WonderWoman!

Har alltid elsket å lese tegneserier, og mye var fra Marvel og DC. comics da, som WonderWoman.
Nå for tiden går det mest i bøker - Fantasy, på engelsk. Men jeg kjøper også enkelte tegneserie album som 'fortsettelser' på tv-serier - Buffy, Charmed, Farscape ++ og jeg går ikke glipp av ett eneste Nemi.. og jeg prøver fremdeles å komplettere Alvefolket album samlinga jeg begyndte på i 12-års alderen. Så synd de er jæskla vanskelig å få tak i! Noen har fått skyhøye antikvariat priser også...

Her er en gammel LO av meg i 4-5 års alderen! Hehe, SÅ typisk 70'talls-tapet! :)

Fantomet ♥ var min aller første helt (sånn rett etter pappa, som jo var den største helten!)

Pappa brukte å lese Fantomet, Tarzan, Supermann og Sølvpilen (+ Conan, Tex Willer oa. som jeg ikke fikk lov å lese), da jeg var liten. Lærte å lese stort sett på egenhånd gjennom disse tegneseriene, samt Donald og Bamse - oj ja husker dere Pellefanten? Tuppen &  Lillemor? Blokkskrift var så mye lettere å forstå husker jeg :) 

Men tilbake til DT-kortet mitt! Fikk denne stilige Wonder Woman digi'en fra ukens sponsor Sassy Studio Designs ♥ hos Creative Fingers. ~ Lag akkurat hva du vil for #18. om du vil være med! :) Klarte faktisk å ødelegge den første superdama da jeg skulle montere! Rev av armen hennes... og måtte male en ny! Kjempeirriterende!
Sorry at innlegget ble litt langt *hehe* Og ikke glem å joine Gorjuss bloggcandyen min! Link øverst til høyre i bloggen, eller gå hit :)

I've always loved to read comics ~ especially as a child, and alot has been from the Marvel & DC Universes, like WonderWoman :) Actually learnt to read with comics! First with Donald and kiddiecomics like Bamse & Pellefanten (don't know wich name they go by in english - but they're pictured in my layout (old one) of myself as a child above... Later on it was the Phantom, Tarzan, Superman and other of my dads fave comics that also became my first heroes ~ beside my dad ofcourse! ♥

Nowadays I read mostly books, especially fantasy. But still read some graphis novels, like the continued Buffy, Charmed etc. series. I collect ElfQuest (the old albums) & have read most Nemi albums published :)

inside detail

I'm SO loving the image I got to work with in this weeks challenge at Creative Fingers! #18. wich is Anything Goes! She's named 'Wonder Regan' from our sponsor Sassy Studio Designs :) 
Almost didn't get my card in for this one ~ I accidentaly ripped one of her limbs off when mounting, so had to ink up another one.. Luckily, that happens very rarely as I spend ALOT of time on watercoloring, even more so than the cards, and I'm a perfectionista when it comes to making cards.. never completly satisfied ;)

Sorry about my lenghty post! And please do join my ongoing Gorjuss blogcandy ~ top of my sidebar or here :)

I enter my card into theese awesome Challenges: [ends on]
● Open-Minded Crafting Fun #1. ~ Use New Toys or New Techniques! 
= Sissix & QK dies [Jan.17th.] 
● The Crafting Cafe ~ January ch. Anything Goes! [Jan.31st.]
● 365 Cards Challenge #364. Combo! = Seeing Stars & Comical [Jan.6th.] 
● Creative Knockouts #18. ~ All that Glitters = twinkling H20 paints [Jan.8th.]
● Live & Love Crafts #19. ~ Perfume! [Jan.31st.] there is probably a WonderWoman perfume out there, but first thing I thought when I saw the topic, keeping in mind my image, was Taylor Swift's Wonderstruck Enchanted Perfume! Seen it in the shop, but don't know what it would smell like as my migraines makes me shy away from any and all fragrances :( 

Stamps/Images: Sassy Studio Design 'Wonder Regan/Sassy Wonder Woman'. Amigas Del Scrap 'Super hero kit' digital elements of original WonderWoman.

Papers: Bazzill cardstock. Createwings Designs papers from misc. digital kits.

Embellishments/Tools: Washi tape from Nille Memories. Star eyelets unknown. Quickutz/Lifetime Crafts 'Nesting Lace Squares DC0158', 'Nesting Stars CC-5-020'. Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 'All About a Boy' & 'This & That - Charming' by Echo Park. 
I used Twinkling H2o's and Tim Holtz Distress Ink pads n markers to watercolor and distress image and papers. 

In memory of my dad :)

My dad died last month, after beeing sick for some weeks, and it's been a sad time for all in the family. Because of the altzheimers, he didn't reckognize us anymore - not even knowing who he himself was or where he was, but he knew us as someone who cared for him and that he was surrounded by warmth all the time, up until the end. The pages above is from the front and back of the pamphlet for the funeral, with psalms inside. It's much more personal to make it oneself rather than having the funeral-bureau do it, - Like with the front and the berries he always used to fill up the freezer with in the early days.. And the back with the mountains and scenery as of Lofoten where he grew up. And I wrote a poem in memory of him, in wich I mention that we will remember him as he once was - before he got ill and forgot most things, - when he was as strong as the mountaingoat, a real 'king of the forest'.. And that he now is as 'free as the birds' from one of his favourite songs, but that we'll always miss him... ♥

PS: The pamphlet was created in word and paint, and the backgrounds is from different sets of gorgeous recycled letterpaper made by the company Hippopotamus.

