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I had recently purchased a 1 1/4″ button maker to make little buttons to sell in the shop and had been having some fun with it when I thought, “hey, we could make monogram buttons for all the kids in Little A’s Kindergarten class this year for Valentines!”. And well…that is just what we …
Alison of the Alison Show, and The Little Tiny, is sharing the love this Valentines by hosting a round up of Valentines crafts just in time to get us ready to celebrate the holiday of L-O-V-E. She invited me to take part of the festivities and we came up with this fun little twist on …
Have you come across the new and inspiring periodical, Create with Me? It covers artistic adventures with children and invites you to get in on all the fun with your little ones. If not, you are in for a real treat.We have enjoyed looking at all the creative ideas that so many great bloggers (and …
OK, so it was abundantly clear that top buns and geeky glasses were all the rage at ALT (we already knew this ladies, right?). Well I have to share with you all my super sneaky way of acquiring prescription glasses for OH so much less. Just to give you some background, I starting doing this …
I’m back from a lovely long weekend in Salt Lake City, attending ALT. It was a whirlwind of information, which was great, but i think for me the best thing about the conference was being able to meet up with SO many inspiring people. Such as old NYC friends (So great to hang with you …
Hello friends! I’m currently in Salt Lake City along with a slew of fantastic design blogging friends (and personal heros) and I couldn’t be more in heaven. If you haven’t yet heard of ALT, you are in for a real treat. In short, it’s a dream design blog conference full of fantastically inspiring people. You …
Hello fantastic friends! Thank you so much for all you kind words regarding our little Zero dollar gift exchange. We had a wonderful time doing it and I highly recommend you try it out, at least one year. You won’t regret it. I also wanted to give you a little update on our mix-n-match-em blocks. …
I wanted to share the gifts from our Christmas 2011 zero-dollar-gift-exchange earlier but I’m afraid I caught that pesky flu bug that I was so hoping to avoid. But I’m now alive and well and ready to jump right into the new year! If you have been following my blog you know that Jon and …
We’re back home and slowing getting back into the swing of things. We had a marvelous time with friends and family and are excited for the new year ahead of us.We do however, have a slight pang of reluctance as we take all our Christmas decor down and reminisce on the scenes of this past …
A couple of years ago Jon and I had family in town for New Years and we decided to make our own hats to celebrate the festivities (one year we even stuck a sparkler out of the top of Jon’s hat and lit it for the count down into the new year!). We had loads …