Rome!

One place that I have always talked about going to is Rome.  I have always felt that culture and the history in Rome really stood still.

The Art in Rome is just something that I have always seen as a live changer, and I loved how it changed my life.

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city, with over 2.7 million residents.

Rome's history go's all the way back to two and a half thousand years.  It was the capital city of the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, which was the dominant power in Western Europe, and the lands bordering the Mediterranean Sea for over seven hundred years.

During the 15th century the Italian Renaissance moved to Rome from Florence.

The Renaissance period changed Rome's face from the very beginning, with works like the Pietà by Michelangelo and the frescoes of the Borgia Apartment.

Flats!

Fashion Design's!

So after I made a choice based off of my thumbnails, I designed a few outfit's!

These piece's will be my main piece's for this line!

Just to show you how well each piece works with each other I created a separate sheet with all the piece's mixed and matched.

More Thumbnails!

Just a few more thumbnails!

Interlaken, Switzerland!

So like I said before I spent this weekend in Interlaken, Switzerland enjoying the great outdoors and people watching!

Interlaken is located between Lake Brienz to the East, and Lake Thun to the West in the area called Bödeli.

The Aare River flows through the town connecting the lakes.

Interlaken is located at 1,870 ft above sea level.

One of the main attractions is the mountain peak of Jungfrau it is 13,642 ft above sea level, and the Jungfraujoch railway station 11,319 ft which can take you to Jungfrau peak.

Interlaken is a destination for backpackers throughout the year. Interlaken has numerous backpacker-friendly hostels and companies providing guided services in skydiving, canyoning, hang gliding, paragliding, and skiing.

Venice2!

During the 20th century, when many artesian wells were sunk into the periphery of the lagoon to draw water for local industry, Venice began to sink. 

It was known that extraction of the aquifer was the cause. 

This sinking process has slowed since artesian wells were banned in the 1960s.

However, the city is still threatened by more frequent low-level floods that creep to a height of several centimeters over its quays, regularly after certain tides.

Some recent studies have suggested that the city is no longer sinking, but this is not yet certain; therefore, a state of alert has not been revoked.

Venice is one of the most important tourist destinations in the world!

Venice1!

On a spare day that I had me and few girls from the group went to Venice!  I have to say that this city was very beautiful and romantic and I could spend days just walking through the streets!

Venice is a city in northern Italy known both for tourism and for industry, and is the capital of the region Veneto.

The city stretches across 117 small marshy islands called Venetian Lagoon along the Adriatic Sea in northeast Italy.

The saltwater lagoon stretches along the shoreline between the mouths of the south and the north rivers.

Sometimes the Tide can reach levels which causes difficulties for the residents and the tourist. With very high tide the sea water floods sidewalks and ground floor of buildings, and boats do not pass under the bridge which causes a blocking of public transportation.

The buildings of Venice are constructed on closely spaced wood piles, which were imported from the mainland.  While wood is under water, in the absence of oxygen, wood does not decay causing wood to be the perfect idea for support for these buildings.

The wood becomes stone-like when it is petrified as a result of the constant flow of mineral-rich water around and through it.