Pretty Petals

Gifts and Charms

 

Hiya! It is August? Where did July go? lol! crazy crazy month here... and it flew by in an instant. My Dad always says that Summer is just like the weekend... June is like Friday... July is like Saturday... and August is like Sunday, with Monday looming just around the bend. I always smile when he says that.. so so true.

As some of you may remember, my birthday was a few weeks ago and I received some of the prettiest little things. Don't you just love birthdays? My Mom put these cards above on my birthday gift. I LOVE them... so so pretty.

 

and she tucked lots of little lotions and soaps inside this pretty little hat box.. I LOVE it! She always knows just the things I will love. I am not sure how she parted with this hat box! lol Thanks so much Mom! ♥

 

My dear friend Natasha, who is always so thoughtful, sent me this beautiful cuff bracelet that she made for me! I LOVE this... so vintagey and pretty. I really love all of the beading on it.

 

 and some beautiful laces that were Natasha's aunty's... ;) The powder puff is really SO sweet with the gorgeous ribbon work. Thanks for sending me such a sweet birthday package Natasha!

 

 You may remember me saying that I was going on a camping trip with my friend Stephenie and her family a few weeks ago? Well, it was Stephenies birthday that weekend and mine was the week before so we saved our little gift exchange until then. When we gave each other our gifts we layed them ALL out all over the picnic table and oohed and aaahed at everything. All of our boys think we are nuts ... but who cares what they think? lol! These are some of the the things she gave me..

This is my very FAVorite thing... a gorgeous antique vanity pitcher. I LOVE this SO SO much. The color is simply beautiful! Here are some more of the gifties..

 

 

 

 

I love every single thing... she spoiled me for sure! thanks Steph for always getting me such great gifts! ;))

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and while I know this post is already kindof long, I wanted to tell you about our little craft day we had at my Mom's on Friday. I was able to sneak away while my husband took off from work a little early to watch the kids and met Steph at my my Moms house for a day of SOLDERING!! My Mom has the prettiest house in the country.

and the most beautiful garden....

 

 

this is part of her yard... it is so peaceful here. Steph was amazed at all of the hummingbirds and we even saw some deer while we were there.

 

These little lambs are my favorite thing in her garden... so sweet. :)

 

and after we strolled around looking at all of her pretty things, we got down to business and soldered some jewelry!!

 

I took a beginner class from Sally Jean when I went to SIlver Bella last year and loved it. I am so glad we finally made time to do this. There is alot of tools and supplies that you need to get started but once we got it all together we did pretty good for being such beginners. These are the charms I made...

  

and these are the backs... so cute huh? I know there are some places that are bumpy, but that is OK! I love them anyway.

 

I have been experimenting with lots of jewerly type things lately... jewelry has always been a love of mine. I am working on designing a line of vintage jewelry creations that I will share with you soon. I am really excited about it.

soooo after that long post, I hope you are still with me! I hope I will be back sooner next time. See ya soon! xoxo  heather

East Coast Chicks & (and a few Kansas ones too)

 

We had a lovely time on our Leesburg Virginia trip... so so excited to meet so many friends there for shopping, dinner and laughter. Here is a list of the girls from left to right..

1st row... Hope~ Paper Relics
Karla~ Karla's Cottage
Beth~ Gathering Dust
Stephenie~ Just a Little Bit Pink
Robin~ Thrifty Miss Priss

2nd row... Jessica~ Such Pretty Things
Pamela~ Pamela Janes Studio
Lori~ myfaeriewindow

Amy~ Inspire Company
Me
Andrea~ Velvet Strawberries

We all met at Old Lucketts Store... which was completely amazing! I loved it there. I have LOTS of pictures... hope you don't mind. We had fun shopping and chatting along the way.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

after Lucketts we headed to On a Whim antiques...

 

check out the cuuuute polka dotted silo!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We also went to several other shops in Leesburg that were beautiful as well. So many beautiful things to see there.

Here are some more random shots of the weekend..

 

 

 

 

 

Amy, me, Stephenie and Lori

 

Andrea, Hope and Amy

 

Jessica, Beth, me, Stephenie, Lori, Karla, and Amy

 

me ;)

 

I received so many sweet and thoughtful gifts that day from the girls... thank you so much! I love each of them and will treasure them all. ;)

 

Here is a peek at the basket purses that Stephenie and I gave to everyone.. we filled them with some pretty posies.

