Some news!

Hi everyone! 

I just want to share some news with you today.

The Magnolia Design Team 

will start up with

The Official Magnolia Inspirational Challenge

again!

It's a new challenge blog,

but based on the same ideas as the old TOMIC blog.

And for you to get to know the Design Team a bit better

we thought we wanted to present ourself.

So for the three next days you will get to know 

the whole team!

And our first challenge will be March 1st.

Please head over to the TOMIC blog

to read more!!

With love,

Camilla

BIG NEWS!!! THE OFFICIAL MAGNOLIA INSPIRATION CHALLENGE ♥

Have you heard the exciting news? 

The Magnolia Design Team will be hosting a new challenge blog called TOMIC
(The Official MAGNOLIA Inspiration Challenge), each Monday, 

starting on the 6th of June.

Each week you will find a new challenge with wonderful creations from the Magnolia Design Team.

There will also be prizes, directly from Magnolia:))

We so hope you will join the fun!

Please visit the TOMIC blog and become a follower.

You can also grap the blinkie under for your own blog!
(You will find the HTML code in the TOMIC blog)

Have a wonderful day!!!

Some more photos from the adventure to Rome!

We were not in the workshop all the time, we also had some time to visit the city of Rome!:) Here we are in the narrow streets last Friday. Here you can see Ba, my mother and Tamara (Ba's mother).

Here is the gorgeous Trevi Fountain! We also threw some money in it;) So I guess we will come back;)

My mother and I.

The lovely Barbara!

And under we stopped to get a taste of the chestnuts they sold on the street. I had never tasted it before, so it was exciting:) It tasted a bit like potato.

They looked lovely!

Everywhere we saw fountains, sculptures -big and small:) Here is one angel on a lionhead where the water comes out of. 

Many of the windows in Rome were decorated for Christmas. So lovely! Here is Tamara looking in.

Here is Barbara's and Tamara's dog, Tyson. He is 13 years old, but still so so cute!:)

As I told you Lucia makes the most wonderful ceramic balls, here she is with the one she gave me.

On the other side:

Here is another one, with cool santa!

Here is Barbara with an amazing "book" that Vanessa had made.

Look at this fantastic tree-cake!!

Here is a t-shirt we had with us from Norway, Strandebarm. Jon Fosse is a writer who comes from Strandebarm. And last year he, or we:) celebrated his 50 years birthday. And then these t-shirts were made.

Here is the talented Sara that were at the workshop on Sunday. I just wanted to show you the neclace that she had made!

Cool!!:) She has drawn the picture herself on the computer!

Here we are out eating stockfish and pizza in one of Rome's fantastic pizzaplaces. The stockfish was fried, and this was a typical first course here. It tasted good. Like the "fish and chips" I have tasted before.

There were three people making pizzas at the same time, and they worked very fast. There were many pizzas made at the same time. The smell was wonderful, since I love pizza!:) And they baked them in a open fireplace. Unfortunately I was so full of the stockfish that I didn't manage to eat much pizza...

Thank you so much for visiting my blog!

Have a lovely evening:)

Workshop in Rome!!

Thank you so much for the Good luck-wishes and all the comments for my trip to Rome!!

Yesterday I landed back in freezing cold Norway after a wonderful adventure together with my mother to Rome! We took some photos, that I will show you now. They don't say everything, but you will get the impression of what a fantastic time this was:))

Over is a photo of Barbara, me and Gio.

Sweet, wonderful Barbara picked us up at the airport, and I saw her at once. She stood there waving with a gorgeous "Welcome sign" with a Tilda image on!:)) And she is just so warm, fun and hospitable. We lived in the apartment she shared with her lovely mother Tamara.

Do you see the aprons we are wearing? Tamara made one for each of us entering the workshop. It is just amazing, and has small rooms for the things you need when crafting;) The letters TSM stands for Timbroscrapmania, ofcourse!;) That is the name for Barbara's shop. 

And I learned that "Timbro" means "stamp" in Italian.

Here is the table ready for the workshop. We started around half past eight on Saturday, then the lovely and fun girls from Sardinia had arrived.

Here are some photos of the calendar we were going to make in the workshop. I had used about three weeks to finished it, and now we had one day!

The first thing we did was to paint the top, middle and the bottom with white acrylic paint. My mother was very helpful.

Then we made all the 24 boxes. Barbara had cut them out in advance, and we had to fold them together, and inked them with Distress Ink, Walnut Stain.

Here are the cookies that the Sardinian girls brought with them. Many of the partisipants had with them cakes, gifts and other crafts that they had made. So many new things for me!

