Our Spain Photobook

Hi lovelies.

Have you noticed I tend to post on Sunday evenings lately. I'm not sure what is up with that. I need to get back to posting more often. Life is busy and yet there is nothing overly exciting going on right now so I tend not to post.

Enough about that.

Let's move on to PICTURES!!!

As promised, I did a photobook of our trip to Spain. We picked it up on Friday night and I am SO PLEASED with the final product. Seriously. Thanks to a "Happy New Year" gift from my Cuckoo Grandma, we splurged and purchased the larger format (I believe it is 12 x 14). Wow is all I can say. What a great tribute to our trip!

Once again I went crazy with collages.

Getting ready for take off

Hanging out in Granada before the wedding

The Alhambra

Flowers at the Alhambra

Architechtural details at the Alhambra. The two of us combined took HUNDREDS OF PICTURES that day. It was really hard to choose...

More Alhambra

And more Alhambra

Yup - you guessed it...

Cool buildings at the Alhambra

Love these shots...

Shots of the summer house

And more shots of the summer house at the Alhambra

The wedding and GORGEOUS BRIDE. She truly was simply stunning...

Getting into trouble at the cocktail party! Stunning location overlooking the entire city at sunset...

Dinner at the reception - we had the BEST table there!

The "party" - doesn't look like much fun does it? My fave wedding EVER after our wedding...

Granada post-wedding shots.

Group shot at the bride's parent's place before saying goodbye to Granada

Stunning boutique hotel we stayed at in Ronda. I think it was our best night sleep the entire trip! We rented a little cottage with a hot tub and a sauna and we got it to ourselves for an hour complete with some wine and goodies. Those pictures are for our private collection...ha! Just teasing. Not sure where those pictures are to tell you the truth!

Ronda by day and by night. Stunning little city. Notice the table of Sangria in the top left corner.

Seville. I really wasn't a big fan of Seville. It rained from the time we arrived until we left and I spent the entire time there in soaking wet clothes and shoes...ugh.

Feria de Abril in Seville

Details in Sevilla

Flamenco show in Sevilla - AMAZING!

Cordoba

Cordoba

Reliving Lucia and Mandy's wedding day near Palencia

Sunday afternoon at the bar - 9 months later little Javier was born!!!

Little Miki

The many faces of Miguel...

Madrid - the palace and gardens. This is literally Cheech's front yard. His apartment building is the pink one in the second photo from the top on the left. GORGEOUS!

More Madrid

Friends in Madrid - Cheech and Ana. And the most delicious thing...churros and chocolate. That's a cup of high quality melted chocolate - not coffee for dipping churros.

So there you have it. Thousands of pictures brought down to just 33 pages. Looking back at these makes me long to go back. I miss my friends there terribly. Mabel (the bride) will be giving birth to her first in just over two months and that will be the third baby to be born since we were there in April. Three babies I have yet to meet. I really need to start playing the lottery more often. Either that or it's time to pack up the house and move across the ocean! As it turns out Denis' company does have an office in Madrid. Wouldn't it be nice???

I can't believe it's already time to hit the sack for another week. Our weekend has been a whirlwind. Friday night we did some errands including picking up Monopoly for Wii. We had a blast playing it for hours on Friday night.

Yesterday Denis decided he wanted to plan a surprise date day. It started off with breakfast in bed and then a quick stop at the Scrapbox to pick up my Slice Toolkit and a Heidi Swapp mirror album. I finally got to use my gift cert. from Christmas.

Next it was off to the movies...all chick movies! We started with He's Just Not That Into You. Loved it. I read the book a few years ago and boy, so true. Great movie. It was hilarious because at the very end there was total silence in the theatre and this woman called out "there is hope!" It was classic.

D had planned back to back movies and our next show was Bride Wars. It was cute, quite predictable but always fun to see a wedding movie.

Finally we headed to Mexicali Rosas to share some fajitas before heading home for the evening.

Today has been rather low-key. Denis hit Starbucks this morning so I had a yummy tea latte when I woke up. We did some more errands and just chilled and did stuff around the house. I did my workout and now I'm watching the Grammys.

Tomorrow I head back into work. I've only been to work for 3 half days since the beginning of December because of the bus strike. I think I was the only person in the city disappointed to hear the strike had ended. Being able to work from home has significantly improved my quality of life. It's amazing to not have to spend 2+ hours in the car every day.

Well my lovelies, it's time for this Diva to get some beauty sleep.

'night lovelies

Great night, great friends

What an awesome start to love month...a night out with girlfriends!

I met Steph, Dorrie and Karen for a yummy dinner at Moxie's tonight. Unfortunately Janet was feeling under the weather and couldn't make it. You know what that means....RAINCHECK!

