Sweet 16

 Cheryl posted a new challenge today at citycrafter, working out a spring fling, ahhh the beauty of the colors, she challenged us to work with pink, blue, green and cream.  I also added some lavender because it looked so delish....some pearls for the cream, some mist for the blue,  a rose for the pink and green for the title and butterfly. 

posted Feb. 28: our Sweet 16

of marriage , that is!  We just celebrated our anniversary and this photo was taken by our son in manual mode , so proud of him, I loved it so much!

Urban Graffiti

Sketch 224 of pencillines done with some cool urban graffiti pics of my son.  We had a photo session in this huge place

This place is HUGE and the artists are really great, it is wall to wall coverage from the streets of Fajardo, PR.
This is another sketch, No.225

I used it as a companion to the first one to make a double spread, this time I flipped the sketch sideways!

Feliz Dia de San Valentin

 This quick Valentine's card was inspired by the use of glitter over @ the Citycrafters blog where the girls are playing with all that glitters!

 Then the girls @ the shabby tearoom are keeping warm and I was inspired by the hues and by who keeps me warm, who is also getting the card above, LOL

 And this will help keep you warm, just a thing I whipped this morning for my neighbor, who is a sweet girl that's always there when I need her, thanks Awi!  This of course would be what I would  make to my DH if he were a chocolate person...Made with Pure 85% cocoa by Godiva, yum!

Brave little girl!

This card was made using the sketch from City Crafters, I wanted to play with reds and pinks!

More houses....what can I say, this one is a little swiss cottage, go to the next post to see the other one.  The pattern and design for this one is all mine, I guess there are more comig in this little brain o'mine, balcony and all!

And then there is this brave little girl, who had her hair cut yesterday to donate to Locks of Love.org. A full 12 inches came out of her glorious hair, I am so proud of her .

Isn't she pretty, doing such good deeds at such an early age!

Happily ever after...

What a great way to begin 2011 and wake up this sleepy blog.  We had the most wonderful time at Chritmas, 3 Kings and now the Octavitas, we even had the pleasure of receiving a Paranda, the puertorricans version of Christmas carolers but full blast latin rhytms!
I made a card for the girls @ the shabbytearoom they have a sketch for a change and here is my sweet version,

 I was taking down the Chritmas decorations and felt so sad I had no houses...well one needed to fill the empty spot and so my hands went down to work, this one uses one of the Victoria templates for some of it, some of it is my own. It sits a top a working box I fancied out of a sad piece of chipboard, that is now very, very happy!

And this year is going to be filled with layouts, and photos, I vow to that! Here is my sweetheart posing for mama!

This post is devoted to my fave collection Je t'Adore by Making Memories, so in love!
Hope your week is filled with blessings and opportunites, thanks for stopping by , Milly

Feliz Navidad!

Queria desearles a todas una hermosa navidad, posiblemente sea el ultimo post del 2010 para dedicarle tiempo a mi familia.  Latienda va a estar cerrada este viernes 17 y el sabado 18 luego el 25, 31 de diciembre y regreso despued de Reyes en el 2011.  Muchas bendiciones a tod@s!
Las dejo con un poquito de inspiracion

una caja de regalo para alguien especial!

Blue Christmas

City Crafter girls have a blue Christmas challenge inspired by a photo  of  A creative Mint.  Such beautiful inspiration and I am in such Chritmas mood you would not beleive, so I made a Christmas ornament for the challenge, here is my entry

Some Maya Road chipboard, MR ribbon, swirl, Kaiser pearls and some findings!

Deck the Halls with Snow Day

er, boughs of holly, falalalala, tis the season to Crate Paper, falalala, er again....I'm sorry I just can't help myself.  You see I live in the tropics, outside right now it's 83 degrees, sunny and warm and so very nice and even when the collection's name is Snow Day to me it has the nicest colors for Christmas an island girl could wish.  And so they have inspired me beyond all boundaries, hope you enjoy the following presentation.  As I was doing the full sized version of this, remember the tiny version?

I fell in love with this little tree, I had to put it facing the green side for contrast but I thought wouldn't it be cool to be able to embroider the little fellow?

That had me going and I sat down pen and felt in hand and after sketching, needle and floss in hand I created myself some company for my chair...

out for publication!!!

be back in a little while!

See what I tell you about the little fellow, so cute in paper so cute in my chair and so it happened the dining room table was standing by and said how about dressing me up?  So paper and then needle in hand I got to work again...

                                           the tree with the heart has got to be my fave...

Sorry about the backwards photo but it's the only way you can see the whole thing, my table is big!
The avalanche continues, when my daughter saw this she tought it was for her bedroom, I had finished her a quilt 5 months ago... And so more pen and crayons and needles but before that I have to show you how to dress your plates for such a darling runner

These are some bitty boxes I dressed up that can help your guests find their way to the table

more paper and felt inspired designs, as you see every single bit of paper has been put to use, make a paper garland with your kids, it's inexpensive, pretty and fun!

How about some stocking? you can sew a few and decorate the house, the tree, give to your kids teachers, neighbors and so on...

or decorate some chipboard ornaments

or hang more stockings...

or do more ornaments

How about a skirt for the tree, hubbie's idea, like I had done nothing...Snow Day inspired of course

                              Now don't mind this sleepy face, she colored the masterpiece I told you before!

 Now here are some priceless moments, teaching your 6 year old embroidery and seing her finish it up beautifully, makes up for a VERY PROUD mama!

           And here is her bedroom all dressed up for Christmas just the way she wanted!

Now someone needed to do something about all those felt scraps, so another non lonely chair for the holidays is happy now!  Thanks so much for looking up thrugh the longest post in PB history, I hope I have inspired you to deck your house with some holiday magic!

Hugs

Milly