Holidays after the Holly Days...

Hi there!
I do hope you had a lovely time over the holidays... I did, but now, that I'm home, after the holidays, I'm even better... when I say I'm home, I mean I'm in my little bit of Paradise with (almost) all my loved ones... we spent the holidays all over Europe and now come together to start yet another year of hard work and (hopefuly) some play... truth be told my year used to start in September, right after the long holidays at the beach and when the kids went back to school... this is a sign that I'm getting old... my kids have started not going back to school... which means they have grown and have left school... and are more independent (don't need mom to drive them anywhere... they drive themselves...) Me don't like it... I know it's life.. but still, Me don't like it...
I guess it's time for me to start getting busy with my very small crafts business and... well, enjoy the last one still in school... unlike all years past, this year I did not make a "resolutions" list or even a wish list... (ironic as I spent all last year reading organizing blogs and wanting to be more of a lists person!), I decided to just go with it... see how the year rolls around and just try to have as much fun as I can...
Anyhooo, I do hope and wish everyone gets everything they wish for, or better yet, that they get everything that is best for them even if they haven't yet realized what it is...;)

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The blues... or is it the grays?!

Hi there!

Autumn is officially here... and so are my grays, stronger than ever.
It usualy takes my husband a couple of weeks or so to catch up on them, but this morning he takes a long look at me and goes, "ok, that's your grays talking!"! (I mean, come on! Give a girl a couple of days to adjust!) What motivated this remark you might ask... well... "Baby, are you happy? Do you think you were put into this world to live this life, I mean, don't you feel you are just taking up space and not doing anything extraordinary with your life...?! Was I really put in this world for this?!" Hence his answer, followed by "Honey, you gave birth to three amazing kids, if that isn't extraordinary I don't know what is!" Yeah, it didn't work to lift my grays... and they are getting darker by the day...



...and what better to chase those blues away than remember the summer time in that magnificent island... and FYI, I'm going back next week... can't wait to see my loved ones that inhabit paradise!

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It's the wkd...

Hi there!

Not wanting to over do it this week, but, I'm so excited... Got a new decorating project on the way... a very special one (I might add!).

                                            will need lots of this...

... this project may just be what I've been waiting for... as a kick off to a new adventure! and one of my #favoritepersoninthewholeworld will be very happy in the process... will tell you this, first home away from home!!!! (some tear droping now!)

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Work, pain and gain!!!

Hi there!

Just checking in to say, YEAH!, I nailed it this week!. I'm feeling pretty proud of myself (almost hyper-ventilating) because this week, I finally did some of the things (work related of course!) that I've been meaning to do and just wouldn't get around to... I even had time to figure out how to upload photos to the blog (ok, so my son did that but only after I asked him for about a zillion times how this worked, apparently I had touched some key I was not supposed to touch and just totally messed with the computers memory! really?! people mess with my memory all the time and I have to keep going!!!)
I also started some phisio sessions because of my bad back, well, apparently I don't have abdo-muscles, leg-muscles and calf-muscle! and I just use my back when I walk and work and well, all the time and I'm in real trouble because apparently it's going to get worst if I don't change my habits... So I'm like, sore all over... and my back still hurts!

                                      my new best friend, because of back pain of course!!!!!

I also got around to "embellishing" the front door! Not very halloween (like, at all!) but a bit Fall, which I think is nice...

         the candle holders were made by my husband (he's just the best!) and I did the planting!


Gotta run... makin some pasta primavera for lunch... yes I know it's Fall (ahahah)!!!!

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Fall-ing at our Home...

As you can see, these are my efforts to making my home more Fall-y!

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Decorating for FALL... (OK... here goes...)

Hi there!

After  a terrible week of  "what ifs" (and back exactly where I was before that!)  I'm a little bit more "me" again and, well, here I am, leting off some steam...
Well I have been doing a lot of "blog-stalking"... and that does cheer me up a LOT!
It seems the main theme is FALL, why not, since it is the Season! and I must agreeee, those houses look amazing. and it did give me a boost to try something chez moi!
Although, I must say that some of them made me wonder how much money people actually spend decorating for each season... Yes I absolutely love decorating my home and am always on the look out for new, affordable ways to go about it... and I give you that I have been known, once upon a time, to splurge on Christmas decorations, but fall? Really? But I'll tell you a little secret... I'm hooked!
So, you might ask, how did I go about it?  No money spending and all that... Well, I started by the pumpkins! couldn't get any orange pumpkins for free, so I got the next, even better, good thing! I got white ones that my neighbor was going to throw out because he mixed the grains when seeding and ended up with white squash... Lucky me! After that, and after spending days playing around with them shifting them every single day, many times a day, to find them the right spot,a place that made me smile! I put them exactly where my heart was set on from the very begining... on the mantel (faux), of course! Then it was all about finding those candles (I knew I had somewhere), hit the outdoors for some autumn leaves, yes I have a park for a backyard so it didn't cost a thing either... (on the way to the park I had to cross the garden so I picked some roses...gorgeous!!
I follow, and look up, lots of blogs and the advice most of them give when it comes to styling your home or kick your decoration up a notch is to look through your home first, no spending yet, look if there is something that you can use or uptade that will give you the look you want without spending money... if not, well, shopping is such great therapy and if you can afford it... shop! I would!

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I'm back!

Hi there!

So, it's true... I'm back! Being down the South-West Coast was fun... but it's over... at least for now.
I had such a great time that I'm still high from those weeks of sun, beach and beer... yeah, I love champagne, but beer has a special place in my... palate...(and it's so much more, how can I say it! less expensive...)
I got home full of energy to start organizing and cleaning and decorating and just moving stuff around! (for the first two days!...) And so far I've managed to organize my side of the closet (desorganizing the whole bedroom in the process), build and organize shelves under my "built in" office in the kitchen (desorganizing drawers and countertops in the process) and I've changed the shelf I had moved downstairs just before going on Holidays and put a chest of drawers in its place... I've been really busy... I managed to go to "Action", a store we have that is (I suppose!) the equivalent to the dollar tree or dollar store in the US, 3 times! (trips that were an immediat reaction to the reflection that I NEED TO ORGANIZE MY HOME! (of course I went with very specific notes as to what to buy and came home with everything BUT the mentioned! (two out of those three times I left the list at home...)
I've caught up with all the blogs I love reading each week! (drollingfrom all the beautiful pictures and the excitement with the rentrée! Have been "hunting" for an Agenda... said "hunt" shall continue today as the world startsturning only next week for students(and me) over here...
Today's to-do list includes purchasing new curtains for my bedoom, shelves for the bathroom, baskets for said shelves, buy bananas and water for smoothies, green ones, and hopefully take lots of pictures, good ones, to share with you all...

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PS also organized my Under the sink cabinet and guess what? took a before picture and forgot to take an after picture, so now I have to re-organize to take said picture! An't my life exciting?!