Pictures from sunny California

Few observations first:
1. there is no snow in California
2. the trees (well, most of them, don't shed their leaves in winter)
3. you can still see flowers!

Now the pictures!

We started the day with the Golden Gate Bridge


From there we continued to Pier 39, had a yummy clam chowder and enjoyed the strolling through the crowds.
Adorable see lions at Pier 39
The girls had a blast choosing their own oyster with a pearl inside. They both got a beautiful blue peal that was set in a pendant. More pictures later.



Great day. the best part was doing all this with friends! Love you guys!

For the desert, few pictures from the ice skating exhibition in Kenosha last w/e where Lila skated! Enjoy!

The suitcases are packed

we are ready to leave for sunny California. The gifts are all wrapped.

Happy New Year to everybody!

Love , Maya

Latest work

We had a busy week, I still want to blog about the competition and our trip to Minneapolis but for now just few photos of my recent craftiness.

I made those cute bags using a template from Target. I made 5 of them and put inside a gift card for the teachers.

Those tiny gift card holders re made from the scraps of the precious project. This will go to our G-men :)
And finally a layout I wanted to make for a while. I used the December sketch from Fiskars, gorgeous KI lace cardstock mounted on vellum, Cloud9 paper and rain dots, Heidi Swapp chipboard letters and tulle ribbon. The bottom picture has a hidden journaling that tells the story. I think this is my new favorite layout!

Sparkle

Was doing this today - trying to decorate glass ornament bulbs with glitter. Pretty!


Tomorrow we are off to Minneapolis for the ice skating competition. Great weekend everybody and shabat shalom!

Our 4 legged friends

While in Israel the girls enjoyed spending time with all dogs and cats in the grandparents backyard. They fell in love with the animals and had such a great time. I made this cute mini-album to keep all the great memories. I still want to add more pages but it will do for now. Most of the pictures were taken by Miss E. The cat that is lying on the carpet is my sister's cat Nooma. It was tough to get a good picture of her because she is not from the human-loving kind, but eventually she gave up.