Excuses / Part Two

Staying in Venice is quite expensive - so we prefer staying in Padua (ital.: Padova)... a city with a really nice old city center. It´s quite medieval - when strolling through the streets of the ancient city center I sometimes expect Romeo and Juliet coming around the corner... ok, Padua is not Verona, but the feeling is the same :-)

Unfortunately we always "forget" to make some pictures there... don´t know, why.

Here´s one of the beautiful old houses - my aunt in the front...

It´s taken with a small "point&shoot digi cam", so please neglect the poor quality.

A main reason for coming to Italy is to enjoy life - La dolce vita, as the Italians say... and we try our best:

... an indoor pic from our favourite enoteca in the city... to avoid misunderstandings: these were not all for me :-) only the glass rightmost!!

And they have very delicious food there:

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PS: I tried to make some cameos with my Mold Muse molds lately - I even tried to do them bicolored - and I think they came out quite well with Fimo/Sculpey ... I love these molds - they´re first class quality!

Excuses / Part One

Sorry for being so quiet lately... but I´ve some really good excuses!

 

Here´s the 1st one: our annual shopping trip to Padua (ital.:Padova) and Venice.... we had 4 fabulous days in Italy!

 

Want to travel a little?
Come with me on a short sightseeing tour through Venice ... we preferred to avoid the crowds of tourists this time and went through a more quiet area to the famous Rialto Bridge:

There are very popular stores called "Coin" in Italy - this one in Venice is in an old Palazzo - and look how gorgeous the decoration is! When you come in and look up to the ceiling - this is what you see:

Until next time!

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Miss Jenni´s cones

About 2 hours ago I checked out one of my favourite German blogs "Paulines Papier" - and nearly cried out loud because of this absolutely gorgeous idea - please check out JENNI`S BLOG to see her original project!!! You won´t regret it!!

I could not help but try this myself immediately - here´s my quickly done version out of scraps from my desk:

Jenni put a sweet treat inside and will use these instead of place cards. Isn´t that a fabulous and sweet idea?!
It would be so nice of you if you would check out her blog and leave her a comment for her stunningly beautiful cones!!

I´d like to enter them here:
http://ribboncarouselchallenge.blogspot.com/2012/04/rcc50-anything-goes-with-there-she-goes.html

and here:
http://toptiptuesday.blogspot.com/2012/04/challenge-75-anything-but-card.html

Thanks so much for coming by!

...and a matching gift bag

http://divasbydesignchallenge.blogspot.com/2012/04/challenge-31-anything-but-card.html

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Just a note

The "Divas by design" challenge blog caught my attention when I read Linda´s last blog posts... she made such a stunning handbag charm!
I´d like to participate in this week´s challenge "Anything but a card" with this small notebook - my 1st notebook ever:

I used up some scraps and a piece of effect yarn...

And there are some more challenges:
http://crafts4eternity.blogspot.com/2012/04/r68-something-new.html
http://prairiefairyfridays.blogspot.com/2012/04/challenge-77-anything-with-flowersour.html
http://fussyandfancychallenge.blogspot.com/2012/04/challenge-61-punches-dies.html
http://www.ibrakeforchallenges.blogspot.com/2012/04/i-brake-foranything-but.html
http://blog.oozak.com/

Thanks for coming by!

Little Improvement

I wasn´t happy with the pictures I made from my last sticky note booklet - I had to do it quickly, because otherwise I would have missed the deadline of the challenge (it was near midnight and challenge ended 6 a.m.)  - but the colors are not right because of the "light-bulb-light" from my table lamp ... so I made new pics in daylight - much better!!!

Have a wonderful weekend! 

Feathers and Bling

My sticky note booklets are "back in town"! *big grin* I almost forgot how much fun it is to make them... luckily I remembered it and will make some more in spring...

This one is for the feathers challenge at the Moxie Fab World:

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Invitation Pouch

I want to hand an invitation over ... so I made a pouch for it...

"E" ist for "Einladung", which means "invitation" in German. 

I´m infected with the calligraphy virus since last week - and so I´ll try to incorporate some handwriting and "artsy initials" in my future projects....

... a little spray of Glimmer Mist suits every piece, don´t you agree?!

... and always style the back pretty, too! ;-)

PS: Just in case you´re wondering: the pouch leans against an old wooden stamp from India ( used for stamping on fabric in former times)

Thanks for spending some time here with me!

Sweet Harriet

A fun little card with Harriet by Stampingbella ...

for the Tuesday Trigger Challenge at the Moxie Fab World...

and the challenge at Catered Crop "Ribbon"

Thanks for visiting me today!

YIPPEE!!

I´m a Hero Arts Winner !!

http://heroarts.com/blogs/club/2012/03/01/february-round-2-winners-and-a-new-contest-for-march/

I´m over the moon with joy :-)