A morning at the stable

I go horse riding twice a week now and it has become a very important hobby for me again, a moment for myself where I can learn new things and just concentrate on myself and the horse and it's just wonderful to be able to do that! I have hundreds of photos of Sofia and her friends horse riding but very few photos of myself. But yesterday Sofia came with me to the stable and took some photos. Carlotta goes to a private school, so her Easter holiday hadn´t begun yet. It was a lovely morning for me and Sofia at the stable with nice weather and a good riding lesson. Here's a digital layout of my lesson with the photos that Sofia took.

More from Andalo

Carlotta for the first time on skis

Skiing in the Dolomites

The first week of March we had a wonderful week in Andalo in Trentino. The sun was shining every day, the food was good and the hotel had a very nice girl who entertained our smallest one so we were able to ski in the mornings. Daniele and Sofia had their skiing course every morning, Carlotta stayed in the hotel and we went skiing and also took one private lesson, which was very good. Carlotta's skiing course in the afternoons was no big success. She said the skis didn't obey her and she was afraid. The only thing that made her say that she wanted to continue with the course after the first lesson was that they had a pause where the children got a piece of chocolate. Anyway she succeded in partecipating in the final ski competition crying and with her nose running and got a trophy that she very proudly showed to everyone in the hotel. When we came to the hotel the children got these balloons.

First of all when we arrived, the children and also our dog, Milla went out behind the hotel to play in the snow.

We went down to see the lake of Molveno. Molveno is a place for summer holidays, now it was empty.


A nice welcoming dinner in the hotel.

Scrabooking Course

Once a month Timbri tinti organizes courses in scrapbooking here in Rome. In January I managed to go and I did Carola's course "Istantanee da ricordare" where we made a mini album with acrylic colours, recycled material, canvas, ecc. I had lots of fun and also like the result! Here are some photos of the album pages. I still have to put them together.

London

Finally back on-line after problems with my internet connection! I guess am really internet "addicted", so it feels so wonderful now that it's working again! A few weeks ago the whole family made a 4-days trip to to London together with our friends, Marzia and her family. She also recently opened her blog Il vaso di Pandora. Me and the children have made a few trips with them before, but it was the first time with our husbands. We walked a lot, saw a lot and skipped lots of things that we would have liked to see, so we hope to be back there soon again. I really like London and the most surprising thing was that our 4-year-old Carlotta said she didn't want to go back home yet, she wanted to live there! Our friends left a day earlier than we, because my husband wanted to see a football match on the last day. I made a few collages of the photos I took there. I got the templates from the Coffeeshop blog.

Digital scrapbooking

Here are a few of my latest digital scrapbooking layouts. I don't understand why I'm not able to put my text in between each photo. Does anyone know that?
Anyway, the papers in the last lay-out are from a digital kit I bought last year for the 365 project that I didn't follow, but you can use it in many other ways, too. It's from Weeds and Wildflowers Design. The others I don't remember. I usually write my texts in my layouts in swedish. The first one contains photos of my photo shoot for the Christmas card photo, the second one is about my daughter Carlotta who got a princess dress for christmas present and really liked what she saw in the mirror. The last one is about our lunch with my mother in law who lives in the center of Rome, so we took a walk near the ruins after lunch.

November, December

November Sofia moved to another riding club that she liked a lot. She also continued with her new hobby of this autumn - artistic gymnastics. The whole family made a day trip to Ovindoli in the mountains.

December We made a day trip to the lake of Trevignano. Sofia had her first little club competition at the new riding club. We stayed in Rome over the Christmas holidays. Christmas went Ok, although my husband had a sore foot and Sofia had a fever. We celebrated new year's eve at the restaurant at the riding club together with our friends.