 

I bought quite a few things this weekend but this was my favorite purchase of the day. She is a beauty.

 

We all went to a wonderful dinner after shopping and some of us stayed there until about 10 at night chatting and chatting. By the time the day was over we all felt like this guy... ;)

 

Or maybe this girl?? hehe..

Thanks so much to all of the girls for such a fun trip to Leesburg! I had SO much fun and will never forget it. We will have to make this a yearly event for sure.

xoxo Heather

 

Marie Day

 

Hello there! Today is a fun day... it is Marie day of course!

lol,.. yes I know I forgot to tell you on my last post about Marie day. So come on in, and we are going to have a little celebration today and a GIVEAWAY!

Today is April 1st, and is the very day that the new magazine titled "Marie" goes on sale. ;)

My dear friends Ginny, Holly, Natasha and I were all part of a Marie Antoinette round robin that started back in 2007... can you believe that? lol. Our little art journals made their way around the globe stopping in the United Kingdom,  Australia, and here in the US. It was from there that they went off to Somerset to be photographed for Marie. So today, we are going to celebrate this exciting event and have a giveaway post from a few of us. fun!

 

This is the first page of our story... we each had several pages chosen for the story and it is exciting seeing our hard work featured in print.

 

This is one of the pages featuring my book ...We still don't have our books back yet but I tell you I will be so excited to get my book back home. It has been gone way too long. lol

Marie is just FULL of gorgeous artwork and eye candy, along with the rest of the feature on our books. You can order a copy here if you are looking for it. Thanks to Ginny, Holly and Natasha for being such sweet friends and am so proud to be featured beside you.

For fun, I thought I would share with you some of my favorite pages that I created while we were doing this round robin. Since this was my very first round robin I feel that Ilearned alot, and grew as an artist. I started out not really thinking I was an artist at all, and was quite intimidated to be included with these three other very talented artists that were quite "experienced" in my mind. Believe me, I agonized over this little fact...

Looking back over my work, I see where I grew and how I improved from the time I started until the time I was finished. I still look at the pages and wish I had done this different or that different but you can't climb the mountain without taking the steps right? 

This page was probably my favorite in my book besides the cover. I created the gown from silk fabric and really love the colors. I remember working on this page for SO long.

these pages were for Holly... I loved making the shoe!

This page was for Ginny... I created a page in each book with the symbol of 4 women to remind us of our friendships across the continents.

 

   

This page was for Natasha...

and a few more..

 

 

For those of you that have read my blog for a long time you might have been tired of hearing about this project by the time it was done because it took us SO long to finish it! lol Thanks to Ginny, Holly and Natasha for being such good friends, for all the encouraging words, late night emails (because that is when us Moms get things done like this... lol) and fun little chats. I will always look back on this with such fondness of you all.

So now it is time for the giveaway!!!! all you need to do is leave a comment on this post, everyone is welcome to join, and I will draw a winner on Wednesday the 8th of April. ;)))

Here we go...

 

A beautiful assortment of Marie inspired treasures for you to create with...

 

a beautiful rhinestone necklace fit for a queen...

 

Some images of sweet Marie herself, french pages, along with lots of velvet and satin ribbons...

 

a pretty lady cameo and a piece of this sweet cherub fabric...

 

vintage lace...

 

beautiful vintage wallpapers and millinery...

 

and some hand dyed silk ribbons in lovely "marie" shades..

Hope you like it! I tried my best to put together a lovely assortment of goodies that the queen Marie might like herself!

Don't forget to leave a comment to enter...

also, please visit my friends as they will be posting their giveaways today too. 

Ginny

Natasha

Holly

xo Heather

Lemme just tell ya....

that, if you can't sew... then it is not wise to try to sew an apron together.

On Saturday night Stephenie and I got together at her house for a much needed girls night to make aprons for an apron swap we are in together. The idea of the swap is to alter an apron with pretty little things. We could have used an apron already assembled but of course, we had to make things a little more difficult.

We get our fun by staying in on a Saturday night making aprons, you know? An exciting life we lead... hehe.

So I left my boys at home and didn't get to her house until almost 7. We laid out everything on the table... her family wasn't home so we had the whole house to ourselves to get our aprons done. We even had our liquid stitch ready. The plan was to sew as little as possible... and glue as much as possible. 

