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November 29, 2012

Christmas wreath tutorial

What you need:
Wire hanger
Smaller gauge wire for hanging
Wine corks
Small red Christmas ornaments or medium-large red beads
Drill and small drill bit or old fashioned hand held screw driver with interchangeable drill bit tip
Wire cutter
Needle nose pliers
Red ribbon or red bow

Step 1.
Drill holes into all your corks( I used 26 for my wreath)
Step 2.
Cut the hanging hook off coat hanger and bend the wire to make round wreath shape. At one end use your pliers to bend a small hoop so you can hook the other end when you are finished.
Step 3.
Start putting corks and red beads/ornaments onto the wire. Arrange beads/ornaments and corks as you go. Make sure they are pushes close to each other.
Step 4.
When after the last cork is on use your pliers to attach the wire ends together. This part is the top of you wreath.
Step 5.
Secure a red bow to cover the empty wire part at the top. Use a 6 inch piece of smaller gauge wire to make a hoop for hanging and attach that behind the bow

The end!!

















August 23, 2012

I have returned!!!

Hello, Hello. It has been too long since I've been here hasn't it? Many things have happened since my last post. Oh my, where do I start.
First things first. We moved to a new house in Germany. I have almost unpacked everything and we have started to decorate. We absolutely love it here!
The house(duplex actually), is only about 3 years old with heated tile floors downstairs and the most beautiful views of German countryside on the third floor.









 There are mostly American's in our village and everyone is so friendly. On Thursdays, I even meet with some other women who live here and we talk, drink wine, and watch movies.








My art/music studio is perfect with lots of light, perfect for painting and especially nice for teaching.











The next thing is, I've started taking my health and fitness more seriously and started a 60 day regimen called Insanity. So far, I've lost about 10 pounds and am starting to find my abs! It is really intense but I love how I have more energy and I feel much stranger and confident. Before and after pictures coming soon!

The other thing that has changed is that I've stopped my "No-Poo" habits. After working out and sweating ridiculous amounts of sweat, I decided to start using shampoo again. I know, I know....I've done the research and I know shampoo really isn't good for my hair but for now I'm sticking with shampoo. I've actually found some all natural shampoo bars that I really want to try. Hoping they will ship to my APO box!

Other than that, not much else happnening around here. I'm getting busier with teaching art and music as the school year begins. I really want to make writing on this blog one of my priorities, but bare with me as I ease into this Blogging world.

Ciao,
Lita


July 23, 2012

New House

We are finally moved in to the new house but still do not have the Internet at home. Unpacking and decorating is taking up all my time right now. But at least we are still enjoying ourselves...
I love that we have a balcony off of our bedroom, and the doggies love it too!



ciao,
Lita



July 9, 2012

Moving

Hello! It has been a while :( I must apologize for the lack of entries...
I have been moving to a new house in Germany and we will be without Internet for a undetermined amount of time. I will try to keep up with some posts here and there when I can make it to the library to use their free wifi.
Here is a picture of me loading the car on our last trip to the the new house. It took a series of 3 days to
get all our belongings to the new house. Now we are working on unpacking and decorating the new place. I love our new house! Pictures to come soon I hope.

ciao,
Lita

June 27, 2012

What I Wear Wednesday


What I Wear Wednesday:
shirt: Target brand but found at thrift store
black jeans: Pimkie
heart necklace: handmade
bracelets: handmade
rose ring: Piggle and Pop

I also wanted to share with you a bag that I recently made from an old jacket. It was  a black canvas jacket from Old Navy that shrunk in the laundry and I decided to re-purpose it as a messenger bag! I worked out perfectly.



ciao,
Lita


June 21, 2012

I still believe in love.

It is funny how someone else can write a song that you can completely relate to. Its as if I wrote the words to this song.

CIAO,
Lita

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