Friday, July 10, 2009

Shiny New Layout!

Like the new look? Thought this tired old blog was in need of a facelift, especially since I hadn't updated it in 2 years. Maybe it will inspire me to blog here a bit more:)

And if you've been following my design blog/store, you'll recognize all the yummy stuff I used for the layout... yup... it's my Sofia kit. Apparently I'm on a huge purple kick these days as half my wardrobe (ok so maybe more than half) is in different shades of this royal colour. Seriously, I'm not really sure if I've ever even owned a shirt in purple before, and now look at me! Ha! Ha!

So anyways, not too much new with us. Hubby is working steady (thank goodness as there's a tourism crisis - ok employment crisi alltogether)and the girls are growing like weeds. Yesterday Sofia turned 7 months old! Wow how time flies. I've been trying to do some scrapping and designing.... I have a yummy little summer kit coming out soon...

Hubby's been looking around for new vehicles.... our 14 year old clunker that we bought to get G back and forth to work is proving to be a little tight for us 3 ladies.... you know it's bad when you have to open the car door to do up your seatbelt! It's a bit snug for Isabella's car seat, Sofia's car seat and me all in the back plus when we throw our double stroller in the back there really isn't room for anything else! Hubby has been eyeing up.... HOLD YOURSELF PEOPLE..... (this is where the scarey "REE REE REE" music comes into play)... a family VAN! Ah yes, I may have to give in to the "soccer mom mini-van" thing. Well actually the van he's eyeing up isn't so mini.... we could probably fit the whole team in the van it's so big! It's a Renault (yes we Canadian/Italians will probably be driving a french car haha). It's actually a cool idea inside... 2 of the seats face backwards and there's a table that pops up, it's just kind of boxy looking on the outside is all. G wants something comfortable to move around in for the times we go to the sea or the mountains or make the long 6 hour excursion down to see the relates in Abruzzo.
That's the beast there.


Well, Sofia is getting squirmy so gotta sign off!
Ciao folks!

Friday, June 26, 2009

Sofia

I just put up a new kit in my digi-scrapping shop called Sofia.(http://www.bellastyledesigns.blogspot.com/)

I was so lucky to have some help from some AWESOME scrappers over at DST (digishoptalk) help me promote it. You can check out their awesome LOs in the slide at Bella Style Designs.

Here's a little preview of the kit and some pages I did with it:

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Girly Girl....

So Isabella is turning into quite the little lady...

She already enjoys admiring shoes and purses in store windows... yes she actually stops to look! Ha! Ha! She has now taken to having her nails painted. I did my nails last night after the kids went to sleep but left out the nail polish... this morning Isabella saw it right away and said, " Bella...la, la! Bella!" She excitedly pointed to the bottle on the counter. I got out the nail polish and started painting... but then thought, white paint is very boring for this little girl... so I got up and grabbed another colour. Isabella sat patiently.... and believe me, for a 2 year old that is no easy task...
I added a little colour here and a little colour there.... voila! Polka Dots! Ok so it turned out a little messy but that's what you get with an anxious 2 year old. She's pretty proud of her fancy piggies....

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Friday, May 01, 2009

So we managed to get to the River by sunset...

There were a lot of people going down there to check it out.

Here's a pict and a video we took:

See the little dots in the picture? from there all the way to the right is where you could walk/bike/even drive! Then the river would be about 8 feet or so below that level! Now it's ALL covered.


Thursday, April 30, 2009

Well, I haven't been able to see the river since G has been working but if he gets home early enough we're going to try to see it. See the River Po is apparently overflowing thanks to all that rain we've been having.

Po has been getting so high that the bridge at Piacenza (the major city close to us) colapsed.... see here for the news story: http://www.nce.co.uk/news/structures/partial-collapse-of-bridge-over-po-river-italy/5201352.article

A friend of ours who lives in Cremona across the river crossed the bridge there today and said it was scary. G crossed it last night and said "wow! it's really overflowed!" I just want to check it out cuz I've never seen Po overflowed or that high! If we get over there to check it out I'll post some pictures.

Sunday, April 12, 2009


I have a new kit called "Family Tree" coming out soon at my store.
Keep checking in to see more info.

Friday, April 03, 2009

Did Some Scrapping...

Well, DDs went to bed at a decent enough time for me to get a tiny bit of scrapping done. Here's a picture Dana took for me of Sofia when she was a month old... what a little darling in that angel dress!

I used one of my kits (Storytime by Bella Style) to make the page. It's on sale in my store:
www.bellastyledesigns.blogspot.com

Thursday, February 26, 2009


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