Well, starting up a new school year and a new store year with new laces. Have you dropped by the store to see all the new goodies? I hope that both items go well this year. It's time for as this card says, "a fresh start!"
The store had reopened, there's lots and lots of new items including tons of lace by the yard! Check it out
https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.comhttps://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com
Happy Monday everyone, I should be starting back to school this week, a little bit of training and classroom prep before the year gets going. I am pretty sure that the kiddos will start on the 19th. WOW. It will be nice to see the crew. Hello Beautiful Friends!
The store had reopened, there's lots and lots of new items including tons of lace by the yard! Check it out
https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.comhttps://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com
Here's a great coffee theme card from Kelly J who won lovely prizes last year during the february celebration! She mailed me this great card. How lovely. Thanks so very much Kelly. I just LOVE coffee theme car
Well, I found my sunshine with John, he's just the best. He makes me smile and laugh. I love him so. I hope he's always here with me. I am so thankful for him. Huge hugs and kisses babe.
The store had reopened, there's lots and lots of new items including tons of lace by the yard! Check it out
https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.comhttps://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com
The store had reopened, there's lots and lots of new items including tons of lace by the yard! Check it out
https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.comhttps://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com
Happy Thursday, Have you (those in the USA) checked out the store to see the new items from Turkiye? I got all sorts of wonderful lace and goodies this year. Check out the stuff using the link below. For my friends outside the country, so wish I could share with all of you but shipping is so crazy, it would cost twice as much as the lace just to ship it to you!
The store had reopened, there's lots and lots of new items including tons of lace by the yard! Check it out
https://laceplacebyholley.etsy.comhttps://laceplacebyholley.etsy.com
Happy Wednsday, it's the last week off before we go back to school again for the new year. WOW. Summer went by so quickly. But in just two months I won't believe how big my kiddos got. Many will return to us, but some will no longer be at our school. I will miss them.
Happy Monday! Wow, first Monday of August. I am thankful to have a tiny bit of time to relax before school starts back up. This lets me start up for lace. Here's a sweet and simple card for today. Hello!
Happy Sunday, hope you had a great week, here's a great guest designer project this week, this was made by one of my lace customers named Greg. Aren't they awesome?
Happy August. I can't believe summer is just about over and just a couple of weeks the kiddos will be back in school. WOW. I think the kiddos start on the 19th but we go back on the 11th. So maybe i have a week to prepare. PLEASE may i have a week to get ready lol.
Happy Birthday to Karin! She's an awesome card making artist and has a wonderful blog that is often featured here as a guest designer. I just love her amazing work! I wish you the happiest of birthdays and a wonderful new year.
WOW, so both exhausted and excited to be home. I have SO MUCH LACE to share and can't wait to reopen the store. That should happen soon. I'll post a link here as soon as I reopen. I unloaded SO MUCH lacce and so much other goodies.
Getting over the major jet lag of being home and trying to normalize my sleep (LOL, sleeping is weird but way easier to do in my own house). Thankful for a lovely trip and ready to unpack a LOT of amazing lace. Thanks to all my dear friends in Turkiye and especially to my dear husband who made this trip possible. Kisses.
I made this card from a kit by American Crafts plus some wooden butterflies.
I will spend the next 24 hours at the airport, on planes, at airports, on planes and FINALLY, in the arms of my dear husband John!! I can't wait to see him. Love you dear. I can't wait to see you at the end of this very tiring day.
Well, today is my last day in Istanbul, I leave tomorrow, but at 8:30 am and I have to be at the airport 3 hours before the flight. SIGH. that's just SO early to get up and get to the airport, lol. Will be running around today to say goodbye to people and having a last dinner or lovely meal.
Well my trip is nearing an end, but I have one more card from the kiddos, this one being my favorite of all of them, they were all so special and made with such love from each kid, you should have seen their little faces!! OMG it would make you smile
Happy Saturday everyone! It's my last saruday, so I am likely to wander over to the Pazaar in Barkirkoy and see if there is just any lace that i have to have, of course at this point, my luggage is pretty set. I will also drop by and see my friends as I am leaving so soon
Hello! Hope you are having a great day today. Happy Friday, it's my last weekend here in Istanbul, Today is friday, so on Friday's here around noonish the mosques have holy time and prayer, but also Imams teach, so it's much longer than a traditional prayer time. Most if not all businesses close during this time. The turn the lights off and the employees are free to go and pray.
