Whack-A-Do Collection

This collection by Suzanne Walker is so much fun, that I made three layouts from it.

Back from Germany

My husband and me just returned from a trip to Germany. We attended a 20th anniversary of the humanitarian organizations Oase in Hersbruck which we have partnered with a lot in the past. We traveled through Croatia, Slovenia and Austria on the way there and were surprised by snow half of the way =). We also got to see a bit of Nurnberg, although it rained the whole time. On the way back we stopped in Salzburg, where my husband grew up and I finally got to see it! There will be pictures once I find time to upload them. First I got to get back to taking care of my family and household =). The children stayed with their granmothers and did fine. It was wonderful, but it's nice to be back at home.

Heritage Layouts

In between scrapping current photos of my family, I enjoy taking some scanned old photos and working on a family heritage album for my children to enjoy in the future. These are some of my recent photo album pages:


My mom's family when she was a little girl.


My grandmother - I inherited her old Singer machine and it still sews!


The same grandmother when she was a young girl with her family.


My other grandmother with her neighbors and their spinning wheels.


My grandparent's wedding photos.

Recent sewing

I have sewn really very little during the summer. But I have finally cleared my sewing area, organized my patterns, fabric and notions, so hopefully there will be more sewing coming in the next few weeks. The last things I made were some presents for visiting friends.

I had fun making this pillow case with some Ikea print fabric that a dear friends send me from Germany. It was for a 16 years girl.


I also made a kitchen set for an older single friend, since she told me she had a yellow/red kitchen. I used one of my aprons as a pattern, free quilted the pot holders and made also a plastic bag holder. I bound everthing with ready-made red bias tape I had in my stash for a long time.

Two new layouts

Here are my first two layouts created for DSP Designers.

DET Contest

Recently I participated in a contest on DSP and I made it onto the Digital Elite Team! These are the layouts that I entered:

Round 1



Round 2

Round 3

Round 4 (two version with same photos)

Moving in

I will be slowly moving my blog from Sarah's Daughter , where I have blogged in the past. I have recently become a member of the Digital Elite Team on Digital Scrapbook Place, so there will be more digital layouts from me. But I still hope to sew for me and my family as well as share from our everyday life of a homemaker and mother of six. Please pardon the dust as I move in and customize this place.