Today I´ve finished some boxes.

Hello there sweet friends,
First I want to thank you all for all the sweet and wonderful comments and emails I´ve recieved here after my eyesurgery. Thanks god it´s going really well, even I ofcause still have to take some precautions all the time and not overdo anything, even that is really hard, cause there´s sooo much I want to do now, that I can finally see everything clearly again, but better behave and do as I´m told he he.
But I´ve had a lot of fun creating some awesome boxes here the last couple of days. The first one I began to make a very very loooooooong time ago. It´s an origamibox, that I found on a You Tube video back then, (sorry I don´t remember where anymore) but never finished it, because these eyes played me big time, but now I finished it and got it glued up and made a bottom and a lid for it and decorated it as you can see here. It was originally thought as a template, so I could remember the foldings, but I´m sure I can find a tut somewhere again, if I can´t remember it next time LOL.

 This next one here is one I saw on Wenche Wold´s blog here:  http://wenchespapirverden.blogspot.dk/2013/05/tutorial.html  a long time ago, and have wanted to try for a very long time too, as I thought they were sooooo gorgeous. The first one here is made exactly after her directions and just adjusted a bit in size, because my punches didn´t fit exactly as the ones she had used, and then I ofcause decorated them after my liking and what I had laying around, cause it´s all just left overs I´ve used for all of these boxes.

 The flowers on here are recycled flowers, that comes from some of these candlewreaths we used here a few yars ago, that I have pulled apart and just reused the flowers, and the bows are made from all the ribbons, that also was on these wreaths too.

 The metalcorners here on this one is some flat corners, I´ve got somewhere at some time, that I had hubby to bend, so they could fit around these corners.

 And this big crystalbutton, that is on this side of the handle, is actually one I found on the floor in the supermarket once, so I guess it´s one someone have lost from a boot or a shoe or something, but I thought it looked pretty nice and bend down and picked it up, otherwise it had just been thrown out, when they cleaned the floor LOL. And the small metal fan on the side here is one that had fell of some embellisment somewhere at some time and was in my mess up box ha ha.

 And that´s also the same for the dragonfly here on the handle, it´s also something fallen of somewhere and just saved in my mess up box.
All the papers for both these last two boxes here are all from Pion Design. They just have the most awesome paper, that I just totally love both their patterns and their colors are stunning always.

 This one I changed a bit and made with a lid like the first one and just sat the handle on the lid instead of the box, just to make it a bit different.

 And again I´ve used lots of recycled items to decorate it.  On the lid I found an old broche, that my daughter made in a club, when she was young and didn´t want to save. It was just made of some wire thread and some beads, and it fit perfect in the red pearls, so I thought it looked nice on this one.

 Here´s a closer look at it.

 And again the ribbon I used on the edges are from some old curtains and the bee is an old cellphone decoration, that was broken, that I removed all the wires and used the bees on the sides here.

 And these are some very very old gold painted plastic broches too, that I got in a box filled with all kinds of old crab from my dad once a couple of years ago, but again, there was just 2 of them and they fit perfect here.

 And the bee on the other side a bit closer up.

And here I´ve also used paper from Pion Design and all the cardstock I´ve used here todayare all Bazzil.

I hope, you´ll like, what I´ve done here and will give it a try too sometime.

Unfortunately I couldn´t just find Wenche´s blog right now, but I´ll add a link to her tutorial later, when I find it, so she can get the credit, she deserve for her part of this.

Have a wonderful day everyone and lots of great fun.

Biiiiiiiiig warm hugs til we meet again next time.

I have actually also been working a bit here the last days.

I´m sooo pleased to say, that my eye is doing really fine, and now I´m finally finished dripping it too, and can begin to get back to normal days here again. So I´ve been finishing a couple old things, I had laying around here, but I´ve actually also been making more new things here lately as well, which I thought, I would share with you.
Here first is a card, I´ve made out of lots of small leftovers from other creations in the past, that´s been mixed up to this card, so it´s basicly a bit of this and a bit of that, I´ve used for it.