Happy Thursday, Hope you are doing well. just four days left to enjoy. what a magical time. I look forward to having a few more lovely meals and grabbing a few trinkets for family and friends at work. Here's a little card featuring the train on Istikal street. Have a Happy Day!
Tuesday, can't say I have specific plans yet, that usually means going to the Eminonu area for breakfast and shopping and visiting with my friends. Though at this point I have to be careful about buying as I have shipped packages and have limited space in my suitcases, lol
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I am officially on my last week now. WOW, what an amazing summer it has been but I am winding down, getting mostly rest and ready to see my DH more than anything. I hope he misses me. You're the best babe! Thank you SO MUCH for this amazing trip
wow, the trip is nearing an end now, I am so very thankful to have enjoyed my summer here in Turkiye. here's some more wonderful art from the kiddo's. Their teacher being my dear friend, Dilek.
don't you love that COFEE theme one?
It's the weekend! I can't believe I just have a little time left. I am likely to go over to the Bakirkoy pazaar this Saturday and then maybe stop by Eminonu or go all the way to Ortakoy depending on how early I get going. Though I think activity in Ortakoy goes on Sunday as well, so I may go there on Sunday instead.
Happy Friday everyone! Here's a Turkish theme card showing Istanbul. This is the Hagia Sophia. Currently it is under reconstruction, so there is much cover over the dome where they are rebuilding. It went from being a museum to being a mosque a couple a years ago. Now it's still a mosque, but for foreigners they still charge a high fee (1100 Turkish liras) to enter and you can only enter the top area (not the bottom floor anymore).
Happy Thursday everyone. I hope you are all having a great week for the middle of July. What is everyone doing this month? I have been talking so much about what I am doing I haven't asked everyone what's going on.
Well, it's Wed, so you know what that means....yep, Fatih Pazaar....even though I have to control my shopping now, I just can't resist this amazing event this week. There's a couple of ladies that I often run into who make the most beautiful handmade laces here. I find it hard to resist!!
Happy Tuesday. As the trip winds down I have to control my shopping more because I have FULL suitcases and have already gotten ready or shipped my packages home so I can't be buying MORE laces (which you know I want to do, lol.....) EEEKKKK, so hard not to. Ha ha.
Just two weeks let to enjoy. I can't believe the summer is nearing an end already. WOW. I have some more wonderful art from the kiddos in Turkiye. How sweet are they?
Happy Saturday. Hoping to get a chance to visit with my friends while I am here. One of them is a teacher and she and I met when she was in the USA with her then husband while he completed his PHd at Texas Tech University. She will have just a little time to visit as her mother lives in another city outside of Istanbul, so she will be leaving when school gets out to go stay with her.
WOW, I can't believe I have been in Turkiye so long and I just have two weeks left. LOL. I know most people don't even get a two week vacation, but I will miss Turkiue so much. I am so spoiled. I am so thankful to all the kind people here who have been so friendly and helped me and of course to my dear hubby. Here's a thank you in Spanish, but let me write it here in Turkish-- Teşekkür ederim
Ahh, Thursday, if I remember correctly today is the weekly pazaar in Cemberlitas neighborhood. They don't have a lot of laces there, but they usually have a couple of tables that might be worth looking at. Then I like to take the train to Sirkeci and either ride the Marmaray under the sea to Uskadar or take a ferry. There's some lovely art stores there and that's a nice afternoon.
So it's wed now and the good thing about Wednesdays is the weekly pazaar in Fatih. I am looking forward to finding some good laces there. WOO HOO. Every once in a while I get some really good stuff there, but even on regular weeks, I still may find some nice cheaper laces than what you would get at the retail stores in Eminonu.
Happy July 8th. Hope this day finds you well. I am looking forward to relaxing today and walking around a lot. It's getting warmer now that we are in July, but here in Turkiye, Istanbul in particular, it is still significantly cooler than in Austin where I come from.
Happy monday. Hope you all had a wonderful weekend, thanks for checking in on me today. I am betting that I will be going shopping today, lol, on a day in Turkiye, that's a pretty good bet. Hmmm, what should we shop for? lace? yep, I think we should look for some yummy laces. Either way, let's make today AMAZING!
