The morning call was set at 630am local time. We actually woke up naturally 15 minutes earlier and just enjoy the morning quiet. Breakfast at 730am and up on the tour bus by 8am, and we were on our way to Bagnoregio, local population- 12. It nestles in the hilly region, high up on top …
After almost losing our luggage (by exiting the wrong terminal at the FCO airport), we arrived late on the 16th to the Vatican Vista Bed and Breakfast right outside the wall of the Vatican City. Our host Rossana was a lovely Italian lady who had spent 30+ years living in the United States. She led …
Besties Baking Date! So a few weeks ago, a few of the gang met up and enjoyed Seattle Restaurant Week at TanakaSan. One of the specials that were offered includes this amazing Triple Coconut Cream Pie as dessert, and we were all blown away by how yummy it is. So today on a rainy …
I am so proud of myself of completing this project! Here is why. You start our with 289 stitches using primarily 3.75mm needles and it has a total of 125 rows. Basically that’s a lot of stitiches in very small tiny needles. This is the longest time I’ve spent on one single project, it …
Yet another one of my knitting projects! I received my first subscription service of Yarnbox at the end of February and proceeded to Ravelry and decided I would turn this 2 skeins of Phydeaux’s Caresse in Calypso into a beautiful shoulder shrug! Now I am very new to cable knitting, and I’ve only tried it …
From a while back I’ve had my eyes set on this rug pattern, even made a prototype that I use for table decoration now (Rug Prototype Blog here). Anyway, the pattern calls for this particular type of t-shirt yarns called Zpaghetti, and as I mentioned in my last post, I was attempting to convince my …
Found this amazing crochet pattern online and decided to make this on a whim! Turned out pretty well if you ask me. ;) Ohh! I have newly subscribed to Yarnbox where they send you yarns monthly. It is through this website that I found one of their free patterns this month, it is by “Bonita …
Ri took his uncle Jimmy and cousin Richard and me to Kerry Park yesterday as a part of show around town. I immediately whipped out my tripod and camera. :) Is it just me or are these still blurry? Maybe I should try RAW next time. Ohh, for those of you don’t know, …
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I was helping grandma sorting through her clothes when we found a pile of old photos. All of them are when one of her daughters got married when they were young. There were pictures of my parents in their wedding getups, photo of aunties and uncles. My parents were pretty good looking back in the …
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We tried to go see the sunrise, but it was too cloudy. The last time we intentionally did this was in Cambodia. The last time we accidentally did this was last year in England when we took the ferry from Northern Ireland to England.