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International Vacations | Travel

2 Nights in Naxos

By Mercedes Santana on September 22, 2019

Naxos may not have been on your radar, but it should be! It wasn’t on mine, until I found it on some “best places to go in the Cyclades” lists. I knew I wanted to see Paros and Naxos seemed to be a convenient place to stay between Mykonos and Santorini. I honestly wish we […]

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International Vacations | Travel

3 Nights of Santorini Sunsets

By Mercedes Santana on August 24, 2019

When I pictured Greece in my head I was picturing Santorini. And it totally lived up to my imagination. It’s just as picturesque as it is on Instagram and the landscape of the Caldera is like nothing I’ve seen before. It you’re going to Greece, go to Santorini, it’s worth the hype. Day 1 — […]

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International Vacations | Travel

2 Nights in Athens

By Mercedes Santana on August 11, 2019

The first leg of our 10 nights in Greece started in none other than the capital city of Athens. Day One We flew from LAX to Athens, with a quick layover in Paris on AirFrance. After a long travel day we landed in a very hot Athens. Europe had been having unusually warm weather. Most […]

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Lifestyle | Scrapbooking

Joshua Tree Scrapbook

By Mercedes Santana on August 4, 2019

I finally got around to sitting at my crafting table to actually craft. Half the time I sit here to work from home, so it was nice to change it up. For whatever reason, I am an extremely slow scrapper. I print the photos and then I tend to take too long to choose a […]

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Travel | Weekend Getaways from LA

Weekend Getaway to Joshua Tree

By Mercedes Santana on May 29, 2019
Joshua Tree; Mercedes Santana of Passports and Papers

Joshua Tree is just a short car ride away, depending on where you are in SoCal. For us in Los Angeles, it’s only about 2 hours away. This desert national park is great for hiking, rock climbing, and star gazing. We don’t rock climb, but it was neat to see other visitors making their way […]

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Home & Garden | Lifestyle

DIY Gift Wrap Hack: Desk Upgrade

By Mercedes Santana on April 14, 2019

So I thought I would take my DIY (do-it-yourself for my readers that live under rocks) beyond just scrapbooks. I just hit my two year anniversary at my job (here is where you clap) and though my desk is actually a really nice space I wanted to spruce it up. We have an “open concept” […]

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Passport to Orange County | Travel | Weekend Getaways from LA

Passports and Papers Guide to Disneyland

By Mercedes Santana on March 24, 2019

How am I barely writing about Disneyland? If you know me personally, you know I am a huge Disney fan! I was a Disney annual passholder nearly all my life! I had my quinceañera (the Hispanic equivalent to a sweet sixteen) at Disneyland Hotel. I even worked for The Walt Disney Company as an intern […]

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Happy One Year Anniversary Passports and Papers!

By Mercedes Santana on February 11, 2019
Mercedes in Cuba; Passports and Papers

I can’t believe a year has flown by so quickly! It feels like yesterday that I was toying with the idea of finally taking the leap to blogging. Now I’m about to humble brag because I am really freakin proud of this site. I built this entire site myself. Customized the modules, wrote the content, […]

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Lifestyle | Scrapbooking

Past Papers: Real Simple Magazine Feature Scrapbook

By Mercedes Santana on February 10, 2019
Real Simple Scrapbook Mercedes Santana

I have a degree in journalism and always thought I would be a magazine writer, but times have changed. I still love magazine and maybe one day I will work full-time for a publication, but now I can write when and what I want and freelance when I can. As my blog is coming up […]

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Cricut Crafts | Lifestyle | Scrapbooking

Past Papers: HWY 1 Road Trip Scrapbook

By Mercedes Santana on February 2, 2019
Highway 1 Road Trip

I finally picked some photos from our summer road trip up Pacific Coast Highway to highlight in this California scrapbook page. The drive up was slightly gloomy, but still breathtaking. Though the sky looked slightly dull in my photos the colors from the ocean and hills were still bright. So I knew that the paper […]

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