Art & Craft

Scrapbook trouble

By Annie Holland / April 29, 2008

Hi all,I am so tired I can’t even begin to describe…The last couple of days I had so much to do, that I couldn’t go to bed earlier than 2 am. My latest “thing” is my son’s biography that I had to make for his birthday at school. The teacher is going to show it…

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The new home office

By Annie Holland / April 20, 2008

It was about time to write again!So much work, so little time to finish it.The office took us almost 2 weeks, because all the paperwork needed sorting and this means long, loooong hours of taking out and putting back pieces of paper of all sizes and variety.As every time we paint, I didn’t calculate the…

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The new Bedroom

By Annie Holland / March 29, 2008

We have finished the bedroom as well, but the bad news is that the pictures are as bad as can be. I am really sorry, I am really hoping to upgrade this week to something better as a camera, but these are the pictures now.The walls before were bright yellow, horrible color for bedroom, since…

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The new Purple-Violet Bathroom

By Annie Holland / March 29, 2008

I’ve read in a design magazine that the color of this year is violet, but that was not the reason to paint ours like that. I used this color because this is my favorite color 🙂I was dreading this bathroom renovation since the day we moved in, because I knew that we will have to…

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Crazy Frog

By Annie Holland / March 10, 2008

Now I don’t want you to start thinking I am not going to post for a long time since I am remodeling ( and renovating 🙂 ). Not at all!I am actually going to show you what I am doing, maybe it will be helpful, maybe you can get some new ideas.The thing is, that…

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Martenici ( Martenizi)

By Annie Holland / March 10, 2008

We have a wonderful Bulgarian tradition of making  red and white “charms” for luck, happiness and health that you have to wear from 1st of March until you see the first stork or first tree in bloom. This year I was really busy but, I really wanted to share this tradition with the kids in…

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It’s Spring Cleaning Day, as Rabbit said

By Annie Holland / February 25, 2008

No food today, sorry guys 🙂I have been extremely busy since the beginning of the year, an awful start for that matter, many bad things happened but I am looking deeply in Phil’s eyes ( I am talking about the groundhog, honey,relax) and I can just see it there…the Spring coming! No matter the shadow,…

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“FALL”-ing

By Annie Holland / September 17, 2007

Yesterday we were playing ” Buzz Lightyear and evil Zurg” ( a game Alex invented for the sake of the peace at home) and I’ve noticed how quickly the Fall came this year! I know it is not officially Fall, but all the leaves and the cold weather tell me other.We had so much fallen…

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