Coconut

Totally Elsie-inspired page. Had so much fun making this! It started out completely different but ended this way - and I think I like it. It's kind of a different look for my pages but sometime's it's fun to break out of your comfort zone and make something different. - And the page had to be special since the photo is a picture of Max's butt!!!

Materials:

• Cardstock: Club Scrap To you with love
• Patterned paper: Prima Marketing Prima Petal Poetry Collection
• Pen: Pilot Hi-Tecpoint
• Font: Starbabe HMK
• Ink: Versa Color Boysenberry
• Buttons: From stash

Journaling:

• English version:
  It's been a while since I bought the coconut for Max and he hasn't been very interested in it. Maybe because I couldn't wait for him to discover it for himself so I pushed him into it... Maybe that's why he has been ignoring it. But suddenly he started to love it and at the moment his favourite spot is inside it. It's been a tough fight to decorate it - how do you get enough cotton dragged into it so you can build a fancy hamster nest? There has been several attempts to climb up the ladder and then crawling head first out the nut and trying to grasp the cotton and trying to get back into the nut... In the beginning he didn't even use the ladder but crawled into nut by using the seesaw standing next to it - but now it's his new favourite spot and he is actualy able to hide himself in there so we think he has gotten out of his cage and starts searching, searching, searching for him... :o) (Picture June 17 2007, journaling June 19 2007).
• Danish version:
  Det er efterhånden et stykke tid siden, jeg købte kokosnødden til Max og han har ikke været særlig interesseret i den. Måske fordi jeg ikke kunne vente på, at han selv opdagede det, så jeg proppede ham ind i den... Måske er det derfor han har ignoreret den. Men pludselig er han begyndt at elske den og for tiden er hans yndlingssted faktisk inde i den. Det har været en hård kamp at indrette den – for hvordan får man hevet vat ind i den, så man kan bygge en lækker hamster-rede? Der har været mange forsøg med at klatre op af stigen med munden fuld af vat og så falde ned, få vat op på stien og så kravle forlæns ud af nødden og tage fat i det og forsøge at mosle sig tilbage ind i nødden… I starten brugte han slet ikke stigen, men kravlede ind i nødden via vippen ved siden af – men nu er det hans nye yndlingssted og han er faktisk i stand til at gemme sig derinde, så vi tror han er smuttet ud af sit bur og leder, leder, leder efter ham… :o) (Billede 17/6-07, journaling 19/6-07)