Present from a far away friend

Svetla and I have never met in person, yet from the moment we got acquainted through our blogs I felt a strong connection with her. She has a very unique style that represents traditional Bulgarian design mixed with modern creations and miniatures. I also love her special projects that you can take a look at…

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Bulgarian Christmas Eve Soda Bread

* Our Christmas table 2011 I have written before about Bulgarian Christmas and our tradition to have only vegan food on Christmas Eve. The truth is that not many families go by that and serve vegetarian food instead of vegan. I try to serve the tradition as much as I can, but sometimes I have…

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Cake Spotlight: Tosha Giovannone

 Since the first moment I met Tosha, I decided this is one of the most precious people I’ve ever worked with. If it wasn’t for her, I don’t believe I would have liked my work as much as I do now. She always makes me smile and is ready to help and share knowledge, which…

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Simply Maria

It is more than a year, since Maria and I spoke about guest blogging. She wrote about me in the Summer this year, and I…with all my engagements and stuff, managed to translate and post her piece today, the first day ( and last as it turned out) of my winter break.It might have taken…

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Thanksgiving Turkey Marinade/Brine

  Today was a tough day but I’m thankful.I’m thankful I didn’t burn my whole hand instead of just one finger, I’m thankful nobody managed to piss me off ( although more than one person tried), I’m thankful my chiropractor is working Friday, because lifting this 20 lbs turkey totally messed up my back (…

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The Cake Show Chronicles

Although the cake show was in September, I think it still might be interesting for you to see the cakes that we showed. Unfortunately I have pictures only from one of the shows we participated in, technical difficulties. Sigh. Anyway, here is or cake display : This was the setting: These are the cakes that…

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UB Homework

When I first heard that we’ll have Photoshop retouch homework I was really happy, because some years ago I was working as Image editor at a modeling agency. Although it was tedious and sometimes boring job ( unless you have five models behind you talking too fast for their own good, “explaining” to you  which…

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Welcome to Annie’s Art Book!

Dear friends, welcome to Annie’s Art Book  where everything is created with hard work, a pinch of talent and a lot of love!There are a couple of different sections to the site, a little something for everyone- the food lovers, the art and craft lovers, the cake lovers ( yes, cake is not food, cake is something…

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Halloween Giveaway from InkUBook!

  I am very pleased to announce that my friends at InkUBook asked me to host a giveaway for their products. I have many times written how much I love their products compared to other sites that offer the similar service and I am very happy they chose me for their giveaway. If you would…

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