New giveaway... coming soon!

August is almost here and our last family holidays around Tripoli are coming soon. After that, we're finally moving! I am missing scrapbooking sooooooooooooooo much. I got this beautiful pack of flowers and vintage ribbons and embellies in the mail today (I ordered it in February, thought it had got lost!) and my hands are itching to scrap. Maybe if I finish the last of the toy boxes and get my suitcases ready tomorrow, I could use one of the kits I left in a suitcase for this kind of embergency and all these new flowers... maybe, does not sound likely, though. Anyway, since I won't be able to post very often during our holiday... or after it, probably, I'll organize a giveaway for you to play with while I relax and sunbathe.... not sure what I will ask you to do this time... maybe guess how many boxes I've packed already? (that would be depressing, at least for me!)... guess when I will finally be able to start scrapping again (ouch! that's even more depressing!). Well, I'll think about it, and post it on August 1st, don't forget to check it out!

Yummy, yummy coffee!

Like I said in one of my previous posts, DH had invited us to lunch in a new hotel they've opened in Tripoli. It's a fantastic place and the lunch was great, but the thing I enjoyed most was coffee. They have a fantastic coffee place, like their advertisement says, an oasis in the middle of Tripoli. And here is my Aleida's challenge photo for the month of July. My daughter was explaning a "map" to me while I was waiting for our yummy coffee. As you can see, it's a lovely place!

Giveaway scout

I've just been contacted by Josh from Giveaway Scout, a giveaway search engine. I've visited the site and there seem to be tons of giveaways, though, needless to say, I simply typed the words scrapbooking and crafts, which are my only obssessions. Not too many scrapbooking giveaways there yet, but it could easily improve if more scrappers add their blogs to the search engine. Once they do that, every post including the word "giveaway" in the title is picked up by their system and published. I'll give it a try!

Blog Award

I want to thank Denise (http://lalasworldblog.blogspot.com/) for choosing me for this blog award.

Thanks, Denise, I was not in a very good mood (nothing serious, really, just all this moving business) and you've changed it completely. Now I'll finish cooking dinner with a smile! (Just got an invitation from my husband to try out a new lovely restaurant tomorrow at noon, so that's a double smile!!!). I have to choose three people to give this award to now, and I'd like to give it to:

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  Betty Anne at Let's Get Scrap Happy (http://letsgetscraphappy.blogspot.com/)
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  Barb at Crafty Girl (http://barbcraft.blogspot.com/)
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  Jacques at Jacques' Joie de Vivre (http://jacquesmagnolias.blogspot.com/)

Thanks for being such a great source of inspiration!