Post-Thanksgiving Thoughts

Today, for the first time since I came here, I ended up not going to some kind of trip with my family - my mom, and my dad, and my brother went and I stayed. This kind of shocked me, because I have never done that before, but I just couldn't go. My reasons being that I have a sick husband and lots of studying before two weeks of finals ahead... Can you feel it? Sounds so grown up! It hit me today that the fact that I couldn't go, meant that I have a little family of my own now to take care of. No matter how nice my husband was to let me go, I just couldn't leave him alone at home and that felt good! As I was laying in my bed trying to decide weather I should go or not, I asked God to help me make the right decision and I did not regret the one I made.

Because my Evgeny felt bad about me staying home because of him, he took me to a restaurant for lunch and then to a book store so that I can pick a couple of inspirational books for myself. As I always do, I piled a huge amount of craft and photography books and magazines around a cozy arm chair and tried to evaluate which ones I want to take home with me. Well as I was doing so, it struck me how on the ones that ended up in a to-take-home pile some familiar names popped up - people who's blogs I enjoy to follow! One of the books I was excited to take home was Digital Expressions: Creating Digital Art with Adobe Photoshop Elements by Susan Tuttle

I have also seen an interview with this lovely lady in a magazine called Artful Blogging which is now in my collection of inspiring books as well.

There were more there and there that I just don't recall, but it was sure fun to randomly bump into these wonderful people's work, because following their blogs is almost like knowing them.

Cakies Giveaways

If you are not following Cakies yet, you should! She is one of my favorite people to read! Her family is lovely and she always has interesting ideas and DIYs and all kinds of inspiring things!

Right now she has 2 sponsor featuring giveaways going on:
1) From emily sparks handmade. You can enter here.

2) From thalita dol illustrations. You can enter here.

I would highly recommend to go and check her out, she is one of the people that inspired me to blog in the first place!

Projects And Giveaways

Remember this little thing from way back?


By the way, her little paper says "Bon Apetit" in Russian.

Well there was an idea to make one for each room - the one in the bathroom would say... well there is no equivalent in English, but it would be something we tell people after they take a bath, the one in the bedroom will say "good night" only in Russian again, and the one in the living room is going to say "welcome" in Russian. The living room one is the one I am working on now. It took me a long time, because I simply could not find time between school and work, but today I am going to make myself to, because I want to see them done and up.


Also I would like to say a couple of words about two wonderful giveaways that my fellow blogger that I gladly follow have up right now.

One is by Stories at my fingertips - an honest, and very lovely blog she's got, go check it out. She reached 100 follower mark, so she is throwing a giveaway for a $50 gift card to Anthropology!

Another one is by Bearbits - if you are a fan of teddy bears, or want some inspiration for your own creativity, go look at her lovely teddies! She is actually giving one away, a cute and cuddly one to so go see it!

That is all for now. I wish I would have funner things to talk about but it is time of creative hibernation for me, school is the most important thing right now...

Have a terrific Sunday!

Spread Some Love

Check this out! This is one of the best blogs I ever found! I bet you already know about it, but I didn't untill today and I am so happy that I stumbled upon it!
She is the best source of Etsy inspiration! AND she now has a great giveaway to selebrate the blog's 2 year Birthday! Go check it out if you haven't yet!