Mr Potato Head in Felt!

So my super crafty sista Mandy made the K-utest Christmas present for my little guy. She is always looking for ways to entertain her Z during church and this is a perfect quiet toy. She found instructions on this site here. The mustache is my fav! So go ahead and make one today, church won't feel quite as long with this adorable toy to entertain your little ones!

Back to School Shopping

1) Great vintage upcycled notebook, the typography is lovely here 2) Repurposed shift Key flash drive here 3) A repurposed door turned into a desk shown here 4) Messenger bag black and white wool herringbone here 5) Contemporary office chair here 6) Chocolate always helps me study here 7) Cool black white polka dot pencil case here 8) Graphite pencils wrapped in a vintage French novel paper so chic here 9) Wool laptop sleeve here


Tomorrow I begin a new semester of school and in anticipation I went on a little hunt to find some fun new things I thought would make the next couple of months more successful. After paying for tuition and books my there isn’t much left to fill my wish list but a girl can always dream…

Wrap It Up

I love having a beautiful stash of wrapping papers, there’s something about a well wrapped present that just screams fun and excitement. My friends at American Crafts have always kept me well stocked with their beautiful papers, ribbons, trims, and tags they carry an amazing line of products (too many to mention here). Thanks to them, I was able to wrap this birthday gift in less than 4 minutes, the hardest part was choosing which paper to use!

Jewelry holder

So I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, how this jewelry holder turned out! This is to hold all the girly necklaces and scarves that an 8 year old girl collects. I first did a photoshoot with this darling girl in freezing cold weather. Then blew up a photo to 12x18" and cut some 1/2" plywood to the same dimensions. We painted the sides of the wood dark brown but any color will do. Then we used contact cement (stinky stuff!) and rolled it on with an old credit card (to ensure smoothness). You need a thin coat on both the back of the picture and the wood. Make sure not to get this on your hands or clothes (worse than super glue people!). Wait 10 min til its almost dry, then with atleast two people, line it up and with a rubber roller (scrapbook tool) we slowly rolled the picture on pushing out the airbubbles as we did this. After that, we put the whole thing into a space saver bag and vacuumed out the air. Then it sat overnight. We carefully trimmed off the excess picture with an exacto knife. Then came the fun mounting of knobs. We drilled holes and then cut off the excess screws on the back to make it lay flat against the walls. Then added the flower with hot glue. This project takes around 5 hours of time but is well worth it in the end. I know the owner will take good care of it, but I'm so sad to see it go. When I get over the exhaustion maybe I'll tackle one for my own kids!

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Think BIG goals

While I realize many people feel New Years Resolutions are very passé I actually look forward to the tradition for two reasons. 1) Because it forces me to look at areas I can improve and 2) because I love to look back and see that I have in fact accomplished something. Our family tries to make the goals do-able and we’ve broken them down into three categories
1.) Improve
2.) Change and
3.) Accomplish

I’ve tried to let my kids set their own goals but when my five year old decided he wanted to “change” the fact he couldn’t drive a car we decided to steer him in the direction of “changing” bikes and learning how to ride a bike without training wheels (whew, we dodged a bullet!).

My “change” this year will trying to decorate with big statements and I think I may already be on the road to accomplishing it with these tree trunks I added to my boring gray wall in my family room this week!

So, to sum it up, some of my attainable goals this year will be:

1.) Improve-my tone of voice. While I love sarcasm, I’ve realized my 15 and 13 yr old just don’t get it.

2.) Change- less conservative and more “BIG statements” this year.


3.) Accomplish- Learn how to speed read

Magical Beans

After seeing this post on how to make a lima bean wreath, I went for it- and spent about 4 hours hot gluing. Just a little time consuming, but worth it in the end because I can use it for all those weird holidays that I don't have a wreath for, just by changing the ribbon. Pink for Valentine's Day, green for St. Patty's, etc. I'm loving it and it's worth all the hot glue burns:)

little woolly trees

So it's been our tradition for Christmas every year to make homemade gifts for us 3 sisters. While it sounds super cute, its getting harder and harder to find the perfect item that my amazing sisters can't and haven't made themselves already! This year has been no different. My sister Renee (aka greenay) likes to reinvent & reuse items. (hence the green nickname) This year she took old sweaters and crafted them into a family of trees for me. I can't decide which one is my most fav, the polka dot one because I'm obsessed with polkas or the littlest swirly one. Aren't they adorb! That's right adorb, I abbreviate everything!