We had dinner... from a wonderful italian kitchen that makes the best homemade pasta.... and... we whipped up some sour apple martinis too.

They are THE best. So as an afterthought... we were thinking maybe it wasn't such a good idea to drink the martinis while trying to sew an apron.

 

I brought a huge bag filled with ruffles and fabrics with me and Stephenie had her goodies all laid out too...so choosing WHICH elements to use was hard. We tried to use some of our favorite fabrics and trims. I thought "I can just use some already assembled little bits and pieces from dresses and nightgowns... and sew them together with a few straight lines".

not too hard right? yaaaa right.

  

   

We even tried to froof up her tiny little Chico, can you make out the millinery flower on his neck? Lets just say he wasn't very happy with us... and yes he is walking on the table. That is a whole other story... can we say "spoiled rotten"?(sorry for the blurry photo, we were taking these at night and it is just too cute not to share)

 

So the idea of gluing alot and sewing a little didn't work out as well as we planned. We ended up sewing a lot...and gluing very little. lol! After 7 hours of fun and games they still weren't done.

The highlight of the evening was after we got Stephs apron pinned for like the 3rd time, I am sitting there looking at it and realized that it was pinned UPSIDE DOWN... oh my gosh. We were ready to cry.

But we prevailed... the aprons are assembled. Maybe not perfect... but atleast they are sewn with love. Steph has a little bit more to go on her band before hers is finished ... and mine I finished last night.

All in all here are the things I learned...

1. don't try to sew an apron if you can't sew

2. mixing sour apple martinis with sewing is not too smart

3. having nights like this with friends are so much fun and I need to do them more often.

4. don't try to sew an apron if you can't sew.

So here is a sneek peek at my apron. I am making it for THIS sweet girl.... I really hope she will love it as much as I loved making it for her....even if the stitches are a little uneven. ;))) 

 

I will show you the rest after she receives it.

xo Heather

A New Friend on the Block

        

Just wanted to say that one of my very bestest friends (in real life) Stephenie... started a BLOG! So excited to see her here. I know she is going to enjoy meeting everyone here in blogland and share some of her beautiful home with all of us. There are lots of times when I am out flea marketing and she is my partner in crime so it will be fun to see her treasures on her blog now too.

We went out to dinner on Friday night with her husband and mine and had a few yummy sour apple martinis... so when we came back we sorted through about a million names and she finally decided on "Just a little bit pink"... how cute is that?

Remember your first day of blogging? I do... I was scared to death... and anxiously awaited someone to come over and say hello... and for the life of me I couldn't figure out just HOW people would find me or if they would like what I have to say. I feel so lucky to have found all of you! I hope you might take a sec to go over and welcome my friend Steph to blogging too. You can find her right HERE.

 ;)

xo Heather

{Thank you}

Just popping in to say THANK YOU for joining in the Pretty Little Christmas party... oh my gosh I can't believe how many of you came to the party! I am still trying to work my way through that list... It is so fun to see what everyone has posted and what makes each of us happy this Christmas. 

I am going to post the list again below if you want to browse the wonderful parties going on out there when you get free time. Have a great day and thank you all so much for making my first blog party so much fun! xo Heather

1. The Wrought Iron Gate
2. Pinkie Denise
3. Diane Mars
4. Katie Galbraith
5. Shawn
6. Priscilla-Sweet remembrance
7. Tiffany ~ Shabby Scraps
8. karen benson
9. fete-et-fleur@sbcglobal.net
10. Jeanne Szewczyk
11. Deanna
12. Sheila R
13. Ali Gripp
14. Sarah- Gypsy Mermaid
15. Diane Glass
16. Carola * Boxwood Cottage
17. Suzanne Duda
18. Lorrie
19. Kirstie
20. Jennifer 

21. beachy
22. Gail
23. Jennifer Hayslip
24. Natasha Burns
25. All Bliss Be Thine
26. cathy
27. Dara
28. Little Junk Shop
29. Leah C
30. Marilee
31. Donna
32. Alice W.
33. Karoline
34. Linda Lilly Cottage
35. Zita - Mlle Magpie
36. Jorgelina
37. Shell May

