The time has come and tomorrow (Jun.14) is the last day of school here in Greece. My little girl has English lessons after school and she came home with an "Excellent" on her last big test (proud mama moment here :D ).
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It doesn't look like it with the first glance, maybe not even with the second but when a classy lady needs a somewhat classy pen-holder a vase-like form comes to my mind. And when this classy lady is my friend (through love of the same book/movie characters and twitter), as always for my friends, I wanna do the best I possibly can!
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I have my own everything-blog-and-Photoshop related fairy, named Sylvia. But to start things from the beginning I have to say that she's much more than that! I first "heard" of her while reading one of her fanfiction story. In no time at all she climbed on my fave author list, than became a dear friend and now she makes her own magic with this blog's graphic (changing little details again and again just because I asked her) and more!
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When a common/mutual cause (fandom, goal, love for something) brings new people into your life you nurture the new-found relationship and you find yourself after a while calling those people FRIENDS. The last three years I've "met" brilliant people -authors, mainly through reading their stories and fellow readers- and connected with them through twitter and other social media etc. I've come to cherish and love them despite the possibility of never having the chance to meet them in person!
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When you're feeling down you can escape RL in many ways. For some any physical activity will release that pent-up stress that clouds the mind. For others anything art-related can bring solace like music either you're "just" listening to it or actually writing or playing. In the same way reading or writing a book is a great way to let yourself carried away into another world.
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May is a busy month what with Summer so near, school-year close to the finish line, exams, recitals, concerts, you name it we've done it this month! In addition, on the very last day of May it's my Father's birthday. He likes to read, listen to music and collects postal stamps so I've combined all these things and made him a matchbox style book
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My daughter takes ballet lessons for the second year now and it will be the first time that she participates in a recital, dancing parts in the Nutcracker. I was waiting for this occasion to make SVGCuts' ballet shoes cut file (Clara's Christmas Eve kit) and surprise my own little Ballerina.
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School-year is nearing its end so my 8 year old daughter requested a fun favor for all her classmates. Because reading is essential (among other things) in getting better at spelling I whipped up a quick bookworm themed bookmark.
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One of my first projects as a birthday gift for a very special woman in my life was a three tier birthday cake box that is essentially a tower of three circular boxes with their lids glued to the above box' bottom. All three boxes open and they measure from about 4 inches for the smallest, upper box to around 8 inches for the bottom box.
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