Tower of London...

We had to visit the Tower of London.





This woman and her boyfriend or husband was in front of us. She had toilet paper stuck in her pants. We thought since her man didn't tell her about it (that's him behind her in the second picture), we better not say anything. Oh my gosh, it was so funny... I'm sorry for this woman but one should check before leaving the bathrooms. Let this serve as a warning. LOL

The Tower Bridge...

Here we are, self portrait, on top of the Tower Bridge with the River Thamesbehind us...

A crappy bench...

This just cracked me up.

Appropriate to call it: A REALLY CRAPPY BENCH

Pizza, The British Museum

Pizza Express (they make it right there in front of you). Great pizza lunch!




Then it was right around the corner to the Museum. Amazing pieces... could have spent the entire day there!

Phone booth right outside of the museum (can you see me in there?)

Parks abound...

There are so many parks in London, I was surprised... Beautiful, green, wonderful parks to sit and read, relax, enjoy. The grass is so soft without bugs. It reminded me of the grass you see on golf courses in the US but a little longer blades.

Here is one park we stopped at:



This guy was really this close to me!


The tulips were amazing!


And another park we took some photos:

Out and about...

We decided to just walk around, get on a bus, jump off when we wanted and then just wonder the streets of London.


One of many double decker buses...

Make sure you look right first and not left, like in the US or you will get run over! (I came close a few times...) LOL

A sign on one of the buses... Many people will get their food to go (or "take away") as they say there. It's cheaper because you don't have to pay the VAT (taxes) like you would if you ate in.

Just wondering the streets...

Came across Blade Rubber Stamp Store!!! Oh yes, had to buy some London themed stamps.

Harrods in London is a must

I could have lived in this store. Oh the wonderful things they have.

I managed to find a beautiful tea pot with roses all over it on sale, the last one, no box, for 18 pounds! (a steal!) It was normally over 40 pounds [one pound was equal to ~$1.50 US at the time we were over there.]

-- The outside (part of it taken thru a bus window)

-- Memorial to Diana and Dodi

-- her ring (WOW!)

-- My husband loving this particular menu in their "food court"...

-- The ceiling to one of the food court rooms. Each room was different and I lost count as to how many rooms there were. Amazing.

Across the pond...

As they say, we took a vacation "across the pond". A very large pond, mind you to London!

Landed into Gatwick still in the plane... (we were up for over 28 hours strait by the time we took a 4 hour nap, then up at 6pm to go to bed at 1am).

Into the station to buy our Underground tube (train) passes for the week...

Our home away from home (bottom flat to the right of the door)...

A trip to Harrods is a must...

-- Memorial to Diana and Dodi

All boxed up...

A while ago, I made these boxes. I got carried away and made a lot of these boxes. :)

Here I show the front and the backs. They are nice for recipes, to do lists, phone contacts, etc.

Created some RAKs

RAK = Random Act of Kindness... mailing out a RAK card to someone in need of a smile.


1. A friend just became a grandma of a baby boy, so I made her and hubby this card. I love creating Stampscapes and thought this stork was perfect! Love the blue blankie. :)

2. A "pick me up" card for a friend that was just not having a great day... or week...

3. & 4. A group of cards I made for some friends. This is packaged up, wrapped and ready to give them as a gift of thanks. Each card is the same as far as stamp and punch used, but made 4 of each in a total of 5 different colors. Inside is folded copy paper, lightly glued into place and blank... so they can write whatever personal note they want.

My daughter has learned early...

...that making and sending a thank you card after she receives a gift is mandatory.

I can't believe she just turned three last weekend and these were the cards "we" created for thank you's. We made two dozen of them.

Three balloons for her 3rd birthday and the "thanks a bunch" stamp worked well, I thought with the bunch of balloons.

Inside are hand written notes of thanks and then she signs them along with a heart and a smiley face. She sits down at her table and gets busy. She loves "signing" her name... :)