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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Community Celebration in Peru

Recently, a team of Googlers traveled to Peru and celebrated the winner (and community) of the Google International Model Your Town Competition. Jorge De Albertis of Lima won through a process where people all over the world voted for one of five finalists. His ability to win so many votes was a testament to the power of a community coming together to support Jorge’s efforts. His contribution creating 3D models of many of the historical buildings in the Barranco District of Lima has garnered a lot of attention in his country, and worldwide.There...

Remember the project I told you I was working on with these?Well, the project just didn't work.....In fact it was a big ole stinking mess! I am not going to tell you what it was, because I might try it again, differently someday.Anyway, I did create some fun things with the burlap coffee bags.They are for sale at Lavender Hill Studio.Welcome Home,Pennyp.s. We have 7 bloggers coming to the brunch so far! For all of you that are coming. I will send an email out Oct 1st with my address, Map Quest directions and my phone number. ...

I don't do a whole lot of giveaways here on The Cottage Home. So, today I'm changing it up a bit and I've got a little giveaway from me to you. It's not much, but just a little token of my appreciation to all of The Cottage Home loyal readers. I love your emails, your comments, and you seriously make blogging such an amazing experience for me.So, enough with the touchy-feely stuff and onto the giveaway. Today you have a choice of two 5 yard fabric bundles. You can choose from these two fabric lines Art Gallery "Sugar" or...

If it can even really be called that right now...Clearly not a lot of crafting is taking place in there at the moment. Needless to say, I have been a little distracted with other things and it more or less became a good dumping ground for things I needed to get out of my kitchen. Now we are having it painted, so everything is stacked in the center of the room and I will have some serious organizing to do when it is all over...I have this built in desk in the corner of the craft room and I have been trying to decide if I should paint it black...

over the weekend billy and i headed over to historic grant park to the 8th annual summer shade festival. it was a gorgeous day and we were loving the slightly cooler weather. the highlight of my day was getting to see the booth belonging to the local art company “go jump in the lake.” i’ve used their rustic signs in the past and have always loved them. most recently i used one of their “lake” signs in a model home’s nursery. {images – charm home} all of their signs are hand crafted and made to look like they’ve been...

Back from our jolly 'ole hols, it's back to the reality of the mundane things in life !! For the next few posts, I shall bore the pants off of you all with loads of photographs of our wonderful holiday in Tuscany. We began in Viareggio, which is a lovely seaside town with a wonderful beach and a great base for travelling to much of the Tuscan countryside.The lovely Michael of Spice of Life told me of a wonderful restaurant called La Chiesina, in Viareggio. On his recommendation, we went and had the most wonderful evening........... three times...