The Lovely and the Clever

a lovely room

a lovely wall

 

a lovely kissing checklist

 

a clever oven

 

a clever website

 

Ciao,

Lucia

Halloween-y Things

Well, Halloween has come and gone and so has our little shindig.   We had such a blast I could see it becoming an annual thing.  Here's a recap...

My version of a cut out sparrow

Fun with a dry-erase marker

I'm quite proud of my bat wall...

It was so easy.  I did it in like 30 minutes.

I'm also very pleased with my wreath.  I made it based off of this tutorial.  I used a linen look-alike, although I'm dying to make one with some of the linen I found at Joann's.  They have the most beautiful mustard and turquoise colors!  Anyways, I made it and added a spider cut-out to make it Halloween-y. 

We had cute babies (my little zebra and his bff the monkey)...

 ...Games

...Staches on a stick

...and a cute little family!  (Ok, I know.  The popeye arms aren't great, but they seemed like a good idea in my head!)

We love our family and friends.  It was a great night. 

Ciao,
Lucia

Hello Friends...

Taken by my sister with mad skills.

 

How was your weekend?  Mine was lovely as it tends to be when you have a wonderful husband and sweet baby.   So, I've been looking for some good cooking blogs to follow to help awaken my culinary side.  I thought I'd share three that I've really been enjoying:

Smitten Kitchen

Cooking with my Kid

WhipperBerry 

Do you have any you really enjoy?  

Lucia's Hair Clips

I've been working on creating a hair accessory line: Lucia.  It's still very new, but I wanted to share a couple of my most recent clips.  Next week I'll be showing them to the owners of this adorable coffee shop in Lutz, Felicitous, to see if they'll allow me to sell them there.  If you live in the area you should definitely stop in and check them out! 

So here they are (don't mind the frizzy hair)... what do you think?

 

One of my many projects that I'm also working on is getting an etsy store up and running.  These will be available along with some screen printed doodads.   It may be a while yet before that's in full swing, so if you'd like one now just drop me a line.

Ciao,

Lucia 

On My Nightstand

I love to read.  I don't.  But I love it.  I love the act of it.  Curling up in a big comfy chair with a hot cup of coffee and a book I can't put down.  Heaven.  But this is planet earth; who has time to read?  Who has time to sit down?  And who in the world has time to drink coffee out of a cup and not a to-go mug?  Not I.  But alas, we make time for what is important.  And I've decided there are two important things I need to start making time for:  prayer and reading.  I confess I am a big fat cheese-ball when it comes to books.  I want to get caught up in a sweet story where people are kind and dialogue is eloquent.  In a world where there is so much icky-ness, one needs a private utopia.  Well, I have found mine in the Mitford series.  My sweet aunt and grandmother introduced me to these books and, although I am only on page 38, I am hooked.  It follows (to what I've gathered so far) the life of a pastor in the small town of Mitford.  It's sweet and lovely and makes me want to move to a quaint little town pronto.

I hope you'll make time for prayer and reading too.  They're both important: the exercise of the mind and renewing of the spirit.  What's on your nightstand?  

Ciao,

Lucia