Happy Birthday Jan

Happy Birthday to my Dearest God Mother. I love you so much.  You are a most precious person in my life. I wish you the very best Birthday this year.  Huge Blessings for you. This card says, "Happy Birthday", "Many Happy Returns."

The store is open! I sell amazing lace, trims, embellishments and handmade items that I get in Turkiye.  I am still adding items as fast as I can, if there's something you'd like to see in the store, just drop me a request!  Check it out here: https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Happy Birthday Ms Erica

Wishing a very Happy Birthday to Ms Erica from FUMP! She's the teacher that I work with.  I hope the families and kiddos know how much she cares about them and how hard she works to do her very best for them.  I hope you have a Blessed Birthday and all your Birthday wishes come true.

The store is open! I sell amazing lace, trims, embellishments and handmade items that I get in Turkiye.  I am still adding items as fast as I can, if there's something you'd like to see in the store, just drop me a request!  Check it out here: https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Shine from Within

 Tuesday, so today I am going in to work with my kiddos.  I hope they are ready to have some fun.  Let's all be good today and play together.  (LOL< PLEASE>)  By the end of the day, lol 2:15pm, I am totally exhausted.  It's amazing how 10 three year olds can wear you down so quickly.

The store is open! I sell amazing lace, trims, embellishments and handmade items that I get in Turkiye.  I am still adding items as fast as I can, if there's something you'd like to see in the store, just drop me a request!  Check it out here: https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

where's the cool air? just a LITTLE cooler

 Another Monday is here, I hope your week is off to a good start. I am so happy to see the end of September approaching and FALL is now coming.  I hope it will get just a LITTLE cooler, NOT MUCH, just a LITTLE.  I am not one of those people who likes winter.

The store is open! I sell amazing lace, trims, embellishments and handmade items that I get in Turkiye.  I am still adding items as fast as I can, if there's something you'd like to see in the store, just drop me a request!  Check it out here: https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Remebering 9/11

This day is a somber day of memory here in America.  I know my kids do not know or understand anything of such.  Nor do I ever hope they will understand such an event in their lifetime.  My thoughts and prayers go out to all those directly effected by the events on 9/11 both those killed and injured as well as those who fought and saved.

The store is open! I sell amazing lace, trims, embellishments and handmade items that I get in Turkiye.  I am still adding items as fast as I can, if there's something you'd like to see in the store, just drop me a request!  Check it out here: https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

have a happy day

Happy Friday.  Looking forward to seeing the kiddos today and having some fun.  Like before, we have foodie friday.  That's when a student brings in a type of food (usually their favorite fruit or vegetable) and the whole class tries it and gives their opinion.  I wonder what we will be trying out today.  I had to pick this card today because it has oranges on it.

The store is open! I sell amazing lace, trims, embellishments and handmade items that I get in Turkiye.  I am still adding items as fast as I can, if there's something you'd like to see in the store, just drop me a request!  Check it out here: https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Happy Friday

 Happy Friday everyone!  And so the year has begun and I am back to a year of dreaming about Turkiye....lol.  just 10 more months, lol. (well, I mean 9 months and 10 days bwahaha).  I hope you have all had a chance to check out the store.  Hello!

The store is open! I sell amazing lace, trims, embellishments and handmade items that I get in Turkiye.  I am still adding items as fast as I can, if there's something you'd like to see in the store, just drop me a request!  Check it out here: https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

It's cool to be KIND, you matter!

Happy Thursday.  I hope you are having a great week.  Any teachers out there?  is school starting?  already started?  how was your first week?  i'd love to hear about it.  Today is my first day with the kids this week, in fairness it is only their second day.  I wish I could share photos, but that would be forbidden.  I am doing three year olds this year.  There's 11 in the class but each day we may be one or two students short.  Trust me, these kiddos are just TOO cute.