...thoughts on Altzheimers & my dad

To all my internet buddies.. I haven't been able to craft or blog as much, and as often as I want to - or to go to my fave communities and chat with fellow scrappers. My health haven't been the best of late, and also because my dear old dad is taking up a lot of time during the day...

Theese days I'm working on a new project - a picture book in A4 size that my dad can look at, and we can read on the backs places and things from the past to trigger the small parts of his memory that still is there... Like his mum and dad and the place he grew up :) My dad has had the Altzheimer's disease since the early 90's, and the last months it has gotten so much worse, to the point that he doesn't know who we are, or sometimes even himself. He sees things and people who aren't there, and can't comprehend the simplest of things, like why there are people inside the tv - looking at him and talking to him...

We have him still at home, although he needs help with absolutely everything now, from going to the bathroom, feeding him, dressing him, and supporting him when he walks.

It's so sad to see how quickly he's deterriating. We have to be at his side most of the day, 'cause he is like a child, getting anxious when he doesn't see us, and in need of attention all the time. Luckily he loves music, especially oldtime-dance-band music, like Vikingarna (a swedish band), so we have a cd playing constantly to calm him down, and we sit and hold his hand a lot...

It's me and my mum who are the caregivers, and it's beginning to take it's toll on both of us. And especially my mum, who has moved him into her room to keep an eye on his movements during the night. We haven't got the best of health between us - my mum have Sjøgrens. And we share other things like rheumatic pains in the joints, backpains, fibromyalgia, strong migrains (my mum didn't get so much migrains after her menopause - wich makes me long for that, although I'm 34...), Oh and some allergies too.. And I have some hormonal wackyness goings on wich is not quite fun.. (with the need to shave like a man). And no - we're not total wrecks in this family - just a little bit! *lol* ;)

My three brothers are in full-time jobs, and are busy busy busy.. But they visit and chat with dad sometimes, and my youngest brother have taken him on a short walk once a week, as well as giving him a good shave - he only complains when me or mum tries :) My dad has always been a very active man, and taking hikes in the woods and mountains has been his hobby. Now that his feet won't carry him long, and his appetite is low, and he is wobbly all over... the trips has ceased. But that makes him very agitated and restless... He get's medecine to calm down a bit, but the constant talking and confusions are very tiring.. So I'm wondering how long we can keep up.
But we want to keep him at home as long as humanly possible. Both me and my mum have worked in the healthcare system, and know firsthand how the elderly and the ones with dementia are treated. Not that they don't have the best healthcare the county can offer - it's that the county isn't able to provide the thing that's most needed - human contact. They sit there in their chair with the staff rushing past all day long, no-one is able to just sit and hold hands and talk. Too short on cash for that... hopefully more effort will be done this year with the change of the 'political regime'?

The Norwegian election for priminister and political party was last night. I didn't vote.. I voted last time - on the guy who won, but I can't see much progress. And promises have been broken.. Haven't heard any good from the other 'windbags'.. so I couldn't decide!
Anyway... wow - this was a very long rant! Glad I begun writing this in english, 'cause I think I'm skipping on the translating today! :)

Gran Canaria - Fotos!

Endelig litt blogging igjen ;) Har ikke hatt ork å legge inn kort, å skrive innlegg den siste tiden etter jeg kom hjem fra syden. Faktisk var det nesten sånn at jeg trengte ferie ETTER ferien!! Faren min har langt fremskreden altzheimers, så vi hadde det litt slitsomt, og i tillegg er hverken moren min sin eller min egen helse å skryte av ;) Men vi hadde det fint alikevel, leste ut iallefall 8 bøker, bla. Dorothy Koomson - Kjærligheten til et barn - Nyyydelig bok! :)
Jeg og moren min malte masse fine stempletrykk, og jeg har laget noen kort etter jeg kom hjem, som jeg skal legge ut snart :)

Vi fartet litt rundt omkring, men mest de siste to ukene. Mamma trådde over og skadet foten så mye at hun måtte gå med krykker de to første ukene! Det var litt kjipt, for vi kom oss aldri til Las Palmas, og jeg som hadde så lyst å vise mamma rundt der! Vakker by. Spesielt den gamle bydelen :) Hadde også planlagt den store øyturen, med buss innover øya, se guanchenes huler og gå på markedet i Teror. Og vi skulle se sandyner i Maspalomas og kameler, som heller ikke ble noe av.. Lite shopping ble det jo - pappa er ikke veldig tålmodig akkurat, men si meg et mannfolk som vil shoppe? *lol* Neste gang kansje.

Vi fikk sett Palmitos Park iallefall, dit har jeg hatt lyst å vært hver gang jeg har vært der nede. I fjor brant dyreparken ned til grunnen, og det er helt fantastisk at de har bygd den opp igjen så fort! Og det er utrolig pent der - absolutt en opplevelse verdt å få med seg :) Tok massevis av bilder denne gangen - sånn ca. 800 bilder! - her er noen 'få'! Favorittbildet mitt er av surikattene - elsker de små tassene!! :)

Sydenbilder sept-oktober08

I'm baaa-ack!!! ;) Haven't kept up my blog after I got home from Gran Canaria, been somewhat pre-occupied with other stuff.. But I have made some cards wich I'll post later on! :) Click on the pic of my mum to go my photo-album of our vacation - there are some great shots of suricats (?), a beautiful orchid and a butterfly, a cuddly orangutang, gruesome phyton snake mm. It wasn't easy I tell you.. One great shot equals 10 bad ones! ;)