Happy Valentine's Day Bonne St.Valentine Fijne Valentijnsdag
Buon San Valentino Glücklichen Valentinstag Veselo Valentinovo
Feliz Dia De Los Enamorados Sreken Valentajn Suksan Wan Valentine
1. :heart, 2. Heart Flock, 3. In The Heart Of The Leaf Pile, 4. ,,,,CuoRe....., 5. Sempre e Per Sempre - Always And Forever, 6. Has anyone touched your heart?, 7. Heart, 8. Firey Heart, 9. Sailing into destiny ... closer to the heart ♥
Some red, white and pink loveliness in honor of Valentine's Day! (I can never resist a picture of a cute animal!)
1. another match point, 2. with love (365/65), 3. Mushroom lover, 4. Someone asked for Pink...lol, 5. Mitza, 6. love, Alice..., 7. Not Flowery Knickers., 8. Beautiful Dahlia, 9. Feuilles de Thé
I realized the other day that somehow, I've never really made any Valentine's Day crafts, so I decided to whip up a few little hearts out of scrap toile and burlap.
I'm not the best sewer, but these were super easy to pull together and gave me a great excuse to use up some fabric scraps.
Next year I might make some more and decorate the hearts with buttons and some blingy bits. Or maybe use some plain muslin and stamp some designs.
Wow, another year gone by. 2011 seems to have gone by so fast. It was a pretty quiet year for me, with the most surprising part of the whole year being finally meeting my father's side of the family over the summer - all at once at a family reunion. I saw the places my father and other family members grew up. I learned so much more about the family that gave my grandfather up for adoption. I learned that my mother's father had not one, but two sisters that my mother never knew. I got a new job at a fantastic place. I read 60 books. I took a long time to ponder goals for the future, including possibly going back to school. I gained some new friends and lost a couple of old friends. I had to start coloring my hair (damn you grey hairs!). I developed a new allergy like asthma that makes it difficult to breathe, which I suspect is related to my new job. I started cooking and have developed the ability to say no to sweets (okay, most of the time). I am very much looking forward to 2012 and its possibilities. I will be turning *gulp* 35 and I hope to start on a new path in life.
I am just back from a whirlwind trip to Santa Barbara and am far too exhausted to think of much more at the moment, thanks to my train being four hours late and getting home at 2 am and getting about three hours of sleep. So, I will leave you with all the best wishes for 2012 and have a happy and safe New Year's Eve!
A little new year's wish from a vintage postcard I received as a gift awhile back....
Wow, Christmas really snuck up on me this year. I didn't even manage to put up a tree or decorate at all. This year has gone by in such a blur for me! The weather has also been pretty warm here and it just doesn't feel like December!
I hope that you have a wonderful Christmas with family and friends!
Tomorrow I'll be going to the Palace Hotel for their Christmas brunch with my parents, like we've been doing for about 15 years now. It's always really pretty at that lunch, with gingerbread houses made by local celebrities and things. I'm on winter break from my new job, so I'm just relaxing and making plans for the new year. I finally got my new packaging designs from my friend and I've ordered some new body product supplies, so let's hope in the new year that I can get that going!
Have a wonderful and yummy Thanksgiving!!
I don't know about you, but I am already so full I can't think of taking another bite!
It's Dia de los Muertos yet again and I am thinking of all the family that I never had the chance to meet.
Quien con la esperanza vive, alegre muere. He who lives with hope dies happy.
In honor of meeting my father's side of the family for the first time just in July....
The wedding of my dad's parents, Eleanor and Pete. They died well before I was born and I only have a few pictures of them. I think I only have two of them together.
My grandfather as a little boy, somewhere around 1919, with his adoptive mother, Mary. This was in Keene, NH. I love this picture. I think it's a horse in the background. Maybe a cow.
Mary again with her husband, Burpee. Yes, Burpee. No one knows where on earth that name came from but for some reason it was a popular name in Nova Scotia (where he was from) at the time. Someone in Nova Scotia told my dad it may have had to do with Burpee Seed Company.
There's no close Neaves relatives left in the Keene area - I am the last Neaves for this branch of the family. What is ironic is that I am not biologically a Neaves since Mary and Burpee adopted my grandfather. So, the line really died out in the 1960s. Everyone I met in July were relatives of my grandmother.
1. Dia de los Muertos, 2. Mexican Paper Flowers, 3. Ballet Folklorico Performers, Dia de los Muertos, 4. Dia de los Muertos, 5. detail of newest paper cut for Dia de los Muertos / Halloween, 6. oakland "dia de los muertos", 7. Dia De Los Muertos Festival, Los Angeles, 11.01.10, 8. IMG_1864, 9. paseo de los muertos bunting
Have a fun and amazing Halloween!!
1. Halloween Cookies, 2. Halloween drinks, 3. Happy Halloween, 4. halloween altered art star, 5. Project 365 - 90/365, 6. Pumpkin cookies!, 7. Halloween ornaments, 8. Halloween bat cappuccino art, 9. Trick or treat...
I'm trying to keep my little crafty momentum going, at least for the next few days. I realized I hadn't made a rubber stamp in a long time, so I made a little ghostie stamp today.
It's a little bit bigger than I originally intended, so I had a bit of a hard time inking it, but I still think it's cute!
This one is inked better, but a bit messier! I thinked I inked it a bit too well....
Well it looks like I took another blog break, this time due to my new job. It's great, but it has me exhausted at the end of the day. I'm not sure if it's because I was just out of work for awhile or if it's the job or if it is because I have been dealing all year with the unfortunate growing apart with some long time friends and it's taking its toll on me.
Anyway, I managed to pull it together just in time for Halloween! I whipped up a simple banner with some bits of Halloween materials that I had.
I wasn't sure if I would make anything anytime soon, so I haven't been craft shopping for a long time, but luckily I have a huge stash of craft goodies so I pulled a few things together.
It felt good to be making something again. I need to keep reminding myself that even if I am exhausted, I need to try to make a little something more often!
I do miss making things and I really do have a ridiculous amount of craft supplies so I need to get my focus back!
