Elin's Blog

kitten

2009-09-02T16:04:00.000-07:00

here is the little baby

Jetlag, summer, and skolavslutningar

2009-06-14T02:46:00.000-07:00

So i got to Sweden about one week ago, and it has been great. The weather was wonderful, however, now it is raining. Majken loves Sweden. I think its all the playmates she has here, but she is really enjoying herself.Once we got here it took her and Kajsa about 2 days before they were friends again. So they are really cute now because they play and cuddle.

My sisters also had their last day of school where awards were given out and they also sang some songs. Lovisa got two awards :-)

June 6th was the Swedish national day, and I celebrated with all my sisters in Stockholm.

Majken was sleeping in my bed :-)

Here is the Fantastic Frida dying her hair blue :-)
Lovisa (blonde) and Frida (blue hair) with their friends

New and wonderful apartment from the 70's :-)

2009-06-02T06:29:00.000-07:00

Me and my friend Sam recently moved into an apartment about 10 minutes from school. When we first went to see the apartment complex, the owners told us we could go look at the "show apartments" and so we did... literally, when we stepped over the threshold, it was as if we had stepped back in time 40 years. Shaggy carpet, brown cabinets, and mustardy yellow couches. It was absolutely terrible, so lets just say that when we were asked if we wanted furnished or unfurnished, we decided to stick with our random furniture that we have collected from different family members of sam's :-)

The beautiful stove:

Fluffernutter Majken:

Betty:
So we have now been to a total of 2 greek festivals in about 2 weeks. And i could have gone to more. The food is awesome and its so much fun to hear all the greek :-)

Molly eating the hamster looking dessert:

Spring time and photoshoots

2009-03-16T16:43:00.000-07:00

School is really getting tougher, but i have made some time to do some fun photography.

Majken being spoiled

So many new things...

2009-03-04T12:17:00.000-08:00

So it is spring break, and unlike most students, I am at home haha! However, I have plenty of work i need to catch up on, as well as plenty of projects to work on.

Here are some paintings i did a little while ago.

Its hard to see in these pictures, but there is blue glitter on the flower and silver glitter behind the red flower.

Icy snow

2009-01-30T18:57:00.000-08:00

For a few days now, it has been really cold, so first it snowed, then it rained and then it froze. Its very interesting attempting to go to class when parts of the side walk is just a sheet about 3 centimeter of ice. However, it is very pretty out and although it is cold, i have to admit that i am somewhat enjoying it.

Anyways, I have had some time to craft, so i made this pencil case for school.

I also got some time to play around with my camera, and especially with my macro lens!

Florida

2009-01-17T10:46:00.000-08:00

This year Florida was really nice! The weather was awesome, we only had one day where it rained in the afternoon. Practice was also a lot better this year, we did more running and one day we did an ocean swim/beach run! It was so much fun because we were divided into teams and my team won!

Here is sam collecting sea shells for her mom.

This was when we were on the Jungle Queen. The Jungle Queen is a boat trip that you can take and they show you all the large houses and then the trip ends at an island where they have a buffet. Very touristy. It was a lot of fun because the whole team hung out together.

The first day we came down to the beach, it was covered by man of wars like this one! they were pretty gross!

Christmas and pictures!

2008-12-14T18:33:00.000-08:00

So i have been playing around with the new camera, however my finals started today, therefore I have been trying to focus on school.
Today I decided to take some fun christmas pictures of Majken that will be sent out to friends and family.
I cropped the pictues so that the surprise will not be ruined :-)

Here is a picture of Kajsa :-)
Majken has really earned Mikes nick-name for her "Far-Cat" over the weekend I caught her carrying a dorritos bag around.

Mom you spoil me...

2008-12-03T16:07:00.000-08:00

... thank you for the more than amazing camera!!!

My birthday was two days ago and yesterday i received an email letting me know that my package from my mom was supposed to arrive. So i ran home and waited for the UPS truck to arrive. I got a new Canon rebel XS. It is absolutely amazing. I read through the manual last night and today i began shooting. So here are some pictures that i took. Naturally my first subject were none other than majken and Kajsa :-)

Snow? Already?

