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I think it's the most adorable idea I've seen. It'd be good for a wedding anniversary too, right?
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<span style="text-align: start;">How do people come up with these ideas? </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">Genius. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">Keep loving life, </span></div>
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Sunshine makes me feel alive.</div>
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I've been out of the blog world for a long time.</div>
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I thought I had<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>nothing</i></span></span> to offer.</div>
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For a couple of years when blogging was new and exciting, I enjoyed sharing and communicating with so many wonderful new blog friends.</div>
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Then I saw other more <span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">creative</span> and more <span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">beautiful</span> blogs. I thought my blog wasn't as beautiful.</div>
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I saw many <span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">how-to</span> blogs. Though I had many ideas, the time to put the instructions together wasn't something I was willing to do. It seemed to come so easy to others. Not me.</div>
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I saw amazing <span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: magenta; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">personal photographs</span>, while my blog recaptured the work of others.</div>
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I saw incredible <span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">party ideas</span> blogs. Famous <span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">wedding</span> blogs. Everyday, funny characters that people admired and gladly followed. Blogs filled with flawless poetry that inspired the soul. Scrumptious and refined decor blogs. I felt I had nothing new or original to offer. Why would others read my blog?</div>
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Then Pinterest came about.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Oh boy.</span></div>
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So many ideas. It seemed as if everybody else in the world was doing something creative.</div>
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Holy information overload.</div>
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My brain got fried.</div>
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I got tired of seeing. I got tired of thinking. I felt hopelessly "<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">un-creative</span>". I felt drained out of energy.</div>
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I made the mistake of comparing myself to others and started to feel I had absolutely nothing creative, new, or original to offer. I kept on thinking....do these people really live those lives? I guess so.</div>
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However, recently, I realized something: I do have something to offer to the blog world: <span style="color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Me</span>.</div>
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Me and my love for beauty and happiness.</div>
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I choose to find beauty around me, as negative things seem to be what most of us tend to focus on, most of the time. Yet, I believe focusing on the good things brings about more good things.</div>
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If nothing at all, I hope my random posts without a purpose or no apparent reason or topic behind them bring a smile to your face, help you relax or see the beauty that maybe you missed while living your day.<br />
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This is sort of my journal, if not for anybody else, just to remind myself how lucky<br />
I am to live this amazing life experience.</div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">So</span> lucky.</div>
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Thank you for reading.</div>
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Cheers.</div>
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I would love to be doing this today...</div>
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...but I'll happily settle for a relaxing Sunday in my beloved home with my hubs...</div>
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That's just as good as being in Paris.</div>
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<br />Silvia Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16053712336990830274noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8719266612667760129.post-81044562755213168752013-03-20T14:55:00.000-06:002013-03-24T12:50:36.594-06:00Hello Spring<div style="text-align: center;">
The calendar shows today is the first day of Spring here, in the Northern Hemisphere.</div>
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Apparently, no one told the West of the Rockies.</div>
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Silvia Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16053712336990830274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8719266612667760129.post-35418785252689467922013-03-18T01:32:00.002-06:002013-03-19T13:53:20.080-06:00Beautiful Bathrooms<div style="text-align: center;">
It's Monday morning and I'm thinking about the many changes I need to make to my home. </div>
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The list is long...but I have to start somewhere. </div>
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Definitely, the main floor bathroom needs a coat of paint. </div>
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I love the white walls and white decor I see in images from Nordic blogs.<br />
However, I don't think I can pull that off.<br />
It doesn't fit my lifestyle. I need color.</div>
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If I could have the bathroom of my dreams, it would look like one of these... </div>
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At times I get overwhelmed with all the things circling around in my head. </div>
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I have so many ideas...I would need to dedicate my entire life to accomplish them.</div>
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For instance, our darling elderly neighbor María had moved with her children to another city.</div>
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The little home she had left was right next door to my parents' and she asked them to </div>
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My friends and I would use the tiny rundown home to play house while my parents </div>
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I still remember the beautiful wisteria vines that cascaded off the porch. </div>
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Their fragrance was deliciously intoxicating. </div>
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Yet as a little girl, I thought the place was all quite gloomy and depressing. </div>
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I wanted luxurious, elegant, and grand. </div>
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This image I saw on Pinterest last week reminds me of that place...</div>
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And these, remind me of my grandma´s home.</div>
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She was Italian.</div>
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In her patio, under the shade of overgrown trees, </div>
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the very large family would gather for the long Sunday lunches.<br />
Pasta, pasta, and more pasta.</div>
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Wherever that place is, I hope you can go back to it, even if just only in your thoughts.</div>
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Silvia Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16053712336990830274noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8719266612667760129.post-25756300128435127262013-01-23T02:25:00.001-07:002013-01-23T02:32:17.171-07:00Loving WinterA long time ago, I used to dread winter.
