Guest Book / Βιβλίο Ευχών ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΑ

Την κορούλα της ξαδέρφης μου βαφτίσαμε την Κυριακή 14/06 και όλο το θέμα της βάφτισης ήταν οι Πεταλούδες!!! Δε μπορούσε λοιπόν παρά και το βιβλίο ευχών της μικρούλας να είναι σε ανάλογο στύλ! Χειροποίητο από την αρχή μέχρι το τέλος... δημιουργήθηκε με πολλή αγάπη! Χρησιμοποίησα χαρτιά Basic Grey, μελάνια Colour Box και Papermania, διάφορες σφραγίδες, κορδέλες οργαντίνας 3mm πάχους, brands και μερικούς κρίκους για τη βιβλιοδεσία!










Last Sunday 14/06 we baptised my cousin's little daughter! The whole concept was about butterflies... us you can see from the Guest Book! It is handmade from the very beggining... with love and careness!!! I've used Basic Grey papers, ColorBox and Papermania inks, different kinds of stamps, organtine ribbons 1/8'', brands and links for the binding!!!








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Guest Book / Βιβλίο Ευχών ΝΙΚΟΣ

I made a guest book for the baptism of the youngest boy of my daugter's godmother. I thought it was about time to saw you some more scrapbook projects! I hope you like it!

Για τη βάπτιση του μικρότερου γιου, της νονάς της κόρης μου έφτιαξα ένα βιβλίο ευχών! Νομίζω ήταν καιρός να δημιουργήσω με scrapbooking κάτι που τελευταία δεν είχα την πολυτέλεια του χρόνου να κάνω. Ελπίζω να σας αρέσει!

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Wedding-baptism in one / Γάμος-βάπτιση!

Για το γάμο μιας φίλης και τη βάπτιση του μικρού της γιου είναι φτιαγμένες οι παρακάτω μπομπονιέρες! Προσπάθησα να κρατήσω το ίδιο στυλ και στις δύο κάνοντάς τις όμως ταυτόχρονα ξεχωριστές για την κάθε περίσταση!


A friends Wedding and her son's baptism at the same time! For this event are the candy bows you see in these photos! I have tried to keep the same style but make them unic at the same time!

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Candy Βows / Μπομπονιέρες Βάπτισης

Το Πάσχα πέρασε και ξεκίνησαν πάλι οι εκδηλώσεις γάμων και βαπτίσεων... Για μια βάπτιση λοιπόν έφτιαξα τις παρακάτω μπομπονιέρες... Είναι δυο διαφορετικά σχέδια για μικρούς και για μεγάλους στα χρώματα της θάλασσας και του ουρανού!


Easter has gone and here in Greece events like marriages and baptisms have come to the top again.... So, I have made two different kinds of candy bows for adult gests and their kids in the colours of the sky and the sea.
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Ποια είμαι.... / Who am I....

.... είμαι η Χρύσα! Γεννήθηκα και μεγάλωσα στο Αιγάλεω, ενώ πάντα ήθελα να κάνω οικογένεια και να ζήσω στο Ρέθυμνο απ' όπου και κατάγομαι! Έχω καταφέρει να κάνω την επιθυμία μου αυτή πραγματικότητα και σήμερα έχω την ευτυχία να ζω με την τετραμελή οικογένεια μου σε ένα προάστιο του Ρεθύμνου πολύ κοντά στη θάλασσα την οποία και λατρεύω! Μια από τις αγαπημένες μου ασχολίες από μικρή, ήταν οι χειροτεχνίες κάθε είδους, το κέντημα, το πλέξιμο, η ζωγραφική, ακόμα και το ράψιμο ρούχων (για τις κούκλες μου αρχικά... για μένα στη συνέχεια... για την κόρη μου τώρα)! Τα βιβλία είναι ένας ακόμα αγαπημένος κόσμος για μένα... ενώ η ενασχόλησή μου με το scrapbooking και γενικότερα το crafting είναι για μένα ένας κόσμος παραμυθένιος! .... I am Chrysa! I was born and raised in Egaleo, as I always wanted to live with my own family in Rethymno... where I come from! I have managed to make this desire a reality for me so, today I have the pleasure to live with my family in a suburb of Rethymno, close to the sea, which I love! One of my favourite occupations since I was a child, was crafts of any kind, embroidery, knitting, painting, even clothes' sewing (for my dolls at the begining... for me next... for my daughter now)! Books is a beloved world too, for me... while my occupation with scrapbooking and crafting is a fairy world!

