Passport and Travel Document Wallet

Just before the summer holidays are well and truly packed away as distant memories, I wanted to show you the passport and travel document wallet I made to take to Italy.  

I get a bit stressed about packing to go away.  I'm hopeless at it!!!  I pride myself on being organised in every other aspect of life but, for some reason, just can't get it together when it comes to packing.  I always take WAY too much - half of which I KNOW I won't wear once!     

AND, in the midst of all of my fussing, I ALWAYS decide to start on a sewing project a few days before we leave.  WHY???  I don't know.  Once I just HAD to have a new beach bag to take with me.  Another time, I needed some of my little rosette pins (link to tutorial here) to match with each outfit I was taking with me.  Then there was the time I was desperate for a new toiletry bag.....  It's become a holiday tradition, in fact!   

This time, I made up my mind that the whole holiday would be a total disaster if I didn't make us a new travel document wallet.  I found the tutorial I wanted to use here.  It was pretty easy to follow, but there were lots of pieces to cut out and sew together.  So it took a while.  I was really happy with it when I was done, though.  

And, in the end, of course, I managed to finish all my packing AND my last-minute sewing project!!!  

It did a great job of looking after our passports and very important documents for us.  Who knows what would have happened to them if I hadn't SQUEEZED in this ONE last little make before we left?!?

Carly

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Adventures in Tuscany Part 2

Here I am, with 'Part 2' of the series.  If you missed 'Part 1', you can catch up here.

Off we go.....

Arezzo

San Gimignano

Volterra

Countryside Drives

Florence

Fiesole

Arrivederci Italia.....

..... and arrivederci dear blogging friends.  See you again soon!

Carly

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Adventures in Tuscany Part 1

Now the summer holidays are well-and-truly over and we're back at work (after 6 weeks off - which seemed like only 6 days), I guess I should get on with telling you what we got up to.  In summary, we.....

• Visited Simon's folks in Devon (ate fish & chips, shopped in Exeter - and bought a Cath Kidston cardigan, rode the steam train from Paignton to Dartmouth, read, paddled in the River Otter - and saw a kingfisher, enjoyed the sunshine, and visited the Donkey Sanctuary in Sidmouth)

• Visited my folks in Staffordshire (took lots of photos of the garden, played games, went for a countryside walk - and almost stepped on a snake, ate al fresco almost every night, barbecued, read more, enjoyed more sunshine, visited Hardwick Hall, and went to a wedding)

• Went to Tuscany (stayed on a farm, ate amazing Italian food, swam a lot, got bitten by mozzies, read lots more, caught more rays, drove through some breathtaking scenery, visited some wonderful places, sampled a few glasses of chianti, ate, ate, and ate some more)

I took LOADS of photos while we were in Italy.  Sorting through them all took AGES!  I was strict with myself about deleting, but still have HEAPS.  So I think we'll do this in two separate sittings.

Are you sitting comfortably, dear blog readers?  Then we'll begin.....  'Adventures in Tuscany Part 1':  

Podere San Lorenzo  

Civitella in Val di Chiana

Siena

Monteriggioni

Lucca

Pisa

Well, I think that's enough for today.  I'll have a sort through the rest, and return with 'Adventures in Tuscany Part 2' very soon.....

Carly

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P.S.  I've enjoyed catching up with your blogs over the past week SO much.  I REALLY miss you all when I don't get around to visiting as often as I'd like to!!!