The store is open! I sell amazing lace, trims, embellishments and handmade items that I get in Turkiye.  I am still adding items as fast as I can, if there's something you'd like to see in the store, just drop me a request!  Check it out here: https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Let's Wander together

WOO HOO.  I can't wait to see the kiddos.  I am guessing many of them will be kids that I recognize from last year in other classes.  We often did activities together so many of them hopefully know me.  I just found out that today is a greet the teacher only day, so they will be coming in and seeing us but not staying for a complete day.  Wed. is actually the first day of school for us this year

The store is open! I sell amazing lace, trims, embellishments and handmade items that I get in Turkiye.  I am still adding items as fast as I can, if there's something you'd like to see in the store, just drop me a request!  Check it out here: https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Love you babe!

 Happy Monday.  Still Blessed to be in Turkiye.  Must say I am really missing the DH. I hope he is missing me too.  By this time I hope he is ready for me to come home, lol.  HA HA.  We'll see.Love you as much as Ice Cream!  (Please don't make me prove that, ha ha)

Happy Birthday Kathy

Wishing you the very best day today!  I hope John does something special for you.  Huge hugs from Turkiye.  Love, Holley

 

Sunday Blessings

 Hello everyone! I hope you are having a blessed Sunday.  I hope to pick something fun to do today.  Perhaps I will go to Istikel Street and walk up and down.  There's amazing gorgeous churches to see.  I don't go in because on Sundays they are having services and I don't with to bother the patrons. 

For the DH

 Sharing this card for my DH today.  I miss you so and I hope you are having a lovely day.  Huge hugs and I will see you in just over a month.  Big kisses.

Eskisehir Glass Museum

 Happy Tuesday. So I have been talking about Eskisehir this week since it is one of my destinations on this trip.  One thing I want to see there is a glass museum that I missed somehow on my last trip there. It's in the Osmangasi area.  I went to the Modern Glass art museum.  Here's a photo from it.

But I recently saw a photo of another Glass art museum in the city, at the time of writing this posting, I couldn't find the address of the other museum, so ??? i hope to get there and ask around.

Happy Birthday Dad

Wishing my father a very Happy Birthday from Turkiye. I hope you have a wonderful day.  Huge hugs from Holley

Today is so Beautiful

Today feels like my first day in Turkiye for real.  But I am sure that I am just dead tired, so I won't be out for very long before I go back to Aksaray the area Istanbul where I am staying

Hooray

Arrived in Türkiye yesterday early evening.  SO happy to be here.  Still tired, but NOTHING like my usual 24+ hours that it usually takes.  I still have gone more than a day without sleep but still saved by 10 hours and found it hard to sleep  It's a problem of both excitement plus being in a strange location without the DH.  I'll be up at the crack of dawn tomorrow looking for something to do, lol.  Problem is it's Eid  here in Türkiye starting today so most everything will be closed.  I am thankful to have come in a little early so I could buy some food and drink.

Happy Memorial Day

Happy Memorial Day to all my friends in the USA, especially those with family members who are deceased military.  Huge thanks to all they gave and all you gave as family of those who served.  We salute all of you.

Thankful to be arriving in Istanbul today.  I will get there at 5:30pm Istanbul time.

Ticket to Adventure

Happy Saturday.  Time to work on packing and making a final check list.  I am also going through some travel websites and looking at tours or classes that would be fun to take while in Istanbul.  Any recommendations? things that have caught my eye on this trip--making Turkish Delights, jewelry workshop, cooking.

The store will close on FRIDAY, so please put in those last minute orders.  Then I will reopen in August will lots of new wonderful laces :)  check out the store here, https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com

Adventure

Happy Thursday, just 6 more days of school for me.  6 Geese a laying--lol I'll take GOLD eggs or chocolate eggs.  Mind you I said Chocolate, not chocolate looking. (are y'all sick of the 12 days of Christmas theme yet?)   I sure am going to miss these kids.  I will have to take some extra photos to upload into the classroom cloud for everyone to see.  I wish I could share them here, but it's strictly forbidden. I love the hot air balloon here; it makes me think of Cappadocia.

The store will close in just about a week, so please put in those last minute orders.  Then I will reopen in August will lots of new wonderful laces :)  check out the store here, https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com