too. I don't have plans at all, so it'll be calm and quiet, hehe.
See ya!
HUGS
Jessica

Ellie's Angels Challenge

Hey there!!
I decided to join in on the fun over at Ellie Lash designs CT blog. You're supposed to download a boring Qp and make it your own by adding Ellie elements and what ever you like. I decided to recolor the Qp to start with, it was christmasy red at the start, but since I barely own any christmas related pics that haven't already been scrapped, I decided to make it more neutral. I added several different freebies from Ellie's blog, and it turned out like this in the end:

I also flipped it, and well.. I kinda like it, even though I didn't know what to do from it from the beginning. It was a lot of fun, so THANKS to Mandi of the "Angels" for a great challenge!
HUGS
Jessica

Love scrappin Nemo ;o)

Hi all!!
This time I am just showing off a layout I made with a kit I recieved from Amy Sumrall. It's called Christmas Angels, and I still have a lot of pretty items to use in the kit, so there will be more coming up!!
Here's my layout:

I tried another kind of scrapping again, and it is a lot of fun, so I guess there may be some new layouts added, one by one.
The kit I used looks like this:

I might add that I created the paper tear myself, it is not included in the kit.
Ok, that's all for now. Thanks for looking!!
HUGS
Jessica

Made a layout

Hi!
I am not gonna design anything until later on today, but I did make a layout from one of many wonderful freebie kits I found at Digiscrap Depot. I hope you are aware of that place?! It has over 40 000 freebies listed!!! SO worth a visit. Anyway, here's the layout I just finished:

This is Zita meeting SNOW for the very first time TODAY!!
I used a kit made by Shine Angel called A Wish For You. The kit prewiev looks like this:


It's all free, but the blog is in french. Just so you know ;o)

I made another layout from another freebie collab kit I grabbed.. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas by Lone Shell Creations. It has beautiful purple tones, and I just love purple, so I fell for it!! *lol*
Here's my layout. The text is in Swedish, and says Merry Christmas 2008.

Pics are all taken today to test out the santa costume for tomorrow..
Well, that's it for now. I have to go away for a while now.. See you later!!
HUGS
Jessica

Fresh Start!

Hello there.
I erased the entire blog and decided to start over from scratch.

I know I have been away for a LONG time. I had a serious crash and burn, and I am still not all healed up, but I am feeling a lot better though.
I hope you all had a good time, and that you have done some scrapping. Me, I haven't touched the scrapping for weeks, and the designing.. hahaha.. nope. Nothing. But in a way, I feel like starting over, and try to get back in buissness. After all, scrapping is a great way to have fun, isn't it?
right now, I am in the middle of a cleaning project, my bf Peter is away for 2 weeks, and won't be home until November 14th. I decided to try to get this place cleaned up a bit, and I am using FLY lady as my mentor :o)
I will take before and after pictures so you can see what I have done *lol* but I just started, so I haven't uploaded to the computer just yet. I thought I'd take some more pics before I do.
I did manage to make one little layout recently, last week actually. But I didn't upload it, since it feels like I wanted to start all over with my scrapping again. This layout is nothing but a recovery-work, and I will most likely use the picture in another lo, but here it is:

I took this pic in October when Lucas and I took a walk and he played while I sat down in the sun for a while with Nemo.
It was a beautiful day, let me tell you!
Here's a sneak peak at what pics I will be scrapping next..

they were all taken that day! And now, there's lots of sun so I think I'll take some pics of Zita today. She is getting bigger every day!!
Gotta go before the sun does..*lol*
Take care!
Jessica