2008-11-22T16:29:00.000-08:00

So it has been snowing here now for a little while. However, it does not stick to the ground for long.
I did get some pictures of school while there was still snow on the ground :-)

Känner mig nästan lite gammal för att ha en önskelista nu när jag nästan är 21 :-(

Önskelista:

Mikro lins
Kamera väska
Pengar till Florida/fast skin
Svarta vinter stövlar, typ uggs
Kläder eller presentkort till kläder
Scrappbook grejjer, framför allt punchar
Pilgrims smycke (charm necklace)
Svenska filmer
CD:
Panic! at the disco
Offspring
Pink
Lady Gaga

Rund stickor i olika storlekar
Bok om hur man stickar strumpor
Annat som ar med stickning

Majken har lagt på sig lite vinter hull :-)

Knitting

2008-10-06T18:01:00.000-07:00

I have been knitting much lately, and recently i made a toy for Majken and Kajsa ( although Majken has made it quite clear that it is her toy).

It was very easy i just knotted two strips, one longer and thicker than the other and then i just put them together.

Majken now constanly carries her toy around everywhere and tends to drop it by my feet in an attempt to say "mommy, I want to play!"

-Elin

Fall, School, and Swmming.

2008-09-23T17:36:00.000-07:00

So our pool is not yet open, but it is starting to look really nice. Today we had our first practice and it was held at the close by High school. I will post a picture of the pool once everything is completed.

It is true, College only gets tougher by the year. That is we get more and more readings and essays. My classes are very interesting therefore i cant complain.

For the past week I was finding these two cat beanie baby dolls in different places throughout my room, such as under my bed, under my covers, and behind my pillows. Eventually ieven found them downstairs on the couch. Well i finally figured out that it is Majken who has found two little friends. I caught her carrying one around and later found her playing with it. Her favorite one is even really dirty from her playing with it so much.

Majken also really enjoyes playing with any form of bags and boxes:

Sisterly love, Kajsa is saying "She stared it!!!"

Love,
Elin

School, but not...

2008-09-02T16:36:00.000-07:00

So classes have yet to begin, and today was a total relaxation day for me. I played with the cats and crafted. I even got some sketching in!
I have been trying to make things for the house lately and so far I have made these little things:

This is something I made to keep my necklaces from getting tangled. All I did was to take a piece of wood, paint it, drill holes, and then take different fun doorknobs and put them in the holes. It was a fun and easy project that i thought of a few weeks ago.

This is something i got from my mom, and all i did was to paint, decorate, and then put it together. The letters are glittery, I actually got them at Walmart for like 7 dollars, a big pack of them! i would like to add something to it but I dont know what yet.

I also made a round card for my youngest sisters. I got them cute little shirts and wanted to send a card with it.

Majken and Kajsa are causing trouble, so I have to go downstairs and see what they are up to!

Love,
Elin

Long time, little writing

2008-09-01T17:44:00.001-07:00

School starts on Thursday, and today i spent the whole day greeting the incoming freshman. Its nice to get more people on the team. The girls team pretty much doubled in size.

The other day I was at home and the kittens ( I am taking care of Kajsa, mommy's cat) were running around the house. And all of a sudden I turn around and find Kajsa sitting on the top of my doorway into the kitchen. We have like a wide molding on the top, and there she was, just hanging out. I did take a picture but its on my phone so i have not been able to get it uploaded. Anyways, this little cat is not as innocent as i first though :) Majken may play and get tangled in everything, but Kajsa jumps up on everything!

Little Majken

...and Kajsa

They both really like the screened in porch, so I try to get them out there as much as possible.

-Elin

Layout

2008-07-12T07:42:00.000-07:00

This is my layout that i have been working on this past week. I created this layout for a challenge by Scrapmojo. The challenge was to use lyrics by the Ditty Bops and also to doodle.
The song i chose was The Next Best Thing, and the lines: Why don't we travel with the wind... 'till our hearts begin to sing.

These photos are from when me and Mike went hiking up in New York.

And as always, here is the little kitten, who is growing by the minute!

-Elin

Happy late 4th of july

2008-07-12T04:41:00.000-07:00

Last weekend i went to visit my boyfriend Mike and his family in NY, no not NY City, but Fort Montgomery, a little place right by West Point.

Since Mike lives by the Hudson, there are a lot of mountains and pretty scenery. So on the day after 4th of July, we went hiking up one of the mountains. As soon as we got to the top it started raining so we didn't stay up there for long!