 The front with some diffrent diecuts, I had laying around and some bits and pieces.

 And the back, as it most times looks like

 And from the side, as I used a different fold this time. I´ve always liked to use many different folds for my cards.

 And all opened up and what it looks like inside.
And then as many of you know, I´ve always found it fun to see what I could get out of all kinds of things, that most people just throw out, and here it´s a cheesebox, I´ve decorated to use for a giftbox and decorated both outside and inside. And a funny thing is, that exactly today Becca feeken also used the very same idea on her blog. I thought it was a bit fun, even I ofcause can´t get anything near her standard in making anything LOL, but we seems to got the same idea on the same time LOL:

 Here it is all closed.

 And here it is from the side, which I´ve decorated with some ribbon.

 And this is how the books looks like inside, after I added some papers in the bottom and decorated it inside.

 And here´s the bottom and the lid each decorated side by side.

 And this is a box, hubby got a handsfree for his cellphone in the car in. I thought, it looked pretty nice and would look great for a giftbox for something at some time, so I grabbed it and covered it in some nice paper and decorated it for later use.

But I´ve also made some new things, like this card here, again with a different fold, I´m not even sure, what´s called, but here it is all unfolded and as an easelcard in the middle.

 And here´s the easelpart laid down.

 And here the front is closed too.

 And this is how the back looks like.

 And finally all closed with the band to keep it closed on too.

 And here´s again a recycling project, as this basket is all made of recycled materials except from the paper, but all the rest is only recycled items. I made one almost like this a couple of years ago, and now my sister asked me, if I could make one for her as close as I could, as she hasd a friend, who was just crazy about it back then.

 Here´s how it looks from the ends.

 And here´s how it looks from both sides. These hearts I´ve used here are made of some tiny frames, that I´ve just filled out with glitterglu in a color that would fit.

 And another card. This time for a man and a footballplayer, so ofcause it had to be this old LaPashe sheet, that was used here. It seems the men here likes this one a lot LOL. I admit, I don´t mind to try some others now, as I think, I´ve made the footballer quite a few times now.

 And here´s the back of him in front of the stadium.

 And the sentiment inside.

 And the right side, where they can write their own words too.

 And finally I just made this box here this morning, while the girls were occupied with their own creations.I actually think, it went pretty okay for a small gift.

 From one side.

 From the backside.

And finally from the other side too.

It´s such a pleasure to be able to just sit down and do some crafting here again, and I have  soooo many things I want to do and sooo many fun ideas working around inside my head, so now I just need the days to ´have at least 48 hours each, so I can find enough time for all I want to create, now I can finally see what I´m actually doing too, so hopefully I can also get a better result now, else I´ll have to find another excuse, if I´ll have to start all over and learn everything again ha ha ha.

Thanks soooo very much for watching and a big thanks too for all the wonderful comments I´ve got on my previous postings here. Thanks sooo much for taking the time, it really means so much to me.

Have a wonderfulæ day dear friends and lots of great fune.

Biiiiiiiig hugs until we meet again next time.

And now the prize for the kids challenge finally arrived.

As I showed you a little while ago, some of my grandkids joined Mo´s childrens challenge, and also was soo lucky to get a littl surprise from her too with a sweet personal letter for them, and it finally arrived here a few days ago, and we ofcause had all the kids gathered here again to open the packet. They were sooo exited to see, what they´d got, but not even I had seen it before they opened it, so here´s the pics from the night, when they got to open it here.

 They were very exited and didn´t totally agree, who was the one to open it, so we had them to do their best to all do it the same time, even it was a bit hard ha ha ha

 Inside was sonwe really cute small notebooks with a very special pen with them too, and nice  shared with one for a boy and 3 for the girls, and all different, so that thanks god couldn´t give any other problems then, as I just gave them one each and that was it ha ha ha, but they didn´t think much about that either, I´m sure, as they were just too exioted to actually have got something for their work.

