Café Premium

Hi everybody, I know, I know I have been MIA....but it's so good to be back, specially in a scrappy mood!!!  Recently we visited a fabulous place in Old San Juan Chocolate Cortés Café in San Francisco St.  Regardless of the fabulous chocolate I am always up for coffee and that brings me up to things I love...

I LOVE coffe, café in Spanish and love is the theme this month at Kraft it Up!

I hope you take the time to come play along with us and share what you LOVE!

here's my spin:

the blue you see on the mirrors is courtesy of a beafutiful sky , full of sun {finally} !!!

I am recycling my corrugated coffee warmer in my hearts and my Tim Holtz new die!

I hope you also use your stash...if you have been scrappin' as long as I have you may recognize the Basic Grey heart rub on on my photo....

I also used Tim Holtz tissue tape and several stamps and Maya Road and other textures!

more BG rub ons!!!!!

and I also used the grunge board in between my cuts, so perfect for using!

Thanks for stopping by it's so good to be back!!!

Hugs

Milagros

Time passing OBW

Hi everybody, I have been MIA...after CHA I have been trying really hard to catch up on family time, work and so on and so forth so my blog has been neglected to say the least... I hope you had time to visit Our Beautiful World last week as the entries were all so nice for my word shadow, thanks to all that make this posisible!  This weeks word is brought to us by Bonita and it's passing time.
For Christmas my son got a yoyo, turns out it was a special one with lights on it and that my husband was {surprise} a whiz with it.  So after watching him play for quite some time I went to pick up the camera and started shooting.  I just loved the whole set, really hard to pick a fave they were so nice!

I do hope you have enjoyed them as much as I did and hopefully I will be full blown into this blogging life of mine, hugs

Milagros

Shadows

I am your host this week at Our Beautiful World and my prompt for you is shadows . 

this is a mobile photo from our phone, we were standing on the boardwalk watching the waves crash at our local beach "La Pared" a famous hang out for surfers.  There's the four of us!

I love it when I am able to get that perspective and see us in a different light!

Can't wait to see what the word means to you in your part of the world!

Hugs!

Milagros

Off to CHA

It's that time of the year again, the Winter CHA show is in our doorsteps and the new reveals are out
it's also a time for me to learn the new techniques out there and who better to spend my time than with t!m :

I sure love visiting everyone and then coming back with tons of stuff to share so I will come back with photos until then, if I don't visit your blogs you know where you can find me !
Hugs

Milagros

January

Ever since I can remember in my married life we have spent the Fisrt of January at an annual party for the Country Club my Father in Law belongs.  They meet to celebrate the New year and bring all that is customary as a local tradition in Christmas at the island.  They make not one but 2 of these guys

they are roasted in a pit fire for hours and hours and they are so delicious!  They literally tear the skin to eat it since it is sp crunchy and flavorful once it's roasted.

then there's this

can you see behind them my son and DH, that is fried heaven my friends!!! they make this fritters out of cod called "bacalaitos" and grated root vegetables stuffed with either crab or meat called "alcapurrias" and there's no way you can eat just one!

but this is the best part of my January, beginning the year with the ones I love !

Cheers to a brand new 2014

Milagros

Tomorrow January 6 is our celebration of the epiphany or the Three Kings, It is also a big Holiday, like Christmas.  Tonight the kids around the island will fill up a shoe box with grass for the camels.  They will put it under their bed so that when the Three Kings come their camels can be fed.  The next morning they will have toys in their boxes and hopefully the camels won't leave behind a whole lot of grass for parents to clean up ;)

It is one beautiful tradition and almost the end of Christmas for us!

Sweetheart, I love you

My dear friend Lizzy Hill has made her first sketch!!! I just couldn't resist joining in and paying homage to the wonderful sketch!  I don't know if you have been experiencing lately the Google + photos and Auto awesome photos but I tell you I am in love with seeing their editing.  Anywhooo they just gave me this 4 picture collage of some photos I never took...The story is that my son took my camera and then went outside to take pictures of his sister.  So although these are quite old I had never scrapped them before and I have Google to thank for bringing them to my attention they are funny and delightful want to see?

there's a couple of brand new things here, like Echo Parks new I love Candy collection and Crate Paper's Love Notes.  since I don't have any Purple Pumpkin buttons I am using Studio Calico, Lizzy you said it was OK... I just love the stamped and embossed Matryoshka by Kaisercraft!

see what I mean about the pics? deeelightful!