Some mess...

Has anybody said anything about mess?.... Just take a look in the photos below to see more than a mess... I am not proud of it... but it seems it works better for me when it's like that... Ok not so much but it happens eventually!...





Now it's time to finish something that I have started a few days ago... my top 100 I mean, so here you go!


54) I don't have a lot of close friends... as a matter of fact I have only one... Jennie and her family! She is a total different character than I am, but we definately come along very well!
55) I don't like hypocrisy especially from relatives!

56) I like every color mostly because I can express myself through them!

57) Most of my clothes are in black, brown and ivouar. I found these colors good combined for clothes.

58) I like cotton underwears in white and only in special occasions I wear something different!

59) I like high heels, but most of the times you will see me in my sneakers!

60) I like hats, actually I have a collection of them, combined with scarves and gloves!

61) I love music... but I mean I really love it! I listen to every kind of music even country or tradirional.

62) I always wanted to study music, but my parents didn't approve it! ( My father actually and I haven't forgave him yet!)

63) So, I've learnt by myself or from school in any opportunity I had!

64) I was begging for a musical instrument when I was 8 years old for about two years. And when my brother asked for an electronic game (you know those back in 80's ).. only then I got my "melodica" too! huhhhhh!

65) It was my treasure for years!!!

66) I almost died when I was 12 years old! It was Eastern and all doctors in "Paidon Aglaia Kyriakou" were "celebrating" with their families!......huh!

67) I had appenticitis peritonitis (something that my parents learnt after the sergery),( sorry if it doesn't make sense I am not sure of the medical terminology), and only on Monday after Eastern a surgeon came and put me immediately in sergery.... since Good Friday I got hospitalized!!!

68) I remember I was dreaming during sergery opperation. There was a big rabbit ( like Roger Rabbit... only there wasn't in any movie yet), that was hunting me in the surgery room all around two doors ( in a circle way)... I was trying to escape from it and every time I had a circle done I was taking a stop to see me on the surgery table! Finally, I took the opposite way of the circle so that I caught it of the back where I knocked it down. After that it transformed in something really ugly and I found myself looking me on the surgery table from the corner of the ceiling! ( I know it's spooky... sorry!)

69) Next thing I remember is somebody asking me my name and my father's name too!
70) I stayed in hospital for a month in order to get well!

71) I remember my parents wondering ( as I was growing up) If I would be able to have my own kids... not because there was something wrong about me according to what the doctors said after that... but because they weren't sure!

72) Back to the music thing now... I am taking guitar lessons now along with my kids that they are learning keyboards!

73) I love knitting, stiching and I can sew clothes too! I have made several creations for me and my daughter!

74) One of my favourite hobbies is crafting and create handmade things of any kind!

75) Lately I've known "scrapbooking" and I got stanished! I am still working on it as there are so many things to learn...

76) My favourite season is summer!

77) I love swimming at the sea and playing on the sand!

78) I am kind of perfectionist and that isn't easy for my family. Actually isn't easy for me too!

79) I think I domineer my daughter when it comes to homework and studies! I don't want to, but I think she needs me there more than her brother does!

80) I hate living in a messy house... but it seems I can't avoid it lately!

81) I am still trying to find my way around household that is the latest thing that bothers my husband but the first that bothers me!

82) My kids are the most important persons in my life!

83) I live and breath only for them and their well lived lifes!... if that makes any sense to you!

84) I like travels... but I haven't done so many trips yet!

85) I have travelled in Greece but I haven't visited most of the islands!

86) I want to visit Venice someday in my life....

87) I also sometimes think that I could be able to live in Paris... ( I don't know why)

88) Sometimes I am afraid of death only because I want to be there for any of my kids phases of life!

89) I love radio... I was a radio music producer when I was a teenager (for a while).

90) In Jeronimo Groovy!

91) My best music producers there were Takis Fotiou, Takis Karagiannis (von Karagian), Stratos Agiostratitis, (no he isn't my Stratos), and Dimmis MC. Does anyone knows them?!!!!

92) I also remember Wendy!!! What a lovely lady!!

93) My nickname there was "Kylie" cause...