Some of the girls spoked English, but not many of them. Barbara translated, so that helped a lot!

After lunch we had a photo shoot! Can you tell the Sardinian girls were much fun!:)) You can also read from Sadia's blog about the workshop.

Here again:) They were so lovely and nice! If you look closely you can see that I am wearing a lovely necklace that Gio had made for me!! I love it! Actually I wore it to work back home today:) Thank you again Gio.

Under is Lucia with her's almost finished project! As the rest, she was really talented. If you visit her blog, you can see that she makes the most wonderful Magnolia ceramics balls. And she was so lovely to come back on Sunday bringing me one of the fantastic balls!! I will show photos of it later:)) Thank you so much Lucia!! I have it hanging in the window in my husbands shop, Hjerteboden.

The last ones left at half past eight in the evening on Saturday! It had been a long but amazing day for me!!

Under is from day 2, Sunday. And another group of girls. Look at all the boxes!!

Under is Elisabeth and Sara. Elisabet had also her sweet, sweet daughter with her. It is Aurora with the blue top. You can also read about the workshop in Elisabeth's blog.

Ok, here I am:) I am sitting beside Lina. And Lina works in Barbara's shop. She is also a part of the Timbroscrapmania's DT.

Here is me and Aurora. She is just 18, but already so very talented!:) Doesn't she look like an angel?:)

And here is me and Barbara with another talented Lucia in the middle:)

Here you can see that the girls are almost finish with building up the calendar. They were very clever!

Here is Sara putting on the top. She had designed her own necklace, on the computer! I have will also show photos of that in a later post.

Under is Francesca and Vanessa. Francesca has a little baby girl called Camilla!:)) And Vanessa is making wonderful felt-figures, that she gave to everyone! They were just so lovely. I got a cute little (big) gingerbread man:) Thank you so much Vanessa!

I think I have to stop now, orelse the post will bore you. But I will also show you some photos from our adventure in the Rome city and some of the things that the ladies entering the workshop had made! Maybe on Thursday, because tomorrow I will be back with another exciteing post;)

THANK YOU SO MUCH BARBARA FOR MAKING MY MOTHER'S AND MY WEEKEND SO SPECIAL!! Say hello to Tyson and Tamara:)

Thank you for visiting my blog and have a good night!

On my way to Rome!!!

Wow I almost can't belive it!! Today is the day, I am now on my way to ROME!!! 

Where I will be hosting two workshops this weekend. One on Saturday and one on Sunday.

I am so looking foreward to meet Barbara and her mother, who we are staying with. It is so kind of them to open their house for us.

And I am also very curious to meet all the other ladies entering the workshops.

Some of them has been commenting here on my blog, so I know:)

And I have also been told that Gio from Sardinia is coming!! WOW!! Such an honour to meet her too.

Here on the photos you can see what we are going to make, yes an Advent Calendar!

Using Magnolia images and Maja Design Papers.

I used some weeks on mine, so it will be exciteing to see how much we will manage to create in one day!:)

So wish me luck!!;)

Jeg har vært på treff!

... sammen med mange herlige damer:)) Her er tre av dem! Nærmest til venstre sitter Janne, så Berit som er mammaen til Bjarne, og til høyre sitter Bente. Under tok jeg et bilde av alt rotet mitt. Det tok ikke lange tiden før det så helt kaotisk ut på bordet under meg... Hvem har rotet???

Her sitter Janne med det nydelig telyskortet sitt. Jeg hadde bare med et enkelt kamera, så litt dårlig kvalitet på bildene, det går jo nesten ikke ann å se kortet..

Men her er et nærbilde, og jeg er sikker på at kortet til Janne dukker opp i bloggen hennes snart:)

Her sitter Audhild med det vakre posekortet sitt!

Og her er Tine med sitt herlige posekort! Mammaen til Tine er naboen min, så kjempemoro når vi oppdaget det!:)) Gleder meg til du kommer hjem på besøk Tine!

Her sitter Bente med sitt nydelige telyskort. Hun var veldig produktiv denne dagen! 

Vi kom til Bergen på fredag, og fikk overnatte hos Bente. Utrolig koselig, med ost, vin og champagne!

Under sitter Audhild og fargelegger et motiv.

 

Og her sitter Janne:

Men se hvem som kom!! Er det ikke...??:)

En stor takk til Lene som arrangerte Strilascrappen!

Neste post blir nok av telyskortet jeg laget der;)

Ha en super uke!!

Nå er det under to uker til mamma og jeg reiser til Roma!!:))

Klem, Camilla