I also made a 4th of July card for mikes Family,

All the paper came from... my mother, she was nice enough to let me come home and steal some of her new paperer :-)

I will also have a layout done soon, its for a challenge and i have used the pictures from the hiking trip.

Well tomorrow I am leaving for Sweden which is going to be really exciting, since I will hopefully see my whole family!

Elin

mini album

2008-06-30T17:45:00.000-07:00

Fist of all, sorry for the poor quality of these pictures.
I was inspired when i saw my mom's new scallop punches and decided to make a mini album and because i'm kitten crazy right now, what subject would be better than my little kitten Majken!

First i had to sandpaper the pieces so the paint would stick better, i probably painted about 4 layers on each side to make the sides really white.

The album itself is not more than about 5 centimeters and therefore i could not fit much text on the pages but is it not true that a picture says more than a 1000 words?

Last weekend me an Majken too a trip to moms house to visit the siblings (both mine and Majkens), she absolutely hates sitting in the carrier so i let her sit in m lap (Mike was driving). When we parked I let her walk around on the dashboard and she was absolutely fascinated by the birds that were flying outside. I just though she was so cute the way she was sitting and looking out the window.

Happy late midsummer and early 4th of July

-Elin

Scrapbooking Kitten?

2008-06-07T21:26:00.000-07:00

KWell today my little Majken had been running around all day and i had barely gotten to see her at all. So when i came home and put up my scrapbooknig project on the table, little Majken came over sat right on all my things, and eventually fell asleep amongst all my papers and pictures.

Kittens are just too cute!

Some more

2008-06-03T18:03:00.000-07:00

Here are some other projects that i worked on a little while ago.

This is actually made out of a Pringles package:

I made it so i would have some organized and nice ways to store my pens in the new house.

I think i have kitten-fever:

This is what she looks like when she isn't: running hopping, biting, or playing ... always a cutie :-)

Moving, moving, and Cirque de Soleil

2008-06-02T19:33:00.000-07:00

For graduation i got Mike tickets to Cirque de Soleil.
It was really cool and it was definitely one of my favorite shows and i would recommend seeing it if possible.

The girls that were as flexible as snakes were pretty freaky though!
Saturday and Sunday were filled with moving into my new house, which is awesome by the way. Ill post some pictures once everything is set up.

Updating

2008-05-28T18:56:00.000-07:00

I created this book about one month ago and i decided that maybe I should post it anyways.

Although you may not be able to see it anymore, the album is actually made out of macaroni packages. All i did was to cut out the form that i wanted and then paint it several times to make the original color not show through.

This was a gift and the point was that they should be able to add photos as they wished.

I left the windows open so that when the photos could show through.

19 Cats + 1 Dog = a Big Mess

2008-05-23T20:08:00.000-07:00

So today i had to drop of my mom and my sisters for Lovisa's volleyball tournament. I have to admit, i was kind of moody because I would be left completely alone for the holiday.
Anyways, when i got home to the 20 animals that dwell at my house, I found that someone had gone through the trash and all over the floor i found, not only trash, but also paint (earlier that day I had been painting for a little project that I am working on and there was a bit of extra paint that i had thrown out). Frustrated and still moody i was scrubbing the kitchen floor for about 15 minutes. I walked out to the living room to find part of the guilty party sitting on the sofa, enjoying the scraps from old cat food cans.

I thought this was one of the funniest things i have ever seen and I still have no idea how he actually carried the cans from the kitchen to the living room.

I knew Chester had not acted alone in tearing the trash apart and spreading the paint on the floor. I didn't have to look far to find this:

Vanja, next time you attempt to do something your not supposed to, maybe you should try not to be so obvious.

Graduation

2008-05-19T16:32:00.000-07:00

On Saturday we had our graduation at school.
Thankfully, it did not rain until after the whole ceremony was over, and even though it was mainly cloudy, I still got really sunburned haha, figures!

Nice picture right :-P

Mike is now completely done with undergrad, but still has another two years for his masters!
I still have a while until i graduate :-)

-elin

Hello

2008-05-18T18:07:00.000-07:00

So this is my first post, well i still have to figure out how this all works.
For now, here is a picture of my kitten Majken!