94) I had that style of Minogue....

95) I took my drivers licence very easy.

96) I haven't got any moto licence but I drive one when it's necesary...

97) I have feelings for my husband more than what is called "love"...

98) I tryed to explain it many times but I haven't manage to do it... It's something more and more every time!!!

99) Sometimes I caught myself thinking of me without all these that I have in my life and I end up to the conclusion that I have....

100) EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!
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My top 100 continues...

19) I went back after the summer season, to continue my studies, in Athens without expecting anything more from my relationship with Stratos mostly because he gave me the impression of a faithful man... but not interesting in taking the next step! That was convenient for me too cause..

20) Actually marriage was never in my priorities... so we said each other "... it was fun... thank you... and goodbye!"

21) I knew he never liked telephone comunication so I did't bother to give him my telephone number!

22) During the first 4 days he called me (he found my telephone from my cousin)...

23) In the next days he was at my place meeting my family (those he didn't know already)... hi hi..

24) Before that he had already met my brother, my uncle, and ... my grandmother... been in Rethymno yet!

25) So as you can understand our relationship continued and we travelled a lot from Athens to Rethymno and back in order to see each other till next summer that I went again for work.

26) This time we stayed together. After a while in our place moved my father in low because of a surgery that cost him a leg. I don't think I have ever met somebody that proud, so kind and sweet at the same time! He always wanted to go back at his place but his situation didn't allow it anymore... He didn't want to be around us... "You are young" he used to say... " I have to go at my home" .... We managed to make him understand but we knew that deep inside him he didn't want to go back home because he was so proud that he didn't want his neighbohoods see him like this.

27) We didn't work together that summer.

28) I also took german lessons because the hotel I was working to... had only German guests...

29) I have to confess that I like that language a lot... I' ve learned it well but not well enough indeed...

30) We planed our wedding in 20/04/1996... a week after Eastern...

31) My father in low died a week before our wedding... but we went all the way through the wedding because our prist advice us so... as my father in low was agreed for that marriage to be done!

32) I gave birth to my daughter in 02/07/1997. It was the most wonderful experience I have ever had!

33) As you can understand my studies went aside at that moment..

34) My life got harder cause we were nurturing our daughter alone.. and as you realise I was the one who had to stay at home and Stratos the one to bring the money home...

35) Suddenly all of my interests had to step aside and that was the hardest thing... cause I was trying to keep doing most of the things I used to do but being there for my kid too... I almost died that summer...

36) .. till I collapsed one morning as I was trying to feed my baby while I was thinking what else I had to do for the day! The next I remember is lying in my bed with my husband crying over me trying to bring me back!

37) From that day on.. he never let me do all things in the house all alone! He said " I do this... this.... and that.... you do this.... this.... and that.... for any extras we'll do it together!

38) He has changed "pambers" for both of our kids... he has stayed awake at nights for both of them too... and so many others that I don't recall right now...

39) I went back at work in 1998 so that we'll manage to finish the building of our home.

40)In 1st August 2001 we moved in our new home and in 14th September I realised I was pregnant for second time...

41) That was both wonderful and sad at the same time (for me)...

42) ... cause after a hard summer season at the hotel doing more that I was supposed to... for somebody called himself 'manager' who hadn't even primary school finished I had decided to go back and finish with my studies... (I had already moved my papers from Athens back to Heraklion)..

43) My decision was to sit back and enjoy my pregnancy... hopping I'll do studies later!

44) My son was born in 23rd May 2002.

45) He was the easiest baby in the world... I think!

46) Very stable on his times for food, sleep, bath... I knew when I could do what!

47) All of my step aside hobbies and interests started to come around again and... I had plenty of time for them too!

48) I even got back to studies in the second half of 2003!!!

49) I manage to pass -I don't remember- I think 15 lessons in one semester while my DEAR STRATOS had to do all the babysitting of our son, all the homework advice for our daughter...

50) At the same time I organised the "riddle treasure hunting for kids" as I helped for the same one for adults... a custom we do here in Rethymno right before Halloween..

51) I took my degree in June 2004

52) It's million...zillion... time I am telling to my husband THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

53) I couldn't do it without him! He was even keeping the lines for me when I had to memorise pages of pages... of Hotel Law or Hotel Management...


ok... later again.... half to go!!

keep yourselves inspired!!