The Joy Of Enjoying

Little Note

Hi all!!

I am sorry I've been so absent! Too much going on (and boyfriend here from Peru!), but as promised, I will return soon! And if I can, I will post something later! Kisses for all!

At The Office

Hi! Oh, and welcome new followers :) (albarbou, Rhianna, sweetwyo, Zhan Hunter, Jade)

I am going to start acknowledging you like this because I really liked it when another blogger did that for me and others. Thanks for adding me to your dashboard's reading list!

These are pictures from inside my office. I love photographing ordinary spaces or objects and trying to make them look more interesting and pretty.

Wow this month has been hectic. I haven't been able to blog as much as I like. I think I will get back to my normal rhythm once the holidays are over. Oh but I will post a selection of pictures I want to show you later when I get home. There are a couple of interesting things to mention:

- my boyfriend is going to come see me for New Years (from Peru!)-- I'm so excited

- one of my best friends got a puppy. He also lives close to me so I will be able to see it often and play with it. I miss having a dog, and I haven't been at the shelter for volunteering lately :(

- I won my first giveaway!! I never win anything! So I was very excited when Rhianne from For The Easily Distracted told me I had won a pair of earrings with a matching hairpin from Nicole Addison's lovely shop. :) Thank you both!

- I participated in a bloggers' Secret Santa gift exchange and already received mine. It was lovely to be part of that. More about it soon!

- I have absolutely no idea what I'll do for New Years, but my boyfriend will be with me, so I don't care!

- My boss let me borrow his old Nikon film camera (70s-80s...) and it's so exciting to take pictures with it without knowing how they will turn out.

- We had a nice office-lunch today, as Christmas celebration.

- Before going to that lunch I tripped while walking to my car. We don't have smooth asphalt outside. We have a rough parking lot. My pants teared open; they are stapled right now. I hit my knee, I scratched my foot and my elbow. Not good. I do think I probably looked funny while in the air.

Anyway, that's all going on right now. I guess this wasn't just a quick hello :)

Thanks for reading, lovelies.

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The Sparkly Teddy Bear

Yesterday I grabbed one of my favorite stuffed toys and took a few pictures. I was also trying to accomplish a bokeh effect (you know, those nice blurry circles in the background), so I included them here as well. I've decided that for the weekly picture selection, I will do it anyday, not necessarily Tuesday. Sometimes I want to show you something and don't want to wait "until the day comes." Anyway, here they are:

(Teddy did not want to pose anymore)

Another Award!

I recently received another blog award (the Happy 101) from Claire at In Transit. I already thanked her but I thank her again; I love those things! This award comes with rules that I like:

List ten things that make you happy, try to do at least one of them today, and tag ten bloggers that brighten your day. Link back to the blog that gave you the award

So, dears, here are 10 things that make me happy (no particular order):

1. My daily yummy hot fresh latte in the morning when I get to the office.

2. When my dad arrives every couple of months and we all catch up (he currently works in my home country).
3. Family time, always. The more the better.
4. Listening to Queen in my car and singing out loud.
5. Doing simple things with friends and laughing 'til we cry.
6. Traveling. Experiencing a different culture as best as I can.

7. Visiting Peru and seeing family, my dear boyfriend, friends, etc.
8. Coming home and getting cozy when the weather is bad, the day has been tough, or after I have been absent for some time. Getting cozy with my <3 counts too :)

(nope, not my house)

9. Photography. Taking pictures and then seeing reactions to them. Also viewing them on my screen for the first time and noticing people's emotions.

10. The beach, the mountains, any kind of getaway. I love getting inspired by Nature.

Here are 10 of my favorite blogs (no order either). Enjoy!
Children of the 90s
Color Me Katie
My Milk Toof
Awful First Dates
So About What I Said
Restless Hearts
The Spohrs Are Multiplying
Word Gardening
Ocean Dreams
My Teacups In Peony

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Weekend & Snowflakes Cont.

Hellooooooo!! How are you dears?

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My weekend went by so fast! I spent most of it

painting the t.v room at home with my mom.

Instead of the boring white, two of the walls now have a

very nice smoky-blue, as I like to call it.

Later (Saturday) my friends and I went to a sushi restaurant called 'Piranha Killer Sushi' to try it out. It was amazing!!! The price wasn't bad at all; they had happy hour, and we certainly took advantage :)

These are two pictures my friend took:

me with my mouth full making a face like saying "yuc" but actually I was kind of saying "yeah!?!!!"

... and look at my delicious dessert. A-ma-zing!!! I think I could declare it the best chocolate mousse in town.

Alrighty, enough indulgance. Let me show you the rice-paper

snowflakes I made today!

This time I scanned them because we are going to create

an electronic greeting card.

And hey, remember I wanted to make the Seahorse one? Well... Ta-daaa

Good! but remember how the original from the tutorial had a fish?

well, I accidentally killed it with my scissors :(

HOWEVEEEER!!!! I'm not done yet. I may not have a fish... but my design ended up with a little crab instead (purely accidental too):

So yaaaay, no need to make another one. [Yep I did the eyes
with Photoshop since I forgot to cut them!
That's why you don't see them here]

Have a lovely start of the week!

Paper Snowflakes!

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At my office, we had to come up with an idea for this year's Christmas cards.

After looking through some of our printed samples, one of my co-workers had

the idea of making them ourselves. I think it's brilliant; so we are going

to make paper snowflakes, scan them, and make a card with our signatures!

I am very excited to create my own; I found these cool tutorials. It's been years since I last made a paper snowflake, so I kind of forgot the process.