40. Monica
41. cari
42. Efrat Dalton - The unspoken language of my soul
43. Deb
44. Lesley
45. Cheryl Stoneham
46. Kathy Jacobson
47. My Shabby Roses
48. Rosanna Pereyra
49. Miss Gracie's House
50. Jayme
51. Sweet Cottage Dreams
52. Karen - Ciderantiques
53. Molly~Fleur de Bee
54. Janet's Creative Pillows
55. April

56. Sue K
57. the Pink Gate
58. Norma
59. Christine
60. Styling by Coty Farquhar Australia
61. Loralynn
62. Samantha
63. the wild raspberry
64. scrappy jessi
65. Judith
66. Bethany
67. Heather
68. Saucy
69. Joanna {sweet finds}
70. Charmed Life
71. Tricia Samsal
72. Debi Huntsman
73. Laura @ Decor to Adore
74. Brenda@Spareminute Cottage

75. Elaine
76. Mercedes
77. Pamela-HomesteadMercantile
78. Valerie
79. Jill ~ BailiwickDesigns
80. Kelly
81. Karla
82. julie@Oakleaf Hollow
83. The Christmas Corgi
84. Jennifer Vanier
85. Bluebird Becca
86. Shabby Cottage Collectibles
87. Caroline~Forever Vintage
88. Lori
89. Melissa Burford
90. Rowan Willow aka Tiffany
91. Betty @ She's Sew Pretty
92. Leigh Ann
93. Sugar*Sugar
94. Joni
95. LuLu Kellogg ~ Coastal Sisters
96. claudie from canada
97. Peggy
98. Theresa
99. starrydeborah
100. Twinkle Pink ~ GINNY

101. Stephanie~Angelic Accents
102. Life at Rose Cottage
103. Sandy @ Quill Cottage
104. Marilyn
105. Andrea Singarella
106. karin@CreativeChaos
107. karla nathan
108. thevictorianparlor
109. Holiday Queen
110. Stephanie
111. Rachael
112. LiLi M.
113. Dolly @ From My cherry Heart
114. Linda from Australia
115. Cyndi
116. thejoyof
117. Rhondi
118. Bumpkin Bears
119. Nancy Walker
120. Karen, A Scrapbook of Inspiration

121. Marina Capano at Only Cute Things
122. Lisa
123. Beth
124. Susie Vasquez
125. Molly
126. Becky
127. Kelly Henderson
128. Lolly

129. have a lovely
130. Cathy@ Hazelruthes
131. Penelope
132. karen - secondhand-rose
133. Roxanne @ Beverly Sandhills
134. the swell life
135. Lucy 

136. Brandi

137. Cheryl

138. Sandra

Karla's Fabulous Cottage

   

So on my way to Silver Bella, Natasha and I flew into Kansas City airport to stay the night with Karla of Karla's Cottage, then we all traveled together to Silver Bella. Can I just say WOW.... this lady is just so gracious, so warmhearted and truly made us feel so welcome. From the moment I walked in I was just in AWE of her beautiful home.You will be able to tell how much in awe I was after you see how many photos this blog post has! haha

So to you Karla, I just can't tell you how much I enjoyed seeing you again and getting to know you better, wandering around your gorgeous~warm~inviting home, meeting your awesome family and just spending time laughing and enjoying life a little. It is a trip I will never forget. Thanks for making it "extra" special. ;))

So I am going to be short with words here because I have SO many gorgoeus photos of Karla's home.... I had more that I EDITED out because there were too many! haha... but these are my favorites that I just couldn't leave out.... grab a cup of something warm and enjoy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Karla I snagged this photo from your blog because my photo of your dining room didn't turn out so good...)

 

 

 

If you look closely on the stove, you can see the muffins Karla made us the morning I left for the airport to go home.... such a sweetie she is. 

  

The rest of these photos below are of her gorgeous studio...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

   

Wow huh???? It is so hard to capture it all in photos... every where you turn is something beautiful. The one thing I most noticed is that every tiny corner has a little fairy or vine painted or some subtle little touch that just adds such a lovely touch of romantic whimsy. Karla has such an eye for detail and such a beautiful warm home. I just LOVED everything and Natasha and I could have spent weeks roaming around..haha! So I hope you enjoyed the photos of Karla's pretty house as much as I enjoyed seeing it.

xoxo Heather

The Class Projects & thousands of rolls of Vintage Wallpaper....