There was also a nice letter in the packet for them, so they had some real proof, even after the book was used up ha ha ha. It was definitely 4 very very proud kids, who went home with their small prizes that night, that´s for sure.

Thanks sooo much for watching and have a wonderful night everyone.

A little update here on my eyesurgery and my granddaughters graduation last week.

Hello there sweet friends,
Now I just got back from the check up at my eyespecialist here, and he thanks god told me, that the surgery had been a huge succes, (which I also kind of counted with he he), so now I just had to follow the hospitals orders for one more week, then I´m finally allowed to get back to normal days here again. But it was okay to begin slowly to strain the eyes a bit more day by day, so thought I would just make an update inhere and let you all know, that everything is just sooo fine. I´m still not allowed to lift more than 1 kf, because doing more is creating pressure in the eye they say, and that´s not good, so still be careful and think, before doing anything and I also need to drip the eye for another week, but else I can begin to use it a lot more now, which is so awesome. I still have a bit of tiny grey spots flying for the eye, but that´s  something we all get with age they say, and can´t be removed, so that I just had to elarn to live with, but that ugly grey fog for the eye is all gone, and that´s just awesome. It´ll still be about 6 weeks, before the sight will be completely steady, so I should wait til then, and then go and get some new glasses, that fit the eye then, and it should be the last of this adventure and all should be completely fine. But I already feel so much better vision, than I´ve had for years now, so that´s just an extra bonus then ha ha ha.

I didn´t get to show you the pictures from my oldest granddaughters graduation, as it was the day before the surgery and as I already had to be at the hospital at 8am, I never got them up before, so here they come.

 Here we are at the school right after she graduated the last class there and her mum´s dad put the hat on her head as used here.

 And here she is, a very relieved young lady after all her hard exams and finally over it all now.

 Here it´s normal that everybody brings them a red rose, when they graduate, so here she is with all her roses, after graduation.

 And here she iswith her mum´s parents next to her and me on the side.

 And here she´s with her boyfriend, who´s just finishing his education as a chef next month too.

 And here´s her dad, also my oldest son and my husbond too.

 And here´s her mum and her grandmum on mothers side.

 And here´s her babysister Emilie and Tascha, they were more busy in the garden than inside ha ha ha.

 And here´s my daughter and son in law at the table.

 And here she alsmot looked like, she was really funding about, what now to do with her life ha ha ha.

 And here´s her little sister Anne, who was confirmated last year.

 And ofcause she should also have a cake, and it was made like the graduation hat.

 It´s getting later, so Tascha begins to get a bit tired, and then it´s always good to hang on mum´s shoulder a bit ha ha ha.

And she also had a good friend over, and here the young ones has connected in a corner.

It was a nice relaxed day, where we celebrated her all day with a cosy barbecue, but as most people were going to work again early the next morning, and I had to go to the hospital too, it wasn´t too late, and she´s having the big party for all her friends and young people this comming saturday, where we voluntered to stay home and let all the small kids come here, while they were partying , so hopefully she´ll get a great day again there, but we all sure had a nice and cosy day the day she actually did graduate, and she was sooo proud, but also had all the reason to as she went out with an averidge caracter on 10.9, where 12 is the highest possible here, so it´s really good at this level, and I´m very sure, she´ll do just great in her further life. She´ll start at the university here after the holiday, where she´ll be studying Graphic Design and computersciece.
But this is what´s been going on here the last week. Thanks sooo much for watching and all the sweet comments I´ve got inhere since I started this blog. It really means a lot to me.
Have a wonderful day everyone and lots of great fun. Next time I hope, I finally have some creative fun to share with you all. Now I´m at least allowed to do some again, so better get started then ha ha ha
Have fun  and biiiiiig hugs til next time.
Maryann