Happy Thanksgiving!

While you're recovery from turkey and carbs come, don't forget to think of things you're thankful for. 

 For me, there are many things. 

This one, I chose to share it with all of you!

You're gonna miss me when I'm gone....

Have you ever felt like you're in a place where you don't belong? 

That's how I feel right now and Ithink this song sums it up really good. 

Can't say too much right now, but hopefully, the wind is changing for me!

10th wedding anniversary

Enjoy the video!

Song of the day: Bruno Mars

Enjoy!

More Autims Awaneress videos

Aside from the videos I made, I found this made from a dad that really moved me! 

Hope you will enjoy!

 

Autism Awareness videos

If you read my blog regularly, you might already have seen these 2 videos I made about my son. 

 If you don't read my blog regularly....well, what's wrong with you?!?!?!?! Just kidding. 

If you don't know it yet, I'm the proud mom of a young man on the spectrum and I love him so much!

 These videos were made about him to raise awareness about Autism.  

  

 Autism is a developments disability that affects several areas such communication, learning and social interaction. 

When most people think about Autism, they picture in their head a person that doesn't talk, makes noises and flaps their hands. 

While this is true, there are also lighter forms of Autism that can go hidden for a long time. 

Looking at my son, it will take you a while to see that he's "different", but nonetheless he's affected by this disability. Plus he was diagnoses with ADD and Tourette Syndrome. 

I, myself, have a light form of Asperger. I fake through things most of the times so people won't see it too well, but it's there. 

 Learn about Autism. 

While we can be prepared for "typical" people, the world still needs to be prepared about us. 

Please.

Dance around the world!

I find this video very neat and I want to share it with all of you! 

 Dance unifying people from around the world, no matter of sex, age, religion and background......if this isn't love, than I don't know what is!

 

Sweet father daughter moment

May I present you my hubby and my daughter caught in the act of sweetly singing to each other the dong "Darling I do" before bed time:

Enjoy!

 

Speaking of Autism......

Since I was prepping for the 5k, I was inspired to make this videos about my kids and of course Autism. 

I know that it's not Autism awareness month yet, but I thought I will go ahead and make them up so I'd have them ready for April. 

Nonetheless, I hope you all will enjoy them 

Stuck in my head

Everyone gets that song stuck in your head for days, I believe. 

This time for me it this beautiful and sweet song form Christina Perri, A Thousand years.

Someone pointed out to me that it was somehow related to the Twilight saga. 

I'm not a fan of it so I wouldn't know. 

To me the song speaks of love, at every level, and makes me recall of the movie "Brave". 

But that's just me! 

Hope you enjoy! 

Favorite song of the week!

Someone like you by Adele!

I think her voice is fantastic!! Too bad that the criticism she received for her figure are pushing this artist away :(
Hope you enjoy like I do

Inspirational art

From http://www.metanamorph.com/

Few weeks ago, I stumbled upon some very inspirational work that I want to share with you all.
it all started with the picture above.

I think it's the coolest 3D sidewalk painting in history in my opinion.
With a little bit of research, I was able to find a video on youtube where they show how they make it.....simply amazing!

Truly inspirations isn't it?

A song I love and a funny story.

Have you ever turned on the radio in your car and just found the perfect rhythmic song to bright the day and make it easier to wait that long red light?

I listen to radio frequently and one afternoon picking up the kids from school, I came across a song from Pink, that I really liked. And bonus points, the radio put it on a couple of times during the couple of hours I spent in the car.

Now, since English is only my second language, I must confess that sometimes for me is really difficult to catch ALL the words of a song, but I'm able to catch some of it and the superficial meaning of it. Then I go home, research the song on the internet, listen it to it again (and again and again and again.....lol) via you tube and find the lyric on google so I can really appreciated the message that the author is sending out.

This was the case this time. All I can catch from the radio was "You're perfect" and "Pretty pretty please". I put the volume up high the second time the song was on, so my daughter in the back can listen to it, since she always says "Pretty pretty please".

I arrive home and start my search. With luck I found the lyric that left me.....well, I let you see for yourself.

Made a wrong turn
Once or twice
Dug my way out
Blood and fire
Bad decisions
That's alright
Welcome to my silly life
Mistreated, misplaced, misunderstood
Miss "no way it's all good"
It didn't slow me down
Mistaken
Always second guessing
Underestimated
Look, I'm still around...

Pretty, pretty please
Don't you ever, ever feel
Like your less than
f**ckin' perfect
Pretty, pretty please
If you ever, ever feel
Like your nothing
You're f**ckin' perfect to me

You're so mean
When you talk
About yourself
You are wrong
Change the voices
In your head
Make them like you
Instead
So complicated
Look how big you'll make it
Filled with so much hatred
Such a tired game
It's enough
I've done all i can think of
Chased down all my demons
see you do the same

Pretty, pretty please
Don't you ever, ever feel
Like your less than
f**ckin' perfect
Pretty, pretty please
If you ever, ever feel
Like your nothing
You're f**ckin' perfect to me

The world stares while i swallow the fear
The only thing i should be drinking is an ice cold beer
So cool in lying and we try, try, try
But we try too hard, it's a waste of my time
Done looking for the critics, cuz they're everywhere
They don't like my jeans, they don't get my hair
Exchange ourselves and we do it all the time
Why do we do that?
Why do I do that?
Why do I do that?

Ooh, pretty pretty pretty,
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel
Like you're less then, f**ckin' perfect
Pretty pretty please if you ever ever feel
Like you're nothing you're f**ckin' perfect, to me
You're perfect
You're perfect
Pretty, pretty please if you ever ever feel like you're nothing you're f**cking perfect to me


WHAT??? How didn't I picked the F bomb in this song???? And let my 5 yo singing it all day long???? Geeesh, mu hearing and my English must really suck bad if I didn't pick up on that!!!!!

Still, I do love the message of the song and I wish more teens and pre teens will listen to it.

Then one day I stumbled across a video of the same song posted on facebook by one of my friends....the same song...without the F word!!! So I didn't dream it about it!

Turns out my radio station is family friendly, so they transmitted the version of the song that didn't contain any curse words.

Here I'm sharing it with you (but please if they are children around abstain to watch this, even tho the song is clean, the video is very strong).

Christmas ornaments and decoration from Crocheted Little Things

Halloween video!

Enjoy ♥

Newsletter #10 and new video

Make an on-line slideshow at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Happy Father's day and Happy Birthday to me!!

Hi there to all, this is Lu. Here it is newsletter #10.

I have lots of news to share with you!!!

I'm starting with greeting you with a little giveaway sponsored by Pieces of me Pendants!

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Pieces of me Pendants giveaway (Click here to go to the contest page)

• Prize; Prize Value: Scrabble tile of choice, $5.95


• How Many Winners: 1


• End Date: 06/24


• Can Be Won: Worldwide


• Prize From: Pieces of me Pendants

The sponsor's description of the giveaway rules: Visit blog for details. Click Here to go to the contest page!

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What happened?







New products are available, like my open toes slippers (just perfect to relax your feet in this hot weather) or my new slice of pie pincushion (soon to be available as Christmas ornament as well). Plus, to celebrate Father's day with all of you I'm having a little sale!!!

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Crocheted Little Things

• The Discount: Free shipping on selected items


• How To Get This Sale: No code necessary, just browse and shop among the items with the free shipping label


• End Date: 06/20

Other Information: Click Here to go to the Shopping at this store!

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What's coming up?

Tomorrow is my birthday!!!! I'm turning 28 years old and what better way to celebrate with all of you with a super sale that you can't say no????? For tomorrow only, June 19th, all the items in my ArtFire studio are 50% off!!!! Yes, 50% OFF!!! Can it get any better??? But it does!! The 2 offers can be combined, so hurry up! Hope to see you there!

Crocheted Little Things on youtube!

Trying this one out right now, making little videos that I hope will help you get to know me better.

I'm writing, what I'm saying below.

Hi, this is Lu. I'm going to start a series of videos on youtube to help me promote my business because times are tough right now, money is tight and I really need a boost to help arrive at the end of the month.

I hope you can understand my accent: I came from Italy and English is my second language and I'm really not used to talk in English in public. So, If you have any difficulties understanding me, I will make a close captioning on my blog and post the link in the details of this video for you to click on and read what I'm saying if your cannot understand it.
I want to talk a little bit about my business. I opened a little shop called "Crocheted Little Things" and in the very beginnings I really didn't know what I wanted to do with it, just wanted to crochet and sell something, but then I started crocheting cupcake and I had lots of fun making them. Everyone likes them and I'm trying to expand my line, including more food-related stuff and I hope you're going to like it too, so I'm going to show you something that I made.
Those are good examples of what I make:

This is a red velvet cake, with a turquoise blue top frosting and this

is one of the cupcakes that I made for Easter. I think the light is really bad and I don't think you can really see the colors, but the yarn is really rainbow looking with sparkles of white, pink, green, blue and yellow and I think was really cute for Easter.
I make those with a little weight on the bottom, so they can stand on a table and they can be used as pincushions from seamstresses, so they can have all their pins in place.

Another example, and this is really new and I'm really proud of it, is my birthday cake that I made with a candle on it

I think it's really cute for when you want to give a little gift for a birthday but maybe you don't have a real cake handy or time to bake one or don't wanna make a really big cake for a "2 people" celebration, you can still blow on the candle and make a wish: maybe it will come true! I thought they are really cute and I made them in several colors and this is the only one I have in stock right now, but I'm going to work on it and make more of them in more colors. So far I made a lots of pink one, I think I'm going to make some blue and green for boys.

And another one that I have in stock right now, it's really small and I called them the mini cupcakes.

They have a little stretch cord on the top, and I sold a lot of those like Christmas ornaments. This is the only one that I have in stock right now because Christmas is not here yet, but I'm definitely going to stock on these because during Christmas time they fly off my shelves.

I hope you enjoyed looking at my cupcakes. I'm going to make more videos eventually, showing you more products and I think I'm going to show you some other handmade goodies that I've got from my friends, because there are really really a lots of talents out there (sorry for the beep of my dryer LOL) and I think people don't even know. So, I hope with this videos to give a chance to someone to get noticed and known.

I hope you enjoyed and you can understand my accent.
That's all for now, I see ya later, bye!!!

I didn't have a speech prepared and I was kinda of stiff, again I apologize for my accent and grammar. Hopefully with time I'll be able to take better videos and I've few idea for tutorials that you all can enjoy!