I love Stockholm

In my last post I was in a wonderful cruise ship in the Baltic sea. It was the NCL Jewel and we did had a blast there!

But I just fall in love with Stockholm and its archipelago. It's like a dreamland full of amazingly cozy houses all around and you only see nature! I would love to be able one day to go to one of those cottages for a holidays with the family!

The thing is that there are so many islands that I don't know the name of the one I liked most. It was closer to the city center than the others. Here they are some pics of the wonderful houses we could see from the ship cabin balcony while we were going out to the sea again.

See what I mean? Could it be anything more cute than being seated in your garden and watching the boats sailing around with the sea just in front of your door?

Oh, here's this family that was seated in one of the ways watching the ships and the cruises. The kids were having a blast! Click in the pic to meet them!

Isn't this just beautiful? Click in the photo!

There were little islands with just one house in it, like fishermen houses! Amazingly beautiful!

A beauty non stop!

Love Stockholm

This is life!

Oh God, I am enjoying this soooo much!
This pic is from Warnemünde in Germany, one of the stops in our wonderful cruise. I loved this place! Was just like a little fairy tale village full of charm and beauty!
God, thanks for the life I live and the family I've got!
I am so sorry I have been so bad blogger but was just preparing my life time holidays! lol... Almost all my family together again is just paradise for me!
Hope to read all the blogs I love again soon!
Enjoy!

Ottobre skirt

Don't you just love Ottobre magazine? I adore it!

In the last issue I fall in love with this skirt and thought it could be so nice to make it with Heather bailey's fabrics! And after I made it I thought that a bit of applique in the shirt could be cute!

She looked lovely with the Ottobre outfit!

Piratas de Ikea

Henry's bed has been featured in the blog from Piratas de Ikea! An Ikea hacker blog in SPanish with great projects and ideas! 

Check it out! Love it!

¡Feliz día de la madre!

Happy Mother's day to everyone! Here in Spain is today and I am the happiest in the whole world! lol...

Look what I got first time this morning!

Henry painted this wonderful wrapping paper for me at school

And also painted this wonderful flower to macth! 

And this wonderful tag was attached to the package where it was...

...this pretty colored sand filled bottle. Look what a beautiful gift he made for me! 

But today, for me the greatest gift of all is to have my kids in my life! To be a mom. Now that I am one I can't even remember what I felt like before. It has filled all my life, now I am all I have ever dreamt of; the mom of two beautiful kids I adore.

Nothing can make me happier than a hug from my kids. And also feels weird because there's nothing that can heal me better than a hug from my mom. Just her touch, her smell, and her hugs heals my soul better than anything.

I hope someday I'll be that for my kids too!

Happy Mother's Day!

Crafting a bit

I've been wanting to post all these photos from the little gifts I made for my Dad's birthday.

Here's a frame I embellished with some Ikea kids fabric I love and a crochet flower.

First I used some modge podge and then made some cuts to start embellishing the frame.

And that's how it looks like wiht my little kid's photo in it. They look so serious and big in the photo. I just like how close they look; is a "brother & sister" photo I love!
Oh, and now this is one of the cozies I love to make for the Ikea mug! The pattern is available at Etsy! I made also the button with fimo! I love making little buttons!
Oh, and talking about buttons! Look what I got for a great price at Etsy!!!!! I felt like dreaming when I received the package!!!!!!!!! Thanks to Art by Heather Supplies!
And now, I am sooooo happy I did read about the CK sale in one of the blogs I reaad every day. The prices were just outstanding and I am so happy everytime I get into my flower bed!! lol...
Just for dessert look what we got for my Dad's birthday dinner!!!! The cake in the center was the one I made with mocha buttercream and almonds!

Neighbors

When I married I moved from my parent's house to the next door house. Lol... I moved from street nº15 to 17. So I always say I have the best neighbors in the whole world. And the proof is my dinner, just right from my neighbor's home

MIA

I can't explain how guilty I feel because my "lack of posts" in this blog, lol... I really been crafting a lot but forgot to take pictures most of the times or didn't have natural light for them. And then Blogger has been sooooo slow to upload the photos that I always found an excuse to stop the photo uploading process. 

Also there was the Carnival in my town and it was so much fun to be in the streets with the kids! I have lots of pics of the main Carnival events, etc... But will only post a few of the children because I want this to be short, lol...

These first ones are from the festival show where the kids played a rock song all dressed up like rockers! They were so cuteeeeee!
Well, and have you ever since anything like this?, lol... She's so special!

That girl painting the faces in the square was amazing... and not because she was so good painting but keeping the kids calmed while painting their faces!!!! That was the magic thing, lol...
Hulk and the Little red riding hood! lol... They were so cute!
Isn't she lovely???

And yes, this is me as punky! SO fun! The real me! lol...

This is what I made to my dad for Father's day and also I baked a chocolate cake with mocha frosting! 

Oh, and now a bit of cooking... I love poached eggs! And one of the ways I love to make them are with tomato soup or sauce... I usually add some mozzarella cheese, olives and oregano!

And in this time of year don't you just love eggplants??? I truly love to cook them just with onions and fried tomato sauce! 

And more crafty things... These are the little gifts I made for one of Henry's teachers. I made first the necklace and earrings set and then made also the little children earrings too. 

And finally decided to put them all into a small crochet pouch... I think it was nice! And she liked it! lol...

Well, now I hope it won't take so long to get back here! lol...

Happy Valentine's Day!

This is what my DH baked for me for Valentine's Day. He baked it with his own two hands, lol... And filled it with cream and strawberries! Isn't it just gorgeous? Loved it!
We went to a riding club with the kids and my cousin Carlos and all the family! We had a blast there!
Henry was thrilled with the horses, Celita was a bit afraid tough!
They organized it so funny! And the kids were so excited while the horses and the show was getting ready!
Fanta, coke, chips, ..... lots of fun!
Celia's chocolate face says about how they enjoy being there waiting for the horses to arrive, lol...
Look Elmita and Elma wearing the same blouse! Weren't them just gorgeous?
Aren't horses just pretty? I hope Henry would like to join the club!



Woww! And then, after all the excitement, is there anything better than a good ice cream at Giana's???
And then we got home and had a little bbq picnic!

Today I had a light cappuccino with panettone that I still had from Christmas to enjoy the cold afternoon!
Happy Valentine's!