I used hearts instead of stars with some yummy Inka gold

and an ancient Crate Paper piece of chippie

I hope you feel inspired and join my dear Lizzy at Purple Pumpkin this month! 

  take a peek at how clever and cool

Big Hugs

Milagros
And I just can't wait for these!!!

"1,2,3"

It's a brand new year and a brand new challenge! For the Kraft it up January challenge you have to work with a fabulous Page Maps sketch and you need to incorporate washi tape,  a summers themed photo and a number.  It is summer down under as well as in Puerto Rico, so it was easy to come up with some yummy ocean pics for my page!

This is my daughter's first dive ever at Gilligan's.  We have been coming to this cay for 4 years now and this was her first attempt to go into the water from the mangrove trees.  I have to tell you it's scary up there as I tried it several years ago, I even titled my page "chicken at the top" as I was almost too scared to jump.  I am so glad she did it and is not afraid anymore, because once you do it once you just want to climb and jump again and again, the water is crystal clear and you can even see the fish swimming by from the trees.

for my numbers I went with gessoed 1 and 3 and wood veneer for number 2

here we go off in the air # 1

some cool stitching using an Amy Tangerine stencil and embroidery floss

#2 closer to the water

and # 3 a perfect splash!

all tied up together with a twine bow and some TC washi tape

here's the sketch

I hope you have fun with this sketch and the summer theme bring some warmth to you if you are in the cold! Take some summer photos out and re live the fun!

Hugs

Milagros

Happy New Year 2014!!!

Hi everyone today is our last post of the year at OBW!  We are celebrating a New Year and we can't wait to see how it looks in your part of the world!

Our family spends this time with close friends, our families are too far away to travel back on a night when sometimes it's scary to drive back home.

My husband loves fireworks and so he purchases the mother load of pyrotechnic stuff to play at night.

My daughter adores the little one that make stars in her hands and I love how the sky lights up!

This is what happened home last December 31st!

it's so bright you can see the palm trees right there on the right hand side!

\

May you have a Beautiful New Year and let there be

Peace on Earth!

Hugs from my family to yours and cheers to a beautiful 2014

Milagros

PS had to share my last project of the year a cushion inspired by Brenda Walton's  cottage die and lettering!

Christmas!!!!

Hi everyone can you believe it only 3 more days for Christmas??? The year totally flew by!

Speaking of Christmas it is our prompt for the week over at Our Beautiful World, we have gathered a bunch of pics for you and can't wait to see yours!

To me nothing is sweeter than seeing my kids face on Christmas morning, their joy when opening presents, specially a certain little one who is happy not giving Santa a list...

or this big guy who never forgets his lists...



this

can you find me there?

this

and specially this!!

Merry Christmas everyone!!!!!

 

Milagros

Joy

Hi everyone, happy Friday, time for a new CSI case!

For my evidence I used ribbon, metal. greenery,stars

My dog Luna...She looks like a model, LOL!!!

Here's the case

And here's the awesome Prima sketch

hope you make some time to play!

Your

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells!!!!

Hi everyone!!! It's the 19th of December already, have you made your Santa's letter yet?

Any special wishes in your list?

Today I am sharing a project I have made with the jingle bells challenge over at CCCB in mind.  You know how I love to make special cushion covers in Christmas... This year the minute my eyes laid out on these dies my mind was soaring...
My piece is called "Waiting for Santa"

I cut my pieces in wool

I love how it looks at night, I will take a daylight photo for you later, I just finished embroidering this and it's already night fall here

I used some sequins to embellish my dearies and then I embroidered some tiny red jingle bells in their harness 

Mrs. Walton made this guys so majestic and beautiful and they cut so well

I decided to add a jingle to the center of my poinsettia as well

loving this!!!!

her letter to Santa!

Hope you have an awesome day!   Remember tomorrow is my Friday CSI design team reveal, so do come by to see a classic palette!

Hugs

Milagros