Hey girls! I have so much to share this week and this post has sooo many photos... sorry if my posts are so long!

I loved my classes so much at Silver Bella... it was such a great time swapping trims and sharing our stuff. I MADE myself complete each project while I was there. We each had free reign to make our projects how we liked... and that is one part that I loved, that i could do my projects in my own sort-of style. It was SO fun to see everyones style shine through. So here we go...

Charlotte Lyons ~ Prada Schmada

 

 

Pam Garrison: Home for the Holidays

 

 

Sally Jean Alexander ~ Soldering for Virgins  

 

Pam Garrison~ Santa's Secret Diary

 

Teresa McFayden ~ Group Workshop

   

SO sweet huh?? I am proud of my little artworks! haha. I have to say that even though SIlver Bella was super fast paced, (I had lots of work to do with being a vendor etc...) I really really enjoyed chatting with the girls in the classes and just trying to slow down and enjoy that time. I definatly left there feeling inspired by so much talent all in ONE place!

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Next I will share with you our little trip to Hannah's Treasures! On Sunday, the day we were leaving Omaha, Karla... Andrea... Natasha and I went to visit Marilyn in her beautiful studio. She is the owner of Hannah's Treasures~ a vintage wallpaper treasure trove! 1000's of rolls!!

Let me tell you, when the girls and I walked into that place our eyes were just WIDE with amazement. Marilyn has been featured many times in magazines for her beautiful collection of vintage papers and handmade bandboxes. We were so lucky to get a chance to see her studio becasue she usually doesn't open it to the public.

 

 

    

Andrea searching for just the right paper!

 

    

Me with a favorite paper.

  

 

  

Natasha with her favorite paper ever...

        

So here is what I came home with that day...........

    

Some beautiful vintage wallpaper bandboxes.... 

 

and some gorgeous vintage papers...

 

       

This one got all squished on my flight home :( I hope I can iron some of the creases out.

   

I could have bought a million but I do have a budget...lol. I would have loved to spend hours and hours in that wallpaper studio. A special thank you to Marilyn for inviting us to your studio and to your sweet daughter for making us those special little holiday signs. :) so nice to meet you! Meeting so many successful women in business is so inspiring.

I have one more post to go to cover my weekend... I just couldn't fit it all into this post so I will be back soon with gorgeous photos of Karla's beautiful home and a visit to Curious Sofa! xoxo Heather
 

Silver Bella... Glitter and Friendships

I have literally been trying to put into words the amazing time I had this past week and I just cant.... it has been so amazing to take this time for me. I feel SO recharged and inspired. My favorite things about this weekend were..

~ Spending time with my girls.... this is what made my trip so special. So many friends that I have known through blogs and new ones too! The main thing I can say about meeting blog/artist friends in person is that there really is no WEIRDNESS... they just get you! I love that. We literally laughed...cried... shared stories and tips and glue and one thing I will say about those scrapbookers out there, you girls have go the COOLEST tools! I need to get one of these . Never seen one before Silver Bella. haha!!

~ Learning how to solder with Sally Jean. SHe was the NICEST teacher and just so kind... I love that! I have never soldered before so on an artistic level I am so happy to have learned a new skill. I was waiting to buy the tools until after I took her class to see if I liked it and I can tell you that I WILL be soldering in the future! woohoo

~ Getting to meet Pam Garrison who I have long admired for her beautiful art.  I really enjoyed her classes and thought she was so friendly and supportive.

~ The glitter lounge in Karla & Carols room the night we got there.... so much sugary glitter, chocolate and champagne. Thanks girls!

~ Just getting to do something completely selfish. Taking time away from my family was hard and is not something I am usually able to do. I felt a wee bit homesick while I was away but truly just such a wonderful experience.

~ Traveling to Kansas City to stay with Karla in her beautiful home before and after Silver Bella was WONDERFUL. She was the best hostess and I am so glad we took the time to stay with her. Her home is even more gorgeous in person! Her dogs are soooo sweet and so is that little Sugarwings.

~ Dinner Saturday night... where we just sat and yak yak yaked all night long! For hours! Loved that...