I finally got to meet Dorrie's sweet Gracie. She's just lucky I didn't throw her in my giant soup case (aka purse) and bring her home with me...you wanted to know why I have such a big purse Dorrie? Well now you know!

My only complaint about the night is that it flew by much too quickly. I look forward to many more of these evenings together. I get to hang out with them in just three short weeks at the Vicki Boutin retreat. Well, most of them. Dorrie has decided she'd rather go to the Bahamas instead of Smith Falls for a weekend.

I just have one thing to say to that...

WOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO (do you need some powder for that itch?)

Here are some pics...

'night lovelies

I heart February

Hi February!

So glad you could join us. I sure wish you were a little more green and a little less white but we'll still keep you!

I have a feeling you are going to fly by pretty quickly. If you are cold I sure do hope you fly by quickly. Maybe fly by all the way down to a warm sunny beach and take me with you!

This is probably going to be a big long post about nothing and everything all at once!

In true February manner, I want to start by sending lots of hugs and big sloppy kisses to Rach. I'm thinking 'bout you girl and looking forward to seeing you soon. Hopefully you can send some hugs and kisses Rach's way too!

I have a feeling this is going to be a great month. You know why? I woke to a BIG SURPRISE this morning...one of my faves is flexing her creative muscles and has created a new webiste/new concept/new goodies!

Have you heard?

House of 3 was born today. YIKES! Heidi is back at it!!!

They even have a FREE DOWNLOAD for V-day...love coupons!

I have/had big plans for the day/weekend and here we are Sunday at 11 a.m. and I haven't even started yet...

I am going to make a photobook of our trip to Spain from last year. I just recently made one for my mom's birthday and she loves it. They are on sale until tomorrow so it's now or never! I always work best under pressure...

Denis and I made up for lost time on Friday night and saw not one, not two but THREE MOVIES!

The snow was falling and the roads were rough so it was a nice way to spend a Friday night.

We started with...

So I know what you are thinking...what exactly were we thinking? This movie has gotten quite possibly the worst reviews EVER but we loved it! We laughed so much. I had no idea it was filmed in Winnipeg but the tacky 70s wall sculpture at the Winnipeg Airport was pretty hard to miss! And...in one of the opening scenes there are four women sitting around a table scrapbooking. What's not to love??? It was a nice light comedy and I SWEAR I could feel the cold of a Manitoba winter right through the screen. There is no mistaking it.

From one extreme to the other...

Wow! Slumdog. Totally amazing, moving movie. Amazing. But SO hard to watch at the same time. Unbelieveably sad, violent and true. It gave me chills...

And finally...

I honestly didn't know what to expect from Revolutionary Road but who doesn't love Kate and Leonardo on screen. Once again, this film did not disappoint. It was in your face truth. If that makes any sense.

Saturday we spent the first half of the day running errands...

We had to start the day off at Starbucks with one of these...

I always have the Vanilla Rooibus Tazo Tea Latte.

Although what I really wanted to try was one of these...

Next we did a little browsing through Chapters where I found these...

(and no, i'm not making any announcements with the little stiches one - i'm thinking more for gifts and that sort of thing...)

I actually didn't end up purchasing them at Chapters, I ordred them online when I got home because they were SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper online. And...shipping was free! So there is your tidbit of the week...before buying anything at Chapters, check the online price.


I've decided I'm going to try my hand at sewing. I have a great sewing machine that I tend to only use to sew my pages or cards and it's time to take it up a notch...


Besides. I ordered all of these pretty things last week and although I would love to just put them on the ground and roll around in them nekked, I'm sure I can find a better use for them!

I scored these amazing fabrics (mostly Heather Bailey) on a fantastic Etsy store recommended by Steph. I was SO IMPRESSED with the service. The guy even found a cheaper shipping method and reimbursed some of my money. Wha? When does that happen???

I do have a little idea up my sleeve that I'm hoping to try in the next week or two. I'm going to keep it quiet until I have something to show though...

Next it was on to KISS FM to pick up the DVD that I won...Vicky Christina Barcelona.

How delish is JAVIER BARDEM??? He totally reminds me of Denny (or Denis) from Grey's. I'm generally not a big Woody Allen fan but I have to admit, I loved this movie. It's really hard to go wrong with a movie set in Barcelona though...Javier's name in the movie is Juan Antonio so I couldn't help but think of my good friend Juanan through it all...It made me really miss Barcelona and my friends. I think it's time to start a Barcelona fund...

Well, I'm copying some pictures over and the copy is nearly done so I best get started on my photo book.

I hope your February is filled with all things red and most importantly lots of love.

'ciao lovelies