Happy Snappy

Am looking at flower after flower. Not very me, I know, but am putting together some pics for my friend Elsebeth. We were at Homemate the other day, a cheap version of IKEA here in Malta, and she was going to buy some factory made canvasses to hang in her new amazing flat in Tigne Point. Uejja, i said (like a true maltese!), we can do better than that! Use some of my photos! She took me up on the challenge, and now i am looking at flower after flower...

Here are some of my favourites:


According to my sister, who was the one dragging me around one public garden after the other this summer, these are all Allium flowers, kind of an onion flower. I love them, love their shape and texture.

How cute is he! Niklas is from Norway, but lives for now in Swieqi, Malta. His mum Ingunn wanted to make a memory card for his first birthday, and I put together this funky collage for her! 

Child magazine comes out with the Times of Malta, I think some 3 times per year. They chose two of my pictures for their latest issue. This one of Max, which ended up on their cover, plus a Holy Communion picture - yes it's that time of the year again! The format of the mag is really large, and it was amazing to see how good the resolution was, esp since the pic was taken with my good ol' Canon 300d!

Ray just turned 50. A milestone. I made him this collage as a present. The photo was taken by his wife Margaret, the lyrics is from what has to be the song of the year (at least for me!): the magic of the sun from by the rifffs, Ray's own band. Happy b'day Ray - you're a great guy!

Linni has made her first cover! Who is surprised?! It was just a matter of time, right?! And not just any cover: she is on the cover of Skylife, Airmalta's inflight magazine and will gaze upon passengers for all of the month of May! Thanks to Deana, the patron of all buddying artists, who is the editor of Sky, I have a spread in the magazine with some of my pics. She asked me some time back, which was very flattering. And then it turned out that the designers really loved this pic and decided to crown the mag with it! I was stunned and really pleased. Linni took it in her stride: knowing she is destined for fame she wasn't very surprised...

Have finally found a way to display some of all those photos which are just hidden on the hard drive.. Have put together a collage mainly with photos but also with some illustrations that lighten up the whole picture. It was a lot of moving around boxes before it was ready, but am really pleased with the end result. A white frame and it will go up in my (pink!) study!

Milla is obsessed with aeroplanes... As soon as she hears engines in the sky, she starts scouting for them...

I try to find time to make my own christmas cards to send to family and friends. Not easy, takes a lot of time, but here are a few I have made. This one is of Maja and Linni, they were only 3 and 4 years old.

This is my christmas card this year, of my 3 angels. The design of the card, and of the next two ones, is made by Dawn, using Moo templates. I just love Moo.com - their designs are so fresh! Let me know what you think of the blue square - does it work for a christmas card??

This card and the next one were done for Nicole - you will find more pictures of her cute kids in earlier blog entries

This card is supposed to be viewed vertically, so please turn your head when you look at it!