These prints were from the visit we made to Plovdiv, Bulgaria, back in 2009.  We recently got them framed at Moldeco, and they did their...

Since they're all to the people we gave them to, I can now show you the souvenirs we picked up in Bulgaria. Everything here, altogethe...

This restaurant is a two minute walk from the hotel, across a park. We went there the first night we got in - after our twelve hour harrow...

I really fell in love with Plovdiv. You've probably never heard of it, but it's about an hour or so southeast of Sofia. Skip Sofi...

This is the last of my stash purchases. I got more Alize yarn, including bright cotton and bright bamboo. I just loved the colors. The bl...

Sometimes you just turn around and a shop is there. That's what happened several times in Bulgaria with us. The shop I bought this st...

I bought two cross stitch kits from the yarn shop in Plovdiv. They're from a Polish company called Ariadna . The fabric's pregridd...

These pictures are of the -good- part of the trip from Varna to Plovdiv. We did all the prudent things - we had a map. We printed off dir...

About ten miles west of Varna, just off the highway back to Sofia, there's a natural geological formation. We visited it, and here are...

My first yarn shop in Bulgaria introduced me to a brand I've never heard of before - Alize. I bought its mohair blend, which I'm tu...

I found a needlework shop in Plovdiv! It had cross stitch supplies and a whole bunch of trims, walls of them. The prices were mismarked, ...

I bought a -lot- of fabric in Plovdiv. This set of pictures is the result of my second shop's raiding. Most of the laces are beaded. ...

Here are my last pictures of Varna. This top picture was taken from a hilltop just outside Golden Sands, north of Varna on the coast. Gol...

Okay, so I went a little bit crazy with fabric buying in Plovdiv. But we found LOTS of fabric stores! This is the set of fabric I bought fro...

When you first drive in to any Bulgarian city, you see row upon row of high rise apartment blocks. Sofia has them. Plovdiv has them, but ...

We drove outside Varna on our second day there and stumbled upon a monastery. We decided to visit, thinking it'd be a collection of bu...