This is one of the most time spent pieces I’ve ever done, been working on it for literally (on and off) months. I received the yarn from Yarnbox in July 2014 in a beautiful turquoise color name Caribbean Blue. The company that made and dyed the yarn is call Unique Chic Studio, and this lace weight yarn …
I have been subscribing to Wantable Accessories for months now. For those of you who aren’t familiar, Wantable is a subscription service available for Makeup, Accessories, Intimate, and a new Fitness boxes. Every month, they send you some premium products picked out mostly on the user’s preferences, so it is highly customizable. It costs $36 …
On a cloudy and slightly rainy Tuesday, I trekked down to the King Street Station to pick up Carrie and Ben to take them to Sea-Tac International Airport for their flights back to Malawi. I’m always a little worried driving alone, especially in downtown Seattle because there are all these hills. But a need arose, …
So… WE BOUGHT A HOUSE! :D We started looking at houses 2 weeks after we got back from Italy because Ri recently got promoted to a new position in Auburn. Originally we moved down to Puyallup because this is where his work took us, and now we are no longer bound by his job location, …
Our last day in Italy, me trying to suppress my increasing sorrow, Ri eager to eat some real food with lots of meat. We boarded the train from Roma Termini to Venezia Mestre to fly out from Marco Polo Airport. We stay at the most luxurious hotel on this trip, with not just 1 but …
This morning, our first stop is (drum roll please) the COLOSSEUM!!! This is the sole reason for me wanting to visit Rome, or in fact, Italy at all ever since I’ve seen the Gladiator in 2000. I dream that one day before I die, I would have to come see this arena with my own eyes, …
Before we left the beautiful city of Florence this morning by train, we had to load our luggage to the big bus really early in the morning. After we packed up everything and sent it on its way to slowly trek to Rome, Richard realized he needed long pants (for the visit to the Vatican …
Florence is the most surprising city we visited on this journey through Italy. I really didn’t expect to like this place as much as I do now, I guess it has something to do with the fact that there are so much art and history in the air, on the wall, and everywhere around you. …
What city on earth can be more romantic than Venice? (the answer is none, by the way) It is a city compiled of 118 small islands separated by canals and linked by bridges, and of course a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This amazing city has many equally amazing nicknames such as “City of Water”, “City …
Great weather today! Our original itinerary has us visiting Milan this morning, but since we moved it to the night before, we are free to roam on this inland lake at the foot of the Alps called Garda Lake for a little while. You wouldn’t think that there are such drastic disparity between the North …
We left our beautiful villa hotel in Chianti Tuscany and headed to Pisa early in the morning. Now, Italy the country wasn’t always the Italy we know (and love) nowadays. There wasn’t the idea of “country” in the region in Southern Europe until the unification in 1861. There were self-governing entities scattering around the economically …