Funny story... Mary Engelbright spoke at the luncheon on Saturday and Jenn Hayslip asked her just exactly how did she find balance with her young children and her art/career. She basically answered that there truly is no balance! haha... so here we are all sitting around the table and talking about how hard it is sometimes to balance our dreams and the demands of homelife. Next thing I know Cheryl and Analise started to cry... so then I started to cry...followed by the rest of our table!! We looked like a bunch of lunatics sitting there crying about finding the balance in our lives!! It is funny but honestly this is a topic that I know many of us struggle with and somehow it all just became so surreal to hear that we all were feeling the exact same way!!

A special thank you to my sweet roomates for putting up with my vendor stuff all over the place... for glitter in Andrea's bed... crowding Natasha out of her bed with stuff laying all over it... and just being there. I am thinking our room would have probably received the messiest silver bella room award! Love you girls! 

Analise (Sugar Sugar), Me, Tiffany (Shabby Scraps)

 

Carol (Raised in Cotton) & Karla (Karla's Cottage) at the glitter lounge

 

Jenn Hayslip (sweet eye candy creations), Natasha Burns and Me

 

Holly Abston (hollydoodle designs), Analise Sledd (sugar sugar) & Andrea Singarella(Velvet Strawberries)

My roomies... Andrea, Natasha and me

  

Cheryl Dack (Rosey Posey Confections) and Jenn Hayslip

 

Lots of bellas!

Us at Dinner....

 

Lisa Kettell, Holly Abston and Andrea Singarella

 

Miss Natasha looking so cute!

The beautiful gowns!

 

Be back for one more post with my projects... and few more things... I need to break this into 3 posts! hhaha. ;) xoxo

Home Again!

Hello there! I am back from my trip to Silver Bella and what a whirlwind of a time we had for the last 2 weeks. It has been so nice to meet so many of my favorite friends.

 So I will start at the beginning... Last Sunday I picked Natasha up at the airport and she spent a few days with us during her stay here in the USA before we went to Silver Bella. We got her off of her flight and had a wonderful lunch at Lidia's in Downtown Pittsburgh. Soooooo fun to meet this girl in person. She is a loving and giving girl and I am sad thinking that it might be a really long time before I see her again.

We had lots of fun shopping and chatting. Natasha enjoyed going to places like Kohls, Wal Mart, Dollar Tree and Marshalls! haha... Also thank you Miss Natasha for helping me with my last minute vendor glittering and gluing! Thought I would never get it together.

We met up with these lovely ladies on Monday...

   

(Lori, my good friend Stephenie ... and Natasha) Lori, who is just the sweetest person, and I have met over the summer and so it was so nice to see her again. She drove about 2 hours to come and visit Natasha. Steph and I have been friends for about 14 years.... this girl needs a blog because her home is gorgeous.

 

(Me, Lori and Natasha... and my little Jada.) Sooo... we had a nice little breakfast at my house and then went out shopping.

 

I took them to a few antique shops near me and this is an old toleware chandelier that I want to go back and get so badly!! I said after silver bella I am heading back to get it!! Hope it is still there...

  

A pretty beaded bag.... so so pretty. 

 

Pretty old Boxes...

   

Then on Natasha's last day here we went for a drive through some Amish country. It is so fun to see their homes... see how the curtains are pulled to the sides the way they are??? That is a very distinct feature of Amish homes. Their homes are always white.

 

Cute horse drawn buggies... 

 

And this time of year it is so cool to see their hay stacks... they stack them up like teepees amlost all by hand. Anytime you see these little haystacks you know you are in amish country.

We then hopped on a flight to Kansas City to meet Karla and sweet little sugarwings.... she is the nicest ever hostess and made us feel so welcome. We drove up to silver bella with her but before we left, she had a party! (of course!!) Who else could pull off a beautiful party the night before we leave for Silver Bella but Karla????

It was the funnest time to get to meet all of these Kansas girls! What a world of talent in that state I am telling you. Most are bloggers and successful women in business and I just thoroughly enjoyed getting to know them all. We laughed so much my mouth hurt.

Truly, I have had the best week meeting all of my best blogging friends and making some new ones. I will treasure these memories forever...

I will be back with part 2, Silver Bella and also one of the highlights to my trip, getting to go to the Hannah's Treasures Studio and meet Marilyn and her gorgeous wallpaper.... lol. See you soon! xoxoxo