The freezing wind that dried out my skin, the snow that made it easier for me to slip and fall, the cold weather that made it harder to go out for a walk, the fact that all I could see outside was either white snow or the brown and semi-dead naked tree branches.<br />
Blaaaahhh...bo-rinG. I wanted spring to come. I couldn't wait for it.<br />
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Thank goodness, us humans can change.<br />
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One day, I decided to stop being a complainer and instead I chose to start living and enjoying whatever the present day or the present moment happens to be, without judging it. Instead of looking for something better in an uncertain distant future, I began to appreciate the now. The change didn't happen overnight. I had to work at it...but now...<br />
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<li>If it snows, awesome. I make plans to go snowshoeing. </li>
<li>I now love walking on the icy snow and hearing the crackling noise my boots make with each step. </li>
<li>I love peeking through the window at night, like tonight, with the thermometer showing 20 below outside, and seeing the mass of sparkling snow in my backyard. It looks like someone sprinkled glitter over it. It's so spectacular. Can't see that in the summer. </li>
<li>If it's freezing cold as it has been, I thank heavens I can be warm and cozy in my home or that I have a car that takes me from point A to point B without breaking down.</li>
<li>I make the most wonderful tea I can find, I savor it (even in a busy work day, there has to be time for tea...if only 5 minutes...for yourself). </li>
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Hope this post serves as a reminder to live happily without letting bad weather get to you.<br />
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If you live or are visiting a warmer climate, great! Hope you enjoy that as well.<br />
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Wherever you are today, I hope you find something wonderful about the weather and the day you are experiencing.
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Cheers to you all from the west side of the Rockies.<br />
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Silvia Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16053712336990830274noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8719266612667760129.post-18800609447947717382012-09-25T17:04:00.000-06:002012-09-25T17:12:05.091-06:00Playing with white<div style="text-align: center;">
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I love, love, love it. </div>
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Welcome, dear Fall.</div>
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I'll enjoy every single wonderful day of dreamy,<br />
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I rode a wave runner while at Lake Tahoe this summer.</div>
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Laughing my head off as I rode the waves at full speed </div>
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Goodbye, summer.</div>
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I had SO much fun. </div>
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While I enjoy the wonderful, golden autumn days</div>
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Thanks for the good times.</div>
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Whatever season may be where you are.</div>
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I just got the last issue of the fabulous</div>
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As soon as I opened it, I started doing cartwheels of <span style="color: magenta; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>joy</i></span>.</div>
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Such great reading and a feast for your country French eyes!</div>
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Have a good afternoon, loves.</div>
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Besos,</div>
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Normally I don't go for the style of this home, but I was fascinated by the layout.</div>
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Imagine having your kitchen and possibly the dinning area there in the back.</div>
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Imagine your child doing his/her homework in that space, </div>
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And that patio/courtyard?</div>
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Amazing.</div>
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Spacious.</div>
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With a long table.</div>
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With a fireplace.</div>
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Alfresco heaven. </div>
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The stuff my dreams are made of...</div>
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Happy Sunday! </div>
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When I moved to the US from Argentina, I was amazed to find out that people here had actual laundry rooms to keep their washer and dryer and to perform their laundry duties. </div>
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And such pretty washers!</div>
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Where I grew up, the washer was placed wherever there was room in the house,<br />
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Poor washer. </div>
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a.k.a "my mom", </div>
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who would hang the clothes to dry with big ol' cloth pins. </div>
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Our laundry room now resembles a bowling lane, long and skinny. </div>
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If I fit in it sideways, no one else does. I call it "cozy".</div>
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Let's face it:<br />
it's a dungeon with white walls and<br />
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What was I thinking. </div>
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As I don't like to do laundry, it'll stay like that, possibly forever </div>
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ESPECIALLY the part of putting clothes away! - If you like doing that, I already admire you). </div>
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Some of us dream with laundry rooms like these.... </div>
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I am a lucky, lucky girl! </div>
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I live just a few blocks away from <a href="http://alicelanehome.com/">Alice Lane Home</a>. </div>
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Though I'm much more of a<br />
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I still love really pretty things to mix with my very <strike>weird</strike> interesting creations. </div>
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A few things from a good store, others from the Thrift store,</div>
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others are garage sale finds that I convert into something else. </div>
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So here are a few things from Alice Lane that I find beautiful:</div>
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Plans for the weekend?<br />
1. Finally finish and open my new blog! (I'm almost there!!!)<br />
2. Harvest Day Family dinner on Sunday (pics on my new blog)<br />
3. Farmer's Market shopping on Sat morning<br />
4. Organize, clean, paint, paint, paint.<br />
5. Laugh, smile, dance, sing, be happy to be alive.<br />
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Here's to an inspired and wonderful weekend to all of you!<br />
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In my previous post I commented about painting some of my rooms in<br />
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Nice, right?</div>
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Well...there's a boring side of me you can say. </div>
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The walls that won't have the super cool and awesome<br />
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will get a dose of two shades... </div>
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Dessert Fortress by Valspar...</div>
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and two shades lighter of that color which is basically, </div>
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yes, </div>
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you guessed it...</div>
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BEIGE.
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okay, you can stop yawning now. </div>
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But I think it's actually a very nice and cool<br />
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When on the wall, Desert Fortress<br />
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where that light is coming from - north, south, etc.):</div>
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For all the blog friends out there who love beige and<br />
are proud of it, I join your ranks.<br />
:-)<br />
<br />
Yay for Beige!<br />
<br />
<br />
So, are you a fan of beige, indifferent,<br />
or do you fall asleep just<br />
thinking about it?<br />
<br />
<br />
Much love...<br />
<br />
Besos,<br />
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