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7 DOTS STUDIO

A new company 7 DOTS STUDIO is born! It's a Polish company owned by Tusia. The designers of the beautiful new lines of papers are Anna Iwanowska-Pietkiewicz and Anna Dabrowska-Pekocka also known as Finnabair on the internet and in the scrapbooking/mixed media world.

 

Elise Rebel designed by Anna Iwanowska-Pietkiewicz

 

Dreamer designed by Anna Dąbrowska-Pękocka

I'll be one of the lucky ones to be able to participate in Finnabair's scrapbooking/mixed media classes organized by Barbara - Timbroscrapmania in Rome at the beginning of December (there might be a couple of spots left) and I really hope that Barbara will have these beautiful papers in her store by then.

Just head to the 7 DOTS STUDIO's blog to participate in their blog candy!

Crafting in the Caribbean with Tim

Just random pictures and random thoughts in random order about the cruise:

 

- probably the best cruise ever craft-wise. Loved ALL of Tim's projects

- couldn't have hoped for a better travel/craft companion than Chiara (elsewhere known as Maria)

- the weather was gorgeous - just some clouds and some showers which were actually welcome

- liked the Royal Caribbean better this time (last time our waiter sucked!)

- loved room service (for breakfast)

 

- I still don't like eating at Windjammer

- love shopping onboard AND onshore

- I still like Carnival better

- impeccable organization as far as Tim's classes were concerned (as always)

- met Elsa and Roxie, my new best friends from Florida and Texas

- made 117 ATCs to trade

 

 

- very little interaction between the two groups probably due to different class times and our later dining time

- beautiful ports of call; hubs and I raided the stores:) Well, I raided, hubs strolled along.

- Portofino onboard was a fabulous surprise

- the ship's "house champagne" comes nowhere near Prosecco

- our waiters and cabin attendant were excellent

- didn't spend too much at Mario's Market place - speedy shopping at Michaels and Joann's prior to embarking may have had something to do with it;)

- took less photos this time but I am quite pleased with them

 

 

- Chiara and I had 8 evening wears - one for each night and one "just in case"

- got a head cold from the darn air-conditioning on at full blast - especially in the dining room

- the staff at Royal Caribbean deserves kudos - they sorted out problems for us that hadn't been taken care of beforehand and some that occured during the cruise

- better not put the key card close to iPhone or other electrical devices - learned that first hand

- I hardly ever eat desserts but couldn't resist all the yumminess 

- cool ice show - Franco didn't like the magician and his tricks...

- some ladies assaulted the Market Place as soon as the doors were opened. Geez what manners!

- bought the most beautiful carryon onboard - it pays to be nice to Hubs :)

Altered album cover

I'm back! I took a long break from blogging due to a vacation, having all my kids at home at the same time and a lovely crafting cruise in the Caribbean.

I haven't scrapped or done any kind of crafting for a loooong time (other than during the cruise but I'll get to that in the next post) but last night I altered my stencil/mask album. Got the idea of putting my stencils in a 12" x 12" album inside page protectors from Julie Balzer . Thanks Julie ;)

I played with my new stencils from Crafter's Workshop and with some gesso, acrylic paint, Colorwash, Distress inks and Faber-Castell's Gelatos (yummy!).

In my next post I'll post some pictures of our cruise and then I guess I'll go backwards with the photos: family together Aug-Sept and then from our vacation in Finland in July.

But here's the altered cover of my new stencil album.

PS. It's good to be back :)