The Cinqe Terre - Inspiration for This Week's Pieces

 Riomaggiore, Town #1, the view from our window. I never tire of seeing the daily laundry.  Love it!

 Riomaggiore's waterfront and fishing dock.  Life is quiet and simple in these great little towns.

 Looking up into Manarola, Town #2

My girls loved these rocks for jumping into the Sea - no need for diving boards when you have cool rocks like these, right?

 After climbing up 385 steps, you enter the town of Corniglia, Town #3. Only one way up and one way down.  

 Leaving Corniglia and connecting through a 2 mile hike to our next town.

 Entering town #4, Vernazza!  My personal favorite of the 5 towns.  It was over the top charming, the best Focaccia bread in the world and a Sicilian baker who can make one delicious Cannolli and fabulous fresh fruit slushies.

 I wanted to take one home with me.....

 Me and my girlies hanging out on our favorite beach in Vernazza

 I do love how the Italians just enjoy their lives and spend alot of time talking - the everyday scene from out our front window.

Leaving the Cinque Terre with many fond memories and a hope that one day we will return.

Bellissima!

Happy Holidays from SavvyGirl

Buon Natale e` Felice Anno Nuovo!

Happy Holidays to our Favorite SavvyGirl Friends and Family!

I hope you and yours have a wonderful holiday season.  I have been thinking of you and hope you are doing well.  I really wanted to say hello and let you know that I missed not connecting with you these past few months.

I know you have not seen much from SavvyGirl and I apologize but do appreciate your patience as I have been working hard in other areas of my life to get our family settled into our new environment, culture, "trying" to learn a new language, schools and daily life.

I really hope to have some beautiful Italian creations for you by Valentine's Day!
I will let you know when they arrive.

While my husband has an intense travel schedule, we were blessed with a fun family adventure to France over the Thanksgiving Holiday and two of my dreams came to true, which was to see the Eiffel Tower and to have hot chocolate in a corner cafe along the Seine River. It was like a child in a candy store.

Again, my best wishes to you and if you do see something up that you like or are interested in, I am set up for shipping and will be happy to mail a "little happy mail" out your way!

Love, SavvyGirl (aka Cydney)

We Made it To Italy

Buon Giourno SavvyGirl Friends!
I just wanted to check in and let you know that we made it Italy.
We have been here for 3 1/2 weeks and have been fortunate enough to get out and visit some beautiful places.  I have never been here before, so to me it's been absolutely amazing.

However, Damon has now started his new job and we are still in a hotel and without a place to call home for a while longer.  Things will hopefully come together for us in early September.  It's been a very slow upstart in that department - most of Italy goes on vacation during the month of August so, that has also put us behind.

We are all still adjusting and figuring out what we are doing, where to go each day, how to drive and not get run over, the best places to shop and trying to learn the language (that is going to take some time).

The girls are doing well and looking forward to making friends and starting school - they have found a few soccer teams to play with so, that makes them both very happy.  I am incredibly excited to move into a home, finally see the truck pull up with all of our things and get back to work.  (I am keeping my fingers crossed that everything makes it okay)

 I hope you are all doing great and having a wonderful summer.  I will keep you posted on where we are and when we will be sending out our first shipment of new designs.
(In the meantime,  look below and you will see what we currently have available)