Here's some more wonderful works by the kiddos in Turkiye, I just love their beautiful artworks. I hope these kids are having a wonderful summer and enjoyed their first year or "middle school" as we would call it in America.
Happy Saturday. So, this makes it a month in Turkiye now. WOW. How awesome is that? I am going to enjoy either the pazaar in Barkirkoy today or a crafting festival that is weekly in Ortakoy. I can take the train all the way to the last stop and then walk a couple miles or wait and take a ferry all the way there. Hmmm. Ferry is definitely easier...
it's summertime, so as the card says, HOORAY for ice cream!
Happy Independence Day to my friends in the USA. Happy Friday to the rest of my friends around the world. For my DH I want to send a little "Miss You" note. Kisses Babe.
So as I am sure some of you recall, I was at my mother's home back in April and made a bunch of cards. Some of those cards had a Turkish theme to them, so I thought I would share those this summer. Here's one that has to do with my most recent trip to Konya
So today is Wednesday. The thing to do on Wednesday is go-to the Fatih pazaar. I must confess at least once I couldn't find it. How crazy am I? It's HUGE!! and, well, it's RIGHT NEXT to the Fatih Mosque. If that's not a landmark, c'mon. I must have been crazy that day. At any rate, now I know WHERE it is, and it's so HUGE, I know where inside that pazaar to go to find the fabric/laces. Also, there's usually some ladies who do handmade work that you can go see in a couple places. I should be able to walk from where my airbnb is to the pazaar, though technically I could walk it last year even though my friends thought that was crazy
Wishing a very Happy Birthday to one of my friends here in Istanbul! Hamide, best wishes my Friend. I hope you have a wonderful day and blessed year ahead.
Happy Monday! I can't believe we are at the end of June already. WOW. How quickly time has passed. I have 28 wonderful days left to enjoy. what would you all like to see in Istanbul? i have to say the Hagia Sofia is under reconstruction now so going by it on the train everyday is nice but not the same as before. (Dont' get me wrong, this is very necessary work, I am so happy they are doing necessary repairs.) BUT, I miss that amazing site that it used to be. I imagine it will now be this way (reconstruction) for YEARS and years. Plus, for tourists like me, you can't even go into the base floor of the Hagia Sofia inside anymore. Sigh. The Hagia Sofia is mostly just a memory. Sending everyone Peace and love today
Happy Sunday everyone, here's a little card that I got from a store here in Turkiye on Istikal street in Istanbul. Istikal street is an iconic shopping area that I will visit every summer at least once or twice. It starts at Taksim square and continues down to the Galata tower. This card shows Famous Turkish Leader Ataturk.
Happy Saturday everyone! My favorite thing to do on Saturday is to go to one of the largest street pazaars in Istanbul. Pazaar because it's just a one day thing, as opposed to a bazaar which is typically a structurally built location and daily. On Saturday one of the biggest pazaars is in Barkirkoy. This pazaar is particularly important because it is very near the textile district so there's tons of things to find for me. Pre-covid, you wouldn't believe the amount of lace, now, it's hit or miss.
Happy Friday everyone. Well today I should be back in Istanbul. I have a lovely 11 days in Eskisehir and Konya. I can't believe I am at the end of three weeks in Turkiye now. WOW. What a blessing I have been given.
Taking the train from Konya back to Istanbul. It's a long ride, but then I think how long would it be if I was going to the airport, waiting around, getting to IST, taking an hour long expensive ride back to the city.....might as well just take the train....I really hope they have WIFI. lol, man I am spoiled, lol
for you DH
Hoping to enjoy my last day in Konya walking around, shopping, looking for lace, etc. Just taking in the city center for the most part. I will take the train tomorrow back to Istanbul. In the meantime, here's a card I made for my DH, i'll ride the waves with you babe!
While in Konya the other things I would like to see are the Whirling Dervishes and their gorgeous museums. I made a huge list of what to see, they also have a huge and famous butterflly garden from what I hear, there is also a UNESCO world heritage site (I think) nearby that was built by the Hittites.
Hello, happy Monday, I can't believe I have been in Turkiye for several weeks now! WOW. Am I just blessed or what? if I am lucky and following my schedule then I am in Konya now. I wish to see an important UNESCO World Heritiage site called Catalhoyuk which is one of the earliest human settlements ever. It's in central Turkiye near Konya.
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