Hi Everyone! If you love to craft and scrapbook like me, you learn to get pretty creative if you live abroad. Craft stores are pretty difficult to find and there is only so much room in a suitcase to haul things back to Italy with me. Now, along the years, I’ve discovered that we have[…]
Hi all! This week my creative juices have been running as I’m taking a break from baby preparation =) I had this glossy ceramic jug which I thought was the perfect thing to try a new experiment…new for me at least 😉 To stamp on flat ceramic surfaces….that much we know is easy enough….but what[…]
Happy New Year to all! Well, expecting a baby girl has given me some new opportunities to learn skills I never attempted before…..like embroidery! I bought some plain white fabric at the street market here in Sicily and after hemming them, wanted to add some baby motifs to the top of the sheets. But how?[…]
Hi all! Well, being pregnant certainly has exciting moments…..one of which is finding out that you are having a girl! =) So when I was at the store the other day and saw this large hot pink plastic container, I knew it would be the perfect toy bin for our arriving baby girl as no[…]
Being the crazy person I am, and loving flowers……wearing bobby pin flowers to hold up one side of my bangs is something I do almost daily and I have one for almost every outfit! (No, I’m not 18 years old….actually I’m thirty something and expecting our first child……and if she’s a girl, mommy is going[…]
What do you do with a chipped espresso cup? Make a pin cushion =) Since I have only have a few needles for hand sewing, I don’t want to lose them! And since the chipped part of the espresso cup was on the inside, I decided to make a home for my lonely needles =)[…]
I don’t know about you, but I like the look of coasters. They are really cute underneath a cup of warm coffee or tea. For me, it’s about coziness. And I love when they are homemade. So one day, I was tinkering with some extra card stock I had and thought, why not make quick[…]