Scenic LONDON

The kids, Nana and I recently went on a trip to London! It was our first tour day in the great city so I started taking some amazing pictures...

These totally cute telephone booths:

 Nana, Ashton and Angel on the Big Bus tour:

 Paddington Station (duh) where the ACTUAL, soon to be internationally famous, teddy bear was found:

 This awesome Arch whose name I have now forgotten:

 Really neat sculpture of a colorful family:

 A Horse's HEAD:

And then!!!! My camera died. YUP. And who forgot to bring the battery charger??? Me of course! So Nana took the rest of the pics, and some are on Facebook, but most are NOT. Maybe next Sunday I'll have them to share with you... Until then, Be blessed and don't forget to charge your cameras!!!

Deployment Chain

I'm back again! Here's an update on our Deployment Countdown Paper Chain. This is the chain in April:

 The Chain in May:

 The Chain on David's Birthday, Today, July 21st:

We love you and miss you David. See you SOON!

I MADE SOMETHING!!!

Hey there Friends! Are any of you still around???  So I haven't been in the mood to craft with my paper products lately AT ALL. But, I have been learning how to sew! I'll have to share some of my creations on another post, but this post is all about The Burtonesque Dolls Challenge! I love The Burtonesque Dolls Blog and even though I haven't been paper crafting, I've still been checking out the blog. They have a challenge going on right now that you can check out HERE. And this is my entry for the challenge:

This is an digi stamp from Bugaboo Stamps. Can you recognize the character? Bugaboo calls him "Spoiled One"! LOL. Well, poor spoiled Draco used the Floo Network and instead of staying in the world of Wizards, landed in the Wonderful World of Wonka! Yup, Draco is in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! I hope you like my card, because I'm quite satisfied with it. After all, I was able to achieve a ruffled ribbon on a card after not creating something for MONTHS. Alrighty then, I'm off for the night. Maybe I'll be posting up something soon... oh yeah, I do have an updated picture of our paper chain...

Until next post, Be blessed!

Deployment

I know I said I was gonna take a break, but I just wanted to share these pics with you all really quick since it is Scenic Sunday. This is our deployment countdown chain in April: 

 And this is our chain today:

Shorter, but still a long way to go....

Break Time

Hey there friends. So, I've been absent from the blog for awhile. Honestly I'm debating on whether or not I want to keep this up. It's not that I don't have time, it's that I'm not making the time and I really don't have the motivation to make it. I am still crafting and creating, but in different forms. I'm learning to sew, organizing my home, purging and packing... And just trying to keep my head above water with all my responsibilities. Add the blog to my list, and it just adds to my feelings of being overwhelmed. I didn't come on here to complain, but I just want to let you all know that I am still around. I'm just going to be MIA until further notice. I hope to get back to a place where I feel like life is in order before I can commit to blogging consistently again. I hope you all understand. Until that time comes, I'm still on Facebook! LOL!

I Made it!-Sacchetto del Vino

Happy Monday Friends! So, I'm learning to sew. I'm learning VERY slowly to sew. I have gone to a sewing club meeting and made this:

It's a wine pouch. It's not the most complicated thing to sew, but I did it! I was so happy that it actually worked out! Here it is again:

 I discovered that day that the presser foot on my sewing machine is missing. It must have gotten lost while I was carrying the machine around to get it to sewing club. So, needless to say, I haven't sewn anything on the machine since. :( I really want to get back to sewing on the machine so I can do more projects! I don't know when that is going to be possible but I do have a couple little things in the works that I am sewing by hand... but you'll have to wait until next week to see those!

Scenic Sunday-Primavera in Italia

Buona Pascua!

That means Happy Easter!

I love Primavera (Spring) in Italia. Here are some pictures of the flora around my house:

OH! I had to throw that picture of Angel Baby in there, just cuz she's so stinkin' cute! Primavera Felice, Amici and